Weekly Notes

  • At work, I deployed my client’s first Aurora PostgreSQL RDS instance for one of their new customers. It uses a customised version of this module.

  • Also updated their WAF Terraform module to a newer version and redeployed it across the company environments.

  • I finally figured out why my self-hosted RSS reader’s been so slow lately. PHP was swamping the instance with too many workers. You’d assume a lot of folks have that problem when they’re running it in a container so it’s wild how it’s totally undocumented. It’s almost by accident that I found the solution. It was this:

www.conf.php

  listen = 127.0.0.1:9000

  pm = dynamic
- pm.max_children = 120
- pm.start_servers = 6
+ pm.max_children = 5
+ pm.start_servers = 5
  pm.min_spare_servers = 3
- pm.max_spare_servers = 9
+ pm.max_spare_servers = 5

  • Updated my blogroll by removing some inactive ones, syncing with my live reader, and added Neil’s Blog (rss) to my blogroll.

  • Had the old car in for new front brake pads and disks. As far as I know, there are no more mechanical issues so I feel comfortable giving it to my daughter now.

  • On Friday we went to Southampton to watch Guns2Roses, a GunsNRoses tribute band. It would have been a fun night but I started feeling super queasy about midway through. Not sure what that was about. Possibly a dodgy sandwich.

  • Was due for an eye test this week so popped in on Wednesday. No significant changes in the last 2 years so I’m probably gonna stick with my existing glasses.

  • Got the rotovator running today and turned the first bed! Next weekend my eldest daughter’s fiance are going up with me to finish prepping all 4 beds, and maybe the greenhouse.

As always, you can add my RSS feed to your reader of choice and if you made it this far thanks for reading!

Chris