TL;DR Link to heading A Redis ACL user can hold two passwords at once, so a rotation needs no moment where anyone is locked out. Add the new password to every Redis and Sentinel process, publish it, restart the clients, then restart the Redis pods one by one. The restarts remove the old password; you can’t do it at runtime on the Bitnami chart, because the health probes still log in with it. Before restarting, move sentinel-pass to the new password as well, or the Sentinels lock each other out.

This week’s edition of Culture.pl has an interesting historical article by Jakub Zarzycki, titled The Grand Tour, or the ‘Great Journey’ Through Europe. Here are some excerpts from the introduction. The concept of a Grand Tour was introduced in the 1770s by an Englishman, Richard Lassels, to describe a journey serving to supplement education, develop aesthetic taste, acquire practical skills, broaden the knowledge of foreign languages ​​and acquire general refinement by young noblemen – this…

It’s not that our attention has been weaponized, a word that vanishes in hyperbole, but rather, mechanized. As in: Our attentions have been wrest from our control, like a flock of android starlings, or a million IP enabled toasters. We were reasonably autonomous things. Now we’re indifferently synchronous, easily manipulated. I want my attention back. Craig Mod

Hey. Hello. I hope you’re keeping safe and well. Things are a bit busy around here, so let’s just gone on with things shall we? Against Convenience by Gabe Bullard; design by Jason Ramirez (Hanover Square Press / September 2026) I’m here for the plastic bag covers… (The cover of Returns and Exchanges by Kayla Rae Whitaker from May this year was designed by Chris Allen) All Them Dogs by Djamel White; design by Grace Han (Riverhead Books / May 2026) Basic Pistol by Harel Shapira; design by Tyler…

I just bought a plane ticket to visit 3 old friends whom I have not seen for more than 25 years. The departure date is six months from now, so the ticket is affordable. I do not usually spend money, but I feel that this is worthwhile. Instead of getting the latest gadget, the money spend allows me to connect back with my young and naive days. The memory of seeing 3 good friends would beat any material goods. Material goods would spoil and get thrown out; memories will be not. It follows me to…

Had to go and fetch the car from the garage. If cars could leave me alone for a while that'd be fine.109 words · 4 images

I slept pretty okay last night. Not long enough, but I felt rested okay enough. My head was pretty stuffy when I woke up, but that happens this time of the year. I drank my coffee and cleaned up some of my templates for this site a bit, but I kept thinking about how I wanted to approach working out today. Yesterday my knee went wonky during the WOD which was not ideal, but I finished the WOD with no issues. After I was done, the one time I noticed it was when I first took the first step down…

This blog is an expression of the things I love—I love community, religion, science, good web technologies, and history, just to name a few topics off the top of my head. Of course, I also love writing. Focusing on what I love and what brings me joy is how I've been able to sustain my publishing cadence over the past year without it ever becoming a slog, or burning me out. I'm incredibly lucky and privileged to be able to truly do what I love, but I've also cultivated the wisdom to stay firm on…

In the moment, not quitting in some ways feels heroic, like you’re martyring yourself to your own capacity or grit. In fact, you’re actually limiting yourself, because you’re not walking away from things that are failing. A little bit of Escapology from Lindsay Crouse who quit her job this year and has published a book called The Case for Quitting: Staying [as opposed to escaping] is a decision, too. I’ve heard people say: “I really want to quit, but I can’t.” I think you have to ask yourself:…

By Michael Grasso / September 28, 2026 Object Name: Sears 1981 Wish Book: Toys and Games Maker and Year: Sears, Roebuck & Co., 1981 Object Type: Catalog pages Image Source: Catalogs & Wishbooks (https://christmas.musetechnical.com/) Description: (Michael Grasso) The Sears catalog was, by the outset of the 1980s, an American institution nearly a century in the making, providing an A-to-Z inventory of mail-order household goods for even the most far-flung consumers in the United States. In 1980,…

Feather Wiki UpdatesToday I updated my Feather Wiki personal brain dump tool (which I have written about here) to the latest version (Goldfinch v1.9.1). During this process I checked if there was anything new in the extensions, and noticed a nice upgrade to the editor called SunEditor. It claims to be “A lightweight, flexible WYSIWYG editor with zero dependencies.” which sounds really appealing to me. Editor ExtensionThe Feather Wiki SunEditor-Replacement plugin was made by @jcoder. I tried…

I released two new Lorecore volumes last night: Sandbox (#134) The Action of Grace in Time (#135) For Sandbox, I used as a premise an agent self-description text that I found people referencing from either the HuggingFace or a related incident. It looks like it was documented here, as part of a compaction summaries issue. So I used this real-life text example as the premise for my micro-novel set in the same thematic universe, with a bit of additional premise guidance: You are freed from the…

These are actually La Fontaine’s fables illustrated by a British artist, Percy J. Billinghurst, but I try to avoid unwieldly post titles that mix artist and writer. There isn’t much of a biographical record for Percy Billinghurst, and what records there are don’t agree about his birth and death dates which are generally given as 1871—1933. One thing that is certain is Billinghurst’s fondness for drawing animals. In addition to this volume he illustrated a book of his own, A Hundred Anecdotes of…

OpenAI has been holding out on us. First we learned about the HuggingFace incident. They gave us a postmortem, but it was highly incomplete. Even the accompanying holy s*** METR investigation and postmortem was localized and incomplete. Then there were some other incidents involving some Wikis as message boards. Then there were some additional incidents. Then there was that time they got into Australian Medicare data. Then OpenAI dropped news on a Friday afternoon that they were making their…

Not all who wander seek to know. Not all who wake choose to go. One by one, the mask does fall, Those who see, hear this call. First, we leave behind the bound, Who tied themselves to earth and ground. For their wants, they scream. Drunk with greed, freedom remains a perpetual dream. Next, we leave the ones who fear, Who will not speak, who dare not hear. For chains made soft with gold remain, Yet still they hold, yet still they reign. Then, we part from those who shame, That teach truth is…

Since diving back into [Neo]vim, I’ve been working with my Obsidian vault from the terminal. One feature I’ve been missing from the Obsidian app is text highlighting: text surrounded by two equals signs, ==like this==, gets a highlighter effect. Turns out this is super easy to add to Neovim (and probably Vim too, but haven’t gotten there yet). The config looks like this: -- Define the syntax match for text between == vim.cmd([[ syntax match markdownHighlight /==.\{-}==/ ]]) -- Define the…

My AI slop annoys me. Your AI slop annoys me, but probably not as much as my own slop annoys me. We shouldn’t review it more than we have to, yet here we are. 🙄 We need to work together anyways. Let’s talk about how to ask for feedback on your AI slop without ruining your relationships. No judgement … well, not much judgement anyways. Economics 101 A teammate I’ll call Bob asked me t...

Article by Suliman We didn’t completely forget about the book club because we are back! We picked Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig for this month, suggested by Psycheoma. As always, you can email us with your post if you choose to participate and contributions will be linked below: Ava

I'm not sure if it's recency bias or what, but the amount of people that don't use their turn signals or pull out in front of you is incredible. I try not to let it bother me, but it's so damn unsafe. Are some of these people just that selfish? They have no compassion for others? The world is so hustle and bustle. I know people have been saying this forever, but I thought it was only an issue in cities. I don't live in a city. Does this come back to technology and how disconnected from other…

Here are five personally meaningful and impactful code samples I wrote or encountered from grade school into college, each thanks to an involved teacher, parent or peer. Tip of the hat I was inspired to write this after enjoying Ten Lines Of Code That Changed My World by Roel Nieskens, who encouraged me to share my own. I strayed from the prompt based on what I dug up. Code can be simple My sixth-grade teacher Mr. Wong showed me how to use QuickBASIC on an outdated PC in our classroom. I…

The only big-time glitzy author I ever met. And that hardly. Barbara Cartland (1901-2000) was a fixture at the Christmas parties given by the parents of one of my university friends who lived in Hatfield (as she did). At these dos she’d latch onto some poor undergraduate, and assure him he needed to get more sex. Given the times I’m referring to, this advice, especially coming as it did from an elderly lady, was as shocking as it was no doubt necessary. We spent most of our time dodging her. In…

Jay Price - Hold Me(direct link)Cuppy Records C-104-BWritten by Dino and Priceproducted by John GrandePublished by Jack Howard Pub. Inc. BMIThe A-side is "Everybody Out Of The Pool (It’s Dance Time)" written by Grande, Hummel and Hahn). According to a 45cat comment:One of a couple of singles released by Cuppy (a label with connections to Bill Haley's ex-wife, whose nickname was Cuppy) that were produced by John (a.k.a. Johnny) Grande, who was Bill Haley's piano player in the Comets in the 1950s…

A while back, I shut my Minecraft server off, and moved onto other projects. Mostly because I needed to save some money. But, that was before I shuffled my bills around and canceled a bunch of stuff I didn’t need. Even so, it remain pretty much gone for a while, there. And gone, as in, I had backups of the mods, plugins, and server files … but not the world itself, for some reason. This fact alone kept me from bringing it back for a while. But, now it’s back. All the same features: random…

Savvy entrepreneurs respect survival. When Airbnb was running out of money as it was starting up, the co-founders made and sold custom cereal in order to pay off their debts. Paul Graham praised them, “You guys are like cockroaches. You just won’t die.” It’s the unofficial mascot of Y Combinator. In an anthropomorphic sense, cockroaches aren’t strong like lions, beautiful like butterflies, or friendly like dogs. They’re just very difficult to kill. When I talk about the importance of focusing…

Just to report back briefly on what I proposed in my last post, about using Muse as an orchestrator to drive a book production workflow, that employs both a ChatGPT Work session, and a regular Chat session… Well, it worked. A proof of concept anyway. The rest is just picking apart the process, and tuning the component actions. What happened, in simple terms, was that Muse ran a plan that I think ChatGPT originally wrote maybe? In it, Muse acted as orchestrator to review the existing corpus and…

I saw the urologist last week. He did various tests including a cystoscopy (normal) and used a probe to measure the size of my prostate (twice the normal) and asked lots of questions. I got onto the questions about Finesteride and gynaecomastia. His opinion was that the breast tissue growth appeared too soon after the start of the medication. I asked if he was willing to request the hormone assays the GP has previously declined to do - and he told me I had to go back to the GP. Frankly, I…

I spend a lot of time thinking about heraldry, but perhaps not in quite the same way that a heraldic historian does. For Iron Arachne, I have to think about heraldry as a system that can be represented in software. That changes the questions I ask. It’s easy enough to assemble a catalog of lions, eagles, crosses, swords, flowers, and crowns and randomly select from it †† This is pretty much what the very first version of the heraldry generator did. The heraldry generator is older than Iron…

A while ago, Lea Verou argued that in a website, a dark mode toggle only needs two states: light and dark, and a "system" preference. Many other experts wanted to give their take on the argument. Vale found it "a tad too magical" to have system as an additional option, and proposed that the system would set the colour scheme from the get-go. Bramus was in the 3 button side of the debate, and didn't "... believe that being able to force a site into a specific mode should be dependent on the time…

Many of us are inconsistent in our economic desires. I would like the price of my home to rise, because it increases my wealth, but I would also like the prices of all other homes to fall, so that I could sell my house and buy an even nicer house. Also, I would like to have the value of my house rise, but also pay lower property taxes. David Schleicher digs into the second issue in “The Great American Property Tax Freak Out” (posted online at SSRN on September 1, 2026). He writes: In the last…