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Evelyn

@chipnick.com

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👩🏾‍💻 Head of Platform at a startup 👵🏾 In tech since before the cloud 🏳️‍🌈🌌 Part of NorthSky Social Skeeting about AWS, Platforms, and Cloud stuff. https://chipnick.com 🇩🇪🇸🇩🏳️‍🌈

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Evelyn @chipnick.com · 5d

For those interested in paying for a platform that will actively protects its users, here's where you can pay us (Northsky)

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Evelyn @chipnick.com · 8h

May not seem like much but that results message is progress.

Just need indexing to catch up and I _should_ start getting results and things in my feed.

Hopefully

A screenshot of the Zeppelin appview client "Discover New Feeds" pane. The query test has returned: No results found for "test"

Evelyn @chipnick.com · 8h

As I slowly find and resolve obscure dependencies the obvious things are getting noticed, my indexer was broken because I didn't consider I'm not hitting the relay through nginx. And I'd shut off the search backend and didn't start it back up

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Evelyn @chipnick.com · 10h

@futur.blue might need to pick your brain or you to tell me I took a very wrong turn and ventured into pain town.

Evelyn @chipnick.com · 10h

It would be hilarious-oh it actually is.

When the plc backfill is incomplete it can't lookup your handle/did so a 401 is the result returned. Zeppelin plc is pretty barebones so I wasn't getting any logging out of it.

Now onto the mystery 400s.

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Evelyn @chipnick.com · 10h

Alllmost, I can post from the client but there's still some funny business

Evelyn @chipnick.com · 11h

Ok neat, posting from the appview client works but 401 for everything trying to fetch from bsky.

Evelyn @chipnick.com · 11h

Test

Evelyn @chipnick.com · 13h

Sill unpacking how to run an appview. Missed a step to create a handle on a pds that is part of the network which may solve the auth issues. Then I realised that Cloudflare won't do ssl for sub-sub-domains (appview.pds.blah) so I've ripped cloudflare out of the mix and am waiting for dns propagation

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Evelyn @chipnick.com · 17h

Ha I had cyberpunk backgrounds like ghost in the shell!

Wait

Evelyn @chipnick.com · 17h

This is the way

Evelyn @chipnick.com · 17h

Fedora is a very nice distro with not too much bloat! I use it on my server.

It’s also the gateway distro, we need to get him on arch Linux.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Evelyn @chipnick.com · 1d

Quoth the Appview “identity unknown"

Evelyn @chipnick.com · 1d

I can only fathom that gitlab customers use jenkins or some other third-party instead of their CI hot mess.

Evelyn @chipnick.com · 1d

Chatting with ex-colleagues about our gitlab>github migration, turns out they're doing the same.
Described my issues with the runners and random failures, they're also experiencing the same.
Described the months/years old issues on the runner projects with my exact issue, also same for them

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Northsky Social Cooperative @transrights.northsky.social · 1d

A lot of folks have been asking when invites will be going out.
- No, you haven't missed it! We haven't announced when.
- Yes, we already have alpha-testing users migrating and testing and posting from our servers
- The timeline at this point is ASAP, due to the crisis of confidence facing Bsky.

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Evelyn @chipnick.com · 2d

I'm now pulling from 132 pds hosts

Evelyn @chipnick.com · 2d

Shout out to @bnewbold.net and @futur.blue for their write ups on running a relay. Needed to add a local mirror so I don't have to backfill the entire firehose for my appview setup.

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A Full-Network Relay for $34 a Month | bryan newbold

This is an update to a Summer 2024 blog post. At the time, atproto relays required a cache of the full network on local disk to validate data structures. With the Sync v1.1 updates, relays don't need ...

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Evelyn @chipnick.com · 2d

I only realised _today_ that I left out "not" in that sentence. 🤦🏾‍♀️

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Evelyn @chipnick.com · 2d

Executive leadership tends to require one to be at least a little sociopathic

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Evelyn @chipnick.com · 2d

100% agree, we’ve seen this play out multiple times _this year_

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Evelyn @chipnick.com · 2d

Welp guess I’ll stop my backfill now, I only have 4TB to spare.

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Evelyn @chipnick.com · 2d

I’ve been around BlueSky for all of it so I understand the nuances and the patterns of the leadership failures to look out for marginalized groups

Evelyn @chipnick.com · 2d

Tweaking my bio cuz people don’t read northsky newsletters to understand directors have no power, it’s a legal requirement and our coop is setup so member groups make the decisions. I’m just advising and writing business docs most of the time.

Evelyn @chipnick.com · 2d

I plan to swap the firehose for Jetstream to remove the backfill requirement which will help