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Journalctl is the standard way of viewing system logs on Linux. But since the logs from all processes get consolidated in one place,
it can get quit spammy if one process dumps a lot of output. Here is how I filter out those bad processes.
Apple released the new StoreKit 2 API, and I’ve been working on updating Reiterate to use it.
The Reiterate website has a fresh new look!
Keeping email addresses away from harvester bots is an old problem. I decided to apply some new technology to it.
I recently discovered that this site has more problems than I knew about.
Backup is one of those administrative tasks that you have to take care of if you run your own server. There’s a lot of options, ranging from just copying all your files to another server yourself, to setting up a backup package, to installing a backup service from your hosting provider.
I’ve enabled comments on the blog.
One thing you learn when running your own webserver is just how unfriendly the internet can be. Within moments of enabling your HTTP ports, malicious bots will immediately start scanning you, looking for vulnerabilities. It’s not too hard to lock things down; you have to be careful and meticulous and always keep up to date with the current best security practices. But that still leaves one problem: the bots make a mess of your log files.
I’ve spent this week upgrading my server to the latest Debian release (bullseye).