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Mailman3 deployed to production
The "soon" in "#Wikimedia will upgrade to #Mailman3 soon" has finally arrived!https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/We'll start migrating lists in a few days, some more details at: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2021-April/094459.html (hopefully one of the last pipermail links I share)Shoutout to @ladsgroup for instigating this and really driving it forward!
fridge-backup
Couldn't find a #btrfs snapshot backup tool that I liked so I just wrote my own: https://crates.io/crates/fridge-backupIt automatically takes daily snapshots and then you copy them to external drives, that's it. (Automatic cleanup is a TODO)Also, you should put your butter in the fridge so it doesn't go bad.
1.31.14 MediaWiki security update
The latest #MediaWiki security release is now in #Debian stable/buster, time to update: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2021/msg00070.htmlUpdated packages for buster-backports, bullseye and my Ubuntu PPA will be available shortly.
Test Mailman3 in production
#Mailman3 for #Wikimedia is ready for testing, see the announcement from @ladsgroup and myself: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2021-March/094382.htmlHopefully a step forward in making Wikimedia mailing lists more accessible.
Debugging go templates
I spent a good amount of last week debugging go templates and finally discovered today you need to end the {{ template name }} block with a period so the variable context is passed through.I was going to complain that making a period at the end crucial to the meaning…
RIP Kim's Convenience
Kim's Convenience is the funniest show on TV, when one of us is watching the entire house knows because you end up laughing so loudly.Really going to miss it :( #OkSeeYouhttps://tvline.com/2021/03/08/kims-convenience-cancelled-ending-simu-liu-reaction-jung-netflix/
Pageviews on the "Ship of Theseus" article
Pageviews on the "Ship of Theseus" article have been sitting at ~1,000/day until dramatically shooting up 40x when mentioned by The Vision in the WandaVision season finale!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
semver will not save you
https://hynek.me/articles/semver-will-not-save-you/ matches up exactly with how I feel about versioning and semver. Semver is great, but at the end of the day it's a best effort by maintainers and not perfect. It's also not applicable to literally everything and shouldn't be used as such.
Smog check
Having now spent like 3 days just driving around aimlessly to rack up mileage to get my car to pass a smog check, I would like to reiterate my strong support for efficient and convenient public transit.
Boba and homemade enchiladas
What more do you need besides boba and homemade enchiladas
LibUp credits
Long overdue, but I finally added a "thank you" page for all the people who helped out with the development of LibUp over the years: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/credits
Wikimedia Rust developers user group
We're starting a #Wikimedia #Rust developers user group! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Rust_developers_user_groupMy announcement to wikitech-l https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2021-February/094272.html has more details on our goals so far.
The people who built Wikipedia, technically
I wrote for The Signpost this month, "The people who built Wikipedia, technically", filled with stories of Wikipedia's earliest days and how it grew into what it is today.Featuring interviews with @brion, @eloquence and more!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-01-31/Technology_report
San Jose State made it onto The Chase!!
San Jose State made it onto The Chase!!