https://skelmis.co.nz/tags/generic/ Recent content in Generic on Skelmis Hugo en Sun, 24 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://skelmis.co.nz/posts/suggestions-server-december-outage/ Sun, 24 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://skelmis.co.nz/posts/suggestions-server-december-outage/ TLDR; We had moved our database onto the same machine as our software a few months earlier, removing all replication in the process and never re-configuring it. Then our server proceeded to brick itself and our hosting provider was unsure if it could be recovered. It was in the end, but that’s how we nearly lost 1.95 million database records and ruined Christmas. And yes, you bet we have off-site backups again. https://skelmis.co.nz/posts/fenz-analysis/ Tue, 19 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://skelmis.co.nz/posts/fenz-analysis/ Did you know Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) publish incident reports? Well they do, and you can read them here. Naturally, the software developer and “Oooo pretty graph” in me decided I wanted to look at the data, and so I created a little tool for myself to gather some information to build this post. Disclaimer Caveat for this data and my inferences: the data supplied is an extract from the ICAD reporting system maintained by Fire and Emergency New Zealand. https://skelmis.co.nz/posts/new-site/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://skelmis.co.nz/posts/new-site/ After having my old site for nearly four years and various other readthedocs hosted sites for documentation, I have finally decided to condense it down into one site and Hugo was the perfect choice. I love markdown. I love not having to write CSS. This was perfect. This should be the new home of all my static content going forward.