What a damaged MySQL backup really looks like, and how the data came back: the three backups and how far each one went, the MyISAM table that would not repair, the index that survived when the rows did not, and the two-step upgrade that got a 2016 board onto phpBB 3.3.19.
How much CPU a forum request actually costs, how to size the pool against the limit you have been given, the connection limit that broke it, the verification suite, and the order to move an old board across.
What makes phpBB awkward to containerise, and what it takes to build it: the immutable image, the two daemons, the path prefix, the configuration, the storage, and the scheduled tasks.
The apex of a domain (for example, paulbramhall.uk) needs to redirect to its canonical www counterpart (www.paulbramhall.uk) so that HSTS, cookies, and search indexing all converge on a single URL. On most platforms, this is a straightforward DNS or edge configuration task. On a Kubernetes cluster that
This isn't so much a tech article or guide, but more of an opening up into a little bit about myself, and a current struggle I'm going through. If you’ve noticed the site looks a bit different, it’s because I’ve finally pulled the
Did you know Alps designed, patented, and produced their own variant of a Buckling Spring keyboard? In 1988, 2 patents were filed by Alps Electric Co., Ltd. in Japan, detailing their design and implementation of their own Buckling Spring variant of Key Switches. However, it was not a widely adopted
I’ve recently got hold of a 1986 Apple M0110A Keyboard, and I’ve been wanting one of these for quite some time now, so to finally get one has really made my day! Introduced with the Macintosh Plus in 1986, these were manufactured until 1990 when the Mac Plus
Here is a quick typing test on my IBM Model F/AT Keyboard.
There is always a common opinion that separating the case of the Model F/AT Keyboard is never an easy, and always feels like something is going to break! So I did a small video of me splitting the case which hopefully you will find useful. There are a few
For a while now I've always wanted to get hold of an IBM Model M Keyboard, purely to experience the tactility of the Buckling Spring switches. However, I've never really found one which ticked all the boxes, or wasn't ridiculously overpriced for what it