Typing Test on my IBM Model F/AT Keyboard
Here is a quick typing test on my IBM Model F/AT Keyboard.
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Recovering a phpBB Forum From a Broken Backup
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.
Running phpBB on Kubernetes: Containerising a Legacy PHP Forum (Part 2)
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.
Running phpBB on Kubernetes: Containerising a Legacy PHP Forum (Part 1)
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.
Apex Redirects, external-dns, and a Kubernetes Operator for Cloudflare Page Rules
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