Things I finish on the seventh day.
Weekdays belong to someone else. What gets built on Saturday is mine, and once in a while it survives contact with Sunday and ends up written down here.
202652 saturdays
- 11 apr — a smaller postgres
- 27 jun — renaming photos by what the camera knew
- 15 aug — backups i actually restore
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Three of them left something worth keeping. The pale end of the strip has not happened yet.
Written down
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2026-08-15
Backups I actually restore
I had three years of snapshots and no idea whether any of them opened. Fixing that took one afternoon and cost me a weekend of illusions.
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2026-06-27
Renaming photos by what the camera knew
Twenty thousand files called DSC_0431.JPG, four cameras, two clocks set wrong, and a forty-line script that sorted it out.
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2026-04-11
A smaller Postgres
The defaults assume a machine I do not own. Here is what I changed on a box with one core and a gigabyte, and what changing it actually bought.