new posts (from drafts)

content/posts/2023-04-09-gitea-updates/index.md

@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 +++
 title = '''Gitea Updates: quick'n'dirty'''
 summary = 'After a lot of lookups, a quick reminder in copy&paste mode for me.'
-date = '2023-03-12T07:34:46+0100'
+date = '2023-04-09T17:07:01+0200'
 categories = [ 'computerstuff' ]
-tags = [ 'linux', 'reminders' ]
-draft = true
+tags = [ 'server', 'linux', 'git', 'selfhost' ]
 
 +++
 
@@ -88,4 +87,6 @@ I usually download to my root's home folder.
 # systemctl restart gitea
 ```
 
-That's it.
+That's it. I won't need this again but I like to keep this information
+somewhere I can find it ;-)
+

content/posts/2023-04-09-mastodon-snippets/index.md

@@ -1,18 +1,20 @@
 +++
 title = 'Mastodon snippets'
-summary = 'snip snip'
-date = '2023-03-05T12:39:35+0100'
+date = '2023-04-09T15:58:46+0200'
+summary = 'Some "nice to have" snippets for maintaining a mastodon server'
 categories = [ 'computerstuff' ]
-tags = ['mastodon','server','linux','reminders']
-draft = true
+tags = [ 'mastodon', 'server', 'linux', 'selfhost' ]
 
 +++
 
 Very short und maybe a bit chaotic...
 
-## clear media files
+There are some [style patches](https://codeberg.org/dominic/mastodon-styles)
+available for plain mastodon for those that would want to have a look at them.
 
-https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/365542654a1e
+## Clear media files
+
+<https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/365542654a1e>
 
 
 ```bash
@@ -33,9 +35,9 @@ exec > /home/mastodon/live/log/prune.log 2>&1
 date
 ```
 
-## further removal of profile pics
+## Further removal of profile pics
 
-https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/4ecbf69cdee7
+<https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/4ecbf69cdee7>
 
 ```bash
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
@@ -49,18 +51,21 @@ cd /home/mastodon/live/public/system/cache/accounts
 find -name '*.png' -print0 | xargs -0 pngquant --verbose --ext=.png --force --speed 10 --quality 45-50 --skip-if-larger
 ```
 
-## moar stuff in RAILS_ENV cnosole
+## More snippets for use in the rails console
+
+_Some or almost all of the following text is copy&paste'd from [this issue]
+at Github._
 
-https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14681
+[this issue]: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14681
 
 There are several scripts executable with `RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails c`,
 for convenience laid out here with minor corrections. **Do not execute these
 without understanding what they do!**:
 
 Deleting all cached media attachments from external servers to allow web app
-to refetch them when they are queried. At least on my instance this is reaaally
-slow, takes tens of seconds per attachment (is this the same as tootctl media
-remove?):
+to re-fetch them when they are queried. At least on my instance this is really
+slow, takes tens of seconds per attachment (is this the same as `tootctl media
+remove`?):
 
 ```ruby
 MediaAttachment.cached.where.not(remote_url: '').each do |attachment|
@@ -70,12 +75,12 @@ MediaAttachment.cached.where.not(remote_url: '').each do |attachment|
 end
 ```
 
-Deleting and redownloading all cached remote emojis. This apparently has a
+Deleting and re-downloading all cached remote emojis. This apparently has a
 problem that the local URLs for the cached emojis change, and the URLs aren't
 updated to the fetched profile headers. I suppose this should be done before
 the next steps, assuming the cached local emoji URLs are set up correctly to
 the profile headers and names at the time of fetching. This doesn't seem to
-work though, maybe tootctl emoji purge --remote-only would be better:
+work though, maybe `tootctl emoji purge --remote-only` would be better:
 
 ```ruby
 CustomEmoji.remote.where.not(image_file_name: nil).where.not(image_remote_url: '').each do |emoji|
@@ -85,8 +90,8 @@ CustomEmoji.remote.where.not(image_file_name: nil).where.not(image_remote_url: '
 end
 ```
 
-Deleting all remote profile avatars, and refetching them. Are these two the
-same as tootctl accounts refresh --all?:
+Deleting all remote profile avatars, and re-fetching them. Are these two the
+same as `tootctl accounts refresh --all`?:
 
 ```ruby
 Account.remote.where.not(avatar_file_name: nil).where.not(avatar_remote_url: '').each do |a|
@@ -96,7 +101,7 @@ Account.remote.where.not(avatar_file_name: nil).where.not(avatar_remote_url: '')
 end
 ```
 
-Deleting all remote profile headers, and refetching them. Hopefully this
+Deleting all remote profile headers, and re-fetching them. Hopefully this
 uses/updates the newly fetched local cached emoji URLs, and also includes the
 profile name as they often contain emojis:
 
@@ -108,8 +113,8 @@ Account.remote.where.not(header_file_name: nil).where.not(header_remote_url: '')
 end
 ```
 
-It would be awesome to get tooling for these to tootctl. That said, I'm not
+It would be awesome to get tooling for these to `tootctl`. That said, I'm not
 entirely sure if destroying the entities is necessary before downloading them
-again, and perhaps we could use remove_entity_cache instead. I'm not very well
+again, and perhaps we could use `remove_entity_cache` instead. I'm not very well
 acquainted with the codebase.