Search maintenance

Apr. 22nd, 2026 09:19 am
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Happy Wednesday!

I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!

Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!

Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.

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One day, he started screaming.

He screamed until he lost his voice, until he’d broken everything he could reach. He roared at his ghosts and yelled at his own sorrow until there was nothing left, and he had no more tears, and his bones shook so hard that he was sure he was going to fall apart. Saoirse picked him up, brought him to bed, and told her new son to rest his poor head. How horrible it must be, being so lonely.