Planned load balancer failover shortly
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dw_maintenanceHi all,
As part of our new hardware project, I'm going to be failing us over to our new load balancers. This will involve a brief downtime for the site while everything fails over, but it should be less than 60 seconds.
Thanks for your patience, and sorry for the interruption!
As part of our new hardware project, I'm going to be failing us over to our new load balancers. This will involve a brief downtime for the site while everything fails over, but it should be less than 60 seconds.
Thanks for your patience, and sorry for the interruption!
Mpreg Abortion Fic
Jun. 17th, 2013 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetHeaven help me, I'm posting it.
A Serious Case of Bad Timing on AO3. Teen Wolf, ~2000 words.
Now I'm going to go pick up some rat food, which will get me away from the computer for a little while and hopefully distract me from fic!nerves.
A Serious Case of Bad Timing on AO3. Teen Wolf, ~2000 words.
Now I'm going to go pick up some rat food, which will get me away from the computer for a little while and hopefully distract me from fic!nerves.
Chain Mail Griffin
Jun. 17th, 2013 06:13 pmsoc_puppetA few weeks back, not long after I made that epic trade of griffin for reconstructed violin, I sold a second griffin to Steven Todd of Wandering Mail (Facebook link). He proceeded to take that griffin and put a chain mail vest-thingy on it. Shortly after, he sold it to, IIRC, Silver Gryphon Games, who had been looking for a handcrafted mascot for some time but had never thought of crochet as a potential medium. And now, at long last, I have pictures of the mail-decked griffin!
( Ready for battle )
( Ready for battle )
Payments are back
Jun. 17th, 2013 10:59 ammark posting in dw_maintenanceThe payment system is back online. It was my fault; I was moving it to our new hardware, but I didn't realize there is a code change that I have to make. (For the details curious, the underlying SSL module we use was upgraded, and it now requires you to add some more options when you use it.)
I have cleared out the pending queue of payments, so that we shouldn't have charged for anything in the past 24 hours, and that should mean there are no doubled (or more) payments. Please, of course, let us know if that's the case though, and we'll take care of it!
Sorry for the trouble!
I have cleared out the pending queue of payments, so that we shouldn't have charged for anything in the past 24 hours, and that should mean there are no doubled (or more) payments. Please, of course, let us know if that's the case though, and we'll take care of it!
Sorry for the trouble!
Payment processing temporarily down
Jun. 17th, 2013 07:36 amdenise posting in dw_maintenanceThe backend system that runs payments is temporarily unavailable, and will be fixed as soon as possible. If you've tried to make a payment at any time between last night & now and gotten an endless wait, your payment is almost certainly in the queue to be processed as soon as the backend is back up & running -- you don't need to submit it again.
If you wind up getting multiple charges when it comes back up (for instance, if you re-submitted the form, thinking that your internet connection was to blame) you can open a support request (in the Account Payments category) after the payment is processed and I'll issue a refund to your card for the extra charges.
We're really sorry about the downtime!
If you wind up getting multiple charges when it comes back up (for instance, if you re-submitted the form, thinking that your internet connection was to blame) you can open a support request (in the Account Payments category) after the payment is processed and I'll issue a refund to your card for the extra charges.
We're really sorry about the downtime!
The stash that wouldn't die
Jun. 14th, 2013 08:38 pmsoc_puppetRemember how proud I was to have severely cut down my yarn stash?
Yeeeaaah. Guess who got upstairs today to find two garbage-bags full of fresh yarn?
Dad, I love you, I really do, but you do not need to buy my every skein of yarn you happen to see at a garage sale. Ditto kitchen utensils and cake pans.
Weeding through this new collection for stuff I might possibly keep is made more difficult by the fact that I'm vaguely planning to tapestry-crochet the Zekrom and/or Reshiram PC wallpapers from Pokemon Black and White Version 2 (seen here, bottom row, two rightmost wallpapers), and 75% of the yarn is orange or blue. Another 25% is white or in various human skin tones (two peachy-pink and a range of browns), which I'm probably keeping all of because I can seriously use that stuff. Hopefully I already have something close to most of the rest, because this is ridiculous.
Well, back to the hook, I guess. That corn won't crochet itself.
Yeeeaaah. Guess who got upstairs today to find two garbage-bags full of fresh yarn?
Dad, I love you, I really do, but you do not need to buy my every skein of yarn you happen to see at a garage sale. Ditto kitchen utensils and cake pans.
Weeding through this new collection for stuff I might possibly keep is made more difficult by the fact that I'm vaguely planning to tapestry-crochet the Zekrom and/or Reshiram PC wallpapers from Pokemon Black and White Version 2 (seen here, bottom row, two rightmost wallpapers), and 75% of the yarn is orange or blue. Another 25% is white or in various human skin tones (two peachy-pink and a range of browns), which I'm probably keeping all of because I can seriously use that stuff. Hopefully I already have something close to most of the rest, because this is ridiculous.
Well, back to the hook, I guess. That corn won't crochet itself.
Dreamwidth News: 11 June 2013
Jun. 11th, 2013 05:23 pmdenise posting in dw_newsHello, Dreamwidth! Last week, we attended YAPC, the annual conference put on by the Perl Foundation. We brought a group of our developers so they could both attend the conference and learn things, and also so they could represent Dreamwidth to the wider world. (Which they did! Awesomely!)
The conference itself was full of a number of interesting and varied talks, given by a bunch of incredibly smart people, and we learned a bunch (and found out about all kinds of useful things we can apply to Dreamwidth in the future). Aside from that, though, we had a great week, full of things like midnight hackathons, trips to see the actual servers that run Dreamwidth in person, people being voluntold to do things (that's a combination of "volunteer" and "told" that involves me pointing at someone and telling them "that's a great idea, why don't you do that"), and a whole host of teambuilding and other productive things. We've learned things, taught things, broke things, fixed things, and discovered just how many people you can pack into a hotel room and not want to kill each other later.
We'd like to say "thank you" to everybody who's paid for their accounts lately, since it's your support that allowed us to do this, and it's already paying off in bugfixes, new features, usability improvements, and loads of people who heard about Dreamwidth-the-open-source-project from us and are interested in coming to hack with us. So, let's go over some of the neat stuff we did!
(I also want to apologize in advance for any typos or weirdness in this news post, since I switched recently to dictating instead of typing, since my RSI problems just keep getting worse. Let me tell you, it may be easier than I thought it would be to make the transition, but that does not mean it's easy.)
Behind the cut:
* Conference Report
* Development
* Icon Renaming
* Pretty URLs
* Tales from the Conference #1
* New Entry & Comment Pages
* Spam Prevention
* HTML Cleaner Changes
* Tales from the Conference #2
* Volunteering with Dreamwidth
( and now the news )
The conference itself was full of a number of interesting and varied talks, given by a bunch of incredibly smart people, and we learned a bunch (and found out about all kinds of useful things we can apply to Dreamwidth in the future). Aside from that, though, we had a great week, full of things like midnight hackathons, trips to see the actual servers that run Dreamwidth in person, people being voluntold to do things (that's a combination of "volunteer" and "told" that involves me pointing at someone and telling them "that's a great idea, why don't you do that"), and a whole host of teambuilding and other productive things. We've learned things, taught things, broke things, fixed things, and discovered just how many people you can pack into a hotel room and not want to kill each other later.
We'd like to say "thank you" to everybody who's paid for their accounts lately, since it's your support that allowed us to do this, and it's already paying off in bugfixes, new features, usability improvements, and loads of people who heard about Dreamwidth-the-open-source-project from us and are interested in coming to hack with us. So, let's go over some of the neat stuff we did!
(I also want to apologize in advance for any typos or weirdness in this news post, since I switched recently to dictating instead of typing, since my RSI problems just keep getting worse. Let me tell you, it may be easier than I thought it would be to make the transition, but that does not mean it's easy.)
Behind the cut:
* Conference Report
* Development
* Icon Renaming
* Pretty URLs
* Tales from the Conference #1
* New Entry & Comment Pages
* Spam Prevention
* HTML Cleaner Changes
* Tales from the Conference #2
* Volunteering with Dreamwidth
( and now the news )
Friiiiiiick
Jun. 11th, 2013 12:46 pmsoc_puppetAnimeIowa is coming up, and I want to put more ships in bottles so I can sell them like hotcakes and make out like a bandit. Only I don't exactly have my finger on the pulse of anime fandom anymore these days, so I have no idea what's popular. And while I'm happy to provide non-anime ships*, since it's an anime convention I really would like to have at least an equal number of anime ships.
My solution? (After asking around at Saturday's AI meeting failed miserably, of course.) Check AO3 to find the top listed fandoms for number of fics, and then the top relationships in each of these fandoms.
The only problem? I'd forgotten that there are not only ships but fandoms that I am actively disinterested in. Anti-interested, even. And that they are wildly popular.
*sigh* Such is life, I suppose.
* Oh! Oh oh oh! I should totally deviate from my normal heart-shaped bottles and find a flask or beaker to put Science Bros in! That would be fab :DDD
Also, have I mentioned lately how much it totally bites that selling 3D Homestuck stuff is off limits? Because it totally bites.
My solution? (After asking around at Saturday's AI meeting failed miserably, of course.) Check AO3 to find the top listed fandoms for number of fics, and then the top relationships in each of these fandoms.
The only problem? I'd forgotten that there are not only ships but fandoms that I am actively disinterested in. Anti-interested, even. And that they are wildly popular.
*sigh* Such is life, I suppose.
* Oh! Oh oh oh! I should totally deviate from my normal heart-shaped bottles and find a flask or beaker to put Science Bros in! That would be fab :DDD
Also, have I mentioned lately how much it totally bites that selling 3D Homestuck stuff is off limits? Because it totally bites.
Welp
Jun. 8th, 2013 11:13 pmsoc_puppetI may have spent more money than I should have today. First I picked up Kisses, Sighs, and Cherry Blossom Pink at B&N, because COUPON and also Morinaga Milk! ( Mild spoilers )
Also, there was an AnimeIowa meeting this afternoon, and I decided to join some of the other staffers in the tradition of Going Out To Eat After. We went to a pizza-and-beer place and had some pretty interesting pizzas. I ordered one called "fully loaded", which was based on a baked potato, but my favorite was the "drunken clam", which involved clams, lemon juice, and I think bacon. The dessert pizza we got definitely involved bacon, and also Nutella (though we only got bacon on half, because not everyone was up to that particular taste sensation). Anyway, between the book and the meal, that's about thirty dollars out of my pocket.
But it's (relatively) okay! Because my patterns have been selling pretty well recently - someone on Ravelry discovered them and shared a link with their friends/group thing, and I've sold six in the last week alone :Db I totally should've linked the patterns to my Ravelry account earlier, but there's only so many websites I feel up to devoting energy to at a time, yanno? I should probably count myself lucky that I can keep my Etsy account relatively up to date.
In addition to my pretty decent pattern sales, some of the folks at the meeting saw me working on the cheetah-griffin and took some cards. This ended in one of them insisting that I put something in the art show this year (there's going to be actual material prizes this time around instead of (in addition to?) ribbons), and another one asking what my rates would be to make something to give to our Guests of Honor! I said I could probably come up with something in the three-bucks-a-pop range for what they were thinking of, and they said they'd e-mail me with numbers and so forth. Whee! I'll have to start working on that tomorrow at the weekly afternoon crafting party (formerly/usually? on Thursdays). I've also got some money coming in for dogsitting for the across-the-backyard neighbors, so yeah, I should be okay for having spent what I did.
Anyway, time to get to work sketching some corn and thinking about possible art show entries :3b
Also, there was an AnimeIowa meeting this afternoon, and I decided to join some of the other staffers in the tradition of Going Out To Eat After. We went to a pizza-and-beer place and had some pretty interesting pizzas. I ordered one called "fully loaded", which was based on a baked potato, but my favorite was the "drunken clam", which involved clams, lemon juice, and I think bacon. The dessert pizza we got definitely involved bacon, and also Nutella (though we only got bacon on half, because not everyone was up to that particular taste sensation). Anyway, between the book and the meal, that's about thirty dollars out of my pocket.
But it's (relatively) okay! Because my patterns have been selling pretty well recently - someone on Ravelry discovered them and shared a link with their friends/group thing, and I've sold six in the last week alone :Db I totally should've linked the patterns to my Ravelry account earlier, but there's only so many websites I feel up to devoting energy to at a time, yanno? I should probably count myself lucky that I can keep my Etsy account relatively up to date.
In addition to my pretty decent pattern sales, some of the folks at the meeting saw me working on the cheetah-griffin and took some cards. This ended in one of them insisting that I put something in the art show this year (there's going to be actual material prizes this time around instead of (in addition to?) ribbons), and another one asking what my rates would be to make something to give to our Guests of Honor! I said I could probably come up with something in the three-bucks-a-pop range for what they were thinking of, and they said they'd e-mail me with numbers and so forth. Whee! I'll have to start working on that tomorrow at the weekly afternoon crafting party (formerly/usually? on Thursdays). I've also got some money coming in for dogsitting for the across-the-backyard neighbors, so yeah, I should be okay for having spent what I did.
Anyway, time to get to work sketching some corn and thinking about possible art show entries :3b
Code pushed
Jun. 7th, 2013 11:31 pmmark posting in dw_maintenanceHi all!
The code has been pushed. As always, please report problems here! We have lots of hands on deck and ready to jump on things that might be awry. Thanks!
The code has been pushed. As always, please report problems here! We have lots of hands on deck and ready to jump on things that might be awry. Thanks!
Code push tonight
Jun. 7th, 2013 04:13 pmdenise posting in dw_maintenanceWe've been hacking away in person at the conference we went to this week, and we'd like to share the fruit of our labors with you all! There'll be a code push tonight (6/7) at 9PM CDT, which is 10PM EDT/7PM PDT/2AM GMT (6/8). (Convert to your time zone!)
We don't consider this one "high risk", so (*knocks wood*) it should be pretty uneventful.
We don't consider this one "high risk", so (*knocks wood*) it should be pretty uneventful.
Productivity?
Jun. 6th, 2013 10:29 pmsoc_puppetWelp, I finished writing the (first?) mpreg abortion fic. It clocked in at just over 2k, which is... IDK, the other two are threatening to be much shorter, if I get around to them. I'm basically pleased with it; I think I did what I set out to do with it, at any rate. And now I really, really want to write the other two, but we'll have to see how it goes. I do have a title for the third one now, though.
I could also stand to have a beta reader look over it. I'm thinking mostly for characterization, but I could also use some input on whether this actually counts as h/c. And also for typos. My typing has seriously gone downhill over the past I'm-not-sure-how-long.
I could also stand to have a beta reader look over it. I'm thinking mostly for characterization, but I could also use some input on whether this actually counts as h/c. And also for typos. My typing has seriously gone downhill over the past I'm-not-sure-how-long.