Week of Hell

Captain's log, Stardate 51268.4. This morning's attack destroyed the power grid on deck 11. No casualties this time but the replicator system was badly damaged. We've gone to emergency rations. As a result, the situation has gotten a little worse. Environmental controls continue to fail, seven decks have been rendered uninhabitable and we've had to relocate the crew. Quarters are close, nerves are frayed, and I'm not sure what's more difficult to maintain – Voyager's systems or the crew's morale. What's important… is that we're together, working towards a single goal – survival.

Star Trek Voyager episode "Year of Hell"

I don't have a crew or a ship but I've for sure had a tough few days.

I had to rebuild a server (remote hosted virtual machine) from the vapours of what was. Some data loss occurred such as synced Braytech settings, Patron/Destiny membership associations, and push notification settings. 

It really sucked. There exists a Discord server for Bungie API discussion, and I lent on them for both assistance and emotional support. Very thankful to a handful of them for replying to my many messages.

I bricked the server by bailing on a dist upgrade midway through package configuration. I was using the diff compare view on my Redis config. I couldn't work out how to exit the view so I eventually started mashing CTRL C.

I now know that that was Vim. Infuriating and embarrassing. I am now subject to the programmer meme of can't exit Vim.

But Tom, where were your backups? I don't do them for this server in question because I can't afford them, but I do have managed backups for my other server as I host other people's data there!

I'm exceptionally tired. It's astounding how much time and energy goes into anything related to computers. Even as someone who has spent so much time using them, I still lose touch with how long the most basic of tasks take. 

In any case, there are some benefits. You make the most out of shitty situations, right... Upgrades, improvements, optimisations.