miniblog.

I've only got a few VPS instances, but setting hostnames automatically to match Ansible inventory makes my life so much easier. I should have done this way sooner. It's so much nicer than seeing wilfred@ubuntu on every box I ssh into.

Smalltalk has a remarkable method named #become: that allows you to modify all pointers to a given object to point to a different object! https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2009/07/miracle-of-become.html This goes even further than updating instances when a class changes, it's changing instance references.

> We searched 3154 Twitter accounts and found 519 accounts with 527 Fediverse IDs, spread over 136 instances. https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/ seems to find more users, and it also shows some interesting stats on relevant / popular instances.