02-13-2025, 01:17 PM
TTT42025
One thing about my job since the pandemic is that all my work is on the web. And anything on the web is a house of cards, a lesson in impermanence. One click or glitch and it all disappears.
KFM has been a nightmare. We were in the process of developing a brand new site where we could place all of our back issues and instructional DVDs (being converted to digital streams) behind a subscription paywall. Our previous site was a custom build and it's been shaky lately - I've been alerting our part-time IT to issues since June of last year. Turns out some of those issues were symptoms of much deeper problems and the entire site collapsed right when we were going live with our tournament and Year of the Snake stuff (our horoscopes are very popular every year). It's all backed up (I'm told) but we aren't going to invest in restoring the site only to pull it down when the new updated site goes live. So we're dead for now. It's like purgatory.
YMAA suffered a massive DDoS cyber-attack from Brazilian hackers over the weekend. We had to do all sorts of repairs and we've just discovered that some of them now block our ability to update the site. So now I must go through all my pre-programmed spams and redo them. I hate redoing stuff.
One thing about my job since the pandemic is that all my work is on the web. And anything on the web is a house of cards, a lesson in impermanence. One click or glitch and it all disappears.
KFM has been a nightmare. We were in the process of developing a brand new site where we could place all of our back issues and instructional DVDs (being converted to digital streams) behind a subscription paywall. Our previous site was a custom build and it's been shaky lately - I've been alerting our part-time IT to issues since June of last year. Turns out some of those issues were symptoms of much deeper problems and the entire site collapsed right when we were going live with our tournament and Year of the Snake stuff (our horoscopes are very popular every year). It's all backed up (I'm told) but we aren't going to invest in restoring the site only to pull it down when the new updated site goes live. So we're dead for now. It's like purgatory.
YMAA suffered a massive DDoS cyber-attack from Brazilian hackers over the weekend. We had to do all sorts of repairs and we've just discovered that some of them now block our ability to update the site. So now I must go through all my pre-programmed spams and redo them. I hate redoing stuff.
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