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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • Not sure if I’m just weird or if this is a general rule for insomnia, but for me, what works will vary and there’s no foolproof recipe to make me sleep, but below are some things that do help me.

    • Exercise
    • Consistent wake up time
    • No screens 2 hours before bed
    • Blocking sunlight early (sun currently sets after 10 pm)
    • No food for at least 6 hours before bed
    • Stop liquids 3 hours before bedtime
    • White noise during sleep (I prefer the sound of rain)
    • Don’t leave things unfinished before bed, especially tasks that will make you worry or have anxiety
    • Decluttered bedroom
    • Clean bedsheets
    • Air purifier
    • Aromatherapy diffuser with lemongrass




















  • I had a weird issue with a server SSD.

    6 months ahead of scheduled swap, it didn’t die, it just started reading and writing really sluggishly, making the whole server behave really weird. Disk smart statistics looked healthy and disk self tests passed with flying colors. Anyway, had to swap it early and do a re-install of the OS.

    The rest of my cluster temporarily took over running some pods and only saw downtime for a few pods that were dependent on some disks in the failing server.

    I guess the incident has restarted my interest in distributed storage.