My thanks go out the AWS team who deal with the credits for open source projects. FreshPorts hit a big problem in Sep/Oct and I thought the project was going to have a non-trivial bill to pay. The main FreshPorts nodes are hosted on AWS – there are other nodes. Despite my own shortcomings (see […]
This was originally written in September 2018, but never published (for unknown reasons). I found it in the drafts section of the website today. In this post, you will see me change approach and not use a secondary table in one instance, but use multiple secondary tables in another. In one case, you will also
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I’m so very happy about recent changes to the website. It’s been a great day. I was volunteering at a flu shot clinic. A new coffee shop has opened up, and I was there before the clinic. After the clinic, it was walking the dog, then some serious changes to the the PostgreSQL queries which
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The front page of FreshPorts is about to change, slightly. At present, the front page contains only the the commits to the main branch of the FreeBSD. More precisely, it does not include: Commits to Mk/ or other similar non-port entities within the ports tree Commits to the quarterly branch (whatever the latest quarter is;
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