progress of pauline @pauline@myna.social

Most of the gaps in the #Mastodon self-hosting guide (https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run-your-own/) are easy to fill from context. I hit two gotchas while following the recipe:

1) You can't set up nginx before you generate your SSL certificate, because nginx will justifiably complain there's no certificate there. Instead run certbot standalone first: https://github.com/mastodon/documentation/pull/826#issuecomment-827558844

2) nginx will return nothing but 502s until you give it access to the mastodon user folder: https://lond.com.br/2018/07/13/running-a-mastodon-instance-using-archlinux.html#intermission-mastodon-directory-permissions

Had my last voice lesson of the year before intubation temporarily makes me sound like 85-year-old Elza Soares. Relearning how to sing has been one of the joys of this whole transition thing and I recommend it to absolutely anyone in such circumstances. #LGBTQ #Trans teachers are pretty great about offering sliding-scale lessons if you need them.

I've been through ICWA provisions a few times because of the work LawBox does for the Texas Children's Commission, and this year all their docs are prefaced with "Oh, btw, everything below could be imminently upended at any point."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/07/health/native-american-adoption-icwa.html

Setting this thing up could have been worse! Okay! This is like day six with no sodium and it's been no better than any of those preceding, sweet dreams.