We all know the story. Piggy #1 built with straw. Gone. Piggy #2 built with wood. Also gone. Piggy #3 built with stone. That worked. And then there’s me. Not a piggy. Just… thinking a bit further. What if I had to build a house from the ground up? Not the usual way. But properly….
The SoapUI Hellscape: how HTTP 500 became 200
I ran into one of those bugs that makes you question reality. Everything looked fine in SoapUI. The endpoint was correct, properties were set, requests looked clean. Yet in Jenkins, the same testcases kept failing with ModelItem errors, dreaded NullPointerExceptions, and HTTP 500 responses. So I did the usual: checked connectivity → fine tested with…
Ferritin deficiency
No, this is not an academic lecture in some healthcare university semester. This is about a letter I got from Sanquin, the Dutch blood donation authority. Ferritin deficiency? It turns out my serum ferritin is too low. It is below the 30 µg/L threshold. The “normal” range sits somewhere between 30 and 250 µg/L. Mine…
4 Days, One Error, Zero Clues
[ERROR]: + CannotCommit Invalid JCA transport endpoint configuration, exception: BINDING.JCA-11043 [ERROR]: Invalid Interaction parameter. [ERROR]: Invalid Interaction parameter. [ERROR]: Interaction parameter Authentication Type has invalid value {PUBLICKEY}. [ERROR]: Please correct the value of the interaction parameter and redeploy the process. This exact error has haunted me for the last four days. “Interaction parameter Authentication Type…
The fog has lifted, oh crap and it’s back again
A few weeks ago I wrote an article about the fog and the Grand Canyon. Well… the fog lifted for a spell. And now it’s back. With a vengeance. Fuck. After a good meeting with someone from work, I won’t mention names or go into details, the fog started to lift. I felt lighter. My…
The cable across the canyon
What my brain feels like when you’re autistic, and why I haven’t been writing much lately. I haven’t been writing much lately, as you’ve probably already noticed. Like I said before, my battery is nearing empty. Last night I was thinking about it, and I came up with a metaphor that describes what’s going on…
Help, low battery
For people who play, or have played, LaserQuest, this phrase will probably sound familiar. It comes from the packs themselves when the 7.2V battery pack is nearly empty. The pack reminds the player to return to the airlock to get another battery. But in my case, my battery is nearing empty. And I can tell…
Operation onlyfans #3, and more
Yeah, another OnlyFans update. Again 😛 Not the spicy platform. The spinning 12V PWM-controlled ones. But this story doesn’t begin with RPM charts and heatpipes. It begins with a completely different hardware component. The keyboard. A few weeks ago I noticed that some keys started failing intermittently. Specifically the numbers 1 through 4. The odd…
Fail2ban issue
Yeah, I’m using Fail2ban quite aggressively. If you access my reverse proxy over HTTP(S) and decide to do something naughty, you’ll end up in my eternal black hole. And no, I’m not disclosing which rules I use. Hehe. That said, I did discover a small glitch in my setup. I accidentally banned myself. Well… technically…
DNS, Power, and committing to shutdown
This weekend I finally cleaned up something that had been bothering me for a while: DNS and power handling in my cluster. It technically worked but had a few glitches and, moreover: It wasn’t robust! DNS: from “it runs” to actual redundancy I had a single Pi-hole running in my Proxmox cluster. It filtered ads,…