I’m making heavy use of Hetzner storageboxes, a rather slow network storage solution perfectly suited for backup tasks. Sadly they come with hickups resulting sometimes in a failed automount status where the machine may not recover from on it’s own. That’s so common that I got tired of checking monitoring or logging in to each individual machine. and to my aid!

for i in {bob,alice,steam,punk,younameit}; do echo "$i:"; systemctl --host "$i" status storagebox.automount; done
So how are my storagebox mounts today? Ah yes, yes, seems like two need a little pep talk.
Replacing broken avatar images with background SVG Emoji by @edent@edent (shkspr.mobi)
When someone on Twitter mentions my blog, the WordPress WebMentions plugin automatically fetches those Tweets and turns them into comments on the blog post. It looks something like this: Matt's smiling face. That is pretty cool - but has one slight problem. If someone changes their Twitter avatar, o...

Doing the same @edent – just less fancy:

background-image: url('/wp-content/plugins/semantic-linkbacks/img/mm.jpg');
background-size: contain;