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1. Broke my PostgreSQL cluster. It turns out write ahead log replication is a bit sensitive to latency so I'm rebuilding the #cluster. Not content with breaking one cluster, I made a second one to test the boundaries of PostgreSQL HA, a new approach and I am loading that db right now. Got learned, on Timescale and Time series databases:
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2. Handed over the codebase for two small projects I helped start bootstrap.

3. Had a great #selfcare / #wellbeing touch base. It's hard some days, but was reassured that I'm doing all the right things, more than most. Fitting a couple #singing sessions in every day latest being learning Leave Her Johnny:
youtube.com/watch?v=8Fow61Zsn2

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Galdr Workshop

Come and experience wondrous magic in the wild nature of Western Jutland!

Where do find yourself presently in life? What do you wish to summon and transform? To focus on and empower? What needs to grow and take shape so you’re ready for the next step on life’s winding path?

Learn about galdr—write a text, create a symbol with the power of words, give it a voice, find your resonance, speak your truth, be heard, and bring your symbol into the material world. Create cosmic change.

Come and awaken the power within. Let’s galdr together and send our intentions out to the four corners of the world. There is great power in being witnessed—in dedicating yourself to a creative process, seeing your dreams come to life, and allowing others to see and hear what you wish for and act upon.

The Nordic (primarily Icelandic) tradition of magical galdr is a deeply creative process that can provide a framework for transformation and change.

Date: May 23-25
Location: Oksbøl, Jutland
Investment: 3400 DKK

All details surrounding the course, are found through the link in bio

Secure your spot by writing to Sara Bøgh on sara@boghstudios.com​​​​​​​ ✨

#nordic #workshop #ritual #shamanic #music #amulet #symbol #nature #singing #community

Down in the basement tonight working on the new song. Got the main vocal comped and now putting down some backing vocal harmony tracks for the chorus sections. Took me a few bars to figure out it’s the fifth note up from the main vocal melody line that’s good. Fortunately, I was just barely able to hit the highest note with enough strength and conviction to sound decent. Hit my vocal peak limit threshold there. Woohoo. #music #recording #singing #songwriting

'The space is like an instrument': How Notre-Dame found its voice after fire muffled it.

Performers and visitors to the famous gothic cathedral in the midst of the River Seine may find some subtle differences to the way sound bounces around its walls.

mediafaro.org/article/20250306

A view of the inside of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris with people seated inside the nave during a mass | Credit: Getty Images
BBC · 'The space is like an instrument': How Notre-Dame found its voice after fire muffled it.By Richard Gray

Here's a male korimako (NZ bellbird) I photographed singing in our garden in Ōtautahi-Christchurch. I just uploaded it to #iNaturalistNZ. (It's a rainy Saturday morning so I'm working through some of my backlog of photos.)

inaturalist.nz/observations/26

iNaturalist NZMainland New Zealand Bellbird (Subspecies Anthornis melanura melanura)Mainland New Zealand Bellbird from Cashmere Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand on January 17, 2025 at 09:46 AM by Jon Sullivan
#birds#nz#Ōtautahi

Singing frustration:
I love singing but when singing along with songs I often don't know which octave to sing in. When I choose the lower one, some parts of the song may be too low, and with the higher one, some parts may be too high!

Now I wonder, maybe the pitch of my voice is a bit uncommon? Or do I just have a bit of a limited range?

Does anyone recognize this issue?

Nice.

"During work hours, Jason Fallscheer is a man in a suit – he’s a finance broker in a CBD office among 800 people.

"It’s a high-pressure job, and he says at times he feels isolated, being the only person in that role in his firm.

"But in the past year, he’s found the perfect after-work counterpoint.

"He sings in a satirical choir called Men in Suits."

#Melbourne #singing

theage.com.au/national/victori

The Age · ‘Like men’s shed with singing’: Men in Suits in full voice on city streetsBy Carolyn Webb