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When we first launched Oh Dear!, we decided to limit the crawls to the first 1.000 unique pages we find. This was mostly a protection for infinite loops, since those are really hard to detect.
Imagine having a broken website with infinite pagination, where you can keep clicking on to the next page, but still see the same content (there are several WordPress plugins out there exhibiting this behaviour). The body of the page still changes (the page-number will increment), so we can't just compare the
html-body to previous pages either.
Makes you wonder how Google fixes this, doesn't it? :-)
Now, more than a year later, we feel confident to increase the 1.000 page limit to 5.000 per website.
Thanks to major improvements in the crawler, we can now also change 2 other important options.
Both of these original settings were also a protection mechanism for the website: we don't want to overwhelm your server(s) by crawling too agressively.
Our goal is to be a monitoring service, not a DDoS service.
Our crawler will now be a bit faster, handle more requests concurrently and crawl more pages than before.]]>
Our API allows you to trigger an on demand run for every check we do. But, it's an API - so it requires a set of IDs. First, let's find the different checks your site has. In order to use this API command, you need 2 things:
Let's find the different checks that are enabled.
$ curl https://ohdear.app/api/sites/7024 \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer [your-api-token-here] ' \
-H 'Accept: application/json' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' | jq
"id": 7024,
"url": "https://ohdear.app",
"checks": [
"id": 32077,
"type": "uptime",
"id": 32078,
"type": "broken_links",
"id": 32079,
"type": "mixed_content",
"id": 32080,
"type": "certificate_health",
"id": 32081,
"type": "certificate_transparency",
Some output was truncated, but you get the idea. There's a bunch of checks, each with their own ID.
Take the check you'd like to run on demand (
32077 for the uptime check,
32078 for the broken links check etc.).
Most deploy scripts allow you to execute some raw commands. In this example, we'll use
curl together with your your API key to instruct Oh Dear! to perform a full site check, searching for broken links.
$ curl -X POST https://ohdear.app/api/checks/32077/request-run \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer [your-api-token-here]' \
-H 'Accept: application/json' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' | jq
"id": 32077,
"type": "uptime",
"label": "Uptime",
"enabled": true,
"latest_run_ended_at": "2019-07-10 12:35:40",
"latest_run_result": "pending"
This uses the
/request-run endpoint of our API, which you can trigger for every kind of check we have. In this case, we requested a run for the check with ID
To combine it all in one easy flow, you can call the following
curl commands to instruct Oh Dear! to do a full site check.
# Trigger an uptime check
curl -X POST "https://ohdear.app/api/checks/$UPTIME_ID/request-run" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_TOKEN" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
# Trigger the broken links check
curl -X POST "https://ohdear.app/api/checks/$BROKENLINKS_ID/request-run" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_TOKEN" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
Pretty neat, hu?]]>
You can now overwrite, per website, if we should probe the outgoing links of your site too.
This is a powerful setting if you want to make sure your visitors are being refered to a working page or website. If your main focus is to aggregate content and refer them to the next website, you'll want to give your users the best experience by linking to working sites.
We do realize this setting isn't for everyone. After all, you have no control over the external sites. They might be down, under maintenance or changing their URL structures.
Because of the sometimes tricky behaviour of other websites, we've changed the default behaviour to only crawl your sites' internal links, not the external ones.
If you add a new site to your dashboard, we'll stick to the URLs related to the same domain. If you added a site to Oh Dear! before today, you'll notice we're crawling the external links too.
This should give our users a better onboarding experience with less false positives.
Of course, anyone's free to change the setting to also crawl the external URLs!]]>
GET requests, we've added support for
PATCH methods too.
We've had the option to monitor websites via a
GET request since the very launch. It allows us to probe and test 99% of the sites out there for their uptime and report the owner if it's down.
But it doesn't quite fit every use case, and extending the available methods opens up many new doors & possibilities.
In your site settings, you can now choose which method we should use to probe your website. If you're choosing something other than a
GET request, you can specify the payload too.
This allows for some interesting extra checks;
POST, with the optional "Verify text", you can make sure the page returns the items you expect
PUT or
And that's not everything.
In one of our earlier blogposts, we mentioned how you can use our crawler to keep your site caches warm.
While this is super useful, it didn't catch every use case: your site is more than a series of pages, strung together.
Your site consists of a login form, a search field, a contact form, ... but our crawler only sees the forms, not the output after a form submission.
These new uptime methods allow you to keep your code "warm", if you're using serverless solutions. This prevents (sometimes significant) delays in boot times for functions that aren't being hit too often.
By adding monitoring probes to those endpoints, you gain 2 important benefits;
These new methods also open the door to more advanced scenarios, where you can simulate most of the functionality of any website, giving you complete uptime coverage of your site - not just your homepage.]]>
A year ago, on May 8th 2018, Google launched a new top level domain (TLD) called .app.
At that time, Oh Dear! had just launched on the ohdearapp.com domain. It was a no-brainer for us to migrate our domain from ohdearapp.com to ohdear.app. The launch of the .APP TLD was perfectly timed for us!
Within the first couple of weeks, we registered the domain and moved all our services over to the ohdear.app domain.
HSTS stands for HTTP Strict Transport Security. It's a mechanisme that allows a website to signal that it should only be reached via HTTPS - the encrypted HTTP - instead of the plain text HyperText Transfer Protocol.
When we were at our .com domain, we added the following header to our website and all its pages.
$ curl -I https://ohdearapp.com
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000
Whenever a browser would visit our site, it would remember for 31536000 seconds (365 days) that it can only reach our domain via HTTPS.
This prevents man-in-the-middle attacks where a connection would be downgraded from HTTPS to HTTP to snoop on the data being transferred over the wire.
With the .app domain, we no long need this.
More acronyms! ;-)
One of the nice features of having a .APP domain, is that it automatically requires HTTPS. There is no workaround.
Why? Because browsers have a thing called preloaded HSTS lists. Instead of waiting to visit a site for the first time, to read the HSTS header, browsers have lists of domains that want to have that configuration preloaded. Usually, those lists include specific domains.
However, for .APP (and a few others, like .DEV), there's a TLD-wide preload. That means browsers that trust this list (which is Chrome + Firefox and many others) will automatically upgrade an HTTP connection to HTTPS for every domain ending in .APP.
We no longer need this header (although we might as well have just left if there, there's no harm in that) and it makes the entire .APP top level domain safer as it enforces HTTPS.
Since one of our focusses is the extensive monitoring of HTTPS certificates, we applaud any action that encourages the use of HTTPS over HTTP.]]>
One common solution is to introduce a caching proxy like Varnish to help cache pages and reduce your server load.
The good news is, if you have Oh Dear!, you can let those 2 work together.
The idea is as follows: if you've enabled our broken links or mixed content checks for any of your sites, we'll crawl your sites to find any broken pages.
On top of that, we have the ability to set custom HTTP headers per website that get added to both the uptime checks and our crawler.
Combining our crawler and the custom HTTP headers allows you to authorize our crawler in your Varnish configs to let it update the cache.
There are several default Varnish configs available you can use as the boilerplate for your Varnish service. One of them is maintained by one of the co-founders of Oh Dear! and can be found here: Varnish 6 configuration template.
If you take this as your basis, it's relatively easy to allow Oh Dear! to update your cached pages.
First, add this line to your
vcl_recv routine.
vcl_recv {
if (req.http.OhDear-Authorized-Request == "ASecretStringOrPassphrase") {
set req.hash_always_miss = true;
Now, every time Varnish receives a request with the header
OhDear-Authorized-Request that has the value
ASecretStringOrPassphrase, it will refresh the current page from its backend (aka: you won't be served a cached response, but it will go to your backend server).
In Oh Dear!, you can add this custom header to each of your sites.
From now, that extra header will be present every time we crawl your page.
This also allows extra possibilities in your Varnish code, like authorizing our crawler to access otherwise limited pages.
Using similar logic, we can also allow the uptime checks to bypass the cache altogether to check the availability of your site.
It wouldn't be the first time a site appears online, because the monitoring probes were answered by a cached response. Your users that bypass the cache (they might be logged in) are still seeing your error pages.
To let Oh Dear! bypass the cache every time without touching the TTL (Time-To-Live) or currently cached pages, you can use logic similar to this.
vcl_recv {
if (req.http.OhDear-Authorized-Request == "ASecretStringOrPassphrase") {
return (pass);
We're certain there are other use cases out there that we haven't even thought of. If you're doing something similar, we would love to hear from you in the comments below!]]>
For each website, you can configure the display name that we should use to present the website.
This will be the name used throughout Oh Dear! in place likes our Slack or Email alerts, the dashboard, the breadcrumb, ...
This is especially convenient when you want to check the uptime for multiple pages on a single domain or when you have very long URLs that you can easily abbreviate to an internal project name.
It'll also be a core piece of one of our next features we'll be building: status pages. But more on that later. #teaser ;-)]]>
Now you can try Oh Dear! without even creating an account.
Why give something away for free if others are paying for it?
We love creating tools and features that are useful for everyone, not just our paying customers. We figured there's value in offering one-off checks on our site without devalueing our offer to our paying customers.
It's a perfect way to try us out without the extra hassle of creating an account, even if it only takes 5 seconds to start a trial.
The public checks have their limitations:
But, let's focus on the good news!
Want to know if a particular site is available worldwide? You can now test using our availability checker which will test from 5 different locations spread across all continents.
Try out the availability checker at ohdear.app/tools/reachable.
Many of us know and perhaps use the site downforeveryoneorjustme.com to check if a site is online worldwide. Well, we can now be an alternative for that.
To help users quickly identify problems, there's now a Chrome extension you can use to check the availability of the site you're currently on.
Alternatively, you can create a new bookmark with the following URL and you it as a bookmarklet. Oldskool, right? :-)
This snippet, when used, can allow you to quickly test any website. If you're on a site that doesn't load for you, hit that bookmarklet or the Oh Dear! browser extension and let Oh Dear! doublecheck the uptime from different locations.
We'll do a deeper dive into the Chrome extension at a later point, to show all the details.
Our certificate checks allow you to check the important details of your websites' certificates. We'll check the expiration date, the intermediate & root certificates and some of the encryption algoritms used.
We actually check a few extra things that don't quite fit the screenshot, go ahead and scan your own domain to see the results.
What we can't show, and what our subscribers do enjoy, is:
As you can see, there are still plenty of reasons to give us a try. :-)
Try out the certificate checker at ohdear.app/tools/certificate.
A crucial piece of our offering is still missing from these public checks: our broken links & mixed content reporting.
These work fundamentally different than the certificate & uptime check. Our crawler can take anywhere between a few minutes up to an hour to complete a run and report the issues with a website.
As a user, you don't want to keep your browser open and wait for that.
We'll create a solution where you can leave your e-mail address and we'll email the report to you as soon as our crawls are done. This takes a bit more work to complete (and we want to get it right - just like the rest of our app).
As soon as that's finished, we'll make sure to blog about it!
Every check will generate a unique URL that can be shared among colleagues, friends or on social media.
If there's downtime or an issue with a certificate, this will allow you to provide all the necessary info to those responsible to take action.]]>
It's not a big feature, but small & incremental improvements make Oh Dear! better one step at a time.
You can customize the recipient per team on your team profile page. If you have multiple teams (each with its own subscription), each teams' invoices can be sent to a different e-mail address.]]>
We are Marbles, an Antwerp based full service agency that does everything from creating identities to marketing & communications, business development and coaching. Of course creating websites and web applications is part of our services and to make sure they're the best they can be we use Oh Dear! for the monitoring.
It includes all the checks we need for a very fair price.
We used Pingdom, but only for the basic uptime checks.
The detection of mixed content & broken links and the https certificate expiration checks on top of the uptime monitoring.
By alerting us of issues before anyone could possibly notice it manually. This allows us to fix issues before our clients are even aware of it, or if they are we can tell them we're already working on a fix.
All the extra checks on top of basic uptime monitoring with Slack notifications and webhooks to receive reports.
Setting up notification "groups". We have clients who have an SLA with us, they need very quick solutions and we use the SMS notifications for them, for other clients we only set up the Slack Notifications.
It's bothersome to set up the SMS notifications individually for each site that needs them, and if another person needs to receive these, or the phone numbers need to get changed, we need to do this for each site manually.
In response: this is indeed a very good idea still missing, we're taking this up in our development to see if we can introduce an elegant solution to this problem. Thanks for letting us know!
We'll be reaching out to more of our customers over the next months to find out why they chose us over the (many) competitors out there. We'd love to know what pursuaded them and what items we still need to address to serve our customers even better.
If you want to share your thoughts, feel free to reach out to us on Twitter at @OhDearApp.]]>
Tideways is an advanced PHP profiler that has quickly become a must-have for a PHP developer interested in gaining insights into their application performance, exception handling and error detection.
The powerful profiler allows you to get detailed knowledge of your application bottlenecks with easy access to the full stacktraces and the application drilldown to where the bottleneck occured.
If you haven't tried it yet, you should give it a try - it's immensely powerful.
Oh Dear! has the ability to trigger up- and downtime alerts to a webhook that you specify. The payload varies per event we fire and gives you the ability to integrate Oh Dear! into pretty much any tool or service.
Tideways finished their Oh Dear! integration by allowing our users to send downtime events to their webhook endpoint. This lets Tideways know when downtime was detected and it can then be visualised right in your Tideways monitoring screen.
The ability to immediately see cause & effect can be a powerful addition to your monitoring stack.
Integrating Oh Dear! into your Tideways account is super simple as explained by their documentation. In short: you'll find a custom webhook endpoint in your application settings that you can add to the notification options of your application.
Once this webhook has been configured to receive both the up- and down events, Tideways can show these in their dashboard.
We strongly believe in the power of combining event information in a single display. This can help users more easily correlate events and find the root causes of downtime alerts.
Thank you Tideways for integrating Oh Dear! into your services!
Want to give it a try? Both Tideways and Oh Dear! have free trial options. :-)]]>
If the network packets need to travel half the world, it adds up to a noticeable amount of latency when monitoring remote websites.
For instance, we are based out of Europe. If we were to connect to a server somewhere in Australia, we'd quickly lose 300ms for every packet we send over the network just to make it to the other side.
$ ping uptime-checker-sydney.ohdearapp.com
PING uptime-checker-sydney.ohdearapp.com (126.96.36.199): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 126.96.36.199: icmp_seq=0 ttl=42 time=304.764 ms
64 bytes from 184.108.40.206: icmp_seq=1 ttl=42 time=304.861 ms
64 bytes from 22.214.171.124: icmp_seq=2 ttl=42 time=304.750 ms
This same delay is present when we perform uptime checks. The entire path between EU & Australia also contains over a dozen hops. Each hop has the potential to break the connection, be overloaded, suffer downtime, ...
For us to monitor websites worldwide, we need to be close to the source.
When you sign up, we determine your default uptime monitoring location based on the IP address you sign up with. It's a simple check to set a default, where we take Paris as the fallback location for all our EU clients.
protected function determineDefaultUptimeChecker(): string
$detectedTimezone = IpApi::getPropertiesForCurrentRequest()['timezone'];
if (starts_with($detectedTimezone, 'America')) {
return array_random(['toronto', 'dallas']);
if (starts_with($detectedTimezone, 'Asia')) {
return 'bangalore';
if (starts_with($detectedTimezone, 'Australia')) {
return 'sydney';
return 'paris';
Once your default location has been determined, we'll use that for any new site you add.
Of course, you can modify the location per website, right in your dashboard. If you have customers worldwide, chances are your websites are located worldwide, too.
We'll use the closest available location where we have servers to do our primary probes. For our Australian users, that will now be a server based in Sydney.
Once we detect downtime, we'll use a secondary location to confirm that there is indeed a problem. To confirm this, we'll use a server located in another country which is also served by another cloud provider.
Our Sydney server is run on Vultr, so we'll use one our Digital Ocean servers to confirm the downtime. This way, we eliminate false positive alerts that are caused by connectivity issues at a single cloud provider.]]>
Having a huge test suite is nice, but integrating it into your development workflow is even better.
That's why we're releasing our Gitlab CI pipeline that is optimized for Laravel applications. It contains all the elements you'd expect: building (
yarn &
webpack), database seeding, PHPUnit & copy/paste (mess) detectors & some basic security auditing of our 3rd party dependencies.
If you want to see it in action, skip to the "how to use" section.
Here's what our current setup looks like.
We'll break things down in this blogpost to explain why we've made some of the decisions we've made and how to set up a system like this.
We use the free version of Gitlab to host our Git repositories and launch the jobs that run all our testing. However, since we run the free version (and as a startup, we're cautious about our running costs), we are limited to what kind of CI we can run on Gitlab.
As such, we've installed and run our own Gitlab Runner, that uses Docker containers to run our testing. The Gitlab.com servers essentially instruct our servers to run the entire pipeline and we report back the status to Gitlab for reporting.
Setting up the local Gitlab Runner with Docker is pretty straight-forward and their documentation handles this perfectly. Some minor things we changed on our end to speed things up are related to the concurrency of the jobs.
$ cat /etc/gitlab-runner/config-main.toml
concurrent = 2
check_interval = 0
name = "ohdear/ohdear"
url = "https://gitlab.com"
token = "(this is secret, don't share this)"
executor = "docker"
tls_verify = false
image = "php:7.2"
privileged = false
disable_cache = false
volumes = ["/cache"]
shm_size = 0
By default we run our tests on PHP 7.2 and allow for 2 jobs at the same time.
We run the testsuite on one of our own systems. When the tests start, Docker starts several containers. One of them is a MySQL container where the database seeding will happen.
$ docker ps
"docker-php-entryp..." 2 minutes ago runner-...-build-4
"docker-entrypoint..." 2 minutes ago runner-...-mysql-0
When multiple tests run in parallel, CPU load tends to spike.
Remember that multiple containers will run at the same time, potentially pushing your server to 100% CPU usage. For this reason we decided to run these on one of our test machines, even though production servers have a healthy abundance of free CPU and memory.
But, in order for us to handle spike usage, we need to keep those resources free & available.
We created 4 different stages in which our tests run. These will happen stage-by-stage with a job concurrency of 2. During any stage, at most 2 jobs will be running at the same time.
$ cat /etc/gitlab-runner/config-main.toml
concurrent = 2
If your tests require more jobs at the same time, you can increase that
concurrent setting.
The previous stage must succeed before the next one can begin. Here's the abbreviated version of our .gitlab-ci.yml.
- preparation
- building
- testing
- security
stage: preparation
stage: preparation
stage: building
stage: building
stage: testing
stage: testing
stage: testing
stage: security
If you have a stage that consists of 3 jobs (like our
testing stage), remember that the 3rd job might take longer to complete with a concurrency of only 2 jobs. Those first 2 will run in parallel, the 3rd one will have to wait for a free job slot.
One of the steps we do different than most, is building the assets before we run our unit tests.
The reason is because of a test like this:
public static function boot()
/* ... */
$startServerCommand = '
php -S localhost:9000/ -t \
./tests/Server/public > /dev/null 2>&1 & echo $!
$pid = exec($startServerCommand);
During our unit tests, we spawn a webserver to test several of our key features;
This test webserver spawns our public website, which in turn relies on compiled JavaScript & CSS (Laravel Mix). That gets compiled with
webpack, which is why we run that asset-building stage before our unit tests.
Without it, our tests would simply fail as we can't render our homepage.
Crawling our own site - and various custom endpoints to simulate downtime or slow responses - has the additional benefit that we validate (most of) our website is functioning correctly before we deploy.
Some of our stages depend on the output of the previous stage in order to work. A good example is our
testing stage. When we run
phpunit, it will fetch oru homepage which in turn relies on the CSS & JavaScript that got generated in the previous stage.
Gitlab CI allows you to set your dependencies per stage.
- build-assets
- composer
- db-seeding
Setting the dependency makes sure the
artifacts get downloaded from that particular job into this one, essentially copying the output of one job to another.
In this example, before we can run our unit testing we'll need:
public/mix-manifest.json needed by Laravel)
vendor directory of the
composer install
Once that's done, it can run this job.
Gitlab CI heavily relies on 2 concepts that we initially misconfigured: caches & artifacts.
A cache is, as the word implies, a local cache of the data. It's available only locally on the server and is not guaranteed to be present.
An artifact is - in our own words - what you want to store in a job to pass on to the next one. Initially, artifacts were what you wanted to survive out of a job. Like generated logs or error files, PHP Unit coverage results etc.
But this feature can be used broader than just exporting test results: you can use it to pass the output of one job onto the next one.
We first thought to use caches for this purpose, as these get stored locally and are available faster. However, the cache isn't guaranteed to be there and about 30% of our pipelines would randomly fail because it was missing a composer
vendor directory, compiled assets, ... even though those jobs completed just fine.
stage: preparation
- composer install --prefer-dist --no-ansi --no-interaction --no-progress --no-scripts
- vendor/
- .env
expire_in: 1 days
when: always
- vendor/
In the example above we define 2 critical pieces:
artifacts: what we want to upload back to Gitlab in order for our next job(s) to make use of
cache: what we want to store locally to speed up the next run of this job
So we ended up with Artifacts for everything we want to inherit for our next job and local caches to speed up composer installs, whenever possible.
This feels like code duplication in the YAML file, but it's a necessary step.
We spawn a separate Docker container for our MySQL database. It uses a set of pre-defined environment variables to create a user with password and a database.
It's defined at the very top of our .gitlab-ci.yml.
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: root
MYSQL_USER: ohdear_ci
MYSQL_PASSWORD: ohdear_secret
MYSQL_DATABASE: ohdear_ci
DB_HOST: mysql
Our Laravel application needs to be aware of these credentials too, in order to connect to this database. We solved this by setting these credentials in our
.env.example file.
In our
composer job, we also prepare the Laravel config for use.
- composer install [...]
- cp .env.example .env
- php artisan key:generate
By coping the
.env.example file, we provided the MySQL credentials for our testing environment.
An obvious step missing here is - perhaps - the most important one: deploying the application.
We haven't implemented this in Gitlab CI yet. Our deployment is automated of course, but right now it's not tied to the status of our CI pipeline. We can deploy, even if the tests fail.
We're still a small team and we make the decision to deploy thoughfully, but controlled. As many Laravel users would use Envoyer for their deployment, further automation could be done to integrate that too.
We'll highlight our deployment strategy (and the reasoning to not couple this in with Gitlab CI) in a later blogpost, there are a lot of nuances that deserve highlighting for that.
You'll find the config on our Github: ohdearapp/gitlab-ci-pipeline-for-laravel.
If you find issues or have improvements, feel free to contribute them!
The basis for this pipeline has been heavily inspired by Loris Leiva's blogpost on Laravel pipelines and adapted to our needs & desires.
The abbreviated version is;
Now watch as Gitlab detects your config and will try to run your job. At this point, you might want to consider either subscribing to Gitlab CI or running your own Gitlab runners to execute the tests.
If you spot any improvements, gotcha's or have general remarks, we'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below!]]>
As we're built on Laravel, we already run a fair bit of nodejs during our build phase. Our frontend JavaScript & CSS already get compiled via webpack. So in a way, our stack already includes
node to make this all happen.
Part of our smooth user experience (if we say so ourselves ;-)) comes from the use of websockets, that allows us to give instant feedback to our users in their dashboard & our homepage. To make that work, we've always used laravel-echo-server, a
node implementation of a websocket server.
To make that websocket server work, you can use 2 methods: use a Redis queue or publish messages directly through HTTP. We used a Redis queue, which means the following events took place for us:
This has worked very well for us, without any issues.
But we found ourselves in the unique spot to test an even simpler approach: run a websocket server fully in PHP without the need for node.
Our initial reaction was "but surely PHP can't handle the load a Node process could, right?".
Well, to get started we benchmarked the laravel-websockets package using Artillery. What we found was that the websocket implementation in PHP could handle our load with great ease and keep under 50MB memory consumption.
Performance, during our testing, appeared on-par with the node implementation.
Since we weren't losing anything, we dediced to remove our node dependency for our production machines and run the entire websocket stack in PHP.
Our setup is already using Nginx as a TLS proxy as well as Supervisor to keep all our workers running, so we already had the building blocks in place to add some configuration for our new websocket server.
We configured both Nginx and Supervisor to handle the TLS part and the job-running pretty quickly.
Code-wise, the change was a piece of cake. Unless we're forgetting something, it consisted of:
/js/socket.io.js in our frontend (we'll no longer be needing socket.io for our websockets)
window.Echo = new Echo({
- broadcaster: 'socket.io',
+ broadcaster: 'pusher',
key: window.pusherKey,
- host: window.pusherHost,
+ wsHost: window.pusherHost,
+ wsPort: window.pusherPort,
+ disableStats: true,
- BROADCAST_DRIVER=redis
+ BROADCAST_DRIVER=pusher
+ PUSHER_ENDPOINT=socket.ohdear.app
+ PUSHER_ENDPOINT_SCHEME=https
That was enough for us to move to laravel-websockets.
One of its biggest gains is in our development process: we now just need to run
php artisan websocket:serve to get a local websocket server going and not have to deal with the (rather confusing) configuration of laravel-echo-server.
Additionally, we simplified our server setup and now fully rely on PHP without Node for running websockets. Managing less software is always a win, especially from a security angle (keeping track of the node ecosystem and the dependencies of the echo-server).
For us, it was a no-brainer to make the switch.]]>
This is visually the most noticeable change we've pushed. When we first launched, our design looked like this.
We liked that design quite a bit. It stood out. You don't see many startups foolish enough to make their entire homepage screaming red. It was also sort-of a reference to the red error screens you'd see when a site certificated had expired in the browser.
But, the number one piece of feedback we received was: "aargh my eyes!".
And, well, we couldn't blame them. :-)
So here's a freshly designed homepage, easier on the eyes with updated text to showcase what we do and what our strenghts are.
There's still some screaming red involved, but it doesn't cover the entire homepage anymore. Besides highlighting what we're good at (doing more in terms of website monitoring than most of our competitors) we also have a live counter of the amount of checks we've run so far, refreshed live through the use of websockets.
Everything inside Oh Dear! is powered by websockets, now a part of the public facing website is too!
This is a bit meta as you're already reading this on our blog, but this design got some nice tweaks too. Here's what it looked like before.
It was functional, but not pretty.
Here's that same blogpost with a new coat of paint.
The images get highlighted more (extending the width of the text), clearer headings and some updated typography.
One thing we're very proud of is the feedback we receive from our users. Some big names in our industry have publicly endorsed us and we definitely want to showcase those.
At first, our quotes on the homepage looked like this.
Since we were actually starting to accumulate so many positive quotes, we needed a new design to feature more. This is the current layout we have.
More content horizontally and an updated zig-zag layout to break the symmetry on the page.
We applied the same design principles to our pricing and documentation too. We've improved readability by adding contrast between titles & text and by increasing the font-size and line height slightly.
Behind the scenes, we've been extending our documentation quite a lot too, which meant our left-hand menu was growing to be a bit too big. That now auto-folds to highlight the current category.
Many of those pages just look a lot better too, like our API documentation on uptime reporting or how to use our API and manage your sites.
At the same time we added a section to highlight all 3rd party integrations that make use of our API. There's already a Terraform provider, a Telegram chatbot and a CLI client available to talk to Oh Dear! - how cool is that?
If you find areas of our site or application that needs improvements, we'd love to hear about them!]]>
Everyone's throwing out coupon codes with crazy discounts, right? Why on earth would we be doubling our price for just that day?
For many online services, Black Friday is a huge source of income. Webshops reportedly double or even triple their revenue that day. Many make up for a bad month in just that single day.
On your most important sales day of the year, you want your site to be online. Therefore, on that day, our service is twice as valuable.
You see, when we first built Oh Dear!, it was to fix what we considered to be wrong with the current monitoring solutions out there. Many of them just did one check (mostly the homepage). Many didn't report certificate errors. Nearly no one was crazy enough to crawl an entire site and report all broken pages.
Yet, in order to be a succesfull online business, you need all of that.
Of course we are. ;-)
You can't afford downtime when you're in peak sales. You want to be certain about your uptime and place your trust in a respected monitoring provider. So that's what we'll do on Black Friday: take care of monitoring your sites, 24/7.
Now, if you want to be absolutely certain you're online, you could go ahead and subscribe to Oh Dear! in advance. If you use coupon code
BLACKFRIDAY18 before Black Friday, you'll get 30% off your first month.
The code expires on Thursday, November 22nd at midnight.
Oh by the way, we're only doubling our prices on Black Friday, not permanently. We're not actually crazy, you know. :-)]]>
You'll find the installation instructions in the documentation section of Oh Dear!.
Here's what it looks like installed in the murze.be blog:
The tool allows you to:
The benefit to you - or your users - is to be able to get a birds-eye view of the health of your entire site.
You can easily see which of your pages are broken and - since you're already in your admin panel - can quickly fix it the problem or the broken link. Once that's done, just request a new crawl straight from your application and watch the results come in.
The Oh Dear! tool allows you to fully manage the monitoring of your website without ever leaving your site. Pretty cool, right?
Let's take a quick peek under the hood. Our package is a so called Nova Tool. A Nova Tool is an official way to add functionality to Laravel Nova.
Nova is a single page application. The backend is powered by Laravel, the front end by Vue. No surprises there! A Nova tool is nothing more than a package that contains:
On the server side the API consist of a few routes and controllers. To communicate with Oh Dear! these controllers use our own PHP SDK.
Over at the client side the api.js file contains all Axios calls to consume the api provided by the server.
Per screen you see in the tool there's a matching Vue component. You'll find these components in the components directory. To switch between screens the Nova tool uses Vue Router. All the routes it uses are registered in the tool.js file.
If you want to use our Nova tool, make sure you have an active Oh Dear account. You can create one here (it's free for the first 10 days).
Next, create a Laravel app with Nova installed into it. To know more of Nova itself, check out the official Nova documention. Once that is done, follow our documentation to know how to install our Nova tool into your Nova app.]]>
Forge recently introduced a feature called
tags, which allows you to add custom tags to any server or site in Forge.
We use those tags to determine which sites we should automatically add to your Oh Dear! Account. Every site or server tagged with
oh-dear will be added. This allows you to still pick which sites should - or should not - get monitored.
There are 2 ways you can use these tags right now:
If you add a tag to a server, we will automatically monitor every site that gets added to it. This is convenient for users that have multiple sites on a single server.
Alternatively, if you want more fine grained control over the monitoring, you can add the tags to an individual site too, instead of on the server. We'll only import those sites that have the tag.
To get started, you can add a Laravel Forge API token in your Oh Dear! dashboard.
In the same settings page, you can decide which checks we should automatically enable for newly found sites. This applies to the sites that will be imported straight away, as well as the ones we will add later on as you add more sites to Forge.
When we import a website, we will assume it'll be
https enabled. Hey, it's 2018 after all. If it's an
http-only site, you can add an explicit extra tag called
oh-dear-http to force the use of HTTP instead.
You can find more information on how this works on our Forge import documentation.
If your team is growing, it'll become important to know which sites got added to Oh Dear! and which didn't. To facilitate this, we add a new event to our notifications system that you can configure.
There's now a "Site added to account" event. This can be sent to any of our notifications channels (Slack, Email, Discord, ...). It will fire whenever a website gets added to your account, either from the Laravel Forge import, through our API or the Oh Dear! dashboard.
This way, your team will automatically be aware that a new site has been added to your account which might trigger alerts.
Through our webhooks, you can also pass on this information to any other service you may be running.
The creator of Forge, Taylor Otwell, was kind enough to provide us with a sign-up link for Forge that will give you a discount of 25% on the first bill you'll get from Forge. You can find the sign-up link on our Forge Import settings screen. Hurry up, because that link is only valid until 16 november 2018.
If you don't have an Oh Dear account yet to view that Forge coupon code, register here. The first 10 days are free, no questions (or creditcards) asked. If you decide to subscribe to Oh Dear! you can use this coupon code to get 25% discount on the first bill you'll get from us:
OH-DEAR-LOVES-FORGE This coupon code is also only valid until 16 november 2018.
Most of our servers are provisioned through Laravel Forge, as well as the sites that run on them. It is an amazingly powerful tool that benefits the entire Laravel community.
We are greatful for both the API and Tags support that recently got added to Forge, allowing the development of this feature.
The best kind of monitoring is the one you don't have to think about, this is another step in that direction.]]>
The most basic example you'll find is similar to this, where you push a job onto a queue and a worker will pick it up for processing.
Whatever job you wanted to queue has now been pushed to a queue named
general. Every other job you add to that queue will be added (FIFO) and processed in that order.
While a great way to start, you quickly run into a queue that potentially looks like this.
\_ job #1: 12s
\_ job #2: 3s
\_ job #3: 3min
\_ job #4: 32min
\_ job #5: 5s
Assuming you have one worker to pick jobs from this queue, job 5 would have to wait 2115 seconds for all former jobs to be completed before it gets its turn.
Adding multiple workers to that queue speeds things up, but still has the potential for blocking, long running tasks. Ideally, you'd want to split that up further.
One strategy we first used was to make a generic seperation between fast and slow jobs.
If you remember the purpose of Oh Dear! (monitoring sites, crawling them, reporting page errors etc.), it quickly becomes apparent that we are heavily dependent on 3rd parties.
If the site we're monitoring is quick to crawl, it might take only a few minutes. If it's a slow site (on which we have to apply rate limiting), it might take a very long time but consume few resources along the way.
Slow to us means the remote side is slow. It also means we're wasting CPU cycles just waiting for the other end to respond. We could easily spin up more workers and do more in parallel, since the load is negligable on our end.
At first, we ended with a queueing system similar to this.
- fast worker
\_ worker #1
\_ worker #2
- slow worker
\_ worker #1
\_ worker #2
\_ worker #3
\_ worker #4
The result was that the fast queue consumed most of the CPU & memory on our end: it quickly burned through its queue, performing all the "fast" tasks (checking uptime, certificate checks etc.).
The slow queue was running more consumers (aka workers), because we were constrained by the remote end, not ours. This meant we could easily run more of those.
While this worked for the first few weeks in beta, as our customer base grew, this also posed a few problems: while the fast queue was generally pretty fast, we were pushing a lot of different workloads on there.
A certificate check takes a bit longer to complete than most uptime checks. And, arguably, the uptime check is more important than the certificate check.
We needed a better solution.
It didn't take long for us to create specific queues for each job "type" we were launching. We're now in a setup where each check performed lives on its own queue. This allows us a great deal of flexibility in terms of sizing and scaling them.
We run a few very specific job queues too. Our main application runs on the following queues.
- certificate_health
- certificate_transparency
- crawler
- uptime
These queues run our monitoring checks for all our sites. On top of those, we have assisting queues.
- default
- notifications
- webhooks
The notifications and webhooks are pretty self-explanatory: they run all our notifications (Slack/Discord/Nexmo/...) and perform the webhook calls to 3rd party endpoints.
default queue is used for small, one-off jobs that are just too small for their own queue (like sending mails like our monthly uptime reporting).
But then there are some special queues, too.
When you add a site to be monitored, your initial experience looks like this.
That's the user experience we want: immediate feedback and the feeling of responsiveness when you add a site. The certificate & uptime checks happen near-instantly, the broken links checking takes a bit longer as the site needs to be crawled.
To make that work, we push the sites that have just been added to an empty queue with a custom set of workers that can immediately pick them up.
We didn't take this approach at first, which meant our queues ended up like this.
- uptime worker
\_ job #1
\_ job #2
\_ job #3 <-- the uptime check for the site that was just added
- certificate worker
\_ job #1
\_ job #2
\_ job #3
\_ job #4
\_ job #5 <-- the certificate check for the site that was just added
If you added a new site, your were added to the back of the queue and had to wait for all other jobs to complete first. The initial user experience gave the impression we were slow & unresponsive, because it took too long for feedback in the UI.
We first tried to get away with adding them to the front of the queue instead of at the back, but that didn't entirely work either: if, for some reason, the uptime check took a few seconds to finish its current job, we still had to wait for our new priority job to be picked up.
And since we monitor & crawl sites we don't control, we have no idea how long each check might take. We need to assume the worst case & plan for that.
The on-demand runs pick up those sites that have just been added and those jobs that the user requested to be run on-demand (which you can trigger either from your Oh Dear! dashboard or through the API). If we ever reach the point where we detect saturation (ie: the queue never empties), we will have to split the queue again to separate the initial runs vs. the on-demand runs.
We iterated over a few versions but have ultimately settled on this setup which works great for us. Use cases may vary, but our key take-aways are:
If you've got any more Laravel queue related tips, we would love to hear about them!]]>
We'll share some of our internals, how we run Oh Dear!, the challenges we face and how we decide to tackle them. Expect a mix of technical insights, some business-related posts and a few customer success stories. We want to be as open as we can be about our monitoring tool, showing the ins & outs.
Stay tuned!!]]>


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Most of us have been very fortunate to never have been homeless or without a roof over our head. We've never needed to concern ourselves with having nowhere to go, sleeping rough on cold nights or live in unsafe environments. Yet, over 6,000 young people in Melbourne are forced to sleep in cars, on couches and, in some cases, on the streets.
It's a staggering figure and one that is very concerning. Youth aged from 12 -25 in Victoria are finding themselves homeless with nowhere to go – no doubt a terrifying, confronting and traumatic experience.
Melbourne City Mission is a charity helping to put youth homelessness to bed. This week, on Thursday 26th May, the annual Sleep at the G' event will host over 1,000 compassionate people for a sleep out at the iconic MCG. It's a special event and a great way to get a team together and join in on an action packed night of music, comedy and games.
Homelessness is one of the most severe forms of disadvantage and social exclusion that any person can experience, especially for young people, as it has an adverse effect on their health and wellbeing.
Sleep at the G' is your opportunity to make a change to homelessness in your very own city. Sleep on a cardboard box and get together with some friends, family or colleagues to raise vital funds to support Melbourne City Mission's life changing work.
As Melbourne City Mission say, we're on a mission – so let's put youth homelessness to bed.
To register or donate, please visit www.sleepattheg.com.au

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Kheirollahzadeh in the weight category of +100 kg defeated rivals from Uzbekistan and Brazil paving his way to advance to the final stage.
In the final match, he overpowered a judoka from the UK and grabbed the gold medal.
Tashkent Grand Prix 2017 was underway on October 8-10.
In a relevant development on Sunday, Iranian judo kata team ranked third in 2017 Kata Grand Slam and World Kata Championship held in Olbia, Italy.
The Iranian squad received one silver and three bronze medals paving the way for the team to rank third while Japan and France ranked first and second, respectively.
Kata Grand Slam and World Kata Championship was held in Italy on Oct 6-7.


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The simple ceremony reflects the fervent yearning of all seafarers for a safe and happy working life.
The Dragon King, the ruler of the ocean in Chinese mythology, lives in a crystal palace and has the ability to control the clouds, rain and lives at sea.
June 13 this year was the birthday of the Dragon King according to the traditional Chinese calendar.
All Dalian fishermen took part in a ceremony for the Dragon King that dates back thousands of years. They bring pork, mutton, wine and fruit to the seaside and pray for good luck.


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Julie O. is collecting toiletry items for a local women's shelter.
St. Irenaeus Food Pantry in Park Forest.
Feminine hygiene products are very much needed. Since our guild membership is almost all women we know how important these products are. I am asking if every member can provide one package (or more) of sanitary napkins or tampons for these women it would be very much appreciated. You can give these to me at the guild meeting or drop them off at my house.
Thank you very much.
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perfSONAR tackles tough issue of monitoring multi-network latency
Internet2 network engineer and perfSONAR co-developer Richard Carlson presented the framework at the Collaborative Expedition Workshop, held yesterday in Arlington, Va.
While many IT products are available to monitor, and analyze traffic patterns on a single network, not many tools exist for analyzing traffic that flows across multiple networks. Yet, most data traffic that federal researchers transverses multiple networks. "There is not one institution that owns the entire path," Carlson said. An implementation of perfSONAR could provide a uniform picture of how data moves across all the networks.
The work is timely. This year, the Energy Department labs will start to receive massive data sets from the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator, operated by the European Organization for Nuclear Research. So the challenge of figuring out where traffic is slowing down on the network will only become more of an issue in the years to come.
Carlson noted that, today, federal researchers should be able to move data across multiple research networks at about 10 megabytes per second. Today, however, most data transfers travel an order of magnitude or lower than that.
A researcher who is interested in how quickly his or her dataset snakes its way through this maze of networks can find performance information today, but he has to know who to call, and which Web address to check, Carlson said. perfSONAR would allow them to pinpoint where the bottlenecks are. With perfSONAR, "you can find out what is going on in a path without any prior knowledge" of the network analysis resources, Carlson said.
perfSONAR allows a someone to gather the data from all the networks in a uniform way, allowing the individual to quickly pinpoint where the weak spot is.
In this setup, each network, or domain, would host a copy of the perfSONAR toolset on a server. The perfSONAR framework uses existing network monitoring protocols, such as the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to collect performance stats. An ideal setup would archive performance history, so a comparative analysis could be done. The software package would also include a set of Web services that would allow external users of the network, or others, to check the performance.
The framework consists of three inter-related sets of technologies: One is is set of tools for data services, including measurement points, procedures for archiving and for transforming the data. The second provides analysis and visualization tools, including user Graphic User Interfaces, Web pages and network operation center alarms. The third group of technologies is for seeding perfSONAR into the infrastructure, including a service lookup client and a way to create a topology of the network.
Carlson noted that perfSONAR does not take any additional network measurements. Rather, it packages existing network measurements and makes them uniformly available for users. He offered an example of one perfSONAR application Traceroute Visualizer, created by Joe Metzger. It uses the data taken from the traceroute utility, a commonly-used tool for mapping out each node along a network. With Traceroute Visualizer, you provide the results of a traceroute to the Web interface, and it shows a history of each node's performance.
perfSONAR is being developed as a collaboration between network engineers from the Energy Department's Energy Sciences Network, the Internet2, the European GÉANT2 research network and the Brazilian Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa network.
The development team created two reference implementations of the framework, on written in Java and one written in Perl. The perfSONAR toolkit is also available on a live disc. perfSONAR was developed through the Open Grid Forum, a standards body for grid technologies, so the basic specifications written in Extensible Markup Language (XML), allowing other parties to build their own perfSONAR implementations.
Carlson said that the goal of the team was to get perfSONAR installed on every network run by a Federal lab. Each network operator, Carlson admitted, would have to consider what level of openness they would want to provide. He did note that the development team still had to work out how to provide user-authentication. In particular, they are looking at the Internet2's Shibboleth model for authentication.
Attendees of the workshop added that other standards bodies are working on similar frameworks that can help monitor data flow across multiple networks. For instance, the Distributed Management Task Force is working on Web Service-Management (WS-Management), and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards is working on Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM).
Domain-specific data sharing standards are also cropping up. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded a hydrological data-sharing initiative called the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI). The Environmental Protection Agency and the Agriculture Department both participate in this initiative. One of of the components of this initiative is the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System (CUAHSI-HIS), which provides Web services, tools, standards and procedures for data sharing.
The Collaborative Expedition Workshop is sponsored by the General Services Administration's Intergovernmental Solutions Division, the Federal Chief Information Officer Council's Architecture and Infrastructure Committee and the National Coordination Office of the Interagency Committee on IT research and development.
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With just four rounds to go until the 2019 Grand Final, the WHITE FERNS return to their domestic teams this weekend for two crunch rounds of the Hallyburton Johnstone Shield.
The return of the international stars will be welcomed at the sharp end of the national one-day competition, all available bar Wellington Blaze's Sophie Devine, Canterbury Magicians Lea Tahuhu (both rested ahead of the upcoming Rose Bowl Series) and the injured Frances McKay (Canterbury Magicians).
McKay is the Hallyburton Johnstone Shield's leading run-scorer, but remains sidelined after her injury during the WHITE FERNS' T20 International series win against India.
Unbeaten defending champions the Auckland Hearts — who can lock in a Finals berth this weekend — and the Central Hinds will meet each other in a top-of-the-table clash at Auckland's Melville Park, while the pressure is rising on the chasing teams to make their own move up the points table this Saturday and Sunday, before it's too late.
Points after 6 rounds
Auckland Hearts — 29
Central Hinds — 24
Wellington Blaze — 14
Otago Sparks — 9
Canterbury Magicians — 8
Northern Spirit — 0
Hallyburton Johnstone Shield Points Table in detail
The Otago Sparks have home advantage in Mosgiel against a winless Northern Spirit — the Spirit the only team with no mathematical chance of qualifying for the 9 March Grand Final.
With a maximum 20 points left available to each team from the final four rounds, Wellington Blaze meanwhile needs to beat the Canterbury Magicians twice — at the Basin Reserve on Saturday and Karori Park on Sunday, to close the 10-point gap opened up by the Central Hinds in second spot. Only the top two sides proceed to the Final.
The high-flying Hinds have dropped just one game all season in their stronger format, but will be looking to secure their position whilst they still have the services of their frontline pace attack — Hannah Rowe and newly named Rosemary Mair both due to depart on the WHITE FERNS' Rose Bowl tour of Australia ahead of the final two rounds.
Consistent Mair is the leading wicket-taker in the Hallyburton Johnstone Shield with 11 wickets at an average of 13.37 and economy rate of just 2.94. She is followed by Blaze's Deanna Doughty — 10 wickets at 14.60 and an economy rate of 2.64 — while Mair's young teammate Monique Rees has taken nine wickets at 13.11 after her maiden five-wicket bag (5-14) in Palmerston North in December, the top haul by any woman in this summer's competition.
A power start to the season sees opening batsman Natalie Dodd heading the national batting averages in her first season with the Hinds, having averaged 144.50 after carrying her bat four times in six innings.
After 93 one-day appearances in 11 seasons with Northern Spirit, Dodd is in line to play her 100th Hallyburton Johnstone Shield match this Saturday at Melville Park — joining a small but elite echelon of players nationwide.
Auckland Hearts dynamo Katie Perkins is also on the cusp of her appearances century with 98 one-day matches for the Auckland Hearts. Perkins is her team's fourth most-capped player of all time, behind Vic Lind (118 caps), Emily Drumm (109), and Paula Gruber (108).
McKay, should she return this season, and former WHITE FERNS legspinner Erin Bermingham are also in sight of the career milestone, having both played 98 games for the Canterbury Magicians — behind only Amy Sattherthwaite (139) and Haidee Tiffen (108) for the red and blacks. Bermingham will captain the Canterbury Magicians this weekend.
Teammate Kate Ebrahim is also in line to play her 150th one-day representative match on Sunday, heading into the weekend with 24 matches for the Magicians, 84 for the Central Hinds, three for North Island, 31 for New Zealand and six for English county Staffordshire.
Wellington Blaze, winners of this season's Burger King Super Smash Grand Final against the Magicians, need to recapture that winning formula to fend off the strong Magicians one-day side in the weekend's back-to-back rounds in Wellington. They will meanwhile be hoping the Hinds — who will face their stiffest challenge yet against the consistent Hearts machine, don't improve their hold on second spot in the race for the Final.
All matches are live-scored at www.nzc.nz with Sunday's round eight beginning at the slightly earlier time of 10.00am at all venues.
Rounds Seven and Eight
10.30am Saturday 16 Feb 2019
10am Sunday 17 Feb 2019
AUCKLAND HEARTS v CENTRAL HINDS
Melville Park, Epsom, Auckland
WELLINGTON BLAZE v CANTERBURY MAGICIANS
Basin Reserve, Wellington (Saturday) and Karori Park, Wellington (Sunday)
OTAGO SPARKS v NORTHERN SPIRIT
Brooklands Park, Mosgiel


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There are a total of 14 different Endings in The Cave, two for each of the 7 Characters. One version of a character's ending can be seen by carrying the Object of Desire up the ladder and out of the cave in the final sequence. The other can be seen by not carrying it up the ladder.
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"As dark as I am, I will always find enough light to adore you to pieces, with all of my pieces."
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"As dark as I am, I will always find enough light to adore you to pieces, with all of my pieces."
― Johnny Nguyen
I remember being pregnant with Beau during Halloween in 2014. We had just announced our pregnancy to the world. I dreamt of all the costume options I'd dress him up in for the next year. A fox, a deer, a raccoon. I had a little woodland obsession, if you can't tell. His first Halloween! It'd be SO MUCH FUN. Fast forward a year, I found the cutest little monster costume at a resale shop here in Baton Rouge. Couldn't pass it up for the $7 I paid for it. We weren't even going trick or treating, but I had to dress him up anyways.
He. Hated. It. He screamed and cried as I put that costume on him. At only 6 months old, he already hated Halloween. It's okay, I thought. Maybe next year. 2016 Halloween rolls around- this year will be better! I bought a little police man costume for him. We had plans to go trunk or treat in St. Francisville since he was still young and our neighborhood doesn't hand out candy. Once again, at a year and a half old he hated dressing up. We ended up playing on the slide for the night after walking around and collecting some candy (that I'm pretty sure we never even let him eat).
And then there's this year. Halloween 2017. Third time is a charm, right? Not for this mama. My neighbor let me borrow her sons old tball costume and I planned on dressing up as a softball player. The Saturday before Halloween we ventured out to Boo at the Zoo. Once again, my now two and a half year old thought the world was ending when I tried to dress him up. He just was NOT having it. So, he went to the zoo in normal clothes (still resembling a ball player, in his 3/4 length tshirt and striped sweats) and mama' dressed up still. Which was a disaster. Typical toddler fits and fun times!
So. This year we decided to boycott Halloween and go to the state fair with Mamaw. It. Was. Awesome. The fair was nearly empty. He got to do some trick or treating thanks to the workers, get on rides with no wait lines, hang out in the petting zoo area, watch a few pig races (and win some oreo's because his pig won!). He fearlessly got on a kid rollercoaster and quickly found out he hated it. We played bumper cars, fished for duckies, threw some balls and darts. It was the best Halloween yet. I still have hopes for next years trick or treating. But if it doesn't work out, we'll still make new memories.
I started the year off with the full intention of completing a 365 project.
What is a 365 project? Simply a project where you take one photo a day, mostly of your every day life so that you can look back at these precious memories and see how you've improved as a photographer.
Sounds fun and easy, right? Well it probably is for some people. I actually did very well in January with pictures. But here I am in June, knowing that each month that passed by I struggled a little more to pick up my camera each day. I love taking pictures, I do. But some days I take hundreds for another family and I come home wanting a little space from my camera.
I'm not completely quitting. I still plan to take pictures and document these everyday moments of ours- some days. I still plan to take the camera along on adventures. But I don't want the pressure of having to do it day after day. I mean, if I'm being honest here I already had my 365 pictures in the first month. That's embarrassing....
It's funny how this project taught me a huge lesson already. I found myself spending well over 30 minutes trying to find the perfect picture for that day. Which made me take a hundred pictures of basically the same thing. After a few months, I learned the art of not over shooting. Well, most days at least.
Anyways. I'll be posting my personal work here. Maybe monthly, maybe weekly. We'll see how it turns out. As you see, I can't put pressure on myself. I cave too easily. So follow along if you like seeing pictures of my bub, our dogs, and occasionally me. After all, Beau is the reason I fell back into this passion of mine <3


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I write a lot about parent partnerships. In fact, if you read my posts on a regular basis, you will know my favorite saying: "Good youth ministry is good ministry with parents." I can't say this enough. Parents should be of equal priority alongside of kids and leaders.
A revelation, however, dawned on me just this afternoon as I prepared to write this post. I write about how churches can reach out to parents and build healthy partnerships. I have outlined steps that churches may take in this process, including what questions that a Youth Pastor may ask her or his team to equip them for such an endeavor. Yet, I have never written — nor have I read anything — on the topic of what parents may ask the church in order to carve out this process for themselves.
A healthy parent partnership mean echoing the good words of a good Christian parent.
Parents, I want to offer you 5 questions for you to either ask me, if you and I work together, or your student's youth pastor that may enable a stronger, more reciprocal partnership between us. These questions will help both sides of this partnership carve out a healthier, more sustainable, and higher functioning partnership together… all for the sake of your child growing into a healthy, fun relationship with Jesus!
1. What are the 2-3 most significant characteristics about the youth ministry that every parent must know? How would you describe the youth ministry environment to a parent who does not attend the church?
2. For a youth pastor, a healthy parent partnership means echoing the good words of a good Christian parent. What concepts and language would assist you in undergirding our child's faith development at home?
3. What curriculum do you use? How do you teach it? What is the end goal of the curriculum? Who publishes it, and what is their theological bent? What criteria did you use in your decision making process to use this curriculum? Does it include a summary or implementation component for parents? Are there ways for me to integrate the teaching into the ethos of our home?
4. Does your ministry environment allow for my student to doubt, ask questions, and wrestle with faith? Are the leaders equipped to walk with my student through this process and bring him or her through the other side? Are these adult friendships monitored and held accountable? Are adult leaders background checked? Am I allowed to contact adult leaders and check in with my student, or should I only contact the youth pastor?
5. Will the youth ministry prepare my student to graduate from high school without graduating from faith? Is my student receiving a perspective of God that is big, adventurous, and faithful to the narrative of Scripture?
Parents, ask us these questions. Challenge and keep us motivated to continue to do good work with your student. Keep us in your prayers.
Question: What other ways might you prepare parents to engage with us in a partnership for the sake of their child? How would you prepare non-Christian parents for this process?


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10 Little-Known Magazines You Need to Know for Decorating and Lifestyle Inspiration
Reading magazines will never get old for me. Whether they are digital or physical, I love magazines. I'm always on the hunt to find magazines that are producing fresh content. Here are my favorite little-known magazines for decorating and lifestyle inspiration:
I've seen Kinfolk many times around the blogosphere and on the cool kids' Instagram flat lays, but I didn't purchase an issue until recently. Now I'm wondering why I took so long. It's so good. Get the latest issue here.
This magazine hails from the UK. I purchased an issue after seeing it on my Instagram feed and falling in love with the cover.
Rue Mag is a well known digital magazine as well as a daily website. It mainly focuses on decorating, home tours, creative entrepreneurs, and entertaining. I really love that their content focuses on real people and isn't too celeb-focused. Their magazine layout is super clean and modern. I always find that I am discovering new-to-me talent via Rue.
I discovered this Canadian interior design magazine on Christine Dovey's blog. I fell in love after seeing this kitchen in one of their issues. You can subscribe here or purchase individual issues here.
I'm sad see this magazine isn't digital anymore, but I'm happy to see that they have grown to a printed publication. Adore magazine is one of my favorite magazines. Founded in Australia, this magazine is so fresh. The home tours are gorgeous and the content is refreshing. You can subscribe here. I'm sure if you do a google search, you could find their old digital issues.
Another Australian interior design and home decor magazine. The print subscription is pricey. The digital subscription is your best bet. This magazine is a hybrid of Elle Decor and Architectural Digest.
Australians are killing the interior design magazine game. This is another gem that I absolutely love. They describe their magazine as "global living with an Australian twist" which is completely accurate. Oh and it is free. Yes. Free.
Minty isn't your typical lifestyle and interiors magazine. It's solely focused on babies and kids! I discovered Minty not too long ago and I love it. I'm not a mom, but I can appreciate this magazine. Kid interiors?! Yes, please! Oh and this is another Australian magazine that is completely free.
I haven't gotten my hands on this magazine yet, but once I do something tells me I wont be disappointed. What really stood out to me about this magazine was their mission.
I can't wait for the first issue of Hannah Magazine. Their Kickstarter campaign was fully funded and the magazine should be available in the Fall. It will be a hardcover bi-annual lifestyle magazine for black women. See the Kickstarter campaign to learn more about the magazine.


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ST. PETERSBURG | Lakhta Center | 463 M / 1,517 FT | 86 FLOORS
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Russian High Court Rules Against St. Petersburg Skyscraper
The skyscraper would have been St. Petersburg's first
July 23, 2010
MOSCOW -- The Russian Constitutional Court has ruled against the construction of the controversial Okhta Center skyscraper in St. Petersburg's historic downtown, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.
The court argued on July 22 that when approving construction projects in the historical part of the city, St. Petersburg's city government should adhere to Russian law as well as international laws on cultural-heritage preservation.
Boris Vishnevsky, a member of the opposition party Yabloko, told RFE/RL that he hopes the judgment will serve as a precedent for any future suits.
"In the judgment it is written in black and white that all building measurements are [to be] set down by the Russian Commission of Cultural Preservation -- and the commission does not approve a 100-meter high tower, not to mention one that is 400 meters tall," Vishnevsky said.
Plans for the 400-meter skyscraper have generated controversy since they were first unveiled in 2006. The Okhta Center would have been the first skyscraper in St. Petersburg.
UNESCO, the UN's cultural organization, wrote several letters to St. Petersburg's government warning that construction of the building could endanger St. Petersburg's status on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
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Leah Black explains how Spring Fling, originally a visual arts and craft event, has attracted new visitors by embracing nature and the environment.
The arts and the environment are increasingly recognised as powerful attractions for visitors to Dumfries and Galloway, and indeed, there is a serious drive underway to interweave the two in order to maximise their potential. For those who have never sauntered along the slow, winding roads of this exceptionally beautiful region of south-west Scotland, imagine Cornwall without the commercialisation. Spectacular countryside, bold seascapes, superb light, pretty towns and villages, plus low property prices, have helped build a vibrant creative community.
One meeting point for arts, the environment and tourism is the Spring Fling visual art and craft open studios event. Now in its eleventh year, it is a high-profile showcase for what the area has to offer. Last year it attracted 10,000 visitors from 19 countries who spent £1.1 million on art, craft, accommodation, food and drink. In an area where traditional sources of employment have seen a sharp decline, success of this kind is welcome. So too is the fact that people who come for Spring Fling tend to return at other times of year.
The aim is to explore our landscape and identity and also build a biennial festival that will attract visitors from all round the UK and overseas
Since I became manager in 2011 we have been focusing on finding new ways for Spring Fling to bring in visitors, to broaden its appeal and to get involved with activities throughout the year. One initiative is the Spring Fling Fringe, which coincides with the main open studios event from 25 to 27 May. This offers a wide selection of evening activities, from music and opera (some are collaborations with the Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival) to chocolate tasting and the chance to make your own artisan pizza.
An especially intriguing feature of the Fringe is a contemporary dance production called 'Pollen', performed in three great gardens, which explores the ways in which everything from people to ideas spread and migrate. Funded as part of the 2013 Year of Natural Scotland (YNS), it is a clear interaction between art and nature. There are others – many of our 93 exhibitors draw not just their inspiration, but often their materials, from the local environment. Read their CVs and you discover that some are involved with projects and hobbies from moorland regeneration to beekeeping.
The region itself boasts a UNESCO biosphere, a Dark Sky Park, plus a variety of National Scenic Areas. All these factors have helped us to develop an impressive environmental arts pedigree. For a taste of this, see Andy Goldsworthy's 'Striding Arches' or 'Yird Muin Starn', a star-gazing public art project.
The connections between art, nature and tourism came to the fore in March when Spring Fling was officially launched by Malcolm Roughead, chief executive officer of the VisitScotland national tourism agency. He pointed out the value of the event in persuading visitors to try somewhere new – after all Dumfries and Galloway is a great alternative to places like the Lake District. And we believe there is much more that can be achieved. As a result, Spring Fling has now joined forces with arts development agency Wide Open, and new arts organisation The Stove to pioneer the Environmental Arts Festival Scotland (EAFS).
YNS is an ideal launchpad for the EAFS, which has funding from the Creative Scotland Place Partnership. Events start in July with the full festival taking place from 30 August to 2 September. The aim is to explore our landscape and identity and also build a biennial festival that will attract visitors from all round the UK and overseas. We hope it will become another important part of the region's catalogue of high-quality events, which range from Wickerman to the Wigtown Book Festival. If this happens, we can not only use art to raise environmental awareness but can strengthen the Spring Fling brand – and beyond that we can reinforce our reputation as a place to visit for celebrations of creativity and the arts.
Leah Black is Manager of Spring Fling.


text: Had a brilliant Thursday at the amazing Secret Garden Party. I played on the Living Room stage for the BBC Introducing takeover. Thanks so much to Phil Pethybridge for the awesome opportunity. The Living Room Stage was perfect and had a great buzz like nowhere else I've played. Thanks to Tom Simkins and BBC Introducing Cambridgeshire for recording the Secret Session and the interview. It was great to be there with the guys from The Staycations and Mortal Tides – well played lads.


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VA – Labor of Love: The Music of Nick Lowe (2001)
01 – Dar Williams – All Men Are Liars
02 – Graham Parker – The Rose of England
03 – Tom Petty – Cracking Up
04 – Sleepy LaBeef – Half a Boy and Half a Man
05 – Greg Brown – Where's My Everything
06 – Marshall Crenshawl – Television
07 – Joe Clay – Shting Shtang
08 – Andrea Re – When I Write The Book
09 – Marshall Crenshaw – Cruel To Be Kind
10 – Charlie Musselwhite – Faithless Lover
11 – Guy Davis – Soulful Wind
12 – Joe Louis Walker – (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding
13 – Elvis Costello – Egypt
Youth Lagoon – Wondrous Bughouse (2013)
Wondrous Bughouse, Powers' sophomore album (due March 5 worldwide via Fat Possum), was spawned from what he describes as "becoming more fascinated
with the human psyche and where the spiritual meets the physical world." During the time he wrote, Powers became intrigued with the metaphysical universe and blending those ideas with pop music. "Youth Lagoon is something so personal to me because writing music is how I sort my thoughts, as well as where I transfer my fears," explains Powers. "My mental state is usually pretty sporadic… a lot of this record was influenced by a fear of mortality but embracing it at the same time. Realizing that human life is only great because it is temporary. Experimenting with ideas about dimensions. I'm not a gifted spear, so explaining things is difficult for me. But music always makes sense."
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Ryan Shupe & The Rubberband – Dream Big (2005)
Ryan Shupe and the RubberBand are a breathtaking blast of manic musical virtuosity. Sheer joy seems to pour out of the speakers when they start playing, and it may be that they sound that way because the five members of the band–Roger Archibald (guitar, vocals), Colin Botts (bass, vocals), Craig Miner (banjo, bouzouki, guitar, mandolin and vocals), Bart Olson (drums), and Ryan Shupe (lead vocals, fiddle, mandolin and guitar) are not only extremely talented, they're having a great time. This same spirit also infuses Dream Big; it's an album that aptly captures their passion to perform.The five musicians share a ravenous appetite for all types of music, with the band's influences including such diverse performers as Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Bob Marley, the Police, AC/DC and Bela Fleck. Most have dabbled with a number of different instruments, all have been playing since they were kids. Shupe, a generous frontman, writes the songs, but doesn't demand ownership of them.
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Dan Patterson – Smoke in My Lungs (2013)
"Smoke in My Lungs" is the first full album Dan Patterson. With a collaboration of talent such as Dave Perceful, David Abeyta, Bryan Cooper, and Kim Deschamp, this album is a great reflection of wide range of musical influence that has shaped Patterson's outlook and approach to his music. With musical inspirations from Cross Canadian […]
Jetts Creek – Supposed To Be (2008)
The traditional bluegrass tunes, tight family harmony and incredible original material by six-piece bluegrass band, Jett's Creek. The California Bluegrass Association said Jett's Creek has "stirring vocal harmonies and carefully blended instrumentation" and WorldWideBluegrass.com calls their sound "authentic and doing justice to what bluegrass is all about." mp3 320 kbps | 77 MB | UL


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This story is too funny not to share and I don't want to forget it later in life.
Last week we went to the bank and I asked the man for suckers for Macy and Brady when we got them I gave Macy hers and unwrapped Brady's and his was only a half a sucker and I said "Oh, weird. Brady's sucker is all funked up" and Macy said "Mines not f*cked up" and I just stopped and said "what did you say" and she repeated herself in the most calm manor and showed me her sucker. I started laughing so hard and kept making her repeat it (terrible I know but I couldn't help it).
It's kind of sad that such a foul word coming out such an innocent little mouth can cause so much laughter.
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Van Berge Henegouwen (VBH), the world-renowned Dutch company specializing in luxury technology and IT systems for superyachts, is working with two of the most revolutionary companies in the audio/video industry to offer unprecedented on-board cinema systems that will set a whole new standard in audio reproduction and immersive sound. Since 2000, VBH has equipped more than 120 yachts with state-of-the-art technology, to name but a few: the 75m Oceanco charter yacht ANASTASIA, the 47m Heesen charter yacht 4YOU, as well as the 46m Holland Jachtbouw charter yacht WINDROSE.
This is well timed, matching as it does the rolling-out this year of new, ultra-high resolution 4K displays up to 77-inches (195 cm) in size. While the products that make up the VBH cinema systems are highly effective independently of each other, together they make an extraordinary combination that will excite every superyacht owner who seeks audio-visual entertainment that outstrips even that found in most cinemas in its sheer quality and realism.
VBH is bringing to the superyacht sector the excitement of Auro-3D®, the latest advance in delivering true three-dimensional sound. Surround sound systems have been around for many years, but the developers at Belgium-based Auro Technologies have combined new digital recording techniques with innovations that deliver a substantially more realistic and immersive experience Listeners will enjoy a much greater soundstage, depth of sound, accuracy, and a significantly larger listening area. From rock concerts, to symphonies, to movies, to video games, enthusiasts of all ages are immersed in the action. With a number of studios now recording sound in the Auro-3D® format there is a growing selection of movies available that take full advantage of the advances made, but even content recorded in conventional formats is taken to a whole new level when reproduced through the Auro-3D® engine.
The installation required to enjoy Auro-3D® involves the fitting of speakers at three levels – lower (ear level), height (near the ceiling – 30° above ear-level), and top (in the ceiling) – for a complete wrap-around experience. Here VBH is working with California Audio Technology (CAT), maker of the some of the world's most innovative and interesting speakers, to offer speakers that not only offer sound of the highest quality but which can be made to match any possible interior design requirements.
CAT speakers are all custom-made and can be built to any shape or size, and in any colour or material. This allows a yacht's interior design team to specify down to the last detail their appearance and materials while CAT ensures that the audio requirements of the owner are met in full. The enclosures (exterior casings) can be made in almost any material – marble, granite, composites, metals, woods, even concrete have all been used.
The result is speakers designed and manufactured to fit into any space and which can even be asymmetric to direct sound more precisely. The core components are all made from metal, allowing them to reach very high power levels. The use of titanium and aluminium, as well as carbon fibre in certain areas, delivers increased strength, heat dissipation, accuracy, and power handling, while greatly reducing weight.
For superyacht interiors this allows the speakers to blend in seamlessly with the interior décor using identical materials specified by the interior design team, or to disappear inside walls, ceilings, the hull or even furniture.
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Finding a Cannabis Dispensary
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