mastodon 4.7.3I run the https://sunny.garden Mastodon server.
Move slowly and build things.
Expect photos of flowers, clouds, cats and other creatures I spot out walking, and sometimes Mastodon admin or -- very rarely -- game development.
Canadian living near Tokyo 🇨🇦🚀🇯🇵 • he/him
Happy four year fediversary to sunny.garden :brdScreamHyper:
Sakura over the pond last week.
As rainy as it was yesterday morning, I still got a couple of sakura shots I liked.
sunny.garden April review :blobclipboard:
Four Years of Sunny Garden · Mastodon Updates and Maintenance · Hosting Costs and Donations
Cover by @quarksparrow@sunny.garden
https://hub.sunny.garden/2026/05/05/the-sunny-gardener-april-2026/
Kinkaku-ji Temple from my trip to Kyoto in November. This might be my favourite shot of the temple itself.
Small detail that I also love, the grasses near the edge of the pond at the bottom making fun little shapes with their reflections in the water.
2025-11-27
Had a little hiccup on the server for a couple of minutes, applied some system updates and Mastodon didn't come back up immediately, oops. But it should be good now. :blobcatspace:
I've spent relatively little time on or thinking about computers for the past 3-4 weeks, getting out to parks and cherry blossoms, and meeting with several friends who visited Japan... and wouldn't you know it, it's been pretty nice. 
sunny.garden March review :blobclipboard:
Ten Years of Mastodon · DNS Issues · Hosting Costs and Donations
Cover by @lichendust@sunny.garden
https://hub.sunny.garden/2026/04/10/the-sunny-gardener-march-2026/
Wires and graves in the rain.
It's peak cherry blossom season here, but the weather has been really mixed. I keep trying and failing to get out to a favourite nearby spot to take pictures between rain showers.
they are a hardy people, and fierce warriors, but they do not come cheap.
Quite blustery today, I had to implement a wind protection system for the maple seedlings.
Dear #MastoAdmin for anyone using #S3 storage I would highly recommend disabling S3 multipart uploads for a day (or forever) to see if you notice any improvements.
Pre-existing issues with Mastodon and S3, plus some recent regressions in the #AWS S3 library can cause a variety of issues, notably in the ingress #sidekiq worker, such as:
You can do this by setting S3_MULTIPART_THRESHOLD=1073741824 (any sufficiently high value that all processed media will fit below).
Note that setting S3_FORCE_SINGLE_REQUEST=true is not sufficient, as this only impacts reading files from S3 to disk, and not uploading to S3. Increasing S3 timeouts and retries may help, but doesn't solve the issues entirely.
The results will depend on your environment and specific S3 provider, but are significant and worth testing to see if they affect you.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/39863
