Keto Chow

Tag: web server

  • Credit Card payment via Stripe works again (sigh)

    Credit Card payment via Stripe works again (sigh)

    Last week when I was on vacation I spent one morning updating the plugins on my site. It was super fun to do over a cellular connection but that’s vacation. Somehow while I was doing the updates I managed to deactivate credit card payments using Stripe. That meant you could still pay via Paypal, Credit…

  • Keto Chow 1.5

    Keto Chow 1.5

    TL;DR: swapped psyllium husk for acacia gum, added more xanthan gum resulting in better texture and improved bowel… stuff. It’s been some time since there was a major formulation change in Keto Chow, it’s been stable for over a year. As part of the progress towards Keto Chow 2.0 I’ve updated the recipe. On paper…

  • Site fun, Sous Vide, Stronglifts Update

    Site fun, Sous Vide, Stronglifts Update

    Been having fun with the site lately. And by “fun” I mean it’s been wonky since Sunday when the two web/database servers were getting hammered hard, load average was up around 50+. I’m hopeful that it’s settled down now. Most recently I got a fun error with SQL where people couldn’t place new orders, got…

  • Day 075 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

    Day 075 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

    Weight: 206.2 Blood ketones: <0.1 mmol/L   Dear Texas Roadhouse peanuts, It’s been fun but I think we need to break up. Sincerely, Chris. We went to dinner last night at Texas Roadhouse, I got the pork chops, salad and broccoli. I should have been WELL under my net carbs for the day but then I…

  • Day 051 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

    Day 051 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

    Weight: 205.5 Blood ketones: 0.1 mmol/L Probably going to I.F. (Intermittent Fasting) until this afternoon, might not though – we’ll see if I get hungry or not. The revised formulation of my custom vitamin mix is ordered (with magnesium citrate instead of chloride to see if that removes the metallic aftertaste), hopefully it gets here soon!…

  • The “vitamins now included” stickers

    So it’s been about a month since I started putting the vitamins into the powder mixture. All of the packages I have mixed up have the vitamins included so the “vitamins are included” stickers are a bit redundant. I’m running low on the stickers and don’t want to make more so as soon as I…

  • Fun with Nginx

    Fun with Nginx

    WARNING: the following is geeky devops/sysadmin stuff that has nothing to do with keto. I moved servers quite recently and in the process went from Apache to Nginx. Nginx is indeed much faster but it has come with a pretty steep learning curve to get everything working right. And today I ran into a problem…