Is S3 Glacier in maintenance mode? Long Live S3 Glacier!

tl;dr: Glacier-the-service/“Glacier direct APIs” have been untouched for years (read: probably not going to get new features), Glacier-the-storage-class looks like the new replacement. I don’t think there’s any reasons to put new data into Glacier vaults, using the storage class on objects in a S3 bucket is a better experience Because it’s AWS, Glacier-the-service will continue to be supported indefinitely. This post is an expanded version of my post on reddit, which I wrote after trying and failing to switch my photo backup (in a Glacier Vault) to use Glacier Deep Archive....

January 23, 2021

Notes on my hugo setup

I’m not much of a designer, so I just found a theme I liked, and ran with that. Chose PaperMod, though Fuji remains a future possibility. Hugo is actually pretty decent at selective overrides, so the underlying theme isn’t modified. I don’t have to manage git merges, though this complicated some aspects. Changes I’ve made Post page footer reordered to have the comment section come before the share buttons. Also stripped out the cover image and internationalization support to make it simpler....

January 2, 2021