{"id":1796,"date":"2021-06-08T14:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T14:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2021-06-08T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T14:52:00","slug":"guru-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=1796","title":{"rendered":"Guru meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It would seem that someone at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastly.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.fastly.com\/\">Fastly<\/a> has a sense of humour and probably grew up with a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amiga\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amiga\">Commodore Amiga<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Content_delivery_network\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Content_delivery_network\">CDN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2021\/06\/08\/fastly_outage_takes_down_half\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2021\/06\/08\/fastly_outage_takes_down_half\/\">went down earlier today<\/a>, taking quite a bit of the world wide web with it, slightly cryptic error messages such as this started appearing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"422\" height=\"271\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1797\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image.png 422w, http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For anyone familiar with the Amiga, and the way it would crash, the words &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guru_Meditation\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guru_Meditation\">Guru meditation<\/a>&#8221; might be nostalgic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/db\/Guru_meditation.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is akin to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_screen_of_death\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_screen_of_death\">Blue Screen of Death<\/a> (BSOD) on today&#8217;s Windows machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks Fastly for the nostalgia trip!<\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/distinctionjacket.php\" title=\"UkfMJ L KYLpuF uR WGvya\">UkfMJ L KYLpuF uR WGvya<\/a> -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would seem that someone at Fastly has a sense of humour and probably grew up with a Commodore Amiga. When the CDN went down earlier today, taking quite a bit of the world wide web with it, slightly cryptic error messages such as this started appearing: For anyone familiar with the Amiga, and the&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=1796\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rambling","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}