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Today I discovered the Urllink function in bash from the ujust tool from ublue.it. Seems like a cool trick, but might not work everywhere.

########
### Special text formating
########
## Function to generate a clickable link, you can call this using
# url=$(Urllink "https://ublue.it" "Visit the ublue website")
# echo "${url}"
function Urllink (){
    URL=$1
    TEXT=$2

    # Generate a clickable hyperlink
    printf "\e]8;;%s\e\\%s\e]8;;\e\\" "$URL" "$TEXT${n}"
}
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I’ve been debugging a cloudflared tunnel issue in my homelab all day today, and getting really frustrated. My issue ended up being that it was running twice, once without the correct config file and another with it. I believe that cacheing may have compounded the issue.

In yesterday’s post I setup a cloudflared tunnel on my ubuntu server to expose applications running on the server to the internet. I’m setting up a new server and running cloudflared in its own vm.

setup cloudflared tunnel on ubuntu

Check that dns is pointing to the correct tunnel #

dig subdomain.example.com
traceroute subdomain.example.com

Check that the tunnel is running #

export CLOUDFLARED_TUNNEL_ID = "my-tunnel-id"

cloudflared tunnel list
cloudflared tunnel info $CLOUDFLARED_TUNNEL_ID

I’ve been playing with 3d printing some items through the slant3d api. I’ve been pricing out different prints by running a slice request through their api.

make a project #

I’ve been using uv for project management. It’s been working well for quick projects like this while making it reproducible, I’m still all in on hatch for libraries.

mkdir slantproject
cd slantproject
uv init
uv venv
. ./.venv/bin/activate
uv add httpx rich python-dotenv

Get an api key #

You will need an api key from the slant api, which currently requires a google account and a credit card to create.

# .env
#  replace with your api key from https://api-fe-two.vercel.app/
SLANT_API_KEY=sl-**

slicing an stl with teh slant api #

Then you can run the python script to price out your print. I’m not exactly sure how this compares to an order, especially when you add in different materials.

from dotenv import load_dotenv
import httpx
import os

load_dotenv()

stl_url = ''
api_key = os.environ["SLANT_API_KEY"]

api = httpx.Client(base_url="https://www.slant3dapi.com/api/slicer")

res = httpx.post(
    "https://www.slant3dapi.com/api/slicer",
    json={"fileURL": stl_url},
    headers={"api-key": api_key, "Content-Type": "application/json"},
    timeout=60,
)


print(res.json())