GitHub - ublue-os/image-template: Build your own custom Universal Blue Image!
Build your own custom Universal Blue Image! Contribute to ublue-os/image-template development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub Ā· github.com [1]
ublue-os makes a github template for making your own git [2] repo with actions that build out your own personal ublue iso.
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This post is a thought [3]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://github.com/ublue-os/image-template
[2]: /glossary/git/
[3]: /thoughts/
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The work on image-template [1] by ublue-os [2].
Build your own custom Universal Blue Image!
References:
[1]: https://github.com/ublue-os/image-template
[2]: https://github.com/ublue-os
GitHub - ublue-os/obs-studio-portable: OCI container image of OBS Studio that bundles a curated collection of 3rd party plugins
OCI container image of OBS Studio that bundles a curated collection of 3rd party plugins - ublue-os/obs-studio-portable
GitHub Ā· github.com [1]
Distrobox is so interesting and cool, Iāve only recently started realizing how much it can do especially related to hardware and graphics, this is quite an example that runs obs in a distrobox. I had no idea distrobox would let you connect to cameras and gpus so seemlessly, and give you a gui to work from. And with distrobox you can export so that it just looks like an app on your system.
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This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://github.com/ublue-os/obs-studio-portable
[2]: /thoughts/
The work on obs-studio-portable [1] by ublue-os [2].
OCI container image of OBS Studio that bundles a curated collection of 3rd party plugins
References:
[1]: https://github.com/ublue-os/obs-studio-portable
[2]: https://github.com/ublue-os
andydunstall [1] has done a fantastic job with piko [2]. Highly recommend taking a look.
An open-source alternative to Ngrok, designed to serve production traffic and be simple to host (particularly on Kubernetes)
References:
[1]: https://github.com/andydunstall
[2]: https://github.com/andydunstall/piko
How Ahrefs gets a Billion dollar-worth infrastructure with a 90% discount
A holistic comparison of on-prem Ahrefs infrastructure with a cloud alternative
Medium Ā· tech.ahrefs.com [1]
2024 has been a wild year for infra with going ābackā to on prem being made popular by @dhh [2]. Well it looks like ahrefs saw right through the cloud trends an decided to ride the anti cloud train until it came back around to the station.
Being just a bit critical of the article it is impossible to get an apples to apples without actually running something of this scale and spending too much to find out. I cant imagine raw ec2 and ebs being the cheapest route into aws. They used no serverless tech in their article, but I digress, because I like this own your shit and build good product train.
What about People?!
This follow up does dive into the typical gut reaction that people cost a lot of money, you must account for them. You see when you hire people who are actually good at what they do, and run lean a lot of cost goes away, you have levels of management that disappear, levels of tooling that donāt need to exist, departments of IT donāt need to exist.
Coloās are the new hotness, and will...
Safer Bash Shebang Recipes - Just Programmer's Manual
just.systems [1]
When using justfiles each line is ran separately from the last, unless you specify the file to be ran by something other than just such as bash. If you want variables to persist you need to set a shebang.
Also if you are using your script i a way that you want it to exit when it fails you need to set -e and -o pipefail. This is critical if you are thinking about using just for production scripts like ci/cd. Iāve hit too bugs where ci passes, but no artifacts were created issues for this exact reason.
foo:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euxo pipefail
hello='Yo'
echo "$hello from Bash!"
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This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://just.systems/man/en/safer-bash-shebang-recipes.html?highlight=pipefail#safer-bash-shebang-recipes
[2]: /thoughts/
Justfile Cheat Sheet
Just is a command runner https://github.com/casey/just
Cheatography Ā· cheatography.com [1]
This is a dope ass cheat sheet for justfiles. Itās filled with good examples that are short and to the point, probably all from the docs, but anyways I need to do some like this for myself.
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This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://cheatography.com/linux-china/cheat-sheets/justfile/
[2]: /thoughts/
A quote from Tim Paul
Iām no developer, but I got the AI part working in about an hour. What took longer was the other stuff: identifying the problem, designing and building the UI, setting ā¦
Simon Willisonās Weblog Ā· simonwillison.net [1]
Damn this Tim Paul quote finishes hard and such a good point. None of the stuff around llms just work. Good uiās, front end, back end, infrastructure, product. All these things still need to exist, and in fact for ai to be good we need to still go hard on them otherwise everything will die in a heaping pile of ai slop [2]
Iām no developer, but I got the AI part working in about an hour.
What took longer was the other stuff: identifying the problem, designing and building the UI, setting up the templating, routes and data architecture.
It reminded me that, in order to capitalise on the potential of AI technologies, we need to really invest in the other stuff too, especially data infrastructure.
It would be ironic, and a huge shame, if AI hype sucked all the investment out of those things.
ā Tim Paul [3]
Note
This post is a thought [4]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https:...
PopSQL - Collaborative SQL Editor - Bring Order to SQL Chaos
PopSQL is a unified SQL collaboration workspace that connects everyone in the data analysis process so you can obtain better insights by asking the right questions, together.
PopSQL Ā· popsql.com [1]
PopSql looks like a very innovative product to bring collaboration to data exploration and visualization in a way you would expect from something like vscode liveshare. This looks far more appealing than a traditional BI data tool.
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This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://popsql.com/
[2]: /thoughts/
Pricing | PopSQL
PopSQL is a unified SQL collaboration workspace that connects everyone in the data analysis process so you can obtain better insights by asking the right questions, together.
PopSQL Ā· popsql.com [1]
interesting pricing model from popsql (pronounces Popsicle). At a glance you pay for data retention, want the abiltiy to recall all the queries you ran within the last year, run at a higher frequency, you jump a pricing tier.
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This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://popsql.com/pricing
[2]: /thoughts/
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such a sick episode with dax.
SSTās free tier will be free as long as aws allows a free tier, their free tier literally costs them nothing.
They talked about keeping SST small, the limitations that brings, but also the number of problems that just go away when you only have 3 people building. Lots of process disappears, everyone can trust everyone, no one needs to wait for approval, everyone is their own PM and just builds cool shit. They donāt have to worry about big costs and making payroll because they are profitable so much higher than their costs.
If they can get through phase one of just being the go platform for a very specific audience of users, and gain marketshare, the ideas of offerings on top of this are endless.
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This post is a thought [1]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
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[1]: /thoughts/
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I had no idea that you could just drop an msi installer right in steam. This worked for me, and was much easier to install pokemon tcg live in 05-2024 on ubuntu 22-04. I added the msi to steam from my downloads, hit start, failed right away like he said it would. changed compatability to proton experimental, and it opened right up.
- Download the official installer from pokemon tcg
- Add non steam game
- click show all file types
- navigate to downloaded msi
- click gear icon > compatability > proton experimental
- click play
- profit
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This post is a thought [1]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /thoughts/
The work on datastar [1] by starfederation [2].
The hypermedia framework.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/starfederation/datastar
[2]: https://github.com/starfederation
Fields
Pydantic Docs Ā· docs.pydantic.dev [1]
exclude=True and repr=False is a good pydantic combination for secret attributes such as user passwords, or hashed passwords. exclude keeps it out of model_dumps, and repr keeps it out of the logs.
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
class User(BaseModel):
name: str = Field(repr=True)
age: int = Field(repr=False)
user = User(name='John', age=42)
print(user)
#> name='John'
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This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://docs.pydantic.dev/2.7/concepts/fields/#field-representation
[2]: /thoughts/
just [1] has been by go to tool for saving
commands in a way that I can replay them and have team members replay them
without relying on the shell history of any given machine. This is my go to
default step, it lets you pick a just command to run with a fuzzy picker.
default:
@just --list
References:
[1]: https://github.com/casey/just
Hatch v1.10.0 - Hatch
hatch.pypa.io [1]
Hatch be flyin.
This new release of hatch includes support for the new package installer uv which is just mind blowing fast compared to anything else we have in python right now.
[tool.hatch.envs.default]
installer = "uv"
The other features are cool too, check them out. Iāll probably be using the test runner, but Iāve been waiting for the uv support since uv launched.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://hatch.pypa.io/latest/blog/2024/05/02/hatch-v1100/
[2]: /thoughts/
External Link
loggly.com [1]
I had a boot issue on my sons fresh ubuntu 24.04 install and journalctl came in clutch.
journalctl -p 3 -xb
- -p 3 gives me priority 3
- -x gives me extra catalog information when available
- -b gives me the current boot.
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This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://www.loggly.com/ultimate-guide/using-journalctl/
[2]: /thoughts/
Bug #2006590 āgdm3 crashes with SIGTRAP on startupā : Bugs : gdm3 package : Ubuntu
Suddenly this week, my GUI (ubuntu 22.10) does not open, stuck on the console text.
I tried to free some space (by uninstall a app), then to check/update the paquets (dkpg).
ProblemType: Bug
Distrā¦
Launchpad Ā· bugs.launchpad.net [1]
This Thread saved my sonās ubuntu 24.04 install.
His was failing to start with the following error.
Gdm: GdmSession: no session desktop files installed, aborting...
https://twitter.com/_WaylonWalker/status/1785825677079441482
sudo apt install --reinstall ubuntu-session
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This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/2006590
[2]: /thoughts/
GitHub - Alir3z4/html2text: Convert HTML to Markdown-formatted text.
Convert HTML to Markdown-formatted text. Contribute to Alir3z4/html2text development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub Ā· github.com [1]
Super neat tool to convert html [2] to markdown
>>> import html2text
>>>
>>> print(html2text.html2text("<p><strong>Zed's</strong> dead baby, <em>Zed's</em> dead.</p>"))
**Zed's** dead baby, _Zed's_ dead.
It even plays nicely with rich.
from rich.markdown import Markdown
from rich.console import Console
import html2text
console = Console()
md = Markdown(html2text.html2text("<p><strong>Zed's</strong> dead baby, <em>Zed's</em> dead.</p>"))
console.print(md)
Note
This post is a thought [3]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://github.com/Alir3z4/html2text
[2]: /html/
[3]: /thoughts/