Posts tagged: thought

How to Configure DNS over TLS (DoT) Using Unbound DNS in OPNsense Going beyond the basics of home networking homenetworkguy.com [1] Setting up DNS overTLS in opnsense has made my dns just a bit more secure and reliable. I recently had an outage of half the internet within my house. This also hit some of my friends and not some. It did not hit my mobile network. What seems to have happened is a dns issue with my isp not resolving some domains. This setup corrected my issue and I was back online more securely. Note I did try to setup the family resolver and found it was blocking some sites I am ok with. I decided to drop back to the vanilla resolver and let other services within opnsense control blocking where I can caontrol the whitelist myself. References: [1]: https://homenetworkguy.com/how-to/configure-dns-over-tls-unbound-opnsense/

GitHub - argoproj/argo-events: Event-driven Automation Framework for Kubernetes Event-driven Automation Framework for Kubernetes. Contribute to argoproj/argo-events development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com [1] Argo events is an event driven automation framework for kubernetes that can create kubernetes objects among other things based on events. I’ve been using native kubernetes cronjobs to kick off jobs based on a cron trigger. For instance I am running reader.waylonwalker.com every hour, to rebuild the site and re-deploy it. It takes about two minutes to fetch every rss feed, so this is a nice application of a job compared to a web server fetching the feeds live. Now my posts may be up to an hour stale but they load fast. Argo events takes event drien architecture to the next level allowing to be triggered by many more things, and do many more things than creating a cron job. I’m definitely thinking about dropping this in my homelab [2]. References: [1]: https://github.com/argoproj/argo-events?tab=readme-ov-file [2]: /homelab/

GitHub - catppuccin/ulauncher: 🇺 Soothing pastel theme for Ulauncher 🇺 Soothing pastel theme for Ulauncher. Contribute to catppuccin/ulauncher development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com [1] I am using this theme for Ulauncher in arch and it looks fantastic! One line install (read it first). python3 <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/catppuccin/ulauncher/main/install.py -fsSL) References: [1]: https://github.com/catppuccin/ulauncher

Ulauncher — Application launcher for Linux 🐧 Download Ulauncher for Linux, discover extensions and videos, and support the project. ulauncher.io [1] Just discovered this really cool launcher from the DHH distro omakub. github.com/omakub [2]{.hoverlink}. Ulauncher comes out of the box looking good, supports extensions, and shortcuts like I have a lot of mac launchers have. I installed it plus a theme and in no time It was looking good and launching applications. In the past I have leaned in on rofi for task launching, it is good. I just felt it was harder to configure to get right or look good. References: [1]: https://ulauncher.io/ [2]: https://github.com/basecamp/omakub

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GitHub - basecamp/omakub: Opinionated Ubuntu Setup Opinionated Ubuntu Setup. Contribute to basecamp/omakub development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com [1] This is DHH’s linux startup script. Call it a distro if you want, but he doesn’t. It’s made to take a vanilla ubuntu install and configure everything the way he likes it. There’s a number of great nuggets in here to pick up on. No need to write bespoke configs for every essential tool just to get started or to be up on all the latest command-line tools. Omakub is an opinionated take on what Linux can be at its best. Check it out and give it a ⭐ basecamp/omakub [1]{.hoverlink}. References: [1]: https://github.com/basecamp/omakub

From the circle to epicycles | Personal Site of Andrei N. Ciobanu This article will be part of an extensive series in which I plan to explore various aspects of Fourier Mathematics. I will take notes, create some visuals (a good pretext to learn more about graphi... andreinc.net [1] This is a really cool animated visual representation of how sine waves work, how they relate to circles, pi, rad, and how to add up a series of waves to make square and sawtooth waves. References: [1]: https://www.andreinc.net/2024/04/24/from-the-circle-to-epicycles

External Link x.com [1] This looks like a sweet tui postman clone. Darren is really rolling with these tui’s. Cant wait to see where this one goes. References: [1]: https://x.com/_darrenburns/status/1797763563270095006

How to Force Dark Mode on Every Website in Google Chrome Do you like dark mode? Chrome now lets you forcibly enable it for every site on the web. No more blindingly bright websites. How-To Geek · howtogeek.com [1] Sometimes I struggle to get my os to report dark mode to chrome, luckily there is a way to force chrome to always use dark mode. I’ve never really gotten into dark reader and extensions like this. For some reason they all make websites look really weird to me and I don’t really care for it. What I want is websites designed to be in dark/light to always go dark, if the designer didn’t design dark just let it be light. References: [1]: https://www.howtogeek.com/446198/how-to-force-dark-mode-on-every-website-in-google-chrome/

xxHash - Extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm xxhash.com [1] xxHash is an extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm, working at RAM speed limit. It is proposed in four flavors (XXH32, XXH64, XXH3_64bits and XXH3_128bits). The latest variant, XXH3, offers improved performance across the board, especially on small data. References: [1]: https://xxhash.com/

xxhash Python binding for xxHash PyPI · pypi.org [1] I hit an issue with markata where even though a bunch of articles were cached, the site build was still slow because I was hitting hashlib.sha256 so hard for cache keys. I was shocked when this popped up in my profiler as a significant portion of the time spent. I swapped out for xxhash and that issue completely went away. References: [1]: https://pypi.org/project/xxhash/

Replicate - Run AI with an API Run open-source machine learning models with a cloud API replicate.com [1] This is so easy compared to self hosting stable diffusion yourself. It even has a nice api that you can hit with curl or python. The pricing seems competitive as well. Bookmarking this to try next time I need something like it. References: [1]: https://replicate.com/

How to Deliver Code Every Day I recently calculated that I merge 0.8 pull requests every day into my team repo. Let’s round up and say I merge about one PR every day, delivering one or more features to production. I like this... Jake Worth · jakeworth.com [1] Great set of tips here! No waiting. No “waiting until tomorrow” or “It’s Friday, let’s wait until Monday” to deploy. If your deploys are so slow that deploying an hour before the end of the day is a risk, that’s a separate problem. If you’re afraid of a Friday deploy, your system is too brittle, or you don’t have foolproof rollback procedures, or you don’t have people you trust on call to resolve it. Each of these is a problem that you can fix. This one I find interesting I think there are some industries where customers come in large waves over the weekend, and a weekend bug can not only ruin someones day off, take longer to fix, but also cost a lot of money. Not deploying on Friday is totally what that team should be doing. Most of us are not that team. Most of us work on small teams supporting some sort of product that Should be able to be tested and rolled back. I completely agree with Jake here, if your not will...

You Have to Get Fast to Get Good at Programming Great programmers aren’t fast because they’re great. They’re great because they’re fast. Jake Worth · jakeworth.com [1] Be Fast, Practice, Hone your craft. There’s a lot to be said here about honing your craft for editing text, picking up a few extra WPM, learning vim shortcuts. Also just build shit. The more you build new and different things the more not only your text editing will just roll out, your skills to see patterns in code and architecture will flourish. Read their bios, and the answer is always no. They loved to play, sure. They had some base talent, typically. But they also invested an absurd amount of time into that skill set. This! is actually what turned me on to Post Malone. I remember hearing his story in how he was just known as the guy with a guitar because he was always playing it between class and everything. References: [1]: https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/be-fast/

Zellij (@Zellij_dev) on X POV your sysadmin rigged your terminal to show this when you ssh into production X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1] This one is too funny. opening a sixel image in the terminal when logging into prod. References: [1]: https://x.com/Zellij_dev/status/1574675207935107072

text-decoration-line - Typography Utilities for controlling the decoration of text. tailwindcss.com [1] Tailwind calls strikethrough line-through. This caught me off guard and took me a minute to find. Control how text is decorated with the underline, no-underline, and line-through utilities. References: [1]: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/text-decoration

Digital Gardening for Non-Technical Folks How to build a digital garden without touching code maggieappleton.com [1] Maggie is a fantastic proponent to the digital gardening movement. In this article she proposes 3 ways for someone to start their own digital garden with low friction and no code. References: [1]: https://maggieappleton.com/nontechnical-gardening

We have a right to repair! with Kyle Wiens, Founder and CEO at iFixit (Changelog Interviews #582) This week Adam went solo — talking to Kyle Wiens, Founder and CEO at iFixit, about all things Right to Repair. They discussed the latest win here in the US with Oregon passing an electronics Righ... Changelog · changelog.com [1] This is one of my favorite changelog episodes of all time. I had no idea all the work that has gone into the right to repair and ifixit. They talk a lot about apple and its trend to be less repairable from unservicable air pods to serialized components within iphone. A lot of legal talk that was far more interesting that I thought it would be. Recently winning the right to repair case against John Deere, and creating repairability scores for devices to be placed in stores like energy guide is. References: [1]: https://changelog.com/podcast/582

Try Out the Latest Linux Gnome DE With DistroBox Discover a step-by-step guide to installing and experiencing the latest Linux Gnome desktop environment with DistroBox. Linux TLDR · linuxtldr.com [1] Get gnome running in distrobox. References: [1]: https://linuxtldr.com/gnome-de-in-distrobox/

STLGears.com The Free STL Gear Designer For 3D Printing stlgears.com [1] This is a pretty nice gear generator. I printed a few gears today and it worked great so far. References: [1]: https://www.stlgears.com/generators/3dprint