Continuous Integration repo reminders - revisited
Back in 2017 I wrote about CI reminders. It was specific to 3rd party tools, but it turns out there are other use cases. It turns out my infrastructure configs have a number of things that I need reminding about. For web servers I need to know the latest recommendations for SSL configurations. More importantly I need to make the changes and check them. For terraform I need to review my provider versions and update them. Read moreSensor, part2
The other day I was playing with a CO2 sensor. I think I promised to publish the changes I’d made to the original code and I finally have. I also included some of the files you’d need to install it. I’m not happy with the udev configuration. First the "add" line seems to cause several co2sensor@.service starts for different values of the %k format string. I’m not clear why. And the "remove" line doesn’t seem to work at all. Read moreCO2 Sensor
A while back I bought a CO2 sensor I could get readings off USB for. I finally deployed it in the office using a modified version of this and prometheus. I’ll write up the code bit later but the graph of the first two days is interesting. The initial, pretty flat bit is the weekend. And then people start coming in on Monday morning. One of the guys remembered to check it and then opened a window as we saw it was nearing 1,200 ppm. Read moreWheezy
A while back I had some ssl fun. Amusingly that fix worked for exactly one week. The docker container that was being generated there was based on Debian wheezy. Apparently that was so old that not only was it deprecated, the next version seems to soon be deprecated too. So I’ve spent the last two weekends feverishly porting it to Debian stretch. I’m not really a Debian user for most things so I don’t follow their release ecosystem. Read morePyramid Power
When I was in school, I devoured school libraries. I read them all and there was some weird shit in some of them. In junior high school I remember several books in particular. They were a series of conspiracy theories books - but written by someone who seems to have believed them and written like they were all totally true. It seemed believable. And up till then, books were clearly fiction or not fiction. Read moreZram
I ended up reading about zram today and decided to give it a go. The install process on Ubuntu (and I assume Debian) is simple: 1 2 3 sudo apt install zram-config sudo systemctl start zram-config cat /proc/swaps You should now see several zram devices. They’ll have a higher priority than the disk based swap. This means that they’ll swap in and out cheaper with a slight cpu/memory cost. Read moreTabs v Spaces
A new angle on the tabs v spaces debate: how it affects your salary. Personally I’m a tabs and spaces person, but I’m pretty relaxed about it.Father’s Day
My question before venturing off down the canyon to the right was whether to go barefoot or wear flip-flops. I was wonderfully unprepared for this adventure. However I was convinced by wiser people - my girlfriend, sister, dad, essentially everyone - that shoes would be wise. Though based on the dirt ground into the bottom of my t-shirt, perhaps wearing them on my feet was a mistake. Around the time we’d reached the bottom my nephew had managed to get into some difficulty and got stuck on the opposite side of the river at the bottom of the canyon. Read moreVim CVE 2019 12735
Sigh. There’s a modelines vulnerability in vim that’s rather simple to exploit. Thankfully there’s a simple workaround - just disable that functionality. Add this to your ~/.vimrc and then it won’t affect you but you’ll get modelines back when fixed versions arrive. However there’s some question about the fix so might keep an eye out on this issue and adjust the if statement as appropriate. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 " Disabled due to https://nvd. Read moreNew Vim Tricks
This article is a bit wordy but get towards the end and there’s lots of new stuff in there. Really want to play with C-n and the thing with tabs and sessions looks interesting but lots of new keystrokes there.Falsehoods
Every now and then I skim through this till I find something I’m wrong about. I’ve read lists like this for years and always, every time, learned something new. An assumption I’d incorrectly made or something I’d read before that was wrong. I often promptly forget it, but over time some of it sticks. The world’s a big ol’ place. A guy I worked with once made the following observation: Read moreAPC tic tac toe
The text programs have been amusing, but this video shows the one I really want to port. I’m not generally a front-end dev, and this was about as close as I ever got to doing it. Some things to background info about what’s there: First, IIRC, the project was to demonstrate how to use two dimensional arrays. I obviously understood the concept of “feature creep” before I learned the term. Read moreAPC to fpc - notes
Some notes on the conversion: My coding style was far less consistent back then and that makes it harder to read the code. In this first pass I’ve made one-line summaries of the code as I’ve ported them and my style back then has made some programs a bit unscrutible. Indenting varied so following program flow is a bit harder. Pascal is not case-sensitive and my capitalisation varied which makes it hard to find variables and include files. Read moreAPC to fpc
After my initial research I filed two bugs (35596 and 35597), decided to put graphics aside and tried getting non-graphics programs running. And I’ve had good success so far. I’ve ported 15 so far. The fpc compiler has various modes which includes a Turbo Pascal mode. However that’s somewhere around Turbo Pascal 7 - definitely not all the way back to version 3.01a like we were using. This isn’t a huge stumbling block though. Read moreAPC Research Phase
I came across a bunch of code I wrote in high school. So I decided I could see if I could get the programs running again. I have them running inside of DOSBox but I was wondering if I could get them running natively. And sure enough, there’s a Free Pascal project. It’s targeted at “newer” versions of Turbo Pascal than I used. Amusingly I already hit an issue with the systems runtime library. Read moreActivity - a one-off script
So after using Go to do the initial activity collection, I went a bit more old school for extracting it from git repos directly. Note that this and the previous post use the data capabilities of hugo.
Yep, shell, sed, awk, sort and uniq
baby! It’s not ideal, but this script only runs once so good enough.
The reason for this one-off extraction is because both gitlab and github restrict the time period they save activity data (two years for gitlab, 90 days for github - though some gitlab instances hold more and some less). Future activity recording will be done via the Go programs described before; this just runs once-ish. If I find older code repos I’ll likely add them to this.
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Added some activity graphs to this ( linked off my about page ). Currently they just look at activity on a set of gitlab servers I use. I’m going to try and add github later. And then maybe raid some other data sources.
Just a quick explanation of how I did it.
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