Stephen @brenns10@snake.club

My personal/snake.club infra hygiene is really weird. I use terraform to manage instances, object storage buckets, etc across both AWS and Linode. But then for my actual management of my server, there's no puppet/ansible/anything. Just a git repo full of docker-compose and systemd units, with a shell script to link them all into place.

Also a shell script to configure iptables.

@bentley am I doing it right?

In other snake.club updates, our SSL cert is now automatically renewed, so yay.

My lounge instance is now available at lounge.snake.club. This neat service is a web IRC client/bouncer that maintains logs even while you're away. Snake.club users who want access should send me a message and I'll get you setup!

Docker networking is more complex than I'd like. For some reason Mastodon couldn't connect to the Postgres DB. Reboot fixed it. Eek.

Welcome to the server @fortytwoeggs !

A complaint for frontend devs: no more keyCode for form validation please!
https://brennan.io/2021/03/03/textboxes/

Ah yes, my favorite failure mode

Go team Fluff! Hang on to that lead just a little longer. Puppy Bowl XVII may be more exciting than Super Bowl LV =D

A fun read about blocking filename lookups! It can serve as a jumping off point into the topic of filename lookups in general (the infamous namei function/file). A part of you OS you don't think about much, but is actually critical and complex.
https://lwn.net/Articles/843163/

Welcome to the server, @bentley, @luciana, and @luc!

Just launched the snake.club Mastodon instance, which I intend to be invite only for friends. Here's a useful directory of federated accounts by interest, in case new members want to start following folks:
https://communitywiki.org/trunk/