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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?
A complaint for frontend devs: no more keyCode for form validation please!
https://brennan.io/2021/03/03/textboxes/
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/
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/
Linux kernel developer, crocheter and knitter, plant dad, baker, cocktail maker.