namsral

tldr;

My bet is on "humans".

I have been using pksrc on my macs for years. Also works on Apple Silicon.

https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-macos/

namsral

6년 전discuss

My main complaint is that foreign big tech companies, or rather their shareholders, often exploit local resources like green energy, sparse living space, people’s privacy to generate large profits and take it home. Often avoiding responsibility by not paying taxes.

It’s business as usual, different industry, same shit.

namsral

6년 전discuss

In the Netherlands locals were appalled when locally produced green energy was pretty much all taken by a new foreign datacenter.

Can’t help but think big tech is becoming a burden on society and the environment.

namsral

8년 전discuss

Lars from Fuga Cloud here.

We run a public cloud largely based on OpenStack components. While OpenStack can be daunting, using a configuration manager like Ansible makes any kind of deployments a lot simpler and reusable. We use Ansible internally to deploy Kubernetes to deploy new versions of OpenStack.

Tutorial[0] on how to use Ansible in combination with OpenStack.

[0]: https://fuga.cloud/academy/tutorials/deploying-owncloud-on-f...

namsral

10년 전discuss

Hi, I'm the dev. https://github.com/namsral/multipass

Multipass is email provider agnostic, any email address can be used to authenticate users without a password. It's up to the service maintainer to handle authorisation.

Multipass is available as a Caddy plugin, a single binary and can be included in your Go project.

namsral

10년 전discuss

Read from an URL:

    vim <(curl -fsL https://news.ycombinator.com)

This creates a temporary file descriptor from the output of the invoked sub shell.

Read standard input in a shell script:

    #!/usr/bin/env bash
    cat <&0 > $(date +%s).txt

namsral

10년 전discuss

API Bootstrapping

What if you could slap something like Caddy in front of any API and provide authentication, analytics even billing out of the box.

  - Rate limiting
  - Billing
  - Authentication and Authorization using OAuth or JWT
  - Analytics/Metrics
  - Geo Location
  - TLS
  - HTTP2?
  - Image optimization
  - Content minification
  - Gzip
  - Signaling Slack/Push/SMS
  - Caching through cloud storage S3, BlackBlaze B2
  - PostgREST

namsral

10년 전discuss

I think I can hear John Siracusa cheering from the other side of the pond.

namsral

10년 전discuss

Exactly.

A timezone-range would be the preferred method.

Countries are too limited and continents to broad as their timezone can range more than 4 hours.

namsral

10년 전discuss

Would be great if companies would list their preferred timezones, especially for non-US job seekers.

Example: UTC-01:00 - UTC+02:00

namsral

10년 전discuss

The slides were previously discussed on the Erlang mailinglist.

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2016-June/08941...

namsral

10년 전discuss

It will take time, most likely a generation.

The generation preceding the current generation will be better educated and take-on the more skill demanding jobs.

namsral

10년 전discuss

SEEKING WORK - REMOTE

Location: nearby Amsterdam

Resumé: http://www.namsral.com/resume

Tech: Python, Go(Golang), Objective-C, Elixir, JavaScript, Bash/Posix shells, HTTP/REST, PostgreSQL, Redis, HTML/CSS, Linux, NixOS, CoreOS

Website: http://www.namsral.com/skills

GitHub: https://github.com/namsral

Email: lars at namsral.com

I'm a freelance senior software developer working on backend web services. I am a certified Linux professional and have 14 years experience in developing software ranging from iOS apps to backend services.

If you are interested in working with me, email me at lars at namsral.com.

namsral

10년 전discuss

> he says he is in fact working on a dashcam, which he plans to give away in exchange for its data

The idea of the free dashcam seems similar to the necklace camera from the novel[0] "The Circle" where peoples lives were broadcasted 24/7. Creepy but plausible.

[0]: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18302455-the-circle

namsral

11년 전discuss

Docker is the monolith of container runtimes.

I think it’s a step backwards to have a monolithic application like Docker controlling your container runtime when you’ve gone through the effort of developing independent (micro)services.

Containerising software is the way forward and I think Kubernetes and CoreOS have demonstrated to have and support a long term vision.

namsral

11년 전discuss

The team at CoreOS came to a similar conclusion:

> Docker has demonstrated that it is on a path to include many facilities beyond basic container management, turning it into a complex platform.

More than a year ago on their blog, https://coreos.com/blog/rocket/

namsral

12년 전discuss

To answer your first two questions:

1. TLS is the successor to SSL; setup your webserver with a certificate and redirect web traffic from HTTP to HTTPS.

2. UUIDs have some advantages over database primary keys; they are hard to guess; they can be generated on multiple machines without duplication. You could extend your current table with an extra column called public_id.

namsral

12년 전discuss

Because you want to have control over all software you're shipping to production.

namsral

13년 전discuss

Rob Pike's story on how he and Ken Thompson invented UTF-8 over dinner:

https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/Rz1udTvt...

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