I’m writing a GUI app in Rust, trying to get it working with Tauri’s tooling, using Yew to generate the actual user-facing code. I thought it would be easy to get a thing that notices when I hit a key, and do stuff with it. Pre-yew-0.19 you could do this with a KeyboardService, now it’s a whole thing with gloo.
Convincing Kubernetes to Trust a Backend
I run Kubernetes at home. Yeah, I’ve said it. It’s out there now.
Now we’re past that, here’s how to convince traefik to talk nicely to a HTTPS backend server, in this case a test instance of GoatNS. I use Terraform for my configuration management, k3s to build/control the platform, with its built-in traefik for routing traffic.
[Read More]Terraforming Cloudflare DNS LOC Records
After confirming that they do support DNS LOC records, I couldn’t find any documentation about how to successfully create them using terraform, so here goes:
[Read More]Docker, rust, cargo and 137 Errors
I kept getting OOMKilled when trying to build Rust apps in Docker containers on GitHub Actions (and also locally, using buildx). The return code of any cargo command that touched the list of crates would end up with the command killed after 30-90 seconds.
I found two solutions:
[Read More]On Cough Syrup and Cold Medicine
This is a great article, with fantastic takeaways: How to understand cough medicines.
[Read More]AWS ACM Moving to Dynamic Intermediates
I wonder how many things are going to break when AWS changes how ACM certs are issued. They’re moving to “dynamic” (ie, randomly allocated) intermediates starting 11th October 2022, which is surprisingly soon!
They say not to use certificate pinning, but lots of people do, and I’m sure there’s a load of custom config/deployment methods out there that’ll rely on some kind of static intermediate.
Good luck, friends!
[Read More]Stop Edge Sleeping Tabs
Microsoft’s Edge browser is pretty cool, I use it instead of Chrome because .. somehow Microsoft has become less creepy than Google?
They’ve recently added efficiency mode, which is handy until it starts sleeping the tab that Octoprint is on, which queues up all the “live view” features and somehow makes them replay at super-speed when I go back to the tab.
AAAAANNYWAY. I did some searching and couldn’t find the answer to “how do I stop Edge from sleeping pinned tab” because that’s not a thing (article on what can stop a tab to sleep here).
[Read More]Livejournal 19 Year Anniversary
Well, I definitely feel old…
Curiously, I didn’t even have to log in to view my virtual gift…
Housing Cost Increases and Perception
The low cost of borrowing money combined with a few other forces have really pushed up housing prices around here lately, and people keep telling me that “oh but your place has gone up in value, it all works out!”
I knew in my bones it wasn’t right, but I did some quick math.
| Mortgage | Townhouse Value | House Cost | Mortgage Increase | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $250,000.00 | $320,000.00 | $480,000.00 | $160,000.00 |
| 2022 | $250,000.00 | $450,000.00 | $680,000.00 | $230,000.00 |
| Increase | 140.63% | 141.67% | 143.75% |
This is based on similar houses in similar locations, as I’ve been looking for some time.
[Read More]GitHub's Dependabot and Actions
I sent this to a friend who I’d been talking to about automation things, they probably didn’t expect this huge wall of text 😁 Since this isn’t a DM over social media, I’ve included the code and cleaned up the links, and shared it so hopefully I can find it in the future and it’ll help someone else who’s interested.
I’ve had this on my todo list so here goes.. I was going on about how cool Dependabot is, and how it automagically makes Pull Requests (PRs) for updating packages in repositories… since you asked for some details it’s probably easiest to show an example of how I’ve got it set up.
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