Monday

M1 macbook things - THE FAN TURNED ON. It was weird.

Thanks, rust. <3

ADHD Side Quest Chain

This one was quite the adventure, so I figured I’d write it down.

1. “The fan under the stairs is ticking”
2. Pull fan out.
3. Ew, that’s real dusty.
4. Pull out vacuum to suck up dust.
5. Oh the extension lead’s stuck, pull that out from under the mat.
6. I need to pee! Do that.
7. Wash hands.
8. Mm, I’m in the kitchen, snack time.
9. Grab a handful of Pepperoni. Thank the good lord ALDI for 100gm packs.
10. Have a drink.
11. Oh yeah, fan!
12. Oh it’s real dusty I could put it on the back of the vent and find the old fan duct.
13. five minutes of looking for the fan duct upstairs
14. Oh I’ll have to 3d print one.
15. But I should clean the fan first.
16. goes and changes the filament on the 3d printer
17. installs a brace on the 3d printer that he finds
18. No no no, fan cleaning!
19. Connect vacuum to power cord (see point #4).
20. Cleans out the clogged pipe of the vacuum
21. Cleans up the floor, because the clogs (leaves and sticks) went everywhere.
22. Actually clean the fan
23. Vacuum the floor a bit
24. I still need a fan duct.
25. an hour and a half of designing one
26. Five and a half hours after THAT (print time), install fan back in duct.

Next day: Installed the grille over the fan duct.

Monday

threegoldbees.com

Redeployed the site, for the first time in a long time because images were missing and it was generally just not playing nice. I removed all the <center></center> HTML randomness, which made Hugo happier. I wish there was a blog engine which was more human and less Wordpress.

Updated the terraform module configuration to AWS’ v4 module syntax. Delicious yak milk.

yaleman/sprintf

• added automagic testing from github_linter.
• actually fixed up the testing,
• re-fixed it, after breaking it again.

Movies

I watched Shot Caller after spending a good half an hour cruising for something to watch. I liked it. Good non-linear story telling without it being a gimmick. Doesn’t pull any punches, and it’s very economical in its delivery. Great cast.

Monday

yaleman/fail2ban-importer

Rewrote it so I could be sure it might work. More complex, but also simpler.. woo?

Tuesday

yaleman/github_linter

Added a new fix in the github_actions module, adding dependency checking based on the new github action.

Wednesday

yaleman/github_linter

Updated the fix from Tuesday in the github_actions module, removing dependency checking based on the new github action for private repos. I probably should have read the docs. :D

yaleman/TA-pushover

Moved across to using ucc-gen, it’s… a thing.

Monday

yaleman/shrinky

Added tests to cover every line of the code, so I can auto-merge things now if they pass!

Released v0.0.4 to pypi as an official package.

yaleman/github_linter

• fixed up some typing issues in the test suite
• added a bandit workflow file for github_actions Python checks, to see what bandit testing will look like.
• ran codeowners over all my repos
• ran github_actions over all my repos and testing went booooom on a few things. Oh welllsssss… mainly just “yes, actually fix that test” and so forth - what this project is for!

yaleman/mqtt-monitor and yaleman/memes-api

Added a bunch of testing to allow things to update quicker when dependabot does its thing, because automation’s great!

The Email

March 2022 Analytics Snapshot

We’ve aggregated data from 26 of your Cloudflare sites during the month of March. Cloudflare served 788.57 GB of data, and mitigated 2.04k firewall events.

I was like “wow, that’s a lot more data than usu… wait, over a ¿BILLION REQUESTS FROM JAPAN!?!?!?

For comparison, February 2022’s stats had 183.7 GB of data and 214 million requests from Japan. Ok, that’s still a load of requests, but 4x as much is weird.

Tuesday

kanidm

Fixed an issue with kanidm group list that wasn’t logging because I’d used info!() instead of println!().

Wednesday

Realised (after it was pointed out to me by GitHub support) I was super stupid and had set the wrong “uses” string on my actions defintion, and that’s why they were all queuing and being weird.

Once I got that working… I continued to be stupid and break things until I just copied the config from something else and it was much less broken. If only I had a whole project built specifically to avoid this kind of inconsistency? 🤔

Monday

github_linter

• added github-linter-web as a script command to load the web interface easier
• fixed a bug in the DB code, where it was derping on integer responses

Wednesday

github_linter

• dependabot - configurator works now (ok, not really, see Friday’s fixes)
• pyproject - fixed handler for certain value types
• docs - now creates/updates a CONTRIBUTING.md

Thursday

pyaussiebb

• Moved the dependency on pydantic from dev to main, because… it broke things.
• Released v0.0.15 for this fix.

kanidm-builder

• added support for Ubuntu Impish, which worked fine until I hit this unmerged PR in aptly, because they don’t support the new zst compressed packages 😭 So far there’s been this attempt, and also this one. One day they’ll actually patch it… or I’ll figure out how to make a repo another way.

Friday

github_linter

• Added the ability to create a templated SECURITY.md file if it’s missing - applied the change to 128 repositories in one run! Also … seem to have broken the Auspost repo somehow, actions got super weird.
• Fixed quoting issues when it does config updates to dependabot.

mqttgpio

• Moved it into its own module instead of a single script, so it’s installable now.
• Fixed a bunch of typing issues and made pylint and mypy happy.

auspost

• Migrated to poetry packaging.
• Bumped minimum python version to 3.7.
• Did some typing fixes.
• Seriously upset something in github actions… it’s been janky ever since.

qbtapi

• fixed testing properly

goodwe2pvoutput

• Fixing up mypy errors and some other jank - disabled typing on imports

Saturday

Had dinner at a great new Japanese place, Gurume in Gumdale. Damn good japanese food!

Wednesday

pfsense-api-client

• updated the docs
• added support for a standalone requests.session object to support TLS ignorance
• moved the login functionality out to its own function, so it’d get better documentation in the manual

memes-api

• moved to aioboto3 to make things … work way better
• fixed pagination issues where certain counts would page wrong
• changed opengraph previews from the “full” image to the thumbnail to save some bandwidth and processing time for everyone

Thursday

Updated pyaussiebb to fix an issue acknowledging FetchTV services as a thing. Lots of testing and I re-learnt how to set up Home Assistant in a dev container so I can get someone who (thankfully) reported it as an issue and was willing to test it for me!

So I’ve got an AWS Lambda function written in python designed to help auto-merge PRs that @dependabot has submitted. It queries all my github repositories, then auto-merges them based on particular configs. It’s done this way because then I don’t have to remember to configure each and every repository individually, and it does it in two stages:

1. A scheduled execution.
   • This checks to see if it’s scheduled, then invokes the function with parameters specifying the repo to check.
2. The subsequent “invoked” runs, which interact with the GitHub API to do the per-repo checks.

I’d recently made some changes and failed to test them properly - the “am I scheduled” was running, but ALSO the “run on a repository” check.

Monday

Global Rest Day!

Assembling all the furniture things.

Tuesday

Hung out at the Mailroom and set up the internet, they nearly had to break down the little door in the wall where the infrastructure cable was hidden. Thankfully it all went well, and the speed’s good.

Later in the night I blocked myself from remote access to the router, awks. As the site-to-site VPN between sites still worked, I got back in through an SSH tunnel via an Access Point, which directed traffic to the router on port 22 from “inside” :success:.