And proof that this setup is both good and bad – CI failed because I forgot to set the publish timestamp in the post YAML on the previous post. But CI ALSO failed because I forgot to run gazelle. #win #fail #bazel #hypstatic

I just removed all pagination from the #hypstatic lifestream section #win this design choice dates all the way back to the first implementation of lifestream in 2010 #history

There is no more #webpack in #artichoke. All web properties have been migrated to esbuild, eta template engine, the Node fs API, and custom build scripts. This is simple, this is good. #hypstatic is next but there is a lot to unwind. #win

with the lopopolo IAM user gone, the only ones left were the IAM users in the #artichoke and #hypstatic GitHub organizations used for terraform CI in the project-infrastructure repos. I used the new GitHub Actions OpenID Connect provider to wire up AWS identity federation following this guide – scalesec.com/blog/identity-federation-for-github-actions-on-aws #security #github #aws #win

With AWS SSO in place, I started using aws-vault locally for #terraform and AWS CLI. I learned about this tool at work. No IAM access keys with inline IAM policies! SSO + assume role for administrator access! #security #win

In #aws things, I migrated both hyperbola and #artichoke infra to separate AWS organizations and set them up with AWS Control Tower's account vending machine. Audit logs! AWS Config! SCPs! AWS Cost and Usage Reports! AWS SSO! #win #security #cost

I took a hacksaw to my homebrew installation. I'm not sure how this happened but the brewfile I've been carrying around at one point had the entire dependency graph in it rather than the explicitly installed deps ... which made everything on my new Mac an explicitly installed dep. I had hundreds of libs installed for no reason. Burned everything down and started from scratch. #fail #win github.com/lopopolo/dotfiles/blob/fb9af6bd19df2149dba5a63a8db…

macOS things – I tried out alacritty and tmux again but didn't switch away from iTerm2. I tried a bunch of fancy neovim LSP, floating pane, and lua config and then stripped all IDE bits out of vimrc to keep it just an editor. Finally enabled dark mode on my Mac (synced with the sunrise and sunset), switched to dark terminal and neovim color schemes. #win #vim

It's been a while since I've posted about #artichoke, but I recently landed a #rust implementation of #ruby's `String` class. #win github.com/artichoke/artichoke/pull/1222

I got a PR in artichoke suggesting to bump down the frequency of dependabot updates to monthly. I applied this change across all artichoke, hyperbola, and lopopolo repositories. It has been a big quality of life improvement and cuts down on a lot of churn in JS dependencies. Applying dep updates once a month is 👍 #win #artichoke

Yay! hyperbo.la is running Bootstrap v5. This upgrade was actually really small! Just some small changes to the Sass for customizing colors and updates to the navbar. #win

More #artichoke updates since March: a marketing site at artichokeruby.org, prebuilt containers on Docker Hub hub.docker.com/r/artichokeruby/artichoke, and prebuilt nightlies github.com/artichoke/nightly/releases/latest #win

Also Windows Terminal and the Cascadia Code font were a dream to use. I replaced Inconsolata with Cascadia Code on my Mac iTerm2 #terminal #font #windows #win

#vscode and LLDB in VSCode were SO amazing to use. Within a couple of iterations, I was able to track down the use-after-free: github.com/artichoke/artichoke/pull/674 #fail #win #artichoke

After 50 PRs, I was able to put GH-442 to bed and remove the Rc wrapper from the Artichoke state github.com/artichoke/artichoke/pull/670 #win This refactor took 4 months #fail #rust #artichoke

Nightly builds of Artichoke are available via ruby-build: rbenv install artichoke-dev #artichoke #win

The one dynamic bit I cannot truly replicate is shortlinks but I never used this feature #win

No more security updates, terraform, autoscaling group rolling deploys, packer and baking AMIs, Ansible deprecation warnings, RDS outages #win I can unsubscribe from nginx release notes listsrv lol

Big wins from switching to static: modifying content with a lightweight dev server, CI via GitHub Actions, automated deploys, better webpack integration and minification, site is free as in beer to operate #win

Partials tended to end up in the same places as before #win

Some bespoke filters I hand rolled before got pushed into dependencies, like hashtag parsing and linking moving to linkifyjs #win #yolo

There is about as much javascript as there is python in the dynamic, django-based hyperbola, which is to say not much #win

I contributed a feature to #rust! Added an implementation to allow turning a &mut str into a String using the standard From trait #win #patch github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/69661

Migrated all #artichoke CI to GitHub Actions #github #win Jobs and workflows are so much easier to reason about. And it's free 💪

Also added many more converter implementations with macros. There are 988 TryConvert implementations. #win #fail #artichoke

This change added new functionality: Converting to and from byte and string slices #win #artichoke

Some folks have been contributing #Ruby and #Rust code to #artichoke! #win #github

I reported an undocumented panic in #rust that was fixed today #patch #win github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/63456

#artichoke is the top trending repo on all of #github right now #win

I built an #artichoke #Wasm playground in the browser artichoke.github.io/artichoke #win

That is a lot of code #artichoke #github #patch #win

That is a lot of code #artichoke #github #patch #win

The biggest accomplishment was redoing the #artichoke README github.com/artichoke/artichoke#readme Thought about project goals and differentiators from MRI. Added milestones to track progress in achieving goals #win #ruby #artichoke

Being forced to set up the repository infra from scratch in cactusref was a good way to fix everything I disliked about my dev environment. CircleCI build and scripts/lint.sh got overhauled #win #artichoke #shell #bash #node #lint

ferrocarril had different goals than artichoke: it wanted to run Rails. To do that, it had a lot of extra bits in it like gems, a Rack server, and sample apps. Nuked all of it #win #artichoke

Matz likes my code omg omg omg #win #ruby #mruby #patch github.com/mruby/mruby/pull/4560#issuecomment-509572113

I had a PR accepted in mruby! #patch #ruby #mruby #win github.com/mruby/mruby/pull/4560

I have Regexp#match? github.com/artichoke/ferrocarril/pull/93 #win #rust #ruby

It has been a really productive weekend. Merged 23 #github PRs for ferrocarril #win #rust #git github.com/artichoke/ferrocarril/pulls?utf8=✓&q=is:pr+created…

Adding #ci to a project is encouraging such better code hygiene. Because I want to make sure the build stays green, I actually make PRs even if it is only me approving them. Seeing the code in the browser makes it easier to review than #git diff #win

In a related note, I now peg the nightly version in the rust-toolchain file to a specific date archive #ci #rust #win

My #ci builds of ferrocarril caught a bug in rustyline that made compilation fail on the latest nightly #rust #win #patch github.com/kkawakam/rustyline/issues/217

I reported a #segfault in mruby and spoke directly with @matz! #win github.com/mruby/mruby/issues/4460 #patch

Excluding generated and vendored sources, ferrocarril is 8700 lines of #rust, #c, and #ruby. This is a lot of code. In very uncharacteristic fashion for a side project, a big chunk is tests #win github.com/artichoke/ferrocarril/commit/fe2febc

You can tell which parts of ferrocarril are new to me based on how many consecutive commits are dedicated to a feature. By this measure, the new (and hard) things were sys crates, #ci, and TryFrom traits #rust #win #fail

I tried to explain continuous integration to my Dad and he synthesized it as "spellcheck for code" which is pretty good tbh #win #ci

It only took 49 build jobs, but the ferrocarril build is passing on CircleCI circleci.com/gh/artichoke/ferrocarril/47 This is the first time I've ever set up #ci for a side project #win

#patch got another PR accepted in the Ansible + ACME + Route53 role I use for the hyperbola dev env load balancer #win github.com/mprahl/ansible-role-lets-encrypt-route-53/pull/15

Using cargo:rerun-if-changed and cargo:rerun-if-env-changed to make most sys crate builds a noop. developer productivity #win #rust

About 6 weeks ago I reached out to two literary agents to see if they'd help me publish a book. I got an explicit rejection last week! A little bit #fail, but also definitely progress #win 😊

I just used #github to create a reproducer case for a panic in a #rust library #win github.com/lopopolo/rust-embed-panic github.com/pyros2097/rust-embed/issues/61 #patch

I generated FFI bindings for mruby with bindgen! I wrote a #c extension library for wrapping mruby macros! #win I wrote (a lot of) unsafe #rust code. Clippy helps a lot to make sure I'm not doing anything stupid. I have caused quite a few #segfault #fail

I implemented a #rust macro for the first time to implement some traits to convert between mruby values and Vec and Option containers #win

I overflowed the compiler (which didn't crash it) and crashed the linter with an ICE #win #fail

I've been working on creating an idiomatic, modern set of #rust bindings for mruby, an embedded #ruby interpreter. I am learning a ton and doing lots of code things I've never done before! #win

Yikes haven't done a deploy since January 6. I've definitely been ignoring all of the USNs about Linux kernel vulnerabilities. #fail Django 2.2 release is what got me to get to upgrading #django #win

Spaceships don’t come equipped with a rear view mirror 🚀 #win

I have eliminated all explicit casts in punchtop #rust #win github.com/lopopolo/punchtop/commit/1e41ca3

More #rust safety: removed a cast to usize with the new usize::from_be_bytes converter github.com/lopopolo/punchtop/commit/2263c80 #win

The game that I'm working on is punchtop github.com/lopopolo/punchtop #win #rust #powerhour

I made a small #rust crate called stream-util for a game I'm working on. github.com/lopopolo/punchtop/tree/master/stream-util allows graceful drains of tokio mpsc channels or canceling a futures Stream. Clippy pedantic and fully documented #win

Optimizing #react bundle ... cut bundle size by 72KB. Biggest wins are turning an image into CSS + an emoji, removing unused deps, enabling mini-css-extract-plugin in release builds #win #webpack index.html is 333 KB

Been using #ack for almost a decade. Installed #ripgrep today. Wow it's so fast! #win

I've now over-engineered an iTunes library integrity checker by turning a script into a module #win

41-commit weekend 🤩Feel much better about my #webpack , #ansible, and #packer code #win

Add in some manual #terraform state edits and deleting things in the #aws console and we're recovered #fail #win

At least I was able to repro in local #vagrant once I figured out what was going on. #win

I completed removing build artifacts from source control. Static assets dist and document-root dirs: replaced with running #webpack on host. Third-party #ansible roles: installed from galaxy via #packer and #vagrant at provision time. #win

That was a 35-commit weekend. New features and improved code quality. #win github.com/hyperbola/hyperbola/compare/918f6d0f..4c331eee

Significantly refactored my #webpack static asset pipeline today. No longer build assets locally and check them in. Build happens as part of #ansible provisioning. #win github.com/hyperbola/hyperbola/commit/eaf5b3197

#django is a joy to use. Making my new blog app was so easy. Each view is only two lines of code! #win

Further #cost optimized my #AWS infra. Saved $3/month by turning off CloudWatch monitoring and making my ASG out of spot instances github.com/hyperbola/hyperbola/commit/ffa0e34 #win

Jumped to latest #django 2.0.x and then to latest 2.1.x today. No deprecation warnings, smooth sailing. As a plus, I turned on PYTHONWARNINGS for my app in systemd #win

That was easy! hyperbola running on t3s now. #aws #terraform #win

Finally deployed a 2 month old branch incorporating lessons learned from my Docker experiment into my VM-based deploys. Big change is building from local source instead of pulling in a tarball from GitHub. Iteration speed is improved #win

hyperbola is ready for #django 2.1. github.com/hyperbola/hyperbola/commit/d92a79f. That was easy #win

LuaLaTeX is amazing. My documents look better than they did with XeLaTeX. Less hyphenation, less inter-section spacing. fontspec, polyglossia, selnolig, nowidow, and impnattypo packages are dope too. #LaTeX #win

I've been using make and vagrant for self-contained builds in other projects. I've been working with #LaTeX a lot and a bionic vm with TexLive installed creates a repeatable build env, takes 15 minutes to set up, and doesn't pollute my desktop #win

Upgrades are painful, so upgrade frequently. hyperbola now running Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic. 2 build config changes and 1 removed ansible task. #win

Switched from community PPA to official nginx-provided binaries. That was ... really easy: github.com/hyperbola/hyperbola/commit/5461837 #win #ansible

for frklft.tires, I stopped using #terraform for managing the static content of the site. It now lives outside of my terraform code in a public directory, published explicitly with a make target #win

Last week I shipped secondary attribution for Jenkins builds. Email featured lyrics from Bills, Bills, Bills by Destiny's Child #win

Ansible, Let's Encrypt, nginx, and Vagrant have combined to make my local env look more like prod. Spun up a new ALB-like VM with HTTPS. less divergence #win

Starting 2018 off right by fixing pbr installation, deploying django 2.0.1, upgrading Pillow, and removing dep on django-localflavor #win

Removed some "bespokeness" from hyperbola: migrated from a shell script that exported env vars and exec'd to dotenv. Same concept, but now a standard mechanism #win

Put some investment into my #vagrant setup. MySQL running in a separate VM with automatically provisioned fixtures means I can go from zero to full replica of prod in 10 minutes. No more dep on laptop MySQL. #win

New in v0.122.0: python packaging actually works now. No .pth symlinks. No PYTHONPATH. setup.py and pbr install hyperbola directly into the venv. Finally. #win

hyperbola is now running #django 2.0. Added automigrate to hyperbola-app systemd unit, eliminating one of the last things I ever needed a bastion host for #win

That was easy. Enabled #AWS Time Sync by adding one ansible role, reading some docs, and redeploying. #win

Shaved another $35 (40%) off my #AWS bill by disabling the NAT on my app subnets. Yay immutable infrastructure and VPC endpoints #win

I made a thing! burnfastburnbright.com Bootstrap 4, route53 domains, and terraform made this really easy. went from 0 to 100 in about 1.5 hours. #win

New in v0.117.0: nuked time-elements webcomponents due to Firefox breakage (cut js payload by a factor of 4), infra improvements to resume handling #win

It is a good thing that I've automated things well enough that I don't need the bastion #win

More cost savings. RAM footprint of a hyperbola backend is 143MB. Switch from t2.micro to t2.nano #aws #win

hyperbola: now with multi-homed DNS. AWS Route 53 and CloudFlare, made possible by terraform. (In the process upgraded hyperbo.la mail to a 2048-bit DKIM key) #win #redundancy #devops

I accomplished this migration with ~no downtime #win. I spun up the new infrastructure and then deployed new AMIs with updated service records. I did have ~2 minutes of 500s when I accidentally overwrote old mysql DNS record due to a bad copypasta #fail

Just bumped backend ASG from 1 -> 3 t2.micros. With this change now all parts of hyperbola (redis, mysql, backend, lb) are multi-AZ #win

The magic command to make homebrew work after uninstalling Xcode: sudo xcode-select -switch /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools #win

this is just one example of the times #git has saved my life #win

I've taken to opening shipped emails with playfully mutated rap lyrics. Super Nintendo. #win

Total upgrade time ~1 hour. Includes code changes, testing locally, cut release, deploy to vagrant, build AMI, terraform, smoke test #win

I skipped #django 1.11.4 and 1.11.5. Finally did an upgrade today to 1.11.6 #win. My dep upgrades for python, js, and ansible deps are too coarse grained. Pulled in ansible changes which blocked the deployment #fail

4. addendum: I used #LetsEncrypt before migrating to AWS with a combination of cron, systemd timers, and dehydrated. ACM is easier, less error prone, and set-it-and-forget-it #win

DNS is flipped and propagated! Live in #aws! #win

#aurora was much less forgiving with unique constraints than mysql. The schema for one of my utf8mb4 varchars had a max length of 255 and a unique index. It appears mysql silently truncates, whereas aurora complained the index was > 767 bytes. ~ #win

my #terraform life became much easier by using name_prefix instead of name. name and name_prefix parameters were never interpolated. Instead, use interpolation in tags. In practice this means config can change without rebuilding the world #win

And with post 506, I can now say that hyperbola is hosted on #aws #win

#webpack is amazing. I added the time-elements web components to the lifestream and contact pages. Only took an hour. Before this would have been next to impossible. #frontend #win

Converted wiki from ELB to ALB this morning ... took a couple of hours. modified #terraform config and updated #ansible ... also converted from Let's Encrypt to ACM. github.com/hyperbola/hyperbola-tools/commit/23fb9a7 #win

💯💯💯💯💯 = 500 posts #win

related, using pip-tools to manage and pin python dependencies has removed uncertainty from my deploy process. Upgrade packages only when I intend to #win #django 1.11.3 upgrade went super smoothly in part due to this

OMG just rewrote my #git PS1 which runs as part of my PROMPT_COMMAND. Now 20% faster both inside and outside a repo. terminal feels so much faster now #win #performance github.com/lopopolo/dotfiles/commit/2d5054c4ce

Packer + Ansible + AWS + Terraform is really quite lovely #devops #win

Migrated terraform state from a private github repo to a private, encrypted S3 bucket. State infra is bulkheaded from main app and protected with prevent_destroy lifecycle #win #terraform #aws

and the #monitoring even triggered when I took the box down. #win

Tested a #django release candidate (1.11RC1) for the first time. Site continues to work. No deprecation warnings. #win

Added liveness monitoring of healthz endpoints on wiki and hyperbo.la today #monitoring #devops #win healthz goes all the way through to rack/django

Just freed up 350MB in my gmail by purging 35 emails. Did a search for size:5000000. removed emails with mp3s as attachments and event announcements with large images and pdfs #win

bastion is now in an ASG with an automatically bound (with user data) elastic IP. Yay fault-tolerant infra! #win #aws #terraform

Yay refactoring! #python #django #win

Switched to building an ami with packer. Now an ASG roll takes 2 minutes #win #aws

hyperbola-wiki is now fully deployed using #ansible. #vagrant made testing easy. #win

Added middleware to hyperbola app and wiki to inject a comment with the canonical hostname of the host that rendered the request. Debugging #win

hyperbola, now with properly localized dates using window.Intl #win

just automated a spreadsheet (concatenating several columns) with filter #win filter(L6:L, L6:L<>"") vs manually updating ranges #automation

Enabled cloudflare cdn on hyperbolacdn.com today. Took 4 clicks. #win

hyperbo.la staging and production are TLS enabled. Still have to turn on HSTS. #win #letsencrypt

Successfully migrated hyperbo.la and staging.hyperbo.la to a new host, hyperbola3. Ubuntu 16.04 and 8GB of RAM. Just shut down hyperbola1. #win

Did my first #aws prod deploy today #win

successfully did an out of band release not of master while in the process of migrating hyperbola to a new host #win #deployment #automation

With systemd I am one step closer to #12factor app bliss since all service logs get logged to syslog #win

made the #nginx config a little better, converted thin to bind to a domain socket, and deployed with a dedicated app user with deploy keys #win

In the process, I've added #TLS with Let's Encrypt #win

And a 4 years newer OS (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) and 64-bit #win

Project new VPS is underway. For the same price as my current 1G box, I'm getting a 4G box with more cores #win

I enjoy golfing my minified javascript. Just shaved 19 bytes off of the inlined date formatter js I include on the lifestream page #js #win

Today I upgraded node to 4.3.2 (from 4.2.2), python to 3.5.1 (from 2.7.3), and django to 1.9.4 (from 1.8.8). What fun! #win

Caught an issue in staging today because staging is more like prod than dev is. Dev has pipeline disabled. Yay for release process. Yay for testing. #win

With this latest release, hyperbola has surpassed 500 commits! #win github.com/hyperbola/hyperbola/tree/2015-11-21-lifestream-tem…

lifestream template refactor didn't yield any #performance wins, but the code is much cleaner now. #win

Sped up the lifestream page by 30ms by caching the archive sidebar. More template speedups to be had by switching to python3 (str to unicode coercion in python2) #win #performance

Woo! I can run hyperbola on my mac. Local development! #win

Even better: precompiling app/hyperbola to pyc and getting to keep the deployment read-only. better #win

gunicorn workers get warm quicker now that I've allowed gunicorn write access to a deployment's app and virtualenv dirs #win

Added a post-commit hook to my gollum wiki today to do a pull/push. Changes instantly synced to #github. No more stupid 5-minutely cron. #win

Having a linter is so awesome. IntelliJ rocks. #win

I bought IntelliJ Ultimate and it has already been decently valuable: github.com/hyperbola/hyperbola/pull/28 ... fixing lots of warnings #win

Fixed a long outstanding bug in how the sidebar on the lifestream calculated monthly post counts #win Tickled by the upgrade to #django 1.8 which caused them to all display as 1. #fail

TIL: Selecting 2 cells and then dragging to repeat causes google sheets to infer the increment #win

chrome has #emoji now. such web. #win

Answered a phone call on my computer for the first time. That was so cool. #win

Upgrade to Bootstrap 3.3.0 went really smoothly. Everything just worked #win

Finally bootstrap-ified the last bits of #hyperbola: the frontpage and the lifestream entry panel #win

Just added CORS headers for web-fonts on my 2 assets domains through cloudflare ... whoa. This has apparently been broken for a while #fail #win #hyperbola

The admin site is slightly modernized in #django 1.7 ... looks nice #win

TIL that two trailing spaces + line break = br in the same p #markdown #win

live site was just deployed automatically for the first time. Switched from legacy deployment to automated with no downtime! #win

Just did 2 fully automated deployments to staging! #win #automation

Woo! First 2 hyperbola releases with #git tags today #win. Also local development. dev + ops = #devops

Get optimized, HTML! Just added some middleware that minifies Django template HTML output #performance Google pagespeed really likes my site now (on Desktops) ... 94/100 #win

My wiki is getting filled up with #devops documentation for #hyperbola #win Runbooks are fun!

#django 1.6 upgrade was a breeze. Just a single deprecation warning. #win ... took the opportunity to refactor some old code too :)

Won best performance hack at the #Box #Hackathon last night #win

git commit -m 'removed 2 chainz' #git #win

It makes me happy when I see people using If-None-Match sprinkled throughout the splunk logs at #box #win

Just forked, edited code, submitted a pull request, and got it merged all from the browser #win #git #github

ssh and an html/js terminal that will run anywhere I have chrome because of native client? Yes please #win #awesome chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pnhechapfaindjhompbnflcldab…

screen wipes are the best things ever for both laptop screens and glasses #win #thingsineedtobuy

I feel like serializing procs to strings, passing them over HTTP and evaling them is an abuse of #ruby, but it is awesome that I can #win

just discovered that once you're in cmd+TAB mode on OS X, cmd+` cycles backward. So much easier than cmd+shift+TAB #learnability? #fail #win

So now that I got #airdrop working, I like it. It doesn't handle large transfers so well though. Transferring a gig of #music files has taken 15 minutes so far and I'm only 2/3 done. #fail and #win

printed over 600 pages in an athena cluster today #win

Best commit message ever #git #win

sysadmin ing is fun. hello beautiful browser based svn repo browsing (insurrection) and web-based svn admining (svn-admin) #linux #win

ruby's splat is just python's tuple (un)packing #win #fail