Rewriting the @manyfold storage engine underneath a load of running instances full of data is one of those scary things that's making me procrastinate rather a lot. But, once it's done, we'll get cloud storage support, which will be important for public instances.
I’m off to Halifax Digital Festval today. It’s a 3-day festival: this is day 2. The theme for the day is GenAI and Data. I’m mainly here to make up the data part! I have a short pitch later on, but interested to hear what the day brings.
Currently obsessed with Mudhoney. Many may write them off as "grunge also-rans". Not only was the term 'grunge' coined to describe their sound, but it's not the overdriven DS-1 sound of their more famous peers. It's 60s style germanium fuzz. They were the first grunge band to break the UK, the band's singer, Mark Arm, packages and ships their records himself and--for my money--their post grunge era records are their best. Oh! And they have lyrics about shithead antivaxxers.
@heydon Yeah. Mudhoney were / are grunge, as far as I was concerned. Listen fairly frequently to Superfuzz Bigmuff, and boy does it stand up well. There’s a documentary about them, and they are just properly good people.
@heydon Just banged on their latest album while gardening. Ooof. Good stuff! Was vaguely aware of it coming out and people saying good things about it, but that was up there energy-wise with their early stuff! Thx for rec!
Been tinkering about with rsync to automatically publish static sites. Found out some useful stuff after much trawling of Stack Overflow et al, so thought I’d write it up. I’m sure that future me will find this useful.
It has already proved useful to do this, as I needed a test site to check if a library upgrade to the newest version of the Lume SSG was working. I was quickly able to spin up a completely separate site to check everything worked Ok after I got the basic build sorted and error-free.
Another day of config managing all the things. If I say so myself, I’m getting quite adept at misusing config management tools like Ansible to do my bidding.
Currently converting an infrastructure I defined for a startup into a “platform in a box” which runs under Vagrant exposing services via a Traefik router. The “big brother” runs in AWS on a series of ECS services and some assorted other stuff. This Vagrant version is a something of a means to an end to maybe come up with a more portable version for dev and maybe separate instances.
Some more sleuthing in this, working out how to make Ansible configure Keycloak realms. The actions helpfully have an “attributes” section which allows any properties unknown to the Ansible module to be added. Turns out that these are not brilliantly documented, so have been crawling through source code looking for config keys. All works though! Open source FTW!