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How AI generated stuff gets crawled by search engine and end up polluting the internet

A highly incomplete overview of my home automation setup

Load custom bash aliases when entering directory

On the list of bad computer things that happened to me, this one maybe in the top 3

Why AWS has announced supporting rust for the lambda, but does not provide an official runtime for it. You have to provide your own, and the official way is through building a target where you can statically link a libc implementation: musl. While it appears you could statically link the glibc, it is not advised. (see here and here) So for AWS: What While searching for alternative solutions to this (Because reasons), I found that since late 2020, they added a container image support to AWS lambda. ...

I don’t like to be late at meetings, and I relied heavily on my coworkers to warn me about a meeting starting. Now, I’m working in a fully remote company, and I can’t rely on my coworkers, because they can only message me, and I don’t look at slack/emails all day. So I came up with 1 little script (and 2 systemd units) to automatically launch my meeting 1-2 minutes before it actually starts. ...

Moving from Docker Hub to ECR Pubstack, my current client decided to migrate all its docker images to ECR. With the recent announcement about rate limiting on Docker Hub, maybe we will not be the only ones moving away. For our CI/CD pipelines we use both CircleCI and GitHub Actions. Using an ECR image is a really simple task in CircleCI, it consists of adding the aws_auth to the image configuration. docker: - image: ACCOUNT.dkr.ecr.REGION.amazonaws.com/IMAGE:VERSION aws_auth: aws_access_key_id: $AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID aws_secret_access_key: $AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY On the other hand, using ECR images in GitHub Actions was a bit more tricky. ...

Twelve-Factor Application If you don’t know about the 12 factor applications, I suggest you read this first. The twelve-factor app is a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps During my different missions, I found that these guidelines are wonderful for building and deploying software. I eventualy came up with a checklist I use on my clients’ projects in order to assess the team’s maturity level, and track what can be done to improve the application. ...