You can enable the fingerprint reader for sudo on macOS, and pressing my finger on a button beats having to type the password, steps:
cp /etc/pam.d/sudo_local{.template,}/etc/pam.d/sudo_local and uncomment auth sufficient pam_tid.so.The reason for doing this in sudo_local is that this file will not get reset with system changes from Apple.
be fast by avoiding work, while doing the important work
I was trying to speed up our slow CI by caching Go builds. The easy win was caching Go’s module downloads (via GOPATH), but when I added GOCACHE for the build cache, I got a pleasant surprise: the tests were caching too. 🥳
I shared the change for review, and a colleague raised a great point: “What about our black box integration tests?” These tests hit APIs and external services that Go can’t track as dependencies. If they cache when they shouldn’t, we might miss real failures: the tests would pass because they didn’t re-run, not because the code actually works.
[… more]reducing TOIL outside of your DevOps practice
I try to be aware of where I have friction in my day-to-day when working at my computer, keeping an eye out for TOIL to remove. Whether it’s from manually repeated actions, or from differing behaviors across apps and services I use. When I identify any of these I try to spend some small amount of time automating or changing how I work to improve.
All of these things don’t necessarily make a lot of sense from how much time I save, but, it also makes me happy to spend a bit of time improving my environment, and spending a bit of time to make me happy is good enough for me.
[… more]…download that final 100KB and not 200MB again
In the Docker Desktop app you can go into Features in Development and check
Use containerd for pulling and storing images.
Or you can do add the following to Docker’s daemon.json file:
{
"features": {
"containerd-snapshotter": true
}
}
This comes from a comment in a ticket for resuming downloads when they fail.
floating along in your sidebar
I use Roam Research as my primary way of thinking and keeping track of
tasks. My current workflow has me creating a list of all tasks I want
to get done, and then I drag them to either Done or some follow-up/waiting
area for future action. So I only see things I can act on now.
My list of things to action can get quite long, and when I’m processing
follow-up items, I would have a hard time dragging them to Done because it
was too far away in the sidebar. So I wished I would make the Done float
with me, so I could always have a quick way of pulling it there.
How I ended up being a sonar bear
I just misplaced my Apple Watch in my apartment. Walking around looking for it, and getting frustrated, I was thinking, “There ought to be a way to make it make some sound, then I can play Marco Polo with the watch”. But my Google-fu failed me: no obvious way to “ping my watch”. There’s functionality for pinging the phone from the watch though.
But there’s a way to make some noise: testing out the alert volume in the companion app on the phone.
[… more]I spend some of my free time helping out with server administration and programming for the Swedish Pirate Party, Piratpartiet (look ma, X-Varnish), and we use Varnish for our caches. At the moment it’s just used on some of our projects, but we’re going to migrate most of our projects to be behind our Varnish caches.
The thing is though that we got two hosts running the exact same configuration, and we’d like to keep those hosts in sync. A quick search on Google gave me nothing for syncing varnish configuration over several hosts, or a farm as it were. So I took matters into my own hands and wrote varnishsync, a little bash script that uses rsync and ssh to sync the configuration folder and then to load and use the new configuration.
[… more]Yesterday I wrote a quick step-by-step guide for installing apache and setting your system up for Wikileaks mass-mirror project in Swedish and I’ve had requests for it to be translated into English.
This guide assumes you’re running Ubuntu or a Debian based system.
I’ve made a script that does all the steps below, feel free to use it!
The script: http://sanitarium.se/files/wikileaks-mirror.sh
Usage: wget http://sanitarium.se/files/wikileaks-mirror.sh && chmod +x wikileaks-mirror.sh && ./wikileaks-mirror.sh
# is the prompt as root:
A translation of this post is available in English.
En kommentar i Rick Falkvinges inlägg Fullt krig om informationen så efterfrågades en snabbguide för att dra igång en Wikileaksspegling i ett vanligt Linuxssystem.
Jag utgår från Ubuntu eftersom det är vanligt och vad jag själv använder.
Uppdatering 2010-12-05: Jag har gjort ett script som utför alla stegen nedan, använd gärna det!
Filen: http://sanitarium.se/files/wikileaks-mirror.sh
Användning: wget http://sanitarium.se/files/wikileaks-mirror.sh && chmod +x wikileaks-mirror.sh && ./wikileaks-mirror.sh
# är prompten som root:
Why sometimes repeating yourself really does get the message through
I’ve so far in all my travels never found a terminal I like better than xterm, maybe urxvt, but I’ve had a problem disabling bold fonts for a very long time. Update: Seems this is a known bug for xterm.
There are a lot of X resource configuration options that makes you think you can disable bold fonts, but alas, I’ve had no luck with any of them. But if you set the same font for both normal and bold fonts it’ll work! This little gem of knowledge I found as an off-hand remark on a configuration page by Emil Mikulic, thank you!
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