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log/slog is no longer new in Go.

So much of what we develop these days ends up using HTTP.

Docker Hub has announced new pull limits starting 2024-04-01.

Searching for VictoriaLogs on search.nixos.org gave me no results, so I ran victorialogs from Docker.

Go includes a safe and somewhat performant templating library.

VictoriaLogs looks like an interesting alternative to Grafana Loki.

There are several nice options in NixOS for specifying scheduled backup jobs, including borgbackup, borgmatic and restic.

There has been a lot of talk in recent years how running your own email server is too hard.

Caddy is a very handy HTTP server with lots of built-in features.

Go error handling can be a bit verbose.

Like many other developers, I have to work with computers with different processor architectures.

There are several ways to automate blog publishing from git push.

I recently ran into a problem that seems to be present in a wide range of WebAuthn tutorials, but I don’t know where it originated.

Reading Future Internet PKI schemes need to be bootstrapped through web PKI I was reminded by all the problems I’ve had with SSH (Secure SHell) PKI (Public Key Infrastructure).

The Jargon File defines Molly Guard as: A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands.

I’m a huge fan of Matrix.

While I’ve been switching from Ansible to Nix lately, I still use Ansible and have written a fair share of Ansible YAML.

With Go 1.13 error wrapping was standardised with an interface in the standard library.

I’ve been writing a decent amount of Go during the past 8 years.

Why does everything have to be so hard on arm64?

We have a Roborock S6 Pure robotic vacuum cleaner.

I own a reMarkable 2 (referral link) eInk tablet.

Today I had to install coturn on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish).

I’m not sure if comments improve blogs, but I’m willing to try.

I have a deep interest in both matrix and different authentication schemes.

Having been on the Internet for decades, I’ve seen the growth of walled gardens and the associated problems.

At some point when implementing HTTP APIs, just logging “error” and returning an empty response doesn’t cut it anymore.

I need to remember to not stop at the following:

Oracle Cloud offers nice free virtual machines, but there was no installation image for NixOS.

Comparison of free cloud offerings (2023/08):

First, some background.