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by alance 9mo ago
A talk about creating from Ethan Hawke called "Give yourself permission to be creative" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRS9Gek4V5Q But my takeaway was more like "Give yourself permission to be bad" Felt
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by alance 9mo ago
Might have been this thing: https://v.redd.it/fpa35i6b97dg1/CMAF_1080.mp4
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by alance 9mo ago
It seems like the choices are: a) a cloud-based password service (eg 1password) or b) a local-storage password database (eg pass, KeePassXC) My preference is not to store personal account details with an internet accessible third-party (but
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A personal password manager that works over SSH(alexlance.blog)
2 points by alance 9mo ago|1 comments
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Replacing my mail server with AWS SES(alexlance.blog)
5 points by alance 9mo ago|2 comments
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by alance 9mo ago
For many years I used an EC2 server for my personal email (running Debian and Postfix) but I recently decided it might be better to have one less internet-facing server to worry about. This article documents the setup for AWS SES to handle
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by alance 10mo ago
Ha, it suddenly sounds like trouble. Eg: one could piggy-back an entirely new file onto an existing file (it might have to be text encoded?). It looks like the kernel might impose a limit of 64KiB on a file's metadata, but that's
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by alance 10mo ago
Yes concerning. The possibility of losing them between filesystems is worrying too. One rule of thumb is `mv` will keep the attributes by default (given similar filesystem) and everything else needs tweaking/extra args. There's a
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Using extended attributes to tag files(alexlance.blog)
6 points by alance 10mo ago|5 comments
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by alance 10mo ago
My recent journey sorting through years of files and categorizing/tagging them with the built-in Extended File Attribute functionality.
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by alance 10mo ago
Uhh? I didn't ask anyone for an explanation.
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by alance 10mo ago
Except my 1-sentence comment was not an AI callout that said: "Hey this is AI slop". I validate the content of the article but express personal disappointment in the AI writing style. I admit it is perhaps unkind of me to not p
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by alance 10mo ago
Yeah not helping you design your next "be more human" prompt.
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by alance 1y ago
I liked del.icio.us, it was online bookmark sharing, but with actual people I knew, and it had genuinely useful category tagging. I guess it was basically replaced with https://old.reddit.com and maybe twitter.
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by alance 1y ago
Worth remembering it was the Microsoft partnership with Nokia that intentionally killed it.
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by alance 1y ago
Felt like a ramble: I've gone through a few different incarnations of self-hosting email and web over the years. - Used to have a little rack machine sitting in a data center (that I would occasionally have to go and "fix" in
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by alance 1y ago
I'm wondering how access controls play into this. Team A manages VPCs and Security groups, for example. Team B manages autoscaling groups, EC2, etc. It's great that now the two teams can look after their own things and not be too
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by alance 1y ago
Is that a real thing?
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by alance 1y ago
> Signal doesn’t let me donate Mobilecoin from the wallet right inside Signal. What’s the point of having a payments feature if I can’t use it to pay you? "Grift for thee, but not for me"
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by alance 1y ago
There's a version of it hosted over here: https://www.crazygames.com/game/10x10 (I thought at first it was a bit like tetris, but there's a sort of key difference in the cadence/timing/pressure syst
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by alance 1y ago
Btw that 10 by 10 game is crazy addictive. It's sort of like tetris but it's not. Would love to know whether the game code intentionally gives you the blocks you need, sometimes .
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by alance 1y ago
Bit of a yarn going over a recent bit of creative work that made me feel good: creating a janky client management system to help with the Dibs slack app. You can probably get a feeling for where my priorities sit - secure, low-tech, termina
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The dirtiest CRM: a tale of woe for a Slack app that deserved better(dibsonstuff.com)
3 points by alance 1y ago|4 comments
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by alance 1y ago
https://dibsonstuff.com a Slack and Discord app to help take turns (i.e. queue) with your teammates, overwhelmingly used for sharing tech resources like staging servers. It's crazy something that started so tiny (almost as
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Re-architecting a Slack bot for scale(dibsonstuff.com)
3 points by alance 3y ago|1 comments
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by alance 3y ago
Dibs On Stuff is a Slack bot (and now also a Discord bot) that was built to help developers take turns with server hardware, so that they could demo their changes to various stakeholders. After publishing the bot on the Slack App Directory
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by alance 3y ago
Wondering if this is FB's attempt at a toothy grimace towards the UK's Online Safety Act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023
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by alance 3y ago
For secrets or credentials, I've had a reasonable experience putting the name of the secret into a terraform resource, but then setting the secret's actual value outside of terraform (i.e. via web or cli). This avoids storing the
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by alance 3y ago
Still an interesting read: https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/
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by alance 3y ago
The licensing changes seem to imply that if they have a service and you also build a similar service, but offer it for cheaper, then (if they want to) they can price you out of the market with licensing fees. One of my weekend projects htt

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