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by ibizaman 1y ago
I used a similar setup a long while ago and wanted a way to connect to databases easily. So I wrote some code to parse the MySQL and Postres config files to extract database info in Emacs: https://stackoverflow.com/a/46
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by ibizaman 1y ago
Nice tip on debugging syscall issues!
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by ibizaman 1y ago
Yes I agree I wouldn’t know how to write a desktop app either.
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by ibizaman 1y ago
Thank you for the kind words :)
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by ibizaman 1y ago
I love that application. I plan to make some improvements to the web UI. I’d love to have multiple tabs with saved reports. That would allow my spouse to use it quite easily. I’ll be adding that at some point.
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by ibizaman 1y ago
My guess as to why most apps are now a web UI on top of a DB is because it’s easy to “install”. SelfHostBlocks is admittedly geared towards a central server serving web apps. Or at least apps with a desktop or mobile component but geared to
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by ibizaman 1y ago
This is the business model I want to have: I work on a stack of fully open source software and package them in a turn-key server that you own. You can use it on your own for free if you’re knowledgeable and I offer a subscription where I’m
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by ibizaman 1y ago
That’s a very good point. For a long time I was advocating for self-hosting for increasing one’s privacy, but I always was hitting the “I’ve got nothing to hide” wall. Now, the concern is losing access to your data. What do you do if you’re
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by ibizaman 1y ago
That’s essentially what I’m trying to make widely available through my projects https://github.com/ibizaman/selfhostblocks and https://github.com/ibizaman/skarabox . Their shared goal is to make se
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by ibizaman 1y ago
You may want to self-host for your family or close friends while guaranteeing them privacy.
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by ibizaman 1y ago
Ah you’re right. I should’ve been more clear. I’m deploying on my server and it self hosts 10 or so services. Like Nextcloud and Vaultwarden. The playwright tests are to test those. It’s pretty basic like just checking I can create a user a
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by ibizaman 1y ago
On NixOS we get one new grub menu entry per “deployment”, be it when you deploy to another host or the local one. They both then get a new grub entry. Of course you can still shoot yourself in the foot by making your system inaccessible rem
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by ibizaman 1y ago
That’s really cool. I learned to love (stateful) property testing through a project at work to migrate drivers for MongoDB. https://blog.tiserbox.com/posts/2024-02-27-stateful-property...
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by ibizaman 1y ago
That’s so true. I can see it too. The technology to make that must be super fun to work on but please I hope this will never happen. Can you imagine turning the whole sky as a giant pixelated screen to constantly show us ads? That’s as dyst
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by ibizaman 2y ago
Do not underestimate the joy of using something beautiful and something one crafted. Those little bit of joy add up in the end. At least, they matter to me. I “smartened” an energy meter with an ESP32 and a photoresistor that measures every
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by ibizaman 2y ago
There are still lots of people playing DnD so not all hope is lost. Or just do 6 kids and play with them, true it’s a long term investment just for one game :D Seriously though the instructions say you can play over internet too.
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by ibizaman 2y ago
5 out of 7? I must say, this is a grading scale like no other I’ve seen before!
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by ibizaman 2y ago
This reads like a good SCP.
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by ibizaman 2y ago
Self-hosting is such a nice touch. For me it’s a requirement indeed. Thanks for making this possible! On a different topic, may I ask how did you find your first users? This always fascinates me and TBH it’s not an uninterested question as
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Jellyfin Streaming Media Center with LibreElec and Orange Pi 3(blog.tiserbox.com)
1 points by ibizaman 2y ago|0 comments
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by ibizaman 2y ago
With rsync, you’re replicating only the last state. With borg, you can see all backups being made and rollback to any previous snapshot. This is true of a lot of backup solutions btw. Concretely, if you inadvertently delete a file and this
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Using an External Git Repo for My Emacs Config with Nix(blog.tiserbox.com)
2 points by ibizaman 2y ago|0 comments
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by ibizaman 2y ago
I love the idea of using an URL as the bank statement!
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by ibizaman 2y ago
What a moving story. I am younger than you but also had a friend die on me and now I wish I spent much more time with him. I hope you don’t mind that I link directly to the photo so that it’s easier to find. https://athikerpictur
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by ibizaman 2y ago
> [About buying a used cartridge] In retrospect, after all this adventure, that doesn’t seem like much, but “spending fifty bucks instead of learning something” is not the name of this blog. Absolutely love this quote.
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Make Good Stubs with Stateful Property Testing(blog.tiserbox.com)
1 points by ibizaman 2y ago|0 comments
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by ibizaman 2y ago
I’ve been working on the same side project since nearly a year now. Self Host Blocks https://github.com/ibizaman/selfhostblocks is a modular server management based on NixOS modules and focused on best practices. The m
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by ibizaman 2y ago
I know of https://ersatztv.org which I used a while ago. With a Kodi frontend you can play on TV. Not sure it does podcasts and music though but I used it successfully for movies and TV shows.
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Use Case for Stateful Property Testing in Go(blog.tiserbox.com)
1 points by ibizaman 2y ago|0 comments
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Make Good Stubs with Stateful Property Testing(blog.tiserbox.com)
1 points by ibizaman 2y ago|0 comments

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