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Try Out the Latest Linux Gnome DE With DistroBox Discover a step-by-step guide to installing and experiencing the latest Linux Gnome desktop environment with DistroBox. Linux TLDR · linuxtldr.com [1] Get gnome running in distrobox. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://linuxtldr.com/gnome-de-in-distrobox/ [2]: /thoughts/

STLGears.com The Free STL Gear Designer For 3D Printing stlgears.com [1] This is a pretty nice gear generator. I printed a few gears today and it worked great so far. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://www.stlgears.com/generators/3dprint [2]: /thoughts/

GitHub - eraser-dev/eraser: 🧹 Cleaning up images from Kubernetes nodes 🧹 Cleaning up images from Kubernetes nodes. Contribute to eraser-dev/eraser development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com [1] This is kinda sick, its a tool to clean up container images in a k8s cluster. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://github.com/eraser-dev/eraser?tab=readme-ov-file [2]: /thoughts/

I recently discovered eraser [1] by eraser-dev [2], and it’s truly impressive. 🧹 Cleaning up images from Kubernetes nodes References: [1]: https://github.com/eraser-dev/eraser [2]: https://github.com/eraser-dev

Distrobox Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. distrobox.it [1] distrobox gives you distrobox-host-exec to run commands on the host. This is handy to get access to host level clis that you probably wouldn’t want to run from the container like podman, docker, flatpak. DESCRIPTION distrobox-host-exec lets one execute command on the host, while inside of a container. Under the hood, distrobox-host-exec uses host-spawn a project that lets us execute commands back on the host. If the tool is not found the user will be prompted to install it. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://distrobox.it/usage/distrobox-host-exec/ [2]: /thoughts/

Are We Anti-Cheat Yet? areweanticheatyet.com [1] A comprehensive community built index of anti-cheat support for linux very similar to proton, but specific to anticheat support. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://areweanticheatyet.com/ [2]: /thoughts/

GitHub - ublue-os/image-template: Build your own custom Universal Blue Image! Build your own custom Universal Blue Image! Contribute to ublue-os/image-template development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com [1] ublue-os makes a github template for making your own git [2] repo with actions that build out your own personal ublue iso. Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://github.com/ublue-os/image-template [2]: /glossary/git/ [3]: /thoughts/

The work on image-template [1] by ublue-os [2]. Build your own custom Universal Blue Image! References: [1]: https://github.com/ublue-os/image-template [2]: https://github.com/ublue-os

GitHub - ublue-os/obs-studio-portable: OCI container image of OBS Studio that bundles a curated collection of 3rd party plugins OCI container image of OBS Studio that bundles a curated collection of 3rd party plugins - ublue-os/obs-studio-portable GitHub · github.com [1] Distrobox is so interesting and cool, I’ve only recently started realizing how much it can do especially related to hardware and graphics, this is quite an example that runs obs in a distrobox. I had no idea distrobox would let you connect to cameras and gpus so seemlessly, and give you a gui to work from. And with distrobox you can export so that it just looks like an app on your system. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://github.com/ublue-os/obs-studio-portable [2]: /thoughts/

The work on obs-studio-portable [1] by ublue-os [2]. OCI container image of OBS Studio that bundles a curated collection of 3rd party plugins References: [1]: https://github.com/ublue-os/obs-studio-portable [2]: https://github.com/ublue-os

andydunstall [1] has done a fantastic job with piko [2]. Highly recommend taking a look. An open-source alternative to Ngrok, designed to serve production traffic and be simple to host (particularly on Kubernetes) References: [1]: https://github.com/andydunstall [2]: https://github.com/andydunstall/piko

How Ahrefs gets a Billion dollar-worth infrastructure with a 90% discount A holistic comparison of on-prem Ahrefs infrastructure with a cloud alternative Medium · tech.ahrefs.com [1] 2024 has been a wild year for infra with going “back” to on prem being made popular by @dhh [2]. Well it looks like ahrefs saw right through the cloud trends an decided to ride the anti cloud train until it came back around to the station. Being just a bit critical of the article it is impossible to get an apples to apples without actually running something of this scale and spending too much to find out. I cant imagine raw ec2 and ebs being the cheapest route into aws. They used no serverless tech in their article, but I digress, because I like this own your shit and build good product train. What about People?! This follow up does dive into the typical gut reaction that people cost a lot of money, you must account for them. You see when you hire people who are actually good at what they do, and run lean a lot of cost goes away, you have levels of management that disappear, levels of tooling that don’t need to exist, departments of IT don’t need to exist. Colo’s are the new hotness, and will...

Safer Bash Shebang Recipes - Just Programmer's Manual just.systems [1] When using justfiles each line is ran separately from the last, unless you specify the file to be ran by something other than just such as bash. If you want variables to persist you need to set a shebang. Also if you are using your script i a way that you want it to exit when it fails you need to set -e and -o pipefail. This is critical if you are thinking about using just for production scripts like ci/cd. I’ve hit too bugs where ci passes, but no artifacts were created issues for this exact reason. foo: #!/usr/bin/env bash set -euxo pipefail hello='Yo' echo "$hello from Bash!" Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://just.systems/man/en/safer-bash-shebang-recipes.html?highlight=pipefail#safer-bash-shebang-recipes [2]: /thoughts/

Justfile Cheat Sheet Just is a command runner https://github.com/casey/just Cheatography · cheatography.com [1] This is a dope ass cheat sheet for justfiles. It’s filled with good examples that are short and to the point, probably all from the docs, but anyways I need to do some like this for myself. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://cheatography.com/linux-china/cheat-sheets/justfile/ [2]: /thoughts/

A quote from Tim Paul I’m no developer, but I got the AI part working in about an hour. What took longer was the other stuff: identifying the problem, designing and building the UI, setting … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1] Damn this Tim Paul quote finishes hard and such a good point. None of the stuff around llms just work. Good ui’s, front end, back end, infrastructure, product. All these things still need to exist, and in fact for ai to be good we need to still go hard on them otherwise everything will die in a heaping pile of ai slop [2] I’m no developer, but I got the AI part working in about an hour. What took longer was the other stuff: identifying the problem, designing and building the UI, setting up the templating, routes and data architecture. It reminded me that, in order to capitalise on the potential of AI technologies, we need to really invest in the other stuff too, especially data infrastructure. It would be ironic, and a huge shame, if AI hype sucked all the investment out of those things. — Tim Paul [3] Note This post is a thought [4]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https:...

PopSQL - Collaborative SQL Editor - Bring Order to SQL Chaos PopSQL is a unified SQL collaboration workspace that connects everyone in the data analysis process so you can obtain better insights by asking the right questions, together. PopSQL · popsql.com [1] PopSql looks like a very innovative product to bring collaboration to data exploration and visualization in a way you would expect from something like vscode liveshare. This looks far more appealing than a traditional BI data tool. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://popsql.com/ [2]: /thoughts/

Pricing | PopSQL PopSQL is a unified SQL collaboration workspace that connects everyone in the data analysis process so you can obtain better insights by asking the right questions, together. PopSQL · popsql.com [1] interesting pricing model from popsql (pronounces Popsicle). At a glance you pay for data retention, want the abiltiy to recall all the queries you ran within the last year, run at a higher frequency, you jump a pricing tier. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://popsql.com/pricing [2]: /thoughts/

- such a sick episode with dax. SST’s free tier will be free as long as aws allows a free tier, their free tier literally costs them nothing. They talked about keeping SST small, the limitations that brings, but also the number of problems that just go away when you only have 3 people building. Lots of process disappears, everyone can trust everyone, no one needs to wait for approval, everyone is their own PM and just builds cool shit. They don’t have to worry about big costs and making payroll because they are profitable so much higher than their costs. If they can get through phase one of just being the go platform for a very specific audience of users, and gain marketshare, the ideas of offerings on top of this are endless. Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

- I had no idea that you could just drop an msi installer right in steam. This worked for me, and was much easier to install pokemon tcg live in 05-2024 on ubuntu 22-04. I added the msi to steam from my downloads, hit start, failed right away like he said it would. changed compatability to proton experimental, and it opened right up. - Download the official installer from pokemon tcg - Add non steam game - click show all file types - navigate to downloaded msi - click gear icon > compatability > proton experimental - click play - profit Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

The work on datastar [1] by starfederation [2]. The hypermedia framework. References: [1]: https://github.com/starfederation/datastar [2]: https://github.com/starfederation