Hibernating is easy now?
Alternatively: S0ix is still awful My Linux laptop runs out of battery all the time. It goes to sleep, and then it just drains and drains until it’s dead. It’s a problem we’ve largely solved ...
Technology
Computer technology/coding related articles
Hello activitypub?
Will this federate? Who knows! Will comments work? probably not!
Adding a sliding animation in 2024 – WHY IS THIS SO HARD
I had a scenario for a personal project where I had e.g. a (+) button, and clicking that button should insert a new thingy into the DOM. No problem-o. button.addAdjacentHTML(element, <div>thingy</div>) to the rescue. Okay, ...
Easy, secure API keys
I needed to add API key authentication to our work environment. I needed: I was able to use JWT tokens in a slightly clever way to make this happen. The best part is, there are ...
Automatic recovery using lvm-autosnap
TL;DR: https://github.com/intentionally-left-nil/lvm-autosnap Running linux is an adventure. About a year ago, I switched from MacOS to Ubuntu (eww snaps), then Fedora (fine), then Manjaro (yeah that was a mistake) until finally landing on the final ...
Go concurrency the right way (e.g. my way)
My take on go concurrency is that there are 3 things that matter, and we can create a robust pattern using … 3 technologies to help us out. None of this is really new, but ...
Introducing Async Service
Distributed tasks with Postgres & Rabbitmq TL;DR: Check out the code here At my workplace, we needed a mechanism to: Have service A tell service B to start executing long-running tasks, with notifications upon completion ...
Initramfs with systemd & LUKS
TL;DR My old boot process looks like this: UEFI (with secure boot on) systemd-boot unified kernel.efi (initramfs + kernel params + kernel all rolled into one efi and signed) initramfs (busybox) encrypt hook: detects that ...
Interfaces in golang
TL;DR: An interface just defines a collection of methods. When you create an instance, it’s just a wrapper around a concrete type. In addition to the concrete type, the interface contains an extra array of ...
Secure DNS
TL;DR: Use a VPN if you really care. Hey, you over there! Want to take something that works perfectly well and make it more complicated? Sure ya do! Oh, need a little more convincing? Okay ...