Linsomniac's Articles

Last week was a busy week for cryptocurrencies. I haven’t seen this covered in the mainstream news, but it looks like frameworks are being put in place for securities to begin trading on the blockchain.

TIL ${*@Q} helps with quoting/escaping hell.

uv is becoming really useful, but I noticed there is no apt repo/PPA of it. I decided I wanted to try publishing an apt package repository via Github Pages. The LLMs got me started, but there were a lot of little things to work out, so here’s a complete recipe.

While reviewing Hynek’s awesome “Production-ready Python Docker Containers with uv” article, I made some changes to the final container. Here’s my proposal for changes.

An important part of setting up an Elasticsearch cluster is to configure snapshots. I recently set up snapshots to Backblaze B2, an affordable alternative to AWS S3. This is a complete example of configuring them.

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I had a piece of code that was deeply nested for loops, and I wanted to see what it could look like if it wasn’t deeply nested. Deep nesting is the root of all evil, you know. Which is the most clear, maintainable code?

I often write little CLI programs in Python, where I just want to call it “script” rather than “script.py”. I also want to be able to test functions in these scripts. It gets tricky if you want to test code from a file without a “.py” suffix.

I spent quite a bit of time while I was learning Headscale being confused about users. Here are some key points that helped me understand them.

Headscale CLI requires that you remove a node by id rather than name. jq to the rescue!