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by dmuth 3mo ago
Same! I remember a co-worker getting a call from a relative about it so I went to cnn.com. ...only to see it time out. Same with usatoday.com and abcnews.com. At that point I knew that something was happening. I then happened to remem
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by dmuth 4mo ago
> stdout and stderr output often ends up in a black hole Ain't that the truth. Literally every crontab I've written for the last 10 years has had this in it: 2>&1 | logger -t cron-WHATEVER ...and that does a pretty good
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by dmuth 7mo ago
Beat me to it! I did in fact have experiences like that with Perl in years past.
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by dmuth 2y ago
Your username is nice nostalgia for me. :-)
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by dmuth 2y ago
This is one reason why whenever I build a new project, I build it inside of a Docker container. That way, the project has just the dependencies it needs, and I know I can rebuild it at some point in the future and will be unlikely to run in
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by dmuth 2y ago
Check your Python version. Try switching to the newest version of Python with something like Pyenv, or even try spinning up a Docker image with something like: docker run -it -v $(pwd):/mnt python:3.13 bash ...and try using the utility
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by dmuth 2y ago
Using CAs and signed certificates in SSH is definitely the way. If anyone wants to play around with that, without the risk of locking themselves out of a server, I built a little "playground" awhile back whihc is a series of Docke
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by dmuth 2y ago
I wrote my first ever TamperMonkey script, to add some tools to a Facebook group that I moderate: https://github.com/dmuth/facebook-javascript-toolbox
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Show HN: How's the Philadelphia power grid doing? This website will tell you(ispecookay.com)
1 points by dmuth 2y ago|0 comments
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by dmuth 3y ago
Definitely. This is one of my favorite books due to both the writing style and the "behind the scenes" aspect of living and working in Antarctica.
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Show HN: Sample HTTP Endpoints for Testing(httpbin.dmuth.org)
1 points by dmuth 4y ago|0 comments
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by dmuth 4y ago
If you want to test to see if you're successfully sending out IPv6 traffic, I have an endpoint for that: https://httpbin.dmuth.org/ip/v6
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by dmuth 4y ago
I can offer what much younger me was once told by a senior engineer: 1) With respect to not having whitespace: "Not everyone is as smart as you, and you need to ask yourself, do you want junior engineers working on your code to keep bo
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by dmuth 4y ago
I wrote an open source project that may be useful to people here: https://github.com/dmuth/git-rebase-i-playground It lets you create a Git repo with synthetic commits and has sample exercises for doing different thing
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by dmuth 4y ago
For those curious about how SSH CAs and key signing works, I wrote a blog post about that awhile ago: https://dmuth.medium.com/ssh-at-scale-cas-and-principals-b27... I also created a "playground" which can be used
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by dmuth 4y ago
That's interesting about the blocksize. I was never impacted by that because I mostly use dd for writing large files, and a large block size always made more sense to me. For example, if I wanted to test writing a 1 GB file to a flas
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by dmuth 4y ago
Agreed--SSH certificate authorities (and principals) are powerful things that can be used to manage SSH access at scale. My workplace is a large enterprise that uses our own CA for getting access to systems--the keys it issues are good for
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by dmuth 4y ago
I built something which may be able to help: https://github.com/dmuth/grafana-playground You'll want to spin this up in Docker Compose, and to add custom hosts upstream of you (such as ISP routers), you can edit t
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by dmuth 5y ago
We had something like this in a Philadephia sports stadium as well: https://www.inquirer.com/news/the-secret-apartment-vet-stadi...
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by dmuth 5y ago
If you use LetsEncrypt and Docker, I can recommend HTTPS Portal to automatically manage your SSL certs: https://github.com/SteveLTN/https-portal I use it for my blog and have never had any issues with certs being renew
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by dmuth 5y ago
"Never ever copy your private keys on a computer somebody else owns." FTFY. In more detail: if your private keys ever leave your computer via the network, it's a good idea to consider your private keys compromised and to burn
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by dmuth 5y ago
> I got in a painfully stupid argument with a middle-age IT admin “we don’t want to our employees installing apps” If they think that any domain that ends in .app is for installing apps, their mind is gonna be blown about some of the sit
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by dmuth 5y ago
Very cool. I see my page ( https://hnbadges.netlify.app/?user=dmuth ) has the "colorful" flag, probably due to the profanity I have in my bio. :-)
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by dmuth 5y ago
I don't disagree with your post, but one thing I want to mention is the origin of the term "Incident Commander"--it doesn't exist to be cool, but rather derives from how FEMA handles disasters. I suspect its usage in IT
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by dmuth 5y ago
Oh god yes! When I'm interviewing someone, especially for a senior position, I want to make sure that they know what they say they know on their resume. Having code up on GitHub, or an actual working side project is a great way to sho
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by dmuth 5y ago
Not a doctor, but I have/had similar problems, and saw a number of doctors and specialists about this. Whatever it was, it wasn't understood by medical science, but the best thing we were able to pin it down to was "muscle sp
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by dmuth 5y ago
Someone tell me if I'm missing something, but isn't the whole point of hosting things in a virtual environment so that when you want to switch/upgrade OSes, you stand up a second server and start migrating apps over one at a
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by dmuth 5y ago
> If a bank shuts down and goes into FDIC receivership, it re-opens the next day. Have I got a story for you. What you described normally happens.... Unless the bank fails so hard that no buyer for it is found, and then the FDIC insuranc
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by dmuth 5y ago
I couldn't load the site either, but it reminds me of something I built a couple of years ago that let me analyze the happiness of specific Twitter users: https://github.com/dmuth/twitter-aws-comprehend Some inter
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by dmuth 5y ago
If anyone does want to get more into the internals of Git without playing with a production repo, I built a "playground" awhile ago which creates a simple Git repo of synthetic commits which you can then play around with: https:&

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