Nelson Figueroa 3 weeks ago

How to Install a Specific Version of a Homebrew Package with brew extract

I previously wrote about how to install older versions of homebrew packages . That method involves installing a package from a Ruby file but it’s outdated and doesn’t always work. There’s a better way with , although it still comes with caveats. I’ll be using as an example. Let’s say I wanted to install v0.145.0 because v0.146.0 introduced breaking changes that broke my theme. To install hugo v0.145.0: Note that this process will point your command to the older version, but you can switch between versions with . It will enable developer mode. This is normal and safe. Next, run . At the time of writing, it’s a 1.3GB download. This is necessary to get this working because Homebrew no longer keeps homebrew-core cloned locally. The command needs the full git history to search for older versions. Now we can use . This command will find a commit where the formula was at the version we want and copy that locally as . In this case we want Hugo v0.145.0, so we run : This isn’t needed for every formula and is something I ran into specifically with Hugo. Without this patch, you’ll run into errors. After running , edit the file: . Change this line: The reason we need to patch this file is because it prevents the error: It’s a mismatch between the path Homebrew expects ( ) vs the path that is created when using on Hugo ( ). Now that Hugo is extracted and patched, we can install with : Hugo v0.145.0 is now installed. There’s a warning with long output in the previous example due to the normal Hugo package being already installed but that is expected. Homebrew is now pointing the binary to v0.145.0 instead of the latest version (v0.160.1 at the time of writing). We can verify with : We can also see that Hugo v0.145.0 is installed along with the latest version with : Currently the command is pointing to v0.145.0. To have it point back to the regular version, run : And if we want to point back to the old version, run At first I expected to work right off the bat, but running both and is necessary to switch between versions properly. This is because homebrew tracks linked formulas and actual symlinks on disk separately. To help Homebrew track things properly we need to run both to clean the records, then to write the new symlinks. There’s no need to use to prevent the older version of Hugo from updating. Since this is a local copy, there is no remote repository that would be updated that would in turn update our local version. You can even try running to see the warning message: If you no longer need Hugo v0.145.0 you can run : If you don’t have any other packages you extracted with , you can also remove your local tap with Finally, if you don’t plan on using again in the future, you can remove the local clone of homebrew-core with . This will clean up the 1.3GB of files that was downloaded: Then re-link to the latest version with : Create a local tap with Tap homebrew/core which is a 1.3GB clone at the time of writing Extract the formula with Patch the formula. This isn’t needed for every formula. Install as usual https://docs.brew.sh/Manpage https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/2941 https://emmer.dev/blog/installing-old-homebrew-formula-versions/

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Nelson Figueroa 1 months ago

Proxying GoatCounter Requests for a Hugo Blog on CloudFront to bypass Ad Blockers

I’ve been running GoatCounter on my site using the script . The problem is that adblockers like uBlock Origin block it (understandably). To get around this, I set up proxying so that the GoatCounter requests go to an endpoint under my domain , and then from there CloudFront handles it and sends it to GoatCounter. Most ad blockers work based on domain and GoatCounter is on the blocklists. Since the browser is now sending requests to the same domain as my site, it shouldn’t trigger any ad blockers. This post explains how I did it in case it’s useful for anyone else. It’s possible to self-host GoatCounter, but my approach was easier to do and less infrastructure to maintain. Perhaps in the future. I know there are concerns around analytics being privacy-invasive. GoatCounter is privacy-respecting. I care about privacy. I am of the belief that GoatCounter is harmless. I just like to keep track of the visitors on my site. Read the GoatCounter developer’s take if you want another opinion: Analytics on personal websites . Clicking through the AWS console to configure CloudFront distributions is a pain in the ass. I took the time to finally get the infrastructure for my blog managed as infrastructure-as-code with Pulumi and Python . So while you can click around the console and do all of this, I will be showing how to configure everything with Pulumi. If you don’t want to use IaC, you can still find all of these options/settings in AWS itself. To set up GoatCounter proxying via CloudFront, we’ll need to CloudFront functions are JavaScript scripts that run before a request reaches a CloudFront distribution’s origin. In this case, the function strips the from . We need to strip for two reasons: Here is the code for the function: And here is the CloudFront function resource defined in Pulumi (using Python) that includes the JavaScript from above. This is a new resource defined in the same Python file where my existing distribution already exists: Here is my existing CloudFront distribution being updated with a new origin and cache behavior in Pulumi code. At the time of writing CloudFront only allows to be a list of HTTP methods in specific combinations. The value must be one of these: Since the GoatCounter JavaScript sends a request, and the third option is the only one that includes , we’re forced to use all HTTP verbs. It should be harmless though. Now that my Pulumi code has both the CloudFront function defined and the CloudFront distribution has been updated, I ran to apply changes. Finally, I updated goatcounter.js to use the new endpoint. So instead of I changed it to my own domain at the very top of the snippet: After this, I built my site with Hugo and deployed it on S3/CloudFront by updating the freshly built HTML/CSS/JS in my S3 Bucket and then invalidating the existing CloudFront cache . Now, GoatCounter should no longer be blocked by uBlock Origin. I tested by loading my site on an incognito browser window and checked that uBlock Origin was no longer blocking anything on my domain. Everything looks good! If you’re using GoatCounter you should consider sponsoring the developer . It’s a great project. Create a new CloudFront function resource Add a second origin to the distribution Add an ordered cache behavior to the distribution (which references the CloudFront function using its ARN) Update the GoatCounter script to point to this new endpoint I chose to proxy requests that hit the endpoint on my site to make sure there’s no collision with post titles/slugs. I’ll never use the path for posts. GoatCounter accepts requests under , not https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/cloudfront-functions.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/DownloadDistS3AndCustomOrigins.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/DownloadDistValuesCacheBehavior.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/Invalidation.html https://www.goatcounter.com/help/js https://www.goatcounter.com/help/backend https://www.goatcounter.com/help/countjs-host

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Nelson Figueroa 2 months ago

I Hate Workday

I hate using Workday to apply to companies. I can’t speak to all the other things they offer, but the experience for job applicants sucks. Why do I have to create a separate account for each company that uses Workday to handle applications? Why do you ask me to upload my resume and then still prompt me to manually enter data? Why is the application process so long compared to other tools like Greenhouse and Ashby ? I swear I’ve avoided applying to so many companies just because they forced me to create a Workday account to apply. I’d rather stay unemployed and apply elsewhere. Just look at how much people hate Workday. Business Insider published an article about how much people dislike it. People on social media like Threads are also annoyed . The best place to see people frustrated with Workday is Reddit. Search for “workday sucks site:reddit.com” on Google and you’ll see what I mean. Titles like “I fucking hate Workday.” tell you everything you need to know. Fuck you Workday.

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Nelson Figueroa 3 months ago

Using time.Sleep() in Go

You can use to pause your program for a predetermined amount of time, similar to most programming languages. First, you should know that the package has useful constants that allow you to conveniently specify time in units. They’re accessed with the notation. (e.g. ) You can use these constants with the function. For example, if we want to pause execution for 1 second, we can write the following code: We can do some multiplication with to pause a program for 30 seconds: You can do multiplication with all of the other constants mentioned as well. Here are some more examples using the other constants. Not really sure why you would use this, but just know it’s possible. My main motivation for writing this is that I think the official documentation is way too dense and doesn’t show several examples of . I just needed some examples to understand the syntax and move on with my day. https://pkg.go.dev/time

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Nelson Figueroa 4 months ago

Setting up WireGuard on Synology DSM 7 using Docker and Gluetun

At the time of writing Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) v7.2.2-72806 is running on Linux v4.4.4 which doesn’t support WireGuard. It doesn’t look like Synology is interested in adding WireGuard support the way OpenVPN is supported. So if you want certain services on your Synology NAS to connect through WireGuard, you’ll need a workaround. One workaround is to establish a WireGuard connection using Gluetun in Docker. Then have containerized services do their networking through this Gluetun container. The caveat is that whatever services you want to go through a WireGuard tunnel will need to be containerized. This guide is intended for those comfortable with the command line , SSH, and Docker. You’ll need Container Manager installed, which is basically just Synology’s wrapper around Docker. Install it via the Web UI, then you’ll be able to use commands via SSH. Installing Container Manager is straightforward. Log into the Synology DSM Web UI -> open Package Center -> search for “Container Manager” -> click “Install”. You’ll also need a WireGuard configuration file. For this guide I’ll be using a configuration file from Mullvad VPN . A bit of background as to why I’m using Gluetun. There’s a linuxserver/wireguard docker image we can use, but that image expects the underlying kernel to have WireGuard support. Since Synology DSM runs on 4.4.4 at this time that means it doesn’t support WireGuard, which means the linuxserver/wireguard image won’t work. I tried to get it working myself but kept running into errors. Unlike linuxserver/wireguard, Gluetun works on any kernel by using something called userspace WireGuard implementation. Basically it runs at the user level rather than at the kernel level. This is beyond my knowledge though, so I encourage you to do some of your own research if you want to learn more. First, let’s create a directory where the Gluetun container will store a configuration file once it’s running. SSH into your Synology device with an admin user: Once you’re in, get root access to make this process easier: If you can run and get as the output then you’re good to go. Now we can create the directory that Gluetun will need. In my case, I only have one volume and it’s called , so your path may be a little different: That should be it! Stay as going forward to keep things simple. Next we can create a file where we’ll tell Docker to run a Gluetun container. This file can also be easily extended with additional containers that should connect to Gluetun to have WireGuard access. More on that later though. First, make sure Docker is actually installed as it’s a prerequisite I mentioned at the beginning of this post: Then create a file. I chose to create it in because it seemed logical but you can place this just about anywhere you’d like. Now we can fill in . Here’s the starting point you’ll need for Gluetun: Note that if it’s easier you can create locally on your device and then drag it over to a directory of your choosing through the Web UI. We’ll need to fill in and in . These can be retrieved from a WireGuard configuration file. It depends on your provider but for Mullvad VPN you go to https://mullvad.net/en/account/wireguard-config and download the Linux version of the WireGuard configuration file. The file itself should look something like this regardless of your VPN provider: Copy the field and paste it as the value for in . Then copy and paste it as the value for . Note: at the time of writing Gluetun only supports IPv4 addresses. So if your value contains an IPv6 range it will not work and you’ll get an error like . The value should look like this: . The value should NOT look like this: . Here’s what the updated file will look like in this case: Now we can start up the Gluetun container and verify that it works. In the same directory as , spin up a Gluetun container with : You’ll see some output similar to the following: For Mullvad VPN specifically there’s a way to verify that a connection is going through their servers. We can run a command against the Gluetun container to confirm. Regardless of VPN provider, you can check that the command returns a different IP address from the IP address your internet provider has assigned to you. Get your normal IP address first by running outside of Docker. Then run the same command against Gluetun to verify that you get a different IP address: If the IP addresses are different, you should be good to go. Now we can start creating containers that use the WireGuard connection through Gluetun. I’ll be using a qBittorrent container as an example as that is a common use case with WireGuard. People love their Linux ISOs. Adding containers is easy as we just need to append to the existing file. First, create some directories that qBittorrent will need for configuration and downloads: Then update like so: You’ll see output similar to: qBittorrent has a web interface that can be accessed on port . Open up a web browser and go to and see if the web UI shows up. If it does, qBittorrent is running successfully and all of its network traffic will run through Gluetun and WireGuard! We can do one final check with the qBittorrent container to make sure it has the same IP address as the Gluetun container: Both IP addresses are the same, which means qBittorrent is running through Gluetun and through a WireGuard connection. Everything works! https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/blob/main/setup/providers/mullvad.md https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-qbittorrent/ a lot of trial and error

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Nelson Figueroa 5 months ago

GitHub Actions for Pulumi with an AWS S3 Backend

This is a quick guide to set up GitHub Actions for Pulumi with an AWS S3 Backend. There are some differences compared to running commands locally. This guide assumes you have the following: First, set up secrets on your GitHub repository. These will be filled in by GitHub Actions once we create a workflow YAML. You’ll need to create 3 secrets. You can name them whatever you want, but I’ll be naming them: You can create these by browsing to your GitHub repository > Settings > Secrets and variables > Actions. There are “Environment secrets” and “Repository secrets”. In this case go with “Repository secrets”. Create the three secrets and fill in their respective values. can be whatever you want and doesn’t come from AWS. Make sure you don’t change this after the fact though, or your Pulumi state may break . The end result should look like this: Next, clone the repository locally with . We’ll need to create a few files for a minimum viable Pulumi program. Run and it’ll guide you through the creation of a basic Pulumi program. The language you choose doesn’t matter. Then we can create the YAML file to set up GitHub Actions. Create a YAML file under . I’ll call it in my example. Fill it in with the following YAML, changing values as needed. This runs a so it’ll veryify that everything is set up correctly without actually deplpoying anything. Now push your code to GitHub and see if the GitHub Action workflow ran successfully. You should see output from a successful . If this works, you should be good to go. You can update your Pulumi code and, change to in the GitHub Actions YAML file and run it again to actually deploy some infrastructure. An AWS S3 Bucket created and ready to be used with Pulumi An IAM User that has permissions to read/write to the S3 bucket The Access Key and Secret Access Key for the IAM User to use for authenticating to AWS within GitHub Actions A passphrase of your choosing that will be used to encrypt secrets in the pulumi stack A GitHub repository https://github.com/pulumi/actions

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Nelson Figueroa 6 months ago

How to Actually Copy a List in Python

tl;dr: use the method. Say we have two Python lists – and . If we try to make a copy of and assign it to using the assignment operator , what really happens is that both and point to the same memory address. That means that any list-manipulating actions that are done on either or will affect the same list in memory. We don’t have actually have two separate lists we can act upon. In the example below, although we append the integer to , we can see that printing out shows the newly added element. That’s because both list variables point to the same memory address: Output of the program above: To make an actual copy, use the method. Then, when is modified, it is independent of , because is stored in a separate memory address. Now if we append the same integer to , will be completely unaffected. Output of the program above: Here’s more proof. We can print out the memory address of each variable to see when they’re the same and when they differ. We can do this using the function. Here are the same lists from above but this time with their unique identifiers printed out. In this case, the IDs match because both and point to the same memory address. The program above outputs: The memory addresses are the same. Now let’s try the same thing but using the method instead of just an assignment operation with : The program above outputs: We can see the memory addresses are different (most obvious due to the ending digits). Although I’ve been in the field for some time, I still have my smooth brain moments. This is a reminder to myself (and whoever reads this) to remember the basics! https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python/python-list-copy-method/ https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python/id-function-python/

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Nelson Figueroa 7 months ago

Creating High Quality GIFs from Asciinema Recordings

Say you have a recording created with Asciinema named and now you want to convert that into a GIF. You can use the command (which is a separate installation ) to convert it like so: However, if you run with the default settings the resulting GIF won’t be high quality and it’ll look a little fuzzy. To get a high quality GIF you need to specify a big font size with the option: Here are two GIFs you can compare. The top one was created with the default settings. The bottom one was created with . Depending on your display, you may need to zoom in a bit to see the difference: It’s a noticeable difference. The trade-off here is that the higher quality GIF will be a bigger filesize, so be mindful of that. Try experimenting with different font sizes. I was expecting there to be some sort of or option, but you just need to increase the font to get higher quality GIFs with . https://docs.asciinema.org/manual/agg/ https://docs.asciinema.org/manual/agg/installation/ https://docs.asciinema.org/manual/agg/usage/

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Nelson Figueroa 7 months ago

Quick Tip: Mute the Terminal Login Message with A .hushlogin File

Today I learned that you can create an empty file in your home directory on macOS and Linux to hide the login message you get when starting up a new terminal window or tab. I tried this on macOS but it should work on Linux too. For example, when I start up a new terminal window/tab I see the following message: After I create the file in my home directory, the login message goes away. First I created the file: Then I opened a new terminal window to verify that the message no longer shows up: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15769615/remove-last-login-message-for-new-tabs-in-terminal https://www.cyberciti.biz/howto/turn-off-the-login-banner-in-linux-unix-with-hushlogin-file/

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Nelson Figueroa 7 months ago

How to Use an AWS S3 Bucket as a Pulumi State Backend

I’ll be starting from scratch and creating an IAM user with access to an S3 bucket that will be used to store the Pulumi state file. If you’re working in an enterprise setting, your authentication methods may vary. The TL;DR is that you can run this if you already have an S3 bucket and AWS credentials configured on your machine: This post assumes you have the Pulumi CLI installed. Check out the following guide if you don’t have it installed: Download & install Pulumi . First, we need to create the S3 bucket where the Pulumi state file will be stored. I created a bucket called and left all the default settings as-is. Then we need to create an IAM user in AWS that the Pulumi CLI can use. This IAM user needs permissions to access the S3 bucket we just created. I go to IAM and create a new user. I just called it : Then in the next step, I selected “Attach policies directly” and selected the AWS-managed “AdministratorAccess” policy just to keep things simple. You can provide more fine-grained access depending on your needs. Then click “Next” at the bottom. In the next screen, double check everything and then click on “Create user”. Now that we have a user with the appropriate permissions, we’ll need to get an AWS access key and secret to use with the Pulumi CLI. Go to your IAM user and click on “Create access key” on the right side. In the next screen, select “Command Line Interface (CLI)”. Check the box at the bottom, then click “Next”. The next screen will ask for setting a description tag. This is optional. I chose to skip it and clicked on “Create access key”. We finally have our Access key and Secret access key. Save these somewhere safe and click “Done”. (Don’t worry, the credentials in the screenshot are fake.) Now we can try using these credentials to tell the Pulumi CLI to use the S3 bucket as a backend. Note that you do NOT need the AWS CLI installed. Pulumi just needs the AWS credentials. Create the file if you don’t have it. Then add in your credentials there under the profile. (You can add more profiles, but this is beyond the scope of this post.) You’ll need the bucket’s region and your local AWS profile name to use S3 as a backend. The command formula looks like this: In my case, the command looks like this (make sure to edit for your needs): A successful login shows the following message: Alternatively, you can add your backend to your file. This is useful if you’re working on multiple Pulumi projects that each have different backends. You won’t need to run all the time. Just add a key and a nested key: More information here: Pulumi project file reference . Finally, it’s time to test this out. To demonstrate, I created a simple Pulumi program by running: You can choose whatever language you want though. This is the main Pulumi code that is generated. It’s code for creating an S3 bucket: Then I ran and it worked! And just to double check, I can see that my previously empty S3 bucket now has contents created by the Pulumi CLI: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/iac/download-install/ https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/aws/installation-configuration/ https://www.pulumi.com/docs/iac/concepts/state-and-backends/#aws-s3 https://www.pulumi.com/docs/iac/concepts/projects/project-file/ https://ashoksubburaj.medium.com/pulumi-with-aws-s3-as-backend-ac79533820f1

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Nelson Figueroa 8 months ago

Local Text Summarization With Ollama and Python Is Just String Manipulation

I’ve used LLMs before but through an interface (i.e. ChatGPT , Gemini , etc) but when I was trying to run a LLM locally I was overthinking how it worked. Basically, it comes down to this: You pass in a string, and you get a string in return. That’s it. So if we want to run a LLM locally using Python to summarize files, we build strings with Python and pass them into Ollama. If you want to read in files, open them in Python and concatenate the text with your prompt string. Then pass in the prompt string to Ollama. Python is just a bridge between you and Ollama. I’ve included some basic examples. The examples assume you have Ollama installed locally. This is straightforward. Open a file and concatenate the text with a prompt which gets passed into Ollama: If you want to pass in multiple files in one prompt, you have to read and concatenate the files into a string, which you then concatenate into the prompt itself. If you want to read in multiple files but the files are huge, you may exceed the context limits of your model. You can still concatenate files/strings where possible but you can circumvent this by creating several chats. You’re basically running the code more than once, which means you can use a loop. The code above gives us separate summaries. But what if we want a single summary of all the files involved and they each exceed context limits? We can create a summary of each file, then create a summary of the summaries! It’s all string concatenation when you really think about it. That should be enough to get started. Thinking about all of this as just string manipulation made it “click” for me. https://ollama.com/download/ https://ollama.com/library/gpt-oss https://github.com/ollama/ollama-python/tree/main/examples

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Nelson Figueroa 9 months ago

Proper Hugo Template Syntax Highlighting with go-html-template

I recently learned that you can highlight Hugo template code blocks by specifying after the opening backticks. So the opening backticks in a Markdown file look like this: It makes a huge difference when highlighting Hugo template code blocks. I was previously using for syntax highlighting and it wasn’t as good. For example, here is some HTML + Hugo templating stuff being highlighted with : Here’s the same code block but with specified: Big difference! Note that I’m using Chroma for syntax highlighting so your experience may vary, but Chroma comes by default with Hugo. https://gohugo.io/content-management/syntax-highlighting/ https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma

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Nelson Figueroa 10 months ago

A Trick To Remove Unwanted Whitespace After Links in Hugo

TL;DR: You can use the shortcode to remove trailing whitespace on links in Hugo. For some reason, Hugo was rendering links with a space after them. Here’s a screenshot of what that looked like: It’s subtle but becomes more obvious and distracting in link-heavy pages. Here is the markdown that I was using to generate the link above. Nothing out of the ordinary: In Hugo, you can apply post-processing to links through link render hooks by editing the file. Here’s my terrible template that I use to process links. Once again, nothing stood out that would add unnecessary whitespace after links: Here is the HTML that was generated by Hugo based on the Markdown I wrote and the processing in . This is straight from the browser dev tools: The period was on its own line, which looks suspicious. Why is there additional space being added though? I tried modifying my CSS, my Markdown, and to see if I could remove the whitespace but nothing worked. Eventually, I was out of ideas and asked ChatGPT what could be going wrong. ChatGPT suggested I could add the shortcode to to remove the whitespace. Apparently that would force the removal of both leading and trailing whitespace. And sure enough it worked! I modified my template to include the shortcode at the end of the tag in the hightlighted line: Then my links were rendering without additional space after them, and here’s a screenshot showing that: The weird thing is that when I checked the HTML being generated, it looked identical to the original before I added the shortcode and I had no idea why: But at least the whitespace was gone when viewing the article in a browser. That’s what matters. This shortcode trick can probably be applied to other areas of Hugo and not just for links, but I haven’t done any additional experimenting. Wherever ChatGPT stole got this information from. I feel weird using ChatGPT as a reference but that really is how I discovered the solution.

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Nelson Figueroa 11 months ago

Remove Unnecessary Hugo Meta Tag to Keep HTML Lean

I like to keep my Hugo site as lean as possible for performance reasons and to save on hosting costs. I recently discovered that Hugo generates a HTML tag with the Hugo version in the tag. This is done by default and looks like this: To remove this tag, we can disable it in or by setting the boolean to . If setting doesn’t work, do a global search in your Hugo project for . This shortcode outputs the same tag and doesn’t respect the configuration (at least as of Hugo v0.147.8). https://gohugo.io/configuration/all/#disablehugogeneratorinject https://gohugo.io/functions/hugo/generator/

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Nelson Figueroa 11 months ago

Validate HTTP Status Codes in Go Using Built-in Constants

Go has useful constants in the net/http package that can make your code more readable when checking for status codes in responses. For example, instead of writing something like You can write Unfortunately the the link doesn’t show any any full, working examples. So here’s an example covering some of the more common http status codes that you can use and modify as needed. There’s also a function that allows you to pass in status codes and get a message for logging purposes or displaying to users. You can see all the responses in the source code here , it’s a bunch of statements. For example, lets say we want to display a message if we don’t get a 200 status code. Instead of writing code to print out a different message depending on the status code value, we can use the function: Super convenient. https://pkg.go.dev/net/http https://go.dev/src/net/http/status.go

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Nelson Figueroa 1 years ago

It’s 2025, Why Aren’t You Using an Ad Blocker?

I find myself asking this any time I discover that someone uses a web browser with no ad blocking solution. More specifically, it blows my mind when tech-savvy people that work in software development (and related roles) don’t use ad blockers. I don’t understand why. The “main” web is a terrible experience when browsing without ad blockers. If you’re one of those people that doesn’t have an ad blocker here are some links to improve your web browsing experience. The best and arguably only ad blocker you’ll need for your browser is uBlock Origin . It has worked consistently for me on Firefox and Chrome for many, many years. Here are some convenient links to get uBlock Origin: Safari doesn’t support extensions like other browsers. While there is some tracking protection out of the box it doesn’t compare to uBlock Origin. If you REALLY want to keep using Safari then check out AdGuard for Mac . It blocks ads system-wide on macOS and not just in Safari. If you like the Safari aesthetic but don’t want to install AdGuard, check out Orion Browser . It comes with ad blocking out of the box. It’s based on WebKit just like Safari. There’s even an iOS app available. Brave Browser is also a great browser if you want an ad-free web experience. It’s available on all major platforms (Windows, Android, Linux, macOS, iOS) and it comes with ad blocking built in. I hesitate a bit to recommend Brave because it comes with some optional crypto bullshit called Basic Attention Token , but you don’t have to opt into that. There are many options for blocking ads regardless of the device you’re using. Start browsing the web with an ad blocker and you’ll never go back to browsing the normal ad-infested web. Get the uBlock Origin Firefox extension Get the uBlock Origin Chrome extension Get the uBlock Origin Microsoft Edge extension (if you use Edge for some reason) Get Orion for macOS Get Orion for iOS Get Brave Browser

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Nelson Figueroa 1 years ago

How to Clone a Specific Git Branch Without Other Branches

To clone a specific branch of a git repository without cloning all other branches, use the following command formula: For example, if you want to clone the branch of the Kubernetes GitHub repository , run: If you only want to clone the latest commit of a specific branch (which results in a faster and smaller cloning operation) use . The command formula looks like this: And here is another example using the branch of the Kubernetes GitHub repository : https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/git-clone-branch-how-to-clone-a-specific-branch/ https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone

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Nelson Figueroa 1 years ago

Delete All Pulumi Stacks with One Command

There currently isn’t a way to delete all stacks with so this is an alternative way to achieve that. To delete all Pulumi stacks in the current Pulumi project you can run the following command: Be careful when doing this. To delete all Pulumi stacks across all Pulumi projects we need to use instead of . So the full command is: List pulumi stacks (use option for all stacks across all projects): Start at the second line of the previous output: Delete all occurrences of . There is a character next to the currently selected stack and we need to remove this: Print only the first column: This is a loop in one-liner format. It reads the previous output line by line and assigns each line to an array called , then runs the command on each stack. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7318497/omitting-the-first-line-from-any-linux-command-output https://www.pulumi.com/docs/iac/cli/commands/pulumi_stack_ls/ https://www.pulumi.com/docs/iac/cli/commands/pulumi_stack_rm/

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Nelson Figueroa 1 years ago

How to Disable CSS Animations and Transitions

To disable CSS animations and transitions you can try adding the following to your CSS: If that doesn’t work, try using in your CSS: You can also put these into a CSS class and apply to HTML elements as needed if you still want animations in some places: If you’re using a CSS library that comes with animations by default it may be a pain to maintain a modified version of it without animations. It’s easier to write your own CSS to disable animations and transitions. My motivation behind this post was disabling button animations when using daisyUI on a side project. Note that I am not a CSS expert and there may be other ways of animating elements via CSS that I did not cover here. Also, this doesn’t help if elements are being moved around by JavaScript. But you can easily disable JavaScript for any site through your browser :) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11131875/what-is-the-cleanest-way-to-disable-css-transition-effects-temporarily https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31576156/what-does-animationnone-do-exactly https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/animation https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/transition

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Nelson Figueroa 1 years ago

We Exist Only to Work

I randomly checked LinkedIn the other day and I saw this banner at the top of my feed: It’s obviously an advertisement but it made me think about how much we actually work in our lives. I looked up the average lifespan of a male in the USA and got this: That’s depressing. We work most of our lives. I know that wasn’t their intent but yeah. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/life-expectancy.htm

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