xomodo's comments

On: Tips on adding JSON output to your command line ut...

[xomodo]

I don't mind json outputs, but pls keep cli options as low letters, eg.: 'kubectl get pods -o json'.

[fragmede → xomodo]

.

    --json

it's one character shorter than

    -o json

[echoangle → xomodo]

Why is that important?

[Karellen → echoangle]

> The file systems of Unix machines all have the same general structure. [...] Note the obsessive use of abbreviations and avoidance of capital letters; this is a system invented by people to whom repetitive stress disorder is what black lung is to miners. Long names get worn down to three-letter nubbins, like stones smoothed by a river.

-- Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning Was the Command Line (Ch. 14), 1999

https://steve-parker.org/articles/others/stephenson/oral.sht...

[al_borland → echoangle]

Mixing case in a case sensitive environment is unnecessarily confusing and annoying.

On: Setting up PostgreSQL for running integration test...

[xomodo]

Xunit offers several methods: https://xunit.net/docs/shared-context

On: Ask HN: SQLite in Production?

[xomodo]

Sounds complicated. What object storage you use? If on aws, 's3 sync' might help.

[hruk → xomodo]

S3, yes. Litestream doesn't store the backup as a single DB file - rather, as snapshots and WAL segments that are streaming in, so it's unfortunately not so simple.

On: The xz attack shell script

[xomodo]

Thx. Timeline shows attack begun by adding ignore entry in .gitignore file. That is hard to detect nowadays.

On: Belgrade's kafana pub culture

[xomodo]

So true. Even small children are having same attitude. This is why many of us had to move abroad.

[babuskov → xomodo]

Can't blame the children. They only learn from their parents. If people like you decide to leave, the majority of people with that attitude only grows. In my experience, people don't leave because of political discourse. People leave because of economic situation and lack of opportunities.

On: My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Cent...

[xomodo]

Thx. I have extended a bit as a script:

    # !/bin/bash
    ARG1=${1:-'select Date from stdin order by USD asc limit 1;'}
    curl -o - -Ls https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-hist.zip \
  | funzip | sqlite3 -csv ':memory:' '.import /dev/stdin stdin' "${ARG1}"

    # Usage:
    $ ./run.sh 'select * from stdin limit 1;'

On: Terraform best practices for reliability at any sc...

[xomodo]

Root-module: contains resources, sub-modules, incl. remote module calls.

Stack: deployable with hardcoded tfstate and tfvars configs.

On: Terraform best practices for reliability at any sc...

[xomodo]

Use 'terraform destroy' during CI phase. That is your pre-prod.

On: Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automatio...

[xomodo]

Have you tried emacs org mode?

On: Automating a Software Company with GitHub Actions

[xomodo]

Interesting approach. Do you mind sharing link with repos?

[simonw → xomodo]

I don't have any at the moment where a commit to one triggers a build in another, but I have a bunch that run on a schedule, pull code from other repos and do stuff with it.

Best example of that is here: https://github.com/simonw/covid-19-datasette/blob/main/.gith...