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itsjlohon Exploring the Gameboy Memory Bank Controller (2020)

Rodrigo Copetti has some good in depth articles on lot of consoles over on their website. The Game Boy one is here https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/game-boy/

itsjlohon Notes against note-taking systems

The Janitor plugin can delete notes for you automatically if you set an expiry on them https://github.com/Canna71/obsidian-janitor

itsjlohon Unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub

I started using Chezmoi as well a year or so ago. Its the only one I've managed to stick with and not end up with a mess of different setups across machines.

itsjlohon Add ability to choose a custom coordination server

Its really impressive how much Tailscale care about the UX of the whole product all the way down to the level of not over complicating their menus.

The whole Tailscale experience for an enduser (ie not Tailscale admin) is so much nicer than compared with something like OpenVPN in a place without MDM.

itsjlohon Sending spammers to password purgatory

I had to change Microsoft -> MS and Cloudflare to CF otherwise the title wouldn't submit.

Original title in full is: Sending Spammers to Password Purgatory with Microsoft Power Automate and Cloudflare Workers KV

itsjlohon Flarum – Simple forum software for building great communities

I've seen quite a few Flarum forums pop up recently. I wonder how it stacks up against Discourse in resource requirements? Discourse isn't a lightweight app (not a criticism, just an observation).

itsjlohon Email startup Superhuman lays off 22% of staff

+1 for Mimestream! Fantastic client. I'm hoping they'll add support for other services like Fastmail through JMAP but honestly, just Gmail support alone makes the app worth it.

itsjlohon Tell HN: npm breach

GitHub have posted a blog post detailing everything here https://github.blog/2022-05-26-npm-security-update-oauth-tok...

itsjlohon Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://jloh.co/

Runs on Hugo hosted by Netlify. I want to make it more minimalist, I really like how clean and simple Jim Neilson's is for example https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/

itsjlohon Start Self Hosting

Damn, that sucks. How painful.

Honestly tempted to ditch docker-compose in favour of just a bunch of LXC/LCD containers in place. Sure, I mightn't have all the nice networking but damn each container getting internet-routable IPv6 address is just damn nice.

itsjlohon Start Self Hosting

How'd you go getting docker + IPv6 going? I spent hours trying to get docker containers to get native IPv6 IPs and eventually gave up because it was to painful.

itsjlohon Hackers claim to have breached Okta systems

One of the various twitter threads mentions that the account they used was suspended so perhaps they no longer have access.

itsjlohon Hackers claim to have breached Okta systems

Cloudflare CEO's response: https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1506143353544478724

(I'm aware he's often on here as well, hi eastdakota!)

itsjlohon Plaintext Productivity

I'm a recent Obsidian convert, absolutely love it and its the only note taking app that I've managed to stick to past a few weeks. How do you use custom scripts in it? I'm aware you can make plugins and things for it but I'd love to be able to write up a script or two to update some shortcodes for some nice weekly stats in a few places if possible

itsjlohon Four Secret Novels by Brandon Sanderson

Emperor's Soul is a fantastic book along with Warbreaker. The world building Sanderson does is amazing even in his shorter books.

itsjlohon Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

Has anyone been able to successfully resolve screen tearing with nVidia graphics cards on linux? I have a nVidia 1070 with a beefy AMD Ryzen 7 3700X that I would love to use as a daily driver but I just can't stand scrolling in FF on it. I constantly get tearing and other artifacts that make it so frustrating to use I give up.

I've tried every tutorial I can find on the net, every CLI flag etc. Nothing seems to work!

itsjlohon Should you use Let's Encrypt for internal hostnames?

I really want to try and deploy smallstep at home but one stumbling block I always hit is deploying the CA (or ideally the mTLS certificate!) to end user devices like phones, laptops etc. Maybe I'm missing something entirely but I think I'd need a full MDM profile or setup for phones/mobile devices. Is this theoretically a lot easier than I'm making it? I'd just need an iPad, iPhone and MacBook.

Apart from that thankyou so much for what you've done and provided for the opensource community. The smallstep toolkit is truly fantastic.

itsjlohon Caddy – Open-source web server with automatic HTTPS

It’s great you’ve got some protections in place to prevent it from happening again. That inspires some confidence.

Thanks for all the work yourself and Matt do on Caddy.

itsjlohon Caddy – Open-source web server with automatic HTTPS

I really like Caddy and use it on a few projects. Its a good piece of software that generally just works.

Their latest security incident leaves me feeling somewhat uneasy though. The only announcement for it was on twitter[1] and a footnote on one of the releases[2]. I don't believe there was ever a mention of the incident on the official forum so if you weren't following them on Twitter you'd never find out.

The general messaging around it was "a GitHub bug caused it" and its never really been followed up on publicly :\

[1]: https://twitter.com/caddyserver/status/1338324878441603073 [2]: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/releases/tag/v2.2.1

itsjlohon Vestaboard – A smart display to connect and inspire

Amazing you could hot-swap it even back then. I guess being able to change single rows when new stations get added and other things was a must.

itsjlohon Grafana OnCall: an easy-to-use on-call management tool

I use VictorOps (Now Splunk On-Call) currently and it does the job. Its shift override functionality is quite confusing to get your head around at first but makes sense after the first few times.

I've also used OpsGenie (Atlassian now) and really enjoyed it. The amount of integrations they have is staggering.

itsjlohon Podman in Linux

I tried to give Podman a go on Ubuntu 20.04 and it _worked_ but I could never get it going with a docker-compose file.

There is apparently support in the works, but I can't find or get that support on Ubuntu at this stage. Shame, I was hoping it might support IPv6 better than docker currently does.

itsjlohon Globally Distributed Postgres

Cool, makes sense. Thanks for taking the time to reply! Really big fan of fly, run a few apps on it now and the experience has been fantastic.

itsjlohon Globally Distributed Postgres

How are POST requests replayed into different regions? Does your edge proxy hold the whole POST requests (body and all?) just in case it needs to be replayed?

itsjlohon Fly’s Prometheus Metrics

I use fly to host a few apps and its fantastic. Extremely responsive and it handling TLS offload is great from a performance perspective.

I find their billing dashboard leaves a bit to be desired, I'm still very nervous I'm going to get a big unexpected bill.

itsjlohon Turn GitHub into an RSS Reader

Yep! I use Miniflux as my reader, works great. Easiest way to keep track of all the indie blogs out there.

itsjlohon System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

I really like Pop!_OS' tiling feature but the one thing that really bugs me is you can't disable windows always raising on hover. You're meant to be able to tweak it using Gnome Tweaks however disabling the option and enabling tiling means flinging your mousing anywhere causes all the windows in its track to raise to the front. If you've got a floating window it just disappears behind the stack.

Theres an open issue[1] but it hasn't been solved yet.

[1]: https://github.com/pop-os/shell/issues/627

itsjlohon GitHub experiencing issues with actions, pull requests, packages

GitHub generally do monthly uptime reports that go into more detail about any outages they experienced, see the latest one here https://github.blog/2021-02-02-github-availability-report-ja...

itsjlohon Ask HN: What's are your personal automations?

I really love email since I can come to it when I please and I don't have a notification I have to leave unread on my phone. I setup a Lambda job that runs twice a day (morning and lunchtime) that takes the top pages from HN and sends them in a nice email format (just headlines, comment count and author) so I can look at the ones I want.

Recently I've made another script that looks at all the new posts from my RSS reader (Miniflux) over the last 24 hours and sends them to me in an email. Just the title and site name so its easy to parse/glance over.