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simon04on Hardware Touch, Stronger SSH

Using a Token2 based id_ed25519_sk_rk key, I found very helpful to configure a different `pushurl` in `.git/config`. This allows to pull via HTTPS w/o a hardware touch.

    [remote "origin"]
            url = https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs.git
            pushurl = git@github.com:freeCodeCamp/devdocs.git

simon04on What's New in Python 3.15

Ruff's rule is derived from Pylint: https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/rules/unspecified-encoding/

simon04on Build Your Own Router with URLPattern()

A very tiny router is provided by nanostores: https://github.com/nanostores/router

simon04on Build Your Own Router with URLPattern()

Maybe not so much for an Internet Protocol router?

simon04on Greg Kroah-Hartman explains the Cyber Resilience Act for open source developers

Video: https://youtu.be/U7pZbCnJxEw?t=6105 (Kernel Recipes 2025 - Day 2)

simon04on A Python dict that can report which keys you did not use

Very useful. For configparser.ConfigParser I've found https://stackoverflow.com/a/57307141

simon04on Fish 4

Nice, it has landed. Now I'm getting:

> warning: Could not set up terminal for $TERM 'xterm-ghostty'. Falling back to hardcoded xterm-256color values

simon04on Abusing Git branch names to compromise a PyPI package

How could this happen? We're storing deploy credentials in GitHub, and configure fully automated deploy pipelines using YAML and Shell. Escaping 101. xD

https://xkcd.com/1638/

simon04on Rust for Filesystems

tl;dr?

simon04on Wikimedia Gitlab Migration Status

They're self-hosting at https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/explore

simon04on Wikimedia Gitlab Migration Status

> other CI systems also have this problem, but often provide mechanisms to write individual tasks in other languages

GitLab CI allows to run a bunch of commands in any Docker image you specify. The Docker image and/or your scripts may be self-written.

How do you find, for instance, GitHub Actions more advanced?

simon04on Wikimedia Gitlab Migration Status

Have you tried Gitea Actions? https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/overview

simon04on Currying

Unfortunately typing doesn't fix this. The 2nd callback function argument of Array.map is (index:number), and the 2nd argument of Number.parseInt is (radix:number).

It's a very nasty issue to debug.

simon04on IrfanView

Or the good (old) Scanner from http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/ (a <1MB executable)

simon04on Htmx become 0 clause BSD-licensed

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39003292

simon04on DevDocs

Here you go: https://devdocs.io/playwright/

simon04on DevDocs

I'd need to look up the individual scrapers for a fair comparison, since I tend to forget/mixup the challenges. Some scrapers have been around for 10 years and only required little updates.

In general the more native HTML elements and the more descriptive CSS classes are used the easier it gets. Disadvantageous is when great parts of a doc page are built using JavaScript, e.g. when the whole nav is generated dynamically as the nav is typically the source for categorization/grouping on devdocs.

simon04on DevDocs

Not that I'm aware of. In a way this contradicts the minimalistic and offline approach.

simon04on DevDocs

Here's how to add a new scraper: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs/blob/main/.github/CO...

Or open an issue and wait for somebody else to implement the scraper.

simon04on DevDocs

The enabled docs are stored in local storage. Are you frequently deleting your browser data? The enabled docs may also be exported as well as re-imported as JSON.

simon04on DevDocs

I'm one of the few maintainers.

Updating docs to a new release is easy unless the documentation system (such as react.dev redesign) or design is rewritten. Some projects seem to do this on a regular basis.

Some documentation generators generate random class names (such as .gtWOdv, .ezMiXD, .gOhcvK on docs.npmjs.com by Gatsby) which makes cleaning the docs from superfluous content (such as on-page navigation) very cumbersome and flaky.

Monthly, we auto-generate a list of outdated docs, here is the latest: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs/issues/2105

Help is always welcome. :-)

simon04on Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date

I'm waiting for the day when I can additionally configure "use ISO8601/RfC3339 timestamps"

Not only on GitLab, but everywhere. In any application. On any website. It's a pain in the ass on Linux.

simon04on Bun v1.0.0

That's my understanding, too.

> Bun can run .js, .ts, .cjs, .mjs, .jsx, and .tsx files, which can replace: > > tsc — (but you can keep it for typechecking!)

simon04on Clean mount lists in Linux

Plus the regex is more likely incorrect in the first attempt and needs to be fixed.

simon04on Pydantic V2 rewritten in Rust is 5-50x faster than Pydantic V1

Related: Ruff, a fast Python linter, written in Rust, claiming to be 10-100x faster than existing linters.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34788020 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32666035

simon04on How to own your own Docker Registry address

Nobody except for paid editors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3APaid-contribution_... andhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editing#Editing_services

simon04on Bitwarden design flaw: Server side iterations

vaultwarden (an unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust) has been updated two hours ago via https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/commit/2d8c8e18f7... –

- Change default Password Hash KDF Storage from 100_000 to 600_000 iterations

- Update Password Hash when the default iteration value is different

- Validate password_iterations

- Validate client-side KDF to prevent it from being set lower than 100_000