Nundrum

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[–] Nundrum@yall.theatl.social 1 points 1 week ago

Hah! I hadn't thought about that. I'll consider how to make it better for that situation. A client/server mode was already being considered, and that might be a good fit.

[–] Nundrum@yall.theatl.social 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the reminder. I already had it in GitHub so I edited the post and added the link. I'll check out Sourcehut. Hadn't used it before.

[–] Nundrum@yall.theatl.social 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

For just a couple of reasons. One is the shell integration to remind me that the notes are there. The other is making it a standard tool with standard formats and expectations. I find there's a little bit of magic in that.

As for Salt and such systems, this is way far away from anything like that. It is not intended to run your infrastructure for you.

 

I have quite a few self-hosted services, both on machines at home and on a VPS. And there are even more odds and ends I've written that do things on my home network. A one-person maintenance team runs into serious memory limitations, particularly for the services that just run fine for years at a time.

After running into the frustration of forgetting how to run Nextcloud upgrades on the command line for the nth time, I realized it was time to write a tool.

The system wayfinder is what came out of that frustration. It lets you leave notes and commands in place around your infrastructure. After dogfooding it a bit, I was delighted when it saved me a ton of trouble dealing with one of my docker containers.

I took some time to work on it proper, wrote it up, and put it on GitHub, even though it is still a pre-release. Would you use a tool like this? What else would you want in it?

Edit: adding link to GitHub https://github.com/robbieh/way

[–] Nundrum@yall.theatl.social 3 points 9 months ago

If you're enjoying Sherlock, why not try Metasploit?

In another direction, perhaps the most CLI fun I've had at work was using the phosphor hack of XScreenSaver and piping a lot of useful info to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6ZWTrl7pV0

[–] Nundrum@yall.theatl.social 1 points 11 months ago

LibreNMS has a very different purpose from your other monitoring options - it's network monitoring at a large scale, not a generic data storage / data visualization platform. If your goal is to monitor your selfhosted servers and services, this is going to be an odd fit and you'll probably struggle against it.

Better fits for an out-of-the-box monitoring setup would be CheckMK or Zabbix.

These other "stacks" for monitoring are a little more bespoke. To cover it briefly:

Grafana is popular because it is a fantastic visualization platform. The backend data storage is pluggable.

There are many options for data storage, all that are a little different. Graphite, is push-based and the Statsd compatibility makes it super simple to push your own metrics into it. Prometheus is pull-based. And InfluxDB is more of a time-series database.

[–] Nundrum@yall.theatl.social 2 points 1 year ago

Conjure is what did it for me. I kept running into trouble with Clojure vs ClojureScript vs Babashka projects with vim. Just couldn't get the config to work consistently when switching between projects.

The eval period was about a day.

[–] Nundrum@yall.theatl.social 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, that changes the borders. But it doesn't turn a column into a table. Compare ls /proc in both bash and nu. It's a simple kind of thing that I can't find a solution for in nu.

[–] Nundrum@yall.theatl.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sadly that's still not a compact output. The listing is still just as long as before scrolls right off the terminal

[–] Nundrum@yall.theatl.social 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Hey Nu fans: is there some way to get compact ls output? Like a table of just names. No type, date, size, etc.

[–] Nundrum@yall.theatl.social 2 points 2 years ago

Cafe Flesh? 🤨 Oh dear.

[–] Nundrum@yall.theatl.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Dr. Caligari https://letterboxd.com/film/dr-caligari/

I did not know what to expect going in to this one. 10 minutes in I was thinking it would be unbearable. 20 minutes in and I was laughing. It somehow gets weirder and funnier all the way through. And when I say weird, it's like Eraserhead level weird.

 

Wouldn't it be nice to have, say, a Mastodon TUI that could show images in-line? A lot of terminals are capable of that.

Here is an interesting demo showing 3d rendering in the terminal: https://github.com/MasFlam/notcurses-rend3d

 

Bruce Sterling writing about Cyberpunk.

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Creating new communities? (yall.theatl.social)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Nundrum@yall.theatl.social to c/general@yall.theatl.social
 

I'd like to have one for local (sub)urban gardening. Between the clay ground and the ever-present shade, it's a challenge here in Atlanta. But I don't see how to create a community for that here.

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