Natris @Natris1979@social.linux.pizza

Building resilient systems

Systems are made of parts.

If you have too many parts, the odds of one of them failing go up.

If you have too few parts, any single part failing has a larger impact.

THEREFORE,

Arrange the parts in multiple phases over time. Like bulkheads, failures get isolated to a single phase.

Within a phase, use few parts to improve your odds.

Example: use git to generate your site, but host it on Netlify. Now you can build without Netlify and serve traffic without Github.

it's kind of amazing how much of a hard time modern software has synchronizing multiple identities. because of work I have half a dozen emails at any given point in time, clients will often require their contractors to have their own email on their own system each with their own calendar, and there's just no way to synchronize that shit across the board. I find myself manually jumping around between Google calendars, Outlook calendars and other nonsense...

this seems like the best place to ask people:
when you decided (either a distinct decision or through a series of fortunate events) to do web development, coding, sysadministration etc for a living - how did you start? Did you visit courses (if, like me, you can do a few things haphazardly here and there without a clear path) for certificates (like LPI or Red Hat or) - yeah, how did, or would, you go about it? #askmastodon #askthefediverse #followerpower #linuxpizza

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https://1x.engineer

To test multiple lines of #shell #script I usually used to save it in a file and run it. 😞

But just found out it can be done more easily:

1. type `{` and enter
2. enter multiple lines of shell script
3. press enter and close it with `}` then enter again

Works on #bash, #ksh, #zsh /bin/sh (#OpenBSD, #Debian) and possibly every other shell out there. This makes #scripting a whole lot fun for me. 👍

I know one quote from the author and it is why I want to read his book: "Indigenous people are post-apocalyptic. In some cases, we have undergone several apocalypses. For my community alone, it was the destruction of the buffalo herds, the destruction of our animal relatives on the land, the destruction of our animal nations in the nineteenth century, of our river homelands in the twentieth century. I don’t want to universalize that experience; it was very unique to us as nations. But if there is something you can learn from Indigenous people, it’s what it’s like to live in a post-apocalyptic society."

(comment on "Our History Is The Future")

Introducing https://seeking-maintainers.net! 🎉

A few days ago, @kev asked the community for help maintaining his side-project, 512kb.club. This got me thinking.

There are loads of maintainers out there feeling burnt out, but they can't abandon their project since people are depending on the project to be maintained.

In an effort to combat this, I built a website that lists projects looking for new maintainers. It's still quite empty and has some rough edges, so any feedback is very welcome.

Interesting (and worrying) article about the security implications of showing git status in your shell prompt: https://blog.sonarsource.com/securing-developer-tools-git-integrations/

It looks to me like the fix would be to make `core.fsmonitor` opt-in, but maybe I am missing something? 🤔

I am aggressively opposed to racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, nationalism, ethnocentrism, religious fundamentalism, and oppressive and coercive power structures of all kinds.

I am committed to fighting normative violence, fascism, colonialism, and white supremacy in all of its forms. To undermine the capitalist structure and its abusive scripts about human worth in relation to work, productivity, and ownership. To subvert oppressive gender norms and put in question the binary. To actively unlearn biased and colonial thinking.