motiejus

It's fascinating that cURL is becoming a genericized term:

- search it on a search engine -> google it

- fetch it from an API -> cURL it

Too big to recover.

When I was there at aws (left about a decade ago), us-east-1 was considered least stable, because it was the biggest.

I.e. some bottle-necks in new code appearing only _after_ you've deployed there, which is of course too late.

It didn't help that some services had their deploy trains (pipelines in amazon lingo) of ~3 weeks, with us-east-1 being the last one.

I bet the situation hasn't changed much since.

in Nix it's the same for as long as I remember, both on NixOS and nix-managed home-manager on MacOS and Linux:

      neovim = {
        enable = true;
        vimAlias = true;
        vimdiffAlias = true;
        defaultEditor = true;
        plugins = [
          pkgs.vimPlugins.fugitive
          pkgs.vimPlugins.fzf-vim
          pkgs.vimPlugins.vim-gh-line
          pkgs.vimPlugins.vim-gutentags
          pkgs.vimPlugins.nvim-lspconfig
          pkgs.pkgs-unstable.vimPlugins.vim-go
          pkgs.pkgs-unstable.vimPlugins.zig-vim
        ];
        extraConfig = builtins.readFile ./vimrc;
        extraLuaConfig = builtins.readFile (pkgs.replaceVars ./dev.lua {
              inherit (pkgs) ripgrep;
            }).outPath;
      }

I've been running jakstys.lt (and subdomains like git.jakstys.lt) from my closet, a simple residential connection with a small monthly price for a static IP.

The only time I had a problem was when gitea started caching git bundles of my Linux kernel mirror, which bots kept downloading (things like a full targz of every commit since 2005). Server promptly went out of disk space. I fixed gitea settings to not cache those. That was it.

Not ever ddos. Or I (and uptimerobot) did not notice it. :)

Your flake is very helpful, thanks! I cargo-culted tlp configuration, will see how it goes.

> and letting powertop run in the background while on battery for a few hours to identify the worst offenders.

How do you do the analysis after running powertop in the background?

You are not alone with both issues. Framework12, i5, NixOS. My milleage is 2.5~3h, but usage is light (vim mainly, often not even a browser).

I spent quite some time trying different things to optimize it, but never got more than realistic 3 hours.

Happy with other aspects though.

OK, a Django update from me.

I heavily used Django since version 0.96 (2007) until 1.5 (2014) (with Python 3)! Then came a long break with lower-level infrastructure work: linux kernel, perf tuning, some C, some Go and zig.

Last week I picked up Django again. After 10 years (!!!) of not even looking at it. It felt like meeting a good old friend: they are the same, but older and more mature. Conversations are the same. But better.

Things change in the tech world, often for the worse. Django changes, as it matures, for the better. The website layout, tutorial, colors, excellent release notes, `./manage.py runserver` are all the same as I remember them.

Except today it's easier, since I am much wiser in deploying and maintaining things than I was a decade ago. :)

I am upset by this.

I have used awesome for >10 years now, and the way awesome does multi-monitor support has grown into me. No other WM, wayland or X11, has offered it.

I am upset not because of X "deprecation" (still not convinced it will happen, hopeful it won't), but rather that I will, again, need to invest time and energy into something that had worked just fine for more than a decade.

Rk3588-based are gaining traction. Upstream support for uboot and linux has been improving rapidly.

I bought orange pi 5+ to replace my x86-based odroid-h2+. Will start the installation in the next few weeks. I have seen enough anecdotes people running NixOS on this chip, so feel pretty optimistic about it.

Also, #nixos-on-arm Matrix channel is amazing.