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On the first day I made a look around my home biome, and ran into a Tall Bird

Today I ran into this interactive prompt on ubuntu while installing node and npm, and I do not want to manually configure this interactively every time I run an install, moreso in docker I do not have the interactive terminal to do so.

Configuring tzdata
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Please select the geographic area in which you live. Subsequent configuration questions will narrow this down by presenting a list of cities, representing the time zones in which they are located.

  1. Africa  2. America  3. Antarctica  4. Arctic  5. Asia  6. Atlantic  7. Australia  8. Europe  9. Indian  10. Pacific  11. Etc  12. Legacy
Geographic area:

Why tzdata #

Checking aptitude why tzdata it shows that the chain goes back through npm.

root@47685221fb82:/# aptitude why tzdata
i   npm        Depends  node-gyp
i A node-gyp   Depends  gyp (>= 0.1+20200513gitcaa6002)
i A gyp        Depends  python3:any
i A python3    Provides python3:any
i A python3    Depends  python3.12 (>= 3.12.3-0~)
i A python3.12 Depends  tzdata

The solution, configure tzdata #

export TZ="America/Chicago"
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
apt update
apt install tzdata -y
ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ /etc/localtime
dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata

DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

This is required, because apt installing tzdata will trigger the interactive prompt. You will manually configure it in the next two steps.

I always select the character _. He comes with an axe called _ she has some dark humor (but not too dark), I like her. She also does not wear out so you always have a weapon and way to chop wood with you.

dst session one

Wyatt is also documenting his run, while we aren’t playing in the same world we are playing together. https://wyattbubbylee.com/dst-forever-world/ Loading into the world # I always select the character Woodie. He comes with an axe called Lucy she has some dark humor (but not too dark), I like her. She also does not wear out so you always have a weapon and way to chop wood with you. First encounter with a Tall Bird # On the first day I made a look around my home biome, and ran into a Tall Bird Tall Bird Stats # Setting up base # Just after the first night started I found my way back to the center of the map and made a stone campfire. I really like to use the stone campfires as they last forever, you just have to add wood. I was lucky enough to find stone by the Tall Bird to make this one on first day. Opening up the garden # On day two I had enough materials gathered to make the garden digamajig to prep the soil for gardening. I planted the few seeds that I stole from the birds right aw…
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Developer Productivity, v2 with ThePrimeagen | Preview - YouTube www.youtube.com
Big fan of Primes setup. I was not far off of his setup before he really came on the scene, but I’ve picked up a ton of nuggets from him and how he operates. I took his first developer productivity course on Front End Masters as it came out. It is interesting to see him roll back his ansible scripts for bash scripts here. I converted my setup to ansible after watching his first, but have also since rolled back to bash scripts for quite similar reasons. Ansible is great for remote tasks that need to be done on a fleet of machines, but like he says here overkill for this purpose and ends up something that you need to read the docs for every change to your dotfiles. Unlike prime I’ve really leaned harder on installing everything in a docker image and developing out of a docker image. I’ve long built docker images of my dotfiles with the idea that its nice to be able to just use them on other machines, but it rarely happened. In the past year I’ve moved bazzite, an immutable distro. It comes with podman and distrobox, so I install very little on it, a few flatpaks from the store for brave and signal, but most of what I really use day to day comes from my devtainer. It’s nice that I rea…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03KsS09YS4E&t=610s

Today I learned about the basic calculator, bc. At the very end of this video prime uses it to add numbers in vim.

REPL #

You can start a calculator repl at the command line, by running bc.

Vim #

Since bc supports standard unix pipes you can easily pipe data from vim into bc and back out using !!bc. All you need is a string of math on the line you want to calculate, go to normal mode and run !!bc to get the answer.

Traditionally I will open my system calculator or ipython to do something like this.

To keep the equation and the result in the same line you can send the equation to stderr and the result to stdout using tee.

:.!tee >(cat >&2) | bc
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Migration guide for config loaders — kedro 0.19.11 documentation docs.kedro.org
Migrating from kedro 0.18.4 to the latest version involves handling the deprecated OmegaConf loader. Switching over does not look as bad as I originally thought. installing kedro 0.18.5+ set the CONFIG_LOADER_CLASS in settings.py swap out import statements config must be yaml or json getting values from config must be done with bracket style not with any Exceptions caught from Templated config loader will need to be swapped to OmegaConfig exceptions, similar to #3 templated values must lead with an Globals are handled different OmegaConfig does not support jinja2 sytax, but rather a syntax

markdown split panel

Today I was playing with markdown split panels. I want to be able to compare and constrast occasionually, today the inspiration hit to do this using admonitions. Mobile Users 🔄 You will need to rotate your device to see the side by side feature. The Markdown # This is what I am going for, one admonition that is easy to remember, that nests inside of itself, and I can put as much markdown on the inside that I want. Here is the result of that markdown. I Have two opinions Left Opinion supporting arguments lorem ipsum ipsum dolor lorem ipsum ipsum dolor Right Opinion supporting arguments lorem ipsum ipsum dolor lorem ipsum ipsum dolor Vsplit Hello World Here is a hello world application written in the typer cli framework for cli. Vsplit

Make MinIO Access Key

Today in my homelab I wanted to setup a new service that needed a MinIO access key. So I created a new user and a new access key with the MinIO CLI rather than poking through the ui like I have before. Global Level vs User Level # The MinIO CLI has two levels of access, global and user level. Most of the commands in this post will have several ways to do similar tasks that would potentially work. We are going to prefer to use the user level commands for more control. For some commands such as listing Keys it is handy to use the global level. The Policy # First we are going to make a new policy file named. Set the Minio Alias # Before we can create new access keys we will need to start by settin up an alias in minio that has admin rights to the minio server. Check to see if your alias exists. The Script # Now we are going to pick a SECRETKEY and a NEWUSERNAME, create the policy, create the user, attach the policy to the user and add the user to the alias. Attention This is the secret ke…
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I’ve been back to putting some images on my blog lately and thinking about making them a bit thinner through the use of aspect ratio for simplicity. I’m leaning pretty heavy on tailwindcss these days due to some weird quirks of markdown-it-attrs I cannot have slashes in classes from markdown so I made a .cinematic class to achieve this.

.cinematic {
  @apply aspect-[2.39/1];
}

Example

a stable diffusion generated image of an astronaut working in a neon pink lab with beakers and papers all over, he is reading through pages.