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phoenix

February 26, 2018 — ~ben

inspired by oodsnet, (and my pull request to add darkmode), i started to create my own tilde.team fork (now forum.tilde.team).

the first step was to switch out the css to the tilde.team standard and update the classes for bootstrap. once i got it going and integrated with the tilde.team linux auth service, i asked other tildeans for input and suggestions.

~micaiah was interested in helping, but also wanted to learn a new language and/or framework, so we decided to start over, recreating the entire forum with elixir/phoenix. we'd discussed elixir previously, but never had a convincing use case to force us to learn it.

the project is live, with the source code on github.

the thing that i'm most impressed with is the speed of the erlang runtime :D

check out these response times. sub-millisecond!?!?!

give it a look, and join the tilde.team if you want to come hang out!

Tags: internet, dev

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otm

February 15, 2018 — ~ben

just heard the latest episode of on the media. this is a super helpful guide i found on their twitter.

Tags: podcast

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quote of the day

February 13, 2018 — ~ben

Be Alert! - the world needs more Lerts.

Tags: quotes

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webassembly

January 17, 2018 — ~ben

according to this post on the mozilla blog, we will be able to compile wasm as it streams into the browser in much the same way that images are decoded. this is a huge game changer from the current paradigm of loading javascript completely before being able to parse and compile it.

this will make so many things possible in the browser that never were before!

i decided to follow this tutorial and ended up with this.

i don't know what to do next. any ideas?

Tags: wasm, dev, internet

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pop quiz

January 16, 2018 — ~ben

is this real?

4k witcher 3

hint: it's not. it's the witcher 3. and it looks like a real place.

Tags: 4k-gaming, gaming, gtx1080ti, pc-master-race

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git remotes with ssh aliases

January 12, 2018 — ben

did you know that ~/.ssh/config aliases work for git remotes??

~/.ssh/config

Host gh
HostName github.com
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/gh_key

you can now use gh:username/repo as the remote in place of git@github.com:username/repo, which is much shorter and easier to type many times!

git clone gh:benharri/learngit

there are many other use cases for the ssh_config file. for example, here is my config for the tilde machine for easy ssh connections.

Host tilde
HostName tilde.team
User ben

then use ssh tilde to start a new ssh session. this also works with scp: try something like this scp file.txt tilde:workspace/. in place of scp file.txt ben@tilde.team:workspace/.

the ssh_config file is super useful. check man ssh_config for a full list of options!

Tags: git, ssh

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cold

January 05, 2018 — ben

why is it so cold

i'm so done with winter

Tags: cold, weather, winter, snow

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8values

January 03, 2018 — ben

not that i'm very surprised by this, but i took the quiz again (after losing my results url) and got these results.

take the quiz here

my results again as a link

Tags: 8values, ideology, politics

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mastodon

December 22, 2017 — ben

hi everyone.

i started hosting a mastodon instance at social.tilde.team.

check it out if you want some federated open source social goodness :)

send me a toot @ben@tilde.team (from any mastodon instance!)

thanks!

Tags: social-networks, mastodon, tilde

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loading...

December 21, 2017 — ben
const loadingmsgs = [
    "Proving P=NP...",
    "Computing 6 x 9...",
    "Mining Bitcoin...",
    "Dividing by 0...",
    "Initializing Skynet...",
    "[REDACTED]",
    "Downloading more RAM...",
    "Ordering 1s and 0s...",
    "Navigating neural network...",
    "Importing machine learning...",
    "Issuing Alice and Bob one-time pads...",
    "Generating random sequence from key inputs while trying to exit vim...",
    "for i in range(additional): Pylon()",
    "(creating unresolved tension...",
    "Symlinking vim to nano and ed...",
];

sauce

Tags: jokes, humor

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