kvmgr VS Espial

Few years ago, I needed a quick way to create Qemu VM's locally for testing some weird software configurations. So I made a script to pull Ubuntu cloud images and clone them into qcow2 disks, then create and register libvirt virtual machines. Part of the "magic" was creating a cloud-config ISO image that would be mounted to pre-seed the VM on first launch. It also pushed my ssh key into the VM so I wouldn't need to use passwords. Janky, but worked well for what I needed.

https://github.com/noahbailey/kvmgr/blob/master/kvmgr.sh

I made a little script for quickly spinning up KVM virtual machines on my testing rig. It just grabs a minimal Ubuntu image, preseeds it with a ssh key, clones a VM on the default NAT network, and sets up the disk size/CPUs/memory allocation. It's not meant to replace orchestration or config management tools, just for quick and dirty VMs.

https://github.com/noahbailey/kvmgr

Tangentially, I would recommend exporting your Pinboard collection periodically to somewhere safe. The service has gotten sketchy in the last year or two. I transitioned mine to a self-hosted instance of Espial.

An alternative, one that I began using a year ago after losing confidence in Pinboard is the self-hosted Espial - https://github.com/jonschoning/espial.

The visual presentation is a near complete clone of Pinboard. It also provides a route for Pinboard import.

Link repository - I use a self-hosted instance of Espial, but again the technology is unimportant. I mention this only because one of the philosophies of the Zettelkasten is to avoid the collector's fallacy where just by saving something you think you know it. So links go here if I might want to find it again in the future but I don't have time to think about it now or take notes on it into the ZK.

Saving URL's: For the most part, I don't like existing built-in bookmarking solutions in most browsers, because they seem to treat metadata cursorily or just ignore it. I've started using Espial which is a self-hosted Pinboard knock-off that allows me to tag and comment on URL's that I save.

you could run my self-hosted bookmarking site locally (which includes basic notes) https://github.com/jonschoning/espial

I actively avoid super general code in my Haskell applications.

Here's some code to add a bookmark in an api controller:

https://github.com/jonschoning/espial/blob/master/src/Handle...