rta_booking_information VS mgmt

https://sbmkvp.github.io/rta_booking_information/

A simple one page app that shows next available driving test in the state of New South Wale, Australia. The script runs as a container and commits updates to a GitHub repo periodically. GitHub pages then render the latest data.

Use this link to find which Service NSW have bookings available and when. They look pretty good to me right now. During the covid backlog, close to all of them were sad faces (no bookings at all). I suddenly found a timing at like 1AM at night and jumped on it.

Highly suggest calling them at 13 22 13 instead. Phone attendant was super helpful and had me booked in 10 mins. Also this site shows you what locations have times available.

Check out this nice page of availabilities by u/balanaicker. The underlying code is open source on github if you want to run it yourself too.

It is a little technical but there is a script that someone has developed to automate the search for test times: https://github.com/sbmkvp/rta_booking_information

Check this out. https://sbmkvp.github.io/rta_booking_information/ the code is open if you want to contribute! :)

Source code is available at https://github.com/sbmkvp/rta_booking_information

Here is the source code https://github.com/sbmkvp/rta_booking_information. Collaborators welcome for making into a project similar to covidqueue

This is a new provisioning tool built with https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ that I hope both provides great value and also demonstrates the start of a new way to build certain kinds of software.

Thanks for reading!

I've looked briefly into this project before. Some ideas are similar to what I'm doing in https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ but the really weird thing is that I have no idea who's behind this language. A person? A company? A small group? Are they anonymous for some reason or am I oblivious?

I don't generally believe in orchestrators (they miss the point, things are not single computers and neither is the world) and so I have that feedback here but also for:

> Airflow/Cadence/Temporal/Databuilderframework?

Which don't really think about modelling non-centralized things.

This of course doesn't mean they're not useful, it's just that they don't have what I believe is a good long-term value proposition.

I'm incredibly biased because I'm working on programmatic, real-time modelling of distributed systems with https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

The DAG concurrency stuff feels familiar to what I've been doing with our language, mcl. https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

Our goal is NOT a general-purpose turing-complete language like this one is, but we do some amazing lock-free, DAG concurrency things to achieve the processing wins.

I don't think it's good news, but why is anyone surprised? Nobody wants to pay for open source.

Companies want it for free, and individuals don't have enough luxury time to be able to do it themselves.

Prove me wrong and help patch or fund https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ and you'll have an even better replacement for terraform!

Individual here, not a company. We'd love contributors to https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

Eventually decided puppet wasn't a good enough tool to be able to autonomously deploy and continuously manage such clusters. So I started working on this https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ project. Not quite MVP yet, but trying to get there soon. Got distracted along the way with having to work real jobs (Red Hat, Amazon) to pay bills.

Yeah, that project is pretty much at the bottom of my list, unfortunately. My top projects these days are mgmt, klister, recursion-schemes, and hint... And that's already too much!

There are certainly faster alternatives out there (mgmt comes to mind) but then, they're not Ansible.