sysbox
Espial
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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sysbox
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OpenBSD cron(8) now supports random ranges with steps
Yes, I first learned this and the name "splay" from CFengine, back in the day.
I put together a small busybox-like collection of sysadmin tools, and one of the subcommands is "splay" to sleep for a random amount of time. It's one of those things that is useful surprisingly often, even outside cron.
https://github.com/skx/sysbox
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The Rust Implementation of GNU Coreutils Is Becoming Remarkably Robust
I remember in 1999 there was a project to reimplement a bunch of these tools in perl:
https://perlpowertools.com/
I even contributed a little, back then. I guess writing basic versions of "ls", for example, is trivial. But there's a lot of work getting all the tools done, with all the flags implemented and behaving as expected.
I guess there are tools like busybox, toybox, and similar, which also implement a lot of "stuff" to varying degrees of completion. From my side the biggest takeaway from those projects is the sheer convenience of deploying a single binary and installing symlinks to change functionality.
I replicated something similar with my sysbox project, collecting tools together in one golang binary with various subcommands:
https://github.com/skx/sysbox
I use at least one of those tools on a daily basis, though I suspect they're not so universally useful.
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Operating Systems
If you've got perl installed you'll might have a "GET" binary present, mine is /usr/bin/GET, which comes with the WWW-module.
Although this is written in portable perl, rather than being compiled, so the static vs. dynamic choice doesn't really mean much it is a simple alternative.
Otherwise I built a simple busybox-inspired collection of tools, written in golang, which includes a simple HTTP client too:
https://github.com/skx/sysbox
Those are just a couple of examples, I'm certain there are multiple other choices out there. But I guess curl is ubiquitous enough that most people just use it directly, and add it when missing!
- sysbox: sysadmin/scripting utilities, distributed as a single binary
- Show HN: A collection of sysadmin utilities, in a single binary
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M4 – the one true templating language
That's pretty cool.
I wrote something similar in my static collection of sysadmin tools - https://github.com/skx/sysbox - In my simple pre-processor I only allow two special things:
#include "file/goes/here"
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Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
I bundled together a small collection of sysadmin/scripting-tools here:
https://github.com/skx/sysbox
Those are probably amongst the things that I use most often which are non-standard.
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Sd: My Script Directory
I used to have very full ~/bin, and ~/$(hostname), directories. In the end I pared them back and started bundling things together in one binary.
The end result is very similar to this approach, I run "sysbox blah", or "sysbox help", and use integrated subcommands.
Very helpful and makes deployment easy by having only a single binary:
https://github.com/skx/sysbox
Not bash/shell, but similar and useful idea to experiment with.
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New Cli Tool (Golang) for custom commands (input during the execution) and with REPL
I support that in my sysbox utility-box, via the subcommands processor, and it is very helpful.
Espial
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Pinboard addict here.
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.
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Pinboard vs. Raindrop: Two bookmark apps enter
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.
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Anki is great for memorising... but learning perhaps not so much? (help)
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.
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PKM As A Solution for Browser Tab-Hoarding
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.
- Self hosted app with web clipper feature
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I closed a lot of browser tabs
you could run my self-hosted bookmarking site locally (which includes basic notes) https://github.com/jonschoning/espial
- Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
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The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer
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...
What are some alternatives?
jinja2-cli - CLI for Jinja2
Shiori - Simple bookmark manager built with Go
dockly - Immersive terminal interface for managing docker containers and services
linkding - Self-hosted bookmark manager that is designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.
wireguird - wireguard gtk gui for linux
Reminiscence - Self-Hosted Bookmark And Archive Manager
shpotify - A command-line interface to Spotify.
Firefox Account Server - Monorepo for Firefox Accounts
m4b-tool - m4b-tool is a command line utility to merge, split and chapterize audiobook files such as mp3, ogg, flac, m4a or m4b
Hackershare - Hackershare is a powerful social bookmarking service and a knowledge-sharing community, with advanced search and tag management feature
qdoc - Convert documentation within a Lua script into a Markdown file.
LinkAce - LinkAce is a self-hosted archive to collect links of your favorite websites.