Tuesday May 14th, 2024 NCLUG Meeting

[Sean Reifschneider]

>bash completions

I've been using the Python "typer" module for writing CLI programs and
one nice thing it includes is automatic creation of shell completions.
https://typer.tiangolo.com/

>hate using YAML

This is what led me to create that experiment I showed off a while ago
that was "what if Ansible had Python syntax": uplaybook.  I showed it
to one of the big contributors to Ansible a few months ago and he
said it "made him excited about configuration management again",
but the big minus in his mind was that it was oriented towards
single machine management and not fleet management.
https://github.com/linsomniac/uplaybook

>YAML linter

I've taken to using LunarVIM which makes it easy to get LSP and
tree sitter, including the "yaml" and "ansible-yaml" formats linted
and more right in the editor.

>OpenVPN

Historically I've been a big fan of OpenVPN, but in the last year
have ditched the last OpenVPNs I had and won't touch it these
days, preferring wireguard as a straight replacement and
Nebula or TailScale as a more advanced replacement.

Sean

On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 7:52 PM Bob Proulx <bob at proulx.com> wrote:

> j dewitt wrote:
> > What: Tuesday May 14th, 2024 NCLUG Meeting
>
> The weather is getting nice!  It was bicycle weather.  Three of us
> showed up at the Creator Hub on our bicycles. :-)
>
> Before we began the meeting we had a good gripe session about terrible
> web pages that are all in the memory of Javascript.  Can't right
> click.  Can't middle click to open them in another tab.  Nasty!
>
> Alex gave a summary of the most recent NoCo Hackers meetup over at the
> brewery.  It is more security oriented.  They were talking about
> security of web pages.  They don't have a topic for next month and the
> main organizers are out of town so unlikey to have anything happening
> there next month.
>
> That being said we started a round robin around the room to talk about
> projects that might be fun.  I voluntold Aaron to go first.  Aaron
> immediately volunteered that he had nothing of interest!  Very
> interesting don't you think? :-)
>
> Alex has been working with Jenkins this past week.  Their group does
> not have any pre-commit filters to block silly breakages.  Therefore
> is trying to have an automated process to catch problems post commit.
> And working on creating bash completion in an automated way for their
> in-house commands.  Bob (the other Bob) jumped in as he has been doing
> that recently too.
>
> If anyone is thinking of giving a talk on creating an automated bash
> completion for commands this seems like a topic that people would be
> interested in.  Think about it!
>
> Bob (that's me this time) has been working on setting up ikiwiki.
> Which is actually rather terrible to do.  I just banged my head
> against various issues before getting it figured out.  I related my
> experiences with it.
>
> Bill has been working on database migrations for SQL lately.  Bill
> asks if anyone is using this rust sourced version control system "jj"
> that is git compatible.  It seems to be on the experimental side.
> This might work fantastically!  Or it might corrupt your git repo.
> It's one or the other.  jj is supposed to be work with multiple
> backends such that it will work with git but also subversion, hg, and
> the others too.  Good discussion about git and version control mental
> models.
>
> Kyle asks, Have you heard about Ansible?  Kyle has been using doing a
> different process flow to work with ansible.  And then we all decided
> we hate using YAML, we hate using JSON, we hate using XML.  But we
> were not unified.  Everyone has made peace with at least one format.
> Kyle suggests that when working with YAML one should always use a YAML
> linter.  That's a good suggestion.
>
> Kyle talked about some of the quirks of ansible.  And not just the
> YAML config files.  Including the secrets vault too.  Things are just
> a little quirky there.  Suggests that we go check out ansible-doc.
> Aaron suggested we have an Ansible v. Salt shootout on a future month.
>
> Bob (the other Bob) has been rebuilding the C&C controller here at the
> Creator Hub.  Always fun to be controlling real stuff.
>
> Mory says, been using Linux for many years but about a year ago
> switched over to LLM machine learning and now linux is dead,
> programming is dead, coding is dead.  Sorry everyone but you are all
> obsolete now.  Then described using LLMs for various amazing things.
> Learning how to drive the machine learning instances is the new power
> user.
>
> Phil has been working on setting up a couple of new server systems.
> You may have seen the other email from him on themailing list.  Phil
> is setting up some big iron machines in his house.  Good thing he has
> a large solar array on the roof!
>
> Phil then complained about setting up OpenVPN.  It's been a journey.
> Immediately three of us who have worked with OpenVPN a lot jumped in
> and said this would be a great project for Hacking Society on another
> Tuesdays.
>
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