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Khan Winter

@khanwinter.com

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Computer Engineer, UMN24. WWDC2020 Scholar. Building @codeedit.app on GitHub. Blog at https://khanwinter.com

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Khan Winter @khanwinter.com · Nov 10

I finally got my blog up and running! I wrote a little post testing it out, and talking about my experience using Swift and building my own site generator, check it out

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Khan's Blog · New Blog, New Me

I redesigned my blog, in Swift.

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Khan Winter @khanwinter.com · 1d

that would be perfect imo for like little things that could eventually scale up to a whole appview implementation. Great idea

Khan Winter @khanwinter.com · 2d

The worst part about being away from home is I can’t view my graphs ;(

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The C Programming Language @c-official.bsky.social · 2d

In many ways, C is a quirky, Earthbound-inspired RPG

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Khan Winter @khanwinter.com · 2d

I'm enjoying making Grafana dashboards for my home server WAY too much

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 3d

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4-panel comic. (1) [person finds bottle on shore] (2) [person reads message from inside bottle: ICMP ECHO REQUEST...] (3) [person writes on message ICMP ECHO REPLY...] (4) [person puts bottle back in water and leaves]

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Matt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 4d

finally, some Good Code

crates.io/crates/fibon...

Screenshot of the fibonacci-numbers README, which reads:

First install the version of this crate corresponding to the Fibonacci number you want to use:

cargo add fibonacci-numbers@186 --rename fib186

Then you can use the VALUE constant to get its value:

assert_eq!(fib186::VALUE, 332825110087067562321196029789634457848);

Screenshot of the dependency list, which is fibonacci-numbers at versions 184 and 185.

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Khan Winter @khanwinter.com · 4d

Aaaaand now my discord bot is up and running

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 4d

we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

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Khan Winter @khanwinter.com · 4d

Has no one made like a little iOS or Mac app for viewing Prometheus metrics? I know it’s niche but I’d like to not run the whole Grafana server on my laptop and also be able to look at graphs on my phone

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Swift Language @swift.org · 4d

New tooling for profiling performance-critical services with Swift -- introducing the Swift Profile Recorder. More here: www.swift.org/blog/swift-p...

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Khan Winter @khanwinter.com · 4d

I have too much time rn so I now have prometheus metrics for my PDS and whatever else I put on here in the future

Khan Winter @khanwinter.com · 4d

I bet you can. It’s just a Node server and a data dir

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Khan Winter @khanwinter.com · 4d

Ngl it went so smoothly it felt way too easy, like I'm waiting for the other foot to drop type easy

Khan Winter @khanwinter.com · 4d

Had some more issues cause I forgot how to write OpenRC service scripts but now we're ballin

Khan Winter @khanwinter.com · 4d

Hello from `pds.khanwinter.com`!

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Khan Winter @khanwinter.com · 4d

Oh yeah for sure. I thought you were talking about *resource* efficiency cause that was what I was talking about :)

Khan Winter @khanwinter.com · 4d

Interesting idea, I’m curious as to how
containers make things more efficient in a case like this? I’d assumed not having a supervisor process and monitoring processes and whatnot would reduce overhead in general.

Khan Winter @khanwinter.com · 4d

Omg thanks these look like exactly what I was looking for. I'll take a peek

Khan Winter @khanwinter.com · 4d

Shoutout linux / Gentoo for resource efficiency. I have a:

- SMB server backing up a 2TB HDD
- DNS server for my whole LAN
- Bonjour service
- HTTPS proxy
- Web server
- and Two SSH sessions

All running at the same time and it's taking up less than 1% of 8Gb Mem and 0.1% CPU. Love this stuff

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Khan Winter @khanwinter.com · 4d

Btw if anyone has a tutorial on like migrating an #ATProto account to a brand new PDS I'd love to read it. I found this but I'm now confused how I get my top-level domain back as my handle once I've migrated.

whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net...

Migrating PDS Account with `goat` | bryan newbold

Account migration is an important feature of atproto, and has been possible in the live network since February of this year, but is still a bit scary and developer-oriented. As part of documenting th...

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Khan Winter @khanwinter.com · 4d

- Needed to setup unbound
- Set up my home server as the authoritative DNS server on my LAN
- My laptop STILL had messed up DNS settings (thanks Apple)
- Didn't understand unbound config files

Now I know it all. On to PDS madness

Khan Winter @khanwinter.com · 4d

Okay... after a long haul with DNS I'm finally on the move with a PDS setup

The issues I encountered today:
- My laptop's DNS settings were borked
- Caddy killed all SSH connections for a bit (no idea why)
- Could access Caddy from WAN but not LAN
- LAN required a local DNS server (NAT Hairpinning)

Khan Winter @khanwinter.com · 4d

100%. My friend uses gentoo as their desktop(s) and it took like a month for them to get anything working. I'm stopping myself at a server because of that

Khan Winter @khanwinter.com · 5d

Seems to me like Nix packages are just more complicated and non-source Portage packages. Maybe I’m misunderstanding but it seems like they achieve essentially the same thing

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Khan Winter @khanwinter.com · 5d

Next is setting up a Caddy server so I can host a PDS server and maybe my blog. I'd also like to experiment with a tangled runner and maybe a github actions runner but we'll see about those later.