---
title: "Quicknote capture 10 February 24"
date: 2024-02-10T07:40:48Z
draft: false
categories: ['Tech']
tags: ['quicknotes']
---

- This guy sets up taskwarrior and taskserver to use Lets Encrypt instead of the default bobbins that taskwarrior requires: [Task management | Colin Watson's blog](https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/task-management.html)
- I am starting to dislike the hype around HTMX. Just shut the fuck up about HTMX will you. Anyway: [HTMX and Web Components: a Perfect Match](https://binaryigor.com/htmx-and-web-components-a-perfect-match.html)
- [Web Components - Web APIs | MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Components)
- [jordan orelli](https://jordanorelli.com/post/32665860244/how-to-use-interfaces-in-go)
- Go template engine: [GitHub - CloudyKit/jet: Jet  template engine](https://github.com/CloudyKit/jet)
- This is a really good run through of development and DevOps stuff - Go, Python, Linux, nmap, etc: [Web stuff](https://mpolinowski.github.io/docs/intro)
- [ElephantSQL - Documentation | ElephantSQL - PostgreSQL database PaaS](https://www.elephantsql.com/docs/)
- This is a good example of how to write a UserService in Go, interfacing with a database. Check out the whole repo too, there is a lot to learn from it: [go-echo-sql-tutorial/internal/service/user_service.go at main · go-tutorials/go-echo-sql-tutorial · GitHub](https://github.com/go-tutorials/go-echo-sql-tutorial/blob/main/internal/service/user_service.go)
- Some big database as a service thing in the cloud: [Supabase | The Open Source Firebase Alternative](https://supabase.com/)
- [Organising Database Access in Go – Alex Edwards](https://www.alexedwards.net/blog/organising-database-access)
- This is pretty good: [Golang Interfaces Explained – Alex Edwards](https://www.alexedwards.net/blog/interfaces-explained)
- Useful interfaces in the Go standard library: [Go (Golang) Standard Library Interfaces (Selected) · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/asukakenji/ac8a05644a2e98f1d5ea8c299541fce9)
- [Understanding Mutexes – Alex Edwards](https://www.alexedwards.net/blog/understanding-mutexes)
- Tremendously useful explanation about what is going on with Go handlers and servmuxes, and compares the Go world to the MVC world I'm more used to: [An Introduction to Handlers and Servemuxes in Go – Alex Edwards](https://www.alexedwards.net/blog/an-introduction-to-handlers-and-servemuxes-in-go)
- This is why I like this guy! He talks sense about woke!: [Adding Cluster Support To Hollywood Actor Framework - YouTube](https://youtu.be/7VJ0teKBX04?t=1844)
- [Omitting dev dependencies in Go binaries | Redowan's Reflections](https://rednafi.com/go/omit_dev_dependencies_in_binaries/)
- This is a sensible article: [You (probably) don’t need to learn C | Ned Batchelder](https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202401/you_probably_dont_need_to_learn_c.html)
- [32-Bit Cafe](https://32bit.cafe/websiteideas/)
- Interesting wrapper around ledger files, but not interested at the moment: [Paisa](https://paisa.fyi/)
- Lots of interesting local information here. Useful for snoopers: [UK House Prices](https://www.housepricesintheuk.co.uk/)
- All the issues of the classic comic I used to love getting every week, Champ: [Champ from D.C. Thomson & Co.](https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comics/series/128839/champ)
- This is good on Nix, but don't care too much at the moment: [Nix from the bottom up](http://www.chriswarbo.net/projects/nixos/bottom_up.html)
- This is referenced in the Let's Go book: [Organizing a Go module - The Go Programming Language](https://go.dev/doc/modules/layout#server-project)
- [Writing WebSocket servers - Web APIs | MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebSockets_API/Writing_WebSocket_servers)
- Alternatives to proprietary software: [switching.software | Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software](https://switching.software/)
- [GNU source code repositories overview](https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html)
- [Welcome [Savannah]](https://savannah.gnu.org/)
- Why not indeed? Plenty of reasons, and as of February 2024, I am currently in full agreement about why Github should be avoided by people who care about software freedom: [Why Not Github?](https://sanctum.geek.nz/why-not-github.html)
- [What’s New in Go 1.22: slices.Concat · The Ethically-Trained Programmer](https://blog.carlana.net/post/2024/golang-slices-concat/)
- I'm not sure, but this guy wants to say... [Microsoft, there is a way to win our trust | Dave Lane](https://davelane.nz/microsoft-there-way-win-our-trust)
- Salient, and something I have been thinking about the UK Government for some time: [New Zealand: dependence on the Microsoft Corporation | Dave Lane](https://davelane.nz/new-zealand-dependence-microsoft-corporation)
- Decent cgit confit: [Git Web and CGit — Generic Config](https://fishilico.github.io/generic-config/etc-server/web/gitweb.html)
- Eventually cribbed this config for cgit: [Cgit configurations · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/ankitrgadiya/29561925b60f9efd00952f8b21fbd0b5)
- Recommended by Networkchuck to learn Kubernetes. Networkchuck!: [Docker AND Kubernetes Course: The Big Picture | Pluralsight](https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/docker-kubernetes-big-picture)
- I fly to this place in X-Plane: [The Glenforsa Hotel](https://www.glenforsa.com/)
- Nerd game: [The Official Ancient Domains Of Mystery (ADOM) Homepage](https://www.adom.de/home/index.html)
- Bash in vim: [Shell from vi](https://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/shell-from-vi/)
- [Vimways ~ From .vimrc to .vim](https://vimways.org/2018/from-vimrc-to-vim/)
- I am using this backup solution: [GNU Linux Cryto - Backups](https://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/gnu-linux-crypto-backups/)
- [Duplicity backup program](https://blog.xmatthias.com/post/duplicity-google-drive/)
- I probably already have this linked somewhere: [Beej's Guide to Network Programming](https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/html/split/)
- This is ALL you need to know to write C programs: [Beej's Guide to C Programming](https://beej.us/guide/bgc/html/)
- And this one...: [Beej's Guide to Network Concepts](https://beej.us/guide/bgnet0/html/)
- I'm in two minds about all this fucking around in Neovim. Neovim is becoming a big "thing" in nerdspace, like htmx. I want to say fuck Lua-configured Neovim but once it is configured, it is pretty nice. This is a plugin to add fancy links to Markdown documents: [Marksman LSP](https://medium.com/@chrisatmachine/lunarvim-improve-markdown-editing-with-marksman-739d06c73a26)
- This vegan's zettlekasten system basted on Neovim: [403 Forbidden](https://www.mischavandenburg.com/zet/neovim-zettelkasten/)
- For free screencasting and videocasting: https://sanctum.geek.nz/presentations/ffmpeg-for-owncast.pdf
- Good presentation on Wireguard: https://sanctum.geek.nz/presentations/trusted-networks-with-wireguard.pdf
- Good presentationon SSH: https://sanctum.geek.nz/presentations/openssh-tricks.pdf 
- Eric Raymond at it: [Rootless Root](http://catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/)
- Good overview of a mail server and all the component parts: [Mail server - ArchWiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mail_server)
- Testing MX records for email servers: [MX Toolbox](https://mxtoolbox.com/)
- I love mutt. Neomutt. Whatever: [Useful Programs - NeoMutt](https://neomutt.org/contrib/useful-programs)
- [Hypermedia Systems](https://hypermedia.systems/book/contents/)
- [Pylsp setup for Neovim in 2023 - jdhao's digital space](https://jdhao.github.io/2023/07/22/neovim-pylsp-setup/)
- The guy from the Linux podcasts I listen to in the car does music: [Music / Joe Ressington](https://joeressington.bandcamp.com/ )
- Fuck zsh. But anyway: [Some zshrc tricks](https://www.arp242.net/zshrc.html)
- Classic: [The Art of Unix Programming](https://www.arp242.net/the-art-of-unix-programming)
- Rob Pike is worth listening to: [Rob Pike: Notes on Programming in C](http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/pikestyle.html)
- The issues raised in this article about corporate capture of the internet are important: https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/capture-of-open-protocols.html
- Andrew Kelley is worth listening to, too: [Why We Can't Have Nice Software - Andrew Kelley](https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-we-cant-have-nice-software.html)
- Moustachioed Kool-Aid drinking extraordinaire: [HTMX & Go with ThePrimeagen | Preview - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ0nR3QHebM)
- If you want to know more about DNS: [LPIC 1 - 076  - 109.4 - Client Side DNS configuration - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUDhmSpr3lg)
- [LPIC 1 (version 500) Course - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFOYXCPEqdNUU55Xvgst8wGTWnz_sd-cj)
- [Panopto | Record, Share, and Manage Videos Securely](https://www.panopto.com/)
- [Panopto](https://mozilla.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.aspx#folderID=%2213f46e5a-2044-41f8-8b05-ab6101342f9b%22)
- Local roofer is trying to rip you off? Have a look: [Which? - Typical Roofer Costs](https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/finding-a-tradesperson/article/how-much-do-roofers-cost-aHH2S2r0xnGA)
- Might be a useful tool to combat verbosity of database/sql package in Golang, recommended in the Let's Go book: [GitHub - blockloop/scan: Tiny lib to scan SQL rows directly to structs, slices, and primitive types](https://github.com/blockloop/scan)
- Another useful tool to combat verbosity of database/sql package in Golang, recommended in the Let's Go book: [GitHub - jmoiron/sqlx: general purpose extensions to golang's database/sql](https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx)
- Well said...: [The anti-racists want me to hate Britain](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/09/the-anti-racists-want-me-to-hate-britain/)
- A software development contractor working for DfT in the UK... As usual, bending over backwards to be hip. VSCode users: [Methods](https://methods.co.uk/)
- [A search engine in 80 lines of Python](https://www.alexmolas.com/2024/02/05/a-search-engine-in-80-lines.html)
- I'm starting to think jQuery might be the answer after all: [You Might Not Need jQuery](https://youmightnotneedjquery.com/)
- I'm starting to think jQuery might be the answer after all: [jQuery 4.0.0 BETA! | Official jQuery Blog](https://blog.jquery.com/2024/02/06/jquery-4-0-0-beta/)
- I'm starting to think jQuery might be the answer after all: [jQuery Learning Center](https://learn.jquery.com/)