Anthony Martinez @ajmartinez@librem.one

@purism this is not a use case I had in mind but it looks pretty cool!

Updated SSH Tunnel Manager to support both nmap-ncat and legacy netcat, and fix a bug that resulted in an infinite loop in one of the connection status checkers. So far it's been performing nicely for the last few hours with several network events thrown its way from the local and remote sides of the tunnel. Not mad about it at all.

https://gitlab.com/anthonyjmartinez/ssh-tunnel-manager

@Gina your upstream is still better than my US upstream! We won't even talk about how expensive my slow US internet is ;_;

@Gina @neil yeah I’d not bother setting a server up, just make a room on one that already exists.

@Gina an open Matrix room shouldn’t be too hard eh? Admittedly have not done large group video, but chat works well. If just chat suffices there’s the old faithful: IRC.

And finished todays bit of spinning and plying. I still have quite a lot of wool left to go overall but I’ll get through it one step at a time.

And we’re off to a good start on the new yarn.

@Gina nah this is exactly why I never actually finished a CS degree. I’d come up with an idea, start coding, and then find out there were twelve libraries in literally every single possible language doing the exact same thing already.

Fast forward 20yrs and now I just don’t care. If I write something useful to myself that’s good enough. If one other person finds one of my ideas useful, that’s icing on the cake.

Just publicly released a new project: SSH Tunnel Manager as a Bash-driven solution to keep track of a persistent background SSH connection with Local, Remote, or Dynamic forwards. Additional details in the readme.

https://gitlab.com/anthonyjmartinez/ssh-tunnel-manager

Non-tech project of the new week. Spin another bobbin of yarn from this really nice BFL roving. When that’s done, I’ll ply the two together and get started on the next bunch. I’ve got some plans to probably use this in a cardigan at some point.

@Gina it’s tough seasonal work but someone’s got to do it. 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

@Gina haha yes, that’s exactly the format I was thinking. He’s a dedicated volunteer olliebollen taster, and she’s a part time sunbathing coach. They’re looking for a small fixer upper and have a target budget of €9M.... Then in the end they pick a castle on a 15K km^2 estate with a river, lake, and old growth forest. It came in slightly above budget at €210M but the dungeon really matched their aesthetic and they just had to have it.

@Gina nice, enjoy! I don’t know if there’s an HGTV-like channel here but this sounds like the sort of show that would be on it. Do the people on the show also have completely ridiculous background but a budget equivalent to a small country?

@Gina watching the Dutch National Ballet’s event online. Interesting variety! How are you doing?

Renamed one of my projects today, and moved the hosting to GitLab. I'll be updating everything over the coming days but for now here's `staart`, a tail-like library/binary crate using only #rust stdlib. Staart is "tail" in Dutch, and since I wrote this while living in The Netherlands I think that's more fitting than the old project name.

https://crates.io/crates/staart

@YellowGrue I *am* management (and hiring!), but we’ve been in an interesting period where I’ve been a core contributor to *other teams* where perhaps skills I have were missing in their base. My background is actually mechanical engineering so my position as a global NOC manager in the EV branch of a MNC isn’t something I saw in the cards!

Work has kept me quite busy in the #Python and #Bash realms and as such I have had almost no time to work on any #Rust projects. Hoping to have some time to change that soon. I may even do Advent of Code super late just for the practice.