Programming

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/49717857

Hi there!

I've been eyeing email aliasing services like Firefox Relay or Proton's Hide-my-email feature for a while, but I'm cheap!
Well, that and I tend to like doing things myself whenever possible.

So after a bit of investigating I found out that using Cloudflare and a custom domain name, you can essentially get infinite free email aliases that get redirected to an existing email address (Gmail in my case, but I'm working on moving over to Proton at the moment).

One thing lead to another, and I ended up coding a Firefox extension to automatically inject aliases into email input fields using a custom domain name.

Because I find this whole setup cool, and am fairly certain that other people could benefit from it, I wrote up a full guide on my blog. I'm no Cloudflare or DNS expert, so feel free to point out any mistakes or make suggestions here or in my post's comments ;).

Note: Yes, I know that using a custom domain reduced the privacy benefits.

I feel proponents of any programming language put a lot of spin around what isolated aspects it is good for, but fail to illustrate what a programmer in even one target domain gains from using it.

Are there programming language implementations unlike what is described above, that you feel back up their marketing?

Codeberg Pages moved to a new back-end (git-pages.) This caused me some pain. But I’m now on the other side of it, and I want to share some gotchas.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/48245849

Hello everyone, you may remember I dropped by a while back concerning my cooperative management project.

The idea has evolved to building an open-source Enterprise Resource Planning application specifically for worker's cooperatives. While most ERP software focuses on driving top-down directives, the goal of this project is to enable the cooperatives to work, make decisions, and resolve disputes more efficiently than basically any other type of company.

Current tech stack: Docker, postgres, nginx, SQLAlchemy, gunicorn, jinja2, Flask, Alembic, and Redis.

Please check out the repository documentation if this sounds like something you may be interested in. The docs include the foundational philosophy document called "Hierarchy by Consent" and there is also a template for an Articles of Incorporation that I intend to include as the first default document template in the software.

I'm still pretty early in the process but most of the tables are set up and I've made notes in the the classes explaining the requirements and workflows.

I've also got some issues started on Codeberg, mostly related to the front-end, which is where I need the most help at the moment. I will certainly be glad for help elsewhere as well.

It's an open-source project so there is no immediate financial incentive. Part time contributors are certainly welcome.

There's a discussion room on Matrix and here is the Repository.

Thanks folks

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/66082776

I never see in public git projects something like a declaration of scope. There's also no convention, unlike a README.md (which rarely contains some sort of scope definition) or LICENSE file.

Is this unusual in open source projects, that you first define what you want and not want in your project and how you want to do it, to combat scope creep and sabotaging yourself?

I'm in a postition in live (short of a burnout) where it's actively a pain to just start things and then wing it; i even add a scope comment to larger shell scripts.
Maybe it's experience, because i already know that i'm then not satisfied afterward or (in case of shell scripts) just create a unfinished mess. Nobody else?

Hello lemmings, I made a program to ping every IPv4 address and collect data on respondents. I am almost done, but I want feedback on things I should change or how I can improve my current record of 5,000 pings / second.

I am currently aware that I need to properly parse the data I receive on the receive socket, since it's possible the TTL router messages might be confused as replies. ICMP is used on networks to inform other machines of network problems.

One issue I'm aware of is the tuning that has to go into maximizing throughput while also avoiding a total system freeze. My code seems to spend too much time opening sockets that it leaves no room for the actual OS. My only fix currently is limiting the CPU time to the ping timeout I used.

The overall program works like this: It keeps a linked list / pool of task objects. All objects are initially in the "free list" and then when they become associated with a socket, they move to the "active list". The program first checks for updated sockets with epoll which results in like 5% of sockets giving a response. It then closes any tasks that have timed out via linked list in O(1) each. The slow part is when it creates new sockets, since it doesn't really know when to stop, besides when the non-blocking socket informs it that it would block. I implemented a time limit on sending that is currently the maximum of the ping timeout. To increase throughput it seems like I need to streamline how I send ICMP packets.

https://github.com/bneils/PingStorm

I recently decided to ditch my ancient WordPress portfolio and build a new site from scratch.

Because I wanted to show off a little bit, I decided I wanted to make it into a 2D side-scroller using Little.js. The issue was figuring out how I could keep the site accessible.

I just wrote the first blog post in a series on how I am making that very site.
The site is still a work in progress; but I felt this could interest people here. And it gives me a chance to test out the blog feature I just coded in.

I wrote a blog post about me getting in to FSharp web application development, but am having issues deciding how I want the data access to look. I'm very much open to feedback!

wares was inspired by Obtainium and pkgit.

wares is available on GitHub. Looking for anyone willing to test, provide feedback, or even contribute

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