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tdro

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    I’ve got a few repositories on Codeberg and following their blog is pretty fun. The recent post on scaling tickles my risk–averse sensibilities.

    It’s relatively easy to make/stand–up anything but scaling is mostly uncharted territory. The scale at which the biggest companies operate essentially guarantees HUGE and unique interconnected systems that are mind–bogglingly convoluted and complex.

    #musings
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    The threat of to search says more about search than it does about AI.

    #musings
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    My static micro blog experiment is going better than expected. Generation is still around 25 seconds hot on my old laptop as like the last time. Well… sneakily it’s closer to a semi–constant 5~10 seconds by tricking hugo into outputting empty base templates which “can” result in mostly reads by writing files that have changed (might make a blog post about this).

    This blog becomes mostly complete (minus the sharp edges) when there’s an archiving strategy on the paginator — basically a ghetto queue.
    shell
    $ hugo
                       |  EN   
    -------------------+-------
      Pages            | 1728  
      Paginator pages  |  662  
      Non-page files   |   13  
      Static files     |  430  
      Processed images |  572  
      Aliases          |   76  
      Sitemaps         |    1  
      Cleaned          |    0  
    
    Total in 26010 ms
    More template efficiency?
    #metas
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    The Enhance Framework looks compelling. Personally, web components and more particularly the shadow DOM are not very appealing but… the template structure looks clean for drawing up components/layouts super fast while still being primitive enough to not lose transposability between different environments.

    It seems like there’s an uptick in discussions online around web components but maybe that’s just the typical developer marketing/advocating. Web components have been around for a bit.

    #webdev
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    Writing assistant: Vale. I heard somewhere that writing/speaking at a 6th grade level is a surefire way to be relevant… whoops.

    shell
    $ vale extensible-stylesheets.md
    1:1     suggestion  Grade Level 11.02.              thedro.Readability         
    16:3    error       Use code tag `XML` instead of   technical.CodeSubtitutions 
                       'XML'.                                                     
    Oh no
    #programs
    tdro

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    Look at this Makefile — then look at this NixOS package derivation. Appears simple but I couldn’t for the life of me divine how to quickly compile a custom/patched kernel module on NixOS. Abstractions… are very magical. The guide is cool and all, but it’s a better time investment to guesstimate the relationship between the higher/lower layer. This friendly example looks more like this in reality though ;-)

    #linux
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    A NixOS configuration for a working sound driver on an A1418 Cirrus Logic CS8409/CS42L83.
    nix
    { stdenv, lib, fetchgit, linuxKernel, kernel ? linuxKernel.kernels.linux_5_15
    , version ? "d0d785dc1859b09299bde6d0f1d6786a0d610e7f" }:
    
    stdenv.mkDerivation {
    
      inherit version;
      name = "sna-hda-codec-cs8409-${version}-module-${kernel.modDirVersion}";
    
      # Upstream: https://github.com/davidjo/snd_hda_macbookpro
    
      src = fetchgit {
        url = "https://github.com/egorenar/snd-hda-codec-cs8409.git";
        rev = version;
        sha256 = "sha256-0UeoERcYpM+ojeZ7dDIE3ruTIoHkkC+s7FcoEVUTR0w=";
      };
    
      hardeningDisable = [ "pic" ];
      nativeBuildInputs = kernel.moduleBuildDependencies;
    
      NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = [ "-g" "-Wall" "-Wno-unused-variable" "-Wno-unused-function" ];
    
      makeFlags = kernel.makeFlags ++ [
        "INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$(out)"
        "KERNELRELEASE=${kernel.modDirVersion}"
        "KERNEL_DIR=${kernel.dev}/lib/modules/${kernel.modDirVersion}/build"
      ];
    
      postPatch = ''
        printf '
        snd-hda-codec-cs8409-objs := patch_cs8409.o patch_cs8409-tables.o
        obj-$(CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CS8409) += snd-hda-codec-cs8409.o
    
        KBUILD_EXTRA_CFLAGS = "-DAPPLE_PINSENSE_FIXUP -DAPPLE_CODECS -DCONFIG_SND_HDA_RECONFIG=1"
    
        KERNELRELEASE ?= $(shell uname -r)
        KERNEL_DIR    ?= /lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/build
        PWD           := $(shell pwd)
    
        default:
        	make -C $(KERNEL_DIR) M=$(PWD) CFLAGS_MODULE=$(KBUILD_EXTRA_CFLAGS)
    
        install:
        	make -C $(KERNEL_DIR) M=$(PWD) modules_install
        ' \
        > Makefile
    
        sed --in-place 's|<sound/cs42l42.h>|"${linuxKernel.kernels.linux_6_0.dev}/lib/modules/${linuxKernel.kernels.linux_6_0.modDirVersion}/source/include/sound/cs42l42.h"|'  patch_cs8409.h
        sed --in-place 's|hda_local.h|${kernel.dev}/lib/modules/${kernel.modDirVersion}/source/sound/pci/hda/hda_local.h|'                                                      patch_cs8409.h
        sed --in-place 's|hda_jack.h|${kernel.dev}/lib/modules/${kernel.modDirVersion}/source/sound/pci/hda/hda_jack.h|'                                                        patch_cs8409.h
        sed --in-place 's|hda_generic.h|${kernel.dev}/lib/modules/${kernel.modDirVersion}/source/sound/pci/hda/hda_generic.h|'                                                  patch_cs8409.h
        sed --in-place 's|hda_auto_parser.h|${kernel.dev}/lib/modules/${kernel.modDirVersion}/source/sound/pci/hda/hda_auto_parser.h|'                                          patch_cs8409.h
      '';
    
      meta = { platforms = lib.platforms.linux; };
    }
    ../packages/snd-hda-cs8409/default.nix

    Then build it as a extra/custom kernel module. The results of stumbling upon yet another troublesome device…

    nix
    { pkgs, ... }:
    
    {
      boot = {
        extraModulePackages = [
          (pkgs.callPackage ../packages/snd-hda-cs8409/default.nix {
            kernel = pkgs.linux_5_15;
          })
        ];
      };
    }
    hardware.nix
    #gists #linux
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    Bots are ≈ 80% noise. It’s funny that in general analytics are not needed anymore. 80% noise and 20% signal. 80:20. It’s safe to turn off the computer and head outside — you’re not missing much when not on the Internet (it’s smaller than you’d think signal–wise).

    #musings
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    tdro

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    My default nix configuration on NixOS.

    This configuration is more for building/debugging stuff and caching with nix-serve. Usually my package version is locked since different versions of nix can have some effects.

    nix
    { config, ... }:
    
    {
      nix = {
        package = (import ../versions.nix).nix_2_17 { inherit config; };
        settings = {
          log-lines = 25;                                # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-log-lines
          fallback = true;                               # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-fallback
          tarball-ttl = 0;                               # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-tarball-ttl
          show-trace = true;                             # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-show-trace
          connect-timeout = 5;                           # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-connect-timeout
          auto-optimise-store = true;                    # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-auto-optimise-store
          narinfo-cache-negative-ttl = 0;                # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-narinfo-cache-negative-ttl
          narinfo-cache-positive-ttl = 0;                # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-narinfo-cache-positive-ttl
          builders-use-substitutes = true;               # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-builders-use-substitutes
          min-free = 268435456;                          # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-min-free (256 MB in Bytes)
          max-free = 1073741824;                         # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-max-free (1 GB in Bytes)
          allowed-users = [ "root" "@wheel" ];           # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-allowed-users
          trusted-users = [ "root" "@wheel" ];           # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-trusted-users
          experimental-features = "nix-command flakes";  # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-experimental-features
        };
      };
    }
    My nix-configuration.nix on version 23.05
    #gists #linux

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