This blog used to be hosted in Google Firebase, and before that, on Tumblr, using the domain jslee.io.

As of February 16, it’s now in Cloudflare Workers/Pages on a new domain jslee.dev.

I hadn’t got around to setting up a redirector yet. I’d assumed it would require Lambda@Edge and CloudFront as I didn’t want to delegate the jslee.io zone to Cloudflare’s DNS servers. However when I started looking at it this evening, I was reminded that CloudFront Functions exists and is more or less perfect for this application.

Well. It’s been too many years. My Hugo deploy pipeline broke (I don’t even remember what happened anymore, but it wasn’t Hugo’s fault!) and I didn’t have the tuits to fix it. Chalk it up to tech debt.

I’m back and with better hosting and a significantly less crap deploy pipeline. Cloudflare Pages + Github Actions + Terraform. Learned a bunch along the way.

There were so many things I wanted to post about through the years but didn’t and forgot about. Hopefully some of them will pop back into my mind. Lately I’ve wanted to write about motorcycle safety a bit and that was really what motivated me to spend a weekend resurrecting this blog.

Some minor updates from the last six years:

• life: ADHD. Fun times! Also bought a flat. Starting to feel my age
• tech: Learned more about Cloudflare, Google Cloud Platform, Kicad
• transport: Daily motorcyclist again
• fun: Playing games again. Currently: iRacing, Cyberpunk 2077
• nostalgia: joined the TUHS mailing list as a lurker. Wow. What an amazing bunch of people!

So I recently picked up a shiny new MacBook. This was not my first time around this particular wheel. I’ve enjoyed them for professional and personal use for many years.

This time I thought I’d try a rather tidier approach to shell setup and started with a blank slate and — inspired by a Jess Frazelle talk I enjoyed at Kiwicon some years ago — a goal of running a lot more software in Docker containers to isolate it at least a little bit from my $HOME and precious/private data.

I wanted to run Google Cloud’s gcloud commandline tool in a Docker container and, modulo security flaws in Docker for Mac, not expose my entire home directory to it. A wrapper script got me most of the way there:

Recently I wanted to audit some Helm charts for trailing whitespace bugs. This stuff can be a real bugbear, so an automated check can save a lot of hair-tearing. I initially reached for the beloved awk, but it turned out that grep could actually do exactly what I wanted.