Darkfoe's Blog (Chuck Findlay)

Northern Lights

2024-10-13 8:40pm ADT

From the other night:

Aurora in Quebec

Quick picture of it in Quebec from the night of the storm. For reference, see here.

Traveling, pictures soon!

2024-10-13 1:55am ADT

Been traveling several months here full-time while working full-time from a vehicle. To share pictures soon! Once I get a chance to finish up my picture sharing website/software.

I can definitely say LTE networks are more than suitable for day to day WFH programming work - even with meetings. Generally use no more than a GB or two per day in my case.

Took me way too long to figure out, but if you want to use a different name for your docker-compose.yaml file (ie, gitea.yaml) and still have renovate bot look into it and work you need to do the following in your renovate.json file:

{
    "$schema": "https://docs.renovatebot.com/renovate-schema.json",
    "extends": ["config:recommended"],
    "docker-compose": {
      "fileMatch": ["^path\\/to\\/dockercomposefiles\\/.*.yaml$"],
      "enabled": true
    }
}

Of course, adjust accordingly the path/to/dockercomposefiles/ bit to be a regex match from the root of your repository, and add in whatever other renovate config you have.

In my case, this allows me to store all my portainer configs and still have them looked at by renovate without having to stick them all in an ugly folder structure.

If you're wondering what the heck I'm talking about, take a look here. It's basically an automated bot to open PRs/branches (and merge them automatically if you want after checks are passed) on your git repos when stuff updates. Great when you have a few dozen projects.

Bootstrap is really a game changer for a backend dev like myself. I was able to do a loooooot of style changes to implement a nice darkmode theme without too much of a hassle. Ie, the little tweaks I did worked awesome for both desktop and phones!

I also went ahead and adjusted a few other of my front-facing sites. I know I played with it years ago when I last worked on my portfolio site's design, but since then it's gotten even easier. Dark mode gradiants are making my eyes very happy.

Responsive design fixed

2024-05-14 9:45am ADT

Fixed the responsive design! Turns out the code blocks were the issue. Seems to have fixed the gradiant issue as well in the background.

EDIT: Scratch the gradiant issue - still a problem. Do deal with another time I suppose.