η (eta) @eta@chaos.social

#introductions Hi, I'm η (eta)! I recently moved to chaos.social from @eta, mainly because I'm more of a programmer than a writer.
I do all sorts of random programming stuff - check out https://theta.eu.org/ for the gory details. Mostly esoteric stuff in #rustlang, though.
Ich lerne auch gern Deutsch, was ein anderer Grund für mich war, hier umzuziehen!

systemd[1]: osms-grafana.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 768.

That's a lot of restarts there, systemd.

sudo's insults mode is getting a bit weird.

[sudo] password for eeeeeta:
When you're walking home tonight, and some homicidal maniac comes after you with a bunch of loganberries, don't come crying to me!

I'm wasting so much money in SMSes trying to debug my SMS bridge :/

@eta It shouldn't be that much of a problem -- indeed, arguably the way v2 handles these will be better than v1 -- but it still makes things just a tad uglier.

You know that feeling when you forget to account for one critical part of your program design, and then you realise it mid-implementation? Yeah... I forgot that concatenated SMSes existed for v2 of my SMS bridge. :(

Mobile birdsite *sucks*. Takes hours to load, fails inexplicably sometimes, and interrupts me with a full screen ad for birdsite after a while. How is this considered acceptable?

@eta I carry on deleting things unwittingly!

agh, I still haven't quite got the hang of this IRC<->mastodon bridge :P

LB: As far as I'm concerned, if this "disappearing framework" idea means that people are finally going to stop producing bloated 1MB JS files, then I'm all for it!

Surprisingly enough, not having riot.im running in the background all the time makes my computer actually rather responsive. Who'da thunk it?

@eta or, at least, until it breaks. Well, matrix-appservice-sms broke all the time anyway, so I guess that's probably fine.

so, I really *should* write an irc<->sms bridge thing. however, that takes effort...so I just mashed matrix-appservice-irc and matrix-appservice-sms together in an unholy mix to create something which...kinda works?

Hmm, you can use Mastodon from bitlbee, using @kensanata's cool plugin: https://wiki.bitlbee.org/HowtoMastodon. Cool!

I created a github issue (https://github.com/eeeeeta/matrix-appservice-sms/issues/16), and promptly got a notification via email that I had done so.
For my own issue.

Uh, thanks GitHub?

Argh, race conditions suck a whooole bunch. Especially in asynchronous things.

I was going to post the below screenshot saying that I was glad all the bugs had finally been ironed out. Then, I discovered that the reason for 1% of the messages not being processed was due to a pretty serious bug that'd come back to bite me later.

I need more tests.

Oh hey, I figured out why my network rail thing wasn't deleting old schedules.

...It doesn't, erm, parse the deletion message properly.
This has been going on for...quite a while now. I have...a lot of schedules.
;_;

Grafana is pretty!