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sfan5 / alpine-container.sh
Last active January 2, 2026 20:08
Create bootable systemd-nspawn containers with Alpine, Arch Linux or Ubuntu
#!/bin/bash -e
# Creates a systemd-nspawn container with Alpine
MIRROR=http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine
VERSION=${VERSION:-v3.23}
APKTOOLS_VERSION=3.0.3-r1
wget_or_curl () {
if command -v wget >/dev/null; then
@marick
marick / about_those_lava_lamps.md
Last active July 23, 2025 18:08
About Those Lava Lamps

Around 2006-2007, it was a bit of a fashion to hook lava lamps up to the build server. Normally, the green lava lamp would be on, but if the build failed, it would turn off and the red lava lamp would turn on.

By coincidence, I've actually met, about that time, (probably) the first person to hook up a lava lamp to a build server. It was Alberto Savoia, who'd founded a testing tools company (that did some very interesting things around generative testing that have basically never been noticed). Alberto had noticed that people did not react with any urgency when the build broke. They'd check in broken code and go off to something else, only reacting to the breakage they'd caused when some other programmer pulled the change and had problems.

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ubermajestix / inspector.rb
Created September 5, 2012 20:35
Override inspect on ruby objects
# When an RSpec test like this fails,
#
# @my_array.should == [@some_model, @some_model2]
#
# RSpec will call inspect on each of the objects to "help" you figure out
# what went wrong. Well, inspect will usually dump a TON OF SHIT and make trying
# to figure out why `@my_array` is not made up of `@some_model` and `@some_model2`.
#
# This little module and technique helps get around that. It will redefine `inspect`
# if you include it in your model object.
def output name=((default=true); "caius")
puts "name: #{name.inspect}"
puts "default: #{default.inspect}"
end
output
# >> name: "caius"
# >> default: true
output "avdi"