DEV Community: Benjamin Harris

phoenix

Benjamin Harris — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:57:10 +0000

inspired by oodsnet, (and my pull request to add darkmode), i started to create my own tilde.team fork (now forum.tilde.team).

the first step was to switch out the css to the tilde.team standard and update the classes for bootstrap. once i got it going and integrated with the tilde.team linux auth service, i asked other tildeans for input and suggestions.

~micaiah was interested in helping, but also wanted to learn a new language and/or framework, so we decided to start over, recreating the entire forum with elixir/phoenix. we'd discussed elixir previously, but never had a convincing use case to force us to learn it.

the project is live, with the source code on github.

the thing that i'm most impressed with is the speed of the erlang runtime :D

check out these response times. sub-millisecond!?!?!

give it a look, and join the tilde.team if you want to come hang out!

Tags: internet, dev

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webassembly

Benjamin Harris — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:09:13 +0000

according to this post on the mozilla blog, we will be able to compile wasm as it streams into the browser in much the same way that images are decoded. this is a huge game changer from the current paradigm of loading javascript completely before being able to parse and compile it.

JavaScript code is much more expensive, byte for byte, than an image, because of the time spent parsing and compiling it.

It's possible to parse and compile wasm as fast as it comes over the network, which makes it much more like an image than JavaScript code.

Game changer!

— Yehuda Katz (@wycats) December 19, 2017

this will make so many things possible in the browser that never were before!

i decided to follow this tutorial and ended up with this.

i don't know what to do next. any ideas?

Tags: wasm, dev, internet

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git remotes with ssh aliases

Benjamin Harris — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:30:26 +0000

did you know that ~/.ssh/config aliases work for git remotes??

~/.ssh/config

Host gh 
HostName github.com 
User git 
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/gh\_key

you can now use gh:username/repo as the remote in place of git@github.com:username/repo, which is much shorter and easier to type many times!

git clone gh:benharri/learngit

there are many other use cases for the ssh_config file. for example, here is my config for the tilde machine for easy ssh connections.

Host tilde 
HostName tilde.team 
User ben

then use ssh tilde to start a new ssh session. this also works with scp: try something like this scp file.txt tilde:workspace/. in place of scp file.txt ben@tilde.team:workspace/.

the ssh_config file is super useful. check man ssh_config for a full list of options!

Tags: git, ssh

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