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Mon, 07 Dec 2020 23:42:23 +0000

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Today I have mostly been playing with AWS Lightsail containers, which look like the result of saying to some AWS employees "hey, why don't you build something user-friendly?". If you're familiar with AWS, you'll know why this would be a bad suggestion. Sure, the web ui is pretty, but oh my lord, the feedback cycles are stupid long ("no you can't abort this failing deploy, you have to wait for it to timeout") and the diagostics are awful. "Here's a window with some 'logs' in it. They might be from this deploy or from a previous one, there is no way to tell and no timestamps on the log lines".

Also I found out that there is some weird circumstance where the rails server will fail to start and instead print out the rather obscure message Switch to inspect mode, but I don't know what that circumstance actually is. It went away when I added -b 0.0.0.0 to the rails server invocation, but I don't see offhand how that could have been the problem. Hey ho.

I'm not quite old enough to remember the days of punching your program into a deck of cards and sending it to the operators to be read in, but I imagine it must have been a bit like this.

No blog of substance today, sorry. The title is because I have also been fighting with (and losing to) Cmake on Darwin