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   Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 09:15:18 JST Evan Prodromou

   We had our quarterly Hackday at Open Earth Foundation today. It's a day where we don't have any meetings or do any regular tasks. We just get a day to exercise our creativity and make cool things with and for each other.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 09:18:49 JST Evan Prodromou

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     Some of the projects my colleagues worked on:

     - a conference on Open Source and climate change
     - a Jira plugin that scores tickets for team effort and mental state
     - a dashboard for evaluating biodiversity at a national level
     - an AR visualization of climate data on a spinning globe
     - a rapid prototyping gap analysis tool
     - a documentation section on our wiki for leadership and communications skills

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 09:22:17 JST Evan Prodromou

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     Me, I decided to set up a Mastodon instance for our team.

     Total goose egg. I got absolutely nowhere.

     I started off making my own K8S layout and after a couple of hours realised I should use a Helm chart instead.

     I tested a few Helm charts on my local Docker Desktop, and none worked. So I decided to set up an EKS cluster to run it instead.

     Cue two hours of dorking around with IAM JSON. I wasn't ever able to use Helm with the half-broken cluster I got working.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 09:25:14 JST Evan Prodromou

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     With an hour left, I decided to spin up an EC2 instance, run microk8s, and see if that would work.

     I got Helm to run the install, but it kept failing. After multiple passes through values.yml, I ended up with about half the pods running, and all the important ones mysteriously silent.

     It sucked!

     I'm going to give it another try over the holidays, but jeez. I think I might be doing it wrong.

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     Michael Cervieri (helloronaut@toot.community)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 09:26:44 JST Michael Cervieri

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     @evan where do we access such goodness?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 09:26:44 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Michael Cervieri

     @helloronaut I think everything is on our GitHub. We usually push Hackday projects even if they're not finished.

     https://github.com/Open-Earth-Foundation/

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 09:29:00 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • daniel s.

     @selfagency it's nice when it just goes tootling along on its on for months on end, though.

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     daniel s. (selfagency@kibitz.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 09:29:01 JST daniel s.

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     @evan i love cloud-native architecture in principle but in practice, you will invariably spend more time troubleshooting your deployment than working with your actual project

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 11:21:31 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • tomwj

     @tomwj I don't yet have the skills to debug Kubernetes and Helm errors. A lot of the time, I'm just looking at a status like "NotReady" and wondering what it means and how I got there and what handle I can jiggle to try to make it stop.

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     tomwj (tomwj@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 11:21:32 JST tomwj

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     @evan it's nice to read where things don't go smoothly.

     I can really empathise with the well maybe just put it on a VM ?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 11:41:27 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • 🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸
     • Brian LeRoux ?

     @schizanon @brianleroux neat! I tried to do one on Amazon Lambda a few years ago but ran out of gas.

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     🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸 (schizanon@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 11:41:28 JST 🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸

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     • Brian LeRoux ?

     @evan I heard that @brianleroux is working on a serverless ActivityPub server. You should bug him to release it ?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 01:52:09 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • brianshaler

     @brian yes

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     brianshaler (brian@shaler.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 01:52:18 JST brianshaler

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     @evan OEF ever work with contractors?