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title: "Dispatch #8 (October 2023)"
date: 2023-10-06T14:08:30-04:00
draft: false
tags:
- dispatch
references:
- title: "gokrazy is really cool - Xe Iaso"
url: https://xeiaso.net/blog/gokrazy/
date: 2023-10-10T02:50:31Z
file: xeiaso-net-ygnwtd.txt
- title: "I Finally Reached Computing Nirvana. What Was It All For? | WIRED"
url: https://www.wired.com/story/i-finally-reached-computing-nirvana-what-was-it-all-for/
date: 2023-10-10T02:50:32Z
file: www-wired-com-ybjipw.txt
- title: "Style is consistent constraint — Steph Ango"
url: https://stephango.com/style
date: 2023-10-10T02:50:32Z
file: stephango-com-tiumoc.txt
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Italy was grand, what an adventure. We spent a little over a week in Tuscany, mostly on Elba Island, with quick visits to Siena and Florence on our way out. [Our accomodations on Elba][1] were awesome, and other highlights included [Spiaggia di Sansone][2], [Cavo][3], and revisiting a few favorite spots in Siena and Florence (the pizza at [Il Pomodorino][4] was as good as we remembered).
It wasn't all perfectly smooth -- Nev had a tough time with jet lag, and driving through Italy was stressful, but a week later, that stuff's all faded away and what remains are the great memories.
[1]: https://www.rosselbalepalme.it/en/glamping-lodge.php
[2]: https://www.infoelba.com/island-of-elba/beaches/sansone-beach/
[3]: https://www.infoelba.com/discovering-elba/communes-towns/rio-marina/cavo/
[4]: https://ilpomodorino.it/
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I downloaded the [Airalo][5] app before I left, which offers cheap international data plans using e-SIM cards. The app works great, no complaints there, but mixed feelings about having a working phone while on vacation -- it was cool to be able to send photos + make video calls, but my company's going through some tough times and I couldn't pull myself away from Slack and email.
[5]: https://www.airalo.com/
I had a birthday right before we left, and I decided to gift myself a [Novation Circuit Tracks][6], a portable synthesizer and drum machine. This thing is neat! Four drum tracks, two synths, and the ability to control other gear with MIDI. I've only had it about a week and I'm already feeling relatively proficient. Here are a couple demos:
[6]: https://us.novationmusic.com/products/circuit-tracks?setCurrencyId=2
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On that second one, the Circuit is using MIDI signals to play my [digital piano][7], which is then sending audio back into the Circuit. I'm just using the voice memos app (of all things) to record the output; I'll probably need to get a proper <abbr title="digital audio workstation">DAW</abbr> set up if I'm going to get more ambitious, but for now, it's pretty fun to create tracks with just a hardware device.
[7]: https://usa.yamaha.com/products/music_production/synthesizers/reface/reface_cp.html
Making music, especially digitally, appeals equally to my mathematical and creative brains; it's so cool to punch a rhythm into a grid and hear something pretty good come out. And it's cool that music hardware is pretty much all MIDI + audio signals, and you can combine devices in unlimited ways (the flipside being that my gear wishlist is growing by the day).
I was anticipating a longer learning curve with the Circuit, and was kind of surprised that I was making tracks basically as good as I've ever done within a few days; maybe it's just an intuitively-designed tool, but more realistically, I'm just not a very sophisticated musician. I feel that way about a lot of hobbies -- I gain a level of basic competence and just kind of stay there. Someone recently asked how long I'd been playing guitar, and I said, well, I guess 25 years, but I'm like 1.5 years good. Maybe I'll always be a dabbler, and maybe that's OK! I certainly get a lot of joy out of these activities. But I can't help but compare myself to, like, [Bonobo][8] and feel like that's what I should be striving for.
[8]: https://bonobomusic.com/
This month:
* Adventure: [Bull City Race Fest][9] half-marathon next weekend, then, if I'm feeling frisky, keep my training up and register for [City of Oaks][10]. The other night, I was running after dark and managed to tweaked my ankle in the last 20 feet -- the perils of trying to balance work, parenting, and training, I guess.
* Project:
* Build a music workstation -- I need some more desk space for gear, cables, and power
* Prep my `Golong` app for the upcoming NBA draft, then open source it & write a post about it
* Write a program in Go to pull interesting stats from my fantasy leagues using this [`yfquery` library][11]
* Skill: keep making musical tracks + refining my workflows
[9]: https://capstoneraces.com/bull-city-race-fest/
[10]: https://cityofoaksmarathon.com/
[11]: https://github.com/famendola1/yfquery
Reading:
* Fiction:
* [_Double or Nothing_][12], Kim Sherwood
* [_Enemy of the State_][13], Kyle Mills
* Non-fiction: [_The Creative Programmer_][14], [Wouter Groeneveld][15]
[12]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/double-or-nothing-a-double-o-novel-kim-sherwood/18644028?ean=9780063236516
[13]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/enemy-of-the-state-vince-flynn/6701730?ean=9781982147525
[14]: https://www.manning.com/books/the-creative-programmer
[15]: https://brainbaking.com/
Links:
* [gokrazy is really cool][16]
> gokrazy is a Linux implementation that I've used off and on for a few years now. It's a very interesting project because everything on the system is written in Go save the kernel. The init process is in Go (and even listens over HTTP to handle updates!), every userland process is written in Go, and even the core system services are written in Go.
* [I Finally Reached Computing Nirvana. What Was It All For?][17]
> Then, one cold day—January 31, 2022—something bizarre happened. I was at home, writing a little glue function to make my emails searchable from anywhere inside my text editor. I evaluated that tiny program and ran it. It worked. Somewhere in my brain, I felt a distinct _click_. I was done. No longer configuring, but configured. The world had conspired to give me what I wanted.
* [Style is consistent constraint][18]
> When it comes to ideas, I agree — allow your mind to be changed. When it comes to process, I disagree. Style emerges from consistency, and having a style opens your imagination. Your mind should be flexible, but your process should be repeatable.
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#[1]Steph Ango [2]Steph Ango
[3]Steph Ango / [4]Writing [5]About [6]Now
Style is consistent constraint
September 3, 2023 •2 minute read
Oscar Wilde once said:
“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
When it comes to ideas, I agree — allow your mind to be changed. When
it comes to process, I disagree. Style emerges from consistency, and
having a style opens your imagination. Your mind should be flexible,
but your process should be repeatable.
Style is a set of constraints that you stick to.
You can explore many types of constraints: colors, shapes, materials,
textures, fonts, language, clothing, decor, beliefs, flavors, sounds,
scents, rituals. Your style doesn’t have to please anyone else. Play by
your own rules. Everything you do is open to stylistic interpretation.
A style can be a system, a pattern, a set of personal guidelines. Here
are a few of mine:
* I wear monochromatic clothing without logos
* I use YYYY-MM-DD dates everywhere
* I pluralize tag and folder names (e.g. #people not #person)
* I use [7]plain text files for all my writing
* I ask myself [8]40 questions every year
* I meal prep lunches every week, shave my head twice a week
* I write [9]concise essays, less than 500 words
Collect constraints you enjoy. Unusual constraints make things more
fun. You can always change them later. This is your style, after all.
It’s not a life commitment, it’s just the way you do things. For now.
Having a style collapses hundreds of future decisions into one, and
gives you focus. I always pluralize tags so I never have to wonder what
to name new tags.
Style gives you leverage. Every time you reuse your style you save
time. A durable style is a great investment.
Style helps you know when you’re breaking your constraints. Sometimes
you have to. And if you want to edit your constraints, you can. It will
be easier to adopt the new constraints if you already had some clearly
defined.
You don’t need a style for everything. Make a deliberate choice about
what needs consistency and what doesn’t.
If you stick with your constraints long enough, your style becomes a
cohesive and recognizable [10]point of view.
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* George R.R. Martin writes his novels on the 40 year old DOS
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* Beethoven always counted exactly 60 coffee beans to make coffee,
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* Jesper Kouthoofd of [23]Teenage Engineering [24]only uses lowercase
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* Osvaldo Cavandoli created the cartoon [25]La Linea using an
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Like many nerds before me, I spent a goodly portion of my life
searching for the perfect [40]computing system. I wanted a single tool
that would let me write prose or programs, that could search every
email, tweet, or document in a few keystrokes, and that would work
across all my devices. I yearned to summit the mythic Mt. Augment, to
achieve the enlightenment of a properly orchestrated personal computer.
Where the [41]software industry offered notifications, little clicks
and dings, messages jumping up and down on my screen like a dog begging
for a treat, I wanted calm textuality. Seeking it, I tweaked. I
configured.
The purpose of configuration is to make a thing work with some other
thing—to make the to-do list work with the email client, say, or the
calendar work with the other calendar. It's an interdisciplinary study.
Configuration can be as complex as programming or as simple as checking
a box. Everyone talks about it, but it's not taken that seriously,
because there's not much profit in it. And unfortunately, configuration
is indistinguishable from procrastination. A little is fine but too
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I spent almost three decades configuring my text editor, amassing 20 or
so dotfiles that would make one acronym or nonsense word concordant
with another. (For me: i3wm + emacs + org-mode + notmuch + tmux, bound
together with ssh + git + Syncthing + Tailscale.) I'd start down a
path, but then there'd be some blocker—some bug I didn't understand,
some page of errors I didn't have time to deal with—and I'd give up.
A big problem I had was where to put my stuff. I tried different
databases, folder structures, private websites, cloud drives, and
desktop search tools. The key, finally, was to turn nearly everything
in my life into emails. All my calendar entries, essay drafts, tweets—I
wrote programs that turned them into gigs and gigs of emails. Emails
are horrible, messy, swollen, decrepit forms of data, but they are
understood by everything everywhere. You can lard them with
attachments. You can tag them. You can add any amount of metadata to
them and synchronize them with servers. They suck, but they work. No
higher praise.
It took years to get all these emails into place, tag them, filter them
just so. Little by little I could see more of the shape of my own data.
And as I did this, software got better and computers got faster. Not
only that, other people started sharing their config files on GitHub.
Then, one cold day—January 31, 2022—something bizarre happened. I was
at home, writing a little glue function to make my emails searchable
from anywhere inside my text editor. I evaluated that tiny program and
ran it. It worked. Somewhere in my brain, I felt a distinct click. I
was done. No longer configuring, but configured. The world had
conspired to give me what I wanted. I stood up from the computer,
suffused with a sort of European-classical-composer level of emotion,
and went for a walk. Was this happiness? Freedom? Or would I find
myself back tomorrow, with a whole new set of requirements?
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The more “professional” a piece of software is intended to be, the more
likely it is to be scriptable. CAD tools or 3D programs will provide
whole languages just for configuration. But the huge consumer products,
the operating systems themselves, are more and more locked down. The
reasons are multiple—money, security, simplicity. A lot of our
computing is done on someone else's terms. We describe it with carceral
words. To assert control over your device, you “jailbreak” out.
I wonder if this is one of the reasons people get into [49]crypto—they
dream of a new world that can be customized like software. Programmable
money, self-executing contracts, little scripts that rearrange reality.
In DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations), people use code to
make social rules, then buy or do things with their consolidated
digital might.
A lot of my friends hate all this stuff (perhaps [50]NFTs more than
DAOs) with great passion; they see it as a closing off, a betrayal of
the open, trust-driven nature of the early web. Others love it, seeing
it as a continuation of the community-building, empowering nature of
the early web. What I see is a generation of configurers coming into
their own. Older web folks expected to create the new digital economy;
these younger ones are trying to create the new economy economy. Their
dream is a more perfect union where humans will, because of computers,
stop acting in the ways we've been acting since we came out of the
trees. Then again, $200 million in NFTs were stolen the day I drafted
this column.
When in history have we been able to schedule folly? Sometimes the only
way to end the vacation is to drive the RV off a cliff.
Perhaps by the time you read this the NFTs will have been returned.
That would be a good reconfiguration. But the likely outcome of the
boom is that some people will cash out at the right time and become
convinced that they hold the keys to the universe and will lecture us
for the rest of our lives, and most people (like those who had their
NFTs stolen) will be humbled, or at best break even. When in history
have we been able to schedule folly? Sometimes the only way to end the
vacation is to drive the RV off a cliff.
While the youth reconfigure society, I'm done configuring. A month has
gone by since the click, and the urge to tweak is gone. My system looks
like something from the '80s (a lot of it is from the '80s), but I
finally got my room just the way I like it.
Here's what I mean. Say I search for the word “database”; 7,222 emails
pop up. Most are from marketers and industry mailing lists proclaiming
some technological triumph, but nestled among them are messages from
me, or to me, about learning to use databases—XML databases, SQL
databases, and so forth. When I read these old messages, I am always
surprised at how little I've changed, how consistent my obsessions are.
There's something valuable to me in just seeing that, in seeing how the
world keeps trumpeting the new while the self stays the same. You'd
think there'd be at least five new me's by now, given how often I've
vowed to become better. But no. I've been writing about configuring my
text editor since 1996. I've been running my mouth about databases at
least that long. They say you can't dip your hand in the same river
twice, but they rarely mention that it's the same hand doing the
dipping.
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Since the emails are, well, just emails, sometimes I hit Reply (by
typing “r”). On a thread that went dormant a decade ago. I don't always
offer context. Sometimes I just write, “Curious … how did this turn
out?” I used to feel I was intruding, to just drop in like that. But
what the hell. It's been a long pandemic. No one has to write back.
Out go the emails. Most get no reply; some get a bounce-back. But often
enough, people respond at length. Some left the city and came back.
Some are up for coffee. A surprising number are now cyborgs
(pacemakers, hearing aids). Some are rich, some are broke, some are
divorced. One is considering being frozen after death, some are
considering getting into crypto, and one has moved to Miami. None of us
understand our children.
I'm thinking of starting a Sunday morning waffle breakfast for
[55]vaccinated people to come stare at each other. It's one thing to
email after 10 years, but everyone appreciates an invitation to
breakfast. Maybe I'll set up some sort of internet-connected LED
scrolly screen, like they put on food carts, so out-of-towners can
leave messages. I gotta have something to configure.
If you'd asked me, back when I was still configuring, not yet
configured, exactly why I was nurturing these dozens of dotfiles, I'd
have had a hard time telling you. I would have said: I want a pure and
sleek experience. I want the computer working for me, augmenting my
dumb brain with its immense arithmetical speed. I want access to my
whole digital self. So I am very surprised that the terminal result of
my efforts is not some sort of ecstatic communion with the internet, or
even with my own computer. The function of my whole big orchestrated,
tagged, integrated system was merely to rekindle old ties. What was all
that configuration for? It was, in all sincerity, for waffles.
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gokrazy is really cool
Published on 09/20/2023
An image of undefined I work for Tailscale at the time of writing this
article. I wrote this on my own time out of my own volition.
When you deal with Linux, you end up hearing about "distributions" as
different "flavors" of Linux combined with a bunch of other tools. This
is mostly true, but it's slightly missing the forest for the trees.
Consider this famous and often misunderstood quote by Richard Stallman:
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as
Linux is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling
it, GNU plus Linux.Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but
rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made
useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system
components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many pages of ink have been spilled over analyzing this quote, and a
lot of them fall short of really getting at the heart of the matter.
What this actually means is something like this:
By itself, Linux is useless. It does boot the system, it does interface
with hardware, but without a bunch of other tools, it's not very
useful. It's like a car without a steering wheel, or a boat without a
rudder. It does something, but it's not very useful. The real value of
things like the GNU project, systemd, openrc and other tools in that
vein is that they make Linux useful. They make it into a complete
system that you can use to do things. They are the proverbial steering
wheel and rudder in the metaphor.
Mara is hacker
<[10]Mara> Fun fact, if you try to boot a Linux kernel without an init
process, it'll just panic and crash!
Most Linux systems on the face of the planet are built with GNU tools
and utilities. In order to compile the Linux kernel, you need to use
[11]GCC. In order to run ls to list files in the current directory, you
need to use [12]GNU coreutils. Every dynamically linked program uses
[13]glibc for performing basic system interactions like writing to
files or opening network sockets. Everything is built on top of the GNU
toolset. This is why Stallman is so adamant about calling it GNU/Linux.
It's not that he's trying to take credit for Linux, it's that he's
trying to give credit to the GNU project for making Linux useful.
However, there's a lot of room for nuance here. For example, [14]Alpine
Linux is a Linux distribution that uses [15]musl libc instead of
[16]glibc and [17]busybox instead of GNU coreutils. It's still a Linux
distribution, but it doesn't use the GNU toolset. It's still a Linux
distribution, but it's not GNU/Linux.
Mara is hacker
<[18]Mara> Also, for the record you can build the Linux kernel with
clang, but that's a whole other can of worms. For one, GCC supports
many more targets than clang likely ever will, but in general there are
some compromises you need to make until clang implements some
GCC-specific compiler extensions a bit better. Google, Facebook, and a
few other companies do run LLVM compiled kernels in production though,
so it's probably closer to viable than you think. Especially if you use
ChromeOS or Android.
So, what is a Linux distribution? It's a collection of tools that make
Linux useful. It's a collection of tools that make Linux into a
complete system. It's not a "flavor" of Linux (though this conceptually
can exist with alternative kernels like the Zen kernel patchset), it's
a system that just so happens to make Linux useful.
As a counter-argument, consider the reason why Linux runs on more
devices worldwide than there are people: [19]Android. Android does use
the Linux kernel, but it doesn't use any GNU tools in the stack at all.
You can't take programs that are compiled against other Linux
distributions and run them on Android. You can't take programs that are
compiled against Android and run them on other Linux distributions.
Aoi is wut
<[20]Aoi> Wait, so does this mean Android's not a Linux distribution?
What is it then?
I'm going to argue that Android is not a Linux distribution unto
itself. Android is a Linux implementation. It uses the Linux kernel,
but that's where the similarities with the rest of the ecosystem end.
Android is its own little world where there's just enough system tools
to get the system running, but once you get into the UI, it's a
completely different world. It's a completely different ecosystem. It's
a completely different operating system.
Aoi is wut
<[21]Aoi> So what's the difference between a Linux distribution and a
Linux implementation?
Cadey is enby
<[22]Cadey> It's a bit of a fuzzy line, but I'd say that a Linux
distribution is a collection of discrete tools that make Linux useful,
and a Linux implementation is a cohesive collection of bespoke tools
that make Linux into a complete system. Really, you could argue that if
it has /bin/sh, it's a Linux distribution.
gokrazy
[23]gokrazy is a Linux implementation that I've used off and on for a
few years now. It's a very interesting project because everything on
the system is written in Go save the kernel. The init process is in Go
(and even listens over HTTP to handle updates!), every userland process
is written in Go, and even the core system services are written in Go.
Out of the box a gokrazy install comes with these basic tools:
* The init process that is mandated to be the parent of all userland
processes by the Linux kernel.
* A [24]DHCP client that automatically configures the network
interface.
* A [25]NTP client that automatically sets the system clock.
* A little tool to save randomness from the kernel to a file so that
it can be used to seed the random number generator on boot (because
the Raspberry Pi doesn't have a robust hardware random number
generator)
That's it. Everything else from the web UI to A/B update logic is
written in Go. It boots in literal seconds, uses an insanely small
amount of RAM out of the box, and runs with nearly zero overhead. When
you configure your gokrazy install to run additional software, you do
so by adding the Go command path to a configuration file and then
updating to trigger a reboot into the new version.
Here's an example of what my gokrazy virtual machine's file tree looks
like:
/ # tree etc gokrazy user
etc
âââ breakglass.authorized_keys
âââ gokr-pw.txt
âââ gokrazy
â âââ sbom.json
âââ hostname
âââ hosts
âââ http-port.txt
âââ https-port.txt
âââ localtime
âââ machine-id
âââ resolv.conf -> /tmp/resolv.conf
âââ ssl
âââ ca-bundle.pem
gokrazy
âââ dhcp
âââ heartbeat
âââ init
âââ ntp
âââ randomd
user
âââ breakglass
âââ fbstatus
âââ qemu-guest-kragent
âââ serial-busybox
âââ tailscale
âââ tailscaled
âââ waifud-gok-agent
That is the entire system. It's all stripped down to these few
programs, configuration files, and one symlink for DNS resolution. This
is a very minimal system, and it's all you need to run statically
linked Go programs. It's very easy to deploy your own services to it
too. It's probably the easiest platform I know of that lets you just
deploy a Go binary and have it run as a service, automatically
restarting when it crashes.
The tooling
When I used gokrazy back in the day, you had to use a command line
called gokr-packer that you passed a bunch of command line flags to
with information about all the Go programs you wanted to run on the
machine, configuration for those programs, and any other
meta-information like where the update tool should push the image to.
It was a bit of a pain to use, but it worked. Recently the [26]gok tool
was added to the project, and this has been revolutionary when it comes
to using and administrating gokrazy installs.
Essentially, gok is a wrapper around the existing gokr-packer logic
with a JSON file to store your configuration details. It's a lot easier
to use, understand, and automate. You don't have to remember command
line flags or maintain unwieldy scripts. You just edit a JSON file and
push updates with gok update. It's amazingly simple.
Setting up a gokrazy machine
As an example, I'm going to show you how to install a bunch of tailnet
addons to a gokrazy machine. I'm also going to assume that you don't
have a gokrazy install set up yet, so we'll need to install it. To do
this, we'll need to do a few simple things:
* Install the gok tool.
* Create your gok configuration.
* Install Tailscale on the machine.
* Create your "seed" image with gok overwrite.
* Boot it on your Raspberry Pi or VM.
* Push any updates to the image to the machine with gok update.
First, let's install the gok tool. In order to do this, you need to
have the [27]Go toolchain installed. Once you have that, you can run go
install to install the gok tool:
go install github.com/gokrazy/tools/cmd/gok@main
Mara is hacker
<[28]Mara> You may want to ensure that ~/go/bin is in your $PATH
variable so that you can run it by the name gok instead of
~/go/bin/gok.
Next, create a new gokrazy configuration with gok new:
gok new -i casa
This will create a configuration named casa (cf: Spanish for "house")
in ~/gokrazy/casa. This is where all of your configuration files will
live. You can edit the configuration file with gok edit:
gok edit -i casa
If you are making a virtual machine
If you are making a virtual machine, you will need to override the
kernel and firmware packages. You can do this by adding the following
to your configuration file:
{
// ...
"KernelPackage": "github.com/rtr7/kernel",
"FirmwarePackage": "github.com/rtr7/kernel",
// ...
}
You will need to prefix the gok overwrite and gok update commands with
GOARCH=amd64 to ensure that Go builds x86_64 binaries instead of ARM
binaries:
GOARCH=amd64 gok update -i casa
If you don't do this, you will get arm64 binaries being built. This may
require manual recovery of your virtual machine.
Let's make our lives easier by installing [29]Tailscale on the machine.
By default, gokrazy will announce its hostname over DHCP, which usually
makes most consumer routers pick it up and then lets you ping it by
name. When you have [30]MagicDNS enabled, Tailscale can take over this
logic and prevent you from accessing the machine by name.
However, Tailscale is written in Go and doesn't require any of the
services that most Linux distributions provide in order to function.
It's a perfect fit for gokrazy. You can install it with gok add:
gok add tailscale.com/cmd/tailscaled
gok add tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale
And be sure to add the mkfs service to create a persistent partition on
/perm:
gok add github.com/gokrazy/mkfs
Next, fetch an [31]auth key from [32]the admin console and make sure
you check that it's reusable. Then, add the following to your
configuration file under the PackageConfig block:
{
// ...
"PackageConfig": {
// ...
"tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale": {
"CommandLineFlags": [
"up",
// paste your key here!
"--authkey=tskey-auth-hunter2-hunter2hunter2hunter2"
]
},
// ...
}
// ...
}
Mara is hacker
<[33]Mara> You can pass any other [34]tailscale up flags you want here,
such as --advertise-exit-node if you want to use your gokrazy machine
as an [35]exit node.
This will make your machine automatically connect to Tailscale on boot.
Next, we need to create our "seed" image with gok overwrite. First,
figure out what the device node for your SD card is. On Linux, you can
do this with lsblk:
lsblk
And then look for the one that has the same size as your SD card. In my
case, it's /dev/sdd. Once you have that, you can run gok overwrite:
gok overwrite --full /dev/sdd
However if you want to write the image to a file (such as if you are
doing mass distribution or making a VM image), you need to use gok
overwrite with a file instead of a device node. This will create a 16
GB image:
gok overwrite -i casa --full gokrazy.img --target_storage_bytes 17179869184
Once you have your image, you can write it to your SD card with dd (or
[36]balenaEtcher) or import it into your virtual machine hypervisor of
choice.
Once you have your image written to your SD card, you can boot it on
your Raspberry Pi or VM.
Aoi is wut
<[37]Aoi> Wait, so how do I log in with a shell?
Cadey is enby
<[38]Cadey> You don't. gokrazy doesn't have a login prompt. It's a
single-user system. There is [39]breakglass as a tool of last resort to
modify things, but you only have a very minimal subset of busybox to
work with, so it should be avoided if at all possible.
Once you have your machine booted and it responds to pings over
Tailscale, you can open its HTTP interface in your browser. If you
called your machine casa, you can open it at [40]http://casa. It will
prompt you for a username and password. Your username is gokrazy, and
the password is near the top of your config.json file. When you log in,
you'll see a screen like this:
[41][gokrazy-ui.jpg]
This is the gokrazy web UI. It lets you see the status of your machine
and any logs that are being generated by your applications. You can
also start, stop, and restart any of your applications from here. It's
a very simple UI, but it's fantastic for debugging and monitoring.
Tailnet addons
Now that we have a Gokrazy system up and running, let's add some
programs to it! I'm going to list a couple tailnet addons that give
your tailnet superpowers. These are all written in Go, so they're a
perfect fit for gokrazy.
Today I'm going to show you how to install these tools into your
tailnet:
* [42]golink - a URL shortener at http://go
* [43]tmemes - an internal meme generator you can host at
http://memegen
* [44]tclip - a pastebin you can host at http://paste
These tools help you augment your tailnet by giving you tools that will
make you and your team's life a lot easier. A URL shortener helps you
link to complicated Google Docs URLs. A meme generator gives you a new
innovative way to let off steam. A pastebin lets you share text with
your team without having to worry about the service you're using going
offline due to no fault of your own.
golink
To install golink, we need to add the golink binary to the
configuration. You can do this with gok add:
gok add github.com/tailscale/golink/cmd/golink
Then configure it with gok edit:
{
// ...
"PackageConfig": {
// ...
"github.com/tailscale/golink/cmd/golink": {
"CommandLineFlags": [
"--sqlitedb=/perm/home/golink/data.db"
],
"Environment": [
// the same one from before
"TS_AUTHKEY=tskey-auth-hunter2-hunter2hunter2hunter2"
],
// don't start the service until NTP catches up
"WaitForClock": true
},
// ...
}
// ...
}
And finally push it with gok update:
gok update -i casa
It'll build the image, push it out over Tailscale, trigger a reboot,
and be back up in the span of a minute. Once it's back up, you can open
the web UI again and see the status of your golink instance at
[45]http://casa/status?path=%2fuser%2fgolink:
[46][golink.jpg]
And then you can start using short URLs at [47]http://go:
[48][golink-ui.jpg]
And that's it! You now have a super minimal VM running small programs
that let you do useful things to you. You can add more programs to your
configuration file and push them with gok update to add more
functionality to your machine. You can even add your own programs to
the configuration file and push them to your machine. It's a very
simple system, but it's very powerful.
tmemes
Google is infamous for having an internal service named [49]memegen.
This allows Googlers to make internal-facing memes about the slings and
arrows that impact them as highly paid programmers. This is an internal
service inside Google that has a lot of serious investment of time and
energy to make it the best possible experience it can be. It's to the
point that reportedly people can keep up with how an all-hands meeting
is going by the tone of the sarcastic memes that are being posted to
memegen.
The main reason this is run inside Google is to avoid information
leaking via memes. Yes, this is an actual threat model.
Thanks to the magic of Tailscale, you can make your own private memegen
using [50]tmemes. tmemes is a tailnet addon that lets you post image
macro templates and layer wisdom over it in the form of text.
Here's an example meme:
[51][society-if-gokrazy.jpg]
To add tmemes to your gokrazy machine, you can use gok add:
gok add github.com/tailscale/tmemes/tmemes
Then open your config with gok edit and add the following to your
PackageConfig block:
{
// ...
"PackageConfig": {
// ...
"github.com/tailscale/tmemes/tmemes": {
"Environment": [
"TS_AUTHKEY=tskey-auth-hunter2-hunter2hunter2hunter2"
],
"CommandLineFlags": [
// change this to your desired hostname
"--hostname=memegen",
// change this to your username on Tailscale
"--admin=Xe@github",
"--store=/perm/home/tmemes"
],
"WaitForClock": true
},
// ...
},
// ...
}
And then push it with gok update:
gok update -i casa
Then you can head to [52]http://memegen and upload a template to make
your own dank memes.
If you want to integrate your own tools with tmemes, you can check out
the [53]API documentation. This should help you do whatever it is you
want with a meme generator as a service.
tclip
Sometimes you just need a place to paste text and get a URL pointing to
it. [54]tclip is a tool that you can add to your tailnet and get
exactly that. It's a very simple tool, but it's very useful. It's also
written in Go, so it's a perfect fit for gokrazy. [55]Their recent
update to remove Cgo dependencies makes it possible to run your tclip
node on a gokrazy machine.
To add tclip to your gokrazy machine, you can use gok add:
gok add github.com/tailscale-dev/tclip/cmd/tclipd
Then open your config with gok edit and add the following to your
PackageConfig block:
{
// ...
"PackageConfig": {
// ...
"github.com/tailscale-dev/tclip/cmd/tclipd": {
"CommandLineFlags": [
"--data-location=/perm/home/tclip/"
],
"WaitForClock": true,
"Environment": [
"TS_AUTHKEY=tskey-auth-hunter2-hunter2hunter2hunter2",
"USE_FUNNEL=true" // Remove this if you don't want to use Funnel
]
},
// ...
}
}
And then push it with gok update:
gok update -i casa
And then you can start using it by heading to [56]http://paste. Install
the command-line tool on your development workstation with go install:
go install github.com/tailscale-dev/tclip/cmd/tclip@latest
Here's an example tclip link if you want to see what it looks like in
practice: [57]interjection.c. It's a very simple tool, but it's very
useful.
Conclusion
gokrazy is insanely cool. It's the easiest way to deploy Go services to
your homelab. It integrates seamlessly with Tailscale, and is something
that I'm very excited to see grow and mature. I'm very excited to see
what the future holds for gokrazy, and I'm very excited to see what
people do with it.
I've seen signs that they're going to be adding an automatic update
process, and that has me very excited. I'm also excited to see what
other services people add to the gokrazy ecosystem. I'm hoping to add a
few of my own in the future, and I'm hoping to see what other people do
with it.
Mara is hacker
<[58]Mara> Spoiler alert: [59]waifud support is coming soon to a
homelab near you.
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