Today in #FreeSoftwareAdvent it's the venerable ssh(1)/sshd(8)
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Today in #FreeSoftwareAdvent it's the venerable ssh(1)/sshd(8)
While I grew up in an age where telnet(1) was my only option, the ssh folks made it a pretty drop-in replacement for the sorts of things I did with telnet, so switching was easy.
With the exception of when I'm rebooting or our ISP is having issues, I almost always have at least one SSH connection open and likely more than one connection to other hosts. Even in the "security" of our LAN in the house, I still SSH between machines rather than use unencrypted connections for transfer.
I love being able to run things remotely and use them locally, such as
$ ssh me@remote dmesg | xsel -ib
to put the remote machine's dmesg output on my system clipboard or
$ tar czvf - /path/to/data | ssh me@remote 'cd /destination/path ; tar xzf -'
to transfer a directory tree to a remote machine.
It generally has sensible defaults, allows me to force key-based authentication rather than username+password auth.
It allows me to limit $DAYJOB customers to SFTP-only access within their designated chroot directories, insulating them from each other.
I use it to tunnel into work and forward my RDP VM's screen so I can access it locally with rdesktop(1)
So many delightful little uses.
Definitely worth reading @mwl's SSH book to learn more: https://mwl.io/archives/3126
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@rubenerd @exchgr also, note that weather app has all the things I probably wouldn't have bothered doing on a small throwaway project because they're tedious: Good test coverage, every static analysis option possible, nice packaging and automatic deployment to the server when tagging a release via Github actions. All that would have taken me days to write by hand, even though that's exactly the kind of stuff I do every day at work, versus a few minutes of prompting and occasionally correcting.
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@aeva ahh I see, makes more sense knowing about swipe. I never did figure that out myself, heh.
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@rubenerd @exchgr I could have built the weather app in...maybe 3x-4x the time it took? But, I probably wouldn't have, because I didn't want it three or four times more than that amount of effort.
I've got two other much larger projects that haven't really launched yet, that have also taken remarkably less time than I would have required doing it myself.
I hate being "rah rah AI", but I'm not going to lie on the internet about it when I know it's gotten really good at writing code.
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@johnlogic I’d remove the AA and the “just classes” from education. If you’re concerned about gaps, you already call it “career impact” so it doesn’t have to be complete.
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By posting on here, tapping into my social network is exactly what I'm trying to do.
I've heard that weak ties can be the most powerful, especially when job seeking.
I also have a pretty extensive professional network, as I volunteer for the world's largest technical professional organization, IEEE.
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@rubenerd @exchgr I was dragged into it by my employer, as I like having health insurance, but it works. Over the holidays I built a bunch of stuff (an absurd amount of stuff), more working code than I've ever written in such a short time in my life. I wanted a weather app without ads, so I built one in a couple of hours. https://wthr.lol/ (And, if you're curious about code quality, it's here: https://github.com/swelljoe/wthr.lol )
I've used it to find bugs in huge projects and build from scratch.
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@aeva *it turns out, sometimes the juice is not worth the squeeze
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@rubenerd @exchgr yeah, I read all the studies and felt quite smug about AI, as well. And, then I actually built some stuff and found some bugs with current gen frontier models, and my priors were upended.
I'm not saying I like it, as it's going to cause a tremendous amount of disruption, and not in a good way, given who holds every leadership position in government and industry right now. But, I simply can't pretend it doesn't work, anymore, because I've seen it with my own eyes.
