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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/04
I used [Wayback/Archive] How could i get a permanent link for raw file? · community · Discussion #22537 · GitHub to go
The reason I needed it is that for quite a while now, GitHub has started to display PDF files as preview, and modified the download behaviour to get a blob: link instead of the actual raw file download location.
On the to do list:
- figure out the same for raw files in gists
- figure out the same for GitLab
- convert these into Bookmarklets (fiddle with the bold parts in the above URLs)
Thanks [Wayback/Archive] Lotaristo (Czeslaw Meyer) and [Wayback/Archive] byrneh (Hugh Byrne)
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/03
Interesting: Buddy (software) – Wikipedia
Buddy (also known as Buddy.Works) is a web-based and self-hosted continuous integration and delivery software for Git developers that can be used to build, test and deploy web sites and applications with code from GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab. It employs Docker containers with pre-installed languages and frameworks for builds, alongside DevOps, monitoring and notification actions.
On my list of things to try in case built-in GitGub and GitLab functionality does not suffice my needs any more.
I wonder how well it runs on ARM architecture.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/25
Most of what I share is in text or picture form but every once in a blue moon I need to share small binaries publicly in a way mere mortals can use.
Since neither GitHub gists nor GitLab snippets support other binary files than images*, and most Pastebin sites are text-only I queried [Wayback/Archive] binary pastebin – Google Search which got me to [Wayback/Archive] Binary pastebin | boltblog.
That in turn pointed to [Wayback/Archive] Pastebin (paste.c-net.org) which has a full page of help, including this important bit:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/16
As a keyboard person, I prefer to live on the CLI (command-line interface), so when possible I prefer command-line tools over GUI tools (especially since command-line tool are way easier to script).
In the past on non-Windows systems I used gist (see below), but that is not available on Windows unless you have a Ruby environment.
Some notes on Windows to install and authenticate GitHub CLI (gh) and GitLab CLI (glab), both of which I previously mentioned in Tribal Knowledge? Getting the public keys from github and gitlab users from their username.
For me, installing is easiest through Chocolatey (version numbers from the time of writing; the non-archived URLs point to the most current version available):
This was my install script:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/03
Learned a while ago: if you have the username from a GitHub or GitLab user, you can download interesting that sometimes can make life easier (but not necessarily more secure):
github.com/username.keys gives you their public SSH keysgitlab.com/username.keys gives you their public SSH keysgithub.com/username.png gives you their profile image
And that there are tools like gh, glab and age that can make direct use of them.
I love Twitter, so thanks for these for teaching me these little tricks:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/31
A few of my git repositories and technical surroundings (like pages) should outlast my life expectancy, for instance the ones supporting the IT infrastructure of my mentally retarded brother after I pass away.
Most of the involved repositories have no write-activity (they are either documentation that the people can use after I passed away, or are semi-static web-pages that require TLS in order to keep functioning; GitLab provides an automatic update mechanism for that which is based on Let’s Encrypt).
Summer 2022, GitLab caused quite some stir when they planned to first delete dormant repositories. Links on tose below.
Of course I could move to GitHub, but that lacks access control through project hierarchy provided by GitLab and could implement a similar repository dormancy scheme in the future.
Using an external “keepalive” mechanism only induces a game of walls and ladders [Wayback/Archive] (likely requiring intervention after I die) and also makes the infrastructure more brittle so I proposed a lump sum plan.
Some links for my reminder:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/12
Still working on handling open Chrome tabs after having moved in the period that GitLab had quite a few issues causing my PagerDuty alerts to go wild.
Today PagerDuty gave me 7 calls in 4 hours again (see [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “@gitlab Since 20240312T1727Z I get PagerDuty alerts from HetrixTools for some pages hosted on GitLab. It would be nice if someone could have a look at gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/17717“).
In adddition I need to check if anything made it to the GitLab issue list from the 20230827 connectivity issues I mentioned at [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “Is it @gitlab hosting having transcontinental issues, or are other continental connections affected as well? These are from two different *.gitlab.io pages as measured via @HetrixTools . No issues are listed at status.gitlab.com“.
Back then, this was the most important one: [Wayback/Archive] GitLab System Status: GitLab.com availability issues – October 30, 2023 15:39 UTC
Likely because of this, wiert.me.gitlab.io had been down for a while as well on 20231031 (see [Wayback/Archive] wiert.me.gitlab.io (Recent History) – HetrixTools down from 2023-10-30T15:24Z until 2023-10-30T16:14Z for 3 + 3 + 11 + 27 = 44 minutes.)
Back then, the hardest part was to quickly find out if there was indeed an issue being investigated at all.
The GitLab status multi-media account on Twitter just points to the status page, which makes it hard to find the underlying issue.
I didn’t archive that one in time, but when I got the alerts it didn’t show anything and when it was resolved it was already beyond the cut-off timestamp to mark it as “same day” and the graph didn’t show much down-time [Wayback/Archive] GitLab System Status graph didn’t show much down-time:
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