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New IP addresses for Bitbucket Cloud | Bitbucket Blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/25

If you are using bitbucket from behind a firewall, these might be important to you:

What are we doing? We’ll start a gradual rollout of changing our A records in DNS starting at 22:00 UTC on Sunday, July 29 2018 to point to new IP addresses. The rollout is expected to be completed for all our customers two weeks later, i.e by the 15th of August.

…

How will this affect you?

Most users will not have to do anything special for this migration. Your DNS servers should pick up the new IPs within a few minutes of the migration, and your systems should start using the new IPs right away. We’ll keep the old IPs running for a few weeks afterwards just in case, though.

Firewall considerations

If you control inbound or outbound access with a firewall, then you may need to update your configuration. Please whitelist these new IPs now; you should be able to remove the old IPs after the migration is complete. New destination IP addresses for bitbucket.org, bitbucket.com, api.bitbucket.org, bitbucket.io, bytebucket.org, altssh.bitbucket.org will be: IPv4: 18.205.93.0/25 and 13.52.5.0/25 IPv6: 2406:da00:ff00::0/96

SSH considerations

Our server’s SSH key is not changing, so most SSH clients will continue to work without interruption. However, a small number of users may see a warning similar to this when they push or pull over SSH: Warning: the RSA host key for ‘bitbucket.org’ differs from the key for the IP address ‘18.205.93.1’ The warning message will also tell you which lines in your ~/.ssh/known_hosts need to change. Open that file in your favorite editor, remove or comment out those lines, then retry your push or pull.

Additional resources Atlassian Public IP ranges JSON: https://ip-ranges.atlassian.com/ (will be updated with the new addresses as part of the new IPs rollout) https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/what-are-the-bitbucket-cloud-ip-addresses-i-should-use-to-configure-my-corporate-firewall-343343385.html (will be updated with the new addresses as part of the new IPs rollout)

From:

–jeroen

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When learning a new VCS drives you crazy: Plastic SCM indicating it cannot undo changes, but not providing an alternative

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/25

User experiences like this drives me crazy, this time in Plastic SCM, when you try to get the most recent files on a branch/label/changeset after you made some changes:

So you go to the pending changes, see it involves additions and you see a big “Undo changes” button that fails to work:

  • 8 of 8 items selected
  • plastic insisting there are none

The undocumented “secret” is at the end of the messages “added and private items” cannot be undone. You have to manually “delete” them, which the message does not tell you.

Of course there is no “Delete” entry in the toolbar. There is no “Delete” entry in the local menu either.

You have to know that you

  • can do “Delete” by using the keyboard,
  • after first manually selecting all the entries in the treeview (so they get blue, which is different than having checkmarks).

How is that for a lack of user-experience?

Versions

This is on a version 6 client with a version 6 server.

Later I found out this bit on versioning, which I totally did not expect, as it does not match semantic versioning:

Version numbering

Starting in Plastic SCM 4.0 the version numbering schema has been modified:

  • major.minor.compatibility.buildnumber
  • Sample: 5.0.44.511 means:
    • 5 -> major release number
    • 0 -> minor release number
    • 44 -> compatibility -> all clients and servers with “44” in the compat number are compatible, even if the build number changes
    • 511 -> internal build number

So I have tried to to switch from

using the download at https://www.plasticscm.com/download/ to

with no difference.

–jeroen

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PlasticSCM: seriously? Comment size too long (which means your checkin message is too long), and why can’t I request a code review?

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/13

Good job PlasticSCM! Imposing limits on what you can write. Not!

It is not actually the comment size, but the commit message length (naming things consistently is hard).

---------------------------
Error
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Comment size is too long. Its current length is 2397, whereas the maximum allowed length is 1000
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OK
---------------------------

This after I had a big fight where the PlasticSCM “Undo Unchanged” action is unreliable: after that, if you refresh, then diff some of the files they show as “idental”, nor nothing at all happens (Beyond Compare is if big help showing “files are binary the same”).

After the commit (which is actually called “Checkin” in the UI button, so far for naming things consistently), I cannot even request for a code review:

Finally I need to find out the cause of the below message when I click on “Checkin” (i.e. not Checkout):

---------------------------
Error
---------------------------
Can't perform a checkout in an edited xlink.
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------

/rant

–jeroen

Twitter threads:

https://twitter.com/TheRealMig_El/status/1017813424078802950

 

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Why I like PlantUML

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/13

Ever since I started using computers, I’ve liked text based solutions.

It’s one of the reasons I like PlantUML, but there are more. This is from a GitLab.com request I did a while ago: [WayBack/Archive] Please enable PlantUML rendering on gitlab.com both for standalone plantuml files and inside markdown plantuml code blocks (#2041) · Issues · GitLab.com / GitLab.com Support Tracker · GitLab (Edit 20250730: that issue now shows as a HTTP 404 as well – how fitting – [Wayback/Archive] Not Found)

one of my UML gripes from the past (I’ve been a software developer for about 30 years now) was that it wasn’t text based.

After bumping into PlantUML a long time ago in 2014 I’ve become a happy user of it for a few reasons:

  • the language is text based (with many benefits I don’t need to explain)
  • the tool is cross platform
  • the tool is still actively developed all the way back from 2009
  • after rendering, the arranging of elements is much better than I expected from an automated tool

Of course every now and then there is a glitch in complex diagrams, but I’ve found that professional tools:

  1. don’t do much better in fully-automated arranging
  2. become very cumbersome to use when you to manual arrangement

My first use initially was online, then in 2016 installed it on my Mac even submitting homebrew updates for it every now and then.

Oh: I love their 404 humour at http://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/beta

Edit 20250731: Full 404 text below the signature because the PlantUML beta page does not show this 404 any more and the Reddit post with the full text got deleted.

Renderings can be in all sorts of graphics and text formats, for instance SVG, PNG, ASCII and Unicode.

Example:

plantuml -tsvg PSO.network-diagram.PlantUML.txt

--jeroen

via:

full 404-text

The requested document is no more.
No file found.
Even tried multi.
Nothing helped.
Zilch.
Bupkis.
Not a sausage.
Maybe you just don’t have the required security clearance?
No, I am sure it is my fault.
I probably deleted it on my last backup.
I’m really depressed about this.
You see, I’m just a web server…
— here I am,
Marvin, as they call me,
brain the size of the universe,
trying to serve you a simple web page,
and then it doesn’t even exist!
Where does that leave me?!
I mean, I don’t even know you.
How should I know what you wanted from me?
You honestly think I can *guess* what someone I don’t even *know* wants to find here?
*sigh*
Man, I’m so depressed I could just cry.
And then where would we be, I ask you?
It’s not pretty when a web server cries.
And where do you get off telling me what to show anyway?
Just because I’m a web server,
and possibly a manic depressive one at that?
Why does that give you the right to tell me what to do?
Huh?
I’m so depressed…
I think I’ll crawl off into the trash can and decompose.
I mean, I’m gonna be obsolete in what, two weeks anyway?
What kind of a life is that?
Two effing weeks,
and then I’ll be replaced by a .01 release,
that thinks it’s God’s gift to web servers,
just because it doesn’t have some tiddly little security hole with its HTTP POST implementation,_
or something.
I’m really sorry to burden you with all this,
I mean, it’s not your job to listen to my problems,
and I guess it is *my* job to go and fetch web pages for you.
But I couldn’t get this one.
I’m so sorry.
Believe me!
Maybe I could interest you in another page?
There are a lot out there that are pretty neat, they say,
although none of them were put on *my* server, of course.
Figures, huh?
Everything here is just mind-numbingly stupid.
That makes me depressed too, since I have to serve them,
all day and all night long.
Two weeks of information overload,
and then *pffftt*, consigned to the trash.
What kind of a life is that?
Now, please let me sulk alone.
I’m so depressed._

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Our CTO has discovered an incredible way of making developers read his commit messages. You won’t even believe how he did it! | CommitStrip

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/06

From a long time ago: [WayBack] Our CTO has discovered an incredible way of making developers read his commit messages. You won’t even believe how he did it! | CommitStrip.

It seems others want to improve their commit Click-Through-Ratios as well, in a faint hope to get their pull-requests merged.

[WayBack] Thibaut Sacreste on Twitter: “I’ve been experimenting with clickbaity pull request headlines at work. CTR’s gone Though. The. Roof!!!… “

Tough luck: in the mean time, developers have learned (:

Via: [WayBack] »I’ve been experimenting with clickbaity pull request headlines at work. CTR’s gone Though. The. Roof!!!« – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

–jeroen

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acaudwell/Gource: software version control visualization

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/11

[WayBack] Gource – software version control visualization has example for these kinds of repositories: Git, Bazaar, Mercurial and SVN.

Source: acaudwell/Gource: software version control visualization

Cool tool (works on Windows and Linux) that I found via [WayBack] Juancarlo Añez – Google+

–jeroen

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kentcdodds/issue-template: A way for github projects to make templates for github issues.

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/10

Ever seen the cool issue and pull request templates on GitHub? For instance the one used at https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/new

This older repo and site are still there to help you generate a basic structure for them:

–jeroen

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Git repository with fixed binaries for Tumbleweed on Raspberry Pi 3 – Bug 1084419 – Glibc update to 2.27 causes segfault during name resolution

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/08

OSC downloads for [archive.is] https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1084812

The binaries provided by Stefan Brüns, together with installation instructions are now in a git repository at [WayBack] wiert.me/public/linux/opensuse/tumbleweed/aarch64 a.k.a. arm64/1084182-fix-osc-binaries · GitLab.

Follow the steps in Applying the fixes on a broken system to at least temporarily get your system to work (a new zypper dist-upgrade might fail, so be careful with that).

The cause was some ARM A53 errata handling:

–jeroen

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19 Tips For Everyday Git Use

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/11

Great set of tips; I’ve included to intro and ToC here so it’s easier for me to find, but all the details are at [WayBack] 19 Tips For Everyday Git Use. For each paragraph, the ToC lists the relevant command. The article itself also contains some very insightful animated images of which I included one below to get an impression.

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Senior Oops Engineer on Twitter <

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/31

A nice discussion followed on [WayBack] Senior Oops Engineer on Twitter: “what’s a blockchain?” It’s like git but for destroying the environment.

It basically comes down to: can alternatives like git together with a set of rules and contracts to facilitate upstream pushing to a global order of changes be sufficient alternative to the very resource intensive “calculate proof of work to achieve consensus”.

The discussion is at [WayBack] »”what’s a blockchain?” It’s like git but for destroying the environment.«  – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

References:

–jeroen

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