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OSS docker project pet peeve: PLEASE don't make me run a bash script to generate a compose file.

Just give me a damn example compose file and Ill modify it as needed. It's a huge PITA for deploying a new project to a remote server where I'm not running command straight from CLI.

The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers.

AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege

I wrote a guide to explain the mess that is variable interpolation and ENV usage with docker compose

https://blog.foxxmd.dev/posts/compose-envs-explained/

Environmental Variables and Interpolation in Docker Compose

The missing TLDR for how Compose parses ENV variables and passes them to containers

FoxxMD Blog
The hardest problem in computer science is avoiding the temptation to imagine a more interesting problem to solve instead of the one someone is asking for help with
Wrote a thing looking at yesterday's dissent from Alito, comparing it to SCOTUS rulings he joined in the past two years, and highlighting how there's only one principal for Alito about exec power: GOP Presidents have absolute power. Dem Presidents have none. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/06/a...

Alito “Stunned” By Court Exerc...
Alito “Stunned” By Court Exercising Judicial Power He Championed & Expanded Just Months Ago

Here’s a puzzle: When does a Supreme Court justice believe courts can review executive branch decisions? The answer, at least for Justice Alito, appears to be “whenever a Democrat is pr…

Techdirt

This is the color of infinite hotness.

This is the color something gets in the limit where its temperature approaches infinity. Of course you’d instantly be fried by gamma rays of arbitrarily high frequency, but this would be its spectrum in the visible range.

This is also the color of a typical neutron star. They’re so hot they look the same!

It’s also the color of the very early Universe!

This was worked out by David Madore, and you can find the details at my blog article, including a discussion of whether this is exactly the right color:

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/the-color-of-infinite-temperature

Luckily, the alternative someone suggested is so close I can't tell the difference.

For computer screens and cell phones this color is approximately #98b5ff.

Perhaps we should call it "baby blue" - for the early universe.

The Color of Infinite Temperature

  This is the color of something infinitely hot. Of course you’d instantly be fried by gamma rays of arbitrarily high frequency, but this would be its spectrum in the visible range. This…

Azimuth

And I thought only I did crazy #RSS hacks 😂

@ChrisHardie beats the pants off anything I do 😂

> “Fine. Whatever. I used to spend time trying to work around individual fingerprinting and blocking mechanisms, but I got tired of that. So now I pay about $25/year for access to rotating residential IP addresses to serve as proxies for my requests.”

> “I don’t like supporting these providers but when I come to make an RSS feed of your content, it will look like it’s from random Jane Doe’s home computer in some Virginia suburb instead of a VPS in a data center.”

> “Look what you made me do.”

https://tech.chrishardie.com/2025/rss-feed-of-your-website/

How far I'll go to make an RSS feed of your website - Chris Hardie's Tech and Software Blog

So you’ve decided to publish timely content on the Internet but your website does not have an RSS feed. Or even worse, you have played some role in designing or building a tool or service that other people use to publish timely content on the Internet, and you unforgivably allowed it to ship without support … Continue reading How far I’ll go to make an RSS feed of your website

Chris Hardie's Tech and Software Blog

These buildings provide data for virtually every weather forecast in the US.

A recent study found that every $1 invested in weather forecasting provides $73 of value in return.

Dismantling NWS infrastructure is one of the least efficient and most reckless things you can do.

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/03/doge-noaa-weather-building-leases-trump

DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases on key weather buildings

NOAA's nerve center of national weather forecasting is on a lease cancellation list.

Axios