Data engineer @ Parsyl.
Anglican parishioner who loves runnin' up that via media.
Posts may contain tacos, databases, theology, and a bunch of stuff that I am probably not qualified to speak about.
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I finally had a little while today to start working on a prototype of this tool. Trying to use Zig has been a bit challenging because:
1. The API keeps changing with every release. I last used Zig 0.13, and I've been trying to use Zig 0.15 for this project, and SO MANY THINGS have changed.
2. This app relies on some Linux-specific syscalls, which are not all wrapped in library functions. In fact, the `clone` function does not work correctly, so I needed to use some syscalls directly.
As of now, I have a program that starts up, clones into a new process that starts in a new user namespace and creates new PID and mount namespaces. It bind mounts a fake /etc/hosts file that says google.com should resolve to 127.0.0.1. I'm then spawning a child process that runs curl against google.com, and if I run a server on my local machine, curl is seeing the response from my local server.
This is very much in a prototype state, but I think I've figured out how to do all the things that I've never done before, and I don't anticipate any huge snags from this point.
I'm looking for a new fulltime job!
I'm a UI designer with 20 years experience, more recently a design engineer writing a lot of Swift and SwiftUI, and some React Native for good measure.
I'm usually at early stage startups or consulting (I'm in San Francisco), but amenable to corporate. #getfedihired
My dear Wormwood,
It is imperative that you keep the patient away from doing anything to improving the material conditions of his neighbors, by any means necessary.
Call it socialism, call it woke, call it politics, whatever is needful. Whisper in his ear that it is the role of the church to do such things, and not the state.
And do not concern yourself with whether the church will do them, either; we have spent centuries teaching the churches to be concerned with their own survival above all else and to do such things as would oppose the projects of Our Father Below only as they have time and money.
In your letter you mentioned that you had shown the patient the fictitious quotation from me that our colleague Thistlefoot has succeeded in popularising, recommending that you keep the patient fixated on politics. This is very good.
Whenever he begins to feel concern for anyone we have entrapped in suffering, or is tempted to involve himself in the improvement of material conditions of others whom we have spent centuries building systems to make miserable, simply remind him of this quotation, and whisper in his ear that politics are Messy Business and Divisive.
Your affectionate uncle,
Screwtape
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The above is my original content, not C.S. Lewis's, though I suspect Screwtape, were he a real entity, would agree.
I was inspired by a project at work where I need to do side-by-side testing of two versions of a system. It's a data integration tool, and I need to verify that a new port has identical behavior to the reference implementation. I wanted to intercept the external API calls made by each system and compare them.
The original system doesn't support an HTTP proxy configuration, so I was going to create a tool that configures a network sandbox where I can provide fake DNS resolution and TLS certificates that allow a mock web server to handle the requests transparently.
I haven't done much coding or system administration for a while, so I think this will be a fun project. I'm going to write it in Zig and host it on sourcehut. If anyone is interested in this project, I'll try to post updates threaded under this post.
Clarko
David M Schell 
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
Anny is antifa la la la la
Rev. Eric Burrows-Stone ⳨