I'm pretty happy what we at robur achieved over the years in terms of deploying #MirageOS unikernels, take a look yourself http://webmshare.com/play/QG0jJ

What you see is the deployment of the unikernel "unipi" (https://github.com/robur-coop/unipi) named "website", with a remote to my blog repository.

Now, dnsvizor (https://github.com/robur-coop/dnsvizor) hands out IP address (DHCP) and registers the name "website.mirage". It also acts as DNS resolver.

What we see next is the website served by the just deployed unikernel (on http://website.mirage).

The last bit we see is the query log of the dnsvizor resolver (at 10.0.42.2 -- out of a habit, http://dnsvizor.mirage would work as well). Here we see that the website.mirage unikernel requested git.robur.coop (both A and AAAA records), and later firefox looked up website.mirage.

The initial web interface is mollymawk (https://github.com/robur-coop/mollymawk).

Running on albatross https://github.com/robur-coop/albatross

This has been achieved thanks to the brilliant robur team and NGI funding :) 🎉 🙌🏾

RIP FX - You are a legend.

Here Dino is delivering his Pwnie Award, as well as the last public post FX made last year.

In this small screenshot, you can see that I can ping my unikernel using IPv6! This was the last missing piece for mnet, our new TCP/IP stack for OCaml 5 and our unikernels.

Beyond regaining what mirage-tcpip had to offer, several known bugs have been fixed and IPv6 has even been improved (destination cache, use of LRUs, fragmentation and reassembly, an anonymous mode that generates a random IPv6 address!). In short, unikernels with OCaml 5 are becoming a reality!

I'm #colorblind and I use https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/ frequently.

Randall 'xkcd' Monroe did a survey of over 100,000 readers where he showed them random rgb colors and said "what would you call this?" and afterwards he did his best to sort the results into the most popular color names and the colors they refer to.

It's like a box of Crayola for the internet. Finally, my colorblind self can grab a sample of "dark magenta" that doesn't just look like "grape purple" to everyone else.

The data is freely available as a .txt file under CC0, which I've converted into a .css file here: https://git.hatspace.net/nycki/nycki.net/src/branch/main/static/xkcd.css

so now when I want a color on my website I can just write `color: var(--xkcd-off-white)` or so on. it's really convenient :)

edit: blog post discussing this data in more detail: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

#programming #color #css #website