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Will @willdot.net · 16d

I said I was going to do a write up on setting up my own @tangled Knot, so here it is!

Hosting my own code with a Tangled Knot

My journey to hosting my code on a Tangled Knot and the problems I hit

willdot.leaflet.pub

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Will @willdot.net · 1d

💯

I think a better way to evaluate someone would be to show them a system design with an overview of it, then get them to talk about part of the system and get a conversation going.

Candidates will likely talk about the part they are familiar with and be more confident discussing that topic

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Will @willdot.net · 1d

Systems design - interview vs reality

Reality: Hey Will, here’s a ticket for a problem we’d like to solve. See if you can come up with a solution. Timebox it to a couple days.

Interview: Hey Will, here’s a problem we’d like you to solve. You have 45 minutes, go.

Interview process is flawed

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Will @willdot.net · 1d

This is impressive!

akshay oppiliappan @oppi.li · Jul 28

a something i've been hacking on:

✨ pdsfs: mount #atproto PDS repositories as a FUSE filesystem!

more info in the repo's readme: tangled.sh/@oppi.li/pdsfs

i've fetched my top 10 @rocksky.app artists with just jq and coreutils:

an example of fetching my top 10 rocksky artists with pdsfs. the command used is

jq -r '.artist' app.rocksky.scrobble/* | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -10

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Will @willdot.net · 2d

Not everyone you meet is a Genie as well.

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Will @willdot.net · 2d

I use Cloudflare and I have never noticed that 🙈 thanks for pointing out!

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Will @willdot.net · 2d

Oh cool, what provider is that?

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Will @willdot.net · 2d

Ever look at dns entries for your domain and think “I don’t even know what that’s for” but too scared to break something by removing it.

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Will @willdot.net · 3d

Ha I was asking because it was the next project on my todo list!

Excited to see what you come up with.

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Will @willdot.net · 3d

What are you using to back them up to S3 storage?

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 5d

NEW: Federal judge dismisses Drake's defamation case against Kendrick Lamar storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Will @willdot.net · 6d

I made a thing and I think it works. Introducing the ATProto URL shortener service where you own the data and can even host the service yourself.

It needs a lot of UI work (understatement) but it's been fun hacking this together the last few evenings.

tangled.org/@willdot.net...

@willdot.net/at-shorter-url

A URL shortener service that uses ATProto to allow self hosting and ensuring the user owns their data

tangled.org

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Will @willdot.net · 6d

I only found out when I thought I had broken my migration when attempting to turn 2FA back on 🙈 that was a scare!

Will @willdot.net · 6d

Amazing, thank you! Totally going to try this out when I get a chance.

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Will @willdot.net · 6d

@thisismissem.social says that’s a thing so I’m going to give it a go!

bsky.app/profile/this...

Emelia @thisismissem.social · 6d

Yuuup! That's totally a thing! There was a limitation in AT Protocol for a while about redirect URIs but I believe that has been lifted now.

But that's how we envision the developer use-case working for Client ID Metadata Documents.

Will @willdot.net · 6d

Yh one of my first thoughts was to use a tunnel service or similar but than that's an extra dependancy to run 😔

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Will @willdot.net · 6d

Woah! So I could host a small server somewhere that servers the metadata document and in my CLI that spins up a small web server to handle the call back, I can provide the remote servers metadata document but have the callback for the local server? 🤯

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Will @willdot.net · 6d

Creating my short URL service over the past few evenings was just a bit of fun. I never even thought about the nightmares described in this thread by @gbl08ma.com Some solid advice in here!!! Deffo worth a read!

gbl08ma @gbl08ma.com · 6d

I ran a URL shortener for over ten years - you can read the third link in my bio to know how that went...

My main word of advice would be: you definitely don't want to operate the redirection service under your own domains and servers. At least, make it so that people MUST use their own domain 1/

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Will @willdot.net · 6d

To be honest, I didn't create this to actually run a short URL service, it was just a side project to play around with ATProto 🫠

I guess next time I'm in a systems design interview and they ask how I would do it, I would simply tell them I wouldn't 😂

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Will @willdot.net · 6d

That never even crossed my mind to be honest. I guess the only way to safely run this kinda thing is for yourself, so that then I host it, only I am allowed to create short links.

If you then span one up and hosted, only you could create links for your instance.

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Will @willdot.net · 6d

All of that is enough for me to NOPE out of hosting it 😂

Was a fun project none the less!

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Will @willdot.net · 6d

Wow! Thanks for the heads up on that!!! That’s insane, never would have know any of that.

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Will @willdot.net · 6d

If there is a way around this for creating a CLI tool that uses OAuth. I think I kinda understand why it does it but I can't be sure.

bsky.app/profile/will...

Will @willdot.net · 26d

Developing a CLI app that uses ATProto oauth. To achieve this I make use of the local host client ID so that the callback comes back to the users machine.

Problem is that every time the app is run and an oauth request happens a new "app" appears here. Is there a way to do this better?

A screenshot of the PDS account page listing connected apps which contain Tangled an then 3 of the same local apps

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Will @willdot.net · 6d

I made a thing and I think it works. Introducing the ATProto URL shortener service where you own the data and can even host the service yourself.

It needs a lot of UI work (understatement) but it's been fun hacking this together the last few evenings.

tangled.org/@willdot.net...

@willdot.net/at-shorter-url

A URL shortener service that uses ATProto to allow self hosting and ensuring the user owns their data

tangled.org

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Will @willdot.net · 7d

There it is. The empty @stream.place lexicon repo trending

Screenshot of Tangled where the trending repos is visible and stream place’s lexicon repo is trending without a single commit.

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