Fermyon! #2
2023-08-19
dejbug.github.ioFermyon! #2
This morning I notice that (again) my weforum feed fails: AssertionError: Error::Io("error trying to connect: tcp connect error: Connection timed out (os error 110)") atoms:fermyon.app. Testing locally worked fine so maybe "the imperfection is yours" transcripts.terrafirmascapers.com http_send? ghTesting
To find more out, first I will need a way to relay requests through fermyon e.g.curl xyz.fermyon.app/get/<url>?user-agent=X. Sadly, this won't work. I had a lapse of memory and forgot that every app has "allowed_http_hosts" permissions hard-coded into it. Which is probably a good idea.
Testing the tester
In any case! To run the thing locally I wanted a nice way to send it arguments on the console. Instead of e.g.python xyz.py /get/<url>?User-Agent=X just python xyz.py /get -u <url> -agent X.
The general idea is from handle_request(request) to call parseRequest(request, shortopts, longopts) and get the correct meta regardless of whether it runs spinned or local.
Right now I'm doing things with argparse docs:py which is a bit unwieldy. I long for the elegance of getopt man7 (not to be confused with getopts man7 ) and found that python stdlib has it! docs:py This would have made things simple if only it didn't have this quirk
docs:py:
"Unlike GNU getopt(), after a non-option argument, all further arguments are considered also non-options. This is similar to the way non-GNU Unix systems work."
Compare and contrast with the manpage.
man7:
"If the first character is '+', or if the environment variable
POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, parsing stops as soon as the first
non-option parameter ... is found"
There is also, in the proper getopt, a '-' prefix which suppresses any re-sorting done on the processed arguments and I feel that this, too, is a #need-to-have.
TODO
North of Pangalin! is this shoddy craftsmanship. We can do better than that. Considering how simple it is, I shall build a custom getopt and maybe publish my first repo package. Chances are somebody beat me to it pypi and made a beautiful getopt clone already but I feel the rising need to minimize dependencies on known unknowns wiki and besides it is good exercise to find small problems and write some simple cs.princeton.edu code. Simplicity being a more complex thought than "easy", mind you.PEX Issue
I was hoping to have more control of how PEX packaging and my shy (necro) comment gh was answered rather quickly pointing me to a new, "additive" alternative gh to my "subtractive" approach . Sweet!Murrine
Just peeked into the logs and was reminded that security:arch was missing which gnupg seems rather fond of. So I installed it. Looking forward to seeing the effects! wiki Also found the kaosx.us project by chance. It sure uses all the right words. Let's keep an eye on it.Shameful fact #1
I was driven home from chess club last night and a song was playing on the radio. I never really listen to german radio nor do I own a television set so I must have grown rather susceptible to its occasional charms. Long story short, I've got Streisand's Woman in Love running in the background. Let's see how long until those particular receptors become saturated. Let's hope they aren't re-uptake inhibited. For the love of good music!Radioactive Skies
A propos good music. Please do support the folks in Boise: radioboise! They are doing wonderful things over there. Also throw a buck or two at somafm to keep it going. Remember gothicradio.com? web:ia I wonder what those guys are doing now. Back then it was pretty much the only thing that had the power to please this queer old brain. It was a simpler time. A magical time. There seemed to be much harmony in a certain dissonance with life. Ah! was it not good to be young. Sitting quietly in my room, listening to gothicradio.com, reading stuff on textfiles.com and coding...., looking back I feel I've made the most of it. There were other things, of course, but this was at the core of that. Ah, but too much #nostalgia for the good old days may make a fashist out of you yet!Update
All those urgent-seeming things that also seemed important wiki... well, after they were properly attended to -- by which I probably just mean to say that my brain has finally developed a proper kind of fuzziness and warmth (which one might also call exhaustion) which is to me the tell-tell sign of the distinct possibility that today, maybe, I can go ahead and pretend that indeed I have done well -- so after I have let myself go a bit with whatever I felt like doing rather than doing that which really needed doing, well, I finally came around to setting up for testing and tried the feed again to take a look at that strange error message one more time and wouldn't you know the darn thing just worked. Like nothing bad had ever happened to it. I hope it wasn't some transient network thing or Cloudflare going paranoid over the eddies in the all-sorts-of-general-mish-mash that is its cloud. I hope it was some Fermyon ❤ thing and that the busy people there were awake and pretty much on top of it. Tomorrow I will need to take care of some chess club things. I need a Swiss Tournament pairer. I really do not want to use somebody else's though. But there's not much time until first round and people need to know.Digressions
While I'm writing these lines I realize that some of the urls on this page didn't render well. Due, of course, to my primitiveblog.py parser which is innocent of context. wiki
The #toomanytabs so far: 1. deal with the weforum feed error ; 1.1. isolate the point of failure ; 1.1.1 use a command line parser to make testing a pleasure ; 1.1.1.1 write a better getopt ; 2. writing a stream-of-consciousness blog about 1. ; 2.1 either/or (or both) : 2.1.1 switching to my ANTLR grammar earlier than hoped ; 2.1.2 fixing blog.py elegantly to handle the most basic contexts well .