Jon Atkinson | 2024 Week #36 Notes

2024 Week #36 Notes

week-notes

2024-09-02

Normal start to the day. H back at school, A not yet.
Setup new Tailscale SSH test VM. Asked the guys to test and see how it works out.
Did some research into how Tailscale SSH logging works. It seems that you need to run a separate Docker image on your network, so I'll be interested in seeing how that gets setup. I think that logging is necessary.
Meeting with R, discussed open-sourcing Giant Giving, and some of those issues. Hopefully he can protect his time this week.
Finished up a quick ticket on Giant Giving, to enable/disable the Django admin as necessary. Simple ticket, PR is open.
While I was working on that ticket, I noticed that there were a lot of warnings being generated while running the tests. I think it's important to get these sorted out before we open-source the product. This led to a raft of PRs:
- Fix coverage so it doesn't include test files.
- Upgrade to Django 4.2.15, to avoid a SQL injection vulnerability.
- Fix syntax in Dockerfile.
- Update pytest-cov to a more recent version.
- Update settings.STORAGES syntax to avoid deprecation warning.
- Remove use of setting.L10N.
- Fix DjangoModelFactories when using FactoryBoy, the behaviour had changed.
- Disable TZ awareness when running some tests, which was repeated for a different set of tests.
- Fix reportlab-related warnings.
- Fix tastypie-related warning.
Ordered a new keyboard.

Did some mathematics study and notes this morning.
Did some work on my old ansible-setup-server script to make it more generic, and remove the ansible dependency. It was only used to do some simple things, so I can use Bash for everything. I've also made it compatible with Void Linux. Renamed the repository, did some documentation.
Began thinking about revising the co script, so it could be quicker and more flexible. I had a chat with Claude.ai about adding fzf integration to help narrow down the candidates for a repository name. So, for example, I could use co giving to clone giant-giving, without needing to specify the full repository name.

Began with merging some PRs for Giant Giving from Monday. Re-ran the tests, and we went from 341 warnings to 1 warning.
Worked with the guys to further test Tailscale SSH.
Started work on Sentry SSO Setup, various bits of wrestling with Azure Entra.
Tested Sentry SSO setup, complete.
Pushed a PR to start a new demo instance for Giant Giving. Will help A out.
Opened a giant-giving PR which will address a lot of outstanding security vulnerabilities.
Updated Pillow from ^9.3 to ^10.4.0, to address this advisory and this advisory, and others from previous Pillow releases.
Updated Gunicorn from ^20.1.0 to ^23.0.0 to address this advisory
Updated sentry-sdk from ^1.45.1 to ^2.13.0, to address this advisory, and access newer Sentry features.
Updated black from 23.12.1 to ^24.8.0 to address this advisory
Took a look at our venerable Ansible setup.
Helped R setup a Bitwarden Secret Manager.
Helped S figure out the location of the secret keys for the existing backup system.
Did some admin of the home Unraid server, updates applied, Docker containers upgraded.
Booked train for tomorrow.
Took a look at using HASS at home for CCTV.

In Manchester for engineering meeting.
Completed deployment of giant-giving, to get the demo instance deployed. This also took care of deploying the above dependency updates and the warning suppression worked on earlier in the week.
Did the engineering update to the team, L did the operations update.
Spoke with R about deployments and how we're going to move forward with deploying containers.
Did some initial work on giant-news towards adding new RSS and Atom feed classes.
Finished work on Atom and RSS feeds in giant-news. Tests gave me some trouble due to being so far out of date. This PR.
Messed around with VSCode Profiles. Setup a new profile for just editing notes.

Meeting with W about tracking in GG. It's a complicated picture, but we decided to add some more logging. W suggested we move the functionality to frontend, which I'm not particularly keen on.
Merged the PR for the giant-news changes.
Switched out the new keyboard switches from red switches to blue switched. Feels much better now.