PolyWolf - Network

cheaper to buy 2 Spirit Airline tickets than it is to buy the carry-on addon...

cheaper to buy 2 Spirit Airline tickets than it is to buy the carry-on addon...

DuckDB-wasm is actually absurdly easy to use with Vite wow. I didn't even have to change how I load my entrypoint w/ my janky Jinja2 setup,...

DuckDB-wasm is actually absurdly easy to use with Vite wow. I didn't even have to change how I load my entrypoint w/ my janky Jinja2 setup, <script type="module"> Just Works:tm: to lazy-load all the other stuff!! modern webdev is so cool when it functions properly like this

D3.js? Best of its kind probably.Observable Plot? Pretty neat, the JS version of Python's matplotlib, Just Has Everything but needs manual...

D3.js? Best of its kind probably.
Observable Plot? Pretty neat, the JS version of Python's matplotlib, Just Has Everything but needs manual configuration to get there, which is fine I guess
Observable Framework? not good. it tries to be clever about automatically await-ing promises & generators, but really what this leads to is "your blocks must form a DAG" which is not what I want in my app.

oh well, more bespoke code here we go!!

u can follow along at https://github.com/p0lyw0lf/dashboards btw. It's very much a WIP but i love the hacky elegance of it & hope u...

u can follow along at https://github.com/p0lyw0lf/dashboards btw. It's very much a WIP but i love the hacky elegance of it & hope u appreciate it too

"hrm this charting library is loading my entire 24MB CSV file and running SQL on it using DuckDB-wasm. surely there is a better way! oh hey...

"hrm this charting library is loading my entire 24MB CSV file and running SQL on it using DuckDB-wasm. surely there is a better way! oh hey what's this Parquet thing?"

5MB. 5x reduction in size just by switching formats. like i'm sure i would have gotten there for transfer by using the nginx gzip module, but wow!! it also seems those SQL queries are a bit more performant now. hooray for columnar datatypes!

New blog post: "I Just Need To Optimize My AWS Egress...

New blog post: "I Just Need To Optimize My AWS Egress Patterns"

https://wolfgirl.dev/blog/2025-03-15-i-just-need-to-optimize-my-aws-egress-patterns/

#aws

i did figure this out btw. https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_auth_request_module.html can just call an endpoint that will run my...

i did figure this out btw. https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_auth_request_module.html can just call an endpoint that will run my custom authentication logic, no need to mess around w/ interpreting JWTs in nginx or opensearch or whatever. then it's just a matter of disabling the security plugin & configuring the correct base path and we're good.

(though, turns out getting my data into opensearch is also quite tricky, so i wont be using it anyways. still good to figure that out tho, i was hung up on the fact i gave up)

learn to speak more corporate today:i use a static site generator -> my Data Platform collects & transforms content to create blazing...

learn to speak more corporate today:

i use a static site generator -> my Data Platform collects & transforms content to create blazing fast experiences on end users' devices
looking at charts is fun -> Business Intelligence Dashboards give me quick insights into relevant metrics that inform how I operate
hungry & should have breakfast -> i've identified some key action items that should be addressed ASAP for compliance with stomach protocols

i did not heed this sign and am now trying to parse thru the marketing on Observable Framework which looks to be genuinely interesting...

i did not heed this sign and am now trying to parse thru the marketing on Observable Framework which looks to be genuinely interesting technology that will fit in well with my pipeline (it's another static site generator with more interactivity maybe) but also reaaaally wants to upsell u on their cloud products
https://social.treehouse.systems/@PolyWolf/114164238029199056

maybe this is a sign i should stop looking at dashboard software

maybe this is a sign i should stop looking at dashboard software

interesting thing i'm seeing in my website logs: a handful of referring sites with just 1 hit, falling into a few categories:friends'...

interesting thing i'm seeing in my website logs: a handful of referring sites with just 1 hit, falling into a few categories:

1. friends' websites (ok, makes sense, i can confirm they link to me)
2. random peoples' blogs (looking thru recent posts i cant spy any outgoing links)
3. large "science" sites like dl.acm.org, en.wikipedia.org, etc.
4. raw IP addresses

my suspicion for (2) and (3) is that some web scraper has a race condition or is intentionally misbehaving. my suspicion for (4) is that there are "nice" fetchers who set their own IP as the referer

anyone else seen this before?

actually u know what. i give up this isn't fun anymore. configuring auth providers sucks, i'll just stick with goaccess for now, at least...

actually u know what. i give up this isn't fun anymore. configuring auth providers sucks, i'll just stick with goaccess for now, at least it's simple + working

better diagramming support is cool n all but i am always a bit sad that Mermaid requires...

better diagramming support is cool n all but i am always a bit sad that Mermaid requires Playwright...
https://m.webtoo.ls/@astro/114155617826168330

wondering if i can pitch my company on "hey can i take a day or two to learn OpenSearch so it's not just that one other guy who knows it"...

wondering if i can pitch my company on "hey can i take a day or two to learn OpenSearch so it's not just that one other guy who knows it" but probably not oh well

today in "fun" reading: figuring out how the heck you're supposed to get cloudfront logs into opensearch if you're not using AWS-managed...

today in "fun" reading: figuring out how the heck you're supposed to get cloudfront logs into opensearch if you're not using AWS-managed opensearch (i'm looking for an alternative to goaccess for analyzing my cloudfront logs and i think opensearch is the best option)

i think i have what i need after reading many doc pages and about 3 false leads, but wow that was a doozy. def going to want to write a blog post about this in case anyone else stumbles across the same keyword soup

food talkwow that is incredibly indistinguishable from ground beefunfortunately i severly under-spiced the sauce whoop, oh well at least...

food talk

wow that is incredibly indistinguishable from ground beef

unfortunately i severly under-spiced the sauce whoop, oh well at least that's an easy fix

food talkmaybe it's from not working w/ ground beef in a long while, but this Whole Foods-brand "Plant-Based Ground" seems pretty close in...

food talk

maybe it's from not working w/ ground beef in a long while, but this Whole Foods-brand "Plant-Based Ground" seems pretty close in terms of smell/texture. it's going in a spaghetti sauce, will update u on how it tastes later

phthis 6-in-1 test says i have at least 3 viruses (Flu A, M.Pneumonia, & Adenovirus), but hey at least i'm covid-free!!

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this 6-in-1 test says i have at least 3 viruses (Flu A, M.Pneumonia, & Adenovirus), but hey at least i'm covid-free!!

New blog post: "A Vague Sense There's Some Sort Of Dog At Your...

New blog post: "A Vague Sense There's Some Sort Of Dog At Your Feet"

https://wolfgirl.dev/blog/2025-03-08-a-vague-sense-there-s-some-sort-of-dog-at-your-feet/

#photography

as a kid I thought the DC metro station design was so cool, what with the wide-open brutalist ceilings underground 'n all, but yeah no Japan...

as a kid I thought the DC metro station design was so cool, what with the wide-open brutalist ceilings underground 'n all, but yeah no Japan has spoiled it for me, these suck