Nov 7, 2018
Just as the sage advice from The Pragmatic Programmer on mastering one text editor makes so much sense for those of us whose majority of work is rearranging bits on the digital titanic, the same holds true for knowing your operating system and investing in solid tooling for your other main productive tasks.
The world’s resources are quickly depleting. A growing population having to work sh!tty jobs for sh!tty companies selling sh!tty stuff is not sustainable and kinda hard to keep respecting yourself as a highly paid developer building yet another duplicated piece of software on VC funds.
If the aim is to advance humanity and avoid depleting all the resources as population explodes, then we should be looking to re-use and not create uneccessarily. Open source software that’s been continually refined since the 60’s/70’s is continually being optimized and is able to run well on older hardware.
We don’t need another One Laptop Per Child venture creating future ewaste when we already have an abundance of capable hardware. Let’s stop making batteries full of costly/harful chemicals and get more solar to continue running old laptops after their batteries have died.
This page serves a purpose to me as storing minimal configuration notes. I strive to not become dependent on too much customisation for the reasons:
some updated code in my “notfiles”
Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. Forgoing the bells, whistles and kitchen sink included in most Linux distros, OpenBSD has been planned with security and quality in mind. You’re not forced to read the docs, but you’ll soon realize it’s the most efficient path forward.
Amazing support for older architectures and a great welcoming community.
Install relevant fcitx packages
Install ja-sazanami-ttf
edit $HOME/.config/fcitx/profile, changing anthy:False to anthy:True
set shortcut key in $HOME/.config/fcitx/config
set XMODIFIERS in .xsession, along with fcitx-autostart before cwm
xset fontpath
My minimal .vimrc
set ts=2 sw=2 expandtab ruler nu noswapfile colorcolumn=80
syntax on
colorscheme delek
autocmd Filetype php setlocal expandtab tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
autocmd Filetype js setlocal expandtab tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 softtabstop=2
highlight ExtraWhitespace ctermbg=red guibg=red
match ExtraWhitespace /\s\+$/
" newly acquired skills
set wildmenu " show search reuslts and such as popups
set path+=** " set path to this folder and all subdirs, ie for searching
My minimal .gitconfig
My minimal .tmux.conf
# moving between panes
bind h select-pane -L
bind j select-pane -D
bind k select-pane -U
bind l select-pane -R
# large history limit
set -g history-limit 999999999
Ensure you have required files from /etc in /var/www/etc chroot (copy all when lazy)
basic example
prefork 10
types { include "/usr/share/misc/mime.types" }
server "localhost" {
listen on * port 80
directory index "index.php"
root "/htdocs"
location "/*.css*" {
request no rewrite
}
location "/*.js*" {
request no rewrite
}
location "/*.png*" {
request no rewrite
}
location "/mystaticsite*" {
directory index "index.html"
request no rewrite
}
location "/*.php*" {
fastcgi socket "/run/php-fpm.sock"
}
location "/posts*" {
fastcgi socket "/run/php-fpm.sock"
}
}
As per https://dev.to/nabbisen/fixing-php72fpm-on-openbsd-64-f0f, we need to manually create the missing pool file in /etc/php-fpm.d/somefile.conf
; Start a new pool named 'www'.
[www]
; specify user
user = www
group = www
listen.owner = www
listen.group = www
listen.mode = 0660
chroot = /var/www
listen = /var/www/run/php-fpm.sock
; allow php execution on any URL
security.limit_extensions =
; endpoint to monitor PHP FPM
pm.status_path = /status
; define process manager
pm = dynamic
pm.max_children = 9
pm.max_spare_servers = 4
pm.min_spare_servers = 2
pm.start_servers = 3
; help pinpoint slow scripts
slowlog = /var/log/php-slow.log
request_slowlog_timeout = 2s
install server and client packages
run mysql_install_db
reload and run mysql_secure_installation
create a non-root user
connect via 127.0.0.1 vs localhost in WP config
TODO: currently 777’ing locally to allow watch script
find /var/www/htdocs -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
find /var/www/htdocs -type f -exec chmod 755 {} \;
chmod 400 /var/www/htdocs/wp-config.php
watch_me_sync.sh
#!/bin/sh
while :
do
find $HOME/wordpress-static-html-plugin/ -type f ! -path '*/.*' |
entr -d sh $HOME/deploy_changed_file.sh /_
done
# run WP-CLI from same user as hitting from web
permit persist MYUSERNAME as www cmd wp
deploy_changes_file.sh
#!/bin/sh
CHANGED_FILE=$1
PROJECT_DIR=$HOME/wordpress-static-html-plugin/
BASENAME=${CHANGED_FILE#"$PROJECT_DIR"}
TARGET_PATH=/var/www/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-static-html-plugin/${CHANGED_FILE#"$PROJECT_DIR"}
TARGET_PATH2=/var/www/htdocs/securesite.local/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-static-html-plugin/${CHANGED_FILE#"$PROJECT_DIR"}
TARGET_PATH3=/var/www/htdocs/subdirsite.local/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-static-html-plugin/${CHANGED_FILE#"$PROJECT_DIR"}
TARGET_PATH4=/var/www/htdocs/japanesesite.local/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-static-html-plugin/${CHANGED_FILE#"$PROJECT_DIR"}
echo "$BASENAME"
cp $CHANGED_FILE $TARGET_PATH
cp $CHANGED_FILE $TARGET_PATH2
cp $CHANGED_FILE $TARGET_PATH3
cp $CHANGED_FILE $TARGET_PATH4
echo ''
Refer to the excellent man pages provided by OpenBSD or take a chance with the docs from whatever other OS you’re using.
My minimal shell profile (bash by default)
# enable viewing media offline
function dla {
# dl searched song to mp3
youtube-dl --extract-audio --no-mtime --audio-format mp3 --no-playlist --default-search ytsearch -o "~/Music/%(title)s.%(ext)s" "$*"
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
# send newest file to smplayer playlist
LATEST_FILE=$(ls -t *.mp3 | head -1)
smplayer -add-to-playlist "$LATEST_FILE"
else
echo "failed to download"
fi
}
# usage
dla some title with spaces no need to surround with quotes
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