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What are the lines that cross Scotland ? At time of writing they are red where as other lines further south are green.

I know of some on shore wind up near the Rochdale area too. Does it mean they are offline if they just appear as black dots on the map?


Those are NESO (system operator) grid boundaries. The colours represent the forecast flow of energy over each boundary in relation to the capacity of each boundary. Green means lots of extra capacity, red means over capacity. When a boundary exceed capacity it's likely that this constraint will result in wind farms being turned off to reduce output "behind" the constraint.

The black dots are wind farms and other power assets that don't have any generation data. This is usually because they aren't connected to the transmission system, not that they aren't actually outputting. Or to put it another way, I only have data on power assets connected directly to the main transmission grid.


Outrage! Now where am I going to get my cat pictures from ?! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


I can only think the most direct usage for this info is to feed the performance screen/tab that lives in settings showing CPU and memory usage

But some of the info its reading seems a little bit too much

cough 'telemetry' cough


What are your thoughts on using modules inside terraform ?


Not the op, but I have some brief thoughts.

Given a bit of time with Terraform, the need for modules becomes obvious as you identify common resources for the infrastructure you're modeling. I thought writing modules first was the "right way," but starting with modules ended up being a waste.


I'll second this. I started out not using modules, but figured I'd migrate things over to using them as and when it would make things tidier. I never migrated things.

Modules are really neat but I don't think they're a sensible starting point if you're not doing a lot of repetition or don't exactly know what you need to build yet.


Everything described in the blog post is using modules making infrastructure description abstract enough to understand and deploy/manage.


There are some handy docker images for this over on the docker hub if you want to try them and dont have/want the needed python setup but just happen to have docker installed


ffs this is stupid. backspace has always been "back" in browsers and it really vexes me when some versions of firefox on some linux distro's do this. two hands have to be used to action this because the right alt key is either not mapped ( on some os'es ) or is alt-gr. backspace works well when moving quickly too - one finger from home row and bam.

Rather then this be the fix they should probably look at the bug thats causing the user to go back when the form element is focused.

Whats next ? take away space bar for moving through the page ?

A about:config thing needs to be present for this to allow the user to switch between what they want. Sure extentions are possible to fix this too but i dont really want a 3rd party extention to re-enable whats a tried and tested keyboard shortcut. Additionally what happens if that dev's account gets hacked and the extention modded for malace ? Or if the dev pulls the thing in a way similar to the node.js module issue a month or so ago.

This part is worrying though:

We have UseCounters showing that 0.04% of page views navigate back via the backspace button and 0.005% of page views are after a form interaction.

Where is that data being gathered from and how?

Additionally what is classed as a form interaction ?


"OK Google, set a reminder 1 year from now to...."

Nice write up. But a bit over kill for something that you can solve with a calendar item. ...Doesn't actually have to be on google though ;)


I have at least a dozen projects, clients, side projects, personal domains, etc., each with a TLS cert. Plus at least 5 certs for work. All of them have different expirations. Some are on Let's Encrypt without auto renew at the moment, meaning they have varying expirations less than 90 days from now.

I would love just a simple iPhone app where I can list my domains and get push notices at 30 or 7 days from expiration. Maybe I should make this myself because I've yet to find one.


http://www.site24x7.com/ has a cert monitor that does exactly what you want and more. If you have 10 domains it will run you $10/month. (Although you probably also want an uptime checker, so really it's more like 5 domains on the $10/month plan.)


This is perfect, thanks for sharing.


Sure, that's fine for an individual, but what about for a business? If the person who has an entry in his or her calendar leaves and forgets to remind someone else, what happens then?


We have a shared calendar in the business with all this stuff on and there's also a reminder that crops up in the order system (Mainly because monies are due to change hands again rather than the ssl is about to go pop)


there is a linux package called readpst that, as its names suggests, read's the contents of the PST and can output into mailbox or maildir formats. Thunderbird seems to be happy with its default output

Edit: corrected a typo


cool

... but ifconfig and nano ... really?

:P


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