Pete Russell

Software engineer && pilot.

[Pete Russell @nz_pete]

Felt like time for a change. The floor plan is slightly less optimal, but having the window in my natural eyeline makes all the difference.

[Pete Russell @nz_pete]

Evening spent getting my pulumi+reactjs+azure stack deploying. Taking notes to turn into a few blog posts.

In related news, I just heard about the Microsoft #aspire release and it sounds like some good stuff.

[Pete Russell @nz_pete]

DevOops: when your migration accidentally brings down prod.

[Pete Russell @nz_pete]

A bit more reading and now have the resource group and app service being created, plus a config layer for a bit of abstraction. Enjoying being able to code IAC in a familiar language and having all the features (eg. interfaces) vs. YAML.

[Pete Russell @nz_pete]

Tonight's #checklisttrainer update: created a dev Pulumi stack, beginning to wrap my head around roles for the service principal, and got "pulumi up" creating resources in #azure. Nice that envs (eg. dev/stage/prod) seem to be baked in with Pulumi.

[Pete Russell @nz_pete]

A few tailwind deprecation warnings to deal with, but otherwise much less painful than I was expecting :)

[Pete Russell @nz_pete]

Goal for tonight is get the basic react+nextjs frontend running again that I wrote a few months back. The twist: on a new PC now, so I'm expecting mostly installing and configuring things.

Also keen to hear preferred ways of running a react app on Azure.

[Pete Russell @nz_pete]

Helpful things (from prev. post):

General guide: https://t.co/fp7CbAgVbd (needs tweaks if on Windows).

AZ CLI login with service principal: https://t.co/ICovTXrWgT

Pulumi state backends: https://t.co/dLRMvKbWQk

Assign roles in Azure portal: https://t.co/I8eccYI6K6

[Pete Russell @nz_pete]

'Pete learns Azure' update. Today's goal: use Azure as a store for Pulumi state.

Steps:
- Create service principal and log in to Azure CLI
- Create the container
- Assign 'Storage Blob Data Contributor' role
- 'pulumi login <container-url>'

#checklisttrainer #azure

[Pete Russell @nz_pete]

Evening progress report:

- Install+configure git
- Check out old repo, remembered I was using Pulumi
- Access existing Azure account (MFA with new phone)
- Install+configure Pulumi

Next: use AZ blob storage for state instead of Pulumi cloud; get `pulumi up` working.

[Pete Russell @nz_pete]

SMS MFA is all fun and games until you move overseas and switch phone numbers.

[Pete Russell @nz_pete]

I'll get into the motivation another time, but it's something I've wanted to use for a while.

It's a web app to practice emergency checklists & other flows (eg. Part 135). Support for training mode (walk me through) and test mode (no prompts, grade me). (2/2)

[Pete Russell @nz_pete]

Things are starting to settle down now after moving to Chicago from NZ, buying a house, furnishing a house, buying a car, fixing the car, sorting out preschool...

It must be time for a project. I'm going to pick up where I left off with the airplane checklist simulator... (1/2)

[Pete Russell @nz_pete]

Ohhh buddy, that was too easy. Followed the steps on the Foreflight website to connect via Flight Events. Took about 5 minutes and most of that was getting distracted and flying around in MSFS.

[Pete Russell @nz_pete]

PC build was a success. Excuse my cables - they’ll get tidied.

The next project, I’ve wanted to try for *years*, is connecting @ForeFlight to MSFS.

[Pete Russell @nz_pete]

Significantly cheaper to sell my old PC in NZ and build a new one in the US.

1-2 day delivery for parts in the US has been amazing. Except for the graphics card, which got forwarded by USPS and has taken two weeks to reroute 3.5 miles.

BUT IT'S OUT FOR DELIVERY TODAY!

[Pete Russell @nz_pete]

Not windows:
> rm -rf

Windows:
> del /f /s /q mydir 1>nul
> rmdir /s /q mydir

[Pete Russell @nz_pete]

Most software development is just closing 'New feature' popups.

[Pete Russell @nz_pete]

@DeeMickSee :D

[Pete Russell @nz_pete]

I need to reduce the size of a PDF from 2.4 -> 2 MB. On my Macbook (which is at home...) it's built in. On Windows 10... it's been ~2 hours, one Adobe Acrobat Pro purchase, and I still can't do it. Only half-joking that I'm on the verge of buying a Macbook for this one PDF.

[Pete Russell @nz_pete]

I'd like to apologize to John ([email protected]) for the 6 recent signups he made to Auckland Airport's wifi.