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I will stop making these weekly I think and produce them when there is actual stuff to share, as not make them stale and boring. Some times they may end up weekly, depending on how much progress I am making. ⏮️ Previous Build Log Objectives ✅ Better error modals (fixed) ✅ Start working on public page ✅ Multi tenant sub domains i.e. org1.voxicle.app 🛠️ What I Worked On Error Modal Bug I have some middleware that will show an error modal when we return an error back to the client. ...

After another 5 months (again) I’m finally back blogging about my development setup, opps! What is Neovim? Neovim is a text editor, that you can run in your terminal. Much like vim and vi or nano. So we would run this inside our terminal emulator and Zellij. It differs from vim because you can configure it using lua vs vimscript . Some of the other unique features it had, you can now do in vim (I believe). ...

⏮️ Last Weeks Objectives Implement Authorization using RLS in Postgres Better error modals (fixed) 🛠️ What I Worked On 🔒 Row Level Security (Authorization) Row Level Security for Feedback and Upvotes. With row level security we can add policies and use config variables. Such that we set the organization ID and users can only get feedback that is part of their organization. This means we can simplify our SQL queries with fewer joins and fewer where clauses. ...

Recently, I have been building an app (https://voxicle.app #ShamelessPlug), with tailwind and DaisyUI. I have been having issues getting the tailwind LSP to work nicely in Neovim, and only recently managed to make it work. So in this article, I will go over how I set up, assuming you are using Nix as a package manager. Why Nix? In my project, it is a go web app, so all the dependencies in the project are managed as go modules by my go. ...

Cricket is back this week, so I didn’t have as much time as I would over the weekend as I was out playing both weekends. But I made progress every day even a little on Voxicle. I need to work out, what the minimum features I want before I start to market and share with others to try it and provide feedback. Last Week Fixed my Tailwind LSP for a better DevEx Improved my Gitlab CI file when building the dev Docker image Improved the UI Allow users to change the sort filters i. ...

Introduction Recently, I have started to build apps using the web stack: frontend htmx tailwindcss daisyui alpine backend go templ postgres devex gitlab ci nix devshells I have now built two apps using this stack, one of them being banterbus.games a browser-based party game (currently broken). Using web sockets, so it isn’t the most normal web application. As there are a few quirks of web sockets. Banter Bus Code: https://gitlab.com/hmajid2301/banterbus ...

TLDR; Add this attribute to your x-bind:hx-delete x-effect="currentItemId;htmx.process($el)" as an example (adjust for your example). Background In my app, I show the user 25 feedbacks per page, and they can delete them which opens a modal to confirm the action. If the user presses the delete button in the modal I want to send a HTTP DELETE request to an endpoint like /feedback/{id}, but the ID is dynamic, as we are using one modal for all the feedbacks vs having one modal per one feedback. ...

Recently I noticed when I searched using Telescope in Neovim, that I could see env.local.template but not .env.local. Where my keybinding looked like this: vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>ff", function() builtin.find_files({ hidden = true, follow = true }) end, { desc = "Find all files" }) This was because I was ignoring the .env* paths in my gitignore, I could tell telescope to not follow the gitignore. But I would get a lot more junk when searching in Telescope. ...

Last 2 week Again got really busy with some personal stuff, and stuff at work so didn’t really have much motivation to work on this project. But I have been forcing myself to code, so at least make some progeres. I did the following: Worked out we can use row level security in Postgres for better authorization Added lots more tests Edit Feedback Dynamic URL using Alpine Figure out duplication bug Filter on search More filter options Next Week Next week I want to; ...

Last 2 week Some stuff kept me busy so I couldn’t really work on my project work. I did the following: Added tests E2E with new skeleton How to debug E2E tests with delve (i.e. the server running separately) Fixed a bunch of TODOs in the code base Delete feedback However I got a busy with other random pieces of work that come up that kept me busy. Hopefully this week will be more productive. ...

Original Article You can find more context on the problem here In my post last month I thought I had fixed this issue but turns out I did not. The actual fix to stop getting this error: 5108: Error executing lua [string "v:lua"]:1: attempt to call global 'dropbar' (a nil value) stack traceback: [string "v:lua"]:1: in main chunk bat /home/haseeb/.local/share/nixCats-nvim/sessions/%2Fhome%2Fhaseeb%2Fprojects%2Fvoxicle.vim | rg dropbar setlocal winbar=%{%v:lua.dropbar()%} setlocal winbar=%{%v:lua.dropbar()%} setlocal winbar=%{%v:lua.dropbar()%} We want the winbar to nil. ...

This week I did the following: Finish core feedback page Add new feedback upvote display as list or grid Stretch try to implement basic RBAC (more of a PoC) However I got a busy with other random pieces of work that come up that kept me busy. Hopefully this week will be more productive. Next Week Next week I want to; Finish core feedback page search display as list or grid email updates when a feature has been completed more filter options Stretch public/private views Carry on working on the core feature set and make it so we can share with other people. ...

This week On my list of tasks I had the following: Fix auth refresh token flow not fully working Add span information to the auth middleware Simplify templ with pop drilling Update project name And managed to do all of them, even starting to work the core feedback part of the application i.e. allowing users to actually add feedback to the project. I rebranded the app from Go Feedback to Voxicle (which means voice and cycle). ...

Actual Fix This fix didn’t actually work the actual fix can be found here I recently moved to dropbar from barbecue as it has been archived and kept getting a weird error for buffer open when I would reopen Neovim. I use the auto-session plugin, which loads back the previous state of NixVim when I last exited in that folder, i.e. open buffers. E5108: Error executing lua [string "v:lua"]:1: attempt to call global 'dropbar' (a nil value) stack traceback: [string "v:lua"]:1: in main chunk I noticed though I would only get this error the second time I would open Neovim, which then made think maybe it was an issue with auto-session. ...

This week I decided to use wristband to the tenant and then organization on my side of the app. I am not fully happy with it. During sign up the user creates a tenant but that might be confusing to the customer vs telling them its an organization. But it does mean a new user is created and tenant on both wristband side and in the service database. Then I moved onto working on the subscription logic with paddle. ...

Week 3 I finished off the auth flow this week, decided to move over to using the wristband UI instead of using my own components. It ended up being a lot of code which was nice to actually delete and I think the wristband setup is pretty nice and slick. I had to adjust slightly how I will create users in my own DB but it wasn’t a big deal. ...

Background Last year, I worked on two main side projects: OptiNix: CLI tool to easily find nix options. Banter Bus: My third attempt at building a browser based multi-player game. Whilst Banter Bus is not fully done, I got it to an almost working state and at some point will go back and fix a bunch of the bugs and add some new features. However, I finally decided I wanted to try my hand at building something that I could try to make some money from. ...

I was some issues with the ways some fonts were rendering in Nix/NixOS machines. It seemed to specifically effect a few apps, mainly Firefox and only certain webpages. Sometimes numbers would render like below: Debugging Steps This occurred off and on over the course of a few weeks. My font setup was primarily done using stylix and a bit of NixOS option config. I noticed this only seemed to happen when the CSS on the page include a font-family like so “monospace” i. ...

TIL: How to Fix PipeWire/WirePlumber Issues on NixOS For the last month or so, the audio on my Desktop was broken in the sense I had to run these three commands to make it work pipewire & wireplumber & pipewire-pulse Now, normally I hibernate my computer, so I didn’t really have to do this more than once or twice. However, it was very annoying either way to remember to know how to do it. ...

I did one of these last year, and thought why not do another quick year in review. Catch people up with what I’ve been up to. This year was not nearly as transformative as my previous year in terms of changes I made to my workflow. I am still using Nix and NixOS, I am still using Neovim. I moved onto from tmux to zellij mainly because I just like the floating terminal it provides. ...

After another 5 months I’m finally back blogging about my development setup. Which since my last post, has been a lot more stable. As much closer to a workflow I am mostly happy with. In this post, we will go over how I integrate Zellij. What is a terminal multiplexer? Zellij is a terminal multiplexer think like tmux or screen. It another one of those projects written in rust. Which seems pretty popular for creating similar tools to existing ones but usually faster. ...

Since 2022 I have tried to speak at least one conference/meetup a year. The main reason for this was it forces to really learn the area I want to present about a lot deeper. If you can explain something new to someone clearly then it really shows you understand it very well. Recently, I was lucky enough to speak at GoLabs 2024 in Florence, which was a load of fun and a week later at the London Gophers November Meet. ...

I use Nix mainly with home manager on my Ubuntu laptop, and for the most part, it works fine. However, some apps installed using Nix, need to use nixGL. A wrapper tool for OpenGL, allowing Nix installed tooling to use the system’s OpenGL and Vulkan APIs. Some apps including kitty and Firefox (mainly for Google Meet). There is currently a branch in home-manager we can pull into our config, which provides a convenient way to wrap these apps in nixGL rather than needing to specify say nixGLIntel kitty in our terminal or say Hyprland config (key bindings). ...

Recently, I was setting up Navidrome, kind of like a self-hosted Spotify, in my home lab and I wanted to set it up to use proxy auth in Authentik. But to do this I needed to use with a reverse proxy, i.e. Traefik. In this article I will show you how to you can point your Cloudflare tunnel to Traefik and have that forward the request to the service. Prerequisite In this article, I assume you are already familiar with Cloudflare Tunnels and Traefik. ...

TIL: How to Cancel Stale Pipelines in GitLab CI Today I learnt that we can cancel old pipelines in MRs. For example, you push a new commit, and you don’t care about the old pipeline running any more. You want to cancel them to save CI minutes etc. Here is an example, you can see the 2nd pipeline is cancelled: We need to add this to our .gitlab-ci.yml file. Where the default. ...