Terraform Website in a Box (of code)

January 21st, 2022

Here’s a simple example of how to create a rock solid site in Terraform, this uses Terraform Cloud, which HashiCorp recommends. I tend to agree, although vendor lock-in and HCL is something that should consider.

It’s basically an s3 bucket behind all the stuff needed for a CloudFront CDN. It’s not hard to swap out the static s3 site for something more substantial, using this code as a starting point. Remove all my junk, I like to amuse myself with ascii graphics and stuff in code. Keeps it real.

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##### Make a website as simply as possible.
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terraform {
cloud {
organization = “FremantleTechnology”
workspaces {
name = “mykl-rocks”
}
}
required_pro…
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Disable middle click on Synaptics touchpads

January 7th, 2022

I’ve just moved back to a Linux laptop, specifically Arch Linux, using XFCE4 on an HP Dragonfly Elite, after a few years trying Mac. Totally love it, the full Linux experience without trying to be MacOS.

One thing that did annoy me was the touchpad was set to have three “buttons” or click areas along the bottom. This meant if I went to choose a browser tab, sometimes I’d miss the left edge button and hit the middle button closing the tab. Annoying.

These are the steps I used to set it to be one longer Left button with no right button.

~ 🐠 yay -S xorg-xinput
~ 🐠 xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual c…
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