Adding a Month Segment to claude-powerline

I use claude-powerline for my Claude Code statusline. It’s got a today segment that shows spend since midnight, which is great until you actually want to know where you stand for the month. “Today” resets every night and tells you nothing about the bigger picture. So I sent a PR: Owloops/claude-powerline#112.

What it adds

A new month segment, opt-in, that tracks total cost/tokens for the current calendar month. It reuses the same local-transcript aggregation and caching the today segment already had, so no network calls, nothing new to trust.

New Release: github-pokemon v1.4.1

I’m excited to announce the latest release of github-pokemon, version v1.4.1!

github-pokemon is a Go-based command-line tool I built to efficiently manage multiple GitHub repositories within an organization. “Gotta catch ’em all!” Its primary purpose is to automate the process of cloning all non-archived repositories and keeping them updated by fetching remote tracking branches.

Key Features

• Bulk Operations: Quickly clones or updates all repositories in a specified GitHub organization.
• Parallel Processing: Uses parallel workers (defaulting to 5) to speed up operations.
• Safe Updates: Only updates remote tracking branches and never modifies local working directories or branches.
• Authentication: Supports GitHub Personal Access Tokens (via GITHUB_TOKEN) for API access and SSH keys for Git operations.

You can grab the latest pre-built binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows over on the GitHub Releases page.

action-hugo v0.123.7

Today I wrote the first post to my blog in a LONG time. I did of course update the entire pipeline to make it happen. Looks like the last time my build script for the action-hugo repo ran was three years ago… oh my. So some updates were of course needed. Now they are done.

If you are interested in posting your blog easily with Hugo using GitHub Actions, well now you have another choice. Enjoy!

Starting Blogumentation

Let’s be real. I am not a great example of writing regularly. Or even occasionally. I am out right terrible at it. However, I was recently listening to an episode of Changelog & Friends podcast where Jamie Tanna (who has a website) was talking about Blogumentation and this rang true with me. Among many other things in the podcast episode. Go listen, it is great.

So what? I am going to take a stab at using this blog as my own blogumentation again. Tracking the things I do, the things I learn, and making a small public space to share those things as needed.

Back in 2016 Stack Overflow tested a few things that were super awesome, at first glance, but like lots of technology quickly faded into obscurity.

One of those tests, was Developer Stories. Developer Stories was to be a “way we envision you showcasing every aspect of your developer identity.” as Stack Overflow put it in their initial announcement. I ran out and filled out my developer story, which is now being discontinued. Probably, for obvious reasons too. I created mine in 2016, and here it is 6 years later, and I have been with 3 different companies, done hundreds of interesting things, but the content of my story is stale (much like this blog). So it is being retired.

My son, Isaac, has started a lawn service. To help him track who has paid, and who is outstanding I over-engineered a spreadsheet for him. Behold!

Customers The first sheet is a simple spreadsheet of customer data:

Inventory For lack of better name this is a sheet for tracking which jobs have been completed.

Over the years I have often come across a moment or two when I needed to have self-signed certificate authority. Well, a few years ago I stumbled across this lovely tutorial and explanation by Jamie Nguyen. Please, use this, and all credit to Jamie.

https://jamielinux.com/docs/openssl-certificate-authority/

If you are developing and running workflows on GitHub using Golang, and the recent release of Golang 1.16 had features you want or need, then you might want to know about this GitHub Action setup-go.

Essentially the way it works is that ubuntu-latest on GitHub has the last three major versions of Golang in the cache, but you have to properly switch between them. setup-go does that for you, and if you are using a version of Golang that doesn’t come pre-installed in the cache, it will install it for you. This is quite handy, and super easy to use:

If you aren’t aware, this blog is created using Hugo. This means this blog is essentially just static files being served by a static web engine. It makes it light, and simply to host/deploy. One thing it makes it hard to do, is host comments, because comments are by nature dynamic (not static).

I came across the idea of using Mastodon a platform that is community-owned and ad-free. This allows “dynamic” comments, without me having to add a comment engine to my blog. Yay! Let’s do it!

Back in 2019 I built a small storage server for my home needs. Basically I store my music, movies, ebooks, and image collections here, enabling the use of DLNA to watch them on my TVs throughout the house.

Just the other day, I finally got the notice that I am running low on space. To be clear that threshold is any remaining space under 1TB. As of this writing I am down to 1020.7GB of storage space left on this single server. Time to plan for expanding my storage!