Breaking Things

Google App Engine (GAE) Flex isn’t the trendiest method for running cloud compute, but it still has its use cases. Along with it, GCP’s CloudSQL is a simple-to-use managed DB solution. But getting these technologies to play nicely together can be a challenge, especially if they’re in separate projects1. No CloudSQL Proxy container GAE Flex runs workloads on modified GCE VMs. Connecting to an instance drops you into a shell2 where you can run all sorts of programs, including docker commands. [Read More]

Nix is a powerful tool to manage packages and create reproducable builds. It also expects /nix on the filesystem to be writable, but starting with macOS Catalina that is no longer the case. But there’s a workaround Create an APFS volume and mount as /nix. Unfortunately, you might still run into this error: building '/nix/store/5lrbhhcipg6jjj6rn1kkvn2614jmf5fg-source.drv'... trying https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/archive/d2cc5fa748003aaa70ad4180fff0a9a85dc65e9b.tar.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 159 100 159 0 0 159 0 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0:00:01 368 100 12. [Read More]