TL;DR – go create a new environment in Honeycomb, and get a new API Key. If you get this error from Honeycomb, it means that you’re sending data, and your API Key is working, but… Your API Key (in the x-honeycomb-team header) tells Honeycomb where to put your traces. It specifies a team and an …
Have you ever looked at someone else’s Honeycomb query and thought “what’s up with ‘trace.parent_id does not exist’? Or wondered how Honeycomb’s home screen counts Total Requests? This is totally confusing. Here, I made a video about how to do it and why it works like that.
${BASH_SOURCE%/*} This is useful when you want to read a file that’s in the same directory as the current script, for instance. $BASH_SOURCE holds the current script, including a path. That could be a relative path or a full path. % says “strip off a glob from the end of the value, the smallest glob …
People can “learn to code” on so many websites, in little in-browser environments. Sites instruct on the basics of ‘for’ loops and ‘if’ statements. In advanced courses, learn algorithms and data structures. Writing toy programs is eminently teachable. Writing useful programs is something else. And writing them well is a mysterious art. Greg Wilson‘s new …
Resilience is coping with unexpected events and environmental change. To have resilience, you need slack. Slack in software development lets people do the little tasks that keep the work moving smoothly. That helps with everything you didn’t know you needed the software to do.
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When you want a simple utility function that isn’t part of the standard library, what do you do? A. Find a library and use itB. Write the function and add it to an internally shared collectionC. Cut and paste from StackOverflow I’ve done all three in my twenty years of development, and I’m here to …
Why is this so hard? To send gRPC messages in Rust, one uses the tonic library. If you’re sending to an https endpoint, you’ll need to provide a ClientTlsConfig. By default, you’ll get a very distrustful one. Here’s the error message: the grpc server returns error (The service is currently unavailable): , detailed error message: …
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There once was a little app, proudly running in a container. The container let the app have its favorite operating system and libraries, all snug and separate. The little app shared a container runtime with its friend, a firefly. Sometimes the app’s code would crash (through no fault of the code, of course; must have …
Today I wanted a form with a label on the left, a button on the right, and an input in the middle, with the input getting all the space. Here is a spell: Then in HTML, the parent container is the flex box, and the immediate children are the three items. (They have to be …
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