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add small stuff, fix typos

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leo 2023-05-19 21:40:42 +02:00
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@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ What this write-up is attempting to achieve.
The term \emph{Linux} is exclusively used in the meaning of the
Linux kernel~\cite{linux}.
\n{2}{GNU/Linux}
When talking about an operating system, the term ``GNU/Linux'' as defined by
@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ component, the kernel, the author is taking care to distinguish the two,
although writing from experience, colloquially, this probably brings more
confusion and a lengthy explanation is usually required.
\n{2}{Containers}
When the concept of \emph{containerisation} and \emph{containers} is mentioned
@ -61,6 +63,7 @@ that gets performed with or onto a container, the process should generally be
explained in such a way that it is repeatable using any spec-conforming tool
that is available and \emph{intended for the job}.
\n{1}{Cryptography primer}\label{sec:cryptographyprimer}
Pre-requisites necessary for following up.
@ -193,6 +196,7 @@ choice - \texttt{kitty} on a (at the time of writing) 8 month installation of
\textit{Arch Linux (by the way)} using a \texttt{6.3.1-wanderer-zfs-xanmod1}
variant of the Linux kernel.
\n{1}{Development}
\n{2}{Toolchain}
@ -223,7 +227,7 @@ First, a question of \textit{`Why pick Go for building a web
application?'} might arise, so the following few lines will try to address
that.
Go~\cite{golang} (or \emph{golang} for SEO-friendliness) is a strongly typed, high-level
Go~\cite{golang} (or \emph{Golang} for SEO-friendliness) is a strongly typed, high-level
\emph{garbage collected} language where functions are first-class citizens and
errors are values.
@ -233,7 +237,7 @@ pointer arithmetic, inheritance and implicit type conversions, easy-to-read
syntax, producing a statically linked binary by default, etc.
Due to the foresight of the authors of the Go Authors regarding \emph{the
formatting question} (i.e. where to put the braces, tabs vs.\ spaces, etc.),
formatting question} (i.e.\ where to put the braces, tabs vs.\ spaces, etc.),
most of the discussions on this topic have been foregone. Every
\emph{gopher}~\footnote{euph.\ a person writing in the Go programming language}
is expected to format their source code with the official formatter
@ -246,7 +250,7 @@ formatting standards.
\n{2}{Configuration}
Every non-trivial program usually offers at least \emph{some} way to
tweak/manage it's behaviour, and these changes are usually persisted
tweak/manage its behaviour, and these changes are usually persisted
\emph{somewhere} on the filesystem of the host: in a local SQLite3 database, a
\emph{LocalStorage} key-value store in the browser, a binary or plain text
configuration file. These configuration files need to be read and checked at
@ -287,6 +291,7 @@ relied on by the user. Dhall offers this in multiple features: enforcing a
same-origin policy and (optionally) pinning a cryptographic hash of the value
of the expression being imported.
\n{3}{Possible alternatives}
While developing the program, the author has also come across certain
shortcomings of Dhall, namely long start-up with \emph{cold cache}, which can
@ -324,6 +329,7 @@ as a potentially almost drop-in replacement for Dhall feature-wise, while also
resolving the subject issue that was described with Dhall (costly normalisation
operations with \emph{cold cache}).
\n{2}{Production}
It is, of course, recommended that the application runs in a secure
@ -336,6 +342,7 @@ as with a \emph{golden} image/container), then do not run SSH on it. In an
ideal scenario, the host machine would have as little software installed as
possible besides what the application absolutely requires.
\n{1}{Application architecture}
\n{2}{Data integrity}