Profiling Wikibase APIs and import speed

There has been some recent chat once again on the Wikibase telegram groups around importing, and the best approach to import a large amount of data into a Wikibase instance. 2 years ago I started a little GitHub project aimed at profiling the speed of loading using the action API, and various settings, DB versions…

By addshore March 29, 2025 0

Splitting a Terraform / Spacelift stack in 2

A year or so ago, I imported a bunch of existing AWS resources into a Spacelift stack using Terraform. Parts of this stack included provisioning Github actions secrets from AWS into Github itself. Due to the way the Github provider and Github API work, I was starting to hit into rate limits due to my…

By addshore March 14, 2025 0

Vuetify app with Wikimedia OAuth login

Do you often find yourself wanting to make a basic (or complex) web app that is client side only and will log users into Wikimedia sites with ease? Me to! I have been trying this every year or so, and it’s gradually been getting easier. This year it only took me a couple of to…

By addshore February 20, 2025 0

2024 Year Review

A very different year when compared to 2023 (where I spent most of the year on a boat). I’m back working full-time, and primarily in a closed source space (currently) at Lightbug. I’m primarily cloud focused, but have been moving closer and closer to the firmware and hardware month by month. I’m looking forward to…

By addshore January 4, 2025 0