Tagged #hcl.

3 entries.

Writing

I Added Variable Block Support To Glazier

· 8 min read · #go, #hcl, #tmux & #glazier

I knew the moment I thought about potentially adding variable definition blocks as a first-class feature Glazier it was going to bother me until I went about implementing it. So, as expected, a week later, here we are. I …

Why I Built Glazier

· 8 min read · #go, #tmux, #hcl & #glazier

I live in tmux. I typically have an editor here, a dev server there, logs tailing in the corner or a spare pane for poking at things. The trouble is that this little world is frustratingly ephemeral. Rebooting my machine …

Bits

blurb #glazier & #hcl

Welp. I’ve convinced myself that Glazier needs Terraform-style variable declaration blocks to validate --var flags. I’m doing it and I will not be stopped. I’m thinking something as simple as the following session block-adjecent top-level spec:

HCL 
variable "name" {
  description = optional(string)
  type        = required(string | bool | number)
  default     = optional(type)
}

Time to do what I do best: make things more complicated than they have any right to be.