Simon Willison: TILs on fly

fly Configuring Django SQL Dashboard for Fly PostgreSQL - 2023-08-21

I have a Fly application that uses their PostgreSQL service. I wanted to run Django SQL Dashboard with a read-only user against that database. …

fly How to scp files to and from Fly - 2022-09-02

I have a Fly instance with a 20GB volume, and I wanted to copy files to and from the instance from my computer using scp. …

fly Deploying a redbean app to Fly - 2022-07-24

redbean is a fascinating project - it provides a web server in a self-contained executable which you can add assets (or dynamic Lua code) to just by zipping them into the same binary package. …

fly Wildcard DNS and SSL on Fly - 2022-05-25

Fly makes it surprisingly easy to configure wildcard DNS, such that anything.your-new-domain.dev is served by a single Fly application (which can include multiple instances in multiple regions with global load-balancing). …

fly Writing Fly logs to S3 - 2022-05-25

Fly offers fly-log-shipper as a container you can run in a Fly application to send all of the logs from your other applications to a logging provider. …

fly Using the Fly Docker registry - 2022-05-21

Fly.io lets you deploy Docker containers that will be compiled as a Firecracker VM and run in locations around the world. …

fly Using the undocumented Fly GraphQL API - 2022-01-21

Fly has a GraphQL API which is used by some of their own tools - I found it while browsing around their code on GitHub. …

fly Assigning a custom subdomain to a Fly app - 2021-11-20

I deployed an app to Fly and decided to point a custom subdomain to it. …