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Here is the current state of my platformer yet to really be named, I want to make something in between hollow knight and portal. Starting # I made one once in make code arcace on a pybadge. It was quick and dirty, but fun to work on. It had the basic of blocks that I could move, blocks i could put a portal onto, and a goal for each level. Some levels you can just walk through and some levels required you to really think about where to place the portal. History # So this version of the game is a least 2 years in the making, I open it every few months give it a day or two and move on. Its mostly something that I work on with my son. He really likes to jump around on projects so its hard to make real progress on something, but we are hitting an age where he is able to come back to projects a little better. All of this is built in python, and mostly before vibe coding was a thing, its mostly me trying to get out ideas as quick as my son is spitting out the the next idea. Coyote # It includ…
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⭐ block goose
Check out goose by block. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential. an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
⭐ manusa kubernetes-mcp-server
Check out kubernetes-mcp-server by manusa. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential. Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Kubernetes and OpenShift
⭐ mozilla-ai any-agent
I’m really excited about any-agent, an amazing project by mozilla-ai. It’s worth exploring! A single interface to build and evaluate different agent frameworks
⭐ dtnewman zev
Check out dtnewman and their project zev. A simple CLI tool to help you remember terminal commands
⭐ stakater Reloader
Looking for inspiration? Reloader by stakater. A Kubernetes controller to watch changes in ConfigMap and Secrets and do rolling upgrades on Pods with their associated Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet and DeploymentConfig – [✩Star] if you’re using it!
⭐ ublue-os arch-distrobox
ublue-os has done a fantastic job with arch-distrobox. Highly recommend taking a look. An Arch Linux OCI meant for use exclusively in Distrobox
⭐ ReznoRMichael hollow-knight-completion-check
Check out ReznoRMichael and their project hollow-knight-completion-check. App for reading and analyzing a Hollow Knight save file. Shows what remains to do for full 112% Game Completion, Achievements, Hunter’s Journal, Collectibles, True Completion %. Includes a self-designed Hint system.
True Non-Planar Slicing is Here - YouTube www.youtube.com
This is a wild concept for a slicer, essentially he didn’t even make a slicer just a crazy pre-process and post prossess to cura slicer, deforming the part until it doesn’t have any overhangs, creating a normal planar slice, then undeforming the output from cura. He also mentions that the rapid moved needed modified as well. I’m assuming this is because they are generally long distances and not short, without breaking these long lines up we would still end up wtih a straight line after deform.
Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem marp.app
Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem Marp (also known as the Markdown Presentation Ecosystem) provides an intuitive experience for creating beautiful slide decks. You only have to focus on writing your story in a Markdown document. marp.app Intersting markdown presentation tool, Looks very simple. I really like split on much better than by h1 or h2. Their theme looks really nice in the screenshots.
Build UIs that don’t suck - YouTube www.youtube.com
How to make an entire clickable without presenting the entire content of the card as the link title. These videos are great, I’ve ran into these types of problems so many times, and definitely did not know about things like isolate to keep the z-index scoped to one element. isolate - scope z-index inside this element so that it does not leak out. [.relative [.absolute, inset-0, z-10]] - the inset zero is a modern shorthand for zeroing all sides, top-0, right-0, bottom-0, left-0.
Let’s Talk Open Source - Prime Reacts - YouTube www.youtube.com
This is an absolute banger of a review by prime and Dylan Beetle. I love the similar takes with different perspectives, would really like to see them podcast together, but this one way style interview does really well to cover a lot of issues in open source, rug pulls, version pinning, thankless maintainers, what its like to open source from a large company.
Self-Hosted 29: Perils of Self-Hosting selfhosted.show
Perils of Self-Hosting We speak to Kevin and Patricia from Traefik, discuss Alex's recent ZFS snafu and we wonder if the new Chromecasts can match up to the Nvidia Shield. Self-Hosted · selfhosted.show Interesting takes on Diun here. I agree that I like to be in control of updates and pinning not to latest. both seemed like they weren’t going to run it because they can look up the latest version. Maybe I need to be less aggressive on keeping things up to date and its a me problem. I just got diun setup and hooked into ntfy, and I kinda like the automated checklist of new images that I can review and update. To be a bit more clear, having control over changes coming in from others, even if I dont care to see the changelog, it is nice to roll out an update, have it in your git history, watch it deploy and work like before, if not roll back and read the changelog. For internal applications I’m down for automated releases like argo image updater give you, this thing has already gone through review, launch the damn thing at least to a dev space.
Spring 2025: Self-Hosted Update – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK) dbushell.com
Spring 2025: Self-Hosted Update The one where things plod along. dbushell.com · dbushell.com Davids blogs always have so many links that send me down new rabbit holes. Interesting that his experience with smart home is turning away, I’ve been somewhat interested for awhile, but never fully pulled the trigger on buying things. I really hope tailscale enshitification does not take off, but really for me, I barely use it even as a homelabber. Idk why, but every other homelabber praises it so much and I just dont find myself using it.
Characters - Xe Iaso xeiaso.net
Characters Xe Iaso xeiaso.net xeiaso, has the coolest characters on her blog. Definitely something I’d like to replicate. I really appreciate how each one has its own sprite sheet, and they have conversations with each other.
adrianlopezroche/fdupes: FDUPES is a program for identifying o… github.com
GitHub - adrianlopezroche/fdupes: FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories. FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories. - adrianlopezroche/fdupes GitHub · github.com keeping this in my back pocket for now. I just moved a few TB’s of data in the homelab and I am expecting a lot of duplication to show up.
⭐ adrianlopezroche fdupes
I’m really excited about fdupes, an amazing project by adrianlopezroche. It’s worth exploring! FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.
Diun crazymax.dev
Diun Receive notifications when a Docker image is updated on a Docker registry crazymax.dev Diun, looks like a very interesting tool to monitor for image updates, it does not make any change, it only makes notifications. This feels like an easy start to getting image updates started with low effort, keep git ops, but requires manual updates. I see this as a tool that would be a great start and pair well with automated image updaters to ensure they are working as expected.
Keel keel.sh
Keel Kubernetes Operator to automate Helm, DaemonSet, StatefulSet & Deployment updates keel.sh Keel looks interesting, I might give it a try as a simple image updater. I’m unsure if it fits my gitops patterns though. I like to keep everything defined in git, I don’t like drift outside of that so Keel might not be the thing I want.

Changing k8s Storage Class - Migration Job

I’m setting up longhorn in my homelab, and I ran into an issue where I initially setup some pvcs under longhorn, and later realized that to get longhorn to snapshot and backup I needed to hand edit volumes after the fact or change storage class. I’m all in on gitops so option 1 was not an option. So changing storageclass it is. Now the issue is that you CANNOT mutate storageclass on a provisioned pvc, it is an immutable attribute. Migration Job # This migration job will create a new pvc with the new storageclass and move the data from the old pvc to the new pvc. Existing Pods This migration job will not work if you have a pod using the old pvc. You will need to shutdown the pod and delete it. Apply the manifests and wait for the job to complete. Cleanup # I had chatgpt create me a script to help me find what is using the pvc so that it can be deleted. I had still had cronjob pods completed, so I had to delete them first.

New Phone Day Apr 2 2025

backdated This represents the first sign in to this device. This will be my 3rd pixel 6 since 2021, One shattered screen and one blown battery. My first one was brand new, the first new phone i’ve had in years. That phone only proved to me that new flagship models make no difference to me, I had been running pixel 3 refurbished for many years before. No social media on this device # Social media sucks become a bunch of people yelling “fake news” at each other and propping up their political candidate as the savior of everything. Elon bought twitter and fractured it. The communities are no longer here, and I have to dig through so much political posts to see post on tech and engineering its not worth it anymore. update from a year later and It’s been great, I check socials like once a week hoping to find better things, but it all seems like the same BS. The Crypto bros have moved on to AI so hard that I just cant stand watching most of them yap about something that they have no understa…
World’s easiest Live dashboard with htmx - YouTube www.youtube.com
YouTube Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. youtube.com Damn he makes this easy. I did not know about. yes there is waste in requesting the entire thing every 5s, but damn that was easy to get life reload. I’ve only done very specific backend endpoints, built pages up from partials, made endpoints for partials. keeping this one in my back pocket. I’m just kind of amazed that he could do this all in html without touching the backend or js, typically things like this require one or the other. Yes js is running, but no other js library I’m aware of lets you do this.

homelab drive ids

Drive Bay 1 ata-ST4000VN008-2DR166_ZDHBZSWZ +————————————————————————-+ | [ Power] [ Reset] | +————————————————————————-+ | [ BAY 5] 3TB WD30EFRX WMC4N0D3J9R7 ext4 /mnt/sdf4 | +————————————————————————-+ | [ BAY 4] 14TB EXOS ZTM09R9N zfs main pool mirror /mnt/main | +————————————————————————-+ | [ BAY 3] 14TB EXOS ZTM0AALS zfs main pool mirror /mnt/main | +——————————————-+ | [ BAY 2] 4TB IRONWOLF ZDHBZV3N zfs tank pool mirror /mnt/tank | +————————————————————————-+ | [ BAY 1] 4TB IRONWOLF ZDHBZSWZ zfs tank pool mirror /mnt/tank | +————————————————————————-+
⭐ Ramilito kubectl.nvim
I recently discovered kubectl.nvim by Ramilito, and it’s truly impressive. ⎈ Streamline your Kubernetes management within Neovim—control and monitor your cluster seamlessly, all without leaving your coding environment.
Redis configuration | Docs redis.io
Redis configuration Overview of redis.conf, the Redis configuration file Docs · redis.io redis has all of their default self documented configs hosted here. You can pull the default redis.conf for any of the major releases.
⭐ xpipe-io xpipe-webtop
If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on xpipe-webtop, created by xpipe-io. A containerized web-based desktop environment for XPipe
⭐ xpipe-io xpipe
xpipe by xpipe-io is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves. Access your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop

Using pbpaste for command substitution keeps sensitive or long URLs out of your shell history. Instead of typing git clone https://github.com/user/repo-with-long-name.git, copy the URL to clipboard and run git clone "$(pbpaste)". This prevents the URL from appearing in ~/.bash_history or ~/.zsh_history.

To get pbpaste working on both Xorg and Wayland, add this to your shell config:

if [[ $(command -v wl-copy) ]]; then
    alias pbcopy='wl-copy'
    pbpaste() { wl-paste; }
elif [[ $(command -v xclip) ]]; then
    alias pbcopy='xclip -selection clipboard'
    pbpaste() { xclip -selection clipboard -o; }
fi

The function approach (instead of alias) enables command substitution, while the quotes around $(pbpaste) handle spaces and special characters safely.

Now you can use it.

git clone "$(pbpaste)"

More importantly secrets can stay out of your history.

export GITHUB_TOKEN="$(pbpaste)"
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="$(pbpaste)"
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="$(pbpaste)"
export DATABASE_URL="$(pbpaste)"
hotel_bookings.csv www.kaggle.com
hotel_bookings.csv Discover what actually works in AI. Join millions of builders, researchers, and labs evaluating agents, models, and frontier technology through crowdsourced benchmarks, competitions, and hackathons. kaggle.com nice dataset to use for example / test projects. I’m using it to play with duckdb currently.

THPS 1 Downtown Gaps

Previously THPS 1 Skate Park Gaps Big Ass # Billboard Grind # BS Gap # BS Grind # Burly Deck Gap # Car Ollie # Cheesy Deck Gap # Death Grind # Deck Gap # Dirty Rail # Glass Gap # Kicker Gap # Kicker 2 Edge # Kicker 2 Street # Rail 2 Rail # Roof 2 Roof # Secret Tunnel Entrance # Sucky Room Gap # T 2 T Gap # Transfer # Truck Gap # Tunnel Gap # Wimpy Gap # Mechanic Gap # Box Office Gap # Skyway Gap # Super Skyway Gap #
The State of Secrets Sprawl 2025 blog.gitguardian.com
The State of Secrets Sprawl 2025 GitGuardian's 2025 report reveals 70% of leaked secrets remain active two years later. Discover the alarming state of secrets sprawl & protect your organization. GitGuardian Blog - Take Control of Your Secrets Security · blog.gitguardian.com Good report, make notes later
Mill-Max Hotswap Sockets – Keebio keeb.io
Mill-Max Hotswap Sockets Mill-Max sockets for adding hotswap support to regular PCBs. Sold in packs of 60 (good for 30 switches). Info about the different types 7305-0: Gold-plated sockets (7305-0-15-15-47-27-10-0) Shorter... Keebio · keeb.io looking into trying these Mill-Max pins on a handwired 3d printed build to see if I can get away from specialty hot swap sockets. Damn they aren’t exactly cheap, I really want the nice short ones but they start at $20 per 60ct and you need two per key, that adds up quick.
r.jina.ai r.jina.ai
External Link r.jina.ai jina reader is a pretty sweet tool to convert a site to ai compatible text. There are other web to markdown types of tools, but the convenience of just adding r.jina.ai to the front of any page makes it so easy to grab for one page of docs.
Why did Framework build a desktop? - YouTube www.youtube.com
the racked up 4 framework mainboards sound wild. connected with usb4 and 5gig ethernet. they said they can run big models quantized down from 600Gb to within the 512GB limit they have. This seems wild to bring this level of capability to such a low price point. It will be really cool to start to see demos come out.
⭐ Y2Z monolith
Just starred monolith by Y2Z. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer. ⬛️ CLI tool and library for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file

THPS 1 Skate Park Gaps

Previously THPS 1 Mall Gaps Next THPS 1 Downtown Gaps Acid Drop # Across The Park # Around The Bend # HP Transfer # Light Grind # Over The Box # Over The Pipe # Over the Rafters # Pool 2 Walkway # Pool Hip # Pool Rail Trans # Rafter Rail # Transfer # Walkway Rail Trans # Wall Gap # Wall Gap Jr # Whoop Gap #

Trailmakers Pioneers

Trailmakers 2.0 Pioneers was released today as an update to trailmakers. It’s a brand new campaign mode that requires you to mine resources to get materials to craft your vehicles rather than salvage parts like you so in the Stranded Campaign. There also seems to be a more linear play through of the story with the frogitts, unlike stranded where it let you do anything completely open world, as long as you had the equipment to go there. Four Frogitts # Out of the gate Wyatt came in with four frogitts to rescue, I don’t know how he found them all, I’ve only been able to find the first one that the master gives you to bring home as a tutorial. First Boss # After Wyatt left for bed I played a little more and beat the first of what felt like a boss level enemy, he had much different attacks. I did not think I would make it as I got hit hard from his first explosion attack before I realized what it did. Here is where he was on the map. First Mega Drill # So this first mega drill was a mistak…
⭐ Doomlab7 homelab-compose
If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on homelab-compose, created by Doomlab7. A repository for the applications I run via docker-compose in my homelab
⭐ deepseek-ai smallpond
I recently discovered smallpond by deepseek-ai, and it’s truly impressive. A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS.
PyApp ofek.dev
PyApp ofek.dev I think I’m getting really close to having a good workflow setup for using pyapp. Such an amazing project to allow developers to create applications in python without passing on the hassle of python and managing installs to the user.
⭐ nolar kopf
The work on kopf by nolar. A Python framework to write Kubernetes operators in just a few lines of code

THPS 1 School Gaps

On the road to Gap Master achievement I got all School Gaps in THPS1. This is a super fun level, I’ll have to admit that I had to look up at least a quarter of them, and could not find them myself, mostly due to the naming, all of the rail tricks were actually ledges and I was looking for big rails. None of the warehouse gaps were manuals so I had no idea that the downhill and accross the gym would be manual tricks. Previously THPS 1 Warehouse Gaps next THPS 1 Mall Gaps Ditchin Class # Dumpster Rail Gap # Funbox Table Transfer # Garbage Ollie # Gimme Gap # Hall Pass gap # All-Access Gap # Huge Rail # Kicker Gap # Long Ass Rail # Mini Gap # Over a Footbridge # Over the Air Condidtioner # Park Gap # Planter Gap # Playground Rail # Rail to Rail Transfer # Roof To Awning Gap # Roof To Roof Gap # Funbox To Rail Transfer # Downhill Manual # Accross the Gym # Roof Hop # Down the Awning # Perfectly Balanced # Gigantic Rail # Ridiculous Rail # Got the badge #