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Jan 20 – Jan 26, 20251 year ago

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pesos

Pesos is the act of Publish Elsewhere Syncicate to Own Site. It is an indieweb concept that I recently started applying to my own site. here does it skip again Note See https://indieweb.org/PESOS for more information, they have a ton of information about the indieweb In short it is the concept of pulling data from othe…

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hover z-index and positioning

I broke my sick wikilink hover recently in a refactor, today I did some diving in to figure out what happened. Before As you can see in the screenshot below, the link is in a list of links, and when the hover image pops up it sits behind all of the other text. The z-index of the list-item is supposed to be raised above…

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analytics

I’ve been posting on this site since 2016, when layoffs were rolling through the company I worked for at the time. Starting a personal blog and a pile of side projects felt like one of the best things I could do for my resume, so off I went. This site is built on markata, more about that in the /colophon. The old versi…

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I fixed lists in my blog

A small improvement to my blog today. I was checking out my /now post and noticed that lists have left padding but no discs or numbers. I popped open my added these lines and rebuilt. And rebuild, which I actually do with ⭐ casey just, but showing the command here for clarity. WHY the applies Before After
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I built out a tool for myself to manage my nvim configuration, and I wanted to quickly see which one I am running in my starship prompt. Here’s the config I ended up with. It warns if the NVIM_APPNAME environment variable is not set, and it shows which nvim I am using if it is set.

[custom.nvim-manager-system]
when = '[[ ! -n "${NVIM_APPNAME}" ]]'
style = "bold yellow"
symbol = '[ ](fg:#15AABF)'
format = '$symbol[USING SYSTEM NVIM]($style)'

[env_var.NVIM_APPNAME]
style = "green"
symbol = '[ ](fg:#15AABF)'
format = '[$symbol${env_value}]($style)'
variable = "NVIM_APPNAME"

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I recently noticed that my og images were missing emoji. They were taken using headless chrome in a container. I fixed it by adding an emoji font in the containerfile / dockerfile.

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
    # Add fonts with emoji support
    fonts-noto-color-emoji \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

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Here’s what they were looking like with broken emoji fonts.

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And now with the fixed emoji font.

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I put thought bubbles on my thoughts posts and stars on my github stars posts

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I came across llama.vim from ggml-org, and it’s packed with great features and ideas. Vim plugin for LLM-assisted code/text completion

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ublue-os has done a fantastic job with ucore. Highly recommend taking a look. An OCI base image of Fedora CoreOS with batteries included

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Just starred bazzite by ublue-os. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer. Bazzite is a cloud native image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices - including your favorite handheld.

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snorlax by moonbeam-nyc is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves. wake and sleep Kubernetes deployments on a schedule

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I came across headlamp from kubernetes-sigs, and it’s packed with great features and ideas. A Kubernetes web UI that is fully-featured, user-friendly and extensible

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Just starred headlamp by headlamp-k8s. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer. A Kubernetes web UI that is fully-featured, user-friendly and extensible

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If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on gitui, created by gitui-org. Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀

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Top Python libraries of 2024 Dive into our 10th annual Python Libraries roundup for 2024, now featuring separate curated lists for General Use and AI / ML / Data tools. Discover this year's most innovative additions to the eco... Tryolabs · tryolabs.com Really good listicle of new modern top python libraries from 2024.…

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GitHub - bootandy/dust: A more intuitive version of du in rust A more intuitive version of du in rust. Contribute to bootandy/dust development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com dust is one of my favorite rust rewrite tools. Its so useful for narrowing down file system bloat and cleaning up some disk…

Jan 13 – Jan 19, 20251 year ago

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a night of rounds

Tonight my son and I played rounds, I pulled clips of all the final rounds of each set of rounds. We play hardly any games with guns in them, this is one of the few exceptions, it feels quite whimsical, fun, and strategic, and not at all realistic or first person. The strategy part really brings me back to the fps game…
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wondercraft session one

My son and I are starting a new Minecraft server today called wondercraft. setup We are running a few mods on this server notably FTB Ultimine for less grindy resource gathering, Sodium for shaders, and Universal Shops. We are runninng on Minecraft 1.20.1, I think this is because it was the latest supported by Universa…

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Check out dust by bootandy. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential. A more intuitive version of du in rust

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I’m impressed by mini.ai from nvim-mini. Neovim Lua plugin to extend and create / textobjects. Part of ‘mini.nvim’ library.

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Check out echasnovski and their project mini.ai. Neovim Lua plugin to extend and create / textobjects. Part of ‘mini.nvim’ library.

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The work on swark by swark-io. Create architecture diagrams from code automatically using large language models (LLMs).

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Keycloak Keycloak - the open source identity and access management solution. Add single-sign-on and authentication to applications and secure services with minimum effort. Keycloak · keycloak.org Keycloak looks like an interesting way to setup sso. It’s part of the cncf so it’s got a good backing. I want something bett…

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I like the charts that Theo brings to to these videos. Shout out for a positive k8s reference and not shitting on it. Htmx brings html /css just a bit further down the complexity graph with little to no extra effort, while react allows us to go all the way full complexity at the cost of build and dev complexity to go f…

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Why I Write Software Engineer at Bluesky specializing in developer productivity, AI-assisted development, and accessibility. Creator of The Balanced Engineer newsletter and co-host of the Overcommitted podcast. Brittany Ellich · brittanyellich.com It’s interesting how many people in tech maintain a blog. I think part o…

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Availability Software Engineer at Bluesky specializing in developer productivity, AI-assisted development, and accessibility. Creator of The Balanced Engineer newsletter and co-host of the Overcommitted podcast. Brittany Ellich · brittanyellich.com nice overview of availability measurements and what they really mean. T…

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Jan 6 – Jan 12, 20251 year ago

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nvim-manager

I recently built a cli application as a nearly-one-shot-app called nvim-manager. It manages your nvim dotfiles install. Why How is nvim manager any better nvim-manager allows you to install pinned versions of your dotfiles, your friends dotfiles, and distros in ~/.config. This allows you to have stable versions that wi…

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/now

This page is meant to be simple view into what is happening in my life right now. Inspired by @NowNowNow. and Derek Sivers. testing md.waylonwalker.com to trigger builds, second time is a charm, testing new deploy testing build in prod again now is it fast? Last Update 2025-10-29 Silksong has my attention, it’s great W…
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one-shot-s3-cleanup

So I made a mistake in an app I am working on and ended up creating thumbnails of thumbnails, and thumbnails of thumbnails of thumbnails… etc. I was able to delete them all, but I wanted to make a one-shot script to do it. One Shot App I got the idea of the one shot app from Simon Willison and replicated his setup in a…
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Today I learned that the docs in postiz are a bit behind, (fantastic docs btw, they are to the point, and cover almost all of what you need). The docs state that you need to include an R2 bucket to handle uploads.

This issue shows that more work has been done, one of which is local storage. The compose file they use in the quick start has the required env variables to set this up.

      STORAGE_PROVIDER: "local"
      UPLOAD_DIRECTORY: "/uploads"
      NEXT_PUBLIC_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY: "/uploads"

looking into my running instance I can see my images there.

⬢ [devtainer] ❯ podman exec postiz ls /uploads/2025/01/09
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a221db10a76f0c414171ab417379b09ec.jpeg

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we beat trailmakers

Today we broke through the atmosphere in trailmakers ready for pickup from those back at mission conrol. I haven’t posted a lot of gaming content to by blog, idk why, but I think I am going to start, especially for the ones that are good memories with my son. Today we hit 100% of the required parts required to build th…

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I’m really excited about gitingest, an amazing project by cyclotruc. It’s worth exploring! Replace ‘hub’ with ‘ingest’ in any github url to get a prompt-friendly extract of a codebase

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Looking for inspiration? gitingest by coderamp-labs. Replace ‘hub’ with ‘ingest’ in any github url to get a prompt-friendly extract of a codebase

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Check out bic by Pinjasaur. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential. Static blog generator, in bash

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Bluesky is more like Twitter than X is joelhooks.com Bluesky is almost excatly like twitter was when I joined years ago. It’s gone crazy lately bogged deep in politics, bots, and ads. I’ve seen like two scroll pages of ads in a row, its nuts. What I did not know before Joel pointed out here is that the feed I am lookin…

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Gitingest Replace gitingest.com Replace hub with ingest in any github and get a prompt friendly codebase ready to feed into any llm. It combines the entire codebase, based on a gitignore style glob that you pass in, into a single TXT file.

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Release v0.0.2 · WaylonWalker/nvim-manager 0.0.2 add install –distro to install distros add install –pick to pick a version to install add install –pick-distro to pick a distro to install add install –force to force install a version … GitHub · github.com New release out for nvim-manager that supports installing pre-co…

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Releases · WaylonWalker/nvim-manager manage dotfiles with nvim_appname. Contribute to WaylonWalker/nvim-manager development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com First release of is out. Your dotfiles change a lot, sometimes it’s hard to manage all of the places you have installed them and potentially m…

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Owning It · Matthias Ott Owning your content and platform means true independence on the web. Why it matters more than ever for creators. Matthias Ott – Web Design Engineer · matthiasott.com I can say I had the same kind of feelings when I first saw something called “Own Your Web” being run in Buttondown. I totally get…