Welcome to waylonwalker.com, my small corner of the internet. I currently have 3949 posts published, here are some links to help you get started around here. Feeds I have quite a few different feeds that you can browse or subscribe to in your rss reader, you can find them on my feeds page. #meta Slash posts Slash pages…
I’m running a two node k3s cluster at home, I thought I could simply mount an nfs share on each worker node, and essentially have the same storage accross all nodes. I’m already learning why this is not reccommended. Slow I’ve been running some cronjobs and argo workflows on the second node for awhile, these are things…
Colophon a page that describes how the site is made, with what tools, supporting what technologies Author All posts on this site are written by Waylon Walker, the typical content has changed and evolved over time. I go back and make a few corrections, but for the most part things stay pretty much as they were published…
Gyroscope better than a mouse?? Nerd nest really sells how having two gyros in the way they have done for noise cancelling changes the game on it, and makes it a contender to replace a mouse. It really makes me want to try it. I love how repairable this controller looks. I’ve got to imagine that the fact that it comes…
Postiz: The Agentic Social Media Scheduling Platform Postiz is the agentic social media scheduling platform. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or OpenClaw plan, schedule and publish to 30+ channels from one calendar. Postiz · postiz.com postiz looks like a very polished way to automate and schedule posts to all the social servic…
GitHub - gitroomhq/postiz-helmchart: Helm for Postiz Helm for Postiz. Contribute to gitroomhq/postiz-helmchart development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com Reminder to myself, look into self hosting postiz with this helm chart later.
Realign I just popped out a realign of the ol’ personal website. I only say realign as I didn’t rethink every single detail of the thing. I’d say probably 40% of the original HTML and CSS… Chris Coyier · chriscoyier.net Chris Coyier had a small re-align on his site, some good nuggets in here. I like the idea of having…
About Harry Roberts – CSS Wizardry csswizardry.com I’ve only recently learned what colophon means, and I really like to read through site that use it. If you don’t know its about how the site is built. I’ve always liked peeking under the hood of things to understand how they work, it’s what turned me towards an enginee…
Using Obsidian as a Gaming Backlog Library How to use Obsidian as a gaming backlog library. Get a long-lasting overview of games you want to and have played. Bryan Hogan · bryanhogan.com Very interesting way to catalog games, I need to make a catalog of mine, I’ll probably start adding some blog entries for games I’m i…
@csswizardry) — 📡 I’ve been writing a lot lately. I’ve also dusted off my RSS reader. Send me your feeds! Mine is at csswizardry.com/feed.xml https://csswizardry.com/feed.xml" loading="lazy"> Harry Roberts ( @csswizardry) 📡 I’ve been writing a lot lately. I’ve also dusted off my RSS reader. Send me your feeds! Mine is…
myRSS/personal-blogs.xml at master · sturobson/myRSS a copy of my RSS feeds in a handy.opml file. Contribute to sturobson/myRSS development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com Sturobson has a ton of rss feeds here, I recognize quite a few, will definitely need to poke at some of these later.
Own Your Web Own Your Web is a newsletter by Matthias Ott about designing, building, creating, and publishing for and on the Web. Every other week, I send out an exclusive email full of actionable insights, bes... buttondown.com I’m a sucker for good own your own shit on the web blogs, and Matthias Ott has a top notch…
Remaining Authentic in Retirement with Kelsey Hightower | Fork Around And Find Out Retirement is about the journey, not the destination. For Kelsey Hightower, it’s been an epic journey. On our debut episode of the Fork Around and Find Out Podcast (and much to Autumn’s elation... share.transistor.fm What a great first g…
Changelog Maker of web things, sticker merchant, viral toot-based business man, blogger, podcaster, and pizzaiolo. Human dad. rknight.me Well done changelog with some really good inspirational nuggets. Many slash pages I want to check out and an 11ty contribution graph.
slash pages A guide to common pages you can add to your website slashpages.net A nice list of slashpages you might want to consider including / aliasing / 301ing. These feel like nice things to setup and keep in the back pocket for obsidian style wiki link to easily. I get kinda bad at wiki-linking as much as I would l…
Theo does a fantastic history of serverless here. Kubernetes shit Theo can’t have an infra video without shitting on k8s. Specifically people who have never touched k8s pushing fear of k8s to large audiences of people who have never touched k8s. If you are a webdev who solely lives in webdev space and never touches as…
linkding A self-hosted bookmarking service that is designed to be minimal, fast and easy to set up. linkding · linkding.link linkding looks like an interesting alternative to thoughts. Thoughts is focused on the note being a value add tweet length blog post that you share to the public. This seems more focused on fire…
Lane from boot.dev madde this fantastic video about serving files on the internet. It has me wondering if I need to rethink a few of my things that I have built. I have a few things I am serving media from, but I have very aggressive cloudflare cache rules on them, so each file should only be uploaded about once per ye…
curl with partial files Back in September 2023, we extended the curl command line tool with a new fairly advanced and flexible variable system. Using this, users can use files, environment variables and more in a powerful... daniel.haxx.se · daniel.haxx.se This is a cool new feature coming to bash, I can’t think of a u…
The beautiful sentence that is the web A metaphor for the building blocks of web development. cassidoo.co Nicely worded Cassidy! Javascript can be too much, it can bog down low powered devices, we can ship so much that its untenable on poor connections. It can be argued that its a bad language and putting it on the ser…
Teleport to coop partner Hello, Is there a command where you can teleport to your coop partner? Or is it just this Follow button in chat?:) Hypixel Forums · hypixel.net /p warp will warp your party to your current server in hypixel skyblock
External Link stackoverflow.com Today I learned how to configure the baseurl for htmx using the tag. This is pretty handy to be able to configure different baseurls.
Addy Osmani (@addyosmani.bsky.social) Tip: Chrome DevTools can override the content of Fetch/XHR requests! Useful for mocking APIs without waiting on backend changes. Bluesky Social · bsky.app WTF, you can just change a server response from devtools and update a vuejs app? Just tried with htmx, and my GET requests are…
Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee.com) 2025: the year of action … who’s finally ready? PS: text me for any follow up questions at 📱 1-212-931-5731 #2025 #todo #todolist #motivation #garyvee Bluesky Social · bsky.app Gary Vee, is the goat. leaving this image as a reminder for myself
I just setup my oldest hardware on the newest hotest server distro ucore-zfs. This is a gateway FX6860 manufactured in 2010. Immutable is the future My current boot log shows that I first started daily driving bazzite back in August 2024. I’ve been hapily using it since my arch install was plaugued with a crippling dis…
Ellie Huxtable (@ellie.wtf) Atuin v18.4 is out now! Including, your year in shell history 🐢 thanks @daveeddy.com for the suggestion! Bluesky Social · bsky.app Atuin v18.4 is out with an atuin wrapped command. Here’s Ellie’s Wrapped. This is a pretty sick command, I’ve only been using Atuin about as long as I’ve been on…
Red Hat has donated the whole open alternative to docker to the CNCF, the hosts weigh in with thier opinions all being pretty positive as they seem to be a legitimate donation and not dumping crap on open source. podman podman-desktop buildah compose-fs podman bootc scopio Personally I’ve been running podman exclusivel…
Holy shit these AGI models are incredibly expensive to run, require lots of wild hardware that there is not enough to go around, and requires shit tons of power to run. Now more than ever is time to distinguish yourself with deep expertise, jack of all trades is being eaten by ai. People with deep expertise are getting…
Theo weighing in on the 2025 job market. It’s no 2018 out there right now, the ratio of jobs to engineers in the market has flipped big time. Theo as usual really focuses on community, being in a community, and being a good citizen. At the end of the video Theo weighs in on his experience hiring, and generally it start…
kitze 🛠️ tinkerer.club (@thekitze) on X holy fk I thought package.json was bad but TIL python stores dependencies in a.txt file 💀 X (formerly Twitter) · x.com kitze hating on python packaging in new ways. Python packaging has a lot of quirks that can make it infuriating. Not once have I thought “you know what this need…
This tip of using tinkercad to do boolean operations on an stl of a solid gridfinity bin and an outline is absolute fire 🔥🔥🔥. This feels like a relatively simple operation, but to do it to a generated stl proves hard to do in most modeling software, at least harder than it needs to be. Somehow tinkercad got it right an…
Damn Glorious Eggrolls is still making gaming on linux better. Of course its containerization that drives everything on linux these days. This is a pretty badass talk. Umu is already running in steam and bazzite. Bazzite gamemode uses this to get a gamescope session running.
Great list of 4 tips for running fastapi applications. Keep routes small Fat routers with all of the logic built in makes them hard to test, hard to refactor, causes lots of duplication, and makes it hard to reuse the business logic code later in something like a cli application. Deploy Early I really like this advice!…
Building Python tools with a one-shot prompt using uv run and Claude Projects I’ve written a lot about how I’ve been using Claude to build one-shot HTML+JavaScript applications via Claude Artifacts. I recently started using a similar pattern to create one-shot Python uti... Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net T…
Depot Status Latest service status for Depot Depot Status · status.depot.dev Depot’s uptime seems to be great. I definitely hit some issues with it this afternoon 12/24/24 that were not reported. I wonder if my issues were with the fly integration. Maybe fly ran out of credits to depot or something.
Deploy to Fly using a Depot builder Using Fly.io's new Depot builder, we'll walk you through how to deploy a TypeScript service globally with speed. Depot · depot.dev Here the integration to depot appears to be opt in using the flag on. This must have changed over time though because today it was giving me issues and I…
Depot | Software Delivery built for machine scale Depot provides fast source control, builds, CI runners, sandboxes, caches, and registries to ship reliable software at machine scale. Depot · depot.dev Just learned about depot today ironically because it seems to be down and fly is using them under the hood to do the c…
This was an eye opening video into agentic editing workflows. setting rules Dfferent ai tools use different rules files, windsurf uses.windsurfrules. testing out rules Test out your rules file by having it say something at the beginning of the output to verify that the rules are being applied correctly. First line He s…
Dedicated Servers | Intel Servers | AMD Servers - Dedicated Hosting reliablesite.net Dax talked about this in a recent How about tomorrow podcast https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/post/461. He is using it as his dev machine, he just ssh’s in and devs on it. Feels like quite an interesting workflow, their prices seem co…
This is a pretty great episode talking shop with typecraft. They talk setups, cameras, content creation. I found them talking about their linux setups particularly interesting. Dax talked about his flow from building his own machines to using reliablesite.com. tmux default leader Dax hates on c-a, both typecraft and da…
PEP 723 – Inline script metadata | peps.python.org This PEP specifies a metadata format that can be embedded in single-file Python scripts to assist launchers, IDEs and other external tools which may need to interact with such scripts. Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) · peps.python.org PEP 723 is what is inspiring a…
Switching from virtualenvwrapper to direnv, Starship, and uv Earlier this week I considered whether I should finally switch away from virtualenvwrapper to using local.venv managed by direnv. I’ve never... Trey Hunner · treyhunner.com I’ve kinda fallen out of using direnv now that a lot of my projects use hatch, I gener…
Lazy self-installing Python scripts with uv I frequently find myself writing my own short command-line scripts in Python that help me with day-to-day tasks. It’s so easy to throw together a... Trey Hunner · treyhunner.com I really like Trey’s steps to making an executable python script with uv his old process seems to…
My approach to running a link blog I started running a basic link blog on this domain back in November 2003—publishing links (which I called “blogmarks”) with a title, URL, short snippet of commentary and a “via” … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net I still cannot believe I thought I had such a unique idea wit…
This is such an improvement to the backend of my website it warrants a blog post of celebration. For far too long I’ve been dealing with a tiny ass edit form on thoughts. I tend to not edit them, and try to get them right in one go. This is kinda the point of a thought, its a quick post meant to be the size of a tweet,…
Writing
Today i got hit by this accessibility issue on my site. Low contrast links are
not distiniquishable. I had not seen this error title before it was new to me,
maybe I have bad memory or maybe it’s new to me.
I ended up dropping the background color of the site down a notch as I didn’t
really care for the semi-dark brown anyways. I’m liking the near black
bg-zinc-950 much better now.
I came across markitdown from microsoft, and it’s packed with great features and ideas. Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
gh-skyline by github is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves. A GitHub CLI extension to generate a 3D model of your GitHub contribution history
I’m really excited about studio, an amazing project by outerbase. It’s worth exploring! A lightweight Database GUI in your browser. It supports connecting to Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite.
How I use Obsidian Templater One of my favorite Obsidian plugins is Templater, which lets you create reusable templates in your notes vault! cassidoo.co I really like this idea of keeping a set up contacts in a markdown repo, and being able to wikilink them to different tickets / meetings and what not. I’m imagining th…
docker context (and an issue to question your sanity) | Nic Payne docker contexts are great, would recommend putting them in your prompt though (via starship or something else)... here's why I like to manage my containers pype.dev Dang context can really cause you to pull your hair out. Context seems so freaking conven…
I got the ADHD, too This month I got my official diagnosis for Adult ADHD. It’s fun to share experiences with friends. While ADHD presents some new waters to navigate, it isn’t exactly news to me. Thanks to Dr. Ti... daverupert.com · daverupert.com Cheers to the Unique brains dave. I can say I am 100% with Dave on all…
How to make your RSS feed pretty Life is too short for ugly XML. cassidoo.co I love me some styled rss, it’s how the OG internet was made to be. You choose what you want to read and when. There is no middleman aggregator inflating the reach of things they want you to see or suffocating things against them. It’s just yo…
Dropper — Private file storage and sharing A private file drop for uploads, previews, and a searchable media library by Waylon Walker. Dropper · dropper.waylonwalker.com Dropper is a place for me to drop files for quick posts like this.
Add a healthcheck to your FastAPI app | Nic Payne I'm building a few FastAPI apps to throw in docker and run on my homelab... I wanted to add healthchecks and here's a simple way to do it Make sure to pype.dev Nice example of adding a healthcheck to fastapi, and integrating it with docker. Don’t forget to include curl…
