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Releases · WaylonWalker/nvim-manager github.com
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 made hand edits to. nvim-manager allows you to easily make static releases of your dotfiles, and keep your nvim install from breaking by leveraging NVIM_APPNAME and pinned releases of your dotfiles stored in ~/.config. In this directory you might have many nvim configurations installed, nvim-manager automates the process of installing and updating from your dotfiles, while keeping previous pinned versions untouched.
Owning It · Matthias Ott matthiasott.com
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 it. It takes time and effort to build your own stuff, email sending is hard, not done right ends you in the spam folder. There is something about the name though that I think needs to set an example and self host as much as it possibly can. The changelog has covered this several times, do they need to go to the crazy lengths they do to run their site, no probably not, but it keeps them in the loop. They are using the tech they talk about in a very real and production critical way to run the show. Cant wait to see more from ownyourweb.site
The weirdest controller I’ve ever used www.youtube.com
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 as a kit, and all the parts are available that this hits S tier repairability. My current controller of choice is a PS5 and I’ve had stick issues I wish I could fix. No analog triggers, I’m out. Maybe they will make it an option in the future idk. I don’t play shooters where I need a hair trigger, this won’t work on session or driving games. micro usb, seriously, that kinda kills it for me too. edit I looked on their website and they have usb c in the latest version
Postiz: The All-in-One Social Media Management Tool postiz.com
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 services.
gitroomhq/postiz-helmchart: Helm for Postiz github.com
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 – Chris Coyier chriscoyier.net
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 a photo of myself prominently on the site, so you know who you’re dealing with here. I really like this after thinking about it and I think I am going to make sure I get my face back on my posts. I do have my 8bit style pixel art image of me that I use on social media, but no real picture. I feel like a lot of people redesign their entire website when it’s time to update to the latest list of social networks and I’m no different. Once you touch it you gotta keep going. I can totally relate to this, once you open the thing, you get the build tools greased up, and your confidence high that re-deploying isn’t going to mess something up, I tend to start digging in to other things.
About Me – Harry Roberts – Web Performance Consultant csswizardry.com
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 engineering degree. I love how he mentions that he chose the name when he was 17 and he is stuck with it. I particularly like the name, it has something special to it. Hats off to you for doing something that has lasted so long for you. I fully understand though, I have projects that I made a year ago that I think why did I name it that. At the same time when I try to think of a name I end up with the I don’t have anything good and I’d rather build the thing so fuck it, its going to be what it is.
Using Obsidian as a Gaming Backlog Library bryanhogan.com
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 in and have completed. Wonder if there is a way to hook into steam with python to get achievements and progress live.
Harry Roberts: “📡 I’ve been writing a lot lately. I’ve also du… bsky.app
@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 at csswizardry.com/feed.xml https://csswizardry.com/feed.xml Bluesky Social · bsky.app Tons of cool people came out with their rss feeds here, again will need to browse more closely later.
Own Your Web • Buttondown buttondown.com
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 one here. The archive has been a great read so far, I’ve discovered things like slashpages.net.
Fork Around And Find Out | Remaining Authentic in Retirement w… share.transistor.fm
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 guest for FAFO. Kelsey is always such a great listen. He talks about killedbygoogle and how engineers get no incentive to work on old projects, google had no incentive, and you got the thing for FREE in the first place. He talks about end of career and having love you money, having so much in the bank you can say no. If you are presented with a project that does not align with your values you can say no.M Justin even mentions how Google has more killedbygoogle projects than Amazon has total projects. If we knew how hard it would be, we would never build it. Autumn’s Fav quote from ep1 of shipit

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Welcome to waylonwalker.com, my small corner of the internet. I currently have 3927 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 are some evergreen pages that I will do my best to keep up to date, they are typically not targeted to a specific moment in time, but designed to be ever living. Waylon Walker - Husband, dad of two, and hobbyist builder of things on the internet. Ai - Last updated Jan 2026. 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… /carry/ - I try to keep a pretty light every day carry, but it never works out, keyfobs and headphone cases end up causing more bulk than I'd like, but My EDC is no… /colophon - Colophon a page that describes how the site > is made,…
Changelog • Robb Knight rknight.me
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 slashpages.net
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 like to, mostly because it does require some amount of work to make the page, and keep it up to date over time, then remember that you even have it. Some are serious, some very common, some quite useful.

slow nfs performance

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 that run in the background and I don’t care if they take a bit longer to keep my master node freed up for more critical work. I just started trying to build this site in a cronjob, It was taking 20 minutes to build, and something I noticed was that markata was taking minutes to run glob ( search for files), normally this happens in a few ms and I never notice this step. Permissions # I have seen where you can get diffent permissions on the nfs share based on user id. Since I’m homelabbing here I only have one user per machine. As you step into enterprise level VMs with tighter controls and dozens of users for all the different services that might run on it. I’ve ran in…

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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 originally. see more in Waylon Walker Why I Built This Site # from scratch I got tired of: Build times that took forever Node modules folders that became black holes Bloated pages that took ages to load SEO tools that felt like an afterthought You know what I think I can do this better. So I built my own platform chiseled from scratch by hand using python, some open source modules and many ideas in my head of what I wanted for my own system. Then Agents hit the market in Nov 2025 and by Jan 2026 I was interested in trying some spec driven development. I carefully created a prompt to have the latest gpt models at the time re-imaging what I made by hand in go. It continu…
We need to have a talk… - YouTube www.youtube.com
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 much as a dockerfile listen to him. If you touch infra at all try it before you take his opinion at face value. Serverless shines in high variance # If you plan on having traffic spikes 10x your regular traffic for something like black friday, serverless might be right for your use case. stateless programming # He argues that targeting a stateless deployment of serverless leads to better code. I’d like to see more examples here. Maybe most of the code bases I work on already do this. I’ve never targeted a serverless deployment, but I’ve targeted horizontally scaled deployments many times and they feel like they have the same targets. For instance if I spin up 8 pods for my application or uvicorn with 3 workers I have to target statelessness, all of the state must live in the database and cannot live in memory. Even if I target 1 instance in a containerized environme…
linkding | linkding linkding.link
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 and forget with some note taking and search ability. I should definitely level up the search and tag discovery in thoughts.
Why Your Backend Shouldn’t Serve Files - YouTube www.youtube.com
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 year. My problem going straight out of minio right now is how do i set headers for cache control on it. If I can’t set the cache control and everything is coming out of minio this does not solve my problems. I went back and played with presigned urls and you can in fact control and set response headers, this is definitely the way and I have been wrong.
curl with partial files | daniel.haxx.se daniel.haxx.se
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 use case I have out of the gate, but it looks cool. I’m thinking this might be good to keep in the back pocket for something like CI where I don’t have a hightly tuned bashrc file, and I want a dynamic curl request based on some state that exists as a fille.
The beautiful sentence that is the web cassidoo.co
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 server is a mistake, but it brings sites to life. It makes it possible to extend the static nature of html /css with just a little special spice only your site needs. I’d add to the argument that a lot of js should go away over time. Over time libraries such as jquery have fallen out of use, not because they are bad, or have been replaced by new libraries, but because the browser has adopted most of the functionality that jquery brought. As a primarily python dev I’d really like to see htmx die a very similar graceful death. There have been several iterations on this idea, and the crux of it is very similar, give the ability to use HTTP verbs right inside html with some instruction of when to apply them and what to apply them to. No js should not go away, it never will, we will always find new patterns that the browser should take, sites will always need a small bit of s…
Addy Osmani: “Tip: Chrome DevTools can override the content of… bsky.app
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 not showing up in the sources tab. I’ll keep this in my back pocket for next time I’m supporting a vuejs app though.
Ellie Huxtable: “Atuin v18.4 is out now! Including `atuin wrap… bsky.app
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 bazzite, so maybe 4 months, but here is my wrapped. Comparing to Ellie, I’m surprised that I even have 126 package related commands, being on an immutable distro most of my packages come from the container, I don’t need to run packaging commands. My cd is also super low, I use tmux sessions to take me where I need to be most of the time, which is a project’s root directory, It’s pretty rare to see me outside of a project root directory. I’d venture to guess that nvim would be higher if it didn’t auto start on every tmux session as well.
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 20 - YouTube www.youtube.com
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 exclusively at home since switching to Bazzite in August. I’d like to use buildah in ci. I gave it a try, but was unable to swap out my use of kaniko for buildah, I will get there, but it was not quite as drop in as I wanted.
are we cooked w/ o3? - YouTube www.youtube.com
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 a jack of all trades bump from ai, not o3, just the regular stuff.

setting up ucore-zfs

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 display driver error, or something that would lock the display for minutes every 30s or so, it became unusable. I switched because this is what I put my son on and it was working great for him. Four months later and I am really loving the immutable distro experience. My base system gets fresh reliable updates, and I barely install anything directly on it, a handful of things are snaps or flatpaks from the discover store, but my main workflow is now in distrobox. It has been rock solid reliable, and just works. The Hardware # This gem is running a an intel i7-2600 (4) @ 3.80 ghz with 16gb of ram. I’ve maxed out the ram that the motherboard will allow me. I may have even for…
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Getting a Dev Job in 2025 - YouTube www.youtube.com
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 starts with we need someone to do x does anyone know someone, then goes to a more formal internal post, then more formally asking internally does anyone know someone, then maybe to his community, and if he really still needs the person it might become an external post. These days there are so many good engineers on the market that very few good jobs actually get a posting for in his opinion.
kitze 🚀 on X: “holy fk I thought package.json was bad but TIL … x.com
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 needs, quotes and braces”
Custom Gridfinity Bins For ANYTHING! - YouTube www.youtube.com
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 and made it a very basic operation to do. It took me a minute to find the Merge button that Uncle Jessy mentioned, they call it a group in TinkerCAD.
4 Tips for Building a Production-Ready FastAPI Backend - YouTube www.youtube.com
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! He reccommends deploying as early as you can get a healthcheck live in your application. I’ve found too many times developers build something that is really hard, or impossible to deploy, when if they had tried to deploy early they would have spotted some easy to fix issues. This is less important if you are building out of a template that your team commonly deploys from, but very important with new patterns. https://youtu.be/XlnmN4BfCxw?si=ks1wvmgDyoQLgrv2&t=1093
Building Python tools with a one-shot prompt using uv run and … simonwillison.net
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 This is really interesting, the lazy uv scripts are really becoming quite appealing, especially for something like this to just pop out of an llm ready to run. The article features several examples of these one-shot prompt ideas that I suggest you give a try, and a prompt for creating them.
Status | Depot status.depot.dev
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 depot.dev
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 had to opt out using. Looks like a great service and I just learned about them on their bad day.
Depot depot.dev
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 container builds, seems like a really great service for fast builds accross your team.
Cursor + Windsurf Settings to 5x AI’s Output Quality (Works wi… www.youtube.com
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 suggests to use this key rule for debugging purposes, otherwise you are guessing to what rules if any it is following.
Dedicated Servers | Intel Servers | AMD Servers - Dedicated Ho… www.reliablesite.net
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 competitive, but as a cheap ass homelabber I see their prices and think I could grab a used optiplex for the cost of a month or two of these and probably wouldn’t know the difference. DAX mentions longer compile times so maybe he does notice.
Talking with Typecraft - YouTube www.youtube.com
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 dax use c-s, which normally freezes a terminal, we can all agree that is useless. I use the default c-b, it seems fine for me. type crafts setup # Ubuntu Ghosty Tmux Nvim Ruby Selling coffee without a web front end # Dax talks about terminal.shop and how they originally planned to have a web front end, but after they had so much success they stuck with it. now they are leaning harder into it and are building out integrations with a bunch of languages and an api, but no front end.
PEP 723 – Inline script metadata | peps.python.org peps.python.org
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 all of these lazy self installing python scripts, Authored by the author of hatch and pyapp. This is a really cool thing that uv has picked up and made python packaging just a bit easier.. maybe… dependency resolution still sucks.
Switching from virtualenvwrapper to direnv, Starship, and uv treyhunner.com
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 generally just hatch shell into them. I just need to make sure I go through all of them and make my installer uv. Now I’ve been thinking about making uv my only needed dependency to run a python project and leaning more to something like
Lazy self-installing Python scripts with uv treyhunner.com
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 be the same with a new shebang Add an appropriate shebang line above the first line in the file (e.g. #!/usr/bin/env python3) Aet an executable bit on the file (chmod a+x my_script.py) Place the script in a directory that’s in my shell’s PATH variable (e.g. cp my_script.py ~/bin/my_script) And here is the new format the the shebang followed by the metadata comment block defined in PEP 723.