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Shots Get An Upgrade To the Main Feed

Today I updated my jinja templates and feeds to include shots posts in the main feed. These posts will prominently show the image in the feed with a small post for each one. Shots are instagram style imge posts inspired by https://justin.searls.co/shots/.
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A Full Cheese Board
A macropad filled with cheese keycaps placed in random orientations.
Full Box Of Cheese Caps
A full box of 9 keycaps sit behind a cap placed in front, they are custom wedge of cheese caps.
Printing A Full Plate Of Cheese Hats
A Bambu Lab Printer is working on the first few layers of cheese hats to be placed on top of keycaps.
Cheese Cap On A Macropad
A cheese keycap placed in the middle of a macropad, currounded by black/purple caps in a blue case.
A Box Of Caps And A Macropad
A macropad with a pixel heart and mlg glasses sit on a clean white background.
Heart Of A Macropad
A pixel heart kecap in the center of a macropad, the macropad is admittedly dirty, filled with small bits of fuzz.
First Cap Hat, It’s A Heart
A 3d printed keycap with a heart glued to the top of it. The heart resembles a pixelated game asset.
Big W: A Family Tradition A quick look into where we came from and what inspires us to do what it takes to build a solid reputation. Big W Engineering Solutions · bigwengineering.com I first met Adam in college, he seemed like quite a character on the outside, but was always quite smart and often leaned towards realistic solutions to problems rather than over complicating things. He was part of the SAE Formula car, well known for taking a simple problem and trying to turn it into a real formula one carbon fiber solution. I remember a period where he was a fan of old world blacksmithing as they would say at the time. He even got a few very simple and light parts on the car that were easy to make unlike the carbon fiber alternatives. By the time I was there he was more of a leader and did not do a lot of design on any whole system, but would take out class projects for a component or help with some hard problems. This company feels like it is a great extension of who he was a that time, with about 15 years of professional experience tacked on.
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First Box Of Caps
A print in place box sitting on the printer bed used as a raft for the 9 caps perectly nestled inside in a 3 by 3 pattern.
Fourth Chorus

zmk two hand hold down

I don’t know about you, but I don’t re-flash my keyboard enough to ever remember where I put the bootloader. Sometimes its the last thing I think about in a refactor and I end up cornering myself into a place where I cant get into that layer anymore. I’ve started putting hardware switches on my newer builds, but some older builds don’t have a hardware one, so it requires disassembly and jumping the microcontroller. Even when I have one though, I gotta flip my board over and its annoying sometimes, so I prefer to have a keystroke for it. Two Hand hold down What I’ve landed on recently is the idea of a two hand hold down combo for the bootloader. These combos are ones that there is no way I can hit without picking my hands up from their normal homerow position and pressing four keys simultaneously with pointer and thumbs. Here are some example layouts from keymap-editor Timing You can even give it a long prior timeout to really make sure that its not an accidental hit.
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Lace
Beginning Of Little Boxes
Four little 3d printed boxes laying on a white background, one contains a painted lid that says M 2x5.

Why Make a Website in 2025

Inspired by Jim and Dave It’s Fun If it’s not something that you enjoy, you might as well move on there are far better ways to spend your time in 2025. Only the weirdos read this shit anymore, the masses have long moved on to curated social media feeds, and on to chatting with llms. I enjoy spending some time in the digital garden every once in awhile tweaking templates, creating markata plugins to do interesting things. I enjoy expressing my thoughts, or at least shouting them into the ether. I’ll be the first to admit that I often go to an llm for first pass at many things that I could look up in a guide or 😲 the docs. I enjoy reading others This year I have made extra effort to add more and more people into my Reader. I enjoy reading content from people I chose to follow and can remove whenever I want. I enjoy reading actual human thoughts and not ai generated content all day. I even will create Thoughts based on these posts that I find interesting, and want to further share to othe…
Meet Gor (@MeetGor21) on X SQLite added generated columns in 3.31 (around Jan 2020) Postgres added generated columns with virtual and as default in v18 (to be released September 2025) There is still a lot to learn in SQL a… X (formerly Twitter) · x.com I’ve never tried generated columns, but it is something that I’m interested in. It is nice to have things computed and in the database if you ever need to query on them. My brain is now churning with possibilities and quesions, does this work with Alembic? How does this compare to views?

Html

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the standard markup language used to create and design documents on the World Wide Web. It structures web content by...

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I needed to display some hover text in a web app that I am using tailwind and jinja on. It has no js, and no build other than the tailwind. I want this to remain simple. Turns out that you can use a span with a title attribute to get hover text in HTML.

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I needed to display some hover text in a web app that I am using tailwind and
jinja on.  It has no js, and no build other than the tailwind. I want this to
remain <span style='cursor: help; color:yellow;' title='respective to the
python developer I am and the team it is used for'>simple</span>.
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