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xxhash Python binding for xxHash PyPI · pypi.org I hit an issue with markata where even though a bunch of articles were cached, the site build was still slow because I was hitting hashlib.sha256 so hard for cache keys. I was shocked when this popped up in my profiler as a significant portion of the time spent. I swapped out for xxhash and that issue completely went away.

Tailscale allows you to ssh into all of your tailscale machines, it busts through firewalls and accross networks without complex setup. If you have used tailscale before this is an obvious no brainer. What is not obvious is that you can configure tailscale to allow ssh connections from devices within your tailnet without even a ssh daemon process running right through the tailscale daemon.

tailscale status
tailscale set --ssh

I picked this up from the tailscale youtube channel.

Tailscale

I just implemented a latest blog post link in Markata by asking for the first post slug from the blog feed. The implementation uses the jinja_md plugin to render jinja against the markdown and a tag to redirect.

My latest blog post is [[ {{ markata.feeds.blog.posts[0].slug }} ]].  Click the
link if you are not automatically redirected.

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url='/{{ markata.feeds.blog.posts[0].slug }}'" />  

Setting up the feed #

Feeds are setup in markata.toml configuration. They provide a handy way to create an html feed, rss feed, and quickly reference a filtered set of posts like this.

# you will need to enable the jinja_md plugin along with the defaults
[markata]
hooks = [
    "markata.plugins.jinja_md",
    "default",
    ]

# set up the blog feed
[[markata.feeds]]
slug = 'blog'
template = "feed.html"
filter = "date<=today and templateKey in ['blog-post'] and published"
sort = "date"
reverse = true

For more information on markata check out the full markata post.

Replicate - Run AI with an API Run open-source machine learning models with a cloud API replicate.com This is so easy compared to self hosting stable diffusion yourself. It even has a nice api that you can hit with curl or python. The pricing seems competitive as well. Bookmarking this to try next time I need something like it.
How to Deliver Code Every Day I recently calculated that I merge 0.8 pull requests every day into my team repo. Let’s round up and say I merge about one PR every day, delivering one or more features to production. I like this... Jake Worth · jakeworth.com Great set of tips here! No waiting. No “waiting until tomorrow” or “It’s Friday, let’s wait until Monday” to deploy. If your deploys are so slow that deploying an hour before the end of the day is a risk, that’s a separate problem. If you’re afraid of a Friday deploy, your system is too brittle, or you don’t have foolproof rollback procedures, or you don’t have people you trust on call to resolve it. Each of these is a problem that you can fix. This one I find interesting I think there are some industries where customers come in large waves over the weekend, and a weekend bug can not only ruin someones day off, take longer to fix, but also cost a lot of money. Not deploying on Friday is totally what that team should be doing. Most of us are not that team. Most of us work on small teams supporting some sort of product that Should be able to be tested and rolled back. I completely agree with Jake here, if your not willing to deploy…
You Have to Get Fast to Get Good at Programming Great programmers aren’t fast because they’re great. They’re great because they’re fast. I’ve sunk a lot of time into being fast at Vim. I’ve used it as my text editor for eight years,... Jake Worth · jakeworth.com Be Fast, Practice, Hone your craft. There’s a lot to be said here about honing your craft for editing text, picking up a few extra WPM, learning vim shortcuts. Also just build shit. The more you build new and different things the more not only your text editing will just roll out, your skills to see patterns in code and architecture will flourish. Read their bios, and the answer is always no. They loved to play, sure. They had some base talent, typically. But they also invested an absurd amount of time into that skill set. This! is actually what turned me on to Post Malone. I remember hearing his story in how he was just known as the guy with a guitar because he was always playing it between class and everything.

Refactoring one line links into wikilinks

Previously I had setup a feature of my website to expand one line links into a card. This was not a standard, even to the point that some formatters wrap the links with, thus breaking my custom plugin. Moving to the wikilink standard will allow my markdown posts to work accross more site builders without custom integrations. Expand One Line Links What is a wikilink Wikilinks are standard to a lot of wikis written in markdown. markdown-it-wikilinks The wikilink syntax is a slug wrapped in double square brackets. Marksman lsp will even autocomplete these for you, its pretty sweet. Note I recently implemented hover for wikilinks and and am pretty stoked about the result. Check this one out sick wikilink hover. Vim Quickfix You could use to fill your quickfix list will all of the one line links but I am less familiar with vimgrep and kept missing posts for some reason, I think it was something in my file glob missing some directories. I chose to use to fill my quickfix list using a command…
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about this site

I registered waylonwalker.com and started making content for it in 2017 after a big industry downturn in 2016 that left me scared for what would happen if I were laid off. The company I was working for at the time did it’s first major downsizing in history sending many really good engineers out to look for new opportunities in a world flooded with many in the same situation. This was very similar to what happened to the tech industry in 2024. This was very similar to what happened to the tech industry in 2024. See Waylon Walker for more about me. What is this site? It’s a blog Digital Garden Learn in public TIL portfolio my personal corner of the internet It’s [NOT]{.text-red-500.text-6xl.font-bold} Perfect There will be mistakes I will learn Grammar will be fine, but never perfect Code will run on my machine, but not guaranteed to be perfect There will be days when the whole site is broken It started as a blog This site started out as a [big B] It’s a digital garden Somewhere along th…
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Just starred eol-dr by pypeaday. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer. A crowd-sourced guide to help techs help their non-tech spouses / partners / parents / kids when we are at the end-of-life

sick wikilink hover

Today I set up some sick wikilink hover effects using tailwind see A Case For Tailwindcss. When you hover over them they show an image preview of the link that you are going to. I cant find where I have seen this but it comes from some docs sites. I’ll finish this article later, just excited to see it up.
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We have a right to repair! with Kyle Wiens, Founder and CEO at iFixit (Changelog Interviews #582) This week Adam went solo — talking to Kyle Wiens, Founder and CEO at iFixit, about all things Right to Repair. They discussed the latest win here in the US with Oregon passing an electronics Righ... Changelog · changelog.com This is one of my favorite changelog episodes of all time. I had no idea all the work that has gone into the right to repair and ifixit. They talk a lot about apple and its trend to be less repairable from unservicable air pods to serialized components within iphone. A lot of legal talk that was far more interesting that I thought it would be. Recently winning the right to repair case against John Deere, and creating repairability scores for devices to be placed in stores like energy guide is.

markata

This post is a work in progress. Markata is the static site generator that I created to build my website about this site. I built it for me and I enjoy using it. I know everying it can do and I can extend it to do more easily. I have set it up for some friends to also use it and am proud that it helps them publish their content. It’s a meme to create your own static site generator to make your website. Yes its funny, I don’t recommend it if your not ready for the level of work that comes with it, but at the end of the day it’s very rewarding and a great way to learn. Static Sites were all the rage JAMStack was 🔥 Gatsby and Next.js hit the scene as the next generation of static site builders and were getting big around the time I started building my site in 2017. They were based on react. I dove into react and learned it enough to build my website, but I really lacked the depth of knowledge in the js ecosystem to really work on it effectively. For instance when it got slow, it was hard…

my linked in work history

My linked in work history is empty. I made up a position about content developer that tracks how long I’ve been blogging. I think i did this because LinkedIn requires it. Either way this is public knowledge and fine sharing. Social Engineering If you have taken any security class for your job seriously you have already been told not to share your work with most companies to the public, this is private information that only opens you up for social engineering attacks against that company. I care about privacy and security I care about the security of these companies I work for and their reputation, so I refuse to publically share it. Need to know If somehow you need to know where I work it’s my choice to tell you. I don’t need to advertise to every social engineering hacker where I work on the platform that they go to get that information from.

Your LinkedIn is Garbage

Your linkedin link sits at the top of your resume, its one of the first things I see when I open your resume, but yet it gives me no more information that the damn resume you sent me. Save that space on your resume for something useful. So you want that /in/me on your resume Fine if you want it on your resume make it actually useful for someone reading your resume. Actually post something If I am reading resume’s and I actually take the time to look at your linkedin I want to see you post something. Take a side, make an opinion and post it. Learn something new, make a post about it. If you have a blog and you make a good post share it there. Your work history belongs on your resume Any security 101 tells you that you should not share your work history on linked in. You should not share photos of you at your workplace that include sensitive information such as your badge. Your work history on LinkedIn is for hackers to steal and use for social engineering. If you took security seriously…