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javascript b64

I'm currently [[replacing-google-search-apps-with-self-hosted-web-apps]] and decided to create a simple b64 encoder/decoder, just start typing to enter text, escape to deselect, then e/d to encode/decode. I'm trying to make these apps super simple, self hosted out of minio, static html, and javascript. It's been fun to get back to some simple interactive web development like this. No build just a website that does something. No broken builds, no containers to deploy, just push to minio. Here i

web wakelock

I'm trying to replace my usage of google inline search apps with real apps, today I used a stopwatch to time some things out at work by opening stopwatch. This was something I just wanted running in a tab on another screen, it was not timing running code or anything, I was using it as a reminder to check browser caches every 5 minutes or so for some testing. So tonight I whipped up a stopwatch , clock and timer , all of which are using the wakelock API to keep the screen on while the app is r

vhs themes

I've been working on ninesui , inspired by k9s see thoughts-633 . I want a good flow for making video for the readme and I am using charm.sh 's vhs for this. Its running in an archBTW distrobox and looks gawdaweful. sort.mp4 The over saturated colors give it a really retro look, seems fine, but not my cup of tea. I tried to change the textual theme to and it might have made it a bit better, but still over-saturated. After What I found is that vhs has themes, setting it to made everythin

grafana dashboards as k8s configmap

I'm trying to learn proper logs, monitoring, otel, and grafana. Today I imported a bunch of pre-made k8s dashboards and made a few of my own for specific apps, and it made me want to know how I can turn my own custom dashboards into infrastructure as code. Turns out grafana makes it pretty easy to do this, if you have the grafana dashboard sidecar running. It will pick up any ConfigMap with the grafana_dashboard label and import it. Go to Dashboards -> Pick a Dashboard -> Export -> JSON. imag

ruff single line import

I've been using ruff to lint my python code for quite awhile now, I was pretty early to jump on it after release. Some of my projects have had a nice force-single-line setting and some have not. I dug into the docs and it was not clear what I needed to make it work. Turns out I was missing I sort in the select list.

Markata list posts by year

I was looking back at my [[analytics]] page today and wondered what were my posts about back at the beginning. My blog is managed by [[markata]] so I looked at a few ways you could pull those posts up. Turns out it's pretty simple to do, use the markata map with a filter. !!! Note the filter is python eval that should evaluate to a boolean, all of the attributes of the post are available to filter on. Result You could use the command as well right within your shell and the same map and filte

pre-commit exclude

I run tailwind for my personal blog, whenever I update it, pre-commit goes in and fixes end of file. I'm sick of these things fighting each other, since it is a generated app it is going to et ignored from pre-commit from now on.

newlines in css before

I'm building in a [[ fragmentions ]] implementation into my blog, I wanted to add some text before the fragment to indidate that it was the highlighted fragment that someone may have intended to share with you. To get a newline in a I need to use and . Here is what it looks like on my not yet live implementation of fragmentions. screenshot-2025-02-15T15-43-06-372Z.png

testing nvim installs

Testing fresh nvim installs can be a pain, and hard to di without borking your known good install. I've been using to run a test nvim in a sandbox that wont bork my main install. This usually runs for me in under a minute, can be down under 15s if I remove some of the TreeSitter installs at the end. This beats a full docker build of my full devtainer to test out nvim packaging woes. I've started to use this as a recipe to run before deploying a new version of my dotfiles. So far its pairi

vim date

When I want to put a date in a document like a blog post from vim I use !!date from insert mode. Note that entering from normal mode puts you in command mode with filled out. This runs a shell command, i.e. for this example. It outputs the following Fri Jan 31 08:46:11 PM CST 2025 You can also pass in a date such as tommorrow by pasdding in the -d . It outputs the following Sat Feb 1 08:53:20 PM CST 2025 codeium just taught me this one with autocomplete This outputs the following 2025-

aptitude why

Today I ran into an interesting question, why am I being asked to configure tzdata while installing npm. Turns out that the cli has a why command that very handily nails down why you have something installed on a debian based system. Install aptitude Why tzdata Now we can query why we need tzdata and see the full chain with the root package being .

configure timezone

Today I ran into this interactive prompt on ubuntu while installing node and npm, and I do not want to manually configure this interactively every time I run an install, moreso in docker I do not have the interactive terminal to do so. Why tzdata Checking aptitude why tzdata it shows that the chain goes back through npm. The solution, configure tzdata !!! TIP DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive This is required, because apt installing tzdata will trigger the interactive prompt. You will manually con

bc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03KsS09YS4E&t=610s Today I learned about the basic calculator, bc. At the very end of this video prime uses it to add numbers in vim. REPL You can start a calculator repl at the command line, by running bc. Vim Since bc supports standard unix pipes you can easily pipe data from vim into bc and back out using . All you need is a string of math on the line you want to calculate, go to normal mode and run to get the answer. Traditionally I will open my system ca

tailwind aspect

I've been back to putting some images on my blog lately and thinking about making them a bit thinner through the use of aspect ratio for simplicity. I'm leaning pretty heavy on tailwindcss these days due to some weird quirks of markdown-it-attrs I cannot have slashes in classes from markdown so I made a class to achieve this. Example screenshot-2025-01-31T14-50-00-094Z.png {.cinematic}

markdown it attrs with slashes dont work

Attrs does not like '/' characters in its classes, so to use some tailwind classes with custom values we must make new classes in our tailwind input css. Given the following markdown with attrs added to the image and to the paragraph block. We get the following output with only the middle one working correctly. screenshot-2025-01-31T14-50-00-094Z.png {.aspect-[2.39/1]} screenshot-2025-01-31T14-50-00-094Z.png {.cinematic} {.cinematic} screenshot-2025-01-31T14-50-00-094Z.png !!! Note The inline ve

setting up nvim-manager starship prompt

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 environment variable is not set, and it shows which nvim I am using if it is set.

emoji in headless chrome in docker

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. Before Here's what they were looking like with broken emoji fonts. image After And now with the fixed emoji font. image I put thought bubbles on my thoughts posts and stars on my github stars posts

postiz-file-upload

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

Links rely on color to be distiniquishable

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. screenshot-2024-12-18T02-25-53-014Z.png 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 much better now. screenshot-2024-12-18T02-45-53-807Z.png Now I got that 100 A11y score in lighthouse

urllink

Today I discovered the function in bash from the ujust tool from ublue.it . Seems like a cool trick, but might not work everywhere.

debug cloudflared tunnel

I've been debugging a cloudflared tunnel issue in my homelab all day today, and getting really frustrated. My issue ended up being that it was running twice, once without the correct config file and another with it. I believe that cacheing may have compounded the issue. In yesterday's post I setup a cloudflared tunnel on my ubuntu server to expose applications running on the server to the internet. I'm setting up a new server and running cloudflared in its own vm. [[ setup-cloudflared-tunnel-

setup cloudflared tunnel on ubuntu

I run a cloudflared tunnel on my ubuntu server to expose applications running on the server to the internet. I'm setting up a new server and running cloudflared in its own vm. Get the cloudflared binary Now setup the config directory. For the systemd service to work, the config file needs to be in /etc/cloudflared. I like to give my user rights to edit the config file without being sudo, we will do that here by creating a group , add ourselves to the group, give ownership of to the group, gi

price an stl print on slant3d

I've been playing with 3d printing some items through the slant3d api. I've been pricing out different prints by running a slice request through their api. make a project I've been using uv for project management. It's been working well for quick projects like this while making it reproducible, I'm still all in on hatch for libraries. Get an api key You will need an api key from the slant api, which currently requires a google account and a credit card to create. slicing an stl with teh slant a

k3s config after first install

Trying-n8n

Today I gave n8n a try using podman, their docs gave me docker commands, but it ran fine on my machine using podman.

Print in place nuts with cura

Obsidian-new-file

Wikilinks are a core concept within obsidian to link to documents by [[slug]] wrapped in double square brackets. These are commonly used within wiki site generators. Obsidian gives you a keybinding to go to that file, but if it does not exist it will create the file for you in the root of the project. It's a nice way to quickly make new documents.

Slug

A slug is the part of the url that comes after the domain. Commonly matches the file name of a markdown file many blogging systems. These are typically human readable, unique identifiers for pages within the site.

Vim-gq

Vim has a handy feature to format text with . You can use it in visual mode, give it a motion, or if you give it it will format the current line. I use this quite often while writing in markdown, I do not use softwraps in vim, so quickly formats my current line into a paragraph. Once I have done this for a single line one time I typically switch to the motion for around paragraph to format the whole paragraph and not just the current line. before formatting vim-gq-20240805122634078.we

Obsidian-go-to-definition

It was not obvious to me, but if you have a wikilink such as [[trying-obsidian]], you can jump to the file in obsidian, just like you can with lsp go to definition, the keybinding is alt + enter.

Obsidian Using Templater Like Copier

I've long used copier to create all of my posts for my blog, and it works really well for my workflow. I think of a title, call a template, and give it a title. out of the box obsidian did not seem to work this way. It seems like it wants me to right click a file tree and make a new file using the tree, this is not my jam. Here is what I came up with to replace my til template. is a return value, and it gets placed directly into the place it is in the file creates a tab-index point so I can

Obsidian Image Converter

I'm giving obsidian a go as an editor for my blog and one of the main things I want to fix in my workflow is the ability to quickly drop in images. on first look through the community plugins I found Image Converter. I set it up to convert to webp and drop them in a git submodule. I may make it something other than a git repo in the future, but I've learned that adding images to my blog repo quickly makes it heavy and hard to clone on other machines. obsidian-image-converter-20240731211310793

convert mp4 for twitter with ffmpeg

I've had a couple of uploads to twitter fail recently and has been a pain. I tried some online converters for convenience, but none of them worked. I reached out to chatgpt and found succeess with this ffmpeg command.

k8s kustomize diff

I've started leaning in on kubernetes kustomize to customize my manifests per deployment per environment. Today I learned that it comes with a diff command. You can enable color diffs by using an external diff provider like colordiff. You might need to install colordiff if you don't already have it. Now I can try out kustomize changes and see the change with kustomize diff.

arch remove orphaned packages

animal well keyboard

Animal well does not let you remap keys, and really doesn't even inform you that it is keyboard compatible. I had to play around and discover the keymap, which can be a bit tricky on a 40% board. This is what I found. wasd - move space - jump / a enter - interact / b x - throw c - inventory 1 - left item / rb 2 - open item menu / triangle 3 - right item / lb

diskcache as debounce

I've been using fastapi more and more lately and one feature I just started using is background tasks [[ thoughts-333 ]]. !!! seealso basic diskcache example [[ python-diskcache ]] One Background Task per db entry I am using it for longer running tasks and I don't want to give users the ability to spam these long running tasks with many duplicates running at the same time. And each fastapi worker will be running in a different process so I cannot keep track of work in memory, I have to do it in

Install sealed-secreats via manifest

Yesterday I realized that I have overlooked the default installation method of the sealed secrets controller for [[ kubernetes-kubeseal ]] this whole time an jumped straight to the helm section. I spun up a quick [[ kind-cluster ]] and had it up quickly. I can't say this is any better or worse than helm as I have never needed to customize the install. According to the docs you can customize it with [[ kustomize ]] or helm.

playerctl fixes arch media keys

I've long had issues with my qmk keyboard media keys on my arch install, I always thought it was on the keyboard end. Today I learned that playerctl fixes this. Once it is installed all of my media keys started working right away. I played around with it a bit more and came up with a way to display the current playing title in my notifictations.

tailwind post template

Today I am playing around with tailwind, flexing the css muscle and learning how to build new and different layouts with it. I created a new post template that mimics a terminal look in css where I could inject the post title, description, and other frontmatter elements. I think this is a pretty cool layout, I could make a carbon.now.sh {.hoverlink} clone or more realistically I could make it into a template for blog pages and this could become og images. {.mx-auto .block .w-fit .mb-0} Check out

tailscale ssh

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. I picked this up from the tailscale youtube channel. Tailscale {.youtube-embed}

Latest Page in Markata

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. Setting up the feed Feeds are setup in configuration. They provide a handy way to create an html feed, rss feed, and quickly reference a filtered set of posts like this. For more information on markata check out the full [[ markata ]] post.

just picker

has been by go to tool for saving commands in a way that I can replay them and have team members replay them without relying on the shell history of any given machine. This is my go to default step, it lets you pick a just command to run with a fuzzy picker.

showmount-e

TIL how to display the list of nfs mounts on your network. You can even look for mounts of other machines on your network.

control minio token access

To allow access only to the , you can pass add the Resource field to the User Policy when you create a new token.

How to List Sqlite tables

You can inspect sqlite tables with the sqlite shell. note that you get into the shell with I also learned that , and are helper functions that query the table on the database. Here is an output from my redka database. The sqlite_master table contains all the sqlite objects type, name, tbl_name, rootpage, and sql to create them.

Redka Runs on SQLite

With the liscense changes to redis there are several new forks out there. One that I am particularly interested in is redka . We now have redis running on port 6379 that we can connect to with a redis client. And we have a sqlite database that we can inspect. We can look at the values in the vstring table.

Am I vulnerable to the xz backdoor?

The main system that I am concerned about is my arch BTW machine. I found a great article from the official archlinux site covering it. For my machine I am concerned with this line. The xz packages prior to version 5.6.1-2 (specifically 5.6.0-1 and 5.6.1-1) contain this backdoor. I checked my xz package with paru, and I am good.

arch dependencies

paru has some nice features that I rarely use, and hav to look up when I need them. Here are two commands to help with dependency management. You can check all the packages depended on by nodejs by running the following. This is everything from all of the repos you have configured, not what you have installed.

copier trust

I recently had to update my copier-gallery command to trust my own templates because some of them have shell scripts that run afterwards. Be warned that this could be a dangerous feature to run on random templates you get off the internet, but these are all mine, so if I wreck it its my own fault. All the the copier copy api can be found with help.

ipython f2

Today I accidentally ran f2 in ipython to discover that it opens your $EDITOR! I use this feature quite often in zsh, it is bound to for me, and since I have my environment variable set to it opens nvim when I hit . Today I discovered that Ipython has this bound to . If you know how to set it to let me know I've tried, a lot. better yet add to your .zshrc

python inline snapshot

is a new tool that I am trying out for python testing. It takes snapshots of your outputs and places them inline with the test. Here is the most basic starter. Now when I run my tests will fail because my assert has no value, but if I run it will fill out my snapshot values and the file will then look like this. It also works with pydantic models.

sqlmodel indexes

I've really been enjoying using sqlmodel for my projects that need a database. One thing that I definitely lacked on for too long was indexing my database. I hit a point with one database where it was taking 7s for pretty simple paginated queries to return 10 records. For every field that you will be querying on, you can create an index, by setting it equal to example courtesy of the docs !!! Note primary keys are indexed by default. The docs cover this pretty well, and in quite depth - Optim

sqlite vacuum

Today I learned how to VACUUM a sqlite database and cut its size in about half. It's a database that I have had running for quite awhile and has some decent traffic on it. Why is it important to do a VACUUM? In short its becuase the file system gets fragmented with as data is updated. On delete the files are removed from the database and marked as available for reuse in the filesystem, but the space is not reclaimed. To VACUUM a database, run the following sql command. You can do it right form

Tailwind Animations

I learned that tailwind animations are pretty easy to add only needing a few classes. For some reason though my brain broke, thinking that I could dynamically change the number and you can't cause there are only so many pre compiled classes without using an arbitrary value with brackets. Here are the classes that I used to transition my colors very slowly. And the entire square element.

How to kill ollama server

I recently updated ollama , and it now installs a systemd service that I was not expecting. Seems like a great option, but I hadn't expeted this and I was able to kill it previously. It was using up gpu, and I do other things on my machine with a gpu. I tried pkill, kill, and everything, it was still coming back. No matter what it comes back You can confirm this with the following command. Next time you want to start you can do it as before with .

Composing Typer clis

Typer makes it easy to compose your cli applications, like you might with a web router if you are more familiar with that. This allows you to build smaller applications that compose into a larger application. You will see similar patterns in the wild, namely the cli which always has the pattern. Lets setup the cli app itself first. You can put it in . Creating an app that will become a command is the same as creating a regular app in Typer. We need to create a callback that will become o

tailwind arbitrary values

I learned not to fear the arbitrary size feature of tailwind. While building out reader.waylonwalker.com I kept getting content flowing off the screen, and struggling to keep it on the screen. I really felt that I should be able to do this with vanilla tailwind, but after some encouragement from Twitter I decided to lean on arbitrary values and it worked. Don't fear the arbitrary values. Learn more about using-arbitrary-values from their docs docs

fix npm global install needs sudo

Each time I go to set up npm I am frustrated by the errors saying that I don't have permission to , and it's frustrating. And I forget what I need to do to tell npm to install packages in a directory I own, and my shell to look there so that I can use the executables. For the fix to remain persistent you need to put these two lines in your shell profile like or .

darkmode scrollbars

If you are designing a website in dark mode the scrollbars can be finicky to match the theme. Here is a pretty sane default that looks nice without being obnoxiously contrast to the rest of the site. Want a rounded scrollbar thumb? add these styles. This makes a very nice looking default darkmode scrollbar.

Udating Cloudflare Pages using the Wrangler cli

Before deploying to cloudflare pages with wrangler you need a cloudflare api token. You can get one at dash.cloudflare.com/profile/api-tokens . cloudflare-pages-api-token Install Wrangler Next install wrangler using npm. Create a Project Before you deploy to cloudflare pages you need to create a project. You might already have one, or you might want to create one in the webui, but you have the option to create it at the command line with wrangler. Deploy Now you can deploy your static applicat

scheduling cron jobs in kubernetes

For my reader app I am using cronjobs to schedule my a new build and upload to cloudflare pages every hour. In this example I have built a docker image and pushed it to dockerhub. It uses a secret to access cloudflare, and the entrypoint itself does the build and upload.

jinja macros

I am working on a page for htmx-patterns and I ran into a situation with lots of duplication. Especially when i am using tailwind I run into situations where the duplication can get tedious to maintiain. The solution I found is macros. Now I can use the same code for all of my links, and call the macro to use it.

jinja loop variable and htmx

jinja has a loop variable that is very handy to use with htmx. Whether you want to implement a click to load more or an infinite scroll this loop variable is very handy. Now for every chunk of contacts that we load we will trigger the infinite scroll by loading more once the last one has intersected the screen.

fastapi jinja url_for with query params

Out of the box Starlette does not support url_for with query params. When trying to use url_for with query params it throws the following error. In my searching for this I found starlette issue #560 quite helpful, but not complete, as it did not work for me. !!! Note "https" If you want url_for to work in production you need some way to convert http to https. Here is how I make it work, for local development I then for each environment that I am running on a server I include it in the list

setting up a kind cluster with argocd installed

Kind (Kubernetes in Docker) is a tool that makes it easy to create and tear down local clusters quickly. I like to use it to test out new workflows. Argocd is a continuous delivery tool that makes it easy to setup gitops workflows in kubernetes. Here is how you can setup a new kind cluster and install argocd into it using helm, the kubernetes package manager. If you want to add repos and apps to your cluster you can use the argo cli to do that, but first you will need forward the argocd port an

kubernetes kubeseal

In my homelab kubernetes cluster I am using kubeseal to encrypt secrets. I have been using it successfully for a few months now wtih great success. It allows me to commit all of my secrets manifests to git with out risk of leaking secrets. You see kubeseal encrypts your secrets with a private key only stored in your cluster, so only the cluster itself can decrypt them using the kubeseal controller. cover KubeSeal https://sealed-secrets.netlify.app/ {.hoverlink} installation Installation happens

nvim stupid gf bind

So after months of fighting with gf not going to template files, I finally decided to put in some effort to make it work. This was the dumbest keybind in my config, that I copied from someone else without understanding it. What I am trying to do I have jinja templates in a directory called . I want to bind gf to open a template file, but it is trying to open a new file What did not work I tried all sorts of changes to my path, but it still didn't work. What I found after digging into my keyma

cli auth

Authentication from cli tools can be a bit of a bear, and I have to look it up every time. This is my reference guide for future me to remember how to easily do it. I set up a fastapi server running on port 8000, it uses a basic auth with as the username and as the password. The server follows along with what comes out of the docs. I have it setup to take basic auth, form username and password, or a bearer token for authentication. curl The og of command line url tools. wget My go to if I wan

Hiding Form input During htmx Request

I am working on fokais.com's signup page, and I want to hide the form input during an htmx request. I was seeing some issues where I was able to prevent spamming the submit button, but was still able to get one extra hit on it. It also felt like nothing was happening while sending the email to the user for verification. Now I get the form to disappear and a spinner to show during the request. HTML Let's start off with the form. It uses htmx to submit a post request to the route. Note that there

Stripe Cancellations in FastAPI and SQLModel

Today I am working on fokais.com, trying to get to a point where I can launch by workig through stripe integrations. This is my first time using stripe, so there has been quite a bit to learn, and I am probably building in more than I need to before launching, but I am learning, and not in a rush to launch. I am building the fokais backent in python primarilyt with fastapi and sqlmodel on sqlite. My billing integration is going to be all Stripe. Stripe Subscription Cancellations Docs Here is a l

Still Loving Tailwind

I've been using tailwind for a few months now and I can still say I'm loving it. I've been using it to create some rapid prototypes that may or may not ever become something, a document that is likely to go to print (a resume), and some quick dashboards. I started using Tailwind a few month back A few months back in september of 2023 I made a case for tailwindcss . And have been using it on quite a few projects since. values are well thought out it's really easy to use classes that make sense t

jpillora-installer

jpillora/installer is the install script generator I have been looking for. It downloads binaries for your machine from GitHub releases and unzips them for you. It grabs the latest release, so you can easily update them. I have tried scripting these installs in the past and struggled to consistently get the latest version for every package and unpack it correctly. Also these pre-compiled binaries install rediculously fast compared to building them from source. Check out some example links. openi

how to host static content with fastapi

I wanted to host some static files through fastapi. Typical use cases for this might be some static web content like html/css/js. It could also be images or some data that doesn't need dynamically rendered. From the Docs The docs cover how to host static files, and give this solution that is built into fastapi. https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/static-files/ {.hoverlink} Authenticated Static Files Thanks to #858 . OscartGiles posted this solution to add authentication to static files. I tr

Set up minio bucket entrypoint

I recently se tup minio object storage in my homelab for litestream sqlite backups. The litestream quickstart made it easy to get everything up and running on localhost, but I hit a wall when dns was involved to pull it from a different machine. Here is what I got to work First I had to configure the Key ID and Secret Access Key generated in the minio ui. Then set the the s3 signature_version to s3v4. Now when I have minio running on https://my-minio-endpoint.com I can use the aws cli to acces

Setup Tailwind for Jinja

I've recently given tailwindcss a second chance and am really liking it. Here is how I set it up for my python based projects. https://waylonwalker.com/a-case-for-tailwindcss {.hoverlink} Installation is used to install the cli that you will need to configure and compile tailwindcss. Setup You will need to create a tailwind.config.js file, to get this you can use the cli. Using tailwind with jinja templates To set up tailwind to work with jinja templates you will need to point the tailwind conf

Python scandir ignores hidden directories

The next version of markata will be around a full second faster at building it's docs, that's a 30% bump in performance at the current state. This performance will come when virtual environments are stored in the same directory as the source code. "One lone jedi stands in Glowing chains of interconnected network of technological cubes, in the middle of a futuristic cyberpunk dubai city, in the art style of dan mumford and marc simonetti, atmospheric lighting, intricate, volumetric lighting, beau

setting up paru | installing from the AUR for the ...

paru is an aur helper that allows you to use a package manager to install packages from the aur. What's the Aur The Aur is a set of community managed packages that can be installed on arch based distros. Why a helper? paru just makes it easy, no clone and run makepkg. You can do everything paru can do using the built in pacman installer. Manual Install from the Aur You will need to manually instal pacman from the aur in order to get started. Installing packages with paru Once setup you are ready

Releasing a New Version of Your Python Package Jus...

Quickly and easily create new versions of your Python package with the command. Get the version number, changelog, and Releasing a new version of your Python package can be a daunting task. You need to make sure that all the necessary files are included, and that the version number is correct. But now, with the help of the command, you can make the process much smoother. The command allows you to quickly and easily create a new version of your Python package. All you need to do is provide t

Arch Linux Randomly Rejecting Passwords

Fix Arch Linux randomly rejecting passwords with one command. Try 'faillock --user $USER' to reset login counter and regain access. Quick solution for a smooth computing" an intertwined mess of wires If you're an Arch Linux user, you may have experienced a frustrating issue where your password is randomly not being accepted by the system. This can be a major inconvenience and can cause a lot of frustration, especially if it happens frequently. The good news is that there is a simple fix for this

dash e your github docker actions

Give github actions the -e flag in the shebang so they fail on any one command failure. Otherwise each line will set the exit status, but only the last one will be passed to ci. What is -e The -e flag to the bash command allows your script to exit immediately if any command within the script returns a non-zero exit status. This can be useful for ensuring that your script exits with an error if any of the commands it runs fail, which can help you identify and debug issues in your script. For ex

ssh copy id

I recently setup some vm's on my main machine and got sick of signing in with passwords.

ssh key permissions

I just shared some ssh keys with myself and ran into this error telling me that I did not set the correct permissions on my key. I changed them with the following commands.

nvim navic

With the latest release of version of nvim 0.8.0 we get access to a new winbar feature. One thing I have long wanted somewhere in my nvim is navigation for pairing partners or anyone watching can keep track of where I am. As the driver it's easy to keep track of the file/function you are in. But when you make big jumps in a few keystrokes it can be quite disorienting to anyone watching, and having this feedback to look at is very helpful. "cybernetic soldier working on a rusting tape machine

pipx textual devtools

I really like having global cli command installed with pipx. Since textual (the css release) is out I want to be able to pop into textual devtools easily from anywhere. "rusting tape machine robot, cinematic lighting, detailed, cell shaded, 4 k, warm colours, concept art, by wlop, ilya kuvshinov, artgerm, krenz cushart, greg rutkowski, pixiv. cinematic dramatic atmosphere, sharp focus, volumetric lighting, cinematic lighting, studio quality" -s50 -W832 -H416 -C12.0 -Ak_lms -S2404332231 Pipx In

textual app devtools

I am working through the textual tutorial, and I want to put it in a proper cli that I can pip install and run the command without . This is a fine pattern, but I also want this to work when I don't have a file to run. "An astronaut working in a lab, hacking on a computer terminal, htop is running, shallow depth of field beakers, test tubes, volumetric lighting, pink lighting, by victo ngai, killian eng vibrant colours, dynamic lighting, digital art" -s50 -W768 -H448 -C7.5 -Ak_lms -S3617210203

obs virtual camera on boot

For far too long I have had to fidget with v4l2oloopback after reboot. I've had this happen on ubuntu 18.04, 22.04, and arch. After a reboot the start virtual camera button won't work, It appears and is clickable, but never turns on. Until I run this command. "cell shaded, long, full body, shot of a cybernetic blue soldier with glowing pink eyes looking into a selfie camera with ring light, llustration, post grunge, 4 k, warm colors, cinematic dramatic atmosphere, sharp focus, pink glowing vol

localstack status permission

I ran into an issue where I was unable to ask localstack for its status. I would run the command and it would tell me that it didn't have permission to read files from my own home directory. Let's fix it The issue I would run this to ask for the status. And get this error What happened It dawned on me that the first time I ran localstack was straight docker, not the python cli. When docker runs it typically runs as root unless the Dockerfile sets up a user and group for it. "cell shaded, long,

Markata Supports Jinja Plugins 0.5.0.dev2

Markata now allows you to create jinja extensions that will be loaded right in with nothing more than a . From the Changelog The entry for 0.5.0.dev2 from markata's changelog Created entrypoint hook allowing for users to extend marka with jinja exensions #60 0.5.0.dev2 "cybernetic soldier working on a rusting tape machine robot, cinematic lighting, detailed, cell shaded, 4 k, warm colours, concept art, by wlop, ilya kuvshinov, artgerm, krenz cushart, greg rutkowski, pixiv. cinematic dramatic a

Getting Started with Django REST framework

In my adventure to learn django, I want to be able to setup REST api's to feed into dynamic front end sites. Potentially sites running react under the hood. cell shaded full body shot of a cybernetic blue soldier with glowing eyes working ina lab, llustration, post grunge, pink glowing volumetric lighting, engulfed in smoke and fog, concept art by josan gonzales and wlop, by james jean, Victo ngai, David Rubín, Mike Mignola, Laurie Greasley, highly detailed, sharp focus,alien,Trending on Artstat

Markata now uses hatch

Markata now uses hatch as its build backend, and version bumping tool. , and are completely gone. "An astronaut working in a lab, there is a series of eggs ready to hatch baby snakes on the table, experiments running, beakers, test tubes, cyberpunk trending on artstation, neon lighting, volumetric lighting, pink lighting" -s50 -W800 -H450 -C7.5 -Ak_lms -S4048189038 {.more-cinematic} 0.5.0 is big Markata 0.5.0 is now out, and it's huge. Even though it's the backend of this blog I don't actuall

django create superuser

My next step into django made me realize that I do not have access to the admin panel, turns out that I need to create a cuper user first. "cybernetic soldier working on a rusting tape machine robot, cinematic lighting, detailed, cell shaded, 4 k, warm colours, concept art, by wlop, ilya kuvshinov, artgerm, krenz cushart, greg rutkowski, pixiv. cinematic dramatic atmosphere, sharp focus, volumetric lighting, cinematic lighting, studio quality" -s50 -W832 -H416 -C12.0 -Ak_lms -S3309980874 Run Mig

django disallowed host

I am continuing my journey into django, but today I am not at my workstation. I am ssh'd in remotely from a chromebook. I am fully outside of my network, so I can't access it by localhost, or it's ip. I do have cloudflared tunnel installed and dns setup to a . Settings I found this in and yolo, it worked first try. I am in from my remote location, and even have auth taken care of thanks to cloudflare. I am really hoping to learn how to setup my own auth with django as this is one of the t

Trying out django

I have no experience in django, and in my exploration to become a better python developer I am dipping my toe into one of the most polished and widely used web frameworks Django to so that I can better understand it and become a better python developer. If you found this at all helpful make sure you check out the django tutorial "An atronaut working in a lab, there is a long snake working along side, shallow depth of field beakers, test tubes, volumetric lighting, pink lighting, by victo ngai,

how to escape variables in jinja templates

While updating my site to use Markata's new configurable head I ran into some escaping issues. Things like single quotes would cause jinja to fail as it was closing quotes that it shouldnt have. Nuclear core being help up by glowing neon wires, cyberpunk synthwave, intricate abstract. delicate artwork. by tooth wu, wlop, beeple, dan mumford. pink volumetric lighting, octane render, trending on artstation, greg rutkowski very coherent symmetrical artwork. cinematic, hyper realism, high detail, o

I've made my ipython config too complicated, let's...

When I am developing python code I often have a repl open alongside of it running snippets ofcode as I go. Ipython is my repl of choice, and I hace tricked it out the best I can and I really like it. The problem I recently discovered is that I have way overcomplicated it. What Have I done?? So in the past the way I have setup a few extensions for myself is to add something like this to my directory. It sets up some things like rich highlighting or in this example automatic imports. I even

markata extend in configuration

Astronauts stunting some stylish color explosion {.more-cinematic} A long needed feature of markata has been the ability to really configure out templates with configuration rather. It's been long that you needed that if you really want to change the style, meta tags, or anything in the head you needed to write a plugin or eject out of the template and use your own. Adding some Head Now you can add some extra style to your site with the existing built-in template. You can have more than one Hea

Create a new Python Project with the Hatch Cli

I'm really getting into using hatch as my go to build system, and I am really liking it so far. I am slowly finding new things that just work really well. is one of those things that I didn't realize I needed until I had it. Hatch new cover image creating new versions created by myself with stable diffusion hatch-new-cli Note! I am running all of these commands with pipx. I like to use pipx for all of my system level cli applications. To emphasis this point in the article I am going to use

Versioning Python Projects with Hatch

Hatch has an amazing versioning cli for python packages that just works. It takes very little config to get going and you can start bumping versions without worry. Hatch version cover image {.more-cinematic} creating new versions created by myself with stable diffusion project layout For trying out the cli let's make a simple project with the terrible name . pyproject.toml The main hero of this post is the . This is what defines all of our PEP 517 style project setup. statically versioni

GitHub Actions Delete all Workflow Runs

Today I ran a bunch of actions, but I wanted to clean up all the runs that I used to get it setup so that I had a good clean history to refer back to later. I found this post

From Markdown to Blog with Markata | lightning tal...

Markata is a great python framework that allows you to go from markdown to a full website very quickly. You can get up and running with nothing more than Markdown. It is also built on a full plugin architecture, so if there is extra functionality that you want to add, you can create a plugin to make it behave like you want. Full transparancy... I built markata. The talk The talk is live on YouTube. Make sure you check out the other videos from the conference. There were quite a few quality t

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I spoke at python webconf in March 2022 about how I deploy this blog on a continuous basis. Building this blog has brought me a lot of benefits. I have a set of custom curated notes to help describe a problem and how to solve it to me. At theis point it's not uncommon to google an Issue I am having and finding my own blog with exactly the solution I need at the top. I also bump into people from time to time that recognize me from the blog, its a nice conversation starter, and street cred. The

I turned on 2FA for all of my pypi packages

I got all the pypi packages that I own behind 2 factor authentication. 💪 Recently this really made it's rounds in the python news since pypi was requiring critical package maintainers to have 2FA on and even offering them hardware tokens to help them turn this on. I feel like this caused a bit of confusion as turning on 2FA does not mean that you need to do anything different to deploy a package, and it DOES NOT require a hardware token. You can continue using your favorite 2FA app. You might

use vim to remove duplicates

I just love how some features of vim are so discoverable and memorable once you really start to grasp it. Sorting and uniqing your files or ranges is one of those examples for me. I recently used this to dedupe my autogenerated links section for rich-syntax-range-style . More often I am using it to sort and uniqify objects like arrays and lists. Here is what the markdown looks like. Then typing yields a uniqly sorted list of links.

Highlighting text ranges with Rich | python

Today I've been playing with py-tree-sitter a bit and I wanted to highlight match ranges, but was unable to figure out how to do it with rich , so I reached out to @textualizeio for help. https://twitter.com/_WaylonWalker/status/1562469770766589952 While waiting for that reply let's show how we got this far. imports Lets import all the classes that we need from rich and setup a console to print to. some code Now we need some code to highlight. I am going to rip my from another post . prin

vimgrep open buffers

How to vimgrep over hidden files. I needed to delete all build pipeline steps that were named . I currently have about 60 projects running from the same template all running very similar builds. In the past I've scripted out migrations for large changes like this, they involved writing a python script that would load the yaml file into a dictionary, find the corresponding steps make the change and write it back out. Today's job was much simplar, just delete the step, were all steps are surrou

markata 0.3.0 is 15-20% faster

image from Dall-e {.more-cinematic} a sprinter edging out his opponent by Dall-e It's about time to release Markata 0.3.0. I've had 8 pre-releases since the last release, but more importantly it has about 3 months of updates. Many of which are just cleaning up bad practices that were showing up as hot spots on my reports Markata started off partly as a python developer frustrated with using nodejs for everything, and a desire to learn how to make frameworks in pluggy. Little did I know how f

get the version of any python package | python api

A common meta thing that I need in python is to find the version of a package. Most of the time I reach for , but that does not always work. but not all projects have a In searching the internet for an answer nearly every one of them pointed me to . This works for most projects, but is simply a convention, its not required. Not all projects implement a , but most do. I've never seen it lie to me, but there is nothing stopping someone from shipping mismatched versions. If you maintain a pro

Two new shell aliases for git

Astronaut doing a mic drop with explosion Recently I added two new bash/zsh aliases to make my git experience just a tad better. trackme Most of our work repos were recently migrated to new remote urls, we scriped out the update to all of the repos, but I was left with a tracking error for all of my open branches. To easily resolve this I just made an alias so that I can just run anytime I see this error. getting the branch The following command will always return the currently checked out br

IPython q to exit

So many terminal applications bind to exit, even the python debugger, its muscle memory for me. But to exit ipython I have to type out . This is fine, but since q is muscle memory for me I get this error a few times per day. After digging way too deep into how IPython implements its I realized there was a very simple solution here. automatically imports all the scripts you put in your profile directory, all I needed was to create with the following. It was that simple. This is not a gam

Copier Slugify | python templating | using cookiec...

It's no secret that I love automation, and lately my templating framework of choice has been copier. One hiccup I recently ran into was having spaces in my templated directory names. This makes it harder to run commands against as you need to escape them, and if they end up in a url you end up with ugly all over. Cookiecutter has the solution Yes the solution comes from a competing templating framework. I install copier with pipx, so I need to inject cookiecutter in to my copier environment

Textual has devtools

Textual has devtools in the upcoming css branch, and its pretty awesome! It's still early Textual is still very early and not really ready for prime time, but it's quite amazing how easy some things such as creating keybindings is. The docs are coming, but missing right now so if you want to use textual be ready for reading source code and examples. On to the devtools As @willmcgugan shows in this tweet it's pretty easy to setup, it requires having two terminals open, or using tmux, and curren

python functools total ordering

functools.total_ordering makes adding all of six of the rich comparison operators to your custom classes much easier, and more likely that you remember all of them. From the Docs: The class must define one of __lt__(), __le__(), __gt__(), or __ge__ In addition, the class should supply an __eq__() method. one of these lt () le () gt () ge () and required to have this one eq () Total Ordering Docs Here is an example using the Enum I was working on the other day.