Anthropic Mythos

2026-04-13T16:18:15Z

An ai model created by Anthropic was announced as a closed preview on April 7, 2026 for critical security research and evaluation with its close partners with critical software such as operating systems and browsers. Anthropic claims that mythos is able to reason through so much more context that any model ever before. This enables it to find bugs that are 25 years old in the BSD, considered one of the most secure operating systems we have. Once it finds these zero day bugs never discovered before its able to use them together in malicious ways never expected. In ways the world is not ready for. At the time of writing these are claims without proof. It remains scary to know the potential this has and that there is only a few companies with this potential that will gatekeep who gets access.

Ping 49

2026-04-13T16:12:04Z

What’s going to happen to all of our software when Anthropic Mythos finds all of the 0 day vulnerabilities? Will everything depending on the bugs break? Will it be possible to fix them cleanly? Will we all get pwnd when the bad actors get access to them before everything is patched? Will LTS Operating Systems Die?

Ping 48

2026-04-08T16:12:32Z

Wonka Letters

2026-04-04T10:16:30Z

Wonka letters all cut out ready to get some stiffeners and go off for paint.

What is this job anymore

2026-04-03T20:44:55Z

The job of writing code is dying, models are getting better, the average person will have their average features implemented in average ways with no effort by agents, the writing is on the wall. We are still trying to review most of the critical code, this is slowing us down, is it really stopping any bugs or giving us any more familiarity with the product, marginally.

The time is now to grease up your UAT, testing, deployment pipelines. Dont let agents delete entire regions. Review your backup and restore strategy, you do have a DR plan right?

Things are changing fast, the best of us are still better than the clankers. Most of us have more context than the clankers. Most of us have more intuition of what and where to implement fixes. Context windows and memory will be solved problems. Your DR plan, UAT, testinng and QA environments will not come for free, you need to make them, and deeply integrate them into your processes.

Hair Whittling Sharp

2026-04-03T20:43:11Z

Hair whittling sharp, Do I get my redneck nerd card yet?

Llama In Pi Thinks Its Claude

2026-04-03T08:37:18Z

I just launched ollama picked pi as it asked what harness I wanted to run, and it responded telling me it was claude.

Ping 47

2026-04-02T21:33:20Z

Ty 0.0.26

2026-04-02T21:18:12Z

ty 0.0.26 was released on 3/26/26, nice work planning.

Smassh Monkeytype Clone In The Terminal

2026-04-02T21:17:09Z

smassh monkeytype clone in the terminal

What a banger of a tui, fantastic job cloning monkeytype. Looks so good. The toast messages are a tell tale built with textual.

Sparklines On The Feeds Header

2026-04-02T21:15:21Z

View of the new markata-go feeds header with the banger of a sparkline.

Getting Excited For This New Feeds Page

2026-04-02T21:14:01Z

This sparklines on this new feeds page are chefs kiss.

The year of the supply chain attacks

2026-04-02T20:26:33Z

I think I’m starting to understand my role as a platform developer in 2026.

least priveleged access
default deny + explicit allow
understand your blast radius
GREASED creds rotate process
PIN EVERYTHING
keep packages up to date
but not too up to date, use dependency cooldowns

The final nail for Windows?

2026-04-01T20:23:53Z

Easy anticheat for linux is out.

Tip

look at the date

If this were real what would you play first? For me it’s skate . is really the only thing I care about and I’m fine without it.

Ping 43

2026-03-31T18:33:05Z

Okay so I logged into twitter today, and we are back…. probably not for long, but we are for now. Claude Code source leaked, the tweets are great. [[ thoughts-956 ]], [[ thoughts-958 ]], [[ thoughts-959 ]], Some typescript css text layout with bouncing balls, bubbles, strings, and webcam video to text is blowing up [[ thoughts-957 ]]. This is the tech twitter I remember no sad news how the world is corrupt by the other side.

Wyatt's First Printed Cosplay Scales

2026-03-30T10:22:31Z

Wyatt printed these sick scales today and they came out so good on first try, luckily Rhiannon already had the fabric for him and he was able to follow his passion on this project while the spark was lit.

Updating The Arch Iso

2026-03-28T18:24:50Z

Wyatt is working on a new arch install and it blew up, time to update the live image.

Social Media is dead

2026-03-28T12:17:44Z

Social Media is dead, interest media killed it long ago. I no longer feel like I’m connecting to people, creating community, having fun, learning. I feel like I’m being shoveled slop from the slop machine, I’m sure mostly create by well intentioned people just trying to make it in the world, trying to make their mark, trying to make something of themselves. The algos long lost the idea of subs and likes, and transitioned to how long you will pause on a topic. What used to be a series of recognizable faces, names, avatars, each with their own personality that I could come to learn and know who was just trollin, who was serious, is now mostly unrecognizable. Platforms have changed and fractured communities people went separate ways, not all the same ways. No one community is like it used to be, and its hard to find.

/carry/

2026-03-27T16:35:40Z

EDC #

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 where near the bulk I had as a kid with my cargo pants decked out with everything I could possibly need.

I hold no attachment to anything in my EDC. Nothing on my person has sentimental value. Anything I carry can be lost, stolen, or destroyed at any point in time. I pick things of sufficient usable, utilitarian, quality sufficient to work. No extra fluff.

Google Pixel 6
Ridge Wallet
Olight Perun - Since April 2022
Civivi Qubit - Since March 2024 after my last one was donated to the Indianapolis Stadium
OpenFit Shokz

Rules #

lightweight
replacable
no emotional attachments
utilitarian
everything serves a purpose

My kit #

Photo taken March 2023

Phone #

Google Pixel 6

I will not get finance a new phone for the foreseeable future again. The last time I feel like I got a phone that felt like an upgrade was 2018 when I went to the Pixel 3. The pixel 6 and pixel 8 my wife has feel no different whatsoever to me. It’s become more of a tool that does its job, there’s no major upgrades really driving me to create more ewaste with new devices.

Wallet #

Ridge Wallet

A necessary evil that I still need. I keep as few of cards as necessary in it. This would be the worst thing in my kit to loose. Only because the time it would take to replace all of them. This one was a gift to replace my last leather wallet, and I see no reason for this one to ever need replaced. It’s much lighter and smaller, would not change that aspect.

Flashlight #

Olight Perun

When I became a homeowner I added a dedicated flashlight to my EDC. Its light and out of the way. It’s the only thing I’ve ever found useful to fit in the coin pocket of jeans, so I don’t even notice it. Compared to using a phone, its more powerful, easier to position on me with the clip on my shirt/pants, or magnetically to a metal surface for inspections/house work.

Knife #

Civivi Qubit

I’ve carried a knife since as long as I can remember, feels like 10 but probably more like 14 years old. Never anything fancy, a few knock off leathermans, a few Buck, Case, KaBar that I found on a bridge, and now 3 Civivis. I use them till they break or more commonly they get lent and not returned, or lost. This is the most utilitarian thing I keep, almost always kept razor sharp, used, abused, and put away dirty. Never used for prying, but used to cut anything it will cut no matter how hard it is on it. Its not to look pretty, show off, its purely a tool that I hold no attachment to.

Headphones #

OpenFit Shokz

Not my first choice in headphones, but they work. Headphones are probably the item of biggest churn and ewaste for me. Eventually I might pony up for something that is more durable and repairable, but headphones just don’t last forever before they stop working for me. This latest pair was a pair my wife chose to try and did not like. They sat in a drawer for a year or so until I started carrying them.

Where Is The Tech Industry Going

2026-03-27T14:11:49Z

Agents suck

Get left behind if you don’t use them

Burn out if you use them too much

The software world has been flipped upside down seemingly overnight. Slow at first, then all at once. It started with auto complete, to chat, to, ide integrations, to agents that would f&!^ over your repo more than it would help. Up till this point we are just little bit better and more specific than copy paste from Stack Overflow. Then in Nov 2025 models learned how to effectively use tools and do what you ask of them, sometimes more, sometimes less, but generally for the basic shit most of us make its a net positive with each iteration.

Our techniques for managing work need to change.

Our expectations need to change.

Burnout for a lot of folks is coming.

Is Compaction The Issue

2026-03-26T09:37:47Z

I saw today in work chat something along the lines of “we need bigger context windows” “compaction times are holding us back”. Maybe I’m just blessed with the lack of lord jira, maybe juggle too many projects at once and they are all pretty much done when I get back. Maybe I do more long running specs and spend time making good plans that it does not matter.

Anyways the point I’m getting to is that if you think that compaction is your main issue slowing you down, and 10x this if you are a manager thinking this is what is slowing down your team you need to look at your workflow. Not because it sucks. Not only because it could be better. Because you are signing yourself and your team up for burnout if you are sitting there watching these things run like waiting for paint to dry and firing more prompts at them as soon as they are done. It feels easy. It feels like you are going fast. Its eating more brainpower than you think, and its not getting you to your destination any faster.

Lets Land The Plane

2026-03-25T08:41:15Z

Part of @steveyegge ’s gastown/beads is a prompt “Lets land the plane”. It’s very straightforward forward and what any sane human would probably do before finishing work, except the last part. The “generate a handoff prompt for the next session” was not something I’ve put much thought into. But now that I juggle 6 sessions at a time and often end up with 20 sessions open because I don’t want to close them and loose the last bit of context. This is what I need to keep from crippling my laptop memory from all of these stale sessions hanging around.

Taken from https://ianbull.com/posts/beads

move zmk keyboard to new bluetooth adapter

2026-03-23T17:59:59Z

I’ve been having issue with my keyboard disconnecting to my main desktop for awhile. Today I got a cheap bluetooh dongle in and am giving it a run this week to see how things go. The first step was to move it to the new adapter. I’ve never had multiple adapters installed so this was a new to me process.

I was able to do it all with the same keyboard, It did require some juggling between usb and bluetooth modes plugigng and unplugging, two keyboards would be simpler to reason about.

I can’t be bothered to change my brain to think about this machine on a different zmk profile it is of absolute importance for it to remain on the same profile, otherwise this would be a simple bind to another empty profile.

Why not use a cable on desktop?

I dont mind cable, and have used one on this setup for years, but I have actually been picking up and moving this keyboard and using it with different devices.

I’ve got a big battery and performace cranked up, unless my machine is under load I do not notice any key lag.

I did it with bluetoothctl, I’m sure it could have been done with a gui like blueberry or blueman.

bluetoothctl
# list adapters
list
select <old-adapter>
devices
# fin the MAC address of the device 42BLOCK
remove <42BLOCK_MAC>

Now I plugged into usb. And importantly cleared out the zmk profile. If you do not clear the profile your board does not go into pairing mode.

bluetoothctl
# switch adapters
select <new-adapter>
power on
agent on
default-agent
scan on
Put 42Block in pairing mode, then:
pair <42BLOCK_MAC>
trust <42BLOCK_MAC>

At this pint I saw this show up in the logs, I think there was some masking issues or something in zmk, output kept going out usb no matter what so I disconnected the keyboard and typed the passkey in, and it worked.

[agent] Passkey: 540044

Boom, it just started working right away.

bluetoothctl
connect <42BLOCK_MAC>
info <42BLOCK_MAC>
scan off
exit

⭐ mohebifar tooscut

2026-03-22T22:18:23Z

Looking for inspiration? tooscut by mohebifar.

Professional video editing, right in your browser. Made with Rust, WebGPU, WASM, and Tanstack Start.

Ping 38

2026-03-22T09:56:48Z

When agents do the work its harder to recognize a dead end.

⭐ kraanzu smassh

2026-03-21T16:56:20Z

I like kraanzu’s project smassh.

Smassh your Keyboard, TUI Edition

⭐ KittenML KittenTTS

2026-03-20T03:37:04Z

I’m really excited about KittenTTS, an amazing project by KittenML. It’s worth exploring!

State-of-the-art TTS model under 25MB 😻

Learning to agent

2026-03-19T20:53:08Z

All we are hearing lately is Agents are the future, something flipped around NOV 2025 with opus 4.5. It turned snake oil into action. It changed programmers will be replaced in 6 months to now. Not all of them, but probably most of us who are not extraordinary. If you fall into the camp of folks not adopting, I got no issues with that. No one is twisting your arm, well maybe your boss or cto is, thats on them. I don’t mean to say this is the future as in, get in or get left behind. I mean it as this is where your other engineers probably are, the junior to mid level engineers are here. If you are not trying to meet them where they are how are you going to lead them.

Studio Ghibli Images in the Wild

2026-03-19T20:49:26Z

I just stumbled into an image in my org chart of someone who clearly turned themself into a Studio Ghibli character in chatgpt during the small window of time that it seemed to do this for everything. Its clearly the aesthetic that It would do by default for that week, then would not do it whatsoever. I’d link it, but its from an org chart. I mostly found it interesting how we now have these recognizable artifacts from specific moments in time.

Ping 36

2026-03-19T17:42:56Z

I feel like there’s an inevitable phase to every ai/agentic worked feature/epic where you have to get in and chat with it 2025 style (except it actually works and doesn’t turn your project to shit). Planning is great, planning out epics for full orchestrator’s to churn for hours on is amazing, but it always leaves me with a handful of thorns multiplied by complexity level of things that I can shout a list of 6 items at a time that it can one shot. I haven’t seen anyone put a name to this phase yet, so I’m going to call it the UAT phase for now and it seems like a very necessary part of the SDLC. It was important before, but feels more so now as engineers distance themselves from the implementation.

Research, Plan, Implement

2026-03-18T20:49:26Z

I heard this term yesterday, and I think a lot of people are missing out on step 1. It’s important to experiment with agents and learn what they can do well and what they cant, this changes every couple of weeks at this point. You might be spending hours planning something that could have been implemented right away, or maybe wasted time planning something that needed more research, more context engineering. Agents start fresh every session, they cant remember what you asked them to do 5 minutes ago in the other session, getting the right tokens in session is critical.

dot dockerenv

2026-03-18T10:07:16Z

Today I learned that docker creates an empty /.dockerenv file to indicate that you are running in a docker container. Other runtimes like podman commonly use /run/.containerenv. kubernetes uses neither of these, the most common way to detect if you are running in kubernetes is to check for the presence of the KUBERNETES_SERVICE_HOST environment variable. There will also be a directory at /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount that contains the service account credentials if you are running in kubernetes.

Context Poisoning Was There All Along

2026-03-17T21:10:38Z

I wrote some code by hand on Sunday. Sat down with my son and started building out a game in pygame from scratch. We went to google, we searched how to do something, we copy and pasted from the docs. Not because we are dumb, but because we cant remember some aspects of the pygame api. Now that these patterns are established we no longer have to google them, we simply grep our codebase and replicate the pattern. Easy right? It’s funny that it took ai to coin the term context poisoning even though it was there all along.

⭐ tobi qmd

2026-03-17T20:39:09Z

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on qmd, created by tobi.

mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local

⭐ ratdoux OrcaSlicer-FullSpectrum

2026-03-17T20:33:28Z

Looking for inspiration? OrcaSlicer-FullSpectrum by ratdoux.

G-code generator for Snapmaker U1 with Full Spectrum layer blending

Agents cannot replace the thinking, they only amplify it

2026-03-17T20:32:16Z

Agents cannot replace the thinking, they only amplify it. If you set the agents off in the wrong direction that’s where they will go. They will sprint there faster than you can go. This is ok, its one of their advantages, they can give you signal quick. Remember if they are off in the wrong direction more research and planning is needed, and maybe a little bit more thinking on your end to steer them in the right direction.

trailmakers pioneers second run - Almost Cheesed It To Port Aquelite

2026-03-17T20:22:52Z

Almost Cheesed It To Port Aquelite

I almost Cheesed It To Port Aquelite by spamming repawn, During my second trailmakers pioneers run.

trailmakers pioneers second run - Its A Trap

2026-03-17T20:22:07Z

Its A Trap

Its A Trap, abmush with Adiral Leadhead, During my second trailmakers pioneers run.

trailmakers pioneers second run - Collection Party Balloon

2026-03-17T20:21:30Z

Collection Party Balloon

Collecting Party Balloon, During my second trailmakers pioneers run.

trailmakers pioneers second run - Collection L Bracket

2026-03-17T20:20:14Z

Collection L Bracket

Collecting the L Bracket, During my second trailmakers pioneers run.

trailmakers pioneers second run - Wyatt Hits The Gap

2026-03-17T20:19:24Z

Wyatt Hits The Gap

Wyatt Hits The Gap, During my second trailmakers pioneers run.

Thinking about ai productivity again

2026-03-16T21:01:44Z

Thinking about AI productivity again. It’s allowing massive amounts of work to get done, to levels that humans cannot physically type out in some cases. But not all of this work is necessarily high value work. Right now I’m working on one of the biggest PRs to an internal cli library. Probably the largest PR I’ve ever done professionally. It touches all of the cli, refactors every command, reaches into the business logic layers to drive deeper separation. I reaches into the common layers to drive consistency. It ensures that every command (50 or so) has similar flags, supports –plain, –no-color. It specs out contracts to ensure that data goes out stdout, any extra goes out stderr. This makes everything unix pipe friendly. There was quite a bit of research and prep that went in, that turns out to already be distilled down into clig.dev. The point is that this is all good work. It will make the product consistent, repeatable, expected, and most of all boring. Most of the time, it will just work. Since we did it ahead of a lot of other agentic work on the product its establishing good patterns for the product moving forward. But its low value work. We wouldn’t have likely put humans on this work wholesale and fixed critical paths as they came up. Its not cutting cost, selling more product, or driving critical business decisions. Yes it’s worth it now, but it would not have bee in the past.

Dummy13 On A Skateboard

2026-03-16T20:53:56Z

Tonight Wyatt gave me a dummy13 that he printed, assembled, and posed all on his own. He’s printed quite a few of these in the past, and none came to this level of completion. I’m so proud of him. This one was a near flawless build with only a few mistakes, that I’d argue were poor design, small vertical pins. More importantly he was able to problem solve and use resin to fix these mistakes.

Groal The Great Fail 1

2026-03-15T20:33:06Z

Groal The Great Fail 1

Groal The Great Fail 1

Groal The Great Fail 2

2026-03-15T20:31:49Z

Groal The Great Fail 2

Groal The Great Fail 2

⭐ cyxzdev Uncodixfy

2026-03-13T01:26:23Z

I recently discovered Uncodixfy by cyxzdev, and it’s truly impressive.

the holly uncodexify instructions - letting GPT create uncodexified UI

Did you even like to code?

2026-03-07T20:59:39Z

Here’s something I’ve been wrestling with lately. I keep hearing people come to the realization that they never liked coding, they thought they did, but secretly hated it the whole time. I dont think I’ve ever kidded myself about this. I like building things. I like having an idea and see it come to life. Just because I like the end product more, and that coding really was a means to an end, something I will never do again in the same capacity that I have in the past, does not mean I did not enjoy the art of solving problems by typing syntax into a file to tell a computer how to solve a problem.

Silksong Credits

2026-03-07T09:19:27Z

Credits

Today I rolled the credits to Silksong, far from the end, still finishing the playthrough. also I walked away and let it sit idle and it ate my play buffer so I lost the full boss fight.

The only thing that seems interesting is AI right now

2026-03-06T20:55:26Z

The only thing that seems interesting is AI right now, I’m writing less code, and I kinda just don’t care as much about the small open source stuff as I used to. I enjoy reading about what other people are thinking, doing, creating. But when I go to grab a podcast while I wait on my clankers its one talking about how other people are using them, how to make them more secure, more effective, how the new models change things, what models are good at what. It’s all so new and changes so fast. Any sort of new open source project starts out sus that it was just vibe coded anyways, So at the moment it feels like ooh how did you get that, how do I make mine, and that the thing itself has less value. I hate that its this way, but it is.

Tmk 3x6+3 Gaming Keeb Sliced

2026-03-06T17:56:38Z

tmk 3x6+3 gaming keeb sliced

Running through the layers of the tmx 3x6+s. gaming keeb.

Tmk 3x6+3 Gaming Promo

2026-03-06T17:48:47Z

tmk 3x6+3 gaming promo

Promo video for the tmk 3x5+3 gaming keyboard.

It's all moving so fast

2026-03-05T20:53:59Z

AI is moving so fast this year its hard to keep up, I’ve written 3 or 4 versions of one blog post to replace I'm Out On Agents, but it feels like everything changes before I can get it out.

Tgo V0.1.0

2026-03-04T21:19:47Z

tgo v0.1.0, tmux session switcher written in go

I Built A Tmux Session Switcher

2026-03-04T20:47:37Z

I’ve been thinking about this for awhile now. For years now, fuzzy pickers and last session have been my go to. They have served me well. I can typically only keep so much in my head anyways. I’m often doing a hub and spoke pattern between main project, notes, and infra repo, maybe two projects. Don’t get me wrong, I regularly run with a dozen or more sessions running at a time, but only two to three are in my immediate context at any point anyways.

The Design #

harpoon for tmux

SIMPLE, FAST, thats of upmost importance, what I want are sessions that I can press a hotkey followed by one more keystroke, currently any left hand letter can be assigned in order of importance from middle row, top row, bottom row.

I added this binding to my tmux config. Now I can press c-a a to go to the first session, c-a s to go to the second session. c-a and pause to think j/k to navigate, space to pick up a session and move it, x to kill it.

bind-key -n c-a popup -E '~/go/bin/tgo'

Enter the agents #

Now with agents doing more and more work, and cooking for longer periods this is not cutting it, I’m often swapping through a lot more sessions, I’ve got more projects sitting in more phases between research, implementation, fully orchestrated agents, and sessions that need their hand held to get things right.

Image of the tgo tool in action, I’d show you a video, but its not really that interesting, it just flashes up and goes to the next session as fast as you can press the key.

Made with gpt-5.3-codex and gpt-5.1-codex-mini #

Idk how much it cost, it barely touched my $20/month weekly token allowance. I’ve been thinking about it for awhile and decided today was the day to pull the trigger on something and get it started, worst case I throw it away. It took the agents about 7 minutes to implement a working version with broken ci that it later fixed.

I’ve typed far more characters and put more thought into this post than the tool itself, that where we are these days I guess.

See the session that made tgo Ses_3444b09b1ffexter3elfg5qqtg

Should you use it? #

You can its there for anyone to use, go for it, there’s an easy to download binary.

It’s all vibe coded slop that you could probably do a better job doing in a cave with scraps anyways. Take inspiration and make one that works for you.

Is gpt-5.4 slow?

2026-03-04T20:47:00Z

What you don’t have six agents orchestrating the work of 6 subagents yet. I saw in a work chat that people were complaining about 5.4 being too slow and they keep going back to opus. For me its been working great, I have it working on critical infrastructure work, that I will need to maintain. I appreciate its accuracy and completeness. And honestly I’m rarely watching agents run. Its like watching paint dry at this point. Its interesting to read their thinking prompts, but not productive work. While its running I’m teeing up the net prompt. Working with another set of agents to write a set of issues for the next epic. I might be too privileged though. I own a whole platform and have plenty of autonomy to work on what I see fit for the day. I don’t have a boss breathing down my neck waiting for a single ticket to be complete. I’m working on 6 projects at a time. I’m taking walks to avoid becoming a burnt out zombie. I’m definitely not complaining about it kicking out massive amounts of code too slow though.

We are the Grey Beards

2026-03-04T20:44:12Z

In November 2025 everyones beard lost its color, we aged into the next generation without realizing it. If you were getting paid to write code at this point in time, you are part of a special point in history where we used to write code by hand. There will be systems air gapped systems somewhere devs will continue to do it how we’ve always done it, some day they will peek out of this cave and realize that they are the only ones left, no one else remembers what its like. Writing code will quickly become a hobby that people do, in a weird niche way. Not because you want to build something, but like the guy with a mainframe in his garage that likes to watch the lights blink. Because its nostalgic, it’s a very cool skill, its fun and rewarding, but it won’t be to get something done.

Clankers got me tired

2026-03-03T20:42:25Z

I spent all day grinding on a 20 minute fix. I want the agents to do it. They can do it, but they are missing the harnesses they need to replicate my workflows of old.

One Shot Markata Searchcraft

2026-03-02T19:20:17Z

One Shot markata searchcraft

This is the results of a one shot markata-go searchcraft integration

The prompt was so rambly, I wrote it in about 2 minutes on the way out the door to a kids practice.

I am going to leave for awhile and I want you to prototype a markata-go
integration with searchcraft.  use /home/waylon/git/waylonwalker.com-go as the
site to test, stand up a new searchcraft database with podman. use a worktree
in ./worktree to write the integration, I want fast semantic search accross all
of my documents, I want them ingested/upserted/update on build, I want an index
per sitename, I might have multiple sites per database, I want you to make a
/search page to test out what the seasrch looks like.  heavily delegate to
@builder to research and fully understand https://www.searchcraft.io/ before
starting, properly ingest all of the site and make the search page, I don't
want you to stop or ask questions until it works, use `agent-browser` for
testing, use @builder for all changes writing editing and testing.

gh do I have a pr

2026-03-02T08:47:44Z

⭐ version-fox vfox

2026-03-02T02:57:32Z

I like version-fox’s project vfox.

A cross-platform and extendable version manager with support for Java, Node.js, Golang, Python, Flutter, .NET & more

TIL

2026-03-01T00:00:00Z

TIL feed #

Here are the latest snippets from the /til directory:

Anthropic Mythos

move zmk keyboard to new bluetooth adapter

I was able to do it all with the same keyboard, It did require some juggling between usb and bluetooth modes plugigng and unplugging, two keyboards would be simpler to reason about.

I did it with bluetoothctl, I’m sure it could have been done with a gui like blueberry or blueman.

...

dot dockerenv

gh do I have a pr

double gutter

I keep forgetting about the double gutter problem with nested containers. When you put padding on a parent and the child also has padding, you get twice the spacing you wanted.

.container { padding: 2rem; } .child { padding: 2rem; }

Now your content is 4rem from the edge. Not what I meant at all.

Either remove padding from the parent or use box-sizing: border-box and plan for it. I usually just drop the parent padding when I realize what I have done.

diff kubernetes manifest with cluster

Like a dufus this morning I did a hard reset on a git repo for getting I was working on a manifest for. You see I generally use argo, but occasionally I have no idea what I am doing or want yet and I start raw doggin it, fully aware that I’m going to just nuke this namespace before getting it into a proper argocd.

I was overjoyed when I found out that you can diff your manifests with live production using the kubectl diff command. It uses standard diff so you can bring all your fancy diff viewers you like.

# regular manifest kubectl diff -f k8s/shots -n shot # kustomize kubectl diff -k k8s -n go-waylonwalker-com # using a fancy diff viewer kubectl diff -f k8s/shots -n shot | delta # using an even fancier diff viewer # pinkies out for this one kubectl diff -f k8s/shots -n shot | delta --diff-so-fancy

Now I can get those changes back that I thought I lost, and apply updates with confidence knowing what is about to change.

format markdown with mdformat

I really wish I would have got this right a few years ago. Theres a couple of flags I had to use to get mdformat to do hard wraps at 80 characters and not wreck tables. This mix of flags and plugins is workign really well for me so far.

mdfmt() { uvx \ --with "mdformat-ruff" \ --with "mdformat-beautysh" \ --with "mdformat-web" \ --with "mdformat-config" \ --with "mdformat-gfm" \ --with "mdformat-front-matters" \ --with "mdformat-wikilink" \ --with "mdformat-simple-breaks" \ mdformat \ --wrap 80 \ --end-of-line lf \ --codeformatters python \ --codeformatters bash \ "$@" }

And as pre-commmit.

opencode variants

Opencode is changing on the daily right now, today I noticed the word low pop up in Orange text in my opencode window. Looking into this they are exposing variants to the user. This allows you to change between fast or slow and thinking, the later taking more time to prepare before doing an action.

It looks like this toggle may have been here for awhile and I’m just now discovering it. Potentially because its a new feature of the free Zen provider.

Variants Many models support multiple variants with different configurations. OpenCode ships with built-in default variants for popular providers.

Built-in variants OpenCode ships with default variants for many providers:

...

opencode init prompt

This is opencode’s init prompt.

POG

POG: Play Of the Game - used to express shock or excitement after a noteworthy moment.

tpope vim-speeddating

Today I discovered vim-speeddating by tpope. I’m sure I’ve seen years ago but it did not click for my workflow until today. I often go through pictures from my phone for the past few days and make Posts tagged: shots posts, but I want to date them to about when the image was taken most of the time. This allows me to quickly bump days up and down using c-a and c-x even around the new year.

Sound on, listen to those new switches.

light mode screen recording css

Yesterday I wrote about a way to do light mode screen recording to convert to light mode from dark mode with ffmpeg. I was wondering if it could be done entirely on the front end for web applications. Turns out you can. I’m sure there are limited wikis and site builders that don’t allow adding style like this, but it works if you can.

<video src="https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/1c53dbcb-4b84-4e94-9f04-a42986ab3fa1.mp4?width=800" controls style="filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) contrast(1.2) saturate(1.1);" > </video>

0 deg hue rotate

...

light mode screen recording

I saw this tip from Cassidoo and had to try it out for myself. I kicked on a screen recording right from where my terminal was, converted it, and it actually looks pretty good.

ffmpeg \ -i screenrecording-2026-01-01_10-10-49.mp4 \ -vf "negate,hue=h=180,eq=contrast=1.2:saturation=1.1" \ screenrecording-2026-01-01_10-10-49-light.mp4

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Dark Mode

Light Mode

There are a few unsettling things about it, but overall I feel like it was a success.

YouTube Gemini is Actually Useful

I’ve found Gemini to be very useful lately, especially for finding information within long form content.

When writing thought-896, I wanted to use a direct quote from Jeff Dickey, Gemini popped it out very quickly.

give me a quote from jeff just before the timestamp I'm at the interviewer asked what makes a good cli and he started talking about stdout/stderr

In another case, my wife and I are huge Good Eats fans. Alton Brown taught us how to cook during college and on. We watched every single good eats episode nearly 10 years after they aired. He is back with some updates to those those shows on his Youtube. Gemini gives very good detailed responses with timestamps.

numbered posts in obsidian

I’ve been using this one for awhile now, I have a post type that I only edit from my phone, but I have all the post numbered. I set up a template in obsidian for using templater, the template goes right in the static site repo, I point templater to the templates directory and this has been working pretty seamlessly for awhile.

git name status

--name-status is a great way to see what files have changed in a git diff alongside the status code. I recently used this in a script to create a report of new and modified files during a build.

minecraft server memory

I learned to today that setting MEMORY on your minecraft server causes the JVM to egregiously allocate all of that memory. Not setting it causes slow downs and potential crashes, but setting INIT_MEMORY and MAX_MEMORY gives us the best of both worlds. It is allowed to use more, but does not gobble it all up on startup.

In this economy we need to save all the memory we can!

Here is a non-working snippet for a minecraft server deployment in kubernetes.

containers: - name: dungeon image: itzg/minecraft-server env: - name: EULA value: "true" - name: INIT_MEMORY value: "512M" - name: MAX_MEMORY value: "3G"

and in docker compose

OG is short for open graph, a set of standard meta tags that are used for social media sharing. This is what tells other websites how to describe and display your site when shared on social media, text messages, or discord.

web snow fall

I found snow-fall component from zachleat, and its beautiful… to me. I like the way it looks, its simple and whimsical.

There is an npm package @zachleat/snow-fall if that’s your thing. I like vendoring in small things like this.

curl -o static/snow-fall.js https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zachleat/snow-fall/refs/heads/main/snow-fall.js

I generally save it in my justfile so that I remember how I got it and how to update…. yaya I could use npm, but I don’t for no build sites.

get-snowfall: curl -o static/snow-fall.js https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zachleat/snow-fall/refs/heads/main/snow-fall.js

Usage #

Now add the component to your page.

check your kubeconfig expire time

Today I learned an important lesson that you should periodically check on your kubeconfigs expiration date. It’s easy to do. You can ask for the client-certificate-data from your kubeconfig, decode it, and use openssl to get the expiration date.

Waiting For My Weekly Token Allowance

2026-02-28T11:28:24Z

Openai gives me a token allowance for my $20 tier subscription, if I’m careful it lasts a few days of heavy side project work.

Opencode Zen out of tokens

Openai out of tokens

⭐ Kohei-Wada taskdog

2026-02-27T21:08:43Z

Just starred taskdog by Kohei-Wada. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer.

Terminal task manager with intelligent schedule optimization.Keyboard-only. No dragging, no micromanagement.

The Ghostty Guy

2026-02-26T18:49:39Z

I was today years old when I realized that the ghostty guy is the Hashicorp guy.

⭐ torvalds linux

2026-02-25T16:09:09Z

Just starred linux by torvalds. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer.

Linux kernel source tree

Dropper Just Got The Clip Editor I've Dreamed Of

2026-02-24T21:33:37Z

dropper just got the clip editor I’ve dreamed of

Editing a Session Skate Sim clip inside of dropper with trim, scrub, and crop.

Dropper Gets Video Thumbnail Upgrade

2026-02-24T21:16:54Z

Dropper gets video thumbnail upgrade

In the video clip you can see me reload into the latest version of dropper that supports video thumbnails, turning those unknown clips into a collection I can recognize.

/verify

2026-02-24T10:36:57Z

Inspired by @mollywhite’s verify slashpage. This page serves as the system of record for my online identity. The best places to follow me are:

My Website: waylonwalker.com
YouTube: Waylon Walker
YouTube Gaming: Waylon Walker Gaming
Twitch: Waylon Walker
Twitter: @_WaylonWalker
LinkedIn: Waylon Walker
GitHub: WaylonWalker
Dev.to: Waylon Walker
Bluesky: @waylonwalker.com

Gma Silk Fail1

2026-02-23T17:52:50Z

Gma Silk Fail1

Gma Silk Fail1

Post Lace2 Dream

2026-02-23T17:51:06Z

Post Lace2 Dream

Post Lace2 Dream

Lace2

2026-02-23T17:48:56Z

Lace2

Lace2

Thoughts Cluster Looks Like A Flower

2026-02-21T15:49:25Z

My thoughts connections made an interesting flower layout.

Happy Valentines Breakfast 2026

2026-02-14T19:26:30Z

A one eye’d pirate (egg in toast) in the shape of a heart for Ayla.

Ayla helped with the ideation and the Prep work.

New Fast Mode In Markata-Go Is Fun

2026-02-14T19:25:04Z

New fast mode in markata-go is fun

Swapping themes with the theme picker cli and watching the output change within about 1-2s live reloaded in the browser.

double gutter

2026-02-14T09:12:42Z

I keep forgetting about the double gutter problem with nested containers. When you put padding on a parent and the child also has padding, you get twice the spacing you wanted.

The Problem #

.container {
  padding: 2rem;
}

.child {
  padding: 2rem;
}

Now your content is 4rem from the edge. Not what I meant at all.

The Fix #

Either remove padding from the parent or use box-sizing: border-box and plan for it. I usually just drop the parent padding when I realize what I have done.

First W In Brotato

2026-02-11T20:48:08Z

After having brotato and doing a few runs every once in a while I finally beat the most basic balanced run in the game! Wyatt wanted to play tonight and its such an easy game to jump in do a few runs and move on without getting overly invested.

Watching back I cannot believe how lucky I got, barely scraping by with 1hp at this point

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the last 80s of the game

Brotato Balanced Win

2026-02-11T20:47:48Z

Brotato Balanced Win

Taking the W in a brotato run

/top4

2026-02-11T14:00:00Z

Definitive ranked lists of my top 3 favorites plus an honorable mention.

Terminal Tools #

neovim - modal editing changed how I think about text
tmux - terminal sessions that survive disconnects and allow me to hop between projects at the speed of thought.
k9s - S tier tui interface that all tuis should strive for

Honorable mention: ipython

Python Tools #

pandas - This is what got me out of corporate spreadsheets and back into code/software.
kedro - data pipelines with opinions I agree with
fastapi - my favorite python web framework

Honorable mention: typer - fast cli apps

Games to Play with Kids #

multiplayer

Minecraft - infinite creativity, modding potential
Wobbly Life - Open World Co-op
Stardew Valley - cozy, collaborative farming

Honorable mention: Terraria - 2d world builder

Games to Play Alone #

singleplayer

Hollow Knight/Hollow Knight Silksong - S tier 2d platformer with adventure, mystery, lore, boss fights.
Session Skate Sim - The best skate sim
Animal Well - epic 2d platformer with the most incredible graphics at 320p ever created and the deepest puzzles Ive seen

Honorable mention: Portal

Inspired by topfour.net and slashpages.net

/yep

2026-02-11T12:00:00Z

Inspired by @fyrio’s yep slashpage, a list of S tier things I enjoy, use, recommend, want to know more about, or seek out in no particular order, updated as I think about it.

Seealso

/nope

Inspired by @baty's nope slashpage, a list of ** things I don't like, don't care, avoid, overhyped, or won't do in no particular order, updated as I think...

Feb 11, 2026

/yep #

coffee
small web 1.0
RSS
minecraft
Hollow Knight
Silksong
terminals
python
vim keybindings
self-hosting
open source
running kubernetes in my basement
mechanical keyboards
markdown
data engineering
Woodworking
Fingerboarding
Darts
Skateboarding
Biking
Trampoline
3d printing

/nope

2026-02-11T12:00:00Z

Inspired by @baty’s nope slashpage, a list of F tier things I don’t like, don’t care, avoid, overhyped, or won’t do in no particular order, updated as I think about it.

Seealso

/yep

Inspired by @fyrio's yep slashpage, a list of ** things I enjoy, use, recommend, want to know more about, or seek out in no particular order, updated as I...

Feb 11, 2026

/nope #

roblox
mobile games
telemetry
Windows
VSCode
allow notifications
subscription hell
ads
social media
clickbait
WYSIWYG editors particularly ones that use proprietary non text formats
politics
short form video

⭐ pydantic monty

2026-02-09T03:53:14Z

Check out monty by pydantic. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential.

A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

Gradient Keycap Results

2026-02-07T19:55:55Z

The gradient keycaps turned out pretty good, but I’m not sure what I did wrong with the interface between the raft and the caps, that came out very rough, but the effect works.

Camp Rock Sign

2026-02-07T19:51:35Z

Camp Rock Sign all put together, by the fabulous Rhiannon, the letters came out great, her work on the built is amazing, cant wait to see it lit up.

⭐ nextlevelbuilder ui-ux-pro-max-skill

2026-02-06T20:18:21Z

Check out nextlevelbuilder and their project ui-ux-pro-max-skill.

An AI SKILL that provide design intelligence for building professional UI/UX multiple platforms

Gradient Keycaps In Bambu Studio

2026-02-06T19:53:05Z

I have an idea for gradient keycaps using tri colored filliment, I’m excited to see how it turns out.

Pm Not Babysitter

2026-02-06T14:04:25Z

Stop babysitting your agents, treat them like a real team and they will reward you.

Back in December I saw theo make a comment that code is now cheap, its the run rate of models, He quoted a study, not sure that he fully even believed it, but it claimed that the average developer after all meetings, training, emails, planning and extra shit in their day averages out 10 well tested lines of code per day. Opus 3.5 made him 10k loc (lines of code) that day.

We have all agreed for decades that lines of code is not a proxy to productivity or quality. Often more code means more risk, more review, more infrastructure. This has become MUCH different. Lines of code are still far from any sort of good metric. That aside, your agents are not doing 10k lines with you babysitting them, and in fact its very likely that the product quality is MUCH worse as you babysit them.

You need a tool for planning and tracking, otherwise you are playing babysitter rather than Product Manager (PM).

⭐ vercel-labs agent-browser

2026-02-05T22:20:08Z

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on agent-browser, created by vercel-labs.

Browser automation CLI for AI agents

diff kubernetes manifest with cluster

2026-02-05T09:37:39Z

I was overjoyed when I found out that you can diff your manifests with live production using the kubectl diff command. It uses standard diff so you can bring all your fancy diff viewers you like.

# regular manifest
kubectl diff -f k8s/shots -n shot
# kustomize
kubectl diff -k k8s -n go-waylonwalker-com
# using a fancy diff viewer
kubectl diff -f k8s/shots -n shot | delta
# using an even fancier diff viewer
# pinkies out for this one
kubectl diff -f k8s/shots -n shot | delta --diff-so-fancy

Now I can get those changes back that I thought I lost, and apply updates with confidence knowing what is about to change.

Camp Rock Letters

2026-02-03T19:49:29Z

Camp Rock Letters going on the print bed for the show choir.

Ping 23

2026-02-03T16:50:52Z

I taught wyatt #bada55 green, I apologize in advance, I underestimate the power of immature humor has on him.

Ping 21

2026-01-29T07:30:59Z

Agents right now

can I access the project you mentioned?

yes

Can i access /tmp

yes, just do it

While I’m I at it, kubctl delete...

yanks plug front internet

Agent Management Is Exhausting

2026-01-26T14:38:35Z

The state of development in early 2026 is all wrapped around learning how to manage many agents running in parallel. Everyone’s trying to figure out the workflow.

The Plan Is Everything #

The secret I’ve discovered is a good, well-defined plan. This could be a markdown file or a GitHub issue. Agents are actually great at writing these for you. They’ll include reproduction steps, outline changes needed, and structure the work.

This is your opportunity to step in. Read the plan. Look for hallucinations. Spot where it’s going off track. Edit the plan before the agent starts coding.

I had one today where it laid out reproduction steps beautifully, but I could add context about network requests that completely changed the approach. This editing phase is what most people are missing right now. Skip it and you’ll watch your agent solve the wrong problem with impressive efficiency.

The Pace Problem #

Here’s what nobody warned me about: managing these things is exhausting.

Depending on the day, agents move so damn fast. I can barely research, find, and raise issues as fast as Claude can implement features and fixes. It’s like trying to speedrun a Minecraft seed when you just figured out how to craft a pickaxe.

A Different Kind of Work #

This stretches a different part of my brain than I’m used to using. I’m learning new skills around:

Issue tracking and management at high velocity
Knowing which models handle which tasks best
Spotting when a session is about to go sideways from context bloat or bad compaction

I had a session yesterday where the context got poisoned with a wrong assumption. The agent spent 20 minutes building on that false premise before I caught it. That’s 20 minutes of perfectly executed code solving the wrong problem entirely.

Worth It, But Hard #

I’m not going to hype-bro you and say this is easy or that you’re wrong to be skeptical. If you have the opportunity to work with agents, it’s worth learning proper techniques.

It’s not easy. It requires actual management skills, not just prompting skills. And yeah, I’m tired.

Stop Using Boomer Ai

2026-01-26T13:12:29Z

I was listening to these guys talk about migrating off of boomer ai the other day. Introducing the term boomer ai to describe using chat, copy, paste instead of agents. Something magical happened to the tooling and models around december, they got really good. The chatgpt $20 plan hooked into opencode is good, the Free models in Opencode Zen (Big Pickle and Kimi K2.5 Free) are really good. Neither of these quite match up to the speed and quality of the larger plans, but they are good. good enough to throw away your boomer ai techniques and start using agents. Agents are the future, and they are here now. If you are still using chat, copy, paste, you are doing it wrong. Stop using boomer ai and start using agents. You will be amazed at how much better your results will be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dmPKuTWbsI

Mentions

2026-01-24T19:11:15Z

I can now just mention people from my markata Waylon Walker Blogroll like @simonwillison or @swyx.io

/now [[ upto ]] [[ doing ]]

⭐ wilsonzlin fastrender

2026-01-24T03:54:07Z

The work on fastrender by wilsonzlin.

Experimental new browser engine

2026-01-23 Notes

2026-01-23T22:28:38Z

Next for markata go

Embed post, internal and external
Og images
Post importer - thoughts
Reader / blogroll plugin
K9s inspired tui
:files, :posts, :tags, :feeds,

Extra classes

Wikilinks

Lsp

Complete wikilinks
Complete mentions
Document diagnostic
Workspace diagnostics
Config completions

Jinja_md obsidian like support

View as in footer

Archive missing grid of pages

Nav footer different on feeds than post Sometimes the skip to content peeks into the top left corner of the page by a few pixels, it’s distracting

Tap to zoom image

Google font

Sitemap

Background image support

Mouse support in tui works, not in tmux

All optional plugins with config from user should raise warning configured not able

Lines of code should be separate from word count

Tui press enter, should see full post and scroll/read render markdown

Update branding from fast to comprehensive

Debug pages, show config

Image gallery
carousel
Prev/next
Embedfeed
Fix aside
Contrast / flashbang check on admonitions styles on all themes.
Glossary
Banner post
Keys
Containers

Page 1 link is always highlighted
Page 1 link is broken when coming from page 1
On mobile search is too wide
Shots needs warmed with a head request

⭐ flosch pongo2

2026-01-22T23:34:17Z

Check out flosch and their project pongo2.

Django-syntax like template-engine for Go

What Your Coding Tool Says About You

2026-01-21T16:25:41Z

open code - libre free as in beer and speech
Copilot - corporate 9-5er
Cursor - You sip on Philz coffee with your macbook
Claude Code - Agentic Workflows or Bust
Jetbrains - I didn’t know you wrote java
Vim/neovim - definite neck beard
VsCode - What else is there?

Quick Tip To Get Agents Running Longer

2026-01-21T16:22:26Z

Here’s a quick tip if you want to get your agents running longer, prompt better.

format markdown with mdformat

2026-01-19T20:41:14Z

mdfmt() {
    uvx \
        --with "mdformat-ruff" \
        --with "mdformat-beautysh" \
        --with "mdformat-web" \
        --with "mdformat-config" \
        --with "mdformat-gfm" \
        --with "mdformat-front-matters" \
        --with "mdformat-wikilink" \
        --with "mdformat-simple-breaks" \
        mdformat \
        --wrap 80 \
        --end-of-line lf \
        --codeformatters python \
        --codeformatters bash \
        "$@"
}

And as pre-commmit.

repos
  - repo: https://github.com/hukkin/mdformat
    rev: 1.0.0  # pin to the version you want
    hooks:
      - id: mdformat
        args:
          - --wrap
          - "80"
          - --end-of-line
          - lf
          - --codeformatters
          - python
          - --codeformatters
          - bash
        additional_dependencies:
          - mdformat-ruff
          - mdformat-beautysh
          - mdformat-web
          - mdformat-config
          - mdformat-gfm
          - mdformat-front-matters
          - mdformat-wikilink
          - mdformat-simple-breaks

Ping 19

2026-01-18T14:07:57Z

What no one is talking about is that Deegs doesn’t get the red plate without Anstie on the ground.

Your browser does not support the video tag.

Trobio Full2

2026-01-17T12:20:57Z

Trobio Full2

Trobio Full2

What is that

2026-01-15T19:22:47Z

I was unironically asked what is that about my keeb today. Followed by no way that works, how would you type a, s, y, u, after showing, I go the “that’s weird” walk away.

Hornet Sitting

2026-01-15T19:16:43Z

Hornet Sitting

Hornet Sitting

Trobio Fight

2026-01-15T19:12:25Z

Trobio Fight

Trobio Fight

Trobio Full

2026-01-15T19:10:33Z

Trobio Full

Trobio Full

📝 Git Notes

2026-01-15T09:05:21Z

See old revisions of one file #

git log --oneline -- <file>
git log -n 2 --oneline -- <file>

Checkout an old revision of a file #

git checkout <commit> -- path/to/file

fuzzy pick a file and check out an old revision #

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

file="${1:-}"

if [[ -z "${file}" ]]; then
  file="$(git ls-files | fzf --prompt="select file > ")" || exit 0
fi

if [[ -z "${file}" ]]; then
  exit 0
fi

if ! git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  echo "Not a git repository." >&2
  exit 1
fi

if ! git ls-files --error-unmatch -- "${file}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  echo "File is not tracked by git: ${file}" >&2
  exit 1
fi

choice="$(
  git log --follow --pretty=format:'%h %ad %s' --date=short -- "${file}" |
    fzf --ansi --no-sort --reverse \
        --preview-window=down:70% \
        --prompt="checkout revision > " \
        --preview "git show --color=always {1}^..{1} -- '${file}' 2>/dev/null || git show --color=always {1} -- '${file}'"
)"

if [[ -z "${choice}" ]]; then
  exit 0
fi

commit="$(awk '{print $1}' <<<"${choice}")"
git checkout "${commit}" -- "${file}"

Heringbone Fingerboard

2026-01-14T19:55:10Z

I just finished up my latest 6 ply wood fingerboard. I used scraps of purple, blue, red, and gold from the first 5 boards I built to make this pattern.

Dont Trust Users Tokens

2026-01-14T19:49:43Z

User states: Upon picking up an old project and trying to install pip says “cannot find a version to satisfy”

I’ve got this, I’ve had this a hundred times before it’s a python version, a rogue package, maybe a yank from the pinned deps. I pop open the project get us on the same commit. I get a different error, make a few updates and we are good, except the user gets the same error from the start.

They never saw the error I did, and my fix did not magically resolve their error. We circle all the things it could be for hours. I consistently wipe my venv, and recreate with ease, send them the commands I ran to no avail. Something is up and I can’t put my finger on it. We’ve checked all the things and inched as close as we can to running everything exactly the same.

Os
python version
Network vpn
uv version

Nothing makes any sense. Finally I throw in the towel, is it the artifact server. I forge a token and give him one to borrow.

BAM it works, like magic. The first sign of progress. Then he mentions.

Huh that’s odd cause I just got mine this morning

Failing to mention this any earlier that getting a new token for a service and it completely borked it! I get it though, the error was very oddly presented and not easy to see why

There it was all along, looking back in the logs I see his redacted token going to the wrong registry. One that does not include our packages, everything makes sense now. The reason it couldn’t find a version to satisfy was not a python version, os version, package conflict, it was that it couldn’t find a fucking version of the thing to begin with.

All this to say, don’t trust users tokens, save your time and just get fresh ones with them.

if you read this it’s all cool, like I said it’s all part of the job, no harsh feelings, at least we got a good story out of it right!

⭐ dbreunig whenwords

2026-01-14T17:08:20Z

Check out dbreunig and their project whenwords.

A relative time formatting library, with no code.

High Halls Gauntlet Ending

2026-01-13T18:49:59Z

High Halls Gauntlet Ending

High Halls Gauntlet Ending

Conductors Melody

2026-01-13T18:43:43Z

Conductors Melody

Conductors Melody

Top Spool

2026-01-13T18:42:48Z

Top Spool

Top Spool

opencode variants

2026-01-13T08:53:36Z

Swapping Variants in opencode

It looks like this toggle may have been here for awhile and I’m just now discovering it. Potentially because its a new feature of the free Zen provider.

Variants Many models support multiple variants with different configurations. OpenCode ships with built-in default variants for popular providers.

Built-in variants OpenCode ships with default variants for many providers:

Anthropic:

high - High thinking budget (default) max - Maximum thinking budget OpenAI:

Varies by model but roughly:

none - No reasoning minimal - Minimal reasoning effort low - Low reasoning effort medium - Medium reasoning effort high - High reasoning effort xhigh - Extra high reasoning effort Google:

low - Lower effort/token budget high - Higher effort/token budget

Ping 17

2026-01-12T12:01:16Z

I’m not sure if its good to keep issues and plans in the repo long term, but I’m going to give it a shot.

read @pages/issues/issue-1.md create a plan to fix the issue, then write your plan to fix in @pages/plans/fix-issue-1.md

Broodmother Eye

2026-01-11T18:03:37Z

Broodmother Eye

Broodmother Eye

Big Flea 1

2026-01-11T18:01:55Z

Big Flea 1

Big Flea 1

Cogfly

2026-01-11T18:00:35Z

Cogfly

Cogfly

Beast Crest

2026-01-11T17:59:06Z

Beast Crest

Beast Crest

Clawline

2026-01-11T17:57:57Z

Clawline

Clawline

Ai

2026-01-11T13:48:43Z

Last updated Jan 2026.

Seealso

Looking for all posts tagged with ai see [[ tag/ai ]]

Ai is a tool I use a lot for code generation, research, image generation, and debugging. The words I publish on this site are my own unless explicitly stated from the top. There’s only one or two posts in this category.

Words are mine #

The core of what this blog is, is my thoughts ideas, sharing experiences. The words are the important part. They are not perfect, I often do not spell or grammer check, and what is here is from a flow state of writing and very often not refactored.

No AI unless explicitly stated

code gen #

Up till around 2023 all of the code to create the site was hand written by me. I have my own site generator that I maintain markata.

From 2023 through 2025 snippets of code, sometimes entire plugins or modules were created in chat apps like chatgpt. There was no agentic coding, windsurf, cursor, claude code, opencode, none of it. It was all integrated into the site by hand.

Starting around Dec 2025 I was finding freely available agents through tools like opencode to be more and more useful, making less mistakes, doing better at getting context and making changes. The flow is relying on heavy planning and issue reporting.

image gen #

I really got into stable diffusion as it came out. I thought it was fascinating to generate different kinds of images of things that I would otherwise have no ability to create, for a long time I was generating images for every post. I’ve moved on from doing it for every post, but still do it occasionally.

I’m not an artist, sometimes I like to include art that I would not otherwise be able to. Most of the art you see on a post is AI generated, and may not be called out.

Techbrophobic #

I feel this term strongly. I find ai tooling useful, but the industry and hype bros bring a bad taste.

The tools do not not do everything right, you still have to think, watch its output. You have to put the work in to do proper software engineering. Its not a magic pill, but it has the ability to implement ideas, plans, very quickly.

Also the whole industry creeps me out. The theft that happened to get here was wrong. AI shovoled into everything as slop sucks. The stock market pump is sus.

Portajohn Progress 01 10 2026

2026-01-10T18:58:03Z

A cutaway of the portajohn keyboard progress, it shows the internal trace from the bottom along with built in supports, reset button, power button, microcontroller cutout. I’m getting very happy with the progress. I really like the feel of the latest build, and can’t wait to have this solid build out there.

opencode init prompt

2026-01-09T13:32:12Z

This is opencode’s init prompt.

Please analyze this codebase and create an AGENTS.md file containing:
1. Build/lint/test commands - especially for running a single test
2. Code style guidelines including imports, formatting, types, naming conventions, error handling, etc.
The file you create will be given to agentic coding agents (such as yourself) that operate in this repository. Make it about 150 lines long.
If there are Cursor rules (in .cursor/rules/ or .cursorrules) or Copilot rules (in .github/copilot-instructions.md), make sure to include them.
If there's already an AGENTS.md, improve it if it's located in <dir>

Og-Sample

2026-01-09T08:19:29Z

I’m making an effort to make my og images better yet again, I’m going for that next 10% better. I really like my og images, but there are some title sizes that overflow. This page is a page to help debug. How I make these og images is for another day.

Script #

I use my own static site generator markata. I can use it to generate a list of posts wrapped in their og image. I use itertools to do a groupby so that I can do roughly every 5 characters larger, and see a wide variety of sizes.

from markata import Markata
from itertools import groupby

markata = Markata()
lens = [{'length': len(post.title), 'title': post.title, 'slug': post.slug} for post in m.posts]
lens_sorted = sorted(lens, key=lambda x: x["length"])

groups = {
    k: list(g)
    for k, g in groupby(lens_sorted, key=lambda x: (x["length"] // 5) * 5)
}

posts = [g[0] for g in groups.values()]
ogs = [ f'[![{post["title"]}](https://shots.waylonwalker.com/shot/?url=https://waylonwalker.com/{ post["slug"] }/og/&height=600&width=1200&scaled_width=1200&scaled_height=600&format=jpg&v=4)](https://waylonwalker.com/{ post["slug"] }/og/)' for post in posts]
print("\n\n".join(ogs))

OG-Sample #

shots #

I also do Posts tagged: shots posts that change the og template quite a bit by adding the image to the page. I’ll do the same script, but add a filter to the images.

from markata import Markata
from itertools import groupby

markata = Markata()
lens = [{'length': len(post.title), 'title': post.title, 'slug': post.slug} for post in m.filter('templateKey=="shots" and "family" not in tags')]
lens_sorted = sorted(lens, key=lambda x: x["length"])

groups = {
    k: list(g)
    for k, g in groupby(lens_sorted, key=lambda x: (x["length"] // 5) * 5)
}

posts = [g[0] for g in groups.values()]
ogs = [ f'[![{post["title"]}](https://shots.waylonwalker.com/shot/?url=https://waylonwalker.com/{ post["slug"] }/og/&height=600&width=1200&scaled_width=1200&scaled_height=600&format=jpg&v=4)](https://waylonwalker.com/{ post["slug"] }/og/)' for post in posts]
print("\n\n".join(ogs))

POG

2026-01-08T20:17:27Z

POG: Play Of the Game - used to express shock or excitement after a noteworthy moment.

Broodmother Ending

2026-01-08T17:31:33Z

Broodmother Ending

Broodmother Ending

Broodmother

2026-01-08T17:29:43Z

Broodmother

Broodmother

2026 Resolutions

2026-01-08T10:48:12Z

It’s that time of year, Coming back to work out of a big break and thinking about big changes.

Daily Notes #

Keep up with daily notes, maybe not here, I tend to have more targeted notes here with full blog posts, but for work daily notes is POG and needs to be leaned on. LLM’s do really good at ingesting markdown and reminding me of things that I need to do, or did, or need to follow up on.

Reader #

Social media is changing, quickly becoming enshitified, I enjoy interacting with some of the people I’ve met online, reading their opinions, and learning from their experiences. I don’t need their hot takes, don’t care about their political takes. I like boring posts that typically fade out of whats picked up on the algorithm. I like a good 5-10 minute read or a long form podcast talk. I will be aggressively collecting more rss feeds to read and keep up with.

(Neo)Vim #

I’ve had these bad habits in my config for years, from day one of using vim. It’s time to kill these. jjgww. I killed them this morning, we will see how long I keep typing out jj all over my editor before I fix it mentally.

-- bad habits
vim.keymap.set("i", "jj", "<esc>")
vim.keymap.set("i", "jk", "<esc>")
vim.keymap.set("i", "JJ", "<esc>")
vim.keymap.set("i", "jJ", "<esc>")
vim.keymap.set("i", "Jj", "<esc>")

Tip

I need to lean on <C-o> a little more to run single commands in normal mode from insert mode. The pattern that is hitting me hard right now is jjgwwA insert mode, format, insert at end of line.

Distrobox #

I was a heavy user of distrobox as my primary dev environment on Bazzite and I need to get back there. I have a lot of stuff installed on this current system. I’ve been sloppy. I am not sure I was planning on staying on arch/hyprland long, I did it to do it with my son, his got borked a month ago and he is back to bazzite, I think I’ll be back there and want to be ready to float freely between distros.

clean dotfiles
work from a distrobox image that I make
keep working projects backed up

Vibe Coding #

Agents are the future, people that I really trust are on both sides of the argument. Some saying they stopped coding months ago and claude does everything for them. Some in between, some are completely against.

It feels like the tooling has really taken off over the past few months, the models are getting better, but not at the same rate they were. The tools are really making this possible.

My experience is quite mixed, I’m often impressed with what it does, and appalled at how bad it does other things. I just want it to do what I mean with the fewest words possible. I’ve been working on deeper plans more and more, still with mixed results. With larger plans the models seem to do more work, but still not getting that great experience every time.

I really need to get my workspaces workflow down, have models working in a separate workspace, and be willing to throw away shit code quickly and try again from another angle.

The future is a deep understanding on what needs to be done, how do to it, and not the syntax. The tools are getting better. You need to know less and less about them, less and less about models as the auto routers get better. The core skills of architecture, design, and implementation are more important than ever.

Last year I was able to vibe out some POC work, but still not letting the agents touch my production code. It wasn’t there for me, I probably did not have access to the really good stuff either. Now I think what I have access to is catching up to Claude.

sandbox them
quick to POC
quick to move on from broken attempts
learn to lead
learn to let go of syntax opinions
learn what makes good products/tools/apis hold the vibes to this.

There’s something here, very respectable people are betting on this, but its not working for me, I don’t think I have the right tools. I already have it a day, and got a few hundred LOC out while theo is claiming opus can do 10k.

Not Everything will be a side hustle #

I’ve tried to start too many side hustles, none of them work out. Thinking of them as a side hustle steals the joy of the hobby. I have too much going on outside of work for adding things like this not to add stress to already stressful situations, I need to reduce stress and find the joy and happiness in side projects and not turn everything into something more.

Keebs #

This one is fresh on the mind only because I just built out a new keyboard for work. I want to have a good robust build at home, work, and potentially have a good backup. I have a good design that is very cheap and fairly easy to build, but is quite time consuming. I am going to put some work in early this year to get a couple of clones.

More Offline #

Looking back at 2025, I actually did fairly well of doing a bit more offline. It’s been a hard transition out of pandemic times for our family, we had a lot of extra health precautions that lasted longer than most other people.

This year I should do more of this. More bike rides, more skate, more basement hangouts, more art.

New dart board in the basement

More creativity. I designed and built fingerboard obstacles to work like legos with 3/4" plywood last November.

building a fingerboard park in the basement

More building

building set for Jolly Holiday with Rhiannon

building boxes for Jolly Holiday with Wyatt

More bike rides, fewer nice days wasted, they are relaxing and get good energy out.

Bike Rides

Faydown Cloak

2026-01-08T07:43:46Z

Faydown Cloak

Faydown Cloak

Hornet On A Bench

2026-01-05T20:41:33Z

Hornet sitting on a bench. I 3d printed, painted, and assembled this set. I really like how the bronze bench with gold highlights turned out. The distressing on her nail and dress look great in person, and don’t come through the best the way the image is lit.

⭐ tpope vim-speeddating

2026-01-04T23:10:42Z

I recently discovered vim-speeddating by tpope, and it’s truly impressive.

speeddating.vim: use CTRL-A/CTRL-X to increment dates, times, and more

⭐ JaKooLit Wallpaper-Bank

2026-01-04T21:41:57Z

Check out JaKooLit and their project Wallpaper-Bank.

Additional wallpapers which will be offered to users for my hyprland scripts

Kickflip Down The 3 Stair - Fingerboarding

2026-01-04T19:55:43Z

kickflip down the 3 stair - fingerboarding

Kickflip down the 3 set using my new hand made 5 ply fingerboard.

tpope vim-speeddating

2026-01-04T16:59:33Z

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Sound on, listen to those new switches.

I'm Loving These Akko Creamy Yellow V3s

2026-01-04T16:22:35Z

my latest porta john full mx build with Akko Creamy Yellow V3s installed on the right side and a hodge podge of Durock Lupine and kaihl browns on the left.

new keeb so good

2026-01-03T21:03:13Z

New keeb feeling so good I don’t want to leave it. I’m going to go from having my worse favorite at work, to having my new favorite at work.

⭐ steveyegge gastown

2026-01-02T18:43:02Z

I’m really excited about gastown, an amazing project by steveyegge. It’s worth exploring!

Gas Town - multi-agent workspace manager

light mode screen recording css

2026-01-02T10:29:10Z

<video
    src="https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/1c53dbcb-4b84-4e94-9f04-a42986ab3fa1.mp4?width=800"
    controls
    style="filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) contrast(1.2) saturate(1.1);"
    >
</video>

0 deg hue rotate

90 deg hue rotate

180 deg hue rotate

270 deg hue rotate

⭐ ThePrimeagen 99

2026-01-02T04:36:11Z

Check out 99 by ThePrimeagen. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential.

Neovim AI agent done right

light mode screen recording

2026-01-01T10:14:17Z

I saw this tip from Cassidoo and had to try it out for myself. I kicked on a screen recording right from where my terminal was, converted it, and it actually looks pretty good.

ffmpeg \
   -i screenrecording-2026-01-01_10-10-49.mp4 \
   -vf "negate,hue=h=180,eq=contrast=1.2:saturation=1.1" \
   screenrecording-2026-01-01_10-10-49-light.mp4

Your browser does not support the video tag.

Dark Mode

Your browser does not support the video tag.

Light Mode

There are a few unsettling things about it, but overall I feel like it was a success.

My First Hand Pressed Fingerboard Complete

2025-12-29T19:37:27Z

My first hand pressed fingerboard with teak tuning trucks. It has a purple bottom layer. Sitting on the bottom of a 3-stair.

New Dart Board In The Basement

2025-12-29T15:55:20Z

I got a new dart board in the basement for Christmas, It’s been super fun to play with the kids. We are getting a pretty good setup down there.

First Fingerboard In The Press

2025-12-28T19:41:06Z

5 layers of plywood pressed into a 3d printed fingerboard press.

Garmond And Zaza

2025-12-25T09:50:44Z

Garmond And Zaza

Garmond And Zaza

Simon Says Bell Ending

2025-12-23T18:59:11Z

Simon Says Bell Ending

Simon Says Bell Ending

Simon Says Bell

2025-12-23T18:58:08Z

Simon Says Bell

Simon Says Bell

⭐ jdx usage

2025-12-22T16:42:40Z

The work on usage by jdx.

A specification for CLIs

⭐ jdx pitchfork

2025-12-22T16:42:37Z

I’m impressed by pitchfork from jdx.

Daemons with DX

Codeium Is Cooked

2025-12-22T10:13:08Z

Codeium what are you doing? It’s spamming I’m a little bit of a nerd in the completion.

YouTube Gemini is Actually Useful

2025-12-22T10:09:55Z

I’ve found Gemini to be very useful lately, especially for finding information within long form content.

When writing thought-896, I wanted to use a direct quote from Jeff Dickey, Gemini popped it out very quickly.

give me a quote from jeff just before the timestamp I'm at the interviewer
asked what makes a good cli and he started talking about stdout/stderr

Alton Brown had a recent YouTube video for cooking turkey. Can you get the
instructions from the video?

Ping 15

2025-12-22T08:55:20Z

mise looks like what I wanted nix to be for me.

⭐ jdx mise

2025-12-21T16:18:10Z

The work on mise by jdx.

dev tools, env vars, task runner

Mise looks promising

2025-12-21T10:52:57Z

I’ve been all in on just for a while now, but mise looks so good it might be my next move.

Phantom End

2025-12-21T09:35:34Z

Phantom End

Phantom End

Phantom Fight

2025-12-21T09:33:48Z

Phantom Fight

Phantom Fight

Phantom

2025-12-21T09:31:50Z

Phantom

Phantom

⭐ Maxteabag sqlit

2025-12-21T05:47:39Z

Maxteabag has done a fantastic job with sqlit. Highly recommend taking a look.

A user friendly TUI for SQL databases. Written in python. Supports SQL server, Mysql, PostreSQL and SQLite, Turso and more.

⭐ webinstall webi-installers

2025-12-20T19:52:27Z

webi-installers by webinstall is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves.

Primary and community-submitted packages for webinstall.dev

Fixing The Marquee For Jolly Holiday

2025-12-20T18:06:34Z

Waylon up at the Marquee of the theater fixing the fallen letters before the night show.

Gross phone

2025-12-19T09:51:00Z

Is there a world that giving my phone to my kids does not result in it being covered in peanut butter and snot?

Developer Vs Artist Ai

2025-12-19T09:44:00Z

The other day I was watching [thePrimeTimeagen]https://youtube.com/@theprimetimeagen?si=jVcp23FbfQSFZfDc) and he talked about devs loving ai and artists revolting. There was some discussion in chat about art being more creative and prime quickly squashed that. He ended with being oddly confused why developers are jumping on board and artists are not. Both had their art stolen to build out the models.

my own vibes

I'm writing this from my phone without further research, all vibes, personal experience, and thoughts,  no research.

Good Tools #

First I want to argue that artists have had some form of ai in their tools for years. Idk, probably not ai as we know it today but functionally similar. Content aware fill. This is a Photoshop feature from Adobe, as far as I know it’s one of the special things you get from Adobe that you don’t get from the FOSS alternatives easily.

This is an example of a good took that is well loves by the community and widely used, if you put ai in it to make it better no one would care, if it made things look oddly ai it would get rejected.

taking the brush #

Here is the critical difference that I see between the communities. Software development has made great tools for itself in a wide spectrum, from hands off vibe code no code to better auto complete. There’s something for everyone and every situation. This feels very obvious the minute you try to look at how to do it. In fact we started with better autocomplete. This autocomplete is really good at recognizing patterns in your document and continuing your current thought for you.

Art is a complete 180. It started with prompt engineering. Hands off let the tool do everything, you do nothing but prompt it. If it’s wrong reprompt. Diffusion is the worst because it generates completely new results every time nothing like what you had before. The newer stuff from openai and nano banana are not diffusion and do much better text and edits, but it’s not the same.

hands off is frustrating #

Anyone who has tried to get something specific from ai art or code gen without touching it themselves knows the frustration that you ask it to do one thing that takes 3 prompts to get it to understand what your asking and by the time it’s right it’s wrecked something else. It’s not fun, it’s soul sucking and ripe for meme content.

freedom of expression #

Software development has made a really good effort to make really great tools for itself. We have a wide spectrum that allow you to prototype fast, get something complex working in hours not month, but riddles with issues. Allowing us to get better scoped work from PMs who have put their hands on a semi working prototype. We have the ability to slice out parts and refactor with ease, and when things really matter we can right the code ourselves with ai there to take away the boilerplate repetition that finds it’s way into some modules.

I’m sure there is better ai art tools out there that allow artists to keep their brush in hand and enhance their skills, but I have not seen them. Ive seen in painting, but its not discoverable as it’s first experience, is hard to setup, might cost a lot, and doesn’t quite fit in to where you work with it. It’s still all or nothing prompt engineering, just a bit more focused in.

ai video #

I haven’t even thought much about things like sora throughout this. I can say for sure I’m enjoying editors for small time creators having the ability to throw in short clips to enhance the story. Especially for story telling style content that is impossible to get real video of, and would cost a fortune to build set, costume, and cast. It makes no sense for this scale. The McDonald’s and coke videos im on the fence on. They seem fine, they don’t feel inspiring, great, or terrible to me.

fin #

Developers naturally started with great tools here, and artist were given tools for developers to do art with, nothing tools for them.

Please tell me I’m wrong, artists have great tools you just haven’t seen them. I’d love to be wrong.

Ping 12

2025-12-16T11:44:47Z

Is bet new teen lingo? My kid is starting to say bet in every sentence.

So he explained it as “I’m down”, “You bet”, “Yes”, “I like that”, “You betcha”

Ping 11

2025-12-16T08:11:43Z

Naming things is hard, pings will now be numbered.

I'm being gaslit by the ai

2025-12-15T16:16:12Z

I’m being gaslit by the ai. It just did a big hard change, now cant do a seemingly basic change, and assures me that that its fixed my issue on every iteration.

Finished Elf House

2025-12-14T13:27:43Z

Waylon and Rhiannon standing in front of a mostly finished elf house built for the Jolly Holiday Performance at the local theater.

Cogwork Saved Pill

2025-12-14T09:26:19Z

Cogwork Saved Pill

Cogwork Saved Pill

numbered posts in obsidian

2025-12-13T22:28:28Z

---
date: <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss") %>
templateKey: myposttype
published: true
tags:
- myposttype
<%*
const folder = "pages/myposttype";

// get all files in the vault, keep only those inside the folder
const files = app.vault.getFiles().filter(f => f.path.startsWith(folder + "/"));

// extract numeric suffixes from filenames like myposttype-123.md
const nums = files.map(f => {
  const m = f.basename.match(/^myposttype-(\d+)$/);
  return m ? parseInt(m[1], 10) : null;
}).filter(n => n !== null);

// next number (start at 1 if none exist)
const next = (nums.length ? Math.max(...nums) : 0) + 1;

// include the .md extension when moving
const newPath = `${folder}/myposttype-${next}`;
await tp.file.move(newPath);
%>
---

⭐ andrii-kryvoviaz slink

2025-12-12T13:40:24Z

Check out andrii-kryvoviaz and their project slink.

Self-hosted image sharing service

notifications for static site builds

2025-12-12T08:28:45Z

This morning I set up notifications for changes to my static site builds leveraging git name status and ntfy.

git name status

2025-12-12T07:53:57Z

--name-status is a great way to see what files have changed in a git diff alongside the status code. I recently used this in a script to create a report of new and modified files during a build.

git diff --name-status
git diff --name-status origin/main
git diff --name-status --staged
git diff --name-status 'HEAD@{3 days ago}'

Dude Locked In

2025-12-11T11:50:07Z

My son wanted to help shovel snow, usually this means, I’ll piddle around, have Fun, maybe make things worse, but it’s ok cause I’ll make it a good time. Tonight he was LOCKED IN and got a good chunk of the neighbors drive and entire sidewalk done.

fast changing dev server today

2025-12-10T13:45:49Z

The dev server is cooking today, I’ve dropped markata builds from 2m40s (hot cache) in prod to 15s (hot cache) in dev. Currently building 2745 posts and 274 feeds.

The Right Reasons To Run Kubernetes In Your Homelab

2025-12-10T09:48:14Z

Running kubernetes in your homelab is a fantastic way to learn, explore, express yourself, and run services that you use.

The Right Reasons To Run Kubernetes In Your Homelab #

There are not many

You want to learn kubernetes
You like kubernetes
You want to learn to scale

There are also The Wrong Reasons To Run Kubernetes In Your Homelab

You want to learn kubernetes #

Homelabbing is a such a great way to learn new skills, deploy real apps that you use. Create new custom apps for your specific use cases that no one else has. You should absolutely run kubernetes in your homelab if you want to learn it.

I would recommend to start locally, pull up kind, minikube, or k3d and start from your local machine before putting it on a server.

When you decide you are ready for a server, you probably don’t need any crazy hardware. You can probably run on some old retired Dell Optiplex or an old desktop someone is throwing out as it no longer runs windows.

You like kubernetes #

Hell Yeah Brother, 100% no better reason to run kubernetes at home than because you enjoy it. I’m with you. There’s nothing quite like having git ops kick in and deploy new services, updates, watching deployments rollover with zero downtime. Watching your cluster heal itself when a node goes down. Never ssh-ing in to do deployments. Still owning your entire hardware.

You want to learn to scale #

This is probably a stretch reason, maybe not a good one, there are probably better ways, but here we go.

Don’t claim that you need scale in your homelab, you don’t. But it sure is fun to run a cluster of nodes, and load balancing services that run across them. Solving these hard problems to scale across machines is hard. There’s no way around it, there’s a lot to think about. Doing so in a low stakes environment that you have skin in the game is a great way to learn.

I run kubernetes in my homelab #

I run it and I really like it

What flavor of autism did you guys get, I got the kind where I run kubernetes in my basement.

Here are some things I really like about it, and Yes I know you can achieve most of these without kubernetes.

I don’t have to ssh, hardly ever.
I can see everything I’m running, and its defined in a manifest
k9s is amazing, and I use it all the time.
- shell into running pods
- restart deployments
- scale deployments
- trigger cronjobs
- watch logs
- I can scale our minecraft server to 0 in seconds if we are in a different season of life
ArgoCD is amazing
- I ❤️ gitops
Ingress just works
Longhorn
- makes snapshots and backups easy
- makes multi node easy
zero-downtime deployments
self healing health checks

I mostly do very simple things, deployments with a container, a volume and ingress. Probably things that you could easily run on fly.io. Theres nothing really fancy. I just like how easy this setup works for me.

minecraft server memory

2025-12-10T08:46:36Z

In this economy we need to save all the memory we can!

Here is a non-working snippet for a minecraft server deployment in kubernetes.

      containers:
        - name: dungeon
          image: itzg/minecraft-server
          env:
            - name: EULA
              value: "true"
            - name: INIT_MEMORY
              value: "512M"
            - name: MAX_MEMORY
              value: "3G"

and in docker compose

  dungeon:
    image: itzg/minecraft-server
    environment:
      EULA: "true"
      INIT_MEMORY: "512M"
      MAX_MEMORY: "3G"

Cogwork Core Gang Fight

2025-12-09T20:32:01Z

Cogwork Core Gang Fight

Cogwork Core Gang Fight

Cogwork Dancers Fight

2025-12-09T13:51:16Z

Cogwork Dancers Fight

Cogwork Dancers Fight

og

2025-12-09T12:49:21Z

One Year Of Shots

2025-12-09T12:44:39Z

I’ve been running my shot scraper api for a year now. It creates og images for my website and thumbnails for my Reader using a headless chrome instance.

25870 shots
73 shots per day on average
12-09-2025 first shot taken

Histogram #

a histogram of shot counts by day

You can see in the histogram that I’ve had a few big spike days, This has been mostly for days that I’ve integrated into a new service or changed the endpoint. On February 13, 2025 I swapped over from using the post to using template specific to open graph images.

-content = "https://shots.waylonwalker.com/shot/?url={{ config.url }}{{ post.slug }}&height=600&width=1200&scaled_width=1200&scaled_height=600"
+content = "https://shots.waylonwalker.com/shot/?url={{ config.url }}{{ post.slug }}/og/&height=600&width=1200&scaled_width=1200&scaled_height=600"

Image Comparison

Original Post Image

originally I simply used an image of the post itself

New OG Image

In Feb 2025 I made OG specific templates to use for the OG images.

Swapping to og images

Collage #

For fun I made a collage of all the shots. It’s cool to see all of these together, I remember a lot of the thumbnails and posts. Many of them from my rss reader.

collage of all shots, click to see full size

I tried to make a video collage, but turns out it takes a long time to show all 25k shots in video form. It also turned out to be a bit of a strobe as I don’t yet have it figured out how to dark mode in headless chrome.

video collage of shots

video collage of 600 shots, I tried to include all, but even at 20fps its a 20 minute video.

web snow fall

2025-12-09T10:21:17Z

I found snow-fall component from zachleat, and its beautiful… to me. I like the way it looks, its simple and whimsical.

Install #

There is an npm package <a href="https://zachleat.com" class="mention" data-name="Zach Leatherman" data-bio="A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)" data-avatar="https://screenshot.11ty.app/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zachleat.com%2F%3Fcache%3D_20251031/opengraph/" data-handle="@zachleat">@zachleat</a>/snow-fall if that’s your thing. I like vendoring in small things like this.

curl -o static/snow-fall.js https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zachleat/snow-fall/refs/heads/main/snow-fall.js

I generally save it in my justfile so that I remember how I got it and how to update…. yaya I could use npm, but I don’t for no build sites.

get-snowfall:
    curl -o static/snow-fall.js https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zachleat/snow-fall/refs/heads/main/snow-fall.js

Usage #

Now add the component to your page.

<!-- This belongs somewhere inside <head> -->
<script type="module" src="snow-fall.js"></script> <!-- Adjust the src to your path -->

<!-- This belongs somewhere inside <body> -->
<!-- Anything before will be below the snow. -->
<snow-fall></snow-fall>
<!-- Anything after will show above the snow. -->

check your kubeconfig expire time

2025-12-08T20:59:27Z

kubectl config view --raw -o jsonpath='{.users[0].user.client-certificate-data}' \
  | base64 -d 2>/dev/null \
  | openssl x509 -noout -dates

Note

This will only work for the first user, if you have more than one user or context defined in your kubeconfig you will need to adjust.

Not every print needs supports

2025-12-08T14:17:05Z

Not every print needs supports. So many models default to having it on, whether needed or not. Well designed parts, designed for 3d printing almost never need supports (depending on constraints).

Slab Fight

2025-12-08T12:17:45Z

Slab Fight

Slab Fight

Stolen Dress

2025-12-08T12:14:16Z

Stolen Dress

Stolen Dress

Moss Mother 2 Fight

2025-12-08T12:11:58Z

Moss Mother 2 Fight

Moss Mother 2 Fight

reminder Include steps to reproduce

2025-12-08T10:09:23Z

Include steps to reproduce your bug when you file a bug report or issue. You may quickly forget how you got there, and no one can fix a bug that is not reproducible.

Moorwing

2025-12-07T21:18:30Z

Moorwing

Moorwing

All I want for Christmas is, filliment

2025-12-07T16:38:30Z

All I want for Christmas is filament

I don’t need gifts or fancy things

I just wanna model, tinker, and print,

watch layers stack just right.

Santa, if you’re listening… PLA, PETG, ABS will do.

Needle Strike

2025-12-07T15:53:09Z

Needle Strike

Needle Strike

Conchflies Fight

2025-12-07T15:52:02Z

Conchflies Fight

Conchflies Fight

gh auth switch

2025-12-07T10:55:55Z

When using two GitHub accounts the gh cli gives very easy gh auth switch workflow from the cli.

from the docs

gh auth switch –help Switch the active account for a GitHub host.

This command changes the authentication configuration that will be used when running commands targeting the specified GitHub host.

If the specified host has two accounts, the active account will be switched automatically. If there are more than two accounts, disambiguation will be required either through the --user flag or an interactive prompt.

# list accounts
gh auth status
# switch accounds (interactive if more than 2, i've never seen this personally)
gh auth switch

⭐ basecamp fizzy

2025-12-07T05:04:49Z

Check out basecamp and their project fizzy.

Kanban as it should be. Not as it has been.

setup bambu-studio in distrobox

2025-12-06T21:17:39Z

gpus are awesome and I need one for Bambu Studio to be usable in a distrobox. Adding the --nvidia flag to distrobox create bind mounts the nvidia /dev/ devices and sets up the necessary environment variables. Once we are in there are a couple of packages to install to make it work.

distrobox create --name bambu-studio --image archlinux:latest --nvidia
distrobox enter bambu-studio
sudo pacman -S nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils vulkan-icd-loader
nvidia-smi
glxinfo | gprep OpenGL
sudo pacman -Syu --needed base-devel git
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru-bin.git
cd paru-bin
makepkg -si
paru -S bambustudio-bin

bambu-studio

distrobox-export --app bambu-studio

⭐ Zeioth garbage-day.nvim

2025-12-06T17:04:13Z

Check out garbage-day.nvim by Zeioth. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential.

Garbage collector that stops inactive LSP clients to free RAM

Forebrothers Fight

2025-12-06T14:55:15Z

Forebrothers Fight

Forebrothers Fight

Forebrothers Full

2025-12-06T14:53:00Z

Forebrothers Full

Forebrothers Full

Forebrothers

2025-12-06T14:46:02Z

Forebrothers

Forebrothers

Bambu Poop Flinger Unjammed

2025-12-06T11:13:07Z

Bambu Poop Flinger Unjammed

Here is a video clip of my Bambu A1 poop flinger fixed and not jamming during operation after my fix.

Bambu Poop Flinger Jammed

2025-12-06T11:11:53Z

My bambu A1 poop flinger has been getting jammed up for awhile now, here is an image of it in the jammed position.

git worktrees are needed

2025-12-06T09:58:06Z

git worktrees are goated, and must be leaned on moving forward.

The Wrong Reasons To Run Kubernetes In Your Homelab

2025-12-06T09:46:47Z

Running kubernetes in your homelab is complex, time consuming, there are almost no docs to help you (homelab focused docs for things you want to install), and nothing is copy paste. You have to make everything happen yourself.

The Wrong Reasons To Run Kubernetes In Your Homelab #

I run compose and think kubernetes is the next logical step
Techno Tim runs it
I heard it’s what cool kids do
Kubernetes BTW
Talos Linux looks cool
I found a cool helm chart on GitHub
I need scale

There are also The Right Reasons To Run Kubernetes In Your Homelab.

I run compose and think kubernetes is the next logical step #

No it’s not. It’s much different than running docker, compose, swarm. It’s meant for scale, it’s complex, it’s made for enterprise, not your local development or your homelab. It can do these things, it can do them quite well, but it’s not the target audience.

Techno Tim runs it #

I heard it’s what cool kids do

You need to rethink who the cool kids are, touch some grass. Tim also does it for his job, he likes it, he knows it, he wants to lean on it and learn more.

Kubernetes BTW #

Kubernetes does not make you look cool, it makes you look like you are trying to over optimize and over engineer your life. It’s not worth it, in fact nothing in life is worth worrying about what everyone else thinks of you.

Talos Linux looks cool #

Talos is an S tier OS wherever you deploy it. It is a secure, minimal, kubernetes first OS. They also have some really great people working there putting Talos in some really cool places like backpack or Apple Power Mac

I found a cool helm chart on GitHub #

No you didn’t. Everything in homelab is compose first. A few things have a k8s option, but almost nothing is k8s first.

I need scale #

No. You’re homelab does not need scale. If you think it does, you have some real shit hardware, some bad optimizations, or somehow you have a startup you need to launch cause you got more users than most.

my home row

2025-12-05T21:27:55Z

My home row layout. It’s not quite home row mods.

https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/fd74f80e-ff5e-4548-8419-bd407144bb6c.excalidraw

I got the kubernetes in my basement autism

2025-12-05T21:13:03Z

What flavor of autism did you guys get, I got the kind where I run kubernetes in my basement.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5Cac-cf5MOE

k3s system-upgrade minor by minor

2025-12-05T09:25:39Z

The k3s system-upgrade controller is a fantastic tool for upgrading k3s automatically. It has done a fantastic job for me every time I’ve used it. Today I ran it on a cluster that needed to upgrade several minors and I learned that the controller does not pick up on changes to the channel url if you change from minor to minor.

The solution I came up with was to name the plan with the version it supports. Then on each patch upgrade, change both the plan name and the channel. I use gitops with argocd, it automcatically cleaned up old plans, created new plans, and the system-upgrade-controller picked up the plan and started applying immediately.

# Server plan
apiVersion: upgrade.cattle.io/v1
kind: Plan
metadata:
  name: server-plan-v1.33 # <- This is important if you want to change the channel name
  namespace: system-upgrade
spec:
  concurrency: 1
  cordon: true
  nodeSelector:
    matchExpressions:
    - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane
      operator: In
      values:
      - "true"
  serviceAccountName: system-upgrade
  upgrade:
    image: rancher/k3s-upgrade
  channel: https://update.k3s.io/v1-release/channels/v1.33
---
# Agent plan
apiVersion: upgrade.cattle.io/v1
kind: Plan
metadata:
  name: agent-plan-v1.33 # <- This is important if you want to change the channel name
  namespace: system-upgrade
spec:
  concurrency: 1
  cordon: true
  nodeSelector:
    matchExpressions:
    - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane
      operator: DoesNotExist
  prepare:
    args:
    - prepare
    - server-plan
    image: rancher/k3s-upgrade
  serviceAccountName: system-upgrade
  upgrade:
    image: rancher/k3s-upgrade
  channel: https://update.k3s.io/v1-release/channels/v1.33

I’d love to see a better way if you have a way to upgrade through minors, or manually control the minor of your cluster let me know.

gpus are awesome

2025-12-03T20:21:14Z

GPU’s are awesome. I just added gpu support to my bambu-studio distrobox and its flying! On my wayland based system the native package has never worked, (arch or bazzite), but running in a distrobox does. Outside of distrobox the 3d rendering canvas is black, no output. It used to work fine without gpu support, was snappy enough, complex models were a bit sluggish, but fine. Lately something happened and simple models bring it to its knees. It got unusable!

The print I happen to be working on is some custom designed gumdrops for a theater set. The ui is working and not lagging 30s between clicks causing clicks to happen on the wrong ui element.

⭐ searlsco posse_party

2025-12-03T03:22:49Z

I recently discovered posse_party by searlsco, and it’s truly impressive.

Quit social media by posting more

⭐ ZeroLu awesome-nanobanana-pro

2025-12-02T02:38:25Z

I’m impressed by awesome-nanobanana-pro from ZeroLu.

🚀 An awesome list of curated Nano Banana pro prompts and examples. Your go-to resource for mastering prompt engineering and exploring the creative potential of the Nano banana pro(Nano banana 2) AI image model.

⭐ Freika dawarich

2025-12-01T14:15:22Z

Check out dawarich by Freika. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential.

Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)

Apple Boxes Complete

2025-11-28T20:39:11Z

A complete stack of apple boxes for the local theater.

Design For Bosch Colt Dust Collection V1

2025-11-28T20:36:48Z

Isometric view of the Bosch Colt dust collection design.

Dust Collection For Bosch Colt V0

2025-11-28T20:32:47Z

Dust Collection for Bosch Colt router v0 made of 3/4" plywood.

Installed in the router and showing the back

Installed in the router and showing the front

⭐ chr15m runprompt

2025-11-28T19:33:57Z

chr15m has done a fantastic job with runprompt. Highly recommend taking a look.

Run LLM prompts from your shell

COLUMNS env var

2025-11-26T13:24:38Z

setting COLUMNS env var to a number greater than 0 will make the terminal resize to that number of columns.

COLUMNS=80 uvx --from rich-cli rich myscript.py

Note

Not all programs respct the COLUMNS env var, but rich does, and a lot of stuff I’m building uses rich.

I discovered this when I was trying to make a low effort readme generated from the code, but did not depend on the size of terminal it was ran on.

# justfile
readme:
    echo "# Workspaces" > README.md
    echo "" >> README.md
    echo '``` bash' >> README.md
    COLUMNS=80 ./workspaces.py --help >> README.md
    echo '```' >> README.md

⭐ grafana alloy-scenarios

2025-11-24T02:04:24Z

I’m really excited about alloy-scenarios, an amazing project by grafana. It’s worth exploring!

A collection of working Alloy scenarios

tea login flag

2025-11-23T21:09:36Z

The tea command for gitea (used by forgejo) has a flag for login. With gitea you can have multiple accounts logged in. When you try to run a command such as repo create it will prompt you which login to use, but I learned that you can bake it in to all of them with --login <login-name>

❯ tea repo create --name deleteme --description 'for example'
┃ NOTE: no gitea login detected, whether falling back to login 'git.waylonwalker.com'?

tea repo create --name deleteme --description 'for example' --login git.wayl.one

⭐ WaylonWalker wyattbubbylee.com

2025-11-23T17:08:03Z

Looking for inspiration? wyattbubbylee.com by WaylonWalker.

No description available.

⭐ WaylonWalker qmk_firmware

2025-11-23T17:08:01Z

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on qmk_firmware, created by WaylonWalker.

Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families

2025-11-21 Notes

2025-11-21T14:25:59Z

Learned about nginx_auth today. Feels good to unlock a new skill that I did not quite understand before. I don’t think I grasped that there is a backend server in this flow to handle every request. I could not fathom how this was secure with nginx alone.

https://git.wayl.one/waylon/learn-nginx-auth

I’m excited to give this a try in my homelab with k3s ingress next.

⭐ octelium octelium

2025-11-20T01:02:04Z

Check out octelium by octelium. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential.

A next-gen FOSS self-hosted unified zero trust secure access platform that can operate as a remote access VPN, a ZTNA platform, API/AI/MCP gateway, a PaaS, an ngrok-alternative and a homelab infrastructure.

2025-11-19 Notes

2025-11-19T18:55:14Z

Making progress on dropper this week.

In prod.

resize for image and video
File feed with paging
New plain filesystem backend

In dev

Robust video conversion that seems to work on all my test videos
Duplicate file detection

Thinking about kedro pipelines from my phone in a parking lot here. I’m thinking about big picture what’s next for my pipelines. I want an effective Dr plan. I want to create telemetry endpoints for catalog. This will enable the Dr plan to identify critical data that is not created by a pipeline and communication points to other teams.

Another Big Cloud Outage Nov 2025

2025-11-18T18:39:00Z

Today I woke up to finding out that cloudflare hade a widespread outage. My Reader uses tailwind cdn for styles and it was down. Otherwise it was not so impactful to me and felt kike they were quick to have it up.

I’m not really researching here, just jotting thoughts down from a parking lot waiting for pickup.

It feels like we are seeing a lot of these lately. They feel much more frequent. It feels like a whole industry was sold on 9’s and reliability of big cloud that we just aren’t getting.

There’s a huge push to go back to self hosting, racking and stacking. I think this is great. I love it. I’m a big proponent for ownership and self hosting. It’s not the right move for everything and everyone, and is certainly not something to make a knee jerk reaction about in the moment of frustration.

There’s a lot of things that are just impossible to do yourself, cdn caching, edge compute, ddos protection.

These companies are not magic they are vulnerable to changes just like you and I. It really feels like more and more of these are due to misconfigurations, and small bugs introduced. As we see big tech downsize and lean more on ai that likes to do big code changes I dont see it getting better soon. Theres a lot of things we can all armchair quarterback about here, better testing, review, canary deployment, staged rollouts, rigorous review. All great things. I can hear Uncle Bob talking about rigor, giving a shit, and following principles.

We are at odds of reliability and speed. This critical infrastructure runs so many important things in our lives it feels like it deserves a professional engineer signoff on changes. Documentation of changes and testing done between changes. This would all but hault forward progress, taking us back to the level of physical components and manufacturing.

How do you decide what needs this rigor and how to regulate it when companies are incentized by number go up.

The answer right now is that we can’t and if you are managing critical infrastructure you need to take these outages into account in your disaster recovery plan and understand what you are willing to allow go down on failure.

side effect of just stars

2025-11-11T21:33:33Z

I found an interesting side effect of manually running my script to generate [[ stars ]] posts is that you get notified when one gets renamed. Today I noticed that Ned Batchelder created a coveragepy org.

pydantic settings alias choices

2025-11-11T21:23:58Z

Today I learned how to use AliasChoices with pydantic settings to setup common aliases for the same field. I’m bad about remembering these things, and hate looking up the docs. I like things to be intuitive and just do the thing I want it to do. Especially when they get configured through something like yaml and do not have a direct lsp look up right from my editor. I figured out how to support what might be common aliases for a storage directory. These can be set up as environment variables and used by config.

from pathlib import Path

from pydantic import Field
from pydantic import AliasChoices
from pydantic_settings import BaseSettings

class Settings(BaseSettings):
    storage_dir: Path | None = Field(
        default=None,
        validation_alias=AliasChoices(
            "STORAGE_DIR", "STORAGE_DIRECTORY", "STORAGE_PATH", "STORAGE_PATHNAME",
            "DROPPER_STORAGE_DIR", "DROPPER_STORAGE_DIRECTORY", "DROPPER_STORAGE_PATH", "DROPPER_STORAGE_PATHNAME",
        ),
        description="Directory for stored files",
    )

3d-Printed Corner Clamp

2025-11-11T21:13:07Z

Getting ready to batch out 18 apple boxes for the local theater. Need to step up my woodworking tool game here quick on a low budget. Whipped this up up and built the prototype box , went really well. We have 4 in the arsenal now, might do 4 more if we need more assembly capacity. Pretty proud of the first 3d printed thread project here. The design for good 3d prints can be quite different with its anisotropic strength and hollow sections being nearly weightless when compared to traditional manufacturing methods. Its so fun to be able to do it for almost no cost right in my home office.

3d-printed corner clamp printed in black pla.

Isometric view of my corner clamp v1 that supports up to 3/4" sheets and includes slots for dowell points on 3/4" and 1/2" material.

Techbrophobic

2025-11-09T20:13:33Z

I just heard someone drop the this term and it kinda fits a lot of shit on the internet right now. Arguing that its OK to question AI, its OK to like it, its OK to question if it needs to be in every goddamn thing we do, question its morality on training and the slop being pushed at us all the time.

I’m not Technophobic I’m Techbrophobic

I heard this and it kinda hit with a lot of things that I’ve resonated with lately. Tech bros of today have been compared to Steve Jobs in a lot of ways. Whether its style or the way he was so good at marketing, but this feels different. When Jobs launched the iPhone as this next great thing, He fucking made the thing.

No broken promises of being sold something with hopes that it will do more tomorrow.

No pushing around insane amounts of money with the hope to become profitable years down the line.

No fear pushing that if you are not doing X today your business will be dead in 6 months.

Giving us the promise that it was about to create an entire industry of careers through building software that brought us real value, real entertainment, Not the promise of that.

This tech made it easier to do the mundane, no longer carrying out dated maps in your glove box, everyone now has a flashlight, a calculator, a camera, a way to video call your mom.

I’m not a complete Luddite, I see value in being able to lean on AI for generating code, asking questions, helping change the tone of your messages.

There are so many issues with AI currently even looking past the stolen works, copyright, and power consumption. The messaging does not pass the vibe check. High up folks are getting the impression that they can remove humans from the workforce. Deploy the same features with fewer headcount. It’s doing our art, writing our code, communicating with our colleagues. It’s not doing protein folding and cancer research. No matter how many promises we get its not driving our vehicles.

I do believe there is a world in which it makes us more efficient. It fills in the gaps of our knowledge. It helps us learn. It helps solve complex problems. It allows humans to flourish and create things they never could have.

Mcat Anything

2025-11-05T20:10:02Z

I’ve long looked for a way to cat anything in the terminal. I’m am terminally in the terminal. I manage all of my projects, code, website, notes, files, servers, infrastructure, almost everything from the terminal. I occasionally open a file manager, mostly at home, only so that I can browse images.

Compounding my issue, I’m a tmux user. It works great for me, and I barely have to think about it at this point. The keybindings are second nature to me. I can go between server, terminal, nvim, and between projects instantly, no loader, no lag, no animation, it just works for everything that really matters to me for really getting things done.

Mcat #

mcat is a new tool that seems like it can cat anything in the terminal, code, files, images, markdown, markdown with images, and even video, without leaving tmux!

mcat static/8bitcc.png
curl https://r.jina.ai/https://waylonwalker.com/store/ | mcat --theme dracula --md-image all
curl https://r.jina.ai/https://waylonwalker.com/shots/ | mcat --theme dracula
mcat ~/git/dropper/data/01b21044-0bf8-4b06-9db1-a002c0519df6.mp4
mcat ~/git/dropper/data/0e659c05-1c12-4524-aa54-ef52ba680865.webm

1fa2e162-deeb-4bb5-b1c5-961632abd452.webm

But it doesn’t always work #

The keen eyed of you will notice the blank screen at the start of the demo above, not sure what happened, but resizing the terminal fixed something. Sometimes video comes up as an image, sometimes it core dumps, once even it crashed my system…

The hope is there, I’ll continue to use it occasionally, but right now it feels like a novelty that is fun to look at when it works. For now I’m going to stick to my kitty/tmux combo that works even though they seem to hate each other and I’m going to be happy just getting shit done.

Missing Thoughts

2025-11-05T07:23:35Z

No one is perfect, this is why we have things like checkpoints or gates in the form of pull requests, linting, type checking, and tests. What happens when you work on small side projects by yourself that try to be content focused? What happens when you end up building a lot of the tech under that site and build it on the bleeding edge of all the tech you make? They are likely missing these things and occasionally there are some periods of regression. This is one reason I really like the term digital garden to describe one’s small corner of the internet where they share their thoughts.

There will be regressions

The Signs #

There were signs, signs I did not notice

Chat

is your rss feed broken?

I’m not seeing anything show up in my rss reader

Do I not put thoughts in my rss feed, I swore I did.

Chat

my fault, Turns out I must have already clicked it in my reader.

great, glat it’s working

…But it wasn’t

Later this week comes the next sign that I also choose to ignore… Google search has unindexed a number of pages due to a soft 404. I don’t look at all of the emails from search console, but I did happen to see this one, and thought “Huh, that’s odd” and went on with my day without another thought on the issue.

Huh, that’s odd

The Discovery #

I didn’t realize I even had an issue until later that week when I went to my [[ archive ]] myself and noticed the shape of it looks off. When I opened up my feed something felt off, it was only the big posts. Thoughts show up as a different kind of card

Then it hit me.

Something just felt off

Thoughts are Gone!

The Fix #

I popped open my config and immediately knew what happened. I turned off some plugins locally for faster build iteration and that change found its way into production…. because I have nothing to check myself on other than me. The plugin is now back and thoughts are flowing from thoughts.waylonwalker.com to waylonwalker.com, no problem.

❯ git log -p
commit adeb9812f7ecf4d9a68c6aa5e01e549e4dd91285 (HEAD -> main, origin/main, origin/HEAD)
Author: Waylon S. Walker <waylon@waylonwalker.com>
Date:   Mon Nov 3 19:56:40 2025 -0600

    thoughts were missing

diff --git a/markata.toml b/markata.toml
index 59539bab..a55a494d 100644
--- a/markata.toml
+++ b/markata.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ hooks = [
     'plugins.chartjs',
     'plugins.md_video',
     'plugins.post_model',
-    # 'plugins.thoughts',
+    'plugins.thoughts',
     # "plugins.wikilink_hover",
     # "plugins.wa_wikilink_hover",
     "plugins.tippy_wikilink_hover",

Owning Everything has a cost #

You see here I am a one man show. I own the content, the build, the infra that does the build. I love it, but there is so much to do for one persons side project passion project. Did I bite off more than I can chew? Did I choose the wrong abstraction level for my needs? Should I have better tests in place? Or is this just a digital garden that has ebs and flows, growing weeds and pruning them every few months?

⭐ Skardyy mcat

2025-11-04T23:36:51Z

mcat by Skardyy is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves.

Terminal image, video, directory, and Markdown viewer

2025-11-04 Notes

2025-11-04T18:43:38Z

Today I gave mcat a try and it’s so sick. It can cat anything right in the terminal, pdf, image, even video. It even works inside tmux unlike almost anything else that I’ve tried.

Corner Clamp V1 Isometric

2025-11-01T13:39:02Z

Isometric view of my corner clamp v1 that supports up to 3/4" sheets and includes slots for dowell points on 3/4" and 1/2" material.

Act Ii

2025-11-01T10:13:03Z

Act Ii

Act Ii

Last Judge

2025-11-01T10:12:13Z

Last Judge

Last Judge

⭐ rustfs rustfs

2025-10-31T12:38:49Z

rustfs by rustfs is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves.

🚀 RustFS is an open-source, S3-compatible high-performance object storage system supporting migration and coexistence with other S3-compatible platforms such as MinIO and Ceph.

⭐ schollz croc

2025-10-27T12:33:54Z

Just starred croc by schollz. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer.

Easily and securely send things from one computer to another 🐊 📦

uv s3 sync with dotenv

2025-10-26T10:16:41Z

I often want to run an s3 sync in an isolated environment, I don’t want to set any environment variables, I don’t want anything secret in my history, and I don’t want to change my dotenv into something that exports variables, I just want s3 sync to work. dotenv run is the tool that I’ve been using for this, and this uv one liner lets it run fully isolated from the project.

one liner #

uv tool run --from 'python-dotenv[cli]' dotenv run -- uv tool run --from awscli aws s3 sync s3://bucket data

multi-line #

same thing formatted for readability

uv tool run \
  --from 'python-dotenv[cli]' \
  dotenv run -- \
uv tool run \
  --from awscli \
  aws s3 sync s3://dropper data

There are probably 10 ways to skin this cat, but this is what I did, if you have a better way let me know, I’ll link you below.

First 3d Printed Threads

2025-10-24T14:19:49Z

Working on an upcoming project that requires some threaded screws. Trying to keep a low budget on this one with as much to come off of the printer as I can. It might become a slant3d portals product if it works out. I always like making test prints for stuff like this especially to see how the feel is off of the printer that is going to print the final product and take much longer. First try was a success.

b485b759-719a-4aa0-aa8d-f98e0a5e1ac3-1080p.mp4

What worked #

I started out looking up standard half inch thread pitch and size, but ran out of time to get the exact profile of a half inch bolt, so I will need to fix that later. Th

The print orientation is critical for strength here. This part is a full 1/2: so it should be strong either way, but to make sure we are printing the bolt horizontally to get nice long print layers. To do this we have to give it a bit of a flat spot on the top and bottom. This does not hurt performance, if anything it probably helps give some room for poor tolerances.

.5" od
13tpi pitch
non-standard profile… kids needed me and I called it good enough to run a test.
0.1mm offset on all surfaces
external threads printed horizontally
internal threads printed vertically
Chamfer all lead-in/lead-out

3d Printed Thread Test

2025-10-23T14:53:33Z

3d printed thread test

Spinning a 3d printed test block on a threaded t handle.

fastapi

2025-10-22T09:26:17Z

FastAPI is a modern and efficient web framework for Python, built on top of the Starlette web framework, and pydantic for data validation and serialization.

From the FastAPI documentation #

FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python based on standard Python type hints.

The key features are:

Fast: Very high performance, on par with NodeJS and Go (thanks to Starlette and Pydantic). One of the fastest Python frameworks available.
Fast to code: Increase the speed to develop features by about 200% to 300%. *
Fewer bugs: Reduce about 40% of human (developer) induced errors. *
Intuitive: Great editor support. Completion everywhere. Less time debugging.
Easy: Designed to be easy to use and learn. Less time reading docs.
Short: Minimize code duplication. Multiple features from each parameter declaration. Fewer bugs.
Robust: Get production-ready code. With automatic interactive documentation.
Standards-based: Based on (and fully compatible with) the open standards for APIs: OpenAPI (previously known as Swagger) and JSON Schema.

Mentioned in 2025 Stack Overflow Survey #

The +5 point increase for FastAPI is one of the most significant shifts in the web framework space. This signals a strong trend towards using Python for building performant APIs and reflects the overall strength of the Python ecosystem.

starlette head request

2025-10-22T09:11:31Z

FastAPI.">Starlette has a head request that works right along side your get requests. This morning I fiddled around with custom routes for GET and HEAD, but had to manually set some things about the file, and was still missing e-tag in the end. Turns out as a developer you can just add a head route to your get routes and starlette will strip the content for you, while preserving all of those good headers that fastapi FileResponse created automatically for you.

from fastapi import APIRouter
from fastapi.response import FileResponse
from fastapi import Request
from pathlib import Path

router = APIRouter()

@router.get("/file/{filename}")
@router.head("/file/{filename}")
async def get_file(filename: str, request: Request,):
    headers = {
      "Cache-Control": "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate",
    }
    from pathlib import Path
    filename = Path(f"data/{filename}")
    if not filename.exists():
        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="File not found")
    return FileResponse(filename, headers=headers)

Here is an example of the response with curl.

❯ curl -I -L "http://localhost:8100/api/file/e5523925-1565-454c-bab3-c70c4deabc83.webp?width=250"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:16:03 GMT
server: uvicorn
cache-control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
content-type: image/webp
content-length: 17206
last-modified: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:03:20 GMT
etag: f891660c1543feb1af7564f08abdd511

❯ curl -I -L "http://localhost:8100/api/file/unknown-file.webp?width=250"
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:16:11 GMT
server: uvicorn
content-length: 27
content-type: application/json

Don't copy your gitignore to stignore

2025-10-21T18:43:00Z

Today I learned that while .stignore and .gitignore look very similar they are not. My obsidian directory had been locked up for a few weeks and I had no idea why until I logged into the web ui and saw errors. The errors were some confusing regex validator not matching. I don’t know what the exact error was, but I went in and only ignored the files I cared about instead of the entire gitignore. Primarily I was getting conflicts in my .git directory.

⭐ pytauri pytauri

2025-10-16T12:19:42Z

pytauri has done a fantastic job with pytauri. Highly recommend taking a look.

Tauri binding for Python through Pyo3

⭐ FullControlXYZ fullcontrol

2025-10-15T00:04:22Z

The work on fullcontrol by FullControlXYZ.

Python version of FullControl for toolpath design (and more) - the readme below is best source of information

⭐ zauberzeug nicegui

2025-10-12T23:12:28Z

I’m impressed by nicegui from zauberzeug.

Create web-based user interfaces with Python. The nice way.

3d Printed Dovetails Fanned Out

2025-10-12T20:39:17Z

Experimental slices of 3d printed dovetails laid out in a fan. Each have sharpie notes written on them.

3d Printing Dovetails Experiment

2025-10-12T20:34:35Z

I hit an issue with 3d printing oversized parts that I have not hit before. I’m working on some jigs for an upcoming woodworking project that will involve a lot of repetition. We want to utilize some dowel joinery and jigs for consistency. These parts will be up to 20in in length this is much larger than my print bed.

I’ve fit things together before #

Here’s where I went wrong, I wasn’t really thinking through my previous applications. They’ve all been slip fit, primarily print in place joints that need to move. My go to offset for print in place on my printer is 0.2mm, sometimes 0.1mm depending on the scale.

knife sharpener double hinge first try

A live hinged [[ knife-sharpener-double-hinge-first-try ]].

And in the hinges of [[ a-box-of-caps-and-a-macropad ]].

Experimenting for feel #

Fitment like this is a lot dependent on the tolerences of your printer and the feel you are going for. I went to school as a mechanical engineer and theres a lot of science behind press fit joints, that’s not happening in my house on my desktop printer. Most of us don’t have that kind of ability to gauge our outputs so I’m doing like a cook in the kitchen and going for feel.

Here are all of the experiements lined up.

Fillets #

I again, I feel like I should have known better. 3d printers generally have 0.4mm nozzles, common sizes you can get 0.2mm, 0.4mm, 0.6mm, and 0.8mm. This leaves us with the sharpest corner we can do at 0.2mm.

Diagram courtesy of gpt-5.

Potentially overkill #

In order to make sure that the flat edges of the dovetails are what are making contact and not corners binding I made the inside fillet 0.6mm and the outside 0.4mm. This 0.4mm radius (0.8mm diameter) is double my nozzle size, and will cause the printer to follow a smooth curve rather than start and stop and potentially overflow a bit. This difference in fillet size will also leave a little room for error and allow the important flat faces to mate together.

Here are the test results after filleting the edges of the dovetails to compensate for printer errors.

Fillets

Before Fillets

After Fillets

TLDR What works for me #

After all of this, turns out that common sense kinda just works here, 0mm offset works really well on my printer, and leaving room in the corners to keep them from binding up helps a bit, but is probably unnecessary.

0mm offset
0.6mm inside fillet
0.4mm outside fillet

Handle Jig Alignment Window

2025-10-10T08:49:02Z

Handle jig for theater boxes. The image shows the centerline lineup. This jig came out with a handle a little bit too big, going to go with a smaller one for the real boxes.

⭐ Mordoria unnamed_game_1_v2

2025-10-09T12:57:37Z

Looking for inspiration? unnamed_game_1_v2 by Mordoria.

The Release of Mordoria

python extras are for shipping

2025-10-03T20:18:23Z

Python has two ways of adding optional dependencies to your projects pyproject.toml file dependency-groups and optional-dependencies.

dependency-groups #

for development

Dependency grooups are used when working on the project, they do not ship with the project, users cannot select to install them with the project. These are for things like running tests, linting, or docs. You might want to run these in ci, or keep your dev machines tight. For the most part you can probably keep these in dev. Depending on your team, fluency, and tolerance for slower installs extra packages. Adding too many tight groups might make it hard for the team to remember all the groups and which one to use and end up with them using --all-groups anyways.

optional-dependencies #

for users

Optional dependencies are for shipping. These are for your users, not your development team. This is used for dependencies that are clearly not needed for all or main use cases. It is annoying to use projects that you need to add optionals to just to use at all so use them a bit sparingly.

fastapi">example fastapi #

fastapi provides a very simple example. fastapi itself provides almost everything you need with optional-dependencies for standard, standard-no-fastapi-cloud-cli, and all. These primarily add support for uvicorn websockets and multipart forms.

example pandas #

Pandas is a very good example here. As a data processing library there are a lot of different sources for data that you might want to use, but you probably won’t need most of them, and often don’t need them to just get a DataFrame going. They offer a long list of optional dependencies such as pyarrow, aws, gcp, postgresql and many more.

example kedro-datasets #

Very similar to pandas kedro-datasets uses a similar pattern to pandas but at a higher level. A dataset is an abstraction of a datasource that get defined in the catalog, and primarily provide the framework with load and save methods for datasets. There are many optionals for data providers like pandas, but also many for each dataframe abstraction like pandas, polars, dask, databricks.

kedro-datasets

let’s build a package #

Let’s make a package called learn-uv that implements these dependency features.

mkdir /tmp/learn-uv
cd /tmp/learn-uv
uv init --package
uv add httpx
# add development dependencies
uv add --dev pytest
uv add --group dev ipython
# add documentation dependencies to the docs group
uv add --group docs markata

# add optional dependencies
# these are dependencies that a user could install
# python -m pip install 'learn-uv[data-science]'
uv add --optional data-science pandas

# add extra dependencies
# this adds the jupyter extra from rich
# similar to `python -m pip install 'learn-uv[jupyter]'`
uv add --extra jupyter rich

This will result in the following pyproject.toml.

[project]
name = "learn-uv"
version = "0.1.0"
description = "Add your description here"
readme = "README.md"
authors = [
    { name = "Waylon S. Walker", email = "hello@waylonwalker.com" }
]
requires-python = ">=3.13"
dependencies = [
    # uv add httpx
    "httpx>=0.28.1",
    # uv add --extra jupyter rich
    "rich[jupyter]>=14.1.0",
]

[project.scripts]
learn-uv = "learn_uv:main"

[project.optional-dependencies]
data-science = [
    # uv add --optional data-science pandas
    "pandas>=2.3.3",
]

[build-system]
requires = ["uv_build>=0.8.22,<0.9.0"]
build-backend = "uv_build"

[dependency-groups]
dev = [
    # uv add --group dev ipython
    "ipython>=9.6.0",
    # uv add --dev pytest
    "pytest>=8.4.2",
]
docs = [
    # uv add --group docs markata
    "markata>=0.9.1",
]

Using the project #

Let’s start off with one common point of confusion. uv tool run or its alias uvx does not install any dependencies or anything from the project.

uv tool run ipython

✅ ipython
❌ learn_uv
❌ httpx
❌ pytest
❌ markata
❌ pandas
❌ rich
❌ ipywidgets (from rich[jupyter])

Using uv run is project aware, installs the dependencies from the pyproject.toml.

uv run ipython

✅ ipython
✅ learn_uv
✅ httpx
✅ pytest
❌ markata
❌ pandas
✅ rich
✅ ipywidgets (from rich[jupyter])

uv run --group docs markata

✅ ipython
✅ learn_uv
✅ httpx
✅ pytest
✅ markata
❌ pandas
✅ rich
✅ ipywidgets (from rich[jupyter])

Installing the optional dependency extra data-science gives me pandas in this project.

uv run --extra data-science ipython

✅ ipython
✅ learn_uv
✅ httpx
✅ pytest
✅ markata
✅ pandas
✅ rich
✅ ipywidgets (from rich[jupyter])

everything #

There are many combinations of include/exclude that you can use, check uv run --help to see all of the options. Here is the nuclear option to include everything.

uv run --all-groups --all-extras ipython

Potential `uv` bug #

At the time of writing once a dependency group is used it persists in the virtual environment for the rest of the project. This is not the case with extras it only includes the extras you ask for on each run. The state is clean and consistent with extras, but groups depend on what you have ran before in the project.

❯ uv --version
uv 0.8.22 (ade2bdbd2 2025-09-23)

example

# install docs group
uv sync --group docs
# docs dependencies are available
uv run markata
# sync resets the environment
uv sync
# docs dependencies are not available
uv run markata
error: Failed to spawn: `markata`
  Caused by: Permission denied (os error 13)

Sister Splinter

2025-10-03T18:04:34Z

Sister Splinter

Sister Splinter

Cling Grip Bind

2025-10-03T18:02:33Z

Cling Grip Bind

Cling Grip Bind

Kraft-Coordinates

2025-10-02T16:52:02Z

Handy reference for coordinates in the kraft world.

Home #

Overworld:-208 71 -291 Nether:-26 9 -36

Ocean Monument #

Overworld: 209 62 -752 Nether:26 1 -94

⭐ folke sidekick.nvim

2025-09-29T16:14:21Z

Check out sidekick.nvim by folke. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential.

Your Neovim AI sidekick

⭐ jfernandez mdserve

2025-09-28T13:34:12Z

I’m really excited about mdserve, an amazing project by jfernandez. It’s worth exploring!

Fast markdown preview server with live reload and theme support.

Wanderers Crest Bind

2025-09-27T10:46:39Z

Wanderers Crest Bind

Wanderers Crest Bind

Reapers Crest Gangfight

2025-09-27T10:45:25Z

Reapers Crest Gangfight

Reapers Crest Gangfight

Violent Flintbeetle 2

2025-09-27T10:38:25Z

Violent Flintbeetle 2

Violent Flintbeetle 2

Violent Flintbeetle Granted

2025-09-27T10:36:16Z

Violent Flintbeetle Granted

Violent Flintbeetle Granted

Violent Flintbeetle 3

2025-09-27T10:34:45Z

Violent Flintbeetle 3

Violent Flintbeetle 3

Violent Flintbeetle 1

2025-09-26T18:34:35Z

Violent Flintbeetle 1

Violent Flintbeetle 1

⭐ doganarif fastapi-radar

2025-09-25T19:10:17Z

I’m impressed by fastapi-radar from doganarif.

A powerful debugging dashboard for FastAPI applications. Monitor HTTP requests, SQL queries, and exceptions in real-time with a beautiful React UI. One-line integration, zero configuration needed.

Covetous Pilgrim

2025-09-23T20:17:30Z

Covetous Pilgrim

Covetous Pilgrim

Sherwood Gangfight

2025-09-23T20:12:09Z

Sherwood Gangfight

Sherwood Gangfight

Long Pin

2025-09-23T20:07:54Z

Long Pin

Long Pin

Halfway Home Gang Fight

2025-09-21T17:20:48Z

Halfway Home Gang Fight

Halfway Home Gang Fight

Rosary String

2025-09-21T17:17:31Z

Rosary String

Rosary String

Threefold Pin

2025-09-21T17:15:39Z

Threefold Pin

Threefold Pin

Thread Storm

2025-09-21T17:14:04Z

Thread Storm

Thread Storm

Funk Track 1

2025-09-21T15:52:07Z

funk-track-1-1080p.mp4

Progress so far on the Funk server elytra track. It goes through two sea lanturn lit caves so far.

Shots Get An Upgrade To the Main Feed

2025-09-20T20:19:57Z

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/.

A Full Cheese Board

2025-09-20T20:02:58Z

A macropad filled with cheese keycaps placed in random orientations.

Full Box Of Cheese Caps

2025-09-20T20:00:00Z

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

2025-09-20T19:58:16Z

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

2025-09-20T19:57:12Z

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

2025-09-19T19:55:50Z

A macropad with a pixel heart and mlg glasses sit on a clean white background.

Heart Of A Macropad

2025-09-19T19:54:33Z

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

2025-09-19T19:52:54Z

A 3d printed keycap with a heart glued to the top of it. The heart resembles a pixelated game asset.

⭐ unhappychoice gittype

2025-09-18T23:32:00Z

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on gittype, created by unhappychoice.

A CLI code-typing game that turns your source code into typing challenges

First Box Of Caps

2025-09-18T19:51:18Z

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

2025-09-17T20:34:16Z

Fourth Chorus

Fourth Chorus

zmk two hand hold down

2025-09-17T20:04:36Z

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

40% layout - similar to corne

Here it is on my Son’s 3x5 macropad

Here it is on my 3x3 macropad

Timing #

You can even give it a long prior timeout to really make sure that its not an accidental hit.

Lace

2025-09-17T08:46:06Z

Lace

Lace

Beginning Of Little Boxes

2025-09-16T21:04:44Z

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

2025-09-16T19:37:23Z

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 others. I want to give these people that took time to make something a little boost.

Not Perfection #

The last thing we need in 2025 is perfection. We have enough ai generated slop that is far from perfectly accurate that sits behind a veil of mostly clean look, semi consistent feel, and a narrow set of tone. I see it in gen z there is something about the imperfect that is coming out. Not perfectly cut video or audio. I just heard Gary Vee mention this morning that a siren going off in the background of NYC has a somewhat natural human feel to it now.

Ownership #

Dave points out that the first thought for most people trying to make a business or pop off as an influencer is TikTok, then a few similar apps. If you are trying to reach a large audience and swim in the big pond with the big fish thats where you need to go.

But you don’t own that content anymore. Some posts will pop, some will be lost to the algorithm for nothing more that the first few eyes that got it swiped past too fast. The whole platform can go, or choose to not show your content, its their platform. You don’t pay them for anything. They are allowed to do what they want.

If you want some ownership to keep your content alive, curate a small, focused, core audience, also put that on a website.

Not for the faint of heart #

It’s not easy to manage hundreds of posts, images, builds, servers. Theres probably a hundred ways to make it easier, but if you really want full control, full DIY, it takes time to do.

Learn a skill #

This can go a few different ways, One is that you can make a blog or site about a topic, deep dive into this topic. Create blogs, videos, images, about this topic. Create real content that real people find interesting.

OR a bit meta, you can learn more about tech. This site is built with markata, its a static site generator that I built myself mostly to make this site. I’ve learned a ton about markdown, html, ast, python, plugin architecture in doing so. I build this site in kubernetes, another skill that I wanted to develop, and owning my own services that I have real skin in the game for is a great way to do so.

Just Build Websites #

As the opening to shoptalkshow says, just make websites. Who the fuck cares why or how. The important thing is that you built something, maybe it is for an audience of one or one million, doesn’t matter, keep the internet alive and just build something.

vanilla html hover text

2025-09-16T11:39:41Z

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.

<p>
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>.
</p>

tar over ssh

2025-09-13T10:50:42Z

Today I learned how to use tar over ssh to save hours in file transfers. I keep all of my projects in ~/git (very creative I know, I’ve done it for years and haven’t changed). I just swapped out my main desktop from bazzite to hyprland, and wanted to get all of my projects back. Before killing my bazzite install I moved everything over (16GB of many small files), it took over 14 hours, maybe longer. I had started in the morning and just let it churn.

This was not going to happen for re-seeding all of my projects on my new system, I knew there had to be a better way, I looked at rsync, but for seeding I ran into this tar over ssh technique and it only took me 6m51s to pull all of my projects off of my remote server.

ssh user@192.168.1.100 'tar -C /tank/git -cpf - .' \
  | tar -C "$HOME/git" -xpf -

⭐ mmulet term.everything

2025-09-11T13:16:21Z

mmulet has done a fantastic job with term.everything. Highly recommend taking a look.

Run any GUI app in the terminal❗

store

2025-09-10T20:38:00Z

I’ve been 3d printing for years, and create a lot of my own designs. Many of them are hyper specific to me, but for the ones that I think others might find useful I will be putting up here for sale, you can buy prints that will show up to your door in a few days. I’m leaning on the slant3d print farm so this depends on your proximity to them. The prints are typically black petg, if you would like a different color reach out to me and I will see what other options we have, or for an additional fee I can print it myself and ship out special colors.

These are all designs that I made and actually use myself, they bring me joy knowing that I made just the thing that I wanted to exist and if you buy something I hope that it brings you this joy as well.

Skateboard Wall Mount #

I’ve used these skateboard wall mounts for years, I have 5 in my office featuring new decks in the queue, and probably 10 in the garage to display used decks, and fully assembled boards for me and my kids. I use these for both regular popscicle boards and longboards, but if you are putting up a thicker longboard go with the thicker size.

Mic stand Clips #

These clips will hold your cables on your mic stand nicely and look nice while doing it. I’ve got them on both of my mic stands, there are two versions, one for a smaller stand with usb cable, and one for a larger stand with an xlr cable make sure you measure your mic stand before buying.

13mm stand | 6mm xlr cable

10mm stand | 4mm usb

Cat Door #

In our house we have a cat liter box in the basement, so we need to leave the door open for our cat. But if our dog goes down there he seems to only cause trouble. So I modeled this door prop to leave the door just enough open for the cat, but keep the dog out.

cat door

Kicker Ramp #

kicker ramp

manny pad

Skull Ant

2025-09-08T08:30:50Z

Skull Ant

Skull Ant

uv script management

2025-09-07T20:22:56Z

I’ve been leaning on lazy-self-installing-python-scripts more and more, but I did not realize how much tooling that uv gives you to help manage your scripts.

uv init --script up
uv add --script up typer rich
uv remove --script up rich
sed -i '1i #!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script' up
chmod +x up
./up

The result is a script that looks like this, its executable as what looks like regular command in your shell.

#!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.13"
# dependencies = [
#     "typer",
# ]
# ///


def main() -> None:
    print("Hello from up!")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Silkspeer

2025-09-05T17:39:38Z

Silkspeer

Silkspeer

Berry Picking

2025-09-05T17:38:26Z

Berry Picking

Berry Picking

When To Vibe Code

2025-09-02T19:44:20Z

I enjoyed this post from Theo and think it deserves re-iterated, revisited, and to remind myself of some of these things.

https://youtu.be/6TMPWvPG5GA?si=guQem4R8dLOMBntP&t=1356

The skill/read spectrum #

The first diagram describes that there has become a spectrum of agentic coding from vibe coding where you don’t ready anything, to looking at everything in detail, across a group of people who don’t have a clue what the code says to people who could do it way better if they took the time.

The importance spectrum #

He argues here that its ok to bounce between A,B, and D, but C becomes dangerous. I’d argue that he brought up a 3rd spectrum that is important later on, “how critical is this”. I think the I don’t know, don’t care, didn’t read, but the thing did its job is quite fine, but don’t know, don’t care, mission critical is the main issue we are seeing with agentic coding, primarily in the didn’t read but critical Zone.

The Rules #

This is the list that prompted this post, I think it serves as a good reminder when you should care a bit more.

You still need to know how code works if you want to be a coder #

If you want to get good, you need to put in the reps, do the practice, learn to debug the strange looking error messages and not just pass them to ChatGPT.

There’s a lot of code worth having that is not worth writing or reading #

As professionals we have a lot of code that we read more than we write, will get executed millions of times over the next 10 years that its in service, pay close attention to this and probably set aside the llm.

We also write a lot of that is ran only a few times, maybe its a special report, or a shell script to bootstrap something. It might be a POC service that you build out only ever on your machine, you get your idea out in front of users or try it yourself and find the mistakes before you spend weeks building it yourself.

you can’t be mad at vibe coding AND be mad at left-pad #

This one is interesting that he was very strongly for. The idea is that no one ever reads the code from libraries they use, or the diffs of new versions (outside of google where everything is literally vendored into the monolith). If you don’t care about all of those dependencies, you cannot get mad at vibe coding.

I’ll argue here a smidge, but I agree with the premiss. Left-pad was probably written by someone smarter than average. It was definitely used by far more people and projects, therefore was battle tested to no end. This was the real reason this stuff got in everywhere. People are probably not good enough to catch all the odd edge cases for js, especially if front end is not their specialty.

Vibe code is a type of legacy code #

Vibe coding is a type of legacy code, but as a type of debt that we opt into, not one that has accumulated over time and we have opted not to take care of. Both are types of code that no one reads, no one remembers existed.

When someone needs to change legacy code they don’t, they take a hammer to it and rewrite it from scratch.

If the tools are better than you, stop using them #

Theo has a good example here. Critial business components to his businesses have switched to using Effect. It solves async issues with ease, but melts the brain of anyone seeing it for the first time. He admits that he does not code as much anymore and thus he sucks at it, but knows that if he is ever to learn it one bit he must turn off the LLM and put in the work to do it himself.

You will not get any better at this by copy pasting from ChatGPT. It is too easy to put your brain aside, paste error messages, and copy the reponse in. Or worse with agents tell them fix this. Unlike the days of Stack Overflow, you had to understand your problem well enough to search it. You had to understand the answers enough to integrate the solution, you had to understand if the solution was even for your problem in the first place. There was much more brain work that had to happen even then when the answers were basically given to you.

Fin #

Lastly Theo does not bring this rule, up, but if you are writing text for humans to read, you shall not copy paste from ChatGPT without thoroughly editing and reading for yourself first, this is considered Ai Slop and you should be ashamed.

nvim delete current file

2025-09-02T13:23:21Z

This one is one that I’ve been using quite often, I did’t have a hotkey for it, I just used the rm shell command.

!!rm %<TAB><CR>

When you type !! from normal mode it will automatically put you in command mode with .! pre-filled, then you just type rm and <TAB> to auto-complete the current file name, and <CR> to execute the command.

:.!rm %<TAB><CR>

Making it better #

The one quirk that I don’t like about this is that the buffer remains open after deleting, and sometimes I forget to close it and end up re-creating it by mistake when running :wall or :xall.

Create a DeleteFile command with vim command.

:command! DeleteFile execute "!rm %" | bdelete!

Create a DeleteFile command with lua.

vim.api.nvim_create_user_command(
  'DeleteFile',
  function()
    -- Delete the current file from disk
    vim.cmd('!rm %')
    -- Close the buffer without saving
    vim.cmd('bdelete!')
  end,
  {}
)

Mark Of Pride Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-31T17:10:06Z

mark of pride hollow knight keeb run

The Knight collects the mark of pride charm after defeating the mantis lords.

Defeating The Mantis Lords

2025-08-31T17:09:31Z

Defeating the mantis lords

The Knight reigns victorious against the three mantis lords, earning the respect of the mantis village.

Mantis Lords Defeat Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-31T17:08:29Z

mantis lords defeat hollow knight keeb run

The Knight falls victim to the Mantis Lords in his first attempt to challenge them.

Challenging The Mantis Lords Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-31T17:06:58Z

Challenging the mantis lords hollow knight keeb run

The little night steps in front of the three mantis lords and draws his nail signaling his challenge.

Thorny Wanderers Journal Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-31T11:16:31Z

Thorny Wanderers Journal Hollow Knight Keeb Run

Parkour though the thorns yields a wanderers journal.

Spore Shroom Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-31T11:15:42Z

spore shroom hollow knight keeb run

Unlocking the Spore Shroom Charm in Hollow Knight Keeb Run

Thorny Mask Shard Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-31T11:14:55Z

Thorny Mask Shard Hollow Knight Keeb Run

A tricky parkour through the thorns to yield a mask shard and complete a full mask.

Cut Away Keycap Down

2025-08-30T16:28:16Z

A cut away keycap on a Durock lupine switched pressed all the way to bottom out.

Cutaway Key Cap Up

2025-08-30T16:27:22Z

A cutaway keycap sitting on a durock lupine switch

Freshly Cut Keycap Cut Away

2025-08-30T16:26:22Z

A keycap glued to a 2x4 freshly turned into a cut away keykap.

Keycap Cut Away

2025-08-30T16:03:01Z

I was curious how/if my custom keycap design was hitting my switches. So I set out to find out what the fitup inside of this assembly looks like, but not theoretically, a fully sliced view into their fit up in the flesh.

The set up #

To setup for this cut, I flooded the edge of a 2x4 with hot glue, and inserted the cap such that the step was tangent with the edge. This way I could use the edge as a guide to cut one side off and leave the stem in tact. I took a handsaw to it and filed it smooth.

Removal was applying some isopropyl alcohol and it popped right off.

Results #

Actually the results aren’t that interesting. I found that the pictures turned out really good, but nothing was touching and it sits in the stem exactly as I thought it did. I had a thought, what if the cap is not allowing the switch to reach it’s full travel, and had no way to know, but now I know.

Key Up

Key Down

Aquiring Ismas Tear Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-30T11:13:21Z

Aquiring Ismas Tear Hollow Knight Keeb Run

The long trek has paid off and we have aquired Isma’s tear, it coats our outter shell with protective coating from the acid, giving us access to new parts of the world.

Ismas Tear Battle Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-30T11:07:17Z

ismas tear battle hollow knight keeb run

Finishing the battle before accessing Isma’s tear in Hollow Knight

Climbing Out Of Deep Nest In Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-30T11:02:47Z

Climbing out of deep nest in hollow knight keeb run

Making light moves of this tricky parkour run between deepnest and the royal waterways

Knife Sharpener Small Upgrade

2025-08-29T16:17:00Z

I’ve used this knife sharpener that I printed for a few years now. I thought that it was based on the Russian designed TSPROF, but in looking through the history it looks very similar to the USA Edge Pro Inc Apex designs that goes back to the 1990’s. The angle isn’t quite holding like it used to. I’ve got a lot of ideas for my own model, but for now I’m going to print some spacers to help get repeatable angles.

setting the angle on my sharpener

Where I want to place a fixed height collar

16deg 31.5mm
17deg 34.8mm
18deg 38.0mm
19deg 40.6mm
20deg 43.8mm
21deg 47.4mm
22deg 50.2mm
23deg 52.0mm
24deg 54.3mm

so I may have went to the next level #

30335f07-9cac-4e66-b908-f0e3cfbf7582.mp4

vim noa

2025-08-29T08:32:44Z

Vim :noa is a command that runs what you call without autocommands on. This is typically used when you have some BufWritePre commands for formatting, most auto formatters are implemented this way in vim. It can be super useful if you have something like a yaml/json file that you have crafted perfectly how you want it, maybe it has some source code for a small script or sql embeded and your formatter wants to turn it into one line. You could get a better formatter, but for these one off cases that aren’t a big bother to me I run :noa w.

:noa w

I'm Out On Agents

2025-08-27T10:10:51Z

Its the year 2025 and we are only a few years into having 6 months to live before ai takes our jobs, and the big push right now is agents, managing agents. I will fully concede to I’m not doing it right, or a future state gets better than where we are right now, but right now they kinda suck.

Transparency

I’m sitting offline right now as I write this, These are my feels, no research, no links, no ai, just vibes.

Chat #

Chat is what really kicked off ai uses and goes back as old as computers, but it always sucked. Then chatgpt rocked the world with the biggest launch day in history and showed us that it could actually be pretty good. Unethically trained on everything they could get their hands on, burning cities worth of electricity to train, and keep training to stay ahead of the competition. It does a damn good job. There are tells, and if you see enough of it there is a lot that turns to slop, but if you had never seen it before, there is no way you would assume that it was not a computer.

It does a damn good job at being average, it can do what seems like everything not related to security and authentication at a pretty average level. This is its super power. Whenever you are trying to bridge between something you know and something new, you can get a pretty good answer, and likely spot the bs in what you know.

Agents #

Now that our models have gotten better, hardware has gotten bigger, better, and a lot more of it, we can really expand context windows really wide. With that brought the use of agents, these tools get context from sources on their own and often are given read/write access to your computer. Depending on the model these things will branch out to make small changes that look no worse than a formatter on every goddam line of your codebase. Except they are not a formatter, they are not backed by ast checks. They do not have any guarantees.

They take the fun out of creation.

The emphasis now becomes on the code review. All you have to do is ask it to makes changes for you. Bring in your expertise of what changes should be next, or even just punt to asking it what comes next. I’ve yet to talk to someone that is diligent enough to read everything it spits out in excruciating detail to the point that it does not cause significant issues.

You see here is the thing, its average. With a little bit of context it can do average work. It is not an expert. On the surface this feels fine, making crud endpoints has been done for decades, and average developers crush these things every day no problem.

It’s Average at best

You know what is not average? Your knowledge of the use case you are solving. You may not feel like an expert, but given that there are likely about 5 people working in your codebase, you are a fukin expert at that thing. The average person off the street takes time to onboard, often months, or years for someone to really understand the business you are working in. These things don’t have that.

I’m not letting it in shit that I care avout #

I was early to the game to codeium, even used the predecessor for awhile, I was early to chat gpt, I was early to windsurf and the possibilities that agentic ides brought. I will be late on letting agents touch my production code bases. The few times I’ve tried for changes that seem easy enough, but more work than what I want to do at the time, I’ve regretted it. It’s only left behind a mess that it cant deal with anymore, runs in circles trying to solve any problem, and I’m left with shit that feels like a house of cards that breaks anytime you touch it.

I will continue to POC #

As much of a mess as these things, make they are super useful to vibe code ideas, move quickly and try different approaches to a problem. They let you make a proof of concept that you can get in front of team mates, bosses, or users.

Honestly I still prefer the chat interface. It feels like a nice balance of using my brain, and knowing that I am punting on something. Do I need to know the whole ffmpeg interface to grab a thumbnail for my webapp, no, would I actually like to learn it someday, yes, but I don’t need to right now I just need a goddamn thumbnail.

For the most part I am still slotting these things into the codebase myself, but occasionally I have it do an entire module, and even more rare I pull out agents and have it do all the work. The further away from the code I get, the less I care about it and just want it done.

I will laugh at this post in 2 years #

The way I see it agentic coding is not here to stay, it sucks. There is one two ways to go this was a blip in the radar that we laugh at for giving ai companies all our data for free so they could fuck up our products. Or they actually get pretty good and we all become architects that peek at the code if we really need to. I think for the second to become true its going to take a lot of time, consumer hardware will need to catch up, local llms will need to work a lot better than they do now. Even if we still need to call out to the big boys for some heavy work getting the context right for them locally would make a huge difference. Currently local llms are too slow and dumb.

So will this bubble pop or explode, we can only wait to find out.

Doing Some Keeb Modeling And Thought This Was Cool

2025-08-26T20:33:37Z

The inside of a keyboard before the tools are used to cut away switch cutouts in the board.

⭐ ChrisBuilds terminaltexteffects

2025-08-26T19:38:14Z

I like ChrisBuilds’s project terminaltexteffects.

TerminalTextEffects (TTE) is a terminal visual effects engine, application, and Python library.

⭐ miguelgrinberg python-socketio

2025-08-26T13:07:08Z

I recently discovered python-socketio by miguelgrinberg, and it’s truly impressive.

Python Socket.IO server and client

modd

2025-08-25T10:48:01Z

Today I gave modd a try, and it seems like a good file watcher executor. I tried using libnotify to send desktop notifications, but all I got was modd, I might not have notifications setup right on the awesomewm machine.

config goes in modd.conf

**/*.py {
  # check formatting via ruff
  prep: ruff format --check .

  # check docstring formatting
  prep: pydocstyle .
  #
  # # check type hints via ty
  prep: ty check .
  #
  # # run linter via ruff
  prep: ruff check .
}

I installed it using installer from jpillora, pulling pre-built binaries right out of the github repo.

curl https://i.jpillora.com/cortesi/modd | bash

Then you can install it, and on file change it will run the commands you configured.

modd

2025-08-25 Notes

2025-08-25T10:45:08Z

Gave modd a try and it seems pretty good, will likely be slotting it in next to my justfile usage.

Gave sus a try, but it lacked the configurability and flexibility I was looking for. For now I will stick to markata-redirects plugin.

2025-08-23 Notes

2025-08-23T19:27:05Z

Knife Sharpener #

Today, some great work on the knife sharpener re-design. I’ve been using the same one since I first got my ender 3 3d printer, and have wanted to make some changes ever since.

Wyatt sat with me through the design, I probably would not have gone this deep without him, he thought the helmet look was hilarious

Knife Sharpener Double Hinge First Try

Notice one of the biggest problems with this one here is how much is slides around

This wing nut really set it apart

Hollow Knight #

Progress on the Hollow Knight Keeb Run. SILKSONG in 2 WEEKS!!

Getting The Lumafly Lantern In My Hollow Knight Keeb Run Unlocking Royal Waterways In Hollow Knight Keeb Run Entering Royal Waterway Hollow Knight Keeb Run Unlock Royal Waterway Bench In Hollow Knight Keeb

todays script #

Made a little script to grab these

for post in m.feeds.today.posts:
    if post.get('image', None):
        print(f'![{post["title"]}]({post["image"]})')
    else:
        print(f'[{post["title"]}]({post["url"]})')

Knife Sharpener Double Hinge Wing Nut

2025-08-23T19:23:55Z

A 3 lobed wing nut perfectly hiding the m4 cap screw underneath of it, flooded in uv resin.

Knife Sharpener Double Hinge First Try

2025-08-23T19:21:49Z

knife sharpener double hinge first try

Testing out the double hinge knife sharpener holder for the first time.

Knife Sharpenter Double Hinge Mid Print

2025-08-23T18:44:28Z

A bambu A1 printer printing my double hinge mid print under a uv light

Kings Station In Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-23T11:01:07Z

Kings Station in Hollow Knight Keeb run

Unlocking Kings station in my hollow knight keyboard only run

Defeating The Dung Defender In Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-23T11:00:03Z

Defeating the Dung Defender in hollow knight keeb run

The final blow to the Dung Defender as he admits defeat and allows the little knight to access the valve in the royal waterways.

Unlock Royal Waterway Bench In Hollow Knight Keeb

2025-08-23T09:48:08Z

unlock royal waterway bench in hollow knight keeb

Using desolate dive to unlock the Royal Waterway bench in my Hollow Knight keeb only run.

Entering Royal Waterway Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-23T09:46:21Z

entering royal waterway hollow knight keeb run

Entering the royal waterway during my hollow knight keeb only run.

Unlocking Royal Waterways In Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-23T09:45:20Z

unlocking royal waterways in hollow knight keeb run

Using the simple key to unlock the Royal Waterway in Hollow Knight during my keeb only run.

Getting The Lumafly Lantern In My Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-23T09:43:36Z

getting the lumafly lantern in my hollow knight keeb run

Purchasing the Lumafly Lanten from Sly’s shop in Dirtmouth during my Hollow Knight keeb only run.

Helmet Hidden In Design

2025-08-23T09:26:38Z

A CAD design for a movable hinge that turned out looking like a space helmet.

bash timestamp

2025-08-22T15:35:36Z

Today I needed to make a backup of some config. I wanted to add a timestamp so that I knew when the backup was made. This would make unique backups easy, and I could tell when they were made.

cp configfile configfile.backup.$(date %s)

If you want to decrypt the timestamp into something more human readable. You can list backup files, strip out the timestamp, and then convert it to a human readable date.

/bin/ls | grep backup | sed 's/configfile.backup.//' | xargs -I {} date -d @{}

or just throw it to the date command by hand.

date -d @1755895402

2025-08-21 Notes

2025-08-21T07:43:49Z

https://youtu.be/-EYRzF0zp3U?si=mKCPlMDecrqzvjuF

Is ai in 2025 like a Roomba vacuum? The ads make it look fantastic but after some time it becomes worthless and needs constant monitoring.

https://youtube.com/shorts/iIDVm_J-JxU?si=WRiLXASnXlqqidLi

For some reason the first one has kinda stuck with me.

You think youre thinking, but you’re mostly remembering. Your thoughts are just loops your nervous system finds familiar, your not making decisions, your repeating emotional echos. Unless you interrupt the loop your future is your past in disguise.

⭐ panphora overtype

2025-08-21T00:47:17Z

The work on overtype by panphora.

The markdown editor that’s just a textarea https://overtype.dev

2025-08-17 Notes

2025-08-17T12:21:47Z

After a long time I begrudgingly setup window rules for hyprland. What I wanted was the ability to log out and jump back into work with a freshened work space. Right now I’m running on low ram and disk on hyprland and sometimes I need to just quit everything and get back to work quick. So I setup exec-once to start my terminal, browser, and chat. These are my main applications that run on my power fingers 456 (which are on a layer that present under jkl). I use them every time I log in and will need them no matter what I do. When I exec once them, they just dump onto one workspace, you can pick it but no matter the timing, you end up with race conditions that end up with you on different workspaces.

So I setup window rules. I avoided this for a long time, because of my workflow on awesomewm, I thought this manual workspace selection was superior. What I really think happened was that awesomewm was a little trickier for me to figure out what things were named and to actually get the rules setup correctly.

hyprland makes this pretty simple with its great cli.

hyprctl clients -j | jq | grep class

Now that I can see attributes of these windows as I open them I can set up rules for them to go onto the correct workspace, or to float them. I have a couple of things like a file picker coming from a browser showing up in the tiled layout, when a file picker like this shows up, just cover everything up its temporary, no need to squeeze it into the tiled layout.

the file picker float also fixed an issue I had where they would not show up, and lock up brave when its in full screen mode and I don’t realize it.

windowrulev2 = workspace 1, class:^(steam)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 4, class:^(kitty)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 5, class:^(firefox)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 5, class:^(brave-browser)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 5, class:^(google-chrome)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 6, class:^(Signal)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 2, class:^(krita)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 8, class:^(brave-chat.openai.com__-Default)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 8, class:^(brave-youtube.com__-Default)$
windowrulev2 = float, class:^(org.pulseaudio.pavucontrol)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 9, class:^(org.prismlauncher.PrismLauncher)$
windowrulev2 = float, class:^(org.prismlauncher.PrismLauncher)$, title:^(Console window.*)
windowrulev2 = float, class:^(xdg-desktop-portal-gtk)$

Wyatt Drew A Watertower In Aesprite

2025-08-17T10:21:08Z

Little dude has some talent.

A post apocalyptic water tower sitting on a rock drawn in blues and greens with moss hanging from it, including a rusty red top and legs. Drew by Wyatt.

2025-08-16 Notes

2025-08-16T10:07:21Z

homelab-cleanup-day">HomeLab cleanup day #

remove nextcloud
pause photoprism
pause syncthing
move data to walkershare
filepermissions 1000:1000 all of it
organize how I want
resume photoprism
resume syncthing - update share locations
expose to mac over smb
ensure mac can write over smb
expose to archlinux oversmb
ensure archlinux can write over smb
expose to syncthing over pvc
expose to my terminal over pvc

wishlist

Forgejo repos
Forgejo runners
explore moving from docker repository to repoflow

2025-08-14 Notes

2025-08-14T20:15:54Z

Huge progress on shots not to be confused with shots inspired by https://justin.searls.co/shots/. I’m building out my own instagram grid design, right now its 4 wide, but I wonder if it should be 3 wide to match up with the old instagram grid designs, and I could do cool crops like instagram used to.

I went through a bunch of old gratitude posts and pulled images from all of them, and update all of the images to use dropper while I was at it.

More work after kids bed time and came up with a great concept that needs to go into markata, yes its more configuration. markata is quickly becoming death by config. What I wanted was the ability to make different cards different sizes.

What I came up with was adding “card_classes” to the front matter of the markdown file. This is a list of classes that will be added to the card div when the card is rendered. This way I can make cards different sizes. Here are a couple of good results I had.

A landscape shot of quarry lake

An image of Rhiannon and I at sunset

Made a bit of cyberbrink crane progress, glued in a few cables and put the cab on top of the tower.

⭐ vrtmrz obsidian-livesync

2025-08-14T13:29:15Z

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on obsidian-livesync, created by vrtmrz.

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⭐ syncthing syncthing

2025-08-14T03:47:05Z

I like syncthing’s project syncthing.

Open Source Continuous File Synchronization

2025-08-13 Notes

2025-08-13T21:23:24Z

Inspired by Justin Searls Shots, I made started my own shots feed for self hosted Instagram style photos. The layout could use a lot of work, the feed seems like its breaking on rebuild due to some cache issues, but its there and kind of works and eventually will get a proper prominently placed link, for now its an idea for anyone who sees this.

https://waylonwalker.com/shots/

By the way what a boss domain searls.co is. I’ve seen Chris Coyier just got coyer.com and talked about being able to use it as a family domain.

2025-08-12 Notes

2025-08-12T16:46:31Z

Sad day yesterday. We discovered that our freezer was left cracked over a day or so. Kids self serviced themselves to some sausage dogs at some point and wedged the box in the door. Everything was over 40F and done.

Lessons learned for everyone. For the kids, see something say something, food should not come out of a freezer soft and barely fridge temp. For the parents, don’t get in a rush when loading the freezer. If something doesn’t quite look like it’s going to stay out, it probably won’t and next person to use it will pay… Or you will pay when they don’t notice. Last lesson for everyone, when you come home late and tired from a family trip to Grandma’s and hear beeping it’s probably important and investigate.

I need some more ram… Was waiting out prime day, prices went up and haven’t gone down.

forgejo is pretty dope, played with it for awhile today locally, create repos with curl, git push, actions working with multiple runners.

trying forgejo

2025-08-12T11:57:42Z

WIP

networks:
  forgejo:
    external: false
services:
  server:
    image: codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo:11
    container_name: forgejo
    environment:
      - USER_UID=1000
      - USER_GID=1000
    restart: always
    networks:
      - forgejo
    volumes:
      - ./forgejo:/data
    ports:
      - '3000:3000'
      - '2222:22'
  docker-in-docker:
    image: docker:dind
    container_name: docker_dind
    privileged: true
    command: ["dockerd", "-H", "tcp://0.0.0.0:2375", "--tls=false"]
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks: [forgejo]
  runner:
    image: data.forgejo.org/forgejo/runner:4.0.0
    container_name: forgejo-runner
    user: "1001:1001"
    depends_on:
      - docker-in-docker
    environment:
      DOCKER_HOST: tcp://docker-in-docker:2375
    volumes:
      - ./runner-data:/data:Z,U # will hold .runner + cache
    command: /bin/sh -c "while :; do sleep 1; done"
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks: [forgejo]

⭐ pythops impala

2025-08-10T17:53:51Z

Check out pythops and their project impala.

🛜 TUI for managing wifi on Linux

⭐ yarrick iodine

2025-08-10T17:09:19Z

iodine by yarrick is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves.

Official git repo for iodine dns tunnel

⭐ Termix-SSH Termix

2025-08-09T14:50:37Z

I recently discovered Termix by Termix-SSH, and it’s truly impressive.

Termix is a web-based server management platform with SSH terminal, tunneling, and file editing capabilities.

2025-08-08 Notes

2025-08-08T19:28:06Z

This Web ain’t what it used to be #

I found this post from miriam.codes while reading dbushell’s notes. I kinda agree with Miriam and David here. AI is really making me feel like an old curmudgeon. Every day it gets more enshitified, filled with more nonsense, more hate, more “fake news” which all news gets labeled as these days, nothing is credible to anyone anymore.

What I’m here for is still plugging away at my own site, trying harder than ever to find real people with real websites, who write real content that I enjoy. I’m going to continue staying in my lane, making notes that no one will read, leaving thoughts no one will read, writing blog posts that might reach 10s of people who really care.

YouTube still feels like a safe place. I see more and more AI slop popping up and off, but it doesn’t hit my feed, happy for that so far. I do see a lot of creators using AI thumbnails, Most look obvious, but some feel like uncanny faces of the people I follow and it’s weird. I think I follow the exact average of the 2025 YT watcher, I watch a handful of the top 100 channels, and a bunch of sub 1M average joes. These all feel like people just sharing their story. A lot of them have Orange County Choppers Season 1 vibes, we are just making good content about trying to make it in the world. They haven’t yet descended into the madness that OCC became in its later seasons that was all about building drama that tore the family apart.

Moss Knight from hollow knight home row layout #

I took a break for awhile on the game, my son got bored and moved on. He tends to switch out games a lot faster than me. I came back to it tonight after a few months off and just got some geo from the moss knights for awhile. I got this decent clip of clearing them, I’m no pro, but getting better at timing on the keeb layout.

hollow-knight-keeb-moss-knight.mp4

Cyberbrick Crane Progress #

Made some progress on the cyberbrick crane that I am building with Wyatt.

⭐ nwg-piotr nwg-look

2025-08-08T15:04:28Z

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on nwg-look, created by nwg-piotr.

GTK3 settings editor adapted to work in the wlroots environment

2025-08-05 Notes

2025-08-05T09:00:57Z

Yesterday I started building out some qrcode tooling for myself starting with qrcode.waylonwalker.com. This is part of my tinyapps project.

Also dug into qr codes in python to try to get some easy and small qrcodes that I could add to my blog posts for others who find a post on desktop and want to open on mobile.

This is what I am going for with qrcodes on my blog posts.

If you want fancier qrcodes check out https://mydigitalharbor.com/

qr codes in python

2025-08-05T08:32:12Z

I have a couple of use cases for simple qr codes in python coming up. One is for blog posts, the other is for auth into a new server application logged to a terminal. I tried the qrcode library and it does not look as nice to me and I found pyqrcode to be quite nice.

import pyqrcode
url = pyqrcode.create('https://waylonwalker.com/qr-codes-in-python')
url.svg('qr-codes-in-python.svg', scale=8)
print(url.terminal(quiet_zone=1))
url.svg('qr-codes-in-python.svg', scale=12)
url.svg('qr-codes-in-python.svg', omithw=True) # width is controlled by the container

url.svg('qr-codes-in-python.svg', omithw=True, module_color='#ffd119')
url.svg('qr-codes-in-python.svg', omithw=True, module_color='#ff69b4', background='#2b034c')

result #

Here is the final svg result.

Here is what it looks like in the terminal.

If you want fancier qrcodes check out https://mydigitalharbor.com/

⭐ rushter selectolax

2025-08-04T13:45:54Z

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on selectolax, created by rushter.

Python binding to Modest and Lexbor engines (fast HTML5 parser with CSS selectors).

⭐ rqlite rqlite

2025-08-04T01:17:07Z

I like rqlite’s project rqlite.

The lightweight, user-friendly, distributed relational database built on SQLite.

Dolphin Remote Storage Previews

2025-08-02T14:58:09Z

I’ve got a few samba shares going in my homelab, and I’m struggling finding a great app to scroll through vacation photos with my wife. I want something intuitive, non intimidating, and just works. Turns out that the default file browser application for hyprland works great, but you need to enable previews for remote storage for it to work for my use case here.

Homelab Update Jul 2025

2025-07-28T08:19:37Z

Basement shelf with 3 computers, a network switch, an uninterubptable power supply, one monitor underneath, and a wifi access point to the right.

2025-07-27 Notes

2025-07-27T01:25:33Z

Today Wyatt and I conquered cathulu in Cat quest III.

cathulu.mp4

Which then lead us to finish Mama Milk’s quest line.

mama-milk.mp4

archlinux BTW devtainer #

Made some progress on moving my devtainer back from ubuntu to arch, it’s somewhat pertinent because a few of the things I use are now outdated and I just want to use a package manager and not have to build things from scratch.

Kubernetes Development Environment #

I also setup a dev environment in kubernetes, already using this new arch image, its great so far, writing this post from it.

As a challenge how much of my workflow could be done from kubernetes, docker build, and run would be hard, but I bet I could come up with something. The clipboard part of my workflow would need a major change, especially for grabbing previous terminal outputs.

blender donut tutorial 2025

2025-07-25T08:29:27Z

First Launch #

my setup #

Add #

shift A

bump resolution scale #

edit -> preferences -> interface -> resolution scale 1.25

orbit without middle mouse button #

viewport shading rendered #

2025-07-24 Notes

2025-07-24T20:58:17Z

Completed the 8-bit dungeon in Cat Quest III with wyatt today.

8-bit-dungeon.mp4

2025-07-23 Notes

2025-07-23T20:37:04Z

Today I set up hypridle on my hyprland desktop build. It was not too bad, I’m probably going to tweak it as it I go if it bothers me, for now I’m giving it a shot. My monitor is sometimes a PITA to get to wake up, that is my main concern.

paru -S hypridle

Here is the config I landed on.

# dim screen
general {
    lock_cmd = pidof hyprlock || hyprlock       # avoid starting multiple hyprlock instances.
    before_sleep_cmd = loginctl lock-session    # lock before suspend.
    after_sleep_cmd = hyprctl dispatch dpms on && ddcutil setvcp 10 100  # to avoid having to press a key twice to turn on the display.
}

listener {
    timeout = 120                            # in seconds.
    on-timeout = ddcutil setvcp 10 5 # command to run when timeout has passed.
    on-resume = ddcutil setvcp 10 100  # command to run when activity is detected after timeout has fired.
}

# screen off
listener {
    timeout = 3600
    on-timeout = hyprctl dispatch dpms off
    on-resume = hyprctl dispatch dpms on
}

# warning screen is about to go off
listener {
    timeout = 315                            # in seconds.
    on-timeout = notify-send "You are idle!" # command to run when timeout has passed.
}

listener {
    timeout = 330                            # in seconds.
    on-timeout = loginctl lock-session
}

learned about walker launcher and wev wayland event debgugger.

Ended the day destroying the duck of doom in cat quest III.

duck-of-doom.mp4

2025-07-22 Notes

2025-07-22T08:01:51Z

Waybar ricing #

  "format": "{:%a %b %d %I:%M %p}",

Next I ripped a calendar from the docs. When hovered I get a full year calendar, right click gives me only the current month.

"clock": {
  "format": "{:%a %b %d %I:%M %p}",
  "format-alt": "{:%A, %B %d, %Y (%R)}  ",
  "tooltip-format": "<tt><small>{calendar}</small></tt>",
  "calendar": {
              "mode"          : "year",
              "mode-mon-col"  : 3,
              "weeks-pos"     : "right",
              "on-scroll"     : 1,
              "format": {
                          "months":     "<span color='#ffead3'><b>{}</b></span>",
                          "days":       "<span color='#ecc6d9'><b>{}</b></span>",
                          "weeks":      "<span color='#99ffdd'><b>W{}</b></span>",
                          "weekdays":   "<span color='#ffcc66'><b>{}</b></span>",
                          "today":      "<span color='#ff6699'><b><u>{}</u></b></span>"
                          }
              },
  "actions":  {
              "on-click-right": "mode",
              "on-scroll-up": "tz_up",
              "on-scroll-down": "tz_down",
              "on-scroll-up": "shift_up",
              "on-scroll-down": "shift_down"
              }
  }

I still want to change up the colors, but I’m happy with the usefulness of this for now.

2025-07-21 Notes

2025-07-21T20:30:21Z

In my adventure to rice out hyprland I set up a sddm theme today, and it looks sick by only changing the wallpaper. I tried out one theme and was pretty happy with the results.

Alright, I ended up ricing out some more, looks so much better than the default sddm theme.

Default sddm.

My only hiccup was the wallpaper needed to be in a path relative to the theme root directory and not an absolute path to my home directory.

This command was super helpful for testing greeter themes.

sddm-greeter-qt6 --test-mode --theme /usr/share/sddm/themes/eucalyptus-drop

2025-07-19 Notes

2025-07-19T17:12:15Z

Progress on markata themes, I’m able to get feedback in the terminal. I’m building out a custom color model that will be able to mix and blend colors with intent of this having the ability to work inside of a jinja template, so rather than needing to lean into transparency for mixing I can mix colors with intent.

Now with color mixing we can do subtle changes to things like headings.

Themes console printout #



Tokyo-Night Theme

Light Theme
text  #111827 
muted  #6b7280 
heading  #000 
accent  #4f46e5 
accent_alt  #9333ea 
background  #fff 
surface  #f9fafb 
code_bg  #f3f4f6 
blockquote_bg  #f3f4f6 
blockquote_border  #a5b4fc 
link_hover  #000 
selection_bg  #e0e7ff 
selection_text  #111827 
border  #e5e7eb 

Dark Theme
text  #f3f4f6 
muted  #9ca3af 
heading  #fff 
accent  #818cf8 
accent_alt  #c084fc 
background  #1a1b26 
surface  #222436 
code_bg  #2f3549 
blockquote_bg  #1f2335 
blockquote_border  #6366f1 
link_hover  #fff 
selection_bg  #2f3549 
selection_text  #fff 
border  #3b4261 

Catppuccin Theme

Light Theme
text  #881337 
muted  #f43f5e 
heading  #9f1239 
accent  #ec4899 
accent_alt  #c084fc 
background  #fff1f2 
surface  #ffe4e6 
code_bg  #ffe4e6 
blockquote_bg  #fecdd3 
blockquote_border  #f472b6 
link_hover  #9d174d 
selection_bg  #fda4af 
selection_text  #881337 
border  #fda4af 

Dark Theme
text  #fecdd3 
muted  #fb7185 
heading  #ffe4e6 
accent  #f472b6 
accent_alt  #c4b5fd 
background  #1e1e28 
surface  #2a2a38 
code_bg  #2c2c3a 
blockquote_bg  #2b2b3a 
blockquote_border  #ec4899 
link_hover  #fff 
selection_bg  #403d52 
selection_text  #fff1f2 
border  #4e4e5a 

Everforest Theme

Light Theme
text  #14532d 
muted  #22c55e 
heading  #166534 
accent  #16a34a 
accent_alt  #84cc16 
background  #f0fdf4 
surface  #dcfce7 
code_bg  #dcfce7 
blockquote_bg  #bbf7d0 
blockquote_border  #4ade80 
link_hover  #166534 
selection_bg  #bbf7d0 
selection_text  #14532d 
border  #86efac 

Dark Theme
text  #dcfce7 
muted  #4ade80 
heading  #86efac 
accent  #4ade80 
accent_alt  #a3e635 
background  #2b3339 
surface  #374045 
code_bg  #3b444a 
blockquote_bg  #3d484f 
blockquote_border  #22c55e 
link_hover  #fff 
selection_bg  #475258 
selection_text  #fff 
border  #517d90 

Gruvbox Theme

Light Theme
text  #7c2d12 
muted  #fb923c 
heading  #713f12 
accent  #ea580c 
accent_alt  #eab308 
background  #fff 
surface  #fff7ed 
code_bg  #ffedd5 
blockquote_bg  #fed7aa 
blockquote_border  #fdba74 
link_hover  #9a3412 
selection_bg  #fed7aa 
selection_text  #7c2d12 
border  #fdba74 

Dark Theme
text  #ffedd5 
muted  #fb923c 
heading  #fef9c3 
accent  #fb923c 
accent_alt  #facc15 
background  #282828 
surface  #3c3836 
code_bg  #504945 
blockquote_bg  #3a3634 
blockquote_border  #f97316 
link_hover  #fff 
selection_bg  #665c54 
selection_text  #fff7ed 
border  #7c6f64 

Kanagwa Theme

Light Theme
text  #0f172a 
muted  #94a3b8 
heading  #1e293b 
accent  #2563eb 
accent_alt  #6366f1 
background  #f8fafc 
surface  #f1f5f9 
code_bg  #f1f5f9 
blockquote_bg  #e2e8f0 
blockquote_border  #93c5fd 
link_hover  #1e40af 
selection_bg  #dbeafe 
selection_text  #0f172a 
border  #cbd5e1 

Dark Theme
text  #f1f5f9 
muted  #94a3b8 
heading  #f8fafc 
accent  #60a5fa 
accent_alt  #818cf8 
background  #1f2335 
surface  #2a2e3e 
code_bg  #3a3f52 
blockquote_bg  #2e3440 
blockquote_border  #3b82f6 
link_hover  #fff 
selection_bg  #394260 
selection_text  #fff 
border  #4b5162 

    Nord Theme

Light Theme
text  #164e63 
muted  #22d3ee 
heading  #155e75 
accent  #0891b2 
accent_alt  #3b82f6 
background  #a5f3fc 
surface  #cffafe 
code_bg  #ecfeff 
blockquote_bg  #a5f3fc 
blockquote_border  #67e8f9 
link_hover  #155e75 
selection_bg  #a5f3fc 
selection_text  #164e63 
border  #67e8f9 

Dark Theme
text  #cffafe 
muted  #22d3ee 
heading  #ecfeff 
accent  #22d3ee 
accent_alt  #93c5fd 
background  #2e3440 
surface  #3b4252 
code_bg  #434c5e 
blockquote_bg  #4c566a 
blockquote_border  #06b6d4 
link_hover  #fff 
selection_bg  #5e81ac 
selection_text  #ecfeff 
border  #6b7d97 

Synthwave-84 Theme

Light Theme
text  #581c87 
muted  #ec4899 
heading  #86198f 
accent  #ec4899 
accent_alt  #d946ef 
background  #fdf2f8 
surface  #fce7f3 
code_bg  #fce7f3 
blockquote_bg  #fbcfe8 
blockquote_border  #f472b6 
link_hover  #6b21a8 
selection_bg  #f5d0fe 
selection_text  #581c87 
border  #f9a8d4 

Dark Theme
text  #f0f 
muted  #c060c0 
heading  #f6f 
accent  #f472b6 
accent_alt  #e879f9 
background  #2d0036 
surface  #405 
code_bg  #3d0047 
blockquote_bg  #520066 
blockquote_border  #ec4899 
link_hover  #fff 
selection_bg  #80a 
selection_text  #fff 
border  #f0f

2025-07-18 Notes

2025-07-18T19:27:18Z

fc is pretty great.

Markata themes progress, setting up some visual feedback in the terminal for myself to show themes. Trying to think through how to blend colors to get more automated variations and to get good colors without needing to use transparancy, I was running into issues already trying to lean into transparancy with text bleed.

fc

2025-07-18T07:52:53Z

I am a linux user through and through. Desktop, server, vms, containers, everything except my phone is linux. With this I spend a lot of time in the terminal, and have been a long time user of !! to rerun the last command, but with the ability to tack something on at the beginning or end.

TIL about fc, which opens the last command in your shell history in your $EDITOR or pass in your editor -e nvim.

man fc

Rcap of how !! works #

!! pronounces bang bang and will run the last command in your history.

ls -l

!! | wc -l
# ls -l | wc -l

sudo !!
# sudo ls -l | wc -l

!!:s/-l/-l \/tmp
# sudo ls -l /tmp | wc -l

`fc` enters the chat #

Now making complex edits in your shell can be a bit of a chore, so fc moves this work to your $EDITOR.

fc

This pops open your $EDITOR with the last command in your history.

sudo ls -l | wc -l

Shell History #

fc shows up in shell history, but !! does not, !! gets replaced by the command that it becomes.

Up Arrow #

yaya yaya, I know you can also up-arrow c-e, but what fun is that, it’s barely a flex. fc just looks big brained and like you really know what you are doing.

2025-07-17 Notes

2025-07-17T19:54:05Z

TIL pygments htmlformatter is a big win for markata, didn’t have a chance to take notes yesterday, but I’m really working on templates and themes. It’s becoming more important for me as I get more users, i.e. family members blog sites up and running. No one wants to look default, they all want to look unique, learning how to change out themes like this is a good win.

Still working on searchcraft integrations and holy shit is it fast. I’m searching and scrubbing through logs out of cloudwatch at 2ms/search rather than their dogwater 30s+ broken ui not loading, not showing me the logs I want. This is not even apples to apples, cloudwatch chokes on one job worth of logs, I’ve got 500 jobs of logs and searchcraft is eating them up like nothin.

pygments htmlformatter

2025-07-17T19:45:19Z

I’ve been a long user of pygments, it’s been the thing that injects <spans> with funny little class names like sc and si into the code blocks of my website. I’ve even gone as far as implementing a plugin for md-it, but I had no idea how to re-style it. I long ago got a theme that looked good enough from somewhere and just used it, maybe I pulled something from their docs site and forgot. Today I learned you can list all the themes easily from the library itself, and render out new css.

from pygments.styles import get_all_styles
list(get_all_styles())
# [
#     'abap',
#     'algol_nu',
#     'algol',
#     'arduino',
#     'autumn',
#     'borland',
#     'bw',
#     'colorful',
#     'default',
#     'dracula',
#     'emacs',
#     'friendly_grayscale',
#     'friendly',
#     'fruity',
#     'github-dark',
#     'gruvbox-dark',
#     'gruvbox-light',
#     'igor',
#     'inkpot',
#     'lightbulb',
#     'lilypond',
#     'lovelace',
#     'manni',
#     'material',
#     'monokai',
#     'murphy',
#     'native',
#     'nord-darker',
#     'nord',
#     'one-dark',
#     'paraiso-dark',
#     'paraiso-light',
#     'pastie',
#     'perldoc',
#     'rainbow_dash',
#     'rrt',
#     'sas',
#     'solarized-dark',
#     'solarized-light',
#     'staroffice',
#     'stata-dark',
#     'stata-light',
#     'stata',
#     'tango',
#     'trac',
#     'vim',
#     'vs',
#     'xcode',
#     'zenburn'
# ]

from pygments.formatters import HtmlFormatter
from pygments.styles import get_style_by_name
style = get_style_by_name("monokai")
formatter = HtmlFormatter(style=style)
print(formatter.get_style_defs('.highlight'))

And now you get styles that you can add to your css and be any theme from the list above.

pre { line-height: 125%; }
td.linenos .normal { color: inherit; background-color: transparent; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; }
span.linenos { color: inherit; background-color: transparent; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; }
td.linenos .special { color: #000000; background-color: #ffffc0; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; }
span.linenos.special { color: #000000; background-color: #ffffc0; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; }
.highlight .hll { background-color: #49483e }
.highlight { background: #272822; color: #f8f8f2 }
.highlight .c { color: #959077 } /* Comment */
.highlight .err { color: #ed007e; background-color: #1e0010 } /* Error */
.highlight .esc { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Escape */
.highlight .g { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Generic */
.highlight .k { color: #66d9ef } /* Keyword */
.highlight .l { color: #ae81ff } /* Literal */
.highlight .n { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Name */
.highlight .o { color: #ff4689 } /* Operator */
.highlight .x { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Other */
.highlight .p { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Punctuation */
.highlight .ch { color: #959077 } /* Comment.Hashbang */
.highlight .cm { color: #959077 } /* Comment.Multiline */
.highlight .cp { color: #959077 } /* Comment.Preproc */
.highlight .cpf { color: #959077 } /* Comment.PreprocFile */
.highlight .c1 { color: #959077 } /* Comment.Single */
.highlight .cs { color: #959077 } /* Comment.Special */
.highlight .gd { color: #ff4689 } /* Generic.Deleted */
.highlight .ge { color: #f8f8f2; font-style: italic } /* Generic.Emph */
.highlight .ges { color: #f8f8f2; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic } /* Generic.EmphStrong */
.highlight .gr { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Generic.Error */
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.highlight .go { color: #66d9ef } /* Generic.Output */
.highlight .gp { color: #ff4689; font-weight: bold } /* Generic.Prompt */
.highlight .gs { color: #f8f8f2; font-weight: bold } /* Generic.Strong */
.highlight .gu { color: #959077 } /* Generic.Subheading */
.highlight .gt { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Generic.Traceback */
.highlight .kc { color: #66d9ef } /* Keyword.Constant */
.highlight .kd { color: #66d9ef } /* Keyword.Declaration */
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.highlight .s { color: #e6db74 } /* Literal.String */
.highlight .na { color: #a6e22e } /* Name.Attribute */
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.highlight .nd { color: #a6e22e } /* Name.Decorator */
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.highlight .nl { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Name.Label */
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.highlight .nx { color: #a6e22e } /* Name.Other */
.highlight .py { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Name.Property */
.highlight .nt { color: #ff4689 } /* Name.Tag */
.highlight .nv { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Name.Variable */
.highlight .ow { color: #ff4689 } /* Operator.Word */
.highlight .pm { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Punctuation.Marker */
.highlight .w { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Text.Whitespace */
.highlight .mb { color: #ae81ff } /* Literal.Number.Bin */
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.highlight .mh { color: #ae81ff } /* Literal.Number.Hex */
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.highlight .sc { color: #e6db74 } /* Literal.String.Char */
.highlight .dl { color: #e6db74 } /* Literal.String.Delimiter */
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⭐ caelestia-dots shell

2025-07-16T00:32:16Z

Looking for inspiration? shell by caelestia-dots.

A very segsy desktop shell

2025-07-15 Notes

2025-07-15T10:57:37Z

I’m working on hyprland, one thing I am missing from my awesomewm setup is rofi list all running windows. Sometimes I put a browser instance in a different workspace and I cant find it, especially if I’ve full screened something over top of it.

first pass #

look for brave and go to it or make one

#!/usr/bin/env bash

addr=$(hyprctl clients -j | jq -r \
	'.[] | select(.class == "brave-browser") | .address' | head -n1)

if [ -n "$addr" ]; then
	# Focus the existing browser window
	hyprctl dispatch focuswindow address:$addr
else
	# Launch a new browser window
	brave --password-store=basic &
fi

second pass #

If there are more than one cycle between them.

# Get current window address
current_addr=$(hyprctl activewindow -j | jq -r '.address')

# Get all Brave window addresses
brave_windows=($(hyprctl clients -j | jq -r '.[] | select(.class == "brave-browser") | .address'))

num_windows=${#brave_windows[@]}

if ((num_windows == 0)); then
	# No Brave windows, launch it
	brave --password-store=basic &
	exit
fi

# Find the index of the current window in brave_windows
current_index=-1
for i in "${!brave_windows[@]}"; do
	if [[ "${brave_windows[$i]}" == "$current_addr" ]]; then
		current_index=$i
		break
	fi
done

# If we're already in a Brave window, switch to the next one (wrap around)
if ((current_index != -1)); then
	next_index=$(((current_index + 1) % num_windows))
	hyprctl dispatch focuswindow address:${brave_windows[$next_index]}
else
	# Not currently in a Brave window — focus the first one
	hyprctl dispatch focuswindow address:${brave_windows[0]}
fi

third pass #

Generalize it so that I can make keybindings for any app that I can figure out the classname of and provide a start command.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -euo pipefail

# Args
class="${1:-}"
shift
start_command="$*"

if [[ -z "$class" || -z "$start_command" ]]; then
	echo "Usage: $0 <class> <start-command...>"
	exit 1
fi

# Current active window
current_addr=$(hyprctl activewindow -j | jq -r '.address')

# All windows with matching class
matching_windows=($(hyprctl clients -j | jq -r --arg class "$class" '.[] | select(.class == $class) | .address'))

num_windows=${#matching_windows[@]}

if ((num_windows == 0)); then
	# None running — start it
	eval "$start_command" &
	exit
fi

# See if currently focused window is in matching list
current_index=-1
for i in "${!matching_windows[@]}"; do
	if [[ "${matching_windows[$i]}" == "$current_addr" ]]; then
		current_index=$i
		break
	fi
done

# Cycle to next window if already in one
if ((current_index != -1)); then
	next_index=$(((current_index + 1) % num_windows))
	hyprctl dispatch focuswindow address:${matching_windows[$next_index]}
else
	# Not in one — focus first
	hyprctl dispatch focuswindow address:${matching_windows[0]}
fi

finding the classname #

❯ hyprctl clients -j | jq | grep kitty

    "class": "kitty",
    "initialClass": "kitty",
    "initialTitle": "kitty",

2025-07-12 Notes

2025-07-12T15:19:20Z

Starting the polkit agent for hyperland arch to handle permission elevation for desktop applications.

Error

An error occurred while accessing ‘bazzite-nvidia_razorcrest’, the system responded: Cannot request authentication for this action. The PolicyKit authentication system appears to be not available.: Not authorized to perform operation

exec-once = waybar & hyprpaper & $terminal & polkit & swaync & /usr/lib/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1

!!! GIPPITY

🧠 Why this happens:
Polkit handles permission elevation for desktop apps.

Dolphin uses udisks2 to mount drives, which asks Polkit for permission.

If you don't run a Polkit agent, you won't be able to authorize mount actions from the GUI.

Error

❯ just build

Error: configure storage: kernel does not support overlay fs: ‘overlay’ is not supported over btrfs at “/home/waylon/.local/share/containers/storage/overlay”: backing file system is unsupported for this graph driver error: Recipe build failed with exit code 125

paru -S fuse-overlayfs

mkdir -p ~/.config/containers
nvim ~/.config/containers/storage.conf

[storage]
driver = "overlay"

[storage.options]
mount_program = "/usr/bin/fuse-overlayfs"

Wyatt and I tried 3 times to beat the ice tower on our second run of Cat Quest III and failed, its tough.

ice-tower-fail.mp4

2025-07-11 Notes

2025-07-11T08:06:23Z

Continuing my exploration of Searchcraft I loaded all of my blog into it. It fully posted, indexed, and had my content ready for search in a literal blink. It was like the experience of python devs running ruff for the first time, and having the no way you just did that experience.

Ok so semantic search is so freaking cool, does not compare to fuzzy search at all. I don’t have to include parts of the title or something to find a post. I don’t have to spell things right, I dont even have to get the thing right. I can ask “create a mycraft server in kibinerers” and it takes me to the post about running Minecraft in containers.

import asyncio
import httpx

SEARCHCRAFT_URL = "http://0.0.0.0:8000"
INDEX_NAME = "creation_test"


def upload_documents(m):
    documents = [
        {
            "id": post.slug,
            "title": post.title,
            "body": post.content,
        }
        for post in m.posts
    ]

    async with httpx.Client() as client:
        url = f"{SEARCHCRAFT_URL}/index/{INDEX_NAME}/documents"
        response = client.post(url, json=documents)
        response.raise_for_status()
        print("Upload:", response.json())

        # Commit changes
        commit_url = f"{SEARCHCRAFT_URL}/index/{INDEX_NAME}/commit"
        commit_resp = client.post(commit_url)
        commit_resp.raise_for_status()
        print("Committed:", commit_resp.json())


from markata import Markata

m = Markata()
upload_documents(m)

2025-07-10 Notes

2025-07-10T20:10:58Z

Spent the day working through Lightspeed search built for devs | Don MacKinnon on the future of content search, this episode of the changelog about searchcraft. It was really interesting,

Then found this demo loading all of wikipedia and getting really sick search results out of it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjuPn6_yl2s

podman run --name searchcraft -p 8000:8000 searchcraftinc/searchcraft-core:latest

# create an index
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '
{
  "index": {
    "name": "creation_test",
    "search_fields": [
      "title",
      "body"
    ],
    "fields": {
      "id": {
        "type": "text",
        "required": true,
        "stored": true,
        "indexed": false
      },
      "created_at": {
        "type": "datetime",
        "fast": true,
        "stored": true,
        "indexed": true
      },
      "title": {
        "type": "text",
        "stored": true
      },
      "body": {
        "type": "text",
        "stored": true
      },
      "active": {
        "type": "bool",
        "fast": true,
        "stored": true
      },
      "rating": {
        "type": "f64",
        "stored": true,
        "fast": true
      },
      "reviews": {
        "type": "u64",
        "stored": true,
        "fast": true
      },
      "tags": {
        "type": "text",
        "stored": true,
        "multi": true
      },
      "category": {
        "type": "facet",
        "stored": true
      },
      "formats": {
        "type": "facet",
        "stored": true,
        "multi": true
      }
      "url": {
        "type": "text",
        "stored": true
      }
    },
    "weight_multipliers": {
      "title": 2,
      "body": 0.7
    }

  }
}
' http://0.0.0.0:8000/index


# put a document in the index
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json"   --data '{
    "document": {
      "id": "doc-001",
      "created_at": "2024-07-10T12:00:00Z",
      "title": "Hello World",
      "body": "This is your first Searchcraft document!",
      "url": "https://searchcraft.com",
      "active": true,
      "rating": 4.5,
      "reviews": 3,
      "tags": ["demo", "test"],
      "category": "/demo",
      "formats": ["/pdf", "/markdown"]
    }
  }' http://0.0.0.0:8000/document/creation_test

# commit the changes
curl -X POST http://0.0.0.0:8000/index/creation_test/commit

## search
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{
  "limit": 5,
  "offset": 0,
  "query": {
    "fuzzy": {
      "ctx": "searchcraft"
    }
  }
}' http://0.0.0.0:8000/index/creation_test/search

results

{
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "hits": [
      {
        "doc": {
          "id": "doc-001",
          "formats": [
            "/pdf",
            "/markdown"
          ],
          "active": true,
          "reviews": 3,
          "tags": [
            "demo",
            "test"
          ],
          "created_at": "2024-07-10T12:00:00Z",
          "category": "/demo",
          "rating": 4.5,
          "title": "Hello World",
          "body": "This is your first Searchcraft document!"
        },
        "document_id": "13964682816361504761",
        "score": 0.90137744,
        "source_index": "creation_test"
      }
    ],
    "count": 1,
    "time_taken": 0.000679577,
    "facets": [
      {
        "category": [
          {
            "path": "/demo",
            "count": 1
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "formats": [
          {
            "path": "/markdown",
            "count": 1
          },
          {
            "path": "/pdf",
            "count": 1
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

2025-07-09 Notes

2025-07-09T08:14:47Z

What a nightmare this glossary plugin turns out to be, it broke my site. I had it really close, then one more change asked for to the llm, an LGTM and did not look close, it rewrote the whole thing and started rendering markdown with its own renderer not my configured markdown renderer. Its close to working not but moved to post_render and using html/beautifulsoup rather than the raw markdown.

⭐ kyantech Palmr

2025-07-08T13:56:21Z

Check out kyantech and their project Palmr.

🌴 Palmr. is an open-source file-sharing platform focused on privacy and security. It enables users to upload, manage, and share files with features like password protection, custom links, and access control without tracking or limitations. Designed for seamless and secure sharing, Palmr. is completely free.

2025-07-08 Notes

2025-07-08T11:27:07Z

Setting up the hyprland run launcher to not be case sensitive.

$menu = wofi --show drun --insensitive

2025-07-07 Notes

2025-07-07T23:13:36Z

leaning into the rediculous rainbow borders instead of getting rid of them in hyprland.

col.active_border = rgba(ff77ffcc) rgba(33ccffee) rgba(aa00ffee) rgba(00ff99ee) rgba(ff77ffcc) rgba(33ccffee) rgba(aa00ffee) rgba(00ff99ee) 45deg
col.inactive_border = rgba(111111aa) rgba(2a2a2aaa) rgba(111111aa) rgba(fafafaaa) rgba(fafafaaa) rgba(fafafaaa) rgba(111111aa) rgba(2a2a2aaa) 90deg

tmux clipboard on hyprland

2025-07-06T20:45:47Z

Smooth clipboard settings for tmux is critical for my workflow. I’m often grabbing snippets of terminal output to paste into team chats, blog posts, or llm prompts. Admittedly, I’m often doing this with the mouse, unless it’s coming from neovim, which I generally do with motions. Moving from an xorg based setup to hyprland has required me to reconfigure my tmux clipboard settings. This is what I did.

First install wl-clipboard with AUR.">paru.

paru -S wl-clipboard

Next add this to your tmux config. I’ve long had this config, but with only the xorg/xclip setup, now this checks for wl-copy, uses it, or falls back to my old xclip setup.

bind -T copy-mode-vi Enter send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "bash -c 'command -v wl-copy >/dev/null && wl-copy || xclip -i -f -selection primary | xclip -i -selection clipboard'"
set-option -s set-clipboard off
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi MouseDragEnd1Pane send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "bash -c 'command -v wl-copy >/dev/null && wl-copy || xclip -i -f -selection primary | xclip -i -selection clipboard'"

command palettes are overrated

2025-07-06T12:37:40Z

Command palettes are slow, and overrated, you should treat yourself better. You probably installed VSC*** out of the box and your co-workers see you using the mouse and reprimanded you as they should. Mouse usage is not OK if you are a software dev, you should have the cheap ass free mouse that came with your cousins dell machine five years ago and only use if for emergencies. If you want to be fast you cannot do that by moving cursors to imprecise locations and clicking with your hand. You are not a caveman, put down the stones and get with the damn times. You need to be moving with precision.

Stage One, the command palette #

So you are taking your first few baby steps away from that Logitech MX Master and you need to get shit done, during these infant months the command palette is your friend. Use it you will be 10x faster than Razer Naga Ron from accounting. If you are in an IDE like VSC*** or a JEttedBrains editor they come with a command palette for running commands and fuzy finding files, use it. If you are in nvim, move on you probably don’t need this, unless you are still teething on VSC***, during that tim use :Telescope commands.

Close the fn Tree #

You don’t need a goddamn file tree open all the goddamn time, its taking up screen space and filling your brain with useless shit. They can be a helpful tool to move, rename, refactor files, or familiarize yourself with a codebase, but you don’t use one if you want to walk someday, so just like the command palette we are going to give it up for fuzzy find. If you are in nvim you are going to want to use :Telescope find_files those other big brained ides have things, look up the keybinding.

Now that we are crawling #

As you start to get your legs under you and you can crawl away from mamas teet note down the commands that you use all the time, we want to get command palette usage way down. Not to zero, without some sort of fuzzy command picker (even :<tab>) you are probably trying to remember too much and allocating too many brain cells to editing text, don’t do that. Resist over-correcting.

assign hotkeys #

Now you need to get yourself some hotkeys going, this is for the hot shit that you use several times a minute. You should be able to do things like swap between the current file and the last file in one keystroke without wasting a single brain cycle, it should be automatic. Go to definition, go to reference, no searching, searching is slow, find_files is slow. These are tools for exploration we are tyring to get real work done here.

Here’s a few things you should be able to do if you want to keep up with your Grandma, she’s been slayin these keys for years.

go to definition
go to reference
find_files
find and replace
rename
git add this file, commit, push
go to the last file
go up and down the jumplist
go up and down the quickfix list
list open files
harpoon all the files you go to regularly
format
move around your files

fly #

Over time you should be using your command pallete less and less, this is not designed to run every goddamn command through. Note the ones you use a lot and add keybinds. If you are using one of those editors that don’t make it clear what the fuck your running when you execute a command ask gippity, it can probably knock out that binding in 30s just fine.

inspiration #

The decline of “vim btw” by Sylvan Franklin. It’s a pretty incredible video, he is crushing these half satire dry humor tech content videos. He nails that with the death of vimBTW we lost the craft of knowing your editor in and out. We lost the art of flying through text. Now we have plugin kitties that say vimBtw, but they really aren’t using any vim features past hjkl.

[[ thoughts-724 ]]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmnqdAidVeE

2025-07-06 Notes

2025-07-06T09:43:22Z

Cat Quest III #

getting-ship-key.mp4

hyprland volume control, I wasn’t sure if I needed something specific for wayland/pipewire, nope pavucontrol just works.

paru -S pavucontrol

thinking about virtual environment

2025-07-05 Notes

2025-07-05T10:35:50Z

I might have gpg setup right for kdewallet on hyprland, and I just timed out the request before.

Got swaync working in hyprland.

hyprland does not load its plugins by default, I don’t see anything in the docs, but it appears that you need to exec-once = hyprpm reload to reload all enabled plugins on startup.

fix broken waybar fonts

paru -S ttf-font-awesome

Cat Quest III progress with Wyatt and a new save with Ayla

Markata Glossary #

Worked on my glossary ui and how it works with markata. I think I finally got something that autodetects glossary terms and swaps them with a hoverable element that displays the definition. getting the definition to remain on the screen at all times and not fall of when the term is on one side of the page or another was quite tricky.

2025-07-04 Notes

2025-07-04T16:30:04Z

Failed to gpg setup for kdewallet correctly on hyprland, brave still complains. Maybe someday I’ll figure it out and complete the post.

I installed hyprpm plugins.

Failed to fix Wyatt’s bazzite install, I think he is going to move forward with hyprland as his main. Somehow after trying to dual boot hyprland and bazzite he ended up with bazzite dumping him into recovery mode on every boot and saying the root account is locked.

I did learn how to mount and chroot into a bazzite partition that is running btrfs and rpm-ostree. I’m still only partly sure what I’m doing so not really worth a post about.

Continued full detail on our Van, if its going to last we need to keep up on it, Car Washes are expencive, aint got no extra $$ in this economy, goddamn I sound like an old man.

just fucking use kubernetes

2025-07-01T12:46:33Z

You want to run containers?

JUST FUCKING USE KUBERNETES.

Obvious satire

If you don't like harsh language this is not the post for you.  Obviously

ripping off motherfuckingwebsite.

ThIs is AI SLoP

If you don't like if you can fuck off to the next post, I'm having fun here,

but satire is not my strong suit and needed some help.

“But it’s complicated!” #

Shut up. Close twitter and fucking do something. Life is complicated. You know what else is complicated? Email. DNS. Life. Kubernetes is the least painful way to orchestrate containers at scale. Docker Compose is for your laptop.

Swarm is dead.
Nomad is just sad.
Systemd units? Get out of here.

“But my app is small!” #

SO IS YOUR AMBITION. You could write a bunch of bash scripts and hope they work on prod. You could SSH into servers and handcraft your infra like it’s 2011. Or you could just fucking use Kubernetes and sleep at night.

I can just throw my script in crontab #

Tell that to your boss when your cronjob failed 16 times in the last week without anyone noticing. kubernete makes it fucking simple, want retry ask for it. Hanging script, activeDeadlineSeconds that bitch. Connecting to six other services in your shitty ass infrastructure this shit retries automatically.

“I don’t need autoscaling!” #

Cool. Tell that to your boss when the CEO tweets your link and the site goes down harder than your last date.

“But YAML is ugly!” #

So is your Terraform, your Ansible, your Prometheus config, your custom CI/CD scripts written in Bash, and the spaghetti you called a monolith before you went microservices and made it worse.

“Kubernetes is too heavy!” #

Compared to what?

Your handcrafted, artisanal, single-node LXC setup running on an Intel NUC from 2014?

Heard of k3s? k0s? No. These fuckers will have you running kubernetes running on your grandpas goddamn gateway 2000 right next to AOL messenger without splooging out the the ashes of his Marlboro Reds.

SSH? #

You don’t need no goddam ssh to install your 200lb gorilla editor so you can hand edit your init files and carefully contruct your init system. This is kubernetes, you use the fucking api, all you need is a connection and a kubeconfig. This motherfucker runs containers so you can keep your bitch-ass editor where it belongs, off the fucking host machine!

“What if it’s overkill?” #

What if YOU are underkill?

“How do I do zero-downtime deploys?” #

Probes my dude, you fucking probe your shit. Rolling out a new deployment kubernets won’t cut over to your broke ass release if that shit don’t pass. No more writing janky scripts that SSH into prod and run git pull while praying to the CI/CD gods.

“What if I still fuck it up - How do I roll back?” #

k9s is your best friend, pop that shit open find your broke ass deployment, jump owner to the replicaset and roll that bitch back to the working shit.

I need to scale #

This shit is built in, add a goddamn replica or 6 for fuck sake, need autoscaling use the HPA. This aint your granpas hand fucking crafted pet server, its fucking cattle. Load balancing just fucking happens, don’t think about it just use it, and it will work for your six goddamn friends that actually use your shit.

I want gitops #

Let me introduce you to argocd, this fucker uses helm so one fucking command and your ass is on the beach while your dev team deploys their own shit.

USE KUBERNETES #

It fucking works.
Everyone else is using it.
There are like 500 open-source projects built just to make it easier.
It runs on your laptop, your server, the cloud, and inside your dreams.
It will make your resume better.

Not convinced? #

Here’s your alternative stack:

A bash script that restarts Docker when it dies.
A Makefile that deploys via SCP.
A cron job that prays to the log gods.
A wiki page explaining how to debug your hand-rolled bullshit.
You. Crying.

So yeah #

Save yourself. Save your team. Save your infrastructure.

JUST #

FUCKING #

USE #

KUBERNETES #

(or don’t, and become a DevOps cautionary tale)

Seealso

markata parallel render

2025-07-01T08:05:58Z

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principal-engineer-at-meta

2025-06-30T20:22:08Z

Jake Bolam principal engineer at Meta, has some of the best career advice for those looking to become principal or just be better at their craft. This video was such a banger I had to bring it in as a full post, and not just a thought. It was a random YouTube auto play, something that I probably wouldn’t have clicked on given title an thumbnail, but turned out to be very impactful. Jake is such a smart guy with a lot of great insights, and I can tell he thinks really quick on his feet, he just pulled all of these things out of his head on the fly.

YT Algorithm Gold

I don't know what it is about this title and thumbnail, but it gives me "ex

google, ex facebook, ex microsoft, $100M engineer" vibes in a cringy and not satire kind of way. I would have never clicked on it, it autoplayed after a podcast and it hit, immediately I’m like who are these guys? subd and started this post it was so good.

Long On Boarding #

Jake had a super long period of on boarding at meta, he came in as a seasoned leader yet took many months to get going. This was a phase during or near the end of the COVID-19 pandemic and his team was so swamped they were unable to give him time to help him. He felt his on boarding was taking longer than he wanted, and found backend work at Instagram. Moving to Instagram he jumped in and starting making impact quick and found his way moving up the ladder serving as tech lead for several teams.

I grabbed a ton of clips from this video, but did not for this section as it was kinda long.

Always open for a Chat #

As busy as Jake is, he leaves “Always open for a chat” on his internal profile. He does not care about rank into account, the intern can ask for a coffee chat. His key metric is how well is this person receiving information. If they are coming back with the same questions every 3 months he is going to start telling them he does not have the time.

I’ve had a fair amount of personal experience with this. Early in my career I experience quite a bit of higher ranks feeling untouchable, they were impossible to get a hold of, blew you off, and had more meetings than anyone could bear. It made me really look outside the company for inspiration and mentorship most of the time.

There’s always time for coffee #

While I don’t have “Always open for a chat” on my profile, I’ve had many of these types of conversations with my peers. It might be about something career related or more often how to implement containers, cloud, and good practices into small teams.

I remember a course in college shared the famous quote “There’s always time for coffee” and it stuck with me. The demonstration goes that no matter how much you fill your day with big rocks and tiny sand particles, there’s always a little more room for coffee, and he dumps coffee into a jar that he has already filled up.

These conversations often become very impactful. They can lead to having good relationships or job opportunities.

If we are not getting enough feedback, move faster #

Take Down Prod Sometimes #

This was an interesting take. None of us really want to take down prod. No one is advocating for major outages, but this is is not 2005 shipping out software on CD’s anymore. This take 100% depends on what you do and where you work. Obviously some sectors cannot take any downtime; nuclear power, cloud systems supporting nuclear power, navigation systems, idk theres a bunch of stuff. I bet if you are reading this that aint you. You’re probably writing some backend dashboard for the marketing team, or building out a website to upload cat photos on … Wait, thats literally what jake is doing here.

Idea being if you don’t occasionally cause some small production issues, you probably are not taking enough risk. You are moving too slow, getting feedback too late, your competitors just ran past you.

Go where you are rare #

I find this interesting. I’ve found myself within non-software companies doing sofware and data analysis most of my career, the amount of value you can bring by being that one guy that knows some pandas, containerization, how to run a vm is massive in an org that uses excel as its primary database. The rest of the org generally has massive knowledge in the business, but greatly slowed down by their ability to find value in the data.

Do work that you don’t get credit for #

I’ve worked with a lot of people in my 15 years of professional work, and I can tell you the worst ones to work with are the ones that focus too much on value. Every ounce of effort they bring needs to be backed by dollars comming into the business. I’ve seen this shake out a number of ways. You got the guy who sits on his ass all of January waiting for goals to be set, you got the guy who holds everything he knows close to his chest so that he is the one that can take the glory, and you got the guy who wont ever; refactor his code, cleanup, lint, update dependencies, and so on; because that does not have direct line to dollars coming into the business.

The clip goes a bit further than this, and hints at things that are going to enable you and your org to move faster. You might shave off 2 minutes off of ci, or docker builds. You might give everyone an easy way to run dev containers with production like dependencies in a snap. You might give them a way to clone prod data into a sandbox. These type of things provide no dollars to the company, it’s likely that few will notice but damn they add up to an efficient running organization.

Work Diary - the value of writing things down #

This one hits home, for far too long I’ve been in between note taking systems and am finally getting [[ marakta ]] setup to build out a really good zettelkasten style work notes. I’ve kinda had this on my blog for a long time, but not fully. I think the piece that I am missing here is the dumping ground. I don’t yet have a daily notes implementation that lets me just dump idea onto a page that I care little about, but is the process of starting something bigger, crosslinking between people, meetings, tasks, and launchdocs.

I hadn’t heard of the term launchdoc before this, but I took it and I am using it. I generally do an ok doc in the changelog of my products and spice it up to go to the announcement chat channel, but I don’t fully keep record of it, pulling the changelog into a launchdoc gives me that chance to spice it up and have the language it needs to go right into chat.

virt manager on bazzite

2025-06-27T21:09:05Z

I got virtual machine manager running on two Bazzite machines today. It was a bit tricky, more than I thought actually. I ran into all sorts of virtualisation not setup issues when I tried the flatpak. Then I found that Bazzite comes with a ujust setup-virtualization command that does all the work for me. I tried that and again virtual machine manager was here, but not working, this time it feels like flatpak issues.

In a Hail Mary attempt I got it working by using an ubuntu distrobox container to run the UI. And it worked!

from the host #

From the host we create the container to use from distrobox. This is an ubuntu machine, it can be any os of your choosing, preferably one that you are familiar with and contains virt-manager in its package repos.

distrobox create -i ubuntu
distrobox enter ubuntu

from inside the distrobox container #

Now that we are in the distrobox we are no longer in an immutable distro and we can easily install anything we want. I actually like this process. I might have shit like this that I use for a month or a few months, on a normal distro, this is fully installed on the os, raises the potential of package conflicts and lengthens the update time.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install virtinst virt-manager
virt-manager

Along the way #

I tried adding myself to the libvirt group, and expicitly setting the socket path. After setting up another machine I realized these steps were unnecessary.

sudo usermod -aG libvirt $USER
export LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI="qemu+unix:///system"
ls -l /run/libvirt/libvirt-sock
virt-install --version

Note

After fully reading through `ujust setup-virtualization` I realized that it

adds me to the libvirt group, so that’s why it is not needed.

An even Better Guide #

I later found [[ thoughts-723 ]] there is documentation for setting up virtual machine manager in distrobox in the distrobox docs. It even calls out running on an immutable distro like bazzite like it knew I was coming.

full log #

waylon@razorcrest:~$ distrobox create -i ubuntu
Image ubuntu not found.
Do you want to pull the image now? [Y/n]: y
Resolved "ubuntu" as an alias (/etc/containers/registries.conf.d/000-shortnames.conf)
Trying to pull docker.io/library/ubuntu:latest...
Getting image source signatures
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Writing manifest to image destination
bf16bdcff9c96b76a6d417bd8f0a3abe0e55c0ed9bdb3549e906834e2592fd5f
Creating 'ubuntu' using image ubuntu  [ OK ]
Distrobox 'ubuntu' successfully created.
To enter, run:

distrobox enter ubuntu

waylon@razorcrest:~$ distrobox enter ubuntu
Starting container...                     [ OK ]
Installing basic packages...              [ OK ]
Setting up devpts mounts...               [ OK ]
Setting up read-only mounts...            [ OK ]
Setting up read-write mounts...           [ OK ]
Setting up host's sockets integration...  [ OK ]
Integrating host's themes, icons, fonts...  [ OK ]
Setting up distrobox profile...           [ OK ]
Setting up sudo...                        [ OK ]
Setting up user groups...                 [ OK ]
Setting up user's group list...           [ OK ]
Setting up existing user...               [ OK ]
Ensuring user's access...                 [ OK ]

Container Setup Complete!
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sudo apt install virtinst
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📦[waylon@ubuntu ~]$ virt-install --version
virsh list --all
4.1.0
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
error: binary '/usr/sbin/libvirtd' does not exist in $PATH: No such file or directory

📦[waylon@ubuntu ~]$ exit
logout
waylon@razorcrest:~$ distrobox enter --additional-flags "--device /dev/kvm" ubuntu
Error: unknown flag: --device
See 'podman exec --help'
waylon@razorcrest:~$ distrobox enter ubuntu
📦[waylon@ubuntu ~]$ ls -l /run/libvirt/
common/               libvirt-sock          nodedev/              secrets/              virtlogd-admin-sock
hostdevmgr/           libvirt-sock-ro       nwfilter/             storage/              virtlogd-sock
interface/            lxc/                  nwfilter-binding/     virtlockd-admin-sock
libvirt-admin-sock    network/              qemu/                 virtlockd-sock
📦[waylon@ubuntu ~]$ ls -l /run/libvirt/libvirt-sock
srw-rw-rw-. 1 nobody nogroup 0 Jun 27 11:09 /run/libvirt/libvirt-sock
📦[waylon@ubuntu ~]$ sudo usermod -aG libvirt $USER
usermod: group 'libvirt' does not exist
📦[waylon@ubuntu ~]$ export LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI="qemu+unix:///system"
virsh list --all
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📦[waylon@ubuntu ~]$ ls -l /run/libvirt/libvirt-sock
srw-rw-rw-. 1 nobody nogroup 0 Jun 27 11:09 /run/libvirt/libvirt-sock
📦[waylon@ubuntu ~]$ virt-install --version
virsh list --all
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📦[waylon@ubuntu ~]$ sudo apt update
sudo apt install virt-manager -y
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csv

2025-06-26T20:44:33Z

name,age,city
Alice,30,New York
Bob,25,San Francisco
Charlie,35,Chicago
Charlie,35,Chicago
Charlie,35,Chicago
Charlie,35,Chicago
Charlie,35,Chicago
Charlie,35,Chicago
Charlie,35,Chicago

name,age,city
Alice,30,New York
Bob,25,San Francisco
Charlie,35,Chicago
Charlie,35,Chicago
Charlie,35,Chicago
Charlie,35,Chicago
Charlie,35,Chicago
Charlie,35,Chicago
Charlie,35,Chicago

graph TD
  A-->B
  A-->C
  A-->D
  D-->E

perfect

2025-06-26T13:55:17Z

Perfect is a made up word that humans use to describe something that is above average, or works really well for them. The idea of perfection is fleeting, as you think more deeply about something, you can continue to chase the idea of perfection to unimaginable senses. Sometimes perfect simply means good enough. Could there be something better, Always, but at what cost. If I spent 10 more minutes on this post would it be better, maybe, but I might fuck it up. If I spent my lifetime studying how humans read and think, sole focused on how it pertains to this post, ya it would get better. When I use this word perfect it’s not meant in the most literal sense of the word, but perfect to me, maybe good enough given the constraints I have, its the best thing I’ve got.

⭐ sst opencode

2025-06-24T14:38:03Z

Looking for inspiration? opencode by sst.

AI coding agent, built for the terminal.

⭐ anomalyco opencode

2025-06-24T14:38:03Z

I’m impressed by opencode from anomalyco.

The open source coding agent.

just

2025-06-23T19:02:29Z

I just never quite understood why the word just can send people over the top. I get it when you don’t know someone, you don’t have history with them, and they come in saying you are doing something wrong.

When you say “just,” you’re skipping over all the invisible complexity. You’re assuming the problem is simple, and that the person asking for help hasn’t already considered the obvious.

You’re not seeing the constraints:

Legacy code Business requirements Team conventions Time, budget, or technical debt Platform limitations

~https://www.neverjust.net/

If I’ve worked with someone for more than 6 months, we have established patterns for problems, libraries we use, and they are deep in the weeds of trying to fix something, I want to ask “Why don’t you just do the same thing we do everywhere else?”

I don’t need a snarky ass response, I don’t need you to get bent out of shape about it. I am communicating that I do not know the damn constraints to this problem. I am communicating I am ignorant to the pain you have suffered trying to do something for days that I thought should be copy paste pr up in 10 minutes.

What I want to hear is “Well here’s the story of why this particular one is complex, and let me take you on my travels.” or “I’m about there and don’t have time right now just understand that this is different, we can discuss later.”

My just should not cause you pain, it should not cause you to feel belittled, If we have worked together for any amount of time and have respect for each other, you should understand that this is not coming from a place of belittlement, rather its an open door for you to explain why this thing is not what it seems at surface level.

Just use another library #

~https://www.neverjust.net/

Here Sam asks “Why don’t you just use another library?”, and Alex replies “If it were that easy, I would have done it already.”

Honestly this example is a little vague and non-specific. On boarding a new library to a team can be a big ask. It becomes something that the team has to integrate and depend on, and take on supply chain risk. This example would be better with something more specific, if the team often uses a mix of SQL, pandas, and occasionally pulls out polars for bigger tasks, Sam might legitimately ask “why don’t you just use <insert pandas, polars, SQL>”.

This communicates that Sam see’s the obvious we use polars when things get tough, or we use SQL when data transfer gets too slow.

You are not Dumb #

I want to hear the story. In no way am I calling you dumb, in fact I’m probably claiming ignorance to the problem at hand. I see that you have a lot more time invested than me and I’m offering help, not asking for snarky ass remarks back Alex.

In fact take it as a sign that I am this comfortable with you and that you are so far from dumb that I don’t have to risk being taken out of context.

Or maybe you are #

Or maybe Sam is trying to belittle Alex here, if that’s the case we need to have a conversation and work some shit out or find somewhere else to be, Alex should not be belittled like this because Sam is full of himself.

Suggestions #

~https://www.neverjust.net/

The suggestions are fine, but they feel like they are asking me to hunt around for the problem rather than you recognizing my ignorance to the issue, and let Sam tell me “Why don’t you just use another library?”

Final Thoughts #

In recognizing how much pain this causes others I do try to limit my use of just, it comes out from time to time, though I try not to. I try to remain kind, humble, and helpful. And typically in the first few weeks or months interaction with new teams/people I kinda walk on eggshells for a bit. I don’t know you or where you are, if I make it sound like you are dumb and turns out that’s what people think of you I’m gonna feel kinda bad. Just understand that not everyone is trying to attack you, communication via text is hard, give folks a break before jumping them.

Don’t be an Ass #

This post is not trying to say that you can freely belittle your team, go forth and be the irritating guy on the team that comes off like a know it all. I’m saying when you are on the receiving end try not to take it with such offense and as an opportunity to explain without the need to dance around the issue.

copier vcs quirks

2025-06-19T08:04:51Z

Copier has a few quirks with vcs that I just discovered by trying to test out some changes. I may have some config that I have long forgotten about somewhere deep in my dotfiles, I don’t think so, but id love to be wrong and corrected, please reach out.

What Doesn’t Work #

I tried throwing everything at this template to make it work. I tried a bunch of flags that did not work. I tried making commits to the local repo to get rid of the dirty warning. I really wanted to test new changes locally without committing and pushing untested and potentially broken changes.

uvx copier copy ../markata-blog-starter .
uvx copier copy gh:waylonwalker/markata-blog-starter@develop .
uvx copier copy ../markata-blog-starter . -wlg --trust

What Works - –vcs-ref #

Finally after trying everything to get the local copy to work, and my guess of @branch not working I found this to work. It does require me to go to the repo on my develop branch.

uvx copier copy gh:waylonwalker/markata-blog-starter --vcs-ref develop .

git">What Works - delete .git #

Really this might be my best option to make quick changes and test them locally without going through a version control system. It is not ideal, but makes it easy to quickly iterate on. I might be renaming .git, or copying to /tmp for quick iteration.

rm -rf .git
uvx copier copy ../markata-blog-starter .

Copier I love #

Copier is a great templating tool. I really love it. I use it every single day to create posts on this blog using Tmux hotkey for copier templates. This is the first time this quirk has got me and it had me puzzled for 45 minutes as I did not expect this behavior whatsoever.

⭐ canonical checkbox

2025-06-18T02:07:34Z

I came across checkbox from canonical, and it’s packed with great features and ideas.

Checkbox is a testing framework used to validate device compatibility with Ubuntu Linux. It’s the testing tool developed for the purposes of the Ubuntu Certification program.

using yek to serialize text files into llm friendly file

2025-06-11T11:01:34Z

I’ve been using gitingest web ui [[ thoughts-516 ]] for quite awhile to serialize git repo into llm friendly text files. This gives tools context about repos that are not in the training data so that it knows about it and how to use the code in the repo. gitingest also has a python library [[ thoughts-517 ]]

I had a use case for a project not yet on git, and found yek.

Installing yek #

Their instructions tell you to curl to bash.

curl -fsSL https://bodo.run/yek.sh | bash

I don’t like curl to bash from random sites, so I have my own self hosted version of i.jpillora.com. I like using this because it pulls from github and I trust github as a source for artifacts as good as the repo I am pulling from.

curl https://i.jpillora.com/bodo-run/yek | bash

Using yek #

yek

/tmp/yek-output/yek-output-bb01e621.txt

This will give you a link to a text file that you can add to many llm tools. This happened so fast for me that I didn’t even believe that it worked properly.

more options #

As with most clis, you can run yek --help to see the options available.

yek --help

brightnessctl adjust screen brightness

2025-06-11T08:42:36Z

Today I discovered brightnessctl to adjust the screen brightness on my AwesomeWM machine. Its a command line utility that you can use to adjust the brightness of your screen. A command line interface like this gives you the ability to bind keys with something like [[xbindkeys]] or your window manager configuration.

sudo apt install brightnessctl
# or 
paru -S brightnessctl

Now that you have it installed you can use it to adjust the brightness of your screen, this worked particularly well for my laptop screen, I don’t think this works for monitors, in my experience they are usually controlled by the built in osd.

# Increase brightness by 10%
brightnessctl set +10%
# Decrease brightness by 10%
brightnessctl set 10%-
# Set brightness to 50%
brightnessctl set 50%
# Set brightness to 100%
brightnessctl set 100%

Note

on my machine I had to use `sudo` to run the command, otherwise I got the following error:

Can't modify brightness: Permission denied

You should run this program with root privileges.
Alternatively, get write permissions for device files.

⭐ trykimu videoeditor

2025-06-10T02:27:48Z

I’m impressed by videoeditor from trykimu.

Your Creative Copilot for Video Editing

⭐ robinroy03 videoeditor

2025-06-10T02:27:48Z

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on videoeditor, created by robinroy03.

Video Editor Application using React, Remotion & TypeScript.

⭐ niri-wm niri

2025-06-07T01:03:02Z

I recently discovered niri by niri-wm, and it’s truly impressive.

A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.

⭐ YaLTeR niri

2025-06-07T01:03:02Z

I’m impressed by niri from YaLTeR.

A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.

⭐ zk-org zk

2025-06-06T01:22:44Z

zk by zk-org is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves.

A plain text note-taking assistant

⭐ get-alex alex

2025-06-06T01:18:53Z

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on alex, created by get-alex.

Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing

⭐ lukas-reineke cbfmt

2025-06-06T01:18:47Z

The work on cbfmt by lukas-reineke.

A tool to format codeblocks inside markdown and org documents.

⭐ Feel-ix-343 markdown-oxide

2025-06-06T01:18:37Z

Check out Feel-ix-343 and their project markdown-oxide.

PKM Markdown Language Server

⭐ hougesen mdsf

2025-06-06T01:18:28Z

I like hougesen’s project mdsf.

Format markdown code blocks using your favorite tools

⭐ numtide treefmt

2025-06-06T01:18:23Z

The work on treefmt by numtide.

one CLI to format your repo [maintainers=@zimbatm,@brianmcgee]

rich theme

2025-06-05T20:37:10Z

The rich console is themeable, I’ve been a long time user of rich and had no Idea. You can define your own theme keywords and use them just like you use normal rich keywords in square brackets like'[bold red]'.

from rich.console import Console
from rich.theme import Theme
custom_theme = Theme({
    "info": "dim cyan",
    "warning": "magenta",
    "danger": "bold red"
})
console = Console(theme=custom_theme)
console.print("This is information", style="info")
console.print("[warning]The pod bay doors are locked[/warning]")
console.print("Something terrible happened!", style="danger")

unset multiple environment variables

2025-06-03T11:21:11Z

You can unset multiple environment variables at once. I did not know this was a thing, its something that ended up happening organically on a call and asking someone to run unset. They had never done it before and did not know how it works, but did exactly as I said instead of what I meant. I like this handy shortcut doing it in one line rather than each one individually, I will be using this in the future. You might need this for something like running aws cli commands with localstack.

unset AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY AWS_DEFAULT_REGION

i3lock on AwesomeWM

2025-06-02T14:40:56Z

i3lock is a fantastic lockscreen for tiling window managers.

If you are using a tiling window manager within a public space you need to add a lockscreen. I have one machine that I take with me to a public space. Its secure enough that I can leave it, but not secure enough that I want to leave it unlocked. So when I need to leave it behind for the restroom I need to lock it up.

arch wiki

paru -S i3lock
# or
apt install i3lock

Now that you have i3lock installed lets lock that screen.

# lock it with a pure white flashbang
i3lock

# lock it with a black background
i3lock -c 000000

# lock it with a custom color
i3lock -c 2e1330

# lock it with a wallpaper
i3lock -c 000000 ~/Pictures/Wallpapers/mywallpaper.png

You can use your window manager or something more generic like xbindkeys to set a hotkey. This way you don’t have to open a terminal and type out the command every time you leave your desk. You can just press something like SUPER+L like you would on other OS’s.

Fancy #

If you like it a bit fancier, you can use i3lock-fancy, it can blur, pixelate, and greyscale your current screen. I did not really like this because you can still tell what is going on the screen. It’s probably secure enough and looks better, but I went with regular i3lock.

paru -S i3lock-fancy-git
# or
apt install i3lock-fancy

kraft

2025-06-01T20:32:39Z

Kraft is the family gaming server that we started early 2025.

Repopulating #

Villagers are really hard to get gong. We have this huge villager tower on the server, we nearly every bed filled, and one day we logged in and there were three. Not sure what happened until I witnessed one of them jump maybe 3 blocks down and off himself. I checked my last two villagers and they were each on one or two hearts left. We almost lost every single villager on the server.

villager-tower-needs-repopulated.mp4

To get villagers to breed and make baby villagers you need beds, which we already have, and food. I gave my guys some food and they started making baby villagers immediately, crisis averted as we start to get the first few fresh full health villagers on the server.

repopulatingv4.mp4

my nvim spellcheck setup

2025-05-31T20:11:59Z

I’ve gone too long without a proper spellcheck setup in nvim. I know it’s there, I just don’t use it, I don’t have the right keybinds, like I do with vim date, to make it work, and its clunky.

Default keybinds #

z= show spell suggestions
zg add word to dictionary
zw remove word from dictionary
]s jump to next misspelled word
[s jump to previous misspelled word

I really struggle with bracketed keybinds, they don’t flow for me. I have to shift into it and hit two keys, you cant just pop through them with intent, it always feels clunky to me.

Custom keybinds #

I barely use F-keys in my keymap so that was free game. On my keyboard I have F1-F9 in a numpad layout on my right hand, so F4-F6 are home row, these are super easy to pop through and update. I really refrain from using such high real estate keys like this unless it’s for something good, and I do a lot of writing in nvim, so fingers crossed I use the heck out of it.

jump to next misspelled word
jump to previous misspelled word
show spell suggestions

I still use zg and zw, they seem fine to me.

The Setup #

In my keymap.lua file I added these to the end, they are working so far and hopefully I use spellcheck more on my posts now that I’ve made it easy.

set("n", "<f4>", "]s")
set("n", "<f5>", "[s")
set("n", "<f6>", "<cmd>Telescope spell_suggest<cr>")

One Failure #

I went down a long rabbit hole before this trying to populate the quickfix with spelling errors, I tried looking for existing plugins, tried to get ai to give me a good prototype to start with, and everything was over complicated. So far I’m really liking this setup.

kubernetes node labels

2025-05-28T18:49:19Z

If you need to target a specific k8s node in the cluster, you can use labels. You want to treat your nodes as much like cattle as you can, but sometimes budgets get in the way. You might be like me and just run any free hardware you can get in your cluster, or you might have some large storage or gpu needs that you can’t afford to put on every node in the cluster.

kubectl get nodes --show-labels

# add the bigpool label
kubectl label node k8s-1 bigpool=true
kubectl get nodes --show-labels

# remove the bigpool label
kubectl label node k8s-1 bigpool-

To use the label in a pod set spec.nodeSelector to the label that you applied.

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: busybox
spec:
  containers:
  - name: busybox
    image: busybox
  nodeSelector:
    bigpool: "true"

wants

2025-05-27T21:01:14Z

Inspired by mara.town/wants

want but do not enjoy #

New hardware that cannot be repaired
Disciplining Children
Nice landscaping which requires regular maintenance

enjoy but do not want #

breakfast
Fancy things
Manual Labor in moderation
Vacations to far away places

Linux Is About Choice

2025-05-27T13:37:00Z

This Luke Smith video came across my feed Linux, Bitcoin: When Tech Projects Become “Too Popular…” Don’t forget the goal.. It’s interesting to hear his perspective about Linux, FOSS, Free Software being the end goal, and that we are loosing sight of the goal. This sentiment really aligns with the early FOSS movement from Stallman, but was this ever the goal?

Taken over by apathetic interests #

Luke talks about these projects getting taken over by people with no passion for the original goal of freedom and privacy. They want the projects to grow, get bigger, and become mainstream. This feels exactly the opposite of anything Luke would want, so my bias alarm goes off here. Honestly I do see some of the grossness of projects like this that were grassroots, for freedom and privacy get taken over for money grabs. I’m completely out on bitcoin so I cannot make any comment there, but I Truly believe that the Linux kernel is not a money grab as Luke makes the new face of bitcoin sound.

Corporate backing is OK #

I’m going to take a counter point here from Luke, that it’s OK for Companies to be made, and money to be made on FOSS. While the Nats relicense has caused a Kerfuffle, I appreciate their side of the relicense, as a they discussed on The Changelog: NATS and the CNCF kerfuffle | Derek Collison shares NATS/Synadia story. They had a struggle to make money as a small project in the Linux Foundation. Large companies would not pay for their service as they have already paid into the foundation. They chose to relicense new versions of the server so such that it would become FOSS after 2 years. This gives them time to pay for their development.

Rug pulls, price gouging, and other bad behaviors aside Funding is overall good for the FOSS community. It is a good thing that Torvalds is able to make a living from the work he has done on the kernel.

FOSS hardware #

Luke mentions FOSS hardware in the video. I think this is great and really plays to the longevity of a product and limiting e-waste. I think the main goal here is not necessarily openness, but repairability. At least for me. I could not care to build out ram or hard drives from scratch, but what I do care is that I can repair my hardware. I don’t want my investments into hardware to go to waste and be thrown away because of a component failure. I get that we are largely there on the mobile side, and that really sucks.

Choice #

I really feel like the goal of Linux is choice, its not locked into FOSS. FOSS is a great option, and is really only there for Linux, and not at all an option for Windows or MacOS. I’d argue that at the beginning of the Linux project there was no choice your only real option was closed source all the way around. These days not only do we have the freedom to choose an OS, but we can choose how we want our Linux. If you want to deploy Linux at a large company, and you are willing to pay for support from someone like Red Hat or Canonical that’s an option, but its not the only option.

macOS Power User Asks DistroTube: Which Linux Never Breaks?

In this interview DT talks about getting new hardware sent to him, and they ask do you want us to put Linux on it? His answer, No, it doesn’t matter, I wont use it anyways. You see DT is not here purely for the Linux, he is here for the choice. His choice is to pick every last config option, and tailor every installed executable to fit his needs. His preferences happen to be in the full Free as in Freedom realm.

Infinite Linux #

Linux has infinite options of configuration, hundreds of distros, hundreds of desktop environments. You can Choose a Floating window manager, Tiling window manager, or go full TTY with no graphical environment. With MacOS and Windows you get it the way they decide you get it with a level of configuration that pales in comparison to what you get on Linux.

Immutable Linux #

A very recent and modern example of this is immutable or cloud native distros, the idea is that they are more like an appliance, giving you less freedom and control than you typically would have on a normal bare metal install of linux, bootc is just really taking off this year. I’m currently running one of these distro’s called bazzite and I am really loving it. I have a couple of desktop applications that I install from the discover store as flatpaks, but mosty I live in a fully custom distrobox that I put every ounce of ricing and configuration that I want into. For me it has been ultra reliable, rather than rolling my own thing that is a combination of packages unique to me, I have something that is rock hard in the community and I run versioned images of my devtainer that make it easy for me to roll back on if something were to break.

For me this is feedom, I get to fully control the environment I really care about, my terminal. I get a window manager with 9 workspaces that I can hotkey to, and I never miss a game night with my kids due to some weird graphics issue.

Freedom #

In the end Linux was born of this freedom, and is an important part. While its great that there are players here that are able to make money, be good citizens and give back, there are bad players. Even if all the players are good not everyone is going to agree and money will only spoil their hurt feelings even more. If Linux looses this freedom of choice and becomes something that you only get littered with Closed source software, or on paid platforms, or imposes any level of restrictions on to you its lost, and we need a new revolution to rise in its ashes.

Fin #

I’m trying to write more free flowing articles philosophical in nature. There are probably grammatical and spelling misttakes. There are probably things I will re-read in 6 months and not agree with, but these are my free flowing thoughts right now. I think we are missing really good opinion pieces on the internet these days. Too much AI generated, “Hello World”, shoulda read the docs BS. I subscribe to a lot of other good folks that give their real opinions you can find them on my blogroll.

javascript b64

2025-05-25T21:01:04Z

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.

encoded = btoa(content);
decoded = atob(encoded);

Here is the result.

⭐ ayoisaiah f2

2025-05-24T21:00:49Z

f2 by ayoisaiah is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves.

F2 is a cross-platform command-line tool for batch renaming files and directories quickly and safely. Written in Go!

tinyapps

2025-05-22T14:31:29Z

I’m working on replacing my usage of google inline search apps with real apps, these are ones that I create and host on my own homelab. The first three that I created are mostly chatgpt based, with a bit of hand edit after the fact, uploaded to minio and become an app on my k8s-pages

renamed

The original title of this post was "Replacing Google Search Apps With Self Hosted Web Apps"

I’m leaning on web wakelock to keep the screen on while these apps are running, primarily clos, timer, and stopwatch.

Clock #

A large displya clock.

Timer #

A simple timer that counts down from thet set time.

Stopwatch #

This is the one that inspired it all, I need to run a few stopwatches at work, and chose to just do it right in the google search with a few tabs running.

Dice #

A simple dice roller, this one is the one that I decided to start adding ? for help.

UUID #

It displays a uuid, thats it. ctrl + c to copy.

b64 #

Today i spent some time on b64, it is a base64 decoder/encoder. Just start tying to enter text, or paste, escape to deselect the text box, d to decode, e to encode, ? for help. It took a bit to get all of the keymaps right with the differnt modes and make sure that for instance you don’t keep typing in the input box while in help mode, or decode/encode while in the input box.

PocketCal #

This one is not mine, it’s made by Cassidy Williams), but is within the ethos and deserves a mention here. Its a single page calendar that is a static site completely rendered on the front end, data is stored in the url as you interact with it. None of your data goes to a server.

qrcode #

Today I wanted to finish an article that I was on afk and It killed me to get it from my work computer to my phone, so I made a qrcode generator. Paste in or type in your message and it shows up as a qr code live. This one needed an event listener for window resize since the library creates a rigid canvas qr code that does not fit on the screen once you create it then resize the window.

I even added query params to pass hex codes in for color and bg.

web wakelock

2025-05-21T20:50:22Z

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 running.

    // Wake Lock support
    let wakeLock = null;
    async function requestWakeLock() {
      try {
        if ('wakeLock' in navigator) {
          wakeLock = await navigator.wakeLock.request('screen');
          console.log("Wake lock acquired");
        }
      } catch (err) {
        console.error("Wake lock error:", err);
      }
    }

    document.addEventListener("visibilitychange", () => {
      if (wakeLock !== null && document.visibilityState === "visible") {
        requestWakeLock();
      }
    });

    requestWakeLock();

⭐ pypeaday dbztui

2025-05-19T16:40:31Z

I’m impressed by dbztui from pypeaday.

A DBZ TUI built with an early version of ninesUI and Windsurf

vhs themes

2025-05-16T08:24:51Z

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 tokyo-night 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 dracula made everything much better.

# sort.tape
Output assets/sort.mp4
Output assets/sort.gif

Require echo

Set Shell "bash"
Set FontSize 32
Set Width 1920
Set Height 1080
+ Set Theme 'Dracula'

sort.mp4

NinesUI #

I’m using these in my ninesui project, right now they are in the readme, but maybe some docs will grow eventually. Right now its hardcore explore phase.

m9a devlog 1

2025-05-11T09:33:44Z

It’s sad to see textualize.io close the doors, but textual is still alive and maintained as a n open source project. I tried to use it very early, and struggled, this was before docs and tutorials really existed, before a lot of the widgets and components existed. Then as we all do I got busy and moved on to other things in life and did not have the capacity to build TUIs.

I like tuis #

I like tuis, I like staying in the terminal. I use lf daily to move files around when I want something more than mv and cp. I use k9s hourly to monitor and manage my kubernetes cluster.

Are they worth the effort?? #

As awesome as tui’s are, they are more effort to build, and less automatable. I feel like the first stage into automation of a project really needs to be a good cli, and this is often good enough for the project and I move on.

m9a (em - nine - ah) #

inspired by k9s

Like I said I really like k9s and use it all the time, It really makes running kubectl commands a breeze and much less verbose. I don’t know how useful this will be, but as a learning exercise I am working on a k9s experience for my blog generator markata.

m9a-1-trimmed.webm

Learning #

So far this is just for learning and not quite the most useful thing, I am not sure if there is a way to do it, but I am interested in the idea of some sort of framework (maybe just widgets) that can more easily turn pydantic objects into this kind of tui. I don’t quite know how it would work, or if it could work, for now just exploring the idea, and I think I hit a fairly crude clone of k9s so far.

grafana dashboards as k8s configmap

2025-05-06T20:24:35Z

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.

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: my-dashboard
  namespace: meta
  labels:
    grafana_dashboard: "1"
data:
  my-dashboard.json: |
    {
      "annotations": {
        "list": [
      ...
      "uid": "fel2uhjhepg5ce",
      "version": 3
    }

⭐ gitroomhq postiz-app

2025-05-06T18:23:48Z

Just starred postiz-app by gitroomhq. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer.

📨 The ultimate social media scheduling tool, with a bunch of AI 🤖

hollow knight home row layout

2025-05-05T20:44:36Z

I just made it past 100% in my main hollow knight run, so now I will allow myself to get silksong when it comes out. I did this with a little bit of YT guidance, but mostly just figuring it out. I only just discovered the ⭐ ReznoRMichael hollow-knight-completion-check which got me an extra 2% for a few items I must have got and not saved on, because I was sure I had them.

Controller #

Hollow Knight is a game that can be played with keyboard or controller, You can use analog stick for movements, but they just translate to dpad, there really are no analog moves in the game. This makes it ripe for playing on pure keyboard. I really favor controller when there are more than one analog (throttle, brake, steering for example).

On controller I’ve switched to only using d-pad as I feel like it gives me the most crisp of controls. It is really easy to miss a pogo on analog by hitting slightly left or right.

My Keyboard #

My daily driver keyboard is a custom built 40% monoblock keyboard I absolutely love using it, it perfectly plops down on a laptop when I am in laptop mode and really fits me quite well for my wrok as a software/infrastructure engineer.

WASD #

We’ve got to talk about pinky stagger

I can use wasd perfectly fine on it, I have a layer that has no holds on any keys so that they are all nice and crisp and tailored to gaming operations that would require a hold.

Now what I haven’t ran into before is that trying to game with wasd and use the right side is very uncomfortable with this steep of a pinky stagger. Generally with keyboard an mouse games I have the keyboard a little slanted and move my fingers to wasd just fine, but it just does not work well with both hands on the keyboard.

Enter asdf #

Today is day one, I’m not quite sure how long it will last, but I am giving asdf a try for arrow keys. This will work much more akin to a fight stick where each finger has a primary direction instead of using one finger for both up and down.

vim keys, but mirrored

I chose to mirror vim keys with down towards the middle.  I had it the other

way, but when I played, I kept pressing it the other way.

a - left
s - up
d - down
f - right

power keys

I wanted to put the most common keys on the strongest finger (feels like

left pinky breaks this mantra, but whatever).

j - attack
k - dash
l - focus/cast
h - quick cast
e - inventory
u - super dash
m - map
g - dream nail

This seems weird #

So Ya, I know it’s weird. I did some searching wasn’t able to find much other than this one reddit post talking about using asdf. oddly one person reccommended sdfg, this souds so much like vim, which makes a lot of sense, but brings back moving fingers off of home row position or using one finger for down and right, which aint gonna work.

First thoughts #

I’m about 20 minutes in and struggling on False Knight, I could be a bit more patient, but I’m trying to work on pogos on all the mobs on the way in.

Holding up or down #

The ability to just hold up or down as you run through the map with enemies coming from above or below feels superior, and its going to be nice, I really just got to put some time in to get use to the layout, maybe even make some changes.

I realize now that Hollow Knight rarely needs quick swiching between up and down and would probably be fine on a wasd layout if i were to be using a split keyboard or a bit less pinky stagger that would work out, but for now I am giving this a shot.

My Son’s experience #

So my son is playing along with me, new save as well. He went with wasd and mouse, while this sounds insane to me to use mouse for clicking and no movement the natural feel that it has, has him blazing through faster than he does on controller, doing pogos he’s never done before.

False Knight down #

The recording somehow stuck on the menu screen and did not record video, but I got this screenshot of the victory.

Vengeful Spirit #

Day 2 I managed to make it to the Ancestral Mound and get the Vengeful Spirit cast. Everything is starting to feel much better and more natural. Surprisingly my main issue is with up and down since they are used a bit less, left with my pinky has not been any issue.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-vengeful-spirit.mp4

Hornet Battle 1 #

I made it successfully through the first hornet battle I was able to snag this clip of a few nicely timed pogos. Its getting better, I am still really struggling between down srike and up strike.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-hornet-pogos.mp4

Mothwing Cloak #

I got so lucky with the finish of hornet, I thought she hit me while healing, kinda lost where we were tanked a hit and almost took one last hit again and beat her to the final punch.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-hornet-finish.mp4

Gruz Mother #

After completing gruz mother I went to grab my macropad to click the clip button when her babies came out, and it was at this moment my son told me I was done for, there was no recovering from this. I was already at 2 hearts, and a mistake left me with one. You can see me fumble for the up key in the clip as I get repositioned fully on back on the board.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-gruz-mother.mp4

Now we have Sly the merchant unlocked and can buy items from him.

City #

I made it to the city, but on my way, it looks like one of the smokey layers were getting put on top of the game instead of layer in behind. I’ve never seen this, so I really have no idea what it is. During the thorny area it was in and out and right as I entered the city it locked on top and did not leave.

Soul Master #

I made my way over to the soul master, dying several times along the way to a few Soul Twisters, its time to battle.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-soul-meeting-master.mp4

After beating his second room, (this clip makes him look way too easy as he wasn’t targeting me fore some reason at the end), I picked up desolate dive, which brings a new key combo to get familiar with down+cast.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-soul-master-finish.mp4

Moss Knight #

hollow-knight-keeb-moss-knight.mp4

Lumafly Lantern #

While I had a lot of geo from the Moss Knights I finished out getting 1800 geo to get the lumafly lantern from sly’s shop at dirtmouth.

hollow-knight-keeb-lumafly-lantern.mp4

Royal Waterway #

I decided to head back to the city of tears and into the royal waterway to fight the dung defender and collect Isma’s tear.

hollow-knight-keeb-royal-waterway-unlock.mp4

hollow-knight-keeb-royal-waterway-entering.mp4

hollow-knight-keeb-royal-waterway-bench.mp4

The Dung Defender battle, great lore with this guy, lots of bouncy movement, but overall not too hard of a boss. He is not very accurate with attacks, so you have time to just sit in the corners and heal.

hollow-knight-keeb-dung-defender.mp4

Once the Dung Defender was defeated, I continued on up to the Kings Station and unlocked it.

hollow-knight-keeb-kings-station.mp4

I could not remember where ismas tear was and I ended up all the way down in deep nest, the climb out is a bit of a challenge, here I am going right by the route you take with crystal dash to get isma’s tear.

climbing-out-of-deep-nest.mp4

Isma’s Tear #

I managed to find my way through the royal waterway and where you crystal dash over to isma’s tear. This battle took two attempts, because the first I had no health left and walked in with two masks.

hollow-knight-keeb-ismas-tear-battle.mp4

Now the tear coats our shell and allows us to swim through the acid, and we can get a lot more places, and some places are just easier to get without precision parkour over the acid.

hollow-knight-keeb-ismas-tear.mp4

Thorny Mask #

I wandered around the world a bit today and found a few small items, nothing of major concequence.

hollow-knight-keeb-thorny-mask-shard.mp4 hollow-knight-keeb-spore-shroom.mp4 hollow-knight-keeb-thorny-wanderers-journal.mp4

Challenging Mantis Lords #

It felt like time to challenge the Mantis Lords. For the reason to prove to myself that I am getting better at this layout.

I drew my nail and ready for the challenge.

hollow-knight-keeb-challenging-mantis-lords.mp4

First try I made it past the first one, and deep into the second one, I think If I would have remembered the healing window for them I would have had a shot at a first try on them.

hollow-knight-keeb-mantis-lords-1.mp4

After three tries I had it. Maybe its not apples to apples with my first ever run years ago on steam deck, but it took months. I would have about 20 minutes a day waiting for kids pickup at school and I would just keep grinding at them for what added up to be likely several hours.

hollow-knight-keeb-defeating-mantis-lords.mp4

After defeating them I’m let into the treasure room where I get a bench, Hallownest seal, a big loot box, and the mark of pride. This is actually one of my favorite charms as it gives you an extra 25% range to your nail attacks. This opens up the window for pogos and reach attacks without taking damage.

hollow-knight-keeb-mark-of-pride.mp4

⭐ wezterm wezterm

2025-05-05T15:23:46Z

I recently discovered wezterm by wezterm, and it’s truly impressive.

A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust

fix feed descriptions

2025-05-05T10:32:04Z

Today I fixed a bug in markata that has been occurring for a few months where the description for posts come out as None if coming from cache, the issue was a pretty simple check and pull properly from cache. This fixes all the descriptions in feeds and metadata on the post.

Better description #

While in there we went ahead and improved our get_description to more accurately return plain text without escaped characters, remove cutoff words, and add an elipsis if the description cuts off the text.

More description #

While I was there I made longer form posts, til, blog-post use the super description of 500 characters instead of the regular 120 character description.

Before #

After #

⭐ kubero-dev kubero

2025-05-04T17:39:16Z

Just starred kubero by kubero-dev. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer.

A free and self-hosted PaaS alternative to Heroku / Netlify / Coolify / Vercel / Dokku / Portainer running on Kubernetes

ruff single line import

2025-05-04T14:23:41Z

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.

[tool.ruff]
select = ['I'] # you probably want others as well

[tool.ruff.isort]
force-single-line = true

Turns out I was missing Isort in the select list.

Markata list posts by year

2025-05-01T22:35:47Z

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.

from markata import Markata

m.map('title, slug, date', filter='date.year==2016', sort='date')

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 #

[
    ('⭐ jupyterlab jupyterlab', 'jupyterlab-jupyterlab', datetime.date(2016, 12, 13)),
    ('⭐ nickhould tidy-data-python', 'nickhould-tidy-data-python', datetime.date(2016, 12, 9)),
    (
        '⭐ mikeckennedy write-pythonic-code-demos',
        'mikeckennedy-write-pythonic-code-demos',
        datetime.date(2016, 11, 22)
    ),
    (
        '⭐ mikeckennedy write-pythonic-code-for-better-data-science-webcast',
        'mikeckennedy-write-pythonic-code-for-better-data-science-webcast',
        datetime.date(2016, 11, 22)
    ),
    ('⭐ rajshah4 dlgroup', 'rajshah4-dlgroup', datetime.date(2016, 11, 18)),
    ('⭐ pandas-dev pandas', 'pandas-dev-pandas', datetime.date(2016, 10, 5))
]

You could use the list command as well right within your shell and the same map and filters work.

⬢ [devtainer-0.1.3] ❯ markata list --map title --filter='date.year==2016'
[22:35:06] 2088/2145 posts skipped                                                                       skip.py:36
           57/2145 posts not skipped                                                                     skip.py:37

⭐ pandas-dev pandas
⭐ rajshah4 dlgroup
⭐ mikeckennedy write-pythonic-code-for-better-data-science-webcast
⭐ mikeckennedy write-pythonic-code-demos
⭐ nickhould tidy-data-python
⭐ jupyterlab jupyterlab

You could also do it with jin right inside of a markdown post using the jinja_md plugin.

{% raw %}
{% for title, slug, date in markata.map('title, slug, date', filter='date.year==2016', sort='date') %}
* [{{title}}]({{slug}}) - {{date}}
{% endfor %}
{% endraw %}

Note

You do have to `jinja: true` in the frontmatter of the post.

Result #

{% for title, slug, date in markata.map(’title, slug, date’, filter=‘date.year==2016’, sort=‘date’) %}

{{title}} - {{date}} {% endfor %}

⭐ wesbos bracket.engineer

2025-05-01T14:02:55Z

bracket.engineer by wesbos is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves.

Generate 3D printable power brick brackets.

portal-platformer-devlog-1

2025-04-28T19:56:58Z

Here is the current state of my platformer yet to really be named, I want to make something in between hollow knight and portal.

Starting #

I made one once in make code arcace on a pybadge. It was quick and dirty, but fun to work on. It had the basic of blocks that I could move, blocks i could put a portal onto, and a goal for each level. Some levels you can just walk through and some levels required you to really think about where to place the portal.

History #

So this version of the game is a least 2 years in the making, I open it every few months give it a day or two and move on. Its mostly something that I work on with my son. He really likes to jump around on projects so its hard to make real progress on something, but we are hitting an age where he is able to come back to projects a little better.

All of this is built in python, and mostly before vibe coding was a thing, its mostly me trying to get out ideas as quick as my son is spitting out the the next idea.

Coyote #

It includes a few frames of coyote so it feels a bit more like most games.

!! Note If you are unfamiliar with the term coyote in platformers it allows you to jump for a few frames after falling off a platform, like wiley coyoyte in Luney Toons.

Wall slide/jump #

Wall slide and jump work, but so is wall climb as an unintended side effect. When you are touching a wall, your fall speed is halved.

Levels and loader #

There is a crude level loader that loads json levels with pydantic. No editor yet, just hand editing levels with json.

Checkpoints #

It makes checkpoints, when you die, you go back to your last checkpoint. Checkpoints can be invisible, and have a link that turns them into a door to another level.

66c5b984-5450-48ee-9978-00fec4815807.mp4

no art #

There is no art yet, just the skin of a platformer, levels, checkpoints, and coyote. No portals, but there is a pointer with a janky box that covers my lighting.

⭐ block goose

2025-04-28T01:37:03Z

Check out goose by block. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential.

an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM

⭐ manusa kubernetes-mcp-server

2025-04-28T01:36:45Z

Check out kubernetes-mcp-server by manusa. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Kubernetes and OpenShift

⭐ containers kubernetes-mcp-server

2025-04-28T01:36:45Z

Looking for inspiration? kubernetes-mcp-server by containers.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Kubernetes and OpenShift

⭐ punkpeye awesome-mcp-servers

2025-04-28T01:36:29Z

Check out punkpeye and their project awesome-mcp-servers.

A collection of MCP servers.

⭐ mozilla-ai any-agent

2025-04-28T01:36:25Z

I’m really excited about any-agent, an amazing project by mozilla-ai. It’s worth exploring!

A single interface to build and evaluate different agent frameworks

⭐ dtnewman zev

2025-04-25T13:40:11Z

Check out dtnewman and their project zev.

A simple CLI tool to help you remember terminal commands

⭐ stakater Reloader

2025-04-24T02:03:36Z

Looking for inspiration? Reloader by stakater.

A Kubernetes controller to watch changes in ConfigMap and Secrets and do rolling upgrades on Pods with their associated Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet and DeploymentConfig – [✩Star] if you’re using it!

⭐ ublue-os bazzite-arch

2025-04-22T12:59:37Z

I’m impressed by bazzite-arch from ublue-os.

A ready-to-game Arch Linux based OCI designed for use exclusively in distrobox.

⭐ ublue-os arch-distrobox

2025-04-22T12:59:35Z

ublue-os has done a fantastic job with arch-distrobox. Highly recommend taking a look.

An Arch Linux OCI meant for use exclusively in Distrobox

⭐ ReznoRMichael hollow-knight-completion-check

2025-04-20T16:28:11Z

Check out ReznoRMichael and their project hollow-knight-completion-check.

App for reading and analyzing a Hollow Knight save file. Shows what remains to do for full 112% Game Completion, Achievements, Hunter’s Journal, Collectibles, True Completion %. Includes a self-designed Hint system.

backup distrobox image

2025-04-09T17:35:50Z

Today I’m upgrading my distrobox, but don’t want to end up in a situation where I can’t get anything done becauase I work out of my distrobox.

distrobox ls
distrobox stop devtainer
distrobox create --clone devtainer --name devtainer-20250409
distrobox enter devtainer

⭐ adrianlopezroche fdupes

2025-04-09T12:55:41Z

I’m really excited about fdupes, an amazing project by adrianlopezroche. It’s worth exploring!

FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.

Changing k8s Storage Class - Migration Job

2025-04-04T09:57:50Z

I’m setting up longhorn in my homelab, and I ran into an issue where I initially setup some pvcs under longhorn, and later realized that to get longhorn to snapshot and backup I needed to hand edit volumes after the fact or change storage class. I’m all in on gitops so option 1 was not an option. So changing storageclass it is.

Now the issue is that you CANNOT mutate storageclass on a provisioned pvc, it is an immutable attribute.

Migration Job #

This migration job will create a new pvc with the new storageclass and move the data from the old pvc to the new pvc.

Existing Pods

 This migration job will not work if you have a pod using the old pvc.  You

will need to shutdown the pod and delete it.

# old pvc with longhorn storageclass
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: site-pvc-longhorn
  namespace: waylonwalker-com
spec:
  storageClassName: longhorn-backup
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 5Gi
# new pvc with longhorn-backup storageclass
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: site-pvc-longhorn-backup
  namespace: waylonwalker-com
spec:
  storageClassName: longhorn-backup
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 5Gi
---
# migration job to move the data to the new pvc
apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: Job
metadata:
  name: pvc-migration
  namespace: waylonwalker-com
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: pvc-migration
        image: ubuntu:22.04
        command: ["/bin/bash", "-c"]
        args:
          - |
            echo "Starting migration..."
            cd /data
            cp -av source/. destination/
            echo "Migration complete!"
        volumeMounts:
        - name: source-vol
          mountPath: /data/source
        - name: dest-vol
          mountPath: /data/destination
      restartPolicy: Never
      volumes:
      - name: source-vol
        persistentVolumeClaim:
          claimName: site-pvc-longhorn
      - name: dest-vol
        persistentVolumeClaim:
          claimName: site-pvc-longhorn-backup

Apply the manifests and wait for the job to complete.

kubectl apply -f pvc-migration.yaml

Cleanup #

I had chatgpt create me a script to help me find what is using the pvc so that it can be deleted.

#!/bin/bash

NAMESPACE="waylonwalker-com"
PVC_NAME="site-pvc-longhorn-new"

echo "⏳ Checking if PVC exists..."
kubectl get pvc "$PVC_NAME" -n "$NAMESPACE" || {
  echo "✅ PVC already deleted."
  exit 0
}

echo "🔍 Describe PVC..."
kubectl describe pvc "$PVC_NAME" -n "$NAMESPACE"

echo -e "\n🔗 Checking if any pod is using this PVC..."
kubectl get pods -n "$NAMESPACE" -o json | jq -r \
  --arg PVC "$PVC_NAME" \
  '.items[] | select(.spec.volumes[].persistentVolumeClaim.claimName == $PVC) | .metadata.name'

echo -e "\n🧹 Checking finalizers..."
kubectl get pvc "$PVC_NAME" -n "$NAMESPACE" -o json | jq '.metadata.finalizers'

echo -e "\n🔎 Checking associated VolumeAttachment..."
PV_NAME=$(kubectl get pvc "$PVC_NAME" -n "$NAMESPACE" -o jsonpath='{.spec.volumeName}')
echo "🔗 PVC is bound to PV: $PV_NAME"

kubectl get volumeattachment -A -o json | jq \
  --arg PV "$PV_NAME" \
  '.items[] | select(.spec.source.persistentVolumeName == $PV) | {name: .metadata.name, node: .spec.nodeName, attached: .status.attached}'

echo -e "\n🚀 Done."

I had still had cronjob pods completed, so I had to delete them first.

🔗 Checking if any pod is using this PVC...
pvc-migration-ndv92
waylonwalker-com-cronjob-29057840-8s92p
waylonwalker-com-cronjob-29057850-4rvm9
waylonwalker-com-cronjob-29057860-6g89j

kubectl delete pod pvc-migration-ndv92 -n waylonwalker-com
kubectl delete pod waylonwalker-com-cronjob-29057840-8s92p -n waylonwalker-com
kubectl delete pod waylonwalker-com-cronjob-29057850-4rvm9 -n waylonwalker-com
kubectl delete pod waylonwalker-com-cronjob-29057860-6g89j -n waylonwalker-com

homelab drive ids

2025-03-26T11:22:07Z

ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/

Drive Bay 1 ata-ST4000VN008-2DR166_ZDHBZSWZ

+————————————————————————-+ | [ Power] [ Reset ] | +————————————————————————-+ | [ BAY 5 ] 3TB WD30EFRX WMC4N0D3J9R7 ext4 /mnt/sdf4 | +————————————————————————-+ | [ BAY 4 ] 14TB EXOS ZTM09R9N zfs main pool mirror /mnt/main | +————————————————————————-+ | [ BAY 3 ] 14TB EXOS ZTM0AALS zfs main pool mirror /mnt/main | +——————————————-+ | [ BAY 2 ] 4TB IRONWOLF ZDHBZV3N zfs tank pool mirror /mnt/tank | +————————————————————————-+ | [ BAY 1 ] 4TB IRONWOLF ZDHBZSWZ zfs tank pool mirror /mnt/tank | +————————————————————————-+

⭐ Ramilito kubectl.nvim

2025-03-25T19:16:43Z

I recently discovered kubectl.nvim by Ramilito, and it’s truly impressive.

⎈ Streamline your Kubernetes management within Neovim—control and monitor your cluster seamlessly, all without leaving your coding environment.

⭐ xpipe-io xpipe-webtop

2025-03-20T14:05:37Z

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on xpipe-webtop, created by xpipe-io.

A containerized web-based desktop environment for XPipe

⭐ xpipe-io xpipe

2025-03-17T23:00:55Z

xpipe by xpipe-io is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves.

Access your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop

Use pbpaste for clean shell history

2025-03-17T12:00:00Z

Using pbpaste for command substitution keeps sensitive or long URLs out of your shell history. Instead of typing git clone https://github.com/user/repo-with-long-name.git, copy the URL to clipboard and run git clone "$(pbpaste)". This prevents the URL from appearing in ~/.bash_history or ~/.zsh_history.

To get pbpaste working on both Xorg and Wayland, add this to your shell config:

if [[ $(command -v wl-copy) ]]; then
    alias pbcopy='wl-copy'
    pbpaste() { wl-paste; }
elif [[ $(command -v xclip) ]]; then
    alias pbcopy='xclip -selection clipboard'
    pbpaste() { xclip -selection clipboard -o; }
fi

The function approach (instead of alias) enables command substitution, while the quotes around $(pbpaste) handle spaces and special characters safely.

Now you can use it.

git clone "$(pbpaste)"

More importantly secrets can stay out of your history.

export GITHUB_TOKEN="$(pbpaste)"
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="$(pbpaste)"
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="$(pbpaste)"
export DATABASE_URL="$(pbpaste)"

THPS 1 Downtown Gaps

2025-03-15T18:46:01Z

Previously THPS 1 Skate Park Gaps

Big Ass #

THPS1-5-BigAss.mp4

Billboard Grind #

THPS1-5-BillboardGrind.mp4

BS Gap #

THPS1-5-BSGap.mp4

BS Grind #

THPS1-5-BSGrind.mp4

Burly Deck Gap #

THPS1-5-BurlyDeckGap.mp4

Car Ollie #

THPS1-5-CarOllie.mp4

THPS1-5-CarPlant.mp4

Cheesy Deck Gap #

THPS1-5-CheesyDeckGap.mp4

Death Grind #

THPS1-5-DeathGrind.mp4

Deck Gap #

THPS1-5-DeckGap.mp4

Dirty Rail #

THPS1-5-DirtyRail.mp4

Glass Gap #

THPS1-5-GlassGap.mp4

Kicker Gap #

THPS1-5-KickerGap.mp4

Kicker 2 Edge #

THPS1-5-Kicker2Edge.mp4

Kicker 2 Street #

THPS1-5-Kicker2Street.mp4

Rail 2 Rail #

THPS1-5-Rail2Rail.mp4

Roof 2 Roof #

THPS1-5-Roof2Roof.mp4

Secret Tunnel Entrance #

THPS1-5-SecretTunnelEntrance.mp4

Sucky Room Gap #

THPS1-5-SuckyRoomGap.mp4

T 2 T Gap #

THPS1-5-T2TGap.mp4

Transfer #

THPS1-5-Transfer.mp4

Truck Gap #

THPS1-5-TruckGap.mp4

Tunnel Gap #

THPS1-5-TunnelGap.mp4

Wimpy Gap #

THPS1-5-WimpyGap.mp4

Mechanic Gap #

THPS1-5-MechanicGap.mp4

Box Office Gap #

THPS1-5-BoxOfficeGap.mp4

Skyway Gap #

THPS1-5-SkywayGap.mp4

Super Skyway Gap #

THPS1-5-SuperSkywayGap.mp4

⭐ Y2Z monolith

2025-03-11T14:18:31Z

Just starred monolith by Y2Z. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer.

⬛️ CLI tool and library for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file

THPS 1 Skate Park Gaps

2025-03-08T14:36:23Z

Previously THPS 1 Mall Gaps Next THPS 1 Downtown Gaps

Acid Drop #

THPS1-4-AcidDrop.mp4

Across The Park #

THPS1-4-AcrossThePark.mp4

Around The Bend #

THPS1-4-AroundTheBend.mp4

HP Transfer #

THPS1-4-HPTransfer.mp4

Light Grind #

THPS1-4-LightGrind.mp4

Over The Box #

THPS1-4-OverTheBox.mp4

Over The Pipe #

THPS1-4-OverThePipe.mp4

Over the Rafters #

THPS1-4-OverTheRafters.mp4

Pool 2 Walkway #

THPS1-4-Pool2Walkway.mp4

Pool Hip #

THPS1-4-PoolHip.mp4

Pool Rail Trans #

THPS1-4-PoolRailTrans.mp4

Rafter Rail #

THPS1-4-RafterRail.mp4

Transfer #

THPS1-4-Transfer.mp4

Walkway Rail Trans #

THPS1-4-WalkwayRailTrans.mp4

Wall Gap #

THPS1-4-WallGap.mp4

Wall Gap Jr #

THPS1-4-WallGapJr.mp4

Whoop Gap #

THPS1-4-WhoopGap.mp4

Trailmakers Pioneers

2025-03-06T20:27:37Z

Trailmakers 2.0 Pioneers was released today as an update to trailmakers. It’s a brand new campaign mode that requires you to mine resources to get materials to craft your vehicles rather than salvage parts like you so in the Stranded Campaign. There also seems to be a more linear play through of the story with the frogitts, unlike stranded where it let you do anything completely open world, as long as you had the equipment to go there.

Four Frogitts #

Out of the gate Wyatt came in with four frogitts to rescue, I don’t know how he found them all, I’ve only been able to find the first one that the master gives you to bring home as a tutorial.

four-frogitts.mp4

First Boss #

After Wyatt left for bed I played a little more and beat the first of what felt like a boss level enemy, he had much different attacks. I did not think I would make it as I got hit hard from his first explosion attack before I realized what it did.

first-boss.mp4

Here is where he was on the map.

First Mega Drill #

So this first mega drill was a mistake we walked right into. Master Sapo says, “Hey go investigate the Drill, but be careful, you are not powerful enough for it.” Little did we know that getting too close will fully start the battle.

mega-drill-1-1.mp4

mega-drill-1-2.mp4

mega-drill-1-3.mp4

Leapsville Froggit rescue #

Back to leapsville we were presented with two froggit rescues. We later found out that the settlement missions will repeat forever and cycle through a few missions.

leapsville-froggit-rescue-1.mp4

leapsville-froggit-rescue-2.mp4

After doing a few missions we completed leapsville.

completing-leapsville.mp4

Finding Sulfur #

Finding sulfur in Trailmakers was a little tricky, first trying to find where it was, then realizing that it was hidden in this bulbous plant.

finding-sulfur.mp4

Derogs Pond Froggit Rescue #

derogs-pond-froggit-rescue-2.mp4

Meadows Intercity Bus Service #

meadows-intercity-bus-service-2.mp4 meadows-intercity-bus-service-3.mp4

Mega Drill Mudflats #

We came into this mega drill thinking we were prepared, but I was wrong. I equipped shotguns thinking it would be kinda like the last one, at the last second Master Sapo tells you that you need an EMP, which we got equiped. Once we got in we realized that getting close to anything is really hard and all the shotguns were useless, and to top it off all the Botnak attacks make it impossible to reconfigure.

mega-drill-mudflats.mp4

I really think the devs should make a small free zone where you don’t get attacked where you respawn.

Huge Trophy Truck #

I like making Trophy Trucks with big suspension. They seem like they glitch out more than they help, but I think they are fun, here is a huge jump I landed hard in mine.

huge-trophy-truck-jump.mp4

Emperical Extractions #

When pulling the scientists out of the their reserch to bring them back I did not have enough boost to lift them, we needed to take a pitstop to get them up to the treetops.

emperical-extractions-adding-boost.mp4

emperical-extractions-landing.mp4

⭐ Doomlab7 homelab-compose

2025-03-06T14:56:33Z

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on homelab-compose, created by Doomlab7.

A repository for the applications I run via docker-compose in my homelab

⭐ deepseek-ai smallpond

2025-03-04T20:17:58Z

I recently discovered smallpond by deepseek-ai, and it’s truly impressive.

A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS.

⭐ nolar kopf

2025-03-02T20:32:30Z

The work on kopf by nolar.

A Python framework to write Kubernetes operators in just a few lines of code

THPS 1 School Gaps

2025-03-01T10:39:28Z

On the road to Gap Master achievement I got all School Gaps in THPS1. This is a super fun level, I’ll have to admit that I had to look up at least a quarter of them, and could not find them myself, mostly due to the naming, all of the rail tricks were actually ledges and I was looking for big rails. None of the warehouse gaps were manuals so I had no idea that the downhill and accross the gym would be manual tricks.

Previously THPS 1 Warehouse Gaps next THPS 1 Mall Gaps

Ditchin Class #

THPS1-2-DitchinClass.mp4

Dumpster Rail Gap #

THPS1-2-DumpsterRailGap.mp4

Funbox Table Transfer #

THPS1-2-FunBoxToTableTransfer.mp4

Garbage Ollie #

THPS1-2-GarbageOllie.mp4

Gimme Gap #

THPS1-2-GimmeGap.mp4

Hall Pass gap #

THPS1-2-HallPassGap.mp4

All-Access Gap #

THPS1-2-AllAccessGap.mp4

Huge Rail #

THPS1-2-HugeRail.mp4

Kicker Gap #

THPS1-2-KickerGap.mp4

Long Ass Rail #

THPS1-2-LongAssRail.mp4

Mini Gap #

THPS1-2-MiniGap.mp4

Over a Footbridge #

THPS1-2-OverAFootBridge.mp4

Over the Air Condidtioner #

THPS1-2-OverTheAirConditioner.mp4

Park Gap #

THPS1-2-ParkGap.mp4

Planter Gap #

THPS1-2-PlanterGap.mp4

Playground Rail #

THPS1-2-PlaygroundRail.mp4

Rail to Rail Transfer #

THPS1-2-RailToRailTransfer.mp4

Roof To Awning Gap #

THPS1-2-RoofToAwningGap.mp4

Roof To Roof Gap #

THPS1-2-RoofToRoofGap.mp4

Funbox To Rail Transfer #

THPS1-2-FunboxToRailTransfer.mp4

Downhill Manual #

THPS1-2-DownhillManual.mp4

Accross the Gym #

THPS1-2-AccrossTheGym.mp4

Roof Hop #

THPS1-2-RoofHop.mp4

Down the Awning #

THPS1-2-DownTheAwning.mp4

Perfectly Balanced #

THPS1-2-PerfectlyBalanced.mp4

Gigantic Rail #

THPS1-2-GiganticRail.mp4

Ridiculous Rail #

THPS1-2-RidiculousRail.mp4

Got the badge #

THPS 1 Mall Gaps

2025-03-01T10:39:28Z

This is one of the most memorable levels for me in THPS1 from when I had originally played it. Surprisingly there aren’t as many gaps in it as I thought there would be, there are definitely a lot that you can make up on your own. Anyways here’s my playthrough of all the mall gaps in THPS1 on my way to gap master.

Previously THPS 1 School Gaps Next THPS 1 Skate Park Gaps

Huge Stair Set Off A Mezzanine #

THPS1-3-HugeStairSetOffAMezzanine.mp4

Coffee Grind #

THPS1-3-CoffeeGrind.mp4

The Flying Leap #

THPS1-3-TheFlyingLeap.mp4

For the Whole Atrium #

THPS1-3-ForTheWholeAtrium.mp4

Fountain Gap #

THPS1-3-FountainGap.mp4

Exit Stage Right #

THPS1-3-ExitStageRight.mp4

Exit Stage Left #

THPS1-3-ExitStageLeft.mp4

Over A Stair Set #

THPS1-3-OverAStairSet.mp4

Over A Huge Stair Set #

THPS1-3-OverAHugeStairSet.mp4

Planter Gap #

THPS1-3-PlanterGap.mp4

Rail Combo #

THPS1-3-RailCombo.mp4

Skater Excalator Gap #

THPS1-3-SkaterEscalatorGap.mp4

Accross The Light Beam #

THPS1-3-AcrossTheLightBeam.mp4

The Long Rail #

THPS1-3-TheLongRail.mp4

The Short Rail #

THPS1-3-TheShortRail.mp4

⭐ PrefectHQ marvin

2025-02-28T14:37:43Z

Check out PrefectHQ and their project marvin.

✨ AI agents that spark joy

⭐ rancher system-upgrade-controller

2025-02-26T13:10:31Z

Just starred system-upgrade-controller by rancher. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer.

In your Kubernetes, upgrading your nodes

⭐ pythonarcade arcade

2025-02-25T14:03:02Z

Just starred arcade by pythonarcade. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer.

Easy to use Python library for creating 2D arcade games.

THPS 1 Warehouse Gaps

2025-02-22T20:46:03Z

On the road to Gap Master achievement I got all Warehouse Gaps in THPS1. This is this classic warehouse level that everyone thinks of when THPS is mentioned. Such a good level, compact, easy to play, with some fun gaps that might take a few tries to hit.

Next up THPS 1 School Gaps

Big Rail #

THPS1-1-BigRail.mp4

Channel Gap #

THPS1-1-ChannelGap.mp4

Deck 2 Rail #

THPS1-1-Deck2Rail.mp4

Face Plant #

THPS1-1-FacePlant.mp4

High Rail #

THPS1-1-HighRail.mp4

Holy Shi #

THPS1-1-HolyShi.mp4

Kicker 2 Ledge #

THPS1-1-Kicker2Ledge.mp4

Kicker Gap #

THPS1-1-KickerGap.mp4

Monster Grind #

THPS1-1-MonsterGrind.mp4

Over The Pipe #

THPS1-1-OverThePipe.mp4

Secret Room #

THPS1-1-SecretRoom.mp4

Taxi 2 Ledge #

THPS1-1-Taxi2Ledge.mp4

Taxi Gap #

THPS1-1-TaxiGap.mp4

Transfer #

THPS1-1-Transfer.mp4

Transition Grind #

THPS1-1-TransitionGrind.mp4

⭐ tailscale github-action

2025-02-21T14:14:22Z

Check out tailscale and their project github-action.

A GitHub Action to connect your workflow to your Tailscale network.

⭐ kubenetworks kubevpn

2025-02-21T14:14:01Z

I recently discovered kubevpn by kubenetworks, and it’s truly impressive.

KubeVPN offers a Cloud Native Dev Environment that connects to kubernetes cluster network.

pre-commit exclude

2025-02-20T08:11:35Z

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.

exclude: ^static/app.*\.css$
repos:
  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
    rev: v2.4.0
    hooks:
      - id: trailing-whitespace
      - id: end-of-file-fixer
      - id: check-yaml
      - id: check-added-large-files

Dont Starve Together Session One - Nooo Luuucy

2025-02-17T09:40:05Z

Dont Starve Together session one - NOOO LUUUCY

After that embarrasing death I made my way over to a touchstone I found and Woodie is back from the dead, but without his beloved Lucy, to get her we will need to go

⭐ valkey-io valkey-py

2025-02-17T02:24:49Z

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on valkey-py, created by valkey-io.

Valkey Python client based on a fork of redis-py

⭐ valkey-io valkey

2025-02-17T02:22:53Z

I’m really excited about valkey, an amazing project by valkey-io. It’s worth exploring!

A flexible distributed key-value datastore that is optimized for caching and other realtime workloads.

Dont Starve Together Session One - Burt Food

2025-02-16T09:40:05Z

Dont Starve Together session one - burt food

To kick off the second session, I noticed that when you have a torch you can light your cooking pot, what I did not realize was that this burns your cooking pot to smitherines. Nothing left but a frame of useless ashes.

Dont Starve Together Session One - Getting Into It With A Clockwork Bishop

2025-02-15T09:40:05Z

Dont Starve Together session one - Getting into it with a Clockwork Bishop

As I was gathering resources with Lucy, minding my own business BAM I got hit with an attack from a Clockwork Bishop, man these things hit hard and have really good aim. I took three hits before getting away, leaving me with very low heath at the end of this play session.

fragmention

2025-02-15T09:32:43Z

This post is still WIP. …..

https://indieweb.org/fragmention##Challenges

I’ve been digging through David Bushell’s blog over the past day, he has some really good ideas about blogging and webdev. One really interesting post I came accross is url-fragment-text-directives. I’ve long had id’s linked on my headings, though sometimes broken, or now showing the link, I’ve done my best to include them. Fragmentions extend this to allow any text to be linkable like this.

fragmentioner ui: https://github.com/kartikprabhu/fragmentioner/tree/master?tab=readme-ov-file fragmentioner js: https://github.com/chapmanu/fragmentions

Examples #

https://resilientwebdesign.com/#This%20is%20a%20web%20book

newlines in css before

2025-02-15T09:28:48Z

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 :before I need to use \A and white-space: pre-line.

body :target::before,
body [fragmention]::before {
    content: "Highlighted Fragment:\A";
    white-space: pre-line;
    @apply font-bold text-yellow-600;
}

Here is what it looks like on my not yet live implementation of fragmentions.

⭐ bigskysoftware fixi

2025-02-15T00:21:48Z

I recently discovered fixi by bigskysoftware, and it’s truly impressive.

No description available.

⭐ duckdb pg_duckdb

2025-02-14T13:56:38Z

I like duckdb’s project pg_duckdb.

DuckDB-powered Postgres for high performance apps & analytics.

⭐ medialab xan

2025-02-14T13:56:21Z

Just starred xan by medialab. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer.

The CSV magician

⭐ johnwarne upvote-rss

2025-02-14T13:54:30Z

I’m impressed by upvote-rss from johnwarne.

Generate rich RSS feeds from Reddit, Hacker News, and Lemmy

Dont Starve Together Session One - Getting A Hat

2025-02-14T09:40:05Z

Dont Starve Together session one - Getting a Hat

I had the grass for a hat, so I figured why not. I’m not sure if it really helps this time of year, but I thought it looked good on Woodie.

⭐ caniszczyk rugpulls.dev

2025-02-13T17:15:44Z

Looking for inspiration? rugpulls.dev by caniszczyk.

No description available.

⭐ fosrl pangolin

2025-02-13T17:14:43Z

I’m really excited about pangolin, an amazing project by fosrl. It’s worth exploring!

Tunneled Mesh Reverse Proxy Server with Identity and Access Control and Dashboard UI

⭐ prazzon Flexbox-Labs

2025-02-13T17:12:58Z

Looking for inspiration? Flexbox-Labs by prazzon.

A web app for creating flexible layouts with the power of CSS Flexbox.

⭐ vagos llm-sort

2025-02-13T17:10:55Z

Check out llm-sort by vagos. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential.

Sort input lines semantically with llm

Dont Starve Together Session One - Opening Up The Garden

2025-02-13T09:40:05Z

Dont Starve Together session one - Opening up the Garden

On day two I had enough materials gathered to make the garden digamajig to prep the soil for gardening. I planted the few seeds that I stole from the birds right away.

fixed long standing nvim startup error

2025-02-13T08:41:39Z

Here’s the diff, this is it.

  local M = {}


  M.setup = require("waylonwalker.setup")
  M.settings = require("waylonwalker.settings")
+ M.lazy = require("waylonwalker.lazy")
  M.options = require("waylonwalker.options")
  M.globals = require("waylonwalker.globals")
  M.keymap = require("waylonwalker.keymap")
- M.lazy = require("waylonwalker.lazy")
  M.autocmds = require("waylonwalker.autocmds")
  M.util = require("waylonwalker.util")
  M.plugins = require("waylonwalker.plugins")
  M.snippets = require("waylonwalker.snippets")

  return M

The error #

On first install of my dotfiles I’m presenting with this flashbang of an error filling the screen with red background. Its kinda hard to read, I’m not deep into lua and reading their tracebacks. It pops up in this pager that if I scroll too far it quits and the error is gone before I know what it is or how it got there.

For the longest time it just felt like it randomly showed up without much warning.

I sent ai at the issue #

I tried some chatgpt and windsurf, both gave me overconfident answers that all did nothing. They just sent me in loops for way too long.

I fixed it #

What did it take??

Just sitting down and thinking about what the problem was and setting up a good test workflow. Yesterday I worked out testing nvim installs and I was immediately able to replicate the error over and over. Unlike before where it felt random, I now have a good problem statement that I can replicate.

clean install
start nvim
Lazy pops up
FLASHBANG!! Error that treesitter is not installed

What was confusing for so long was that treesitter was the first thing in lazy, and it appeared that lazy was running before the error.

The fix #

Once I really thought about not installed, it clicked. It must be the order of operations. I popped open my init.lua and there it was, lazy running after things that use treesitter. A little d+d+k+k+k+k+k+p and it was fixed. running just testnvim the next time there was no flashbang!

  local M = {}


  M.setup = require("waylonwalker.setup")
  M.settings = require("waylonwalker.settings")
+ M.lazy = require("waylonwalker.lazy")
  M.options = require("waylonwalker.options")
  M.globals = require("waylonwalker.globals")
  M.keymap = require("waylonwalker.keymap")
- M.lazy = require("waylonwalker.lazy")
  M.autocmds = require("waylonwalker.autocmds")
  M.util = require("waylonwalker.util")
  M.plugins = require("waylonwalker.plugins")
  M.snippets = require("waylonwalker.snippets")

  return M

testing nvim installs

2025-02-12T21:02:03Z

Testing fresh nvim installs can be a pain, and hard to di without borking your known good install. I’ve been using NVIM_APPNAME 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.

rm ~/.cache/wwtest -rf
rm ~/.local/share/wwtest -rf
rm ~/.config/wwtest -rf
cp -r nvim/.config/nvim/ ~/.config/wwtest
NVIM_APPNAME=wwtest nvim --headless "+Lazy sync" +qa
NVIM_APPNAME=wwtest nvim --headless "+TSUpdateSync" "+sleep 5000m" +qa
NVIM_APPNAME=wwtest nvim --headless "+MasonUpdate" +qa
NVIM_APPNAME=wwtest nvim --headless "+TSInstallSync! c cpp go lua python rust tsx javascript typescript vimdoc vim bash yaml toml vue just" +qa
NVIM_APPNAME=wwtest nvim --headless "+MasonInstall lua-language-server rustywind ruff ruff-lsp html-lsp typescript-language-server beautysh fixjson isort markdownlint stylua yamlfmt python-lsp-server" +qa
NVIM_APPNAME=wwtest nvim

I’ve started to use this as a just recipe to run before deploying a new version of my dotfiles. So far its pairing nicely with nvim-manager

Setting up 4G Backup with Google Fi and Netgear LM1200

2025-02-12T13:23:35Z

I connected my home network to have 4G bakcup with Google Fi and Netgear LM1200. Goodle Fi offers free data-only sim cards that you can order from their service. It takes a couple of days, and a new sim arrives in the mail free of charge. It does pull data from your account, so if you are not on an unlimited plan be careful of how much you let go through the sim.

I’ve owned this for a few years now, but it’s been disconnected for a good six months or so. I’m not s[e what happened, but it stopped recognizing the old sim card. no need to point out the coffee stains at the end, its definitely not related

Follow the provided instuctions #

Activating the sim asked for a confirmation code shipped with the sim card, then brought me to this page.

Clicking Have a Different Device? brought up instructions to set up the APN in the LM1200.

Restart #

First thing for me was that the sim was not recognized, restarting the LM1200 did the trick to recognize it as a Google Fi sim, and I started setting up by adding the APN as instructed from Google.

Setup LM1200 #

Once restarted the LM1200 was recognize the sim right away and I was able to add the APN details.

Connected #

After Saving these I was immediately connected as a backup.

Testing Failover #

Backups do not exist without testing. I pulled the WAN cable from the LM1200 and after a few seconds it swapped over to the backup.

The dashboard shows fully connected, and it popped up that it sent an alert to my phone, but that did not work for me. I might hae something misconfigured.

I ran a speed test and got a pretty respectable 38 Mbit/s up and 12 Mbit/s down.

I reconnected the WAN cable and it went back to the primary, and it sat at orange for about 10 seconds before switching back to wired connection.

Fully back on wired.

Now its all back up and running giving me a super cheap 4G backup with pretty low effort. Hopefully its reliable, I’ve upgraded about everything else on my network since last running this, I think it will behave much better. I think some other issues were actually causing me to think I was not getting connection and this fully got pulled from the network to try to fix it.

Why not 5G? #

The devices are way more expensive and this gives me all I need for a backup.

ahrefs-cleanup-2024

2025-02-12T12:56:40Z

This post is a big work in progress, expect it to keep getting better.

Initial Score #

404 Not Found, generate a page for each tag #

Title too long #

404 Not Found, comma separated tags #

Another hit on 404’s caused by tags, was tag parsing from thoughts into posts, this cause links to the full comma separated list of tags rather than one per tag.

You can see on the website the whole dang set of tags was being treated as a single tag.

Broken images #

I’m not fully sure what happened to all of these gifs in my old host and why they didn’t show up, but I moved them all and they are solid now.

I burned all of my January Credits #

So I had an issue with my self hosted shots not making them fast enough for ahrefs, and essentially ddosing myself on one of their runs. The long wait times for images burnt all of my credits.

Here was the next successful run with a HUGE improvement in overall score.

The trend for errors is looking quite good.

md files were Missing #

I had several links out to the raw source of some pages generally hosted at {slug}.md, but I had turned it off due to it causing builds to fail.

Taking another look at the error it was obvious what was going on, thoughts never had a file extension and Pathlib was throwing isADirecotryError because the path was already a directory for the index.html, adding a .md to the path for the thoughts plugin fixed it.

I made this fix in commit e0bbc on my site repo.

Broken links to tags #

I wrote a cli plugin to automatically generate feeds for my tags, but I have not ran it in awhile so I had a number of posts trying to link tags to feeds that did not exist. I fixed this in commit [5d2e22](https://github.com/WaylonWalker/waylonwalker.com/commit/5d2e227a03acb1104e4214507872c61ae2a47d64].

fix: Open Graph URL not matching canonical #

[[ thoughts-565 ]] fixes an error introduced while fixing og tags.

vim date

2025-02-12T12:51:00Z

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. date 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 date -d tomorrow.

It outputs the following

Sat Feb 1 08:53:20 PM CST 2025

codeium just taught me this one with autocomplete

:put =strftime('%Y-%m-%d')

This outputs the following

2025-01-31

What I like about the :put =strftime( method is that you can add a format, but that is a lot more for me to remember than !!date

A few weeks later #

I’m going through a bunch of blog posts and dont want my date formats to change to the Wed Feb format so I broke down and made these keybindings. I think I’m still going to be using .!date a lot, but these keybindings will be nice for editing blog post frontmatter.

set("n", "<leader>dd", "<cmd>put =strftime('%Y-%m-%d')<cr>", { noremap = true, silent = true })
set("n", "<leader>dt", "<cmd>put =strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')<cr>", { noremap = true, silent = true })

dd 2025-02-12
dt 2025-02-12 12:53:47
:.!date Wed Feb 12 12:53:47 PM CST 2025

Dont Starve Together Session One - Setting Up Base

2025-02-12T09:40:05Z

Dont Starve Together session one - setting up base

Just after the first night started I found my way back to the center of the map and made a stone campfire. I really like to use the stone campfires as they last forever, you just have to add wood. I was lucky enough to find stone by the Tall Bird to make this one on first day.

⭐ DigitalHarbor7 engineering-status-pages

2025-02-12T03:19:59Z

I like DigitalHarbor7’s project engineering-status-pages.

Static sites for engineering project status updates

aptitude why

2025-02-11T13:55:04Z

Today I ran into an interesting question, why am I being asked to configure tzdata while installing npm. Turns out that the aptitude cli has a why command that very handily nails down why you have something installed on a debian based system.

Install aptitude #

apt install aptitude

Why tzdata #

Now we can query why we need tzdata and see the full chain with the root package being npm.

root@47685221fb82:/# aptitude why tzdata
i   npm        Depends  node-gyp
i A node-gyp   Depends  gyp (>= 0.1+20200513gitcaa6002)
i A gyp        Depends  python3:any
i A python3    Provides python3:any
i A python3    Depends  python3.12 (>= 3.12.3-0~)
i A python3.12 Depends  tzdata

Dont Starve Together Session One - First Encounter With A Tall Bird

2025-02-11T09:40:05Z

First encounter with a Tall Bird

On the first day I made a look around my home biome, and ran into a Tall Bird

configure timezone

2025-02-10T13:35:24Z

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.

Configuring tzdata
------------------

Please select the geographic area in which you live. Subsequent configuration questions will narrow this down by presenting a list of cities, representing the time zones in which they are located.

  1. Africa  2. America  3. Antarctica  4. Arctic  5. Asia  6. Atlantic  7. Australia  8. Europe  9. Indian  10. Pacific  11. Etc  12. Legacy
Geographic area:

Why tzdata #

Checking aptitude why tzdata it shows that the chain goes back through npm.

root@47685221fb82:/# aptitude why tzdata
i   npm        Depends  node-gyp
i A node-gyp   Depends  gyp (>= 0.1+20200513gitcaa6002)
i A gyp        Depends  python3:any
i A python3    Provides python3:any
i A python3    Depends  python3.12 (>= 3.12.3-0~)
i A python3.12 Depends  tzdata

The solution, configure tzdata #

export TZ="America/Chicago"
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
apt update
apt install tzdata -y
ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ /etc/localtime
dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata

DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

This is required, because apt installing tzdata will trigger the

interactive prompt. You will manually configure it in the next two steps.

Dont Starve Together Session One Start

2025-02-10T09:40:05Z

Dont Starve Together Session One Start

I always select the character Woodie. He comes with an axe called Lucy she has some dark humor (but not too dark), I like her. She also does not wear out so you always have a weapon and way to chop wood with you.

dst session one

2025-02-09T09:40:05Z

Wyatt is also documenting his run, while we aren’t playing in the same world we are playing together.

https://wyattbubbylee.com/dst-forever-world/

Loading into the world #

I always select the character Woodie. He comes with an axe called Lucy she has some dark humor (but not too dark), I like her. She also does not wear out so you always have a weapon and way to chop wood with you.

dst-1-1.mp4

First encounter with a Tall Bird #

On the first day I made a look around my home biome, and ran into a Tall Bird

dst-1-2.mp4

Tall Bird Stats #

Here are the tall bird stats from the wiki

Setting up base #

Just after the first night started I found my way back to the center of the map and made a stone campfire. I really like to use the stone campfires as they last forever, you just have to add wood. I was lucky enough to find stone by the Tall Bird to make this one on first day.

dst-1-3.mp4

Opening up the garden #

On day two I had enough materials gathered to make the garden digamajig to prep the soil for gardening. I planted the few seeds that I stole from the birds right away.

dst-1-4.mp4

Getting a hat #

I had the grass for a hat, so I figured why not. I’m not sure if it really helps this time of year, but I thought it looked good on Woodie.

dst-1-5.mp4

Getting into it with a Clockwork Bishop #

As I was gathering resources with Lucy, minding my own business BAM I got hit with an attack from a Clockwork Bishop, man these things hit hard and have really good aim. I took three hits before getting away, leaving me with very low heath at the end of this play session.

dst-1-6.mp4

Here is the clockwork bishop stats from the wiki

Session Two #

To kick off the second session, I noticed that when you have a torch you can light your cooking pot, what I did not realize was that this burns your cooking pot to smitherines. Nothing left but a frame of useless ashes.

dst-2-1.mp4

The TreeGuard #

After that terrible mistake I was off with Lucy collecting wood when I awoken the TreeGuard.

dst-2-2.mp4

The dude is slow, has terrible aim, but he is so persistent. No matter how far you get away he just shows up trying to kill you.

I needed to get my cooking pot back, so the next step was to get charcoal. So while I was collecting charcoal I did my best to try to take down the TreeGuard by burning him. But to no avail, he lives on.

dst-2-3.mp4

Once back at camp with my new cooking pot, he snuck up on me with his gigantic sluggish form, one wrong keystroke on mybehalf and I walked straight into his attack and I was done for.

dst-2-4.mp4

After that embarrasing death I made my way over to a touchstone I found and Woodie is back from the dead, but without his beloved Lucy, to get her we will need to go

dst-2-5.mp4

bc

2025-02-08T09:30:08Z

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 !!bc. All you need is a string of math on the line you want to calculate, go to normal mode and run !!bc to get the answer.

Traditionally I will open my system calculator or ipython to do something like this.

To keep the equation and the result in the same line you can send the equation to stderr and the result to stdout using tee.

:.!tee >(cat >&2) | bc

⭐ carpedm20 emoji

2025-02-07T22:08:01Z

emoji by carpedm20 is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves.

emoji terminal output for Python

⭐ uktrade sqlite-s3vfs

2025-02-07T17:09:49Z

The work on sqlite-s3vfs by uktrade.

Python writable virtual filesystem for SQLite on S3

markdown split panel

2025-02-03T13:21:23Z

Today I was playing with markdown split panels. I want to be able to compare and constrast occasionually, today the inspiration hit to do this using admonitions.

Mobile Users 🔄

You will need to rotate your device to see the side by side feature.

The Markdown #

This is what I am going for, one admonition that is easy to remember, that nests inside of itself , and I can put as much markdown on the inside that I want.

!!! vsplit I Have two opinions

    !!! vsplit Left Opinion

        supporting arguments

        * lorem ipsum
        * ipsum dolor

        - [x] lorem ipsum
        - [ ] ipsum dolor

    !!! vsplit Right Opinion

        supporting arguments

        * lorem ipsum
        * ipsum dolor

        - [ ] lorem ipsum
        - [x] ipsum dolor

Here is the result of that markdown.

I Have two opinions

Left Opinion

supporting arguments

lorem ipsum
ipsum dolor

lorem ipsum
ipsum dolor

Right Opinion

supporting arguments

lorem ipsum
ipsum dolor

lorem ipsum
ipsum dolor

Vsplit

Hello World

Here is a hello world application written in the typer cli framework for cli.

Vsplit

    ``` python

#!/usr/bin/env -S uv run –quiet –script

///

requires-python = “>=3.12”

dependencies = [

“typer”,

]

///

import typer

app = typer.Typer()

@app.command() def hello(name: str = “World”): “““Prints a greeting message.””” typer.echo(f"Hello, {name}!")

if name == “main”: app()

Make MinIO Access Key

2025-02-02T19:18:05Z

Today in my homelab I wanted to setup a new service that needed a MinIO access key. So I created a new user and a new access key with the MinIO CLI rather than poking through the ui like I have before.

Global Level vs User Level #

The MinIO CLI has two levels of access, global and user level. Most of the commands in this post will have several ways to do similar tasks that would potentially work. We are going to prefer to use the user level commands for more control. For some commands such as listing Keys it is handy to use the global level.

The Policy #

First we are going to make a new policy file named mypages_rw_policy.json.

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
    {
    "Action": [
        "s3:GetBucketLocation",
        "s3:ListBucket"
    ],
    "Effect": "Allow",
    "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:s3:::mybucket"
    ]
    },
    {
    "Action": [
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:PutObject",
        "s3:DeleteObject",
        "s3:ListMultipartUploadParts",
        "s3:AbortMultipartUpload"
    ],
    "Effect": "Allow",
    "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:s3:::mybucket/*"
    ]
    }
]
}

Set the Minio Alias #

Before we can create new access keys we will need to start by settin up an alias in minio that has admin rights to the minio server.

# default values
export MINIO_ACCESS_KEY=minioadmin
export MINIO_SECRET_KEY=minioadmin

mc alias set myminio https://myminio.example.com $MINIO_ACCESS_KEY $MINIO_SECRET_KEY

Check to see if your alias exists.

mc alias list

The Script #

Now we are going to pick a SECRETKEY and a NEWUSERNAME, create the policy, create the user, attach the policy to the user and add the user to the alias.

#!/bin/bash
NEWUSERNAME=MYPAGESUSER
NEWPASSWORD=mysupersecretkey
echo USERNAME: $NEWUSERNAME
echo PASSWORD: $NEWPASSWORD

# create a new policy for read/write to the bucket
mc admin policy create myminio mybucket-readwrite mypages_rw_policy.json

# create a new user
mc admin user add myminio $NEWUSERNAME $NEWPASSWORD

# attach the policy to the user, giving them read/write to the bucket
mc admin policy attach myminio mybucket-readwrite --user $NEWUSERNAME

# add the user to the alias
mc config host add myminio https://minio.wayl.one $NEWUSERNAME $NEWPASSWORD

# create a new access key for the user with thier permissions
mc admin user svcacct add                       \
myminio MYPAGESUSER                     \
--name mypagesRWKey                       \
--description "MYPAGESUSER Key for myminio" \
--expiry 2025-03-01

NEWSECRETKEY
3e11************************************************************
Access Key: IL4*****************
Secret Key: M3D*************************************
Expiration: 2025-03-01 06:00:00 +0000 UTC

Attention

* This is the secret key, do not share it with anyone.

This secret key will only be displayed once here, make sure you copy it to a secure location now.

Give it a test #

Now we can test that it works, by creating a file and copying it into the bucket.

# set up to work with the aws cli
export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=IL4*****************
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=M3D*************************************
export AWS_ENDPOINT_URL=https://myminio.example.com

# create a test file
echo "You How" > hi-hello.txt
# upload the file
aws s3 cp hi-hello.txt s3://mybucket/hi-hello.txt
# test the file exists
aws s3 ls s3://mybucket
# output
# 2025-02-02 19:25:02          8 hi-hello.txt

Note

I am using the aws cli to test, I installed it with pip.

pipx install awscli

Managing Access Keys #

You can list all of the access keys for a user, or all users.

# for one user
mc admin accesskey ls myminio/ MYPAGESUSER

# for all users
mc admin accesskey ls myminio/ --all

The output will show you all of the access keys for each user.

User: MYPAGESUSER
  Access Keys:
    IL4*****************, expires: 3 weeks from now, sts: false

You can also get a list of the service accounts for a user with this command.

mc admin user svcacct ls myminio/ MYPAGESUSER

   Access Key        | Expiry
IL4***************** | 2025-03-01 06:00:00 +0000 UTC

Note

You cannot see all of these keys from the web ui, the cli seems to be the

only way to display all access keys, including access keys for other users.

Creating an RO Access Key #

I ran into errors when trying to create a new key with exactly the same permissions as the user, I’m not sure if adding a policy that does not match the user is allowed or not.

I made a new policy that has read only access to the bucket as mypages_ro_policy.json

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
    {
    "Action": [
        "s3:GetBucketLocation",
        "s3:ListBucket"
    ],
    "Effect": "Allow",
    "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:s3:::mypages"
    ]
    },
    {
    "Action": [
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:ListMultipartUploadParts"
    ],
    "Effect": "Allow",
    "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:s3:::mypages/*"
    ]
    }
]
}

This command will use the above policy to create a new read only access key.

mc admin user svcacct add \
  myminio MYPAGESUSER \
  --name mypagesRWKey \
  --description "MYPAGESUSER READ ONLY Key for myminio" \
  --expiry 2025-03-01 \
  --policy mypages_ro_policy.json

The output will show you the access key and secret key.

Access Key: KDM*****************
Secret Key: 8Ww*************************************
Expiration: 2025-03-01 06:00:00 +0000 UTC

Attention

* This is the secret key, do not share it with anyone.

This secret key will only be displayed once here, make sure you copy it to a secure location now.

Removing a service account #

If you want to remove a service account, you can use the rm command to remove the Access Key, by alias and Access Key.

mc admin user svcacct rm myminio/ QH6*****************

Getting info #

You can get the info for a user or service accounts using the info subcommands.

⬢ [devtainer] ❯ mc admin user info minio-wayl-one/ MYPAGESUSER
AccessKey: MYPAGESUSER
Status: enabled
PolicyName: mypages-readwrite
MemberOf: []

⬢ [devtainer] ❯ mc admin user svcacct ls minio-wayl-one/ MYPAGESUSER
   Access Key        | Expiry
KDM***************** | 2025-03-01 06:00:00 +0000 UTC
IL4***************** | 2025-03-01 06:00:00 +0000 UTC

⬢ [devtainer] ❯ mc admin user svcacct info myminio/ IL4*****************
AccessKey: IL4*****************
ParentUser: MYPAGESUSER
Status: on
Name: mypagesRWKey
Description: MYPAGESUSER Key for myminio
Policy: implied
Expiration: 3 weeks from now

⬢ [devtainer] ❯ mc admin user svcacct info myminio/ KDM*****************
AccessKey: KDM*****************
ParentUser: MYPAGESUSER
Status: on
Name: mypagesRWKey
Description: MYPAGESUSER READ ONLY Key for myminio
Policy: embedded
Expiration: 3 weeks from now

⭐ cloudnative-pg cloudnative-pg

2025-02-02T18:40:11Z

Check out cloudnative-pg and their project cloudnative-pg.

CloudNativePG is a comprehensive platform designed to seamlessly manage PostgreSQL databases within Kubernetes environments, covering the entire operational lifecycle from initial deployment to ongoing maintenance

⭐ open-webui open-webui

2025-02-02T15:38:37Z

Just starred open-webui by open-webui. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer.

User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, …)

⭐ fcsonline tmux-thumbs

2025-02-02T15:36:30Z

I like fcsonline’s project tmux-thumbs.

A lightning fast version of tmux-fingers written in Rust, copy/pasting tmux like vimium/vimperator

tailwind aspect

2025-02-02T14:35:02Z

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 .cinematic class to achieve this.

.cinematic {
  @apply aspect-[2.39/1];
}

Example

markdown it attrs with slashes dont work

2025-02-01T11:21:10Z

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.

.cinematic {
  @apply aspect-[2.39/1];
}

Given the following markdown with attrs added to the image and to the paragraph block.

![screenshot-2025-01-31T14-50-00-094Z.png](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/50cfa8dc-9d46-4f02-877b-688fa5510a83.png){.aspect-[2.39/1]}

![screenshot-2025-01-31T14-50-00-094Z.png](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/50cfa8dc-9d46-4f02-877b-688fa5510a83.png){.cinematic}

{.cinematic}
![screenshot-2025-01-31T14-50-00-094Z.png](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/50cfa8dc-9d46-4f02-877b-688fa5510a83.png)

We get the following output with only the middle one working correctly.

{.aspect-[2.39/1]}

Note

The inline version of `.cinematic` works, but `.aspect-[2.39/1]` does not,

it turns into text after the image. The block version with the class before the image applies to the paragraph, not the image.

markata 0.8.0

2025-01-31T20:17:00Z

I realize that I never did a post on markata 0.8.0, so here it is. 0.8.0 was released on Jan 2, 2024, just over a year ago at this point. This was the release that we got pydantic support, and multi feeds.

Pydantic Support Was kinda big #

Markata is leaning on pydantic for configuration and Post models. These models are filled with validators such that you can give it an empty markdown post and it will figure out some pretty sane default values for the frontmatter. From there you can progressively enhance your post with more information like title, date, tags, slug, description.

validators are awesome!! for instance I don’t set the description on many of my posts by hand, I let the auto_description grab the first bit of text from the post most of the time.

Multi Feeds #

Markata==0.8.1 brought multiple feeds into the mix, and started to take place of RSS and sitemap. Feeds are a list of posts that are configured with a slug, filter, sort, reverse, description, and a template. These feeds then become objects you can use to access posts, as well as html pages, RSS feeds and sitemaps.

Jinja Templates #

The final major change within this series is the change out from string templates to proper jinja templates with partial templates that you can include. This has made maintaining templates much easier, as well as the ability to customize. Markata will load templates from both your local templates directory then from its built in templates directory if it does not find a template locally.

[[markata.feeds]]
slug = 'python'
filter = "date<=today and 'python' in str(tags).lower()"
sort = "date"
reverse = true
description = 'A feed of all my python posts'

Directly from the release notes #

The rest of the post is details directly from the release notes.

0.8.2 #

Fix: markata installs setuptools required by one dependency
Fix: cleanup cli output
Fix: speed up cli startup with some lazy imports
Fix: all cache.adds were replaced with cache.set
Fix: Updated to new typer format requiring name=
Fix: teardown only runs if the build process was started, i.e. some cli’s will not need to teardown

0.8.1 #

Feeds have partials #

The feeds plugin now has configurable partial_template that can be used to render only the inside of the feeds page. This is indented to allow you to load small feeds into a page with htmx.

Better Jinja Templates #

Markata now fully supports jinja templates with a loader that will load from your templates directory, the markata built-in templates, and from a dynamically generated templates directory in your .markata.cache directory.

cli #

You can list out your templates and configuration with the following command

markata templates show

Variables #

The following variables are available within jinja templates for post templates. This is now consistent across all three built in plugins that render jinja templates.

post_template

__version__ - the version of markata
markata - the markata instance
config - the markata config
body - the body of the post
post - the current post object

feeds

Similarly from within rendering feeds.

__version__ - the version of markata
markata - the markata instance
config - the markata config
posts - the list of posts
post - a pseudo post object with title, slug, description, and date for template consistency
feed - the current feed object

jinja_md

Similar to posts from within jinja_md to render a markdown post as a template.

__version__ - the version of markata
markata - the markata instance
body - the body of the post
config - the markata config
post - the current post object

Feeds cli #

The feeds cli will help show which templates each feed will be using.

❯ markata feeds show
                                          Feeds 6
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃            Feed ┃ posts ┃ config                                                        ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ project_gallery │ 2     │ DEFAULT_TITLE: All Posts                                      │
│                 │       │ title: Project Gallery                                        │
│                 │       │ slug: project-gallery                                         │
│                 │       │ name: project_gallery                                         │
│                 │       │ filter: 'project-gallery' in str(path)                        │
│                 │       │ sort: title                                                   │
│                 │       │ reverse: False                                                │
│                 │       │ rss: True                                                     │
│                 │       │ sitemap: True                                                 │
│                 │       │ card_template: card.html                                      │
│                 │       │ template: feed.html                                           │
│                 │       │ rss_template: rss.xml                                         │
│                 │       │ sitemap_template: sitemap.xml                                 │
│                 │       │ xsl_template: rss.xsl                                         │
│                 │       │                                                               │
│            docs │ 10    │ DEFAULT_TITLE: All Posts                                      │
│                 │       │ title: Documentation                                          │
│                 │       │ slug: docs                                                    │
│                 │       │ name: docs                                                    │
│                 │       │ filter: "markata" not in slug and "tests" not in slug and ... │
│                 │       │ sort: slug                                                    │
│                 │       │ reverse: False                                                │
│                 │       │ rss: True                                                     │
│                 │       │ sitemap: True                                                 │
│                 │       │ card_template: card.html                                      │
│                 │       │ template: feed.html                                           │
│                 │       │ rss_template: rss.xml                                         │
│                 │       │ sitemap_template: sitemap.xml                                 │
│                 │       │ xsl_template: rss.xsl                                         │
│                 │       │                                                               │
│         autodoc │ 17    │ DEFAULT_TITLE: All Posts                                      │
│                 │       │ title: AutoDoc Python Modules.                                │
│                 │       │ slug: autodoc                                                 │
│                 │       │ name: autodoc                                                 │
│                 │       │ filter: "markata" in slug and "plugin" not in slug and "te... │
│                 │       │ sort: slug                                                    │
│                 │       │ reverse: False                                                │
│                 │       │ rss: True                                                     │
│                 │       │ sitemap: True                                                 │
│                 │       │ card_template: card.html                                      │
│                 │       │ template: feed.html                                           │
│                 │       │ rss_template: rss.xml                                         │
│                 │       │ sitemap_template: sitemap.xml                                 │
│                 │       │ xsl_template: rss.xsl                                         │
│                 │       │                                                               │
│             all │ 73    │ DEFAULT_TITLE: All Posts                                      │
│                 │       │ title: All Markata Modules                                    │
│                 │       │ slug: all                                                     │
│                 │       │ name: all                                                     │
│                 │       │ filter: True                                                  │
│                 │       │ sort: date                                                    │
│                 │       │ reverse: False                                                │
│                 │       │ rss: True                                                     │
│                 │       │ sitemap: True                                                 │
│                 │       │ card_template: card.html                                      │
│                 │       │ template: feed.html                                           │
│                 │       │ rss_template: rss.xml                                         │
│                 │       │ sitemap_template: sitemap.xml                                 │
│                 │       │ xsl_template: rss.xsl                                         │
│                 │       │                                                               │
│    core_modules │ 17    │ DEFAULT_TITLE: All Posts                                      │
│                 │       │ title: Markata Core Modules                                   │
│                 │       │ slug: core_modules                                            │
│                 │       │ name: core_modules                                            │
│                 │       │ filter: 'plugin' not in slug and 'test' not in slug and ti... │
│                 │       │ sort: date                                                    │
│                 │       │ reverse: False                                                │
│                 │       │ rss: True                                                     │
│                 │       │ sitemap: True                                                 │
│                 │       │ card_template: card.html                                      │
│                 │       │ template: feed.html                                           │
│                 │       │ rss_template: rss.xml                                         │
│                 │       │ sitemap_template: sitemap.xml                                 │
│                 │       │ xsl_template: rss.xsl                                         │
│                 │       │                                                               │
│         plugins │ 42    │ DEFAULT_TITLE: All Posts                                      │
│                 │       │ title: Markata Plugins                                        │
│                 │       │ slug: plugins                                                 │
│                 │       │ name: plugins                                                 │
│                 │       │ filter: 'plugin' in slug and 'test' not in slug               │
│                 │       │ sort: date                                                    │
│                 │       │ reverse: False                                                │
│                 │       │ rss: True                                                     │
│                 │       │ sitemap: True                                                 │
│                 │       │ card_template: card.html                                      │
│                 │       │ template: feed.html                                           │
│                 │       │ rss_template: rss.xml                                         │
│                 │       │ sitemap_template: sitemap.xml                                 │
│                 │       │ xsl_template: rss.xsl                                         │
│                 │       │                                                               │
└─────────────────┴───────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

0.8.0 #

pydantic support

Pydantic Support #

Now plugins are configured through a pydantic Config object.

breaking changes #

There are a number of breaking changes going into 0.8.0. Use caution when upgrading.

glob config is now under markata.glob #

- [markata]
- glob_patterns = "pages/**/*.md"
+ [markata.glob]
+ glob_patterns = "pages/**/*.md"

Feeds are now a list #

Feeds are now a list of Objects within the configuration that you choose from whether its toml or yaml. Also templates_dir is now configurable, and once you have a templates dir it is better to specify templates by name relative to your templates_dir.

[markata]
templates_dir = "pages/templates"

[markata.feeds.published]
template="archive_template.html"
card_template = "feed_card.html"
filter="date<=today and templateKey in ['blog-post', 'til'] and status.lower()=='published'"
sort="date"

old

[[markata.feeds.published]]
template="pages/templates/archive_template.html"
card_template = "pages/templates/feed_card.html"
filter="date<=today and templateKey in ['blog-post', 'til'] and status.lower()=='published'"
sort="date"

new

markata.summary.filter_count is now a list #

The old way was to set up a dict, where the keys were the name, now its a list of Objects with an explicit name field.

[markata.summary.filter_count.drafts]
filter="published == 'False'"
color='red'

Old

[[markata.summary.filter_count]]
name='drafts'
filter="published == 'False'"
color='red'

⭐ asottile all-repos

2025-01-31T17:12:20Z

asottile has done a fantastic job with all-repos. Highly recommend taking a look.

Clone all your repositories and apply sweeping changes.

⭐ turbot tailpipe

2025-01-31T17:05:00Z

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on tailpipe, created by turbot.

select * from logs; Tailpipe is an open source SIEM for instant log insights, powered by DuckDB. Analyze millions of events in seconds, right from your terminal.

⭐ muni-town roomy

2025-01-31T17:02:22Z

I recently discovered roomy by muni-town, and it’s truly impressive.

ATproto-connected p2p group comms

markata search

2025-01-30T20:21:36Z

A side effect of Markata DidYouMean is that we are able to implement some rudimentary search based on slug, title, tags, and description.

I made a video of the early work on using this side effect to search for content on markata.dev.

Replay markata-search-1.mp4

This was first implemented to solve 404 pages giving users a way to try to find the page that they tried to access. But it turned out to be a decent way to search through the docs.

Markata DidYouMean

2025-01-29T20:28:36Z

Coming in Markata 0.9.1 is far better documentation. i.e. Documentation that actually exists for everything. As part of poking around I realized that I often go to look up the docs for a plugin and forget that the path is /markta/plugins/feeds, sometimes I might try /markata/feeds or /plugins/feeds.py or /feeds or I might even forget the plugin name exactly and try something like feed and get a 404. So I added a didyoumean plugin to markata that takes care of this.

I made a quick recording of this early feature, pay close attention to the url as it automatically updates to the correct page.

markata-didyoumean.mp4

Happy Path #

direct forward

If you have one post called /markata/plugins/feeds, and it is the only post called feeds, any combination of /markata/feeds or /plugins/feeds or /feeds will all automatically redirect with an html page (not a server 3xx) to the /markata/plugins/feeds post.

Here is the snippet that does the redirect.

<div class="container mx-auto px-4 py-8">
    <h1 class="text-2xl font-bold mb-4">Redirecting...</h1>
    <p class="mb-4">You will be redirected to <a href="/markata/plugins/feeds" class="text-blue-500 hover:underline">/markata/plugins/feeds</a></p>
    <script>window.location.href = "/markata/plugins/feeds";</script>
</div>

You won’t see it unless you are on a really bad network, or you have js disabled, but this is what it would look like if you ever saw it. Notice there is a backup link if you have js disabled.

Multiple Similar Posts #

list of options

If you have multiple posts called didyoumean from different directories, in the video I made a clashing post at /markata/cli/didyoumean with /markata/plugins/didyoumean. If you go to /didyoumean it will notice that there are multiple options and present you with a list of all of the potential pages that match.

Finally No Matches #

404.html

Last ditch effort is to implement a 404 page. This page will know all of the possible paths in your project and give you a list of all the similar pages more like a traditional didyoumean plugin.

cold builds

2025-01-27T20:28:43Z

Here are a list of some cold builds from my site. I’ve ran this site for a long time and would like to have some references to go back to, and wish I had kept a few profiles of cold builds laying around to compare with. The time is now lets keep some cold build links around for reference.

01/27/2025 #

https://ec314b08.waylonwalker-com.pages.dev/_profile/ - 429s - markata==0.9.0.dev5 has md_video open cache on every post issue
https://27f117fd.waylonwalker-com.pages.dev/_profile/ - 112s- markata==0.9.0.dev5 after fixing md_video issue
https://e6b8f64a.waylonwalker-com.pages.dev/_profile/ - 16s - markata==0.9.0.dev5 1 post not skipped, this one
https://10b778b4.waylonwalker-com.pages.dev/_profile/ - 5.65s - markata==0.9.0.dev5 fully hot cache build with no changes

pesos

2025-01-25T17:20:55Z

Pesos is the act of Publish Elsewhere Syncicate to Own Site. It is an indieweb concept that I recently started applying to my own site.

here does it skip again

Note

See <https://indieweb.org/PESOS> for more information, they have a ton of

information about the indieweb

In short it is the concept of pulling data from other sites that you use and republishing it to your own site. This gives a single source of information for you, and protection against sites and apis changing or rug pulling. Other people might have a lot more use cases for this, but I already begin a lot of my data right on my site.

GitHub stars #

I am using the github api to get a list of my stars and then create posts in the github repo for my blog. This allows me to keep track of things I star on GitHub in my own way, and share them out with my rss feeds.

⭐ veekaybee gitfeed

2025-01-24T19:34:10Z

Check out veekaybee and their project gitfeed.

Feed of posts from Bluesky that have a GitHub link

⭐ ggml-org llama.vim

2025-01-24T01:01:28Z

I came across llama.vim from ggml-org, and it’s packed with great features and ideas.

Vim plugin for LLM-assisted code/text completion

hover z-index and positioning

2025-01-23T15:54:07Z

I broke my sick wikilink hover recently in a refactor, today I did some diving in to figure out what happened.

Before #

As you can see in the screenshot below, the link is in a list of links, and when the hover image pops up it sits behind all of the other text. The z-index of the list-item is supposed to be raised above the others on hover.

Manually setting z-index to 20 in the inspector I noticed this message from devtools, “The position: static property prevents z-index from having an effect. Try setting position to something other than static.”, looking back at some of my refactoring I had relative in an old template and it was lost.

After #

After properly setting position to relative on the list-item, the hover image is raised above the others.

analytics

2025-01-22T08:36:27Z

I’ve been posting on this site since 2016, when the company I worked for went through a large round of layoffs. I was worried about being laid off, so I started looking at what I needed to do to build my resume. A personal blog and side projects were at the top of the list, so off I went. This site is built on markata. You can read more about that in the /colophon.

Total Posts over time #

Post Contributions in 2025 #

Post Contributions in 2024 #

Post Contributions in 2023 #

2023 was a very busy year, and I started slowing down. About halfway through the year, I felt like I had a lot I wanted to get out, but not enough time to turn every idea into a full blog post. I added Thoughts on 7/22/2023, starting with this first thought.

Notice the huge uptick that starts right after I added Thoughts.

Post Contributions in 2022 #

Post Contributions in 2021 #

At the end of 2021, I started posting TILs daily for a few months. This is the point when I really started lowering the barrier to entry for publishing. A post did not need to be a long essay. It could be the size of a tweet.

Post Contributions in 2020 #

Post Contributions in 2019 #

2019 was a huge learning year for me. I was busy leading a migration to the cloud, working on containerized data pipeline orchestration, and setting up new projects and templates with Kedro.

Post Contributions in 2018 #

This was the year I really started reaching for the terminal, kicking off the year with Vim Notes and rounding it out with 📝 Bash Notes. I had been watching Luke Smith for a while, and I started managing my first Linux server at work. I was stuck with Windows at the time, but WSL was new and let me run Linux in the terminal.

Post Contributions in 2017 #

2017 was the year of getting started. I was coming up on five years in my career, and layoffs were hitting hard. I remember first landing the job five years earlier and being told that, in the company’s long history, they had never laid off engineers. It felt like a very safe place to be. This was a wake up call that things could turn around and I might take nothing with me. Blogging became my way to document what I was learning. It made me better at communicating and gave me a reason to take a deeper dive into interesting topics.

Post Contributions in 2016 #

2016 was the year I created my GitHub account and got serious about switching from mechanical engineering to software engineering. All of my 2016 posts are backdated GitHub stars.

⭐ ublue-os ucore

2025-01-21T22:22:29Z

ublue-os has done a fantastic job with ucore. Highly recommend taking a look.

An OCI base image of Fedora CoreOS with batteries included

⭐ ublue-os bazzite

2025-01-21T22:22:12Z

Just starred bazzite by ublue-os. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer.

Bazzite is a cloud native image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices - including your favorite handheld.

I fixed lists in my blog

2025-01-21T16:08:01Z

A small improvement to my blog today. I was checking out my /now post and noticed that lists have left padding but no discs or numbers. I popped open my tailwind/app.css added these lines and rebuilt.

#post-body li {
  @apply list-disc;
}
#post-body ol {
  @apply list-decimal;
}

And rebuild, which I actually do with ⭐ casey just, but showing the command here for clarity.

npx tailwindcss --input tailwind/app.css --output static/app-39.css

WHY the applies #

Before #

After #

setting up nvim-manager starship prompt

2025-01-21T16:03:46Z

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

[custom.nvim-manager-system]
when = '[[ ! -n "${NVIM_APPNAME}" ]]'
style = "bold yellow"
symbol = '[ ](fg:#15AABF)'
format = '$symbol[USING SYSTEM NVIM]($style)'

[env_var.NVIM_APPNAME]
style = "green"
symbol = '[ ](fg:#15AABF)'
format = '[$symbol${env_value}]($style)'
variable = "NVIM_APPNAME"

⭐ moonbeam-nyc snorlax

2025-01-21T03:19:48Z

snorlax by moonbeam-nyc is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves.

wake and sleep Kubernetes deployments on a schedule

⭐ kubernetes-sigs headlamp

2025-01-21T03:13:58Z

I came across headlamp from kubernetes-sigs, and it’s packed with great features and ideas.

A Kubernetes web UI that is fully-featured, user-friendly and extensible

⭐ headlamp-k8s headlamp

2025-01-21T03:13:58Z

Just starred headlamp by headlamp-k8s. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer.

A Kubernetes web UI that is fully-featured, user-friendly and extensible

⭐ gitui-org gitui

2025-01-21T02:43:48Z

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on gitui, created by gitui-org.

Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀

⭐ extrawurst gitui

2025-01-21T02:43:48Z

The work on gitui by extrawurst.

Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀

emoji in headless chrome in docker

2025-01-20T13:55:37Z

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.

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
    # Add fonts with emoji support
    fonts-noto-color-emoji \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

Before #

Here’s what they were looking like with broken emoji fonts.

After #

And now with the fixed emoji font.

I put thought bubbles on my thoughts posts and stars on my github stars posts

⭐ one2nc cloudlens

2025-01-20T00:21:58Z

one2nc has done a fantastic job with cloudlens. Highly recommend taking a look.

k9s like CLI for AWS and GCP

⭐ dlvhdr gh-dash

2025-01-20T00:21:53Z

I like dlvhdr’s project gh-dash.

A beautiful CLI dashboard for GitHub 🚀

⭐ doitintl kube-no-trouble

2025-01-19T23:10:54Z

I recently discovered kube-no-trouble by doitintl, and it’s truly impressive.

Easily check your clusters for use of deprecated APIs

⭐ bootandy dust

2025-01-19T18:56:38Z

Check out dust by bootandy. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential.

A more intuitive version of du in rust

⭐ nvim-mini mini.ai

2025-01-18T17:08:45Z

I’m impressed by mini.ai from nvim-mini.

Neovim Lua plugin to extend and create a/i textobjects. Part of ‘mini.nvim’ library.

⭐ echasnovski mini.ai

2025-01-18T17:08:45Z

Check out echasnovski and their project mini.ai.

Neovim Lua plugin to extend and create a/i textobjects. Part of ‘mini.nvim’ library.

⭐ swark-io swark

2025-01-17T03:20:26Z

The work on swark by swark-io.

Create architecture diagrams from code automatically using large language models (LLMs).

a night of rounds

2025-01-16T21:11:56Z

Tonight my son and I played rounds, I pulled clips of all the final rounds of each set of rounds. We play hardly any games with guns in them, this is one of the few exceptions, it feels quite whimsical, fun, and strategic, and not at all realistic or first person. The strategy part really brings me back to the fps games I would play with friends in my teens.

Round 1 - Orange #

I thought I had him on this one. I had this rare power up that allows me to shot through walls. It came down to the very last round and he had too much firepowerfor me.

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Round 2 - Blue #

The final round of round 2 was Super fast. I felt like I nerfed my homing power up by adding fastball to it and it didn’t really home in anymore. What made it so quick, I think he had glass cannon and I laid down two well placed shots.

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Round 3 - Orange #

Round three he got some really good cards, but too much firepower and stacking bouncy and ricochet made it too much to control and he friendly fired both rounds.

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Round 4 - Blue #

Round 4 I stacked up radiance and saw and just went for it. Radiance emits the power of the sun while reloading, so I went in guns blazin, pulled the shield for saw and ran at him.

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Round 5 #

Round 5 I stacked up a multi shot, Big bullet, and timed explosion. I didn’t let off the firepower and there was no chance.

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wondercraft session one

2025-01-13T15:06:46Z

My son and I are starting a new Minecraft server today called wondercraft.

setup #

We are running a few mods on this server notably FTB Ultimine for less grindy resource gathering, Sodium for shaders, and Universal Shops.

We are runninng on Minecraft 1.20.1, I think this is because it was the latest supported by Universal Shops, its at least one major release old at this point.

I grabbed a few shaders, the ones that you see in this post are rethinking voxels.

spawn #

We initially spawned in a plains biome near an acacia and forest biome. We ended up going straight for the forest, only coming back for some sheep and wheat seeds.

Night one Zombie fight #

On the first night we had the obligitory zombie fight before getting beds and bases set.

Salmon Wrangler #

I was the designated food provider. I setup a small wheat farm with about 64 seeds, then went out to hunt down some salmon for the immediate food need. I ended up with about a stack of salmon at the end of the session.

Setting up Shop #

So as mentioned above we are running a mod for shops called universal shops. This mod is new to me and my son wanted to run it inspired by watching hermitcraft. We both decided that diamonds were the goal currency, but we wanted to set up some shops early so we settled on Oak logs as the currency. My job was to setup food based shops while he set up ore based shops.

My earnings after the first day.

First Death #

I forgot that I turned my sound off for a call, got lost on the chase of the salmon and did not leave myself enough time to get to the top.

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Second Death #

Playing sloppy again I was walking around at night with only three hearts left. My son wanted me to check out his shop that he just built out and I got hit by a skelly on the way up, after the first hit I was sitting at 1 heart with no where to go.

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Third Death #

This one is just plain embarrasing, I was lost in the flow of hunting salmon again, not paying any attention. I came up for air, but didn’t even gie time for more than a couple bubbles to come back before diving back in and died almost instantly.

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Note to self #

Next time run Minecraft in full screen so you don’t dox your start menu.

nvim-manager

2025-01-12T21:14:19Z

I recently built a cli application as a nearly-one-shot-app called nvim-manager. It manages your nvim dotfiles install.

Why #

How is nvim manager any better #

nvim-manager allows you to install pinned versions of your dotfiles, your friends dotfiles, and distros in ~/.config. This allows you to have stable versions that will not break installed while you change things.

I’m sure most of us have experienced the pain of installing one plugin, only to update all of your plugins and break something.

Or, you have small changes on every machine you use, because they are all just a bit different and now you have big merge conflicts to deal with.

All of this aside you can install a distro to get you by, or a known working version of your own dotfiles.

So all these versions in ~/.config #

ya, thats the magic of NVIM_APPNAME, I can boot up any of these intalled working versions in an instant with NVIM_APPNAME=nvim-waylonwalker-v0.0.1 nvim. I can still cowboy up and break my main install, but as long as I am diligent to keep these installs untouched I will always have a version to fall back to in that moment of need.

So what do I need to do? #

start tagging your dotfiles as you hit stable versions
Install curl https://i.jpillora.com/waylonwalker/nvim-manager | bash
Add some env variables to your shell startup (~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc for example)
Install that pinned version of your dotfiles nvim-manager install v0.0.1
Install a distro nvim-manager install --distro astronvim

Here are those environment variables I was talking about, set them to use your dotfiles repo, name it what you like, and set your NVIM_APPNAME if you want to default to a stable nvim and force yourself to unset NVIM_APPNAME to live on the edge.

Install nvim-manager #

apt install curl git unzip
curl https://i.jpillora.com/MordechaiHadad/bob | bash
bob install nightly
bob use nightly
ln -s ~/.local/share/bob/nvim-bin/nvim ~/.local/bin
curl https://i.jpillora.com/waylonwalker/nvim-manager | bash

Install your own dotfiles #

Setup with the following environment variables.

# nvim-manager
export NVIM_MANAGER_REPO=https://github.com/WaylonWalker/devtainer
export NVIM_CONFIG_PATH=nvim/.config/nvim
export NVIM_MANAGER_INSTALL_DIR=$HOME/.config
export NVIM_MANAGER_PREFIX="nvim-waylonwalker"
export NVIM_APPNAME=${NVIM_MANAGER_PREFIX}-v0.0.1

nvim-manager install v0.0.1
nvim

Note I like installer by jpillora, I self host it for my own security, but feel free to download from GH if it makes you feel safer.

Ubuntu Container Speedrun #

Here is a speedrun to getting nvim up and running in an ubuntu container.

set -euxo
mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
export PATH=$PATH:~/.local/bin
apt update
apt install curl git unzip -y
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
curl https://i.jpillora.com/MordechaiHadad/bob | bash
mv bob ~/.local/bin
bob install nightly
bob use nightly
ln -s ~/.local/share/bob/nvim-bin/nvim ~/.local/bin
curl https://i.jpillora.com/waylonwalker/nvim-manager | bash
mv nvim-manager ~/.local/bin
export NVIM_MANAGER_REPO=https://github.com/WaylonWalker/devtainer
export NVIM_CONFIG_PATH=nvim/.config/nvim
export NVIM_MANAGER_INSTALL_DIR=$HOME/.config
export NVIM_MANAGER_PREFIX="nvim-waylonwalker"
export NVIM_APPNAME=${NVIM_MANAGER_PREFIX}-v0.0.1
nvim-manager install v0.0.1
nvim-manager install --distro lazyvim
nvim-manager install --distro astronvim
nvim-manager install --distro nvchad
nvim-manager install --distro kickstart
nvim-manager install --distro lunarvim

# plugins like treesiter need gcc and make
apt install gcc make -y
export TZ="America/Chicago"
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
apt update
apt install tzdata -y
ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ /etc/localtime
dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata
# Some of the mason installs need npm
apt install nodejs npm -y
# plugins like telescope require ripgrep
apt install fzf ripgrep -y

Give it a Star #

I’d appreciate a star if you find this app useful.

https://github.com/waylonwalker/nvim-manager

one-shot-s3-cleanup

2025-01-12T11:18:25Z

So I made a mistake in an app I am working on and ended up creating thumbnails of thumbnails, and thumbnails of thumbnails of thumbnails… etc. I was able to delete them all, but I wanted to make a one-shot script to do it.

One Shot App #

I got the idea of the one shot app from Simon Willison and replicated his setup in a chatgpt project

Initial Prompt #

a mistake was made in my s3 bucket and I've created a bunch of extra files
write a script that deletes all files that contain _thumb_thumb

⬢ [devtainer] ❯ aws s3 ls s3://dropper
2024-12-29 14:32:32      16158 02271f4c-be18-4bea-b23e-d00f9fe42b9f.webp
2025-01-11 14:20:49       2878 02271f4c-be18-4bea-b23e-d00f9fe42b9f_thumb.webp
2025-01-11 14:21:17       2858 02271f4c-be18-4bea-b23e-d00f9fe42b9f_thumb_thumb.webp
2025-01-11 14:21:44       2856 02271f4c-be18-4bea-b23e-d00f9fe42b9f_thumb_thumb_thumb.webp
2025-01-11 14:21:44       2856 02271f4c-be18-4bea-b23e-d00f9fe42b9f_thumb_thumb_thumb_thumb.webp
2024-12-27 10:25:36       2812 06422c09-d0da-44ec-9339-786864ebccf2.webp
2025-01-11 14:20:49       2710 06422c09-d0da-44ec-9339-786864ebccf2_thumb.webp
2025-01-11 14:21:17       2652 06422c09-d0da-44ec-9339-786864ebccf2_thumb_thumb.webp
2025-01-11 14:21:45       2632 06422c09-d0da-44ec-9339-786864ebccf2_thumb_thumb_thumb.webp
2025-01-11 14:21:45       2632 06422c09-d0da-44ec-9339-786864ebccf2_thumb_thumb_thumb_thumb.webp
2024-12-29 20:44:14     146060 074edddb-8b46-4d94-9b55-d70a7bb74366.webp
2025-01-11 14:20:50      12476 074edddb-8b46-4d94-9b55-d70a7bb74366_thumb.webp
2025-01-11 14:21:17      12400 074edddb-8b46-4d94-9b55-d70a7bb74366_thumb_thumb.webp

create a typer application to do this job
include a --dry-run flag
make the search for _thumb_thumb editable

s3_cleanup #

Here is the result of the s3_cleanup script. It ended up being 5 or 6 passes to get everything I wanted with soft-delete enabled. Nice preview outputs in the dry run. This was 90% created by chatgpt 4o, with some slight hand edits by me along the way.

#!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --quiet --script
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.12"
# dependencies = [
#     "boto3",
#     "typer",
#     "rich"
# ]
# ///

import boto3
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from rich.console import Console
from rich.table import Table
import traceback
import typer

app = typer.Typer()
console = Console()

DEFAULT_SOFT_DELETE_DIR = "soft-delete/"


def human_readable_size(size: int) -> str:
    """Convert bytes to a human-readable format."""
    for unit in ["B", "KB", "MB", "GB", "TB"]:
        if size < 1024:
            return f"{size:.2f} {unit}"
        size /= 1024
    return f"{size:.2f} PB"


def calculate_file_age(last_modified: datetime) -> str:
    """Calculate the age of the file from the current time."""
    now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
    age = now - last_modified
    days = age.days
    if days > 0:
        return f"{days} days"
    hours, remainder = divmod(age.seconds, 3600)
    minutes = remainder // 60
    if hours > 0:
        return f"{hours} hours"
    return f"{minutes} minutes"


@app.command()
def clean(
    bucket_name: str = typer.Argument(..., help="The name of the S3 bucket."),
    substring: str = typer.Argument(
        ..., help="The substring to search for in file names."
    ),
    dry_run: bool = typer.Option(
        False, help="If set, no files will be deleted; only listed."
    ),
    soft_delete: bool = typer.Option(
        False,
        help="If set, files will be moved to a soft delete directory instead of permanently deleted.",
    ),
    soft_delete_dir: str = typer.Option(
        DEFAULT_SOFT_DELETE_DIR, help="The directory to move soft-deleted files to."
    ),
    max_age: int = typer.Option(None, help="Maximum age of files to include, in days."),
    min_age: int = typer.Option(None, help="Minimum age of files to include, in days."),
):
    """Delete or soft-delete files in an S3 bucket that contain a specific substring in their names."""
    s3 = boto3.client("s3")

    try:
        # List all objects in the bucket
        response = s3.list_objects_v2(Bucket=bucket_name)

        if "Contents" not in response:
            console.print("[bold yellow]No files found in the bucket.[/bold yellow]")
            return

        now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)

        def file_within_age_range(obj):
            file_age = (now - obj["LastModified"]).days
            if max_age is not None and file_age > max_age:
                return False
            if min_age is not None and file_age < min_age:
                return False
            return True

        files_to_process = [
            obj
            for obj in response["Contents"]
            if substring in obj["Key"] and file_within_age_range(obj)
        ]

        if not files_to_process:
            console.print(
                "[bold yellow]No files matching criteria found in the bucket.[/bold yellow]"
            )
            return

        if dry_run:
            console.print(
                "[bold blue]Dry run mode: The following files would be processed:[/bold blue]"
            )
            table = Table(title="Files to be Processed")
            table.add_column("File Name", style="cyan", no_wrap=True)
            table.add_column("Size", style="magenta", justify="right")
            table.add_column("Age", style="green", justify="right")
            table.add_column("Action", style="yellow", no_wrap=True)

            total_size = 0
            for obj in files_to_process:
                human_size = human_readable_size(obj["Size"])
                file_age = calculate_file_age(obj["LastModified"])
                action = (
                    f"[bold yellow]-> {soft_delete_dir}{obj['Key']}[/bold yellow]"
                    if soft_delete
                    else "[bold red]DELETE[/bold red]"
                )
                table.add_row(obj["Key"], human_size, file_age, action)
                total_size += obj["Size"]

            console.print(table)
            console.print(
                f"\n[bold green]Summary:[/bold green] {len(files_to_process)} files, Total Size: {human_readable_size(total_size)}, Operation: {'Soft Delete' if soft_delete else 'Delete'}"
            )

        else:
            for obj in files_to_process:
                file_key = obj["Key"]
                if soft_delete:
                    copy_source = {"Bucket": bucket_name, "Key": file_key}
                    new_key = f"{soft_delete_dir}{file_key}"
                    s3.copy_object(
                        CopySource=copy_source, Bucket=bucket_name, Key=new_key
                    )
                    s3.delete_object(Bucket=bucket_name, Key=file_key)
                    console.print(
                        f"[bold yellow]Moved to soft-delete:[/bold yellow] {file_key} -> {new_key}"
                    )
                else:
                    s3.delete_object(Bucket=bucket_name, Key=file_key)
                    console.print(f"[bold red]Deleted:[/bold red] {file_key}")

            console.print(
                f"[bold green]Operation completed. {len(files_to_process)} files processed. Operation: {'Soft Delete' if soft_delete else 'Delete'}[/bold green]"
            )

    except Exception as e:
        console.print(f"[bold red]Error:[/bold red] {e}", style="red")


@app.command()
def clear_soft_delete(
    bucket_name: str = typer.Argument(..., help="The name of the S3 bucket."),
    soft_delete_dir: str = typer.Option(
        DEFAULT_SOFT_DELETE_DIR, help="The soft delete directory to clear."
    ),
    dry_run: bool = typer.Option(
        False, help="If set, no files will be deleted; only listed."
    ),
):
    """Remove all files in the soft delete directory."""
    s3 = boto3.client("s3")

    try:
        response = s3.list_objects_v2(Bucket=bucket_name, Prefix=soft_delete_dir)

        if "Contents" not in response:
            console.print(
                f"[bold yellow]No files found in the soft delete directory '{soft_delete_dir}'.[/bold yellow]"
            )
            return

        files_to_delete = [obj for obj in response["Contents"]]

        if dry_run:
            console.print(
                "[bold blue]Dry run mode: The following files would be deleted from the soft delete directory:[/bold blue]"
            )
            table = Table(title="Files to be Deleted")
            table.add_column("File Name", style="cyan", no_wrap=True)
            table.add_column("Size", style="magenta", justify="right")
            total_size = 0

            for obj in files_to_delete:
                human_size = human_readable_size(obj["Size"])
                table.add_row(obj["Key"], human_size)
                total_size += obj["Size"]

            console.print(table)
            console.print(
                f"\n[bold green]Summary:[/bold green] {len(files_to_delete)} files, Total Size: {human_readable_size(total_size)}"
            )
        else:
            for file_key in files_to_delete:
                file_key = file_key["Key"]
                s3.delete_object(Bucket=bucket_name, Key=file_key)
                console.print(
                    f"[bold red]Deleted from soft-delete:[/bold red] {file_key}"
                )

            console.print(
                f"[bold green]Soft delete directory '{soft_delete_dir}' cleared. {len(files_to_delete)} files removed.[/bold green]"
            )

    except Exception as e:
        console.print(f"[bold red]Error:[/bold red] {e}", style="red")
        console.print("[bold red]Operation failed.[/bold red]")

        console.print(traceback.format_exc())


@app.command()
def undo_soft_delete(
    bucket_name: str = typer.Argument(..., help="The name of the S3 bucket."),
    soft_delete_dir: str = typer.Option(
        DEFAULT_SOFT_DELETE_DIR, help="The soft delete directory to restore from."
    ),
    dry_run: bool = typer.Option(
        False, help="If set, no files will be restored; only listed."
    ),
):
    """Restore all files from the soft delete directory to their original locations."""
    s3 = boto3.client("s3")

    try:
        response = s3.list_objects_v2(Bucket=bucket_name, Prefix=soft_delete_dir)

        if "Contents" not in response:
            console.print(
                f"[bold yellow]No files found in the soft delete directory '{soft_delete_dir}'.[/bold yellow]"
            )
            return

        files_to_restore = [obj for obj in response["Contents"]]

        if dry_run:
            console.print(
                "[bold blue]Dry run mode: The following files would be restored:[/bold blue]"
            )
            table = Table(title="Files to be Restored")
            table.add_column("File Name", style="cyan", no_wrap=True)
            table.add_column("Size", style="magenta", justify="right")
            table.add_column("Original Location", style="green", no_wrap=True)
            total_size = 0

            for obj in files_to_restore:
                human_size = human_readable_size(obj["Size"])
                original_key = obj["Key"][len(soft_delete_dir) :]
                table.add_row(obj["Key"], human_size, original_key)
                total_size += obj["Size"]

            console.print(table)
            console.print(
                f"\n[bold green]Summary:[/bold green] {len(files_to_restore)} files, Total Size: {human_readable_size(total_size)}"
            )
        else:
            for obj in files_to_restore:
                file_key = obj["Key"]
                original_key = file_key[
                    len(soft_delete_dir) :
                ]  # Remove the soft delete prefix
                copy_source = {"Bucket": bucket_name, "Key": file_key}
                s3.copy_object(
                    CopySource=copy_source, Bucket=bucket_name, Key=original_key
                )
                s3.delete_object(Bucket=bucket_name, Key=file_key)
                console.print(
                    f"[bold green]Restored:[/bold green] {file_key} -> {original_key}"
                )

            console.print(
                f"[bold green]Restoration completed. {len(files_to_restore)} files restored.[/bold green]"
            )

    except Exception as e:
        console.print(f"[bold red]Error:[/bold red] {e}", style="red")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    app()

full help text output #

Here is the help text for all of the commands in the script.

dropper on  main [!?] is 📦 v1.0.0 via  v22.13.0  v3.11.10 on  (us-east-1)  NO PYTHON VENV SET took 7s
⬢ [devtainer] ❯ ./scripts/s3_cleanup.py --help

 Usage: s3_cleanup.py [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

╭─ Options ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --install-completion          Install completion for the current shell.                                         │
│ --show-completion             Show completion for the current shell, to copy it or customize the installation.  │
│ --help                        Show this message and exit.                                                       │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Commands ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ clean               Delete or soft-delete files in an S3 bucket that contain a specific substring in their      │
│                     names.                                                                                      │
│ clear-soft-delete   Remove all files in the soft delete directory.                                              │
│ undo-soft-delete    Restore all files from the soft delete directory to their original locations.               │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

⬢ [devtainer] ❯ ./scripts/s3_cleanup.py clean --help

 Usage: s3_cleanup.py clean [OPTIONS] BUCKET_NAME SUBSTRING

 Delete or soft-delete files in an S3 bucket that contain a specific substring in their names.

╭─ Arguments ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ *    bucket_name      TEXT  The name of the S3 bucket. [default: None] [required]                               │
│ *    substring        TEXT  The substring to search for in file names. [default: None] [required]               │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Options ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --dry-run            --no-dry-run                 If set, no files will be deleted; only listed.                │
│                                                   [default: no-dry-run]                                         │
│ --soft-delete        --no-soft-delete             If set, files will be moved to a soft delete directory        │
│                                                   instead of permanently deleted.                               │
│                                                   [default: no-soft-delete]                                     │
│ --soft-delete-dir                        TEXT     The directory to move soft-deleted files to.                  │
│                                                   [default: soft-delete/]                                       │
│ --max-age                                INTEGER  Maximum age of files to include, in days. [default: None]     │
│ --min-age                                INTEGER  Minimum age of files to include, in days. [default: None]     │
│ --help                                            Show this message and exit.                                   │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

⬢ [devtainer] ❯ ./scripts/s3_cleanup.py clear-soft-delete --help

 Usage: s3_cleanup.py clear-soft-delete [OPTIONS] BUCKET_NAME

 Remove all files in the soft delete directory.

╭─ Arguments ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ *    bucket_name      TEXT  The name of the S3 bucket. [default: None] [required]                               │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Options ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --soft-delete-dir                    TEXT  The soft delete directory to clear. [default: soft-delete/]          │
│ --dry-run            --no-dry-run          If set, no files will be deleted; only listed. [default: no-dry-run] │
│ --help                                     Show this message and exit.                                          │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

⬢ [devtainer] ❯ ./scripts/s3_cleanup.py undo-soft-delete --help

 Usage: s3_cleanup.py undo-soft-delete [OPTIONS] BUCKET_NAME

 Restore all files from the soft delete directory to their original locations.

╭─ Arguments ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ *    bucket_name      TEXT  The name of the S3 bucket. [default: None] [required]                               │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Options ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --soft-delete-dir                    TEXT  The soft delete directory to restore from. [default: soft-delete/]   │
│ --dry-run            --no-dry-run          If set, no files will be restored; only listed.                      │
│                                            [default: no-dry-run]                                                │
│ --help                                     Show this message and exit.                                          │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

postiz-file-upload

2025-01-10T20:35:39Z

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.

      STORAGE_PROVIDER: "local"
      UPLOAD_DIRECTORY: "/uploads"
      NEXT_PUBLIC_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY: "/uploads"

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

⬢ [devtainer] ❯ podman exec postiz ls /uploads/2025/01/09
811747b3f703f5d9a7f10aff5103412ff0.jpeg
a221db10a76f0c414171ab417379b09ec.jpeg

we beat trailmakers

2025-01-10T19:53:14Z

Today we broke through the atmosphere in trailmakers ready for pickup from those back at mission conrol.

I haven’t posted a lot of gaming content to by blog, idk why, but I think I am going to start, especially for the ones that are good memories with my son.

Today we hit 100% of the required parts required to build the space ship and leave the atmosphere of the planet that the story is set in. Trailmakers is a game where you design and build your own vehicles. The campaign mode standed is a story where you are in a high tech freighter ship that crash lands on a distant planet. Your crew back home can come as far as the planet your on but cannot break through the atmosphere. Your job is to collect all the wreckage and gain all the parts required for a space ship build to take you out of the atmosphere to meet them.

There were a couple really heavy salvages to gather up, this one is high in the floating islands and is the cockpit fo the space ship.

I thought this was a cool shot of one of our builds with the suspension fully squatted out with a heavy load on the back.

Multiple Salvages #

It took us way to long to realize that we had enough power cores to add a bunch of tractor beams to do multiple salvages at once. Each tractor beam only has the ability to pick up one salvage at a time.

Some wild moments #

This clip brought both of us to curled over laughter, I wish I had recording on to get a full clip of it, this screenshot is the best I got. What happened was my son was being super silly and blew us up, but somehow the seat of the last build stayed in while we respawnd and our new vehicle picked it up. Not only that, but the broken seat was still usable and he was able to sit in it!

acheivements status #

Currently I am quite a ways from getting 100% of the achievements for the game. I think I will finish 100% of the stranded campaign because it is super fun, but probably wont 100% it.

I’m trying out video #

I turned on steam recording and played for a minute to test out hosting video here.

I accidentally entered deep space #

⭐ containers podman-compose

2025-01-09T14:54:36Z

The work on podman-compose by containers.

a script to run docker-compose.yml using podman

⭐ cyclotruc gitingest

2025-01-09T13:41:27Z

I’m really excited about gitingest, an amazing project by cyclotruc. It’s worth exploring!

Replace ‘hub’ with ‘ingest’ in any github url to get a prompt-friendly extract of a codebase

⭐ coderamp-labs gitingest

2025-01-09T13:41:27Z

Looking for inspiration? gitingest by coderamp-labs.

Replace ‘hub’ with ‘ingest’ in any github url to get a prompt-friendly extract of a codebase

⭐ Pinjasaur bic

2025-01-09T02:25:48Z

Check out bic by Pinjasaur. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential.

Static blog generator, in bash

/start

2025-01-03T10:49:47Z

Welcome to waylonwalker.com, my small corner of the internet. I currently have 3581 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.

Slash posts #

[[ slashes ]]

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 - 👋 Hi, I am Waylon Walker. Husband, Father of two, and creator things on the web, learning, and teaching others. I play lots of Minecraft, make art, and…
Ai - Last updated Jan 2026.
analytics - I've been posting on this site since 2016, when the company I worked for went through a large round of layoffs. I was worried about being laid off, so I…
/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, with what tools, supporting what technologies
feeds - I have several feeds that you can consume my content with. Many posts will cross between them, so if you would like to follow a certain stream of content in…
markata - This post is a work in progress.
<a href="/nope/" class=“wikilink” data-title="/nope" data-description=“Inspired by @baty's nope slashpage, a list of ** things I don't like, don't care, avoid, overhyped, or won't do in no particular order, updated as I think…” data-date=“2026-02-11”>/nope - Inspired by @baty's nope slashpage, a list of ** things I don't like, don't care, avoid, overhyped, or won't do in no particular order, updated as I think…
/now - This page is meant to be simple view into what is happening in my life right now. Inspired by @NowNowNow. and Derek Sivers.
/start - Welcome to waylonwalker.com, my small corner of the internet. I currently have posts published, here are some links to help you get started around here.
Thoughts - These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don't have a link. These are dual published off of my…
tinyapps - I'm working on replacing my usage of google inline search apps with real apps, these are ones that I create and host on my own homelab. The first three that…
/top4 - Definitive ranked lists of my top 3 favorites plus an honorable mention.
/verify - Inspired by @mollywhite's verify slashpage. This page serves as the system of record for my online identity. The best places to follow me are:
wants - Inspired by mara.town/wants
/yep - Inspired by @fyrio's yep slashpage, a list of ** things I enjoy, use, recommend, want to know more about, or seek out in no particular order, updated as I…

slow nfs performance

2025-01-02T20:23:10Z

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.

I just moved into the master node and the results were wild at ~30x faster

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 into maybe one issue where I was root in one place and not another, other than that it’s been fine.

And it only got better #

As the cache was warm subsequent runs only got better.

I just checked again and we are now 80x faster

Conclusion #

I don’t have the answers yet, it might be my network, it might be nfs settings, it might be ext4 filesystem. I have some things to try, but what I do know is that it is not as easy as I thought it would be just to have the same file system mounted on both ends and share data between nodes.

I might even go with a complete alternative and use minio as a storage backend, and sync the files in on each run, this will add some latency to do the sync each time though.

/colophon

2025-01-02T10:21:23Z

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

tech #

This site is a static site build with my own static site generator markata, Thoughts or as Simon Willison calls it a link blog posts are pulled in as a regular posts, all is hosted on cloudflare pages.

markata
Thoughts
cloudflare pages

see more about these components in about this site

Analytics #

I do not track users, I respect the privacy of my readers and do not track their information. I do track analytics on my own writing a post rate. Its more of an interesting history of the site.

meta #

Some evergreen pages that are more about me or this site from the Posts tagged: meta feed.

⭐ atuinsh atuin

2024-12-28T23:18:51Z

The work on atuin by atuinsh.

✨ Magical shell history

setting up ucore-zfs

2024-12-27T08:55:50Z

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.

waylon@razorcrest:~$ journalctl --list-boots
IDX BOOT ID                          FIRST ENTRY                 LAST ENTRY
-19 7e6e154d2609407da24fa12814eadbd7 Thu 2024-08-29 16:15:15 CDT Thu 2024-08-29 17:37:25 CDT

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 forgot about this limitation and ordered a 2x32gb setup for it and it did nothing. That’s now sitting in my new k3s master node.

Here’s a B&H photo post of the machine, she is big and heavy but still working.

I’m a big fan of keeping these old machines running and avoiding the e-waste pile, great for running a home lab. Admittedly this is one is probably on its last leg, dell optiplexes are pretty cheap and run circles around this one, so this one is become my experimental setup for trying new things like core-os.

Get Password Hash #

We will need to create a password hash for the root user to put into our ignition file.

podman run -ti --rm quay.io/coreos/mkpasswd --method=yescrypt
Password:
$y$j9T$0ZsoVynV7y0Z7/l6588Ba1$VZT0uCGP0CnYSX/EArCvYMuo3q.gnyOnk1RO6.HDNDB

Get SSH Pub Key #

Generate an ssh key using the ssh-keygen command.

$ ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "waylon@waylonwalker.com"
Generating public/private ed25519 key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/var/home/core/.ssh/id_ed25519):
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /var/home/core/.ssh/id_ed25519
Your public key has been saved in /var/home/core/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
The key fingerprint is:
SHA256:xVJAVreKVILOnxTDxK88RyMwhdDCBMnjMSGU7rsAqwQ waylon@waylonwalker.com
The key's randomart image is:
+--[ED25519 256]--+
|oo+*oo OBo+ .    |
| o* o *.== . .   |
|.. + + oo+o .    |
| ..   o.o++.     |
|E      +S=..     |
|oo      * .      |
|o..      o       |
|+.               |
|...              |
+----[SHA256]-----+

Now copy your public key into the ignition file from your local machine

$ cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIPY73r4EU9wm/26/rTpx/uvAyInmbQ/k+l04eadSahD0 waylon@waylonwalker.com

ucore-autorebase.butane #

I got my ignition file from ucore/ucore-autorebase. Put my secret values into it and used it.

https://github.com/ublue-os/ucore/blob/main/examples/ucore-autorebase.butane

variant: fcos
version: 1.4.0
passwd:
  users:
    - name: core
      ssh_authorized_keys:
        - ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIPY73r4EU9wm/26/rTpx/uvAyInmbQ/k+l04eadSahD0 waylon@waylonwalker.com
      password_hash: $y$j9T$0ZsoVynV7y0Z7/l6588Ba1$VZT0uCGP0CnYSX/EArCvYMuo3q.gnyOnk1RO6.HDNDB
storage:
  directories:
    - path: /etc/ucore-autorebase
      mode: 0754
systemd:
  units:
    - name: ucore-unsigned-autorebase.service
      enabled: true
      contents: |
        [Unit]
        Description=uCore autorebase to unsigned OCI and reboot
        ConditionPathExists=!/etc/ucore-autorebase/unverified
        ConditionPathExists=!/etc/ucore-autorebase/signed
        After=network-online.target
        Wants=network-online.target
        [Service]
        Type=oneshot
        StandardOutput=journal+console
        ExecStart=/usr/bin/rpm-ostree rebase --bypass-driver ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/ucore:stable
        ExecStart=/usr/bin/touch /etc/ucore-autorebase/unverified
        ExecStart=/usr/bin/systemctl disable ucore-unsigned-autorebase.service
        ExecStart=/usr/bin/systemctl reboot
        [Install]
        WantedBy=multi-user.target
    - name: ucore-signed-autorebase.service
      enabled: true
      contents: |
        [Unit]
        Description=uCore autorebase to signed OCI and reboot
        ConditionPathExists=/etc/ucore-autorebase/unverified
        ConditionPathExists=!/etc/ucore-autorebase/verified
        After=network-online.target
        Wants=network-online.target
        [Service]
        Type=oneshot
        StandardOutput=journal+console
        ExecStart=/usr/bin/rpm-ostree rebase --bypass-driver ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/ucore:stable
        ExecStart=/usr/bin/touch /etc/ucore-autorebase/signed
        ExecStart=/usr/bin/systemctl disable ucore-signed-autorebase.service
        ExecStart=/usr/bin/systemctl reboot
        [Install]
        WantedBy=multi-user.target butane

Creating an ignition file #

podman run --interactive --rm --security-opt label=disable \
        --volume ${PWD}:/pwd --workdir /pwd quay.io/coreos/butane:release \
        --pretty --strict ucore-autorebase.butane >transpiled_config.ign

Getting zfs #

Now this is where I realized I went wrong and wished I would have paid attention to the autorebase.butane file, it did not use the zfs flavor ucore. Luckily they make it wildly easy to rebase between these base images.

I needed to run this to rebase into the zfs flavor.

/usr/bin/rpm-ostree rebase --bypass-driver ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/ucore:stable-zfs

This was the output.

core@falcon-FX6860:~$ /usr/bin/rpm-ostree rebase --bypass-driver ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/ucore:stable-zfs
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.projectatomic.rpmostree1.rebase ====
Authentication is required to switch to a different base OS
Authenticating as: CoreOS Admin (core)
Password:
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ====
Pulling manifest: ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/ucore:stable-zfs
Importing: ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/ucore:stable-zfs (digest: sha256:8ebae90f6844949044c026d7ba05c035956992b68e13bdcbd9158a37beda571e)
ostree chunk layers already present: 51
custom layers needed: 2 (492.9 MB)
Fetching layer sha256:67f3c0e0e0fe (269.7 MB)... done
Fetching layer sha256:25992805e895 (223.1 MB)... done
Staging deployment... done
Upgraded:
  cockpit-bridge 330-1.fc41 -> 331-1.fc41
  cockpit-networkmanager 330-1.fc41 -> 331-1.fc41
  cockpit-selinux 330-1.fc41 -> 331-1.fc41
  cockpit-storaged 330-1.fc41 -> 331-1.fc41
  cockpit-system 330-1.fc41 -> 331-1.fc41
Added:
  groff-base-1.23.0-7.fc41.x86_64
  kmod-zfs-2.2.7-1.fc41.x86_64
  libnvpair3-2.2.7-1.fc41.x86_64
  libuutil3-2.2.7-1.fc41.x86_64
  libzfs5-2.2.7-1.fc41.x86_64
  libzpool5-2.2.7-1.fc41.x86_64
  lm_sensors-libs-3.6.0-20.fc41.x86_64
  lzop-1.04-15.fc41.x86_64
  mbuffer-20241007-1.fc41.x86_64
  perl-AutoLoader-5.74-512.fc41.noarch
  perl-B-1.89-512.fc41.x86_64
  perl-Capture-Tiny-0.48-21.fc41.noarch
  perl-Carp-1.54-511.fc41.noarch
  perl-Class-Struct-0.68-512.fc41.noarch
  perl-Config-IniFiles-3.000003-14.fc41.noarch
  perl-Data-Dumper-2.189-512.fc41.x86_64
  perl-Digest-1.20-511.fc41.noarch
  perl-Digest-MD5-2.59-5.fc41.x86_64
  perl-DynaLoader-1.56-512.fc41.x86_64
  perl-Encode-4:3.21-511.fc41.x86_64
  perl-Errno-1.38-512.fc41.x86_64
  perl-Exporter-5.78-511.fc41.noarch
  perl-Fcntl-1.18-512.fc41.x86_64
  perl-File-Basename-2.86-512.fc41.noarch
  perl-File-Path-2.18-511.fc41.noarch
  perl-File-Temp-1:0.231.100-511.fc41.noarch
  perl-File-stat-1.14-512.fc41.noarch
  perl-FileHandle-2.05-512.fc41.noarch
  perl-Getopt-Long-1:2.58-2.fc41.noarch
  perl-Getopt-Std-1.14-512.fc41.noarch
  perl-HTTP-Tiny-0.090-1.fc41.noarch
  perl-IO-1.55-512.fc41.x86_64
  perl-IO-Socket-IP-0.43-1.fc41.noarch
  perl-IO-Socket-SSL-2.089-1.fc41.noarch
  perl-IO-stringy-2.113-15.fc41.noarch
  perl-IPC-Open3-1.22-512.fc41.noarch
  perl-MIME-Base32-1.303-21.fc41.noarch
  perl-MIME-Base64-3.16-511.fc41.x86_64
  perl-NDBM_File-1.17-512.fc41.x86_64
  perl-Net-SSLeay-1.94-7.fc41.x86_64
  perl-POSIX-2.20-512.fc41.x86_64
  perl-PathTools-3.91-511.fc41.x86_64
  perl-Pod-Escapes-1:1.07-511.fc41.noarch
  perl-Pod-Perldoc-3.28.01-512.fc41.noarch
  perl-Pod-Simple-1:3.45-511.fc41.noarch
  perl-Pod-Usage-4:2.03-511.fc41.noarch
  perl-Scalar-List-Utils-5:1.68-1.fc41.x86_64
  perl-SelectSaver-1.02-512.fc41.noarch
  perl-Socket-4:2.038-511.fc41.x86_64
  perl-Storable-1:3.32-511.fc41.x86_64
  perl-Symbol-1.09-512.fc41.noarch
  perl-Sys-Hostname-1.25-512.fc41.x86_64
  perl-Term-ANSIColor-5.01-512.fc41.noarch
  perl-Term-Cap-1.18-511.fc41.noarch
  perl-Text-ParseWords-3.31-511.fc41.noarch
  perl-Text-Tabs+Wrap-2024.001-511.fc41.noarch
  perl-Time-Local-2:1.350-511.fc41.noarch
  perl-URI-5.30-1.fc41.noarch
  perl-base-2.27-512.fc41.noarch
  perl-constant-1.33-512.fc41.noarch
  perl-if-0.61.000-512.fc41.noarch
  perl-interpreter-4:5.40.0-512.fc41.x86_64
  perl-libnet-3.15-512.fc41.noarch
  perl-libs-4:5.40.0-512.fc41.x86_64
  perl-locale-1.12-512.fc41.noarch
  perl-mro-1.29-512.fc41.x86_64
  perl-overload-1.37-512.fc41.noarch
  perl-overloading-0.02-512.fc41.noarch
  perl-parent-1:0.242-1.fc41.noarch
  perl-podlators-1:6.0.2-2.fc41.noarch
  perl-vars-1.05-512.fc41.noarch
  pv-1.8.14-2.fc41.x86_64
  python3-cffi-1.17.0-1.fc41.x86_64
  python3-ply-3.11-25.fc41.noarch
  python3-pycparser-2.20-18.fc41.noarch
  python3-pyzfs-2.2.7-1.fc41.noarch
  sanoid-2.2.0-1.fc41.ucore2.noarch
  sysstat-12.7.6-2.fc41.x86_64
  zfs-2.2.7-1.fc41.x86_64
  zfs-dracut-2.2.7-1.fc41.noarch
Changes queued for next boot. Run "systemctl reboot" to start a reboot

For some reason I double checked, and runnign it a second time gave me this.

core@falcon-FX6860:~$ sudo rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/ucore:stable-zfs
Pulling manifest: ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/ucore:stable-zfs
Staging deployment... done
Changes queued for next boot. Run "systemctl reboot" to start a reboot

ZFS #

Once I rebooted I had all of my necessary zfs utilities that I needed.

connecting nfs #

The last thing I wanted to do was to mount an nfs share from my master node so that they can share a storage backend. I found that nfs was already in the host and ready to go.

sudo mkdir /mnt/vault/nfs
sudo mount -t nfs <nfs server ip>:/mnt/vault/nfs /mnt/vault/nfs

thoughts 0.0.4

2024-12-18T19:04:27Z

This is such an improvement to the backend of my website it warrants a blog post of celebration. For far too long I’ve been dealing with a tiny ass edit form on thoughts. I tend to not edit them, and try to get them right in one go. This is kinda the point of a thought, its a quick post meant to be the size of a tweet, but sometimes I’m leaving thoughts on a video or long post and want to make sure I have a good save point, but I just keep the thing in draft and hope I don’t loose if for far too long.

Results #

Let’s see this change in action!!

before #

This is the tiny ass form nested deeply in the flow of the feed. When I made it I naively just swapped out the post itself with the edit form, and swapped the post back in after edit.

thoughts is built with HTMX btw so all html is rendered in the backend and swapped by htmx client side.

after #

Now the edit is a full page modal with a nice blurry backdrop effect to the rest of the content. This feels pretty similar to making a new post on twitter.

How #

How did I do this with htmx? I had to break out of the mindset my brain was in with swapping in place and letting the edit form take over the entire screen.

First the empty #modal-container was added to the top of every page.

<div id="modal-container"></div>

Then each post that gets added to the page already had an edit button, but now the target is set to #modal-container, and the swap is set to innerHTML so that we keep the #modal-container in place.

<button class="h-8 w-8 p-1 text-center" hx-get="{{ config.root }}/edit-thought/{{ post.id }}"
        hx-target="#modal-container" hx-swap="innerHTML" title="Edit">
    {% include 'edit.svg' %}
</button>

Now the edit post that is returned from the server is turned into a full height and width modal with a nice backgrop blur over the content.


<div id="modal-container">
    <div class="fixed inset-0 z-50 overflow-y-auto" aria-labelledby="modal-title" role="dialog" aria-modal="true">
        <!-- Background backdrop -->
        <div class="fixed inset-0 bg-black/30 backdrop-blur-sm"></div>

        <!-- Modal panel -->
        <div class="flex min-h-screen items-center justify-center p-4">
            <div class="relative w-full max-w-4xl transform rounded-xl bg-zinc-900 p-6 shadow-2xl transition-all">
... similar to the original edit form in here
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

One notable change to the original edit form is clearing the modal container on submit. It is done with an hx-on::after-request event and one line of js.

<form id="websiteForm"
      hx-patch="{{ config.root }}/post/html/"
      method="POST"
      name="newPost"
      hx-target="#post-{{ post.id }}"
      hx-swap="outerHTML"
      hx-on::after-request="document.getElementById('modal-container').innerHTML = ''">
    ```

Similarly on the Cancel button.

``` html
<button class="rounded-lg border border-black bg-zinc-950 px-6 py-3 text-lg hover:bg-zinc-900"
        type="button"
        onclick="document.getElementById('modal-container').innerHTML = ''">
    Cancel
</button>

Hotkeys #

Now I struggled to get this right with htmx, and it seemed like things were getting more complicated by trying to get the buttons to trigger using htmx triggered keyboard events, I ended up just using javascript. Its still in the same file, so locality of behavior is barely an issue on this one anyways, and the js was just working.

<script>
document.addEventListener('keydown', function(e) {
    if (e.key === 'Escape') {
        document.getElementById('modal-container').innerHTML = '';
    }
    if (e.key === 'Enter' && e.ctrlKey) {
        e.preventDefault();
        htmx.trigger('#websiteForm', 'submit');
    }
});
</script>

Other small change #

When the server is returns an empty list of posts the post container would change size and cause a layout shift. Now the empty posts element, while not great does not cause layout shift.

<ul id="posts" class="min-h-screen"><li>No posts</li></ul>

⭐ ynqa jnv

2024-12-18T18:17:13Z

I’m really excited about jnv, an amazing project by ynqa. It’s worth exploring!

Interactive JSON filter using jq

⭐ Zatfer17 tui-network

2024-12-18T18:16:54Z

tui-network by Zatfer17 is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves.

No description available.

⭐ microsoft markitdown

2024-12-18T18:15:16Z

I came across markitdown from microsoft, and it’s packed with great features and ideas.

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

⭐ github gh-skyline

2024-12-18T18:13:52Z

gh-skyline by github is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves.

A GitHub CLI extension to generate a 3D model of your GitHub contribution history

⭐ outerbase studio

2024-12-18T18:12:41Z

I’m really excited about studio, an amazing project by outerbase. It’s worth exploring!

A lightweight Database GUI in your browser. It supports connecting to Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite.

⭐ cassidoo blahg

2024-12-18T13:10:46Z

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on blahg, created by cassidoo.

Cassidy’s blog template built with Astro and TinaCMS!

Links rely on color to be distiniquishable

2024-12-17T20:25:12Z

Today i got hit by this accessibility issue on my site. Low contrast links are not distiniquishable. I had not seen this error title before it was new to me, maybe I have bad memory or maybe it’s new to me.

I ended up dropping the background color of the site down a notch as I didn’t really care for the semi-dark brown anyways. I’m liking the near black bg-zinc-950 much better now.

Now I got that 100 A11y score in lighthouse.

urllink

2024-12-14T11:11:52Z

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

########
### Special text formating
########
## Function to generate a clickable link, you can call this using
# url=$(Urllink "https://ublue.it" "Visit the ublue website")
# echo "${url}"
function Urllink (){
    URL=$1
    TEXT=$2

    # Generate a clickable hyperlink
    printf "\e]8;;%s\e\\%s\e]8;;\e\\" "$URL" "$TEXT${n}"
}
```j

⭐ tursodatabase turso

2024-12-11T16:36:28Z

I’m really excited about turso, an amazing project by tursodatabase. It’s worth exploring!

Turso Database is a project to build the next evolution of SQLite.

⭐ tursodatabase limbo

2024-12-11T16:36:28Z

limbo by tursodatabase is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves.

Limbo is a work-in-progress, in-process OLTP database management system, compatible with SQLite.

⭐ 45Drives cockpit-identities

2024-12-04T18:07:16Z

I came across cockpit-identities from 45Drives, and it’s packed with great features and ideas.

User and group management plugin for Houston UI (Cockpit)

⭐ 45Drives cockpit-file-sharing

2024-12-04T18:07:13Z

cockpit-file-sharing by 45Drives is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves.

A Cockpit plugin to easily manage samba and NFS file sharing.

debug cloudflared tunnel

2024-12-03T15:36:37Z

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 on ubuntu

Check that dns is pointing to the correct tunnel #

dig subdomain.example.com
traceroute subdomain.example.com

Check that the tunnel is running #

export CLOUDFLARED_TUNNEL_ID = "my-tunnel-id"

cloudflared tunnel list
cloudflared tunnel info $CLOUDFLARED_TUNNEL_ID

setup cloudflared tunnel on ubuntu

2024-12-02T15:43:45Z

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 #

sudo wget https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/releases/latest/download/cloudflared-linux-amd64 -O /usr/local/bin/cloudflared

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/cloudflared

#

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 cloudflared, add ourselves to the group, give ownership of /etc/cloudflared to the group, give group write access to the directory, and refresh groups.

sudo mkdir -p /etc/cloudflared
sudo groupadd cloudflared
sudo usermod -aG cloudflared $USER
sudo chown -R root:cloudflared /etc/cloudflared
sudo chmod g+w /etc/cloudflared
newgrp cloudflared

Now we can log into the domain zone with cloudflared.

cloudflared tunnel login

This will give a url, follow it in a browser to log in.

cloudflared tunnel create <NAME>
mv ~/.cloudflared/cert.pem /etc/cloudflared/cert.pem
mv ~/.cloudflared/<tunnel-id>.json /etc/cloudflared/<tunnel-id>.json

config #

Now setup config. For the systemd service to work, the config file needs to be in /etc/cloudflared. The config that I have provided below will expose localhost:8000 to tester.example.com

export CLOUDFLARED_TUNNEL_ID=$(ls /etc/cloudflared/*.json | xargs -n 1 basename | sed 's/\.json$//')
mv ~/.cloudflared/${CLOUDFLARED_TUNNEL_ID}.json /etc/cloudflared/${CLOUDFLARED_TUNNEL_ID}.json
mv ~/.cloudflared/cert.pem /etc/cloudflared/cert.pem
echo "
tunnel: $(CLOUDFLARED_TUNNEL_ID)
credentials-file: /etc/cloudflared/$(CLOUDFLARED_TUNNEL_ID).json
ingress:
  - hostname: tester.example.com
    service: http://localhost:8000
  - service: 'http_status:404'
" >> /etc/cloudflared/config.yaml

dns #

Now to get a dns record for tester.example.com to point to the cloudflared tunnel.

cloudflared tunnel route dns $(CLOUDFLARED_TUNNEL_ID) tester.example.com

systemd #

Now install the systemd service.

sudo cloudflared service install

sudo systemctl status cloudflared.service
# if its not running
sudo systemctl start cloudflared.service

⭐ Syllo nvtop

2024-11-24T16:26:01Z

Just starred nvtop by Syllo. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer.

GPU & Accelerator process monitoring for AMD, Apple, Huawei, Intel, NVIDIA and Qualcomm

⭐ devfile kubectl-debug-ide

2024-11-21T19:39:30Z

I’m impressed by kubectl-debug-ide from devfile.

A kubectl plugin to debug Pods from an IDE rather than the CLI

price an stl print on slant3d

2024-11-18T15:29:30Z

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.

mkdir slantproject
cd slantproject
uv init
uv venv
. ./.venv/bin/activate
uv add httpx rich python-dotenv

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.

# .env
#  replace with your api key from https://api-fe-two.vercel.app/
SLANT_API_KEY=sl-**

slicing an stl with teh slant api #

Then you can run the python script to price out your print. I’m not exactly sure how this compares to an order, especially when you add in different materials.

from dotenv import load_dotenv
import httpx
import os

load_dotenv()

stl_url = ''
api_key = os.environ["SLANT_API_KEY"]

api = httpx.Client(base_url="https://www.slant3dapi.com/api/slicer")

res = httpx.post(
    "https://www.slant3dapi.com/api/slicer",
    json={"fileURL": stl_url},
    headers={"api-key": api_key, "Content-Type": "application/json"},
    timeout=60,
)


print(res.json())

⭐ willmcgugan terminal-tree

2024-11-17T17:58:43Z

Check out terminal-tree by willmcgugan. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential.

No description available.

⭐ ironcalc IronCalc

2024-11-12T13:31:56Z

I’m really excited about IronCalc, an amazing project by ironcalc. It’s worth exploring!

Main engine of the IronCalc ecosystem

⭐ saghen blink.cmp

2024-11-05T13:11:54Z

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on blink.cmp, created by saghen.

Performant, batteries-included completion plugin for Neovim

⭐ k3s-io cluster-api-k3s

2024-11-05T04:14:53Z

I’m really excited about cluster-api-k3s, an amazing project by k3s-io. It’s worth exploring!

Cluster API k3s

⭐ rommapp romm

2024-10-29T16:14:11Z

rommapp has done a fantastic job with romm. Highly recommend taking a look.

A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager

⭐ CZ-NIC pz

2024-10-29T16:12:48Z

I came across pz from CZ-NIC, and it’s packed with great features and ideas.

Easily handle day to day CLI operation via Python instead of regular Bash programs. 🇺🇦 #supporting

⭐ Textualize textual-demo

2024-10-29T16:09:13Z

Looking for inspiration? textual-demo by Textualize.

Quick access to the Textual demo

⭐ fynnfluegge rocketnotes

2024-10-29T16:04:58Z

I’m impressed by rocketnotes from fynnfluegge.

AI-powered markdown editor - leverage vector embeddings and LLMs with your personal notes - 100% local or in the cloud

⭐ airtai faststream

2024-10-29T15:15:21Z

faststream by airtai is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves.

FastStream is a powerful and easy-to-use Python framework for building asynchronous services interacting with event streams such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS and Redis.

⭐ ag2ai faststream

2024-10-29T15:15:21Z

I came across faststream from ag2ai, and it’s packed with great features and ideas.

FastStream is a powerful and easy-to-use Python framework for building asynchronous services interacting with event streams such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS and Redis.

⭐ usememos memos

2024-10-29T15:12:46Z

The work on memos by usememos.

An open-source, lightweight note-taking solution. The pain-less way to create your meaningful notes. Your Notes, Your Way.

⭐ pypeaday learn-kestra

2024-10-29T15:08:43Z

pypeaday has done a fantastic job with learn-kestra. Highly recommend taking a look.

No description available.

⭐ pypeaday learn-n8n

2024-10-29T15:08:39Z

pypeaday has done a fantastic job with learn-n8n. Highly recommend taking a look.

No description available.

⭐ joshmedeski sesh

2024-10-25T19:20:23Z

I like joshmedeski’s project sesh.

Smart session manager for the terminal

⭐ nvzone menu

2024-10-20T16:40:43Z

The work on menu by nvzone.

Menu plugin for neovim ( supports nested menus ) made using volt

⭐ Exafunction windsurf.nvim

2024-10-15T22:07:25Z

Just starred windsurf.nvim by Exafunction. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer.

A native neovim extension for Codeium

⭐ Exafunction codeium.nvim

2024-10-15T22:07:25Z

I’m really excited about codeium.nvim, an amazing project by Exafunction. It’s worth exploring!

A native neovim extension for Codeium

⭐ facebookincubator fastmod

2024-10-08T13:16:32Z

I like facebookincubator’s project fastmod.

A fast partial replacement for the codemod tool

⭐ wyattbubbylee zmk-config-wyatt-3x5

2024-10-03T13:41:32Z

The work on zmk-config-wyatt-3x5 by wyattbubbylee.

wyatt-3x5

⭐ manyfold3d manyfold

2024-09-27T16:15:53Z

I’m really excited about manyfold, an amazing project by manyfold3d. It’s worth exploring!

A self-hosted digital asset manager for 3d print files.

⭐ valberg django-admin-tui

2024-09-23T16:50:12Z

I’m really excited about django-admin-tui, an amazing project by valberg. It’s worth exploring!

Django Admin in the terminal!

⭐ triliu Heawood42

2024-09-18T22:55:53Z

I came across Heawood42 from triliu, and it’s packed with great features and ideas.

Files for the Heawood42 ortholinear split keyboard

k3s config after first install

2024-09-15T16:57:41Z

After first setting up a new k3s instance your kubeconfig file will be located in /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml.

You cans use it from here by setting $KUBECONFIG to that file.

export KUBECONFIG=/etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml

Or you can copy it to ~/.kube/config

cp /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml ~/.kube/config

If you have installed k3s on a remote server and need the config on your local machine then you will need to modify the server address to reflect the remote server.

scp user@<server-ip>:/etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml ~/.kube/config

Warning

only do this if you don’t already have a ~/.kube/config file, otherwise copy it to a new file and set your $KUBECONFIG env variable to use it.

Now you will need to open that file and change the server address, making sure to keep the port number.

apiVersion: v1
clusters:
  - cluster:
      certificate-authority-data: ****
      server: https://<server-ip>:6443
    name: default

⭐ pifi-org pifi-openwrt-raspberry-pi

2024-09-07T18:05:56Z

I’m impressed by pifi-openwrt-raspberry-pi from pifi-org.

Firmware Files for Raspberry Pi (PiFI)

Trying-n8n

2024-09-03T11:24:00Z

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

podman volume create n8n_data
podman run -it --rm --name n8n -p 5678:5678 -v n8n_data:/home/node/.n8n docker.n8n.io/n8nio/n8n

⭐ tjdevries kickstart.css

2024-08-21T12:59:49Z

I recently discovered kickstart.css by tjdevries, and it’s truly impressive.

Kickstart.nvim alternative written in pure CSS. Requires failwind.nvim

Print in place nuts with cura

2024-08-12T08:54:00Z

⭐ infused-kim kb_zmk_ps2_mouse_trackpoint_driver

2024-08-12T03:41:28Z

infused-kim has done a fantastic job with kb_zmk_ps2_mouse_trackpoint_driver. Highly recommend taking a look.

A PS/2 mouse & trackpoint driver module for keyboards running the zmk firmware

⭐ tjdevries failwind.nvim

2024-08-07T18:06:05Z

I recently discovered failwind.nvim by tjdevries, and it’s truly impressive.

KEKW

New-caps-for-porta-john

2024-08-05T19:06:00Z

Today I dropped some new caps in the porta-john. I need to do a bunch of posts on zmk and my journey building the porta-john, I’ve been rocking it for at least two weeks now pretty solid and I am absolutely loving it. More on that later.

KLP-Lame-Keycaps #

The model of the caps are KLP-Lame by braindefender , they are super rounded and smooth. They look really good on camera and feel good to the finders.

I printed these at home on my ender3 s1 pro with a black and purple silk filliment. I printed all 42 at once using a Printing 42 keys at once technique. They do have just a bit of a rough texture that you can feel on your figertips. I printed these on super quality .12mm layer height, while my last set was printed on draft quality .32mm layer height. They look crazy different in print quality with the lines of the new caps barely showing, the feel isn’t nearly as drastic.

The Result #

Check out the final shots as I set up the porta-john with these sweet caps.

And here they are all set up.

Full Disclosure #

I am building out a keyboard business, so if you are interested in getting some of these caps for yourself or an entire board custom made to your liking hit me up. If you’re not quite ready, I would be stoked if you keep in touch by sigining up for the email newsletter https://ticklemykeys.com.

Vim-gq

2024-08-05T12:22:00Z

Vim has a handy feature to format text with gq. You can use it in visual mode, give it a motion, or if you give it gqq it will format the current line. I use this quite often while writing in markdown, I do not use softwraps in vim, so gqq 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 gqap to format the whole paragraph and not just the current line.

before formatting #

after formattting #

Slug

2024-08-05T11:45:00Z

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.

Obsidian-new-file

2024-08-05T11:44:00Z

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.

[[slug]]

Obsidian gives you a keybinding alt+enter 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.

blogging in 2024

2024-08-05T10:02:09Z

Over the past years couple of years blog traffic has been tanking, for some time I thought it might have just been me, but then i heard it from Dave Rupert on Shop Talk show, and it made sense. LLMs and AI is slowly killing the internet as we know it.

My metrics #

I dug into my emails from the google search console team and found two results nearly one year apart. Impressions are only 60% of its value a year ago while clicks are only 35% of where they were a year ago. I’m getting less impressions and even less clicks.

May 2023

June 2024

Suspicions #

What I think is happening is a large portion of users are getting their answers from ChatGPT, Copilot, and llms like this. A lot of my posts have been filling gaps in the internet, notes for myself when I struggle to integrate x in y because there was a gap of how to do so in the docs and stack overflow. Some small fraction of users have moved on to duck duck go and other non global warming search engines with AI in their results.

Clicks are down even further, than impressions. I can’t tell for sure but my gut feeling is that people are using the AI generated results. I know I use them quite often, but listening to Justin and Autumn at the end of the latest ship it podcast https://changelog.com/shipit/115, they both claim that they get no benefits from it and don’t know anyone who does. In fact Justin has taken the most ethical approach to move to duck duck go since it doesn’t kill the earth with each search by injecting AI results. Personally I do find it quite helpful, sometimes the answer is there, or an idea that triggers me to think of the idea.

Ok blogging is dead why keep going #

Just as always blogging has been for me. It’s a great place to write down your thoughts for later reference, and to help cement them into your brain. Beyond getting famous and clicks blogging is useful to you first and foremost, that should be the number one reason.

How do we keep the internet of old #

RSS feed readers is a great way to keep creators that you like and want to support in your feed regardless of what the higher powers of search and social media think of them. This year I built my own Reader, and I use it every single day to read articles out of my own custom curated feed.

I have also created Thoughts to help share and lift up creators that make good posts. I have a crome extension that allows me to create a blog post tied to a link right within chrome. I use this several times per day to save some pages for later with a small note.

Obsidian-go-to-definition

2024-08-04T20:35:00Z

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.

⭐ braindefender KLP-Lame-Keycaps

2024-08-02T20:33:32Z

The work on KLP-Lame-Keycaps by braindefender.

Sculpted and curved keycaps for Kailh Choc and MX switches

Obsidian Using Templater Like Copier

2024-07-31T13:34:00Z

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.

---
date: <% tp.file.creation_date() %>
templateKey: til
title: <%*
  const originalFileName = await tp.system.prompt("Enter file name");
  const toTitleCase = str => str.replace(
    /\w\S*/g,
    txt => txt.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + txt.substr(1).toLowerCase()
  );
  const title = toTitleCase(originalFileName);
  tR += title + '\n'; // Add the title to the template result
-%>
published: true
tags:
  -
---
<%*
const fileName = originalFileName.toLowerCase().replace(/\s+/g, '-');
const newFilePath = `pages/til/${fileName}`;
await tp.file.move(newFilePath);
-%>

<% tp.file.cursor() %>

tR is a return value, and it gets placed directly into the place it is in the file
to.file.cursor() creates a tab-index point so I can tab into the content

Trying Obsidian

2024-07-31T00:00:00Z

I am giving obsidian a try, this is a test post to learn the flow. Something that has been really hard for me for a long time is images, I don’t include a lot of images just because it takes so much longer just to get the post out. I store them in a separate repo, I need to resize and compress them for the web so they aren’t so big.

Images are easy #

This is my current wallpaper.

I took he screenshot and just pasted it in.

I have more about my process in this post about Obsidian Image Converter.

It’s still just markdown #

I don’t know why it took me so long to understand this but obsidian is just markdown files. I pretty much just plugged in my existing blog and it picked up all the tags and was ready to run. I now get some nice visualizations to help me identify posts that were not ever tagged or maybe left unfinished.

It leans hard on wikilinks #

I just finished moving my backend over to md-it-python, which comes with some good wiliklink support. I even make a sick wikilink hover feature that previews wikilinks on hover.

Inside of obsidian when you start a wikilink it starts searching for posts to link. I get this feature in using the marksman lsp, and it’s nice to see that it works pretty similarly, but with much less setup and configuration.

creating new files #

The same keybinding that will take you to a new fill will create a Obsidian-new-file in the root directory of your project. This is very handy to create a bunch of new links and files quickly. This feature does not work the greatest for my blog currently as it does not create them from a template, and I use templates to start all of my posts. see Obsidian Using Templater Like Copier. I am now seeing why these plugins push so much automation into the templating system by directory.

New keybindings #

Until I really got myself in and working I didn’t realize all of the vim features that I would really need, Obsidian-go-to-definition was one of the very first ones. Obsidian has a feature to take you to the note under the cursor by pressing alt+enter, but that was not obvious at first.

Renaming posts #

Obsidian makes it so easy to rename a post, and it renames the file for you without leaving the editor, needing to close the file or anything. You can just go to the top of the file and change the name without needing to find it in a file tree or anything. Its a very nice and clean feature.

I miss my gqap #

There are still some vim features like Vim-gq that I use constantly to reflow long lines into readable paragraphs no matter where I open them that I cannot find a way to do in obsidian, and I miss it. ## Recent Posts.

Note

ok, so vim mode inside of obsidian really does work, and it does this, its

just less obvious because of obsidians softwraps in the editor. And I don’t think it works on indented lines like these, in this note.

missing seemless publish #

I run pre-commit on my posts to clean up the whitespace and line endings. Generally this does not do much, but aparantly obsidian is clashing with my setup, and not running pre-commit correctly so I need to leave my editor to publish a post.

With neovim I have a hotkey to commit verbosely with fugitive, gic, and to push gpp, and I use this all the time as I am writing.

Obsidian Image Converter

2024-07-30T21:09:35Z

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.

Once the images are there they are pushed and deployed as their own site to cloudflare pages. I made a quick edit to my sick wikilink hover plugin for my blog. if it sees a wikilink ending in webp, convert the domain over to obsidian-assets.waylonwalker.com, and clean up the remaining "! " that the python md-it library leaves behind.

Note

after first try I needed to increase the width from 600 to 1400, the image in this post was unreadable.

This is part of me getting set up and Trying Obsidian

convert mp4 for twitter with ffmpeg

2024-07-25T12:51:29Z

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.

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 \
  -vf "scale=trunc(oh*a/2)*2:min(720\,trunc(ih*a/2)*2)" \
  -c:v libx264 -profile:v high -level:v 4.1 \
  -b:v 3500k -maxrate 3500k -bufsize 7000k \
  -pix_fmt yuv420p \
  -c:a aac -b:a 128k -ar 44100 \
  -movflags +faststart \
  output.mp4

⭐ BurntSushi jiff

2024-07-24T03:15:31Z

Looking for inspiration? jiff by BurntSushi.

A datetime library for Rust that encourages you to jump into the pit of success.

⭐ asg017 sqlite-jiff

2024-07-24T03:15:27Z

I’m really excited about sqlite-jiff, an amazing project by asg017. It’s worth exploring!

No description available.

⭐ Infisical infisical

2024-07-21T15:01:16Z

I like Infisical’s project infisical.

♾ Infisical is the open-source secret management platform: Sync secrets across your team/infrastructure, prevent secret leaks, and manage internal PKI

⭐ evantravers zmk-config

2024-07-19T16:34:03Z

I came across zmk-config from evantravers, and it’s packed with great features and ideas.

No description available.

⭐ Textualize transcendent-textual

2024-07-17T20:57:23Z

I like Textualize’s project transcendent-textual.

Textual apps and libraries

animal well codes

2024-07-11T20:05:36Z

fish room #

fish bubbles ul d dl l dl ur ul

jellyfish d l d l d l u r

egg room #

bar dir

given bar codes top r mid dr bot dl

calculated bar codes num dir

1 r 2 dr 3 d 4 dl 5 l 6 ul 7 u 8 ur

bar code direction num bar 1 top 2 mid 3 top mid 4 bot 5 top bot 6 mid bot 7 top mid bot 8 empty

egg room decode 6 3 3 6 3 1 3 4 2 4 3 2 8 3 5 8 _ 3 5 7 5_ __ 5 2 5 6 3 1 3 3 1 3 6 4 4 6 4 2 4 6 8 6 4 8 7 3 7 6 5 7 6 __

egg room decode dir ul dd __ dd ul dd rr dd __ dl dr dl dd __ dr ur__ dd ll ur __ dd ll uu ll __ ____ ll dr ll ul dd rr dd __ dd rr dd ul dl __ dl ul dl dr dl ul ur ul dl ur uu __ dd uu ul __ ll uu ul ____

⭐ volfpeter fasthx

2024-07-10T12:55:17Z

Check out volfpeter and their project fasthx.

FastAPI server-side rendering with built-in HTMX support.

⭐ typecraft-dev shmux

2024-07-09T20:35:41Z

I’m impressed by shmux from typecraft-dev.

the shell-script tmux management you didn’t know you needed. baby

⭐ iximiuz awesome-container-tinkering

2024-07-09T00:59:29Z

I like iximiuz’s project awesome-container-tinkering.

List of awesome tools to tinker with containers.

⭐ svenstaro miniserve

2024-07-06T21:47:02Z

Looking for inspiration? miniserve by svenstaro.

🌟 For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now!

arch remove orphaned packages

2024-07-06T11:34:31Z

k8s kustomize diff

2024-07-06T09:42:42Z

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.

kubectl diff -k k8s/overlays/local

You can enable color diffs by using an external diff provider like colordiff.

export KUBECTL_EXTERNAL_DIFF="colordiff -N -u"

You might need to install colordiff if you don’t already have it.

sudo pacman -S colordiff

sudo apt install colordiff

Now I can try out kustomize changes and see the change with kustomize diff.

animal well keyboard

2024-07-04T21:58:41Z

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

⭐ Phil997 pydantic-sqlite

2024-07-04T21:57:43Z

I recently discovered pydantic-sqlite by Phil997, and it’s truly impressive.

Simple package for storing pydantic BaseModels in an in-memory SQLite database.

diskcache as debounce

2024-07-03T11:14:11Z

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 <a href="/python-diskcache/" class="wikilink" data-title="How I setup a sqlite cache in python" data-description="When I need to cache some data between runs or share a cache accross multiple processes my go to library in python is . It&#39;s built on sqlite with just enough..." data-date="2022-03-29">How I setup a sqlite cache in python</a>

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 a distributed fashion. Since they are all running on the same machine with access to the same disk, diskcache is a good choice

What I need #

check if a job is running
automatically expire jobs

Less infrastructure complexity #

My brain first went to thinking I needed another service like redis running alongside fastapi for this, then it hit me that I can use diskcache.

How I used diskcache #

Here is how I used diskcache to debounce taking screenshots for a unique shot every 60 seconds.

from diskcache import Cache

jobs_cache = Cache("jobs-cache")

@shots_router.get("/shot/{shot_id}", responses={200: {"content": {"image/webp": {}}}})
@shots_router.get("/shot/{shot_id}/", responses={200: {"content": {"image/webp": {}}}})
async def get_shot_by_id(
    background_tasks: BackgroundTasks,
    request: Request,
    shot_id: int,
):
    shot = Shot.get(shot_id)
    # check if the shot exists and return it or continue to create it.



    is_running = jobs_cache.get(shot_id)

    if is_running:
        expire_time = datetime.fromtimestamp(jobs_cache.peekitem(expire_time=True)[1]) - datetime.now()
        console.print("[red]Already running store_shot: ", shot_id)
        console.print(f"[red]Can retry in {expire_time.seconds}s")
    else:
        jobs_cache.set(shot_id, True, 60)
        background_tasks.add_task(
            store_shot,
            shot_id=shot_id,
        )

⭐ Doomlab7 homelab-diagrams

2024-07-02T13:17:32Z

I’m really excited about homelab-diagrams, an amazing project by Doomlab7. It’s worth exploring!

A repository to house diagrams for my homelab

⭐ pypeaday learn-pdm

2024-07-02T13:17:29Z

learn-pdm by pypeaday is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves.

A repository for learning and playing with the pdm package manager/system for python

⭐ wyattbubbylee zmk-config-fourpad

2024-07-02T13:17:21Z

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on zmk-config-fourpad, created by wyattbubbylee.

my fourpad keybord

kind cluster

2024-07-02T08:01:20Z

kind{.hoverlink} is a very useful tool to quickly standup and teardown kubernetes clusters. I use it to run clusters locally. Generally they are short lived clusters for trying, testing, and learning about kubernetes.

Kind is Kubernetes in Docker, its very fast to get a new cluster up and running. Other than checking a box in docker desktop it is the easiest way currently to get a cluster up and running. I’ve used docker desktop for k8s before I really developed on k8s and it was buggy at the time and sometimes started and sometimes didn’t, when it didnt I had no idea how to fix it. I’d suggest kind as the best option to get a cluster up and running locally.

Not Production #

If you are looking for a production ready cluster this is not it. I really like k3s{.hoverlink}. At the time that I chose k3s it was the most lightweight option that easily supported multi-node clusters.

Starting a kind cluster #

The first step, and maybe only one that you need is to create a cluster and give it a name. This command will edit your $KUBECONFIG file, and set the kind cluster as your default cluster to interact with.

kind create cluster --name <CLUSTER_NAME>

Using podman as a backend #

I use podman as my docker engine, kind works with docker and podman, but docker by default, in order to switch to podman you need to set an environment variable.

export KIND_EXPERIMENTAL_PROVIDER=podman

This will tell kind to use podman as the backend provider instead of docker.

Loading images #

If your images are not publically available from a registry, you can load them in kind using the kind load docker-image command.

kind load docker-image $REPOSITORY:$TAG --name <CLUSTER_NAME>

Note

 the CLUSTER_NAME is the name that you gave kind when you started the kind cluster.

Argocd #

Argocd is a great way to setup gitops workflows in kubernetes. compared to just hand-rolling kubectl apply, argo holds the state and is able to not only apply new and change, but cleanup removed things.

setting up a kind cluster with argocd installed

You can stand up argocd in kind for learning argo or getting a nice visual. But often when I use kind its overkill. The cluster is not long lived, I don’t care if things are not cleaned up, and I want to quickly apply changes without a commit and push to a git repo.

Install sealed-secreats via manifest

2024-07-02T07:54:01Z

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.

# option if you don't have a cluster try with kind

kind create cluster

curl -L https://github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets/releases/download/v0.27.0/controller.yaml > controller.yaml

kubectl apply -f controller.yaml

⭐ rothgar bashScheduler

2024-07-01T16:06:43Z

I like rothgar’s project bashScheduler.

Kubernetes scheduler written in less than 100 lines of bash 😬 😆

⭐ joric nrfmicro

2024-07-01T14:44:42Z

I’m impressed by nrfmicro from joric.

A Pro Micro alternative for wireless keyboards

playerctl fixes arch media keys

2024-06-25T18:23:41Z

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.

paru -S playerctl

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.

notify-send "`playerctl metadata --format '{{lc(status)}}:{{artist}}-{{album}}-{{title}}'`"

⭐ jzhang38 TinyLlama

2024-06-23T20:18:31Z

Just starred TinyLlama by jzhang38. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer.

The TinyLlama project is an open endeavor to pretrain a 1.1B Llama model on 3 trillion tokens.

⭐ tusharsadhwani packaged

2024-06-18T02:43:40Z

Just starred packaged by tusharsadhwani. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer.

The easiest way to ship python applications.

⭐ Dataherald dataherald

2024-06-12T02:22:27Z

Looking for inspiration? dataherald by Dataherald.

Interact with your SQL database, Natural Language to SQL using LLMs

⭐ orbitinghail sqlsync

2024-06-11T12:38:23Z

Check out sqlsync by orbitinghail. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential.

SQLSync is a collaborative offline-first wrapper around SQLite. It is designed to synchronize web application state between users, devices, and the edge.

What I'm learning in 2024

2024-06-09T10:06:30Z

2024 has been a learning fueled year, Diving deep into things I never would have previously thought I would. It’s been a bit of a mix of the 🔥hot twitter trends, and exactly what tech twitter tells you not to do. It just goes to show community is great, the tech community is filled with strong opinions, but you need to think about what really makes sense for you, your career and your customers (or lack there of).

tech #

k8s
tailwind
fastapi
htmx
jinja
opnsense

successful one day builds #

play-outside
reader
thoughts
thoughts chrome-extension

Kubernetes #

Damn did I sleep on k8s for way took long. This is like exactly what I’ve needed for a lot of things. It’s a perect example of what happens when you listen to the tech community tell you.

Looking for a Heroku replacement, What I found was shocking!

I started looking for something to make my homelab deployments easier at home. Previously I needed to ssh into my server and fuss around with docker compose. This just did not feel right for me to go into production and fiddle with it like this.

In my search I keep seeing kubernetes crop up as the best solution. I held off for a long time, until I finally decided to give it a go. I’m not sure if I got lucky or what but my first few applications that I migrated in went smooth as could be.

I chose to run k3s as this seemed like the lowest power consumption, easiest to manage, and still allowed me to run multiple nodes. At this point I was unsure if I would use multiple nodes, but I did not want to take away the option out of the gate.

I wrote a follow up article on my experience 6 monthts in.

kubernetes 6 months in

tailwind #

Again I wrote off tailwind for a long time. This time tech twitter really likes it and tells me I should use it, but I already know css and I just don’t see the point of needing to use a framework.

It wasn’t until thePrimeagen roughly said all css classes are shitty, everyone writes shitty css classes, and you might as well use the same shitty css classes everywhere that it really hit me, and I gave it a shot.

A Case For Tailwindcss

What I really found was that having a designer lay out all of the rhythm, spacing, and colors for you is really powerful.

I now have this site fully styled with tailwind, and even use md-it-attrs that allow me to pop extra classes right in markdown and style posts like [this]

fastapi #

I’ve been using fast api for a little while now but using it more and more in 2024. It has a lot of really great ideas with dependency management, and pydantic for moving data in and out of routes.

Here are some of the posts I’ve made about fastapi, theres defitely more to come here, I have some Ideas that I am honing down around meeting users where they are so that routes return the appropriate content type based on their explicitly requested content type or assumed by user agent.

how to host static content with fastapi

[[ fastapi-jinja-url-for-with-query-params ]]

htmx #

I have posts about htmx going back to Ease into htmx with htmx-get on 3/25/2022. I’ve been interested for awhile, but just didn’t really have the platform to use it till recently. My public content has been all static built content for a long time, but now I am building applications for myself that are server rendered such as Thoughts and One Day Build - Play Outside. I’ve had more use cases for using htmx.

The last pre-release of markata from 6/15/2022 now supports feed partials. This gives me a really easy way to pop things like recent posts on the bottom of every single page. I’m sure I can do this with jinja, but htmx makes it really easy to do and understand. If its up and running you will now see a Recent posts seciton below the article on this page powered by htmx.

jinja #

I’ve been using jinja for years now, but its mostly been some template variables here, some loops there. Now that I am putting fastapi and htmx to work I am really learning how to setup and design templates properly. Building up from a good re-usable base, including partials that so that pages can be rendered as full pages or partials.

just #

I have long been using my shell history to re-run complex shell commands that I use to build projets, compile tailwind, build docker images, run docker in local development. Most of the time they are not complex, but sometimes are something that would take me a few minutes to remember if I lost my shell history without it being documented

I’ve started storing all these things that I can in just. If its something that I get from my shell history I start thinking about how it would belong in a justfile. I’ve tried a few others over the years but they always seem tied to a language or build tool, just is language agnostic and runs in any terminal. Worst case, someone does not want to install it they can copy paste out of the justfile.

Biggest benefit is that it communicates to others what I do when I am working on a project. There are some good competitors like runbook that run readmes, but just has been working great for me and easy to use.

tailwind post template

2024-06-08T14:47:42Z

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.

Still Loving Tailwind

⭐ catppuccin ulauncher

2024-06-07T03:40:13Z

The work on ulauncher by catppuccin.

🇺 Soothing pastel theme for Ulauncher

⭐ codex-team editor.js

2024-06-06T21:10:13Z

The work on editor.js by codex-team.

A block-style editor with clean JSON output

⭐ darrenburns posting

2024-06-04T02:02:35Z

Check out darrenburns and their project posting.

The modern API client that lives in your terminal.

tailscale ssh

2024-06-03T16:40:18Z

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

Latest Page in Markata

2024-06-01T21:01:26Z

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.

Refactoring one line links into wikilinks

2024-05-31T20:33:10Z

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.

[[ slug ]]

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 vimgrep 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 cexpr to fill my quickfix list using a command that outputs a vimgrep format filename:line:col:msg

:cexpr system('rg ^<https -t md --vimgrep .')

This filled my quickfix list with all of the one line links.

Vim cdo #

Now all I needed to do was to run a substitution command on every line in the quickfix list. This one features the one eyed fighting kirby that I learned from the primeagen [[ thoughts-200 ]].

:cdo s/\(^https:\/\/waylonwalker.com\/\)\(.*\)/[[ \2 ]]

This converts all of the full links into a slug wrapped in double square brackets.

More #

There was a bit more to the full refactor, for instance some had a til/ preix, some were for youtube, and some were not pointed to my site.

about this site

2024-05-31T14:07:02Z

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 the line I found a really great community of people who create content in ways that they does not require that level of depth and polish on each and every post they make. Ideas flow out and content gets made over time.

Maggie Appleton{.hoverlink} and the idea of digital gardening{.hoverlink} has been very inspiriational. She makes really great content with amazing drawings in them. She publishes early and often and labels content with the state that it is in, early and often. Some posts are budding, and some are evergreen. She also distinguishes between notes and essays.

Learn in public #

Shawn Wang{.hoverlink} (swyx) Has been very inpsiring with ideas around Learn In Public{.hoverlink}.

Whatever your thing is, make the thing you wish you had found when you were learning. Don’t judge your results by “claps” or retweets or stars or upvotes

just talk to yourself from 3 months ago. I keep an almost-daily dev blog written for no one else but me.

Try your best to be right but don’t wait til your the expert to share what you are learning. If something works for you, you are likely mostly right even if you don’t have all the right words for it yet. Don’t be afraid to be wrong.

TIL #

On to one of the most inspirational pieces that I have taken ideas from @jbrancha #til repository{.hoverlink}. He has been posting daily Tils for Years, and they do pretty damn well on google despite what SEO experts say his results end up in my google search quite often.

I’ve made many posts on this site in the TIL format. I don’t strictly stick to a schedule or a character length quite like Josh Does, but generally they are short, sweet, single ideas.

Thoughts #

I created a sub site Thoughts to serve as a sort of list of bookmarks, its a place for me to comment, quote, and link to other pages on the internet.

Portfolio #

This is my place to create and share content that becomes part of my portfolio. I network with others, share content across social accounts and make it public. This is an example of my work in writing, documenting, mentoring, and web development.

Static Site #

This site has gone from html, to gatsby, and finally I built my own static site generator markata. It’s been through a few different hosts, but at the end of the day the content is all markdown{.hoverlink} with frontmatter.

For instance the beginning of this post looks like this.

---
date: 2024-05-31 14:07:02
templateKey: blog-post
title: about this site
tags:
  - meta
published: True

---

Own your Content #

Throughout this process I have become a proponent of owning your own content on the internet. If you own the domain, the content, and host it yourself you control when it gets published, deleted, and updated. No one can take this away from you execept for you. It’s a very powerful tool that I highly recommend everyone to use. You can get your own domain for $12/year or less, and that is all you need to pay.

⭐ pypeaday eol-dr

2024-05-31T11:49:42Z

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

2024-05-30T21:48:49Z

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.

markata

2024-05-30T13:45:54Z

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 for me to profile and find out why. What I really wanted was my site written in python, which I knew the ecosystem for very well, but I did not find the existing site generators easy to extend to do the things I needed. Naively I thought it would be easier to just build my own than learn how to make one do what I wanted it to. Not invented here syndrome hitting hard.

In their Defense

I really lacked the depth of knowledge in the js ecosystem to really work on

it (gatsby) effectively.

Plugins all the way down #

I started building this as I dove deeper into the Kedro framework for Data Engineering pipelines. They use a plugin framework for allowing users to extend it called pluggy. I had a great experience extending kedro using pluggy and wanted to build something with based on pluggy when I had started markata.

A Minimal Pluggy Example

my linked in work history

2024-05-30T11:14:16Z

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.

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

2024-05-30T11:02:39Z

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 you would not include you work history at all, and any hiring manager who gives a shit would see that and should understand. Reality is that they probably don’t and it probably raised more questions than answers for them.

my linked in work history

Congrats on your work anniversary #

All these comments and messages are auto generated, both sides know it and its garbage. If you actually care about someones work history or achievements take 30s to craft a message of your own to them, that actually means something and is not garbage.

TLDR #

If you are not going to take the time and effort to make something worth sharing, take your garbage profile off your resume.o

⭐ eraser-dev eraser

2024-05-25T01:25:18Z

I recently discovered eraser by eraser-dev, and it’s truly impressive.

🧹 Cleaning up images from Kubernetes nodes

⭐ ublue-os image-template

2024-05-22T12:34:45Z

The work on image-template by ublue-os.

Build your own custom Universal Blue Image!

⭐ ublue-os obs-studio-portable

2024-05-21T01:44:25Z

The work on obs-studio-portable by ublue-os.

OCI container image of OBS Studio that bundles a curated collection of 3rd party plugins

⭐ andydunstall piko

2024-05-16T13:54:42Z

andydunstall has done a fantastic job with piko. Highly recommend taking a look.

An open-source alternative to Ngrok, designed to serve production traffic and be simple to host (particularly on Kubernetes)

⭐ starfederation datastar

2024-05-10T19:07:04Z

The work on datastar by starfederation.

The hypermedia framework.

just picker

2024-05-08T20:48:23Z

just 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.

default:
  @just --list

showmount-e

2024-04-25T20:15:29Z

TIL how to display the list of nfs mounts on your network.

showmount -e

You can even look for mounts of other machines on your network.

showmount -e <hostname>

control minio token access

2024-04-24T17:03:34Z

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

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "admin:*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "kms:*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:*"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:s3:::<bucket>",
        "arn:aws:s3:::<bucket>/*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

How to List Sqlite tables

2024-04-23T20:03:27Z

You can inspect sqlite tables with the sqlite shell.

note that you get into the shell with sqlite3 database.db

.tables

I also learned that .tables, .index and .schema are helper functions that query the sqlite_master table on the main 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.

❯ sqlite3 database.db "SELECT * from sqlite_master;"
table|rkey|rkey|2|CREATE TABLE rkey (
    id       integer primary key,
    key      text not null,
    type     integer not null,
        version  integer not null,
    etime    integer,
        mtime    integer not null
)
index|rkey_key_idx|rkey|3|CREATE UNIQUE INDEX rkey_key_idx on rkey (key)
index|rkey_etime_idx|rkey|4|CREATE INDEX rkey_etime_idx on rkey (etime)
where etime is not null
trigger|rkey_on_type_update|rkey|0|CREATE TRIGGER rkey_on_type_update
before update of type on rkey
for each row
when old.type is not new.type
begin
    select raise(abort, 'key type mismatch');
end
table|rstring|rstring|5|CREATE TABLE rstring (
    key_id integer not null,
    value  blob not null,

    foreign key (key_id) references rkey (id)
          on delete cascade
)
index|rstring_pk_idx|rstring|6|CREATE UNIQUE INDEX rstring_pk_idx on rstring (key_id)
view|vstring|vstring|0|CREATE VIEW vstring as
  select
    rkey.id as key_id, rkey.key, rstring.value,
        datetime(etime/1000, 'unixepoch') as etime,
        datetime(mtime/1000, 'unixepoch') as mtime
  from rkey join rstring on rkey.id = rstring.key_id
  where rkey.type = 1
    and (rkey.etime is null or rkey.etime > unixepoch('subsec'))
table|rhash|rhash|7|CREATE TABLE rhash (
    key_id integer not null,
    field text not null,
    value blob not null,

    foreign key (key_id) references rkey (id)
      on delete cascade
)
index|rhash_pk_idx|rhash|8|CREATE UNIQUE INDEX rhash_pk_idx on rhash (key_id, field)
index|rhash_key_id_idx|rhash|9|CREATE INDEX rhash_key_id_idx on rhash (key_id)
view|vhash|vhash|0|CREATE VIEW vhash as
  select
    rkey.id as key_id, rkey.key, rhash.field, rhash.value,
        datetime(etime/1000, 'unixepoch') as etime,
        datetime(mtime/1000, 'unixepoch') as mtime
  from rkey join rhash on rkey.id = rhash.key_id
  where rkey.type = 4
    and (rkey.etime is null or rkey.etime > unixepoch('subsec'))

Redka Runs on SQLite

2024-04-22T19:54:24Z

With the liscense changes to redis there are several new forks out there. One that I am particularly interested in is redka.

curl https://i.jpillora.com/nalgeon/redka | bash
chmod +x redka
./redka database.db

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.

❯ sqlite3 database.db "SELECT name FROM sqlite_master;"
rkey
rkey_key_idx
rkey_etime_idx
rkey_on_type_update
rstring
rstring_pk_idx
vstring
rhash
rhash_pk_idx
rhash_key_id_idx
vhash

We can look at the values in the vstring table.

sqlite3 database.db "SELECT * from vstring;"
1|hi|hello there you||2024-04-17 01:46:26

Am I vulnerable to the xz backdoor?

2024-04-21T07:53:54Z

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 AUR.">paru, and I am good.

paru -Qii zx

arch dependencies

2024-04-20T07:42:21Z

AUR.">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.

❯ paru -Qii nodejs
Name            : nodejs
Version         : 21.7.2-1
Description     : Evented I/O for V8 javascript
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://nodejs.org/
Licenses        : MIT
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : icu  libuv  libnghttp2  libnghttp3  libngtcp2  openssl  zlib  brotli  c-ares
Optional Deps   : npm: nodejs package manager [installed]
Required By     : node-gyp  nodejs-nopt  npm  semver
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 46.86 MiB
Packager        : Felix Yan <felixonmars@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Thu 04 Apr 2024 05:11:09 AM CDT
Install Date    : Mon 15 Apr 2024 07:27:02 AM CDT
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature
Backup Files    : None
Extended Data   : pkgtype=pkg

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.

❯ pactree --reverse --sync --depth 1 nodejs

nodejs
├─acorn
├─ansible-language-server
├─asar
├─babel-cli
├─babel-core
├─bash-language-server
├─blinksocks
├─bower
├─browserify
├─coffeescript
├─dot-language-server
├─emscripten
├─eslint
├─eslint-language-server
├─eslint_d
├─gitlab
├─gnomon
├─grunt-cli
├─gtop
├─gulp
├─hedgedoc
├─jake
├─markdownlint-cli2
├─marked
├─marked-man
├─matrix-appservice-irc
├─modclean
├─node-gyp
├─nodejs-emojione
├─nodejs-material-design-icons
├─nodejs-nopt
├─nodejs-source-map
├─nodejs-yaml
├─npm
├─openui5
├─pm2
├─prettier
├─pyright
├─rapydscript-ng
├─s3rver
├─semver
├─serverless
├─stylelint
├─stylus
├─svelte-language-server
├─tailwindcss-language-server
├─ts-node
├─typescript
├─typescript-svelte-plugin
├─uglify-js
├─vscode-css-languageserver
├─vscode-html-languageserver
├─vscode-json-languageserver
├─vue-language-server
├─vue-typescript-plugin
├─wasm-bindgen
├─web-ext
├─wrangler
├─yaml-language-server
├─yarn

copier trust

2024-04-19T20:41:06Z

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.

copier copy --trust <template> <destination>

All the the copier copy api can be found with help.

❯ copier copy --help
copier copy 8.3.0

Copy from a template source to a destination.

Usage:
    copier copy [SWITCHES] template_src destination_path

Hidden-switches:
    -h, --help                         Prints this help message and quits
    --help-all                         Prints help messages of all sub-commands and quits
    -v, --version                      Prints the program's version and quits

Switches:
    -C, --no-cleanup                   On error, do not delete destination if it was
                                       created by Copier.
    --UNSAFE, --trust                  Allow templates with unsafe features (Jinja
                                       extensions, migrations, tasks)
    -a, --answers-file VALUE:str       Update using this path (relative to
                                       `destination_path`) to find the answers file
    -d, --data VARIABLE=VALUE:str      Make VARIABLE available as VALUE when rendering the
                                       template; may be given multiple times
    -f, --force                        Same as `--defaults --overwrite`.
    -g, --prereleases                  Use prereleases to compare template VCS tags.
    -l, --defaults                     Use default answers to questions, which might be
                                       null if not specified.
    -n, --pretend                      Run but do not make any changes
    -q, --quiet                        Suppress status output
    -r, --vcs-ref VALUE:str            Git reference to checkout in `template_src`. If you
                                       do not specify it, it will try to checkout the
                                       latest git tag, as sorted using the PEP 440
                                       algorithm. If you want to checkout always the
                                       latest version, use `--vcs-ref=HEAD`.
    -s, --skip VALUE:str               Skip specified files if they exist already; may be
                                       given multiple times
    -w, --overwrite                    Overwrite files that already exist, without asking.
    -x, --exclude VALUE:str            A name or shell-style pattern matching files or
                                       folders that must not be copied; may be given
                                       multiple times

ipython f2

2024-04-18T20:40:41Z

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 <c-e> for me, and since I have my environment variable EDITOR set to nvim it opens nvim when I hit <c-e>. Today I discovered that Ipython has this bound to F2. If you know how to set it to <c-e> let me know I’ve tried, a lot.

export EDITOR=nvim
ipython
<F2>

better yet add export EDITOR=nvim to your .zshrc

# ~/.zshrc
export EDITOR=nvim

sqlmodel indexes

2024-04-17T21:55:25Z

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 Field(index=True)

class Hero(SQLModel, table=True):
    id: int | None = Field(default=None, primary_key=True)
    name: str = Field(index=True)
    secret_name: str
    age: int | None = Field(default=None, index=True)

example courtesy of the docs

Note

 primary keys are indexed by default.

The docs cover this pretty well, and in quite depth - Optimizing Queries

python inline snapshot

2024-04-17T13:32:53Z

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.

import inline_snapshot

def test_one():
    assert 1 == snapshot()

Now when I run pytest my tests will fail because my assert has no value, but if I run pytest --inline-snapshot=create it will fill out my snapshot values and the file will then look like this.

import inline_snapshot

def test_one():
    assert 1 == snapshot(1)

It also works with pydantic models.

class MyModel(BaseModel):
    name: str
    age: int
    nickname: str | None = None


def test_my_model_instance():
    assert MyModel(name="Waylon", age=1) == snapshot(MyModel(name="Waylon", age=1))


def test_my_model_fields():
    me = MyModel(name="Waylon", age=1, nickname='Waylon')
    assert me.name == snapshot("Waylon")
    assert me.age == snapshot(1)
    assert me.nickname == snapshot("Waylon")

⭐ nalgeon redka

2024-04-17T12:06:05Z

nalgeon has done a fantastic job with redka. Highly recommend taking a look.

Redis re-implemented with SQLite

sqlite vacuum

2024-04-16T21:31:24Z

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 the sqlite shell by running sqlite3.

You will need about double the current size of the database as free space to do the VACUUM, you need space for a full copy, journaling or write ahead logs, and the existing database.

VACUUM;

The docs are fantastic for vacuum.

Tailwind Animations

2024-04-15T21:19:21Z

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.

<div id="square"
      class="transition-colors ease-in-out duration-700">
</div>

And the entire square element.

<div id="square"
      class="w-16 h-16 bg-rose-500 rounded border border-4 border-rose-800 hover:bg-indigo-600 hover:border-yellow-500 transition-colors ease-in-out duration-700">
</div>

How to kill ollama server

2024-04-14T18:31:36Z

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

# stop it
systemctl stop ollama.service

# disable it if you want
systemctl disable ollama.service

# confirm its status
systemctl status ollama.service

You can confirm this with the following command.

# checking running processes
ps aux | grep ollama
pgrep ollama

# checking gpu processes
gpustat --show-cmd --show-pid

Next time you want to start you can do it as before with ollama serve.

Composing Typer clis

2024-04-13T08:27:26Z

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 aws cli which always has the aws <command> <subcommand> pattern.

Lets setup the cli app itself first. You can put it in project/cli/cli.py.

import typer

from project.cli.api import api_app
from project.cli.config import config_app
from project.cli.user import user_app
from project.cli.run import run_app

app = typer.Typer()

app.add_typer(api_app, name="api")
app.add_typer(config_app, name="config")
app.add_typer(user_app, name="user")
app.add_typer(run_app, name="run")

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 our command, and a command that will become our subcommand in the parent app.

import typer
from rich.console import Console

from project.config import get_config

config_app = typer.Typer()

@config_app.callback()
def config():
    "model cli"


@config_app.command()
def show(
):
    project_config = get_config(env)
    Console().print(fokais_config)

Setting up the entrypoint in pyproject.toml.

[project.scripts] # <- this project is part of the config DO NOT change it
project = "project.cli.cli:app" # <- This project is the project name, DO change it

Now you can see each cli application as a sub command.

❯ project --help

 Usage: project [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

╭─ Options ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --install-completion  [bash|zsh|fish|powershell|pwsh]  Install completion for the specified shell.│
│                                                        [default: None]                            │
│ --show-completion     [bash|zsh|fish|powershell|pwsh]  Show completion for the specified shell,   │
│                                                        to copy it or customize the installation.  │
│                                                        [default: None]                            │
│ --help                                                 Show this message and exit.                │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Commands ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ api                        model cli                                                              │
│ config                     config cli                                                             │
│ user                       user cli                                                               │
│ run                        run cli                                                                │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

In the example above we can run the command project config show to see the current configuration of our project.

tailwind arbitrary values

2024-04-12T21:21:42Z

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.

<li class="max-w-[100vw]">
</li>

Learn more about using-arbitrary-values from their docs docs

fix npm global install needs sudo

2024-04-11T13:28:17Z

Each time I go to set up npm I am frustrated by the errors saying that I don’t have permission to npm i -g <package>, 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.

mkdir ~/.npm-global
export NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=~/.npm-global
export PATH=$PATH:~/.npm-global/bin

For the fix to remain persistent you need to put these two lines in your shell profile like ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc.

export NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=~/.npm-global
export PATH=$PATH:~/.npm-global/bin

One Day Build - Play Outside

2024-04-10T12:32:20Z

Inspired by Adam Savage and his One Day builds on youtube. I often build things, and want to make them generally useful for others and over configure out of the gate. This project is purely for me inspired by a need I have.

play-outside

!How-To #

This post will not directly show how to make a weather app, but document the process that I went through to make mine. It will show the tools that I used to make it, and the final result.

The Situation #

It often goes in our house ask dad while he is busy and he will probably just say yes without thinking much. This happens a lot when kids ask to go outside. I think sure, go for it, you will figure it out. Then my wife walks in and asks where they are, followed by, did you even check the weather, its -11 degrees outside right now.

I need a tool for this decision making process

Lungs #

You we have a family of not the most heathly lungs, we have my wife with lung cancer, one lung missing, and kids with asthma. We need to account for temperature, humidity, wind chill, and air quality before heading outside and seeing the repercussions of it later.

Final result #

So this is what I built, its a web app that checks the weather and air quality in your area and determines if its safe to go outside. It will even recommend limiting your time, or wearing a coat.

The Stack #

This is a one day build, I have both kids at home from school, so this is realistically only like 2-3 hours at most, so this has to be chosen based on familiarity.

Docker
k8s
Python
FastAPI
tailwind
httpx
OpenWeatherMap API
ipwho.is

This is the same stack (minue the apis) that I am using to build my startup fokais.com with. I am quite familiar with it and should be able to quickly make progress with it.

❯ tree
Permissions Size User   Date Modified Git Name
drwxr-xr-x     - waylon 16 Jan 12:21   -N  .
.rw-r--r--  3.8k waylon 16 Jan 12:24   -N ├──  deployment.yaml
.rw-r--r--   278 waylon 16 Jan 12:21   -N ├──  docker-compose.yml
.rw-r--r--   552 waylon 16 Jan 12:20   -N ├──  Dockerfile
.rw-r--r--   15k waylon 15 Jan 14:37   -N ├──  favicon.ico
.rw-r--r--  1.9k waylon 15 Jan 15:58   -N ├──  justfile
.rw-r--r--  1.1k waylon 15 Jan 11:39   -N ├──  LICENSE.txt
.rw-r--r--   51k waylon 15 Jan 14:38   -N ├──  package-lock.json
.rw-r--r--    69 waylon 15 Jan 14:38   -N ├──  package.json
drwxr-xr-x     - waylon 16 Jan 12:20   -N ├──  play_outside
.rw-r--r--   138 waylon 16 Jan 12:21   -N │  ├──  __about__.py
.rw-r--r--   115 waylon 15 Jan 11:39   -N │  ├──  __init__.py
.rw-r--r--  7.5k waylon 16 Jan 08:14   -N │  ├──  api.py
drwxr-xr-x     - waylon 15 Jan 21:30   -N │  ├──  cli
.rw-r--r--  3.5k waylon 15 Jan 21:30   -N │  │  └──  api.py
.rw-r--r--  2.8k waylon 16 Jan 12:20   -N │  ├──  config.py
.rw-r--r--  3.0k waylon 15 Jan 14:35   -N │  ├──  decorators.py
.rw-r--r--    51 waylon 15 Jan 14:50   -N │  └──  queries.py
.rw-r--r--  2.2k waylon 15 Jan 15:16   -N ├──  pyproject.toml
.rw-r--r--   506 waylon 15 Jan 11:39   -N ├──  README.md
drwxr-xr-x     - waylon 15 Jan 14:39   -N ├──  static
.rw-r--r--   21k waylon 16 Jan 08:10   -N │  ├──  app.css
.rw-r--r--   15k waylon 15 Jan 14:37   -N │  ├──  favicon.ico
.rw-r--r--   47k waylon 15 Jan 14:32   -N │  └──  htmx.org@1.9.8
drwxr-xr-x     - waylon 15 Jan 21:04   -N ├──  tailwind
.rw-r--r--  6.2k waylon 15 Jan 21:04   -N │  └──  app.css
.rw-r--r--   360 waylon 15 Jan 21:04   -N ├──  tailwind.config.js
drwxr-xr-x     - waylon 16 Jan 12:16   -N ├──  templates
.rw-r--r--  2.5k waylon 16 Jan 12:16   -N │  ├──  base.html
.rw-r--r--  2.2k waylon 16 Jan 12:11   -N │  ├──  card.html
.rw-r--r--   151 waylon 15 Jan 21:07   -N │  ├──  includestyles.html
.rw-r--r--   418 waylon 16 Jan 12:12   -N │  └──  index.html
drwxr-xr-x     - waylon 15 Jan 11:39   -N └──  tests
.rw-r--r--   115 waylon 15 Jan 11:39   -N    └──  __init__.py

htmx-btw">HTMX BTW #

I have been pairing up htmx with this stack quite a lot lately, and its fantastic, but honestly this idea just does not have a lot of endpoints, and I don’t think it needs it for a one day build, just toss everything into one page and call it good.

Getting Weather Data #

The first thing we need is the feels_like or Apartment Temperature. A quick google search lead me to https://openweathermap.org/ they have a very nice calculation for the feels like temerature already built in.

Now using openweathermap, we can get the feels like temperature, by latitude and longitude.

async def get_weather(lat_long):
    async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:
        response = await client.get(
            f"https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?units=imperial&lat={lat_long['latitude']}&lon={lat_long['longitude']}&appid={config.open_weather_api_key}"
        )
        return response.json()

Where are you?? #

Since no one is going to know their current latitude and longitude we need a way to look this up for it to actually be useful. For this I leaned on https://ipwhois.io/

async def get_lat_long(ip_address):
    if ip_address is None:
        ip_address = "140.177.140.75"
    async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:
        response = await client.get(f"https://ipwho.is/{ip_address}")
        return response.json()

Decision Tree #

For this I punted over to chatGPT to see what it came up with.

I am working on a web app to tell kids if its ok to play outside.  It is
targeted towards kids living in the  midwest united states.   I have the feels
like temperature already.  Set some values for the temperature

too cold,
no longer than 15 minutes,
coats required,
no longer than 15 minutes,
too hot

What it came up with wasn’t a terrible starting point, but its values essentially said kids cant play in the snow.

def determine_play_condition(feels_like_temperature):
    if feels_like_temperature < 20:
        return "It's too cold for extended play. Stay indoors and keep warm!"
    elif 20 <= feels_like_temperature <= 32:
        return "Perfect weather for snow play! Enjoy the winter wonderland!"
    elif 32 < feels_like_temperature <= 40:
        return "Coats and winter gear required for outdoor play. Stay cozy!"
    elif 40 < feels_like_temperature <= 50:
        return "You can play in the snow, but limit your time. It's getting warmer!"
    else:
        return "It's too warm for snow play. Find other fun activities indoors!"

# Example usage:
feels_like_temp = 25  # Replace with the actual feels like temperature
message = determine_play_condition(feels_like_temp)
print(message)

Some Massaging Later #

My wife sent me over this image from Tinkergarten, which is a chart made by the Iowa Department of Public Health. I used it as a guide to set some values, and added some conditions based on visibility and air quality index (aqi), which we have become all too familiar with over the past year with all the forest fires out Western US causing our lungs issues here in the Midwest.

(aqi) which we have become all too familiar with over the past year with all the forest fires out Western US

def determine_play_condition(weather, aqi=0):
    play_condition = PlayCondition()

    feels_like_temperature = weather["main"]["feels_like"]
    visibility = weather["visibility"]

    play_condition.message += hours_till_sunset(weather)

    if "after" in play_condition.message:
        play_condition.color = "bg-red-500"

    if visibility < 1000:
        play_condition.message += "It's too foggy. Find better activities inside!"
        play_condition.color = "bg-red-500"

    if aqi > 150:
        play_condition.message += "It's too polluted. Find better activities inside!"
        play_condition.color = "bg-red-500"
    elif aqi > 100:
        play_condition.message += "limit your time outside due to the poor air quality"
        play_condition.color = "bg-yellow-500"
    elif aqi > 50:
        play_condition.message += "Check the air quality outside at your discression."
        play_condition.color = "bg-yellow-500"
    else:
        play_condition.message += ""

    if feels_like_temperature < 10:
        play_condition.message += "It's too cold. Stay indoors and keep warm!"
        play_condition.color = "bg-red-500"
    elif feels_like_temperature < 30:
        play_condition.message += "You can play outside, but limit your time!"
        play_condition.color = "bg-yellow-500"
    elif feels_like_temperature < 40:
        play_condition.message += (
            "Coats and winter gear required for outdoor play. Stay cozy!"
        )
    elif feels_like_temperature < 50:
        play_condition.message += "Grab a warm jacket and enjoy your time outside!"
    elif feels_like_temperature < 60:
        play_condition.message += "Grab some long sleeves and enjoy your time outside!"
    elif feels_like_temperature > 90:
        play_condition.message += (
            "You can play outside, but limit your time in this heat!"
        )
        play_condition.color = "bg-yellow-500"
    elif feels_like_temperature > 109:
        play_condition.message += (
            "It's too hot for outdoor play. Find cooler activities indoors!"
        )
        play_condition.color = "bg-red-500"
    else:
        play_condition.message += "Enjoy your time outside!"
    return play_condition

Pulling the data together #

Since I will be needing all of the data together upon every request I put together one get_data function to return a dict of all of the data.

forecast

 I pulled the forecast endpoint from openweathermap as well, it looks like a

stripped down version of the regular weather endpoint, but every few hours over the course of the next 5 days.

async def get_data(request: Request):
    user_ip = request.headers.get("CF-Connecting-IP")
    lat_long = await get_lat_long(user_ip)
    weather = await get_weather(lat_long)
    forecast = await get_forecast(lat_long)
    air_quality = await get_air_quality(lat_long)
    weather["play_condition"] = determine_play_condition(
        weather,
        air_quality["list"][0]["main"]["aqi"],
    )

    forecast = [
        {"play_condition": determine_play_condition(x), **x}
        for x in forecast
        if datetime.fromtimestamp(x["dt"]).hour >= 6
        and datetime.fromtimestamp(x["dt"]).hour <= 21
    ]

    return {
        "request.client": request.client,
        "request.client.host": request.client.host,
        "user_ip": user_ip,
        "lat_long": lat_long,
        "weather": weather,
        "forecast": forecast,
        "air_quality": air_quality,
        "sunset": weather["sys"]["sunset"],
    }

FastAPI #

Fastapi here is a great framework, it uses pydantic to validate the data returned from the api, has a great dependency management system.

I am going to use none of that, all I need is one TemplateResponse using jinja. For good measure, I’ll toss in a /metadata route that returns the data.

from fastapi import FastAPI
app = FastAPI()


@app.get("/")
@no_cache
async def get_home(request: Request):
    data = await get_data(request)
    return config.templates.TemplateResponse("index.html", {"request": request, **data})

@app.get("/metadata")
async def root(
    request: Request,
):
    return await get_data(request)

No Cache Header #

I had some issues with cloudflare caching me and not letting me hit the api everytime. I’ve ran into this several times in the past, so I went to the cloudflare dashboard, manually busted the cache for the home route and popped a no_cache decorator on the get_home route.

def no_cache(func):
    not_cached_routes.append(f"{func.__module__}.{func.__name__}")

    @wraps(func)
    async def wrapper(*args, request: Request, **kwargs):
        # my_header will be now available in decorator
        if "request" in signature(func).parameters:
            kwargs["request"] = request

        if inspect.iscoroutinefunction(func):
            response = await func(*args, **kwargs)
        else:
            response = func(*args, **kwargs)

        response.headers["Cache-Control"] = "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
        response.headers["Pragma"] = "no-cache"
        response.headers["Expires"] = "0"
        return response

    return wrapper

@app.get("/")
@no_cache
async def get_home(request: Request):
    data = await get_data(request)
    return config.templates.TemplateResponse("index.html", {"request": request, **data})

This solved my caching issues.

Templates #

I used jinja for templating its built right into FastAPI.

from fastapi.templating import Jinja2Templates

templates = Jinja2Templates(directory="templates")

This will get you by for quite awhile, and I probably could deal with templates working just like this for a one day build, but I have some nice feautures that I like from other projects, and at least one specific to just this project. Once they are in my config object, I use them like so.

Note

 The `request` parameter is a requirement for all templates.

@app.get("/")
@no_cache
async def get_home(request: Request):
    data = await get_data(request)
    return config.templates.TemplateResponse("index.html", {"request": request, **data})

Globals #

I need a nice way to convert the openweathermap timestamps to human readable values.

from datetime import datetime

templates.env.globals["datetime"] = datetime

Then in jinja I can format the weather.dt variable like so.

{{ datetime.fromtimestamp(weather.dt).strftime(format = '%A') }}

Putting it together #

I put a get_templates function in my config, and the config object is passed the results as config. Again I copy pasted a function https_url_for from my other project so that I can use url_for in my templates and it work on both localhost and production.

import os
from datetime import datetime
from datetime import timezone

from fastapi.templating import Jinja2Templates
from rich.console import Console

console = Console()


@pass_context
def https_url_for(context: dict, name: str, **path_params: Any) -> str:
    request = context["request"]
    http_url = request.url_for(name, **path_params)
    return str(http_url).replace("http", "https", 1)

def get_templates(config: BaseSettings) -> Jinja2Templates:
    templates = Jinja2Templates(directory="templates")
    templates.env.filters["quote_plus"] = lambda u: quote_plus(str(u))
    templates.env.filters["timestamp"] = lambda u: datetime.fromtimestamp(
        u, tz=timezone.utc
    ).strftime("%B %d, %Y")
    templates.env.globals["https_url_for"] = https_url_for
    templates.env.globals["config"] = config
    templates.env.globals["datetime"] = datetime
    templates.env.globals["len"] = len
    templates.env.globals["int"] = int
    console.print(f'Using environment: {os.environ.get("ENV")}')

    if os.environ.get("ENV") in ["dev", "qa", "prod"]:
        templates.env.globals["url_for"] = https_url_for
        console.print("Using HTTPS")
    else:
        console.print("Using HTTP")

    return templates

Styles #

I’ve been all in on tailwind lately. I was a long holdout. I used Sass back in 2016/2017 when I was first getting into webdev, then went many years just straight vanilla. Tailwind just has some really well thought out color and rythm that makes it easy. I have also really been appreciating the locality of behavior part of it. I can make components in jinja with everything they need.

I set up my tailwind.config.js like so. It includes the typography plugin and some extra box shadows that are centered.

/** @type {import('tailwindcss').Config} */
module.exports = {
  content: ["templates/**/*.html"],
  plugins: [require("@tailwindcss/typography")],
  theme: {
    extend: {
      boxShadow: {
        xlc: "0 0 60px 15px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3)",
        lgc: "0 0 20px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3)",
      },

    },
  },
};

For my tailwind/app.css I set the background color of the page dark, text white, and make the scrollbar not default.

@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;

html {
  scroll-behavior: smooth;
  @apply bg-zinc-800 text-white autofill:bg-yellow-500;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar {
  @apply h-4 w-4;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-track {
  @apply rounded-full bg-zinc-900;
}

body::-webkit-scrollbar-track {
  @apply rounded-full bg-pink-600;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
  @apply rounded-full bg-zinc-600 hover:bg-zinc-500;
}

body::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
  @apply rounded-full bg-cyan-500 hover:bg-cyan-400;
}

Compiling tailwind #

I run tailwind using npx after first installing the typography plugin. This will use my tailwind.config.js file, and the tailwind/app.css file as input, and output to static/app.css.

Note

 --watch will watch for changes, and automatically recompile as you make changes to any templates.

# install the typography plugin
npm i @tailwindcss/typography
# compile the css
npx tailwindcss --input tailwind/app.css --output static/app.css --watch

Deployment #

Docker #

CI #

K8s #

TEXT BASED #

play-outside

darkmode scrollbars

2024-04-10T11:56:38Z

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.

    <style>
        ::-webkit-scrollbar {
            height: 1rem;
            width: 1rem;
        }

        ::-webkit-scrollbar-track {
            background-color: rgb(24 24 27);
        }

        body::-webkit-scrollbar-track {
            background-color: rgb(39 39 42);
        }

        ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
            background-color: rgb(82 82 91);
        }

        ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:hover {
            background-color: rgb(113 113 122);
        }

        body::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
            background-color: rgb(82 82 91);
        }

        body::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:hover {
            background-color: rgb(113 113 122);
        }

        ::-webkit-scrollbar-corner {
            background-color: rgb(39 39 42);
        }
    </style>

Want a rounded scrollbar thumb? add these styles.

::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
    border-radius: 0.25rem;
    border-radius: 9999px;
}

body::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
    border-radius: 0.25rem;
    border-radius: 9999px;
}

This makes a very nice looking default darkmode scrollbar.

Udating Cloudflare Pages using the Wrangler cli

2024-04-09T17:03:51Z

Before deploying to cloudflare pages with wrangler you need a cloudflare api token. You can get one at dash.cloudflare.com/profile/api-tokens.

Install Wrangler #

Next install wrangler using npm.

npm i -g wrangler

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.

npx wrangler pages deploy markout --project-name reader-waylonwalker-com --branch markout

Deploy #

Now you can deploy your static application using wrangler to cloudflare pages.

In this example I have my application built into the markout directory, and since the production branch is named markout I need to pass that in here as well.

wrangler pages deploy markout --project-name reader-waylonwalker-com --branch markout

scheduling cron jobs in kubernetes

2024-04-08T16:56:46Z

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 docker.io/waylonwalker/reader-waylonwalker-com and pushed it to dockerhub. It uses a CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN secret to access cloudflare, and the entrypoint itself does the build and upload.

apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  name: reader
  namespace: reader

---
apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  name: reader-cronjob
  namespace: reader
spec:
  schedule: "0 * * * *"
  successfulJobsHistoryLimit: 6
  failedJobsHistoryLimit: 6
  jobTemplate:
    spec:
      template:
        spec:
          containers:
            - name: reader-container
              image: docker.io/waylonwalker/reader-waylonwalker-com:latest
              env:
                - name: CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN
                  valueFrom:
                    secretKeyRef:
                      name: cloudflare-secret
                      key: cloudflare-secret
          restartPolicy: OnFailure

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2024-04-07T19:23:52Z

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⭐ blueswen fastapi-observability

2024-04-07T19:05:14Z

I’m really excited about fastapi-observability, an amazing project by blueswen. It’s worth exploring!

Observe FastAPI app with three pillars of observability: Traces (Tempo), Metrics (Prometheus), Logs (Loki) on Grafana through OpenTelemetry and OpenMetrics.

jinja macros

2024-04-07T14:54:08Z

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.

{% macro link(id, text, boosted=false) -%}
<a
    class="
    {% if id is none %}
      pointer-events-none bg-terminal-950 text-terminal-900 ring-terminal-900
    {% else %}
      bg-terminal-950 hover:bg-terminal-900 hover:text-terminal-400 text-terminal-500 shadow-lg shadow-terminal-300/20 hover:shadow-terminal-300/30 ring-terminal-300
    {% endif %}
      cursor-pointer block text-center font-bold py-2 px-4 rounded w-full ring-1
    "
    {% if id is not none %}
    href="{{ url_for('boosted', id=id) }}"
    {% endif %}
    {% if boosted %}
    hx-boost="true"
    {% endif %}>
    {{ text }}
</a>
{%- endmacro %}

<h2 class='text-3xl font-light mt-0 max-w-xl text-center prose-xl mt-8 text-terminal-500'>
    Boosted Links
</h2>

<div class='flex flex-row gap-4'>
    {{ link(prev_id, 'Previous', boosted=True) }}
    {{ link(next_id, 'Next', boosted=True) }}
</div>

<h2 class='text-3xl font-light mt-0 max-w-xl text-center prose-xl mt-8 text-terminal-500'>
    Normal Links
</h2>

<div class='flex flex-row gap-4'>
    {{ link(prev_id, 'Previous', boosted=False) }}
    {{ link(next_id, 'Next', boosted=False) }}
</div>

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2024-04-07T00:34:46Z

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jinja loop variable and htmx

2024-04-06T20:47:13Z

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.

{% for person in persons %}
<li
{% if loop.last %}
    hx-get="{{ url_for('infinite', page=next_page) }}"
    hx-trigger="intersect once"
    hx-target="#persons"
    hx-swap='beforeend'
    hx-indicator="#persons-loading"
{% endif %}
    {{ person.name.upper() }} -
    {{ person.phone_number }}
</li>
{% endfor %}

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

2024-04-05T20:43:32Z

Out of the box FastAPI.">Starlette does not support url_for with query params. When trying to use url_for with query params it throws the following error.

starlette.routing.NoMatchFound: No route exists for name "infinite" and params "page"

In my searching for this I found starlette issue #560 quite helpful, but not complete, as it did not work for me.

import jinja2

if hasattr(jinja2, "pass_context"):
    pass_context = jinja2.pass_context
else:
    pass_context = jinja2.contextfunction

@pass_context
def url_for_query(context: dict, name: str, **params: dict) -> str:
    request = context["request"]
    url = str(request.url_for(name))
    if params == {}:
        return url
    from urllib.parse import parse_qs, urlencode, urlparse, urlunparse

    # Parse the URL
    parsed_url = urlparse(url)

    # Parse the query parameters
    query_params = parse_qs(parsed_url.query)

    # Update the query parameters with the new ones
    query_params.update(params)

    # Rebuild the query string
    updated_query_string = urlencode(query_params, doseq=True)

    # Rebuild the URL with the updated query string
    updated_url = urlunparse(
        (
            parsed_url.scheme,
            parsed_url.netloc,
            parsed_url.path,
            parsed_url.params,
            updated_query_string,
            parsed_url.fragment,
        )
    )

    if os.environ.get("ENV") in ["dev", "qa", "prod"]:
        updated_url = updated_url.replace("http", "https", 1)

    return updated_url

def get_templates():
    templates = Jinja2Templates(directory="templates")
    templates.env.globals["url_for"] = url_for_query
    return templates

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 export ENV=local then for each environment that I am running on a server I include it in the list and update ENV appropriately.

    if os.environ.get("ENV") in ["dev", "qa", "prod"]:
        updated_url = updated_url.replace("http", "https", 1)

The route might look something like this.

@infinite_router.get("/")
async def home(request: Request, page: int = 1, n: int = 10):
  ...

To access the home route using url_for in a jinja template you can use the following, once you have applied the url_for_query function as your default url_for

<a href="{{ url_for('home', page=1) }}">Home</a>

setting up a kind cluster with argocd installed

2024-04-04T18:42:18Z

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.

kind create cluster --name argocd

# your first time through you need to add the argocd repo
helm repo add argo https://argoproj.github.io/argo-helm
helm repo update

# install argocd into the cluster
helm install argo argo/argo-cd --namespace argocd --create-namespace

# deploy the app of apps
kubectl apply -f apps/apps.yaml

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 and login.

# Wait until Argo CD API server is available
echo "Waiting for Argo CD API server to be available..."
while ! kubectl wait --for=condition=available --timeout=60s deployment/argo-argocd-server -n argocd; do
  echo "Waiting for Argo CD API server to be ready..."
  sleep 10
done


kubectl port-forward svc/argo-argocd-server -n argocd 8080:443 &
argocd_admin_password=$(kubectl get secret argocd-initial-admin-secret -n argocd -o jsonpath="{.data.password}" | base64 -d)
argocd login localhost:8080 --insecure --username admin --password $argocd_admin_password
argocd repo add https://github.com/fokais-com/app.fokais.git --username waylonwalker --password ${GH_ARGO_PAT}
argocd app create app-fokais-local --repo https://github.com/fokais-com/app.fokais.git --path k8s/overlays/local --dest-server https://kubernetes.default.svc --sync-policy automated --sync-option Prune=true

feeds

2024-04-02T20:01:44Z

I have several feeds that you can consume my content with. Many posts will cross between them, so if you would like to follow a certain stream of content in your rss reader thats what this is for. This one might feel like it has some extra noise with multiple posts per day, including starts, and instagram style posts, for a bit less look at the [[ main ]] feed.

TLDR

If you are looking for everything look here <https://waylonwalker.com/archive/rss.xml>

All #

This is a feed of everything that I have published on my site to date including Posts tagged: blog, TIL, Thoughts, [[ stars ]], Posts tagged: shots, [[ pings ]].

Main #

Like the All feed, but drops the shots (instagram style posts) and stars (github stars).

til - daily(ish) #

think gist with a tweet

This is a feed of all of my TIL’s (Today I Learned). These are generally short single topic posts that I write up quickly. They are generally things that are fairly new to me, often things that I struggled to find support for on the internet, and felt that It needed yet one more article with my voice.

shots - daily(ish) #

think Instagram

This feed is a collection of images, sometimes I post a few a day, sometimes a few weeks will go by, it really just depends on what I have going on.

pings - daily(ish) #

think tweet

These are ephemeral thoughts that pop in my head and I post as they occur. Maybe inspired by something I see or hear, but typically no more context is provided. I hate how social media has become very much trigger engagement bait… This is adjacent to that, but I try to be less hard on the bait.

Thoughts - daily+ #

These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don’t have a link. These are dual published off of my thoughts.waylonwalker.com site. It’s a fully dynamically rendered site 2000’s style. Posts are stored in a database and instantly available. Almost all of the posts were written in a small <textarea> field within a chrome extension that I built for it.

These posts are intended to in two ways. One, link building for the author. I hope that I give the people helping me out along the way just a little bit of a boost. Two, they serve as a permanant commented bookmark for me to search, and come back to later when I have forgotten where I have seen something.

stars #

I pull in all of my github stars into one feed pesos style.

Recent #

This is a shorter version of All, as it is filtered down to only the posts created within the last 30 days.

Blog - weekly/monthly #

These are my full big B Blog posts. They are what I started writing, typically take a bit more time to put together. I write fewer of them these days than I used to. I’d like to think that they are the more polished posts of the bunch.

Today #

These are only the posts that went live the day that the site last built. If my scheduled builds keep working as intended they are today’s posts.

Python #

These are all the posts related to the python programming language.

Linux #

These are all the posts related to linux.

vim #

These are all the posts related to the greatest way to edit text, vim.

Careful, you might not make it out

kedro #

These are all the posts related to the python data engineering framework kedro.

gratitude #

I used to do daily gratitude posts, I might get back into it.

Thoughts

2024-04-01T16:14:47Z

All thoughts posts cross posted to my site are prefixed with a thought balloon 💭.

The tech #

Since this blog is mostly a tech blog about software development, and my journey as I learn, lets talk tech.

python
fastapi
htmx
sqlite
docker
https://fly.io

fastapi #

The core of the site is a python web server running fastapi. Most of the endpoints return html via jinja templates to the browser and json to anything else. So you go to the list of posts at [https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/posts/waylonwalker/?page_size=9999999999 in](https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/posts/waylonwalker/?page_size=9999999999 in){.hoverlink} a web browser it will be a rendered feed, but from curl you will get json.

htmx #

The main page is an infite scrolling feed of the posts. All loaded in with htmx. Which just works so beautifully for this. I really like python its my jam, I can make endpoints that return things out of a database very effectively with it, but it takes me some time to do the js side, htmx just makes these common patterns available right in html.

sqlite #

The data storage is a sqlite database using the sqlmodel orm. This was my very first time using sqlmodel, which is an ORM built on top of pydantic. It works really well with fastapi. The only thing that it lacks is the same history, community, and stack overflow posts that sqlalchemy has.

docker #

Docker is my go to way for containerizing web applications. I know it really well and makes it easy to build and deploy on a number of platforms.

https://fly.io #

I have this running on https://fly.io. Its my first real production application running on https://fly.io, and its been great for me. It runs my container for me, gives me tools to scale, and ssh right into the running container. It’s still free for the time being, but goes up quick for my cheap taste if I were to scale it up much.

Id highly recomend it if you have a server that you want to get running on the public internet, and you don’t want to manage any of your own infrastructure.

⭐ jbranchaud til

2024-04-01T03:22:57Z

I’m impressed by til from jbranchaud.

📝 Today I Learned

⭐ wyattbubbylee Hexa

2024-03-30T14:57:03Z

I came across Hexa from wyattbubbylee, and it’s packed with great features and ideas.

Hexa is a game engine

kubernetes kubeseal

2024-03-27T20:02:57Z

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.

KubeSeal #

https://sealed-secrets.netlify.app/

installation #

Installation happens in two steps. You need the kubernetes controller and the client side cli to create a sealed secret.

For a more complete instruction see the [docs#installation](https://github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets?tab=readme-ov-file#installation]

installation - controller #

Warning

 **context**

Make sure that you are in the right context before running any kubectl commands.

kubectl config current-context

sealed-secrets is installed using the helm package manager. To install sealed-secrets run the following command.

helm repo add sealed-secrets https://bitnami-labs.github.io/sealed-secrets
helm install sealed-secrets -n kube-system --set-string fullnameOverride=sealed-secrets-controller sealed-secrets/sealed-secrets

installation - client #

For the client you can check your OS package manager, brew, or the github-releases. For me I found it in the main arch repos.

paru -S kubeseal
# or
sudo pacman -S kubeseal
# or
brew install kubeseal

Note

 You will need to install kubeseal on every device that you will want to

create sealed secrets on.

Example #

Most of these commands come straight from the docs. From my experience I have always specified the namespace, my projects go per namespace and I don’t have any reason that other namepsaces should see the secret, and if they do I deploy another secret in that namespace.

# Create a json/yaml-encoded Secret somehow:
# (note use of `--dry-run` - this is just a local file!)
echo -n bar | kubectl create secret generic mysecret --dry-run=client --from-file=foo=/dev/stdin -o yaml -n thenamespace > mysecret.yaml

note that the key of the secret is foo and the value is bar

results

apiVersion: v1
data:
  foo: YmFy
kind: Secret
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  name: mysecret
  namespace: thenamespace

Note

 The data is base64 encoded.

echo -n bar | base64
# YmFy

# This is the important bit:
kubeseal -f mysecret.yaml -w mysealedsecret.yaml

# At this point mysealedsecret.json is safe to upload to Github,
# post on Twitter, etc.

# Eventually:
kubectl create -f mysealedsecret.yaml -n thenamespace
# sealedsecret.bitnami.com/mysecret created

# Profit!
kubectl get secret mysecret
kubectl get secret mysecret -n thenamespace
# NAME       TYPE     DATA   AGE
# mysecret   Opaque   1      27s

cat mysealedsecret.yaml | kubeseal --validate

echo -n bar | kubectl create secret generic mysecret --dry-run=client --from-file=foo=/dev/stdin -o yaml \
  | kubeseal -o yaml -n thenamespace > mysealedsecret.yaml
echo -n baz | kubectl create secret generic mysecret --dry-run=client --from-file=bar=/dev/stdin -o yaml \
  | kubeseal -o yaml -n thenamespace --merge-into mysealedsecret.yaml

Results

---
apiVersion: bitnami.com/v1alpha1
kind: SealedSecret
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  name: mysecret
  namespace: thenamespace
spec:
  encryptedData:
    bar: 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
    foo: 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
  template:
    metadata:
      creationTimestamp: null
      name: mysecret
      namespace: thenamespace

backing up your sealing key #

kubectl get secret -n kube-system -l sealedsecrets.bitnami.com/sealed-secrets-key -o yaml >main.key

converting .env files to a secret #

Working with web applications .env is a common way to store credentials. Let’s look at how we can convert these to secrets.

kubectl create secret generic mysecret --from-env-file=.env -n thenamespace --dry-run=client -o yaml > mysecret.yaml

Now you have a secret that looks like this.

apiVersion: v1
data:
  foo: YmFy
kind: Secret
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  name: mysecret
  namespace: thenamespace

Seal it up just like before.

kubeseal -f mysecret.yaml -w mysealedsecret.yaml

Using the secrets #

I typically use the secrets in the container spec.

containers:
  - name: myapp
    envFrom:
      - secretRef:
          name: mysecret
    # You can still have other env vars
    env:
      - name: foo
        value: bar

Sometimes I want to mount the secret as a volume.

containers:
  - name: myapp
    volumeMounts:
      - name: mysecret
        mountPath: /mysecret
volumes:
  - name: mysecret
    secret:
      secretName: mysecret

Image Pull Secrets #

I also need to use imagePullSecrets. Let’s walk through the whole process. Starting with the secret.

kubectl create secret docker-registry regcred --docker-server=myprivateregistry.example.com --docker-username=foo --docker-password=bar --dry-run=client -o yaml

Generates the following secret.

apiVersion: v1
data:
  .dockerconfigjson: eyJhdXRocyI6eyJteXByaXZhdGVyZWdpc3RyeS5leGFtcGxlLmNvbSI6eyJ1c2VybmFtZSI6ImZvbyIsInBhc3N3b3JkIjoiYmFyIiwiYXV0aCI6IlptOXZPbUpoY2c9PSJ9fX0=
kind: Secret
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  name: regcred
type: kubernetes.io/dockerconfigjson

---

the secret

Now we we can seal that secret.

kubeseal -f regcred.yaml -w regcred-sealed.yaml

And that gives us the following sealed secret that we can deploy into our cluster.

---
apiVersion: bitnami.com/v1alpha1
kind: SealedSecret
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  name: regcred
  namespace: default
spec:
  encryptedData:
    .dockerconfigjson: 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
  template:
    metadata:
      creationTimestamp: null
      name: regcred
      namespace: default
    type: kubernetes.io/dockerconfigjson

Now that we have our sealed registry secret, we can deploy it into our cluster.

kubectl apply -f regcred-sealed.yaml

Now we can use it to pull images from our private registry.

containers:
  imagePullSecrets:
    - name: regcred

Full example #

Here is a full deployment example using all the secrets we have created.

regcred
mounting a secret
envFrom secret

---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  labels:
    service: myservice
  name: myservice
  namespace: mynamespace
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      service: myservice
  strategy:
    type: Recreate
  template:
    metadata:
      creationTimestamp: null
      labels:
        service: myservice
    spec:
      containers:
        - envFrom:
            - secretRef:
                name: mysecret
          env:
            - name: foo
              value: bar
          image: private-registry.io/myimage:1.0.0
          name: myimage
          ports:
            - containerPort: 5000
              protocol: TCP
          resources: {}
          volumeMounts:
            - mountPath: /mysecret
              name: mysecret
      restartPolicy: Always
      volumes:
        - name: mysecret
          secret:
            secretName: mysecret
      imagePullSecrets:
        - name: regcred

Downside #

Now the main downside I see with kubeseal is that it does not provide a way to store your secrets in a way that you can access outside of your cluster. So you need to make sure that you have another solution in place to store your secrets so that you still have them if you ever were to take the cluster down or move from k8s to something else.

Overall the likelyhood of you loosing a production cluster is pretty low, so maybe it’s ok to just trust it depending on what the secrets are. Especially for things you control and can rotate anyways its fine.