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Halfway Home Gang Fight
Rosary String
Threefold Pin
Thread Storm
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

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. [1] Shots [2] are instagram style imge posts inspired by https://justin.searls.co/shots/. References: [1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/37dea007-e66f-42a5-bd90-6722dd1084dd.png [2]: https://waylonwalker.com/shots/
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A Full Cheese Board
A macropad filled with cheese keycaps placed in random orientations.
Full Box Of Cheese Caps
A full box of 9 keycaps sit behind a cap placed in front, they are custom wedge of cheese caps.
Printing A Full Plate Of Cheese Hats
A Bambu Lab Printer is working on the first few layers of cheese hats to be placed on top of keycaps.
Cheese Cap On A Macropad
A cheese keycap placed in the middle of a macropad, currounded by black/purple caps in a blue case.
- Epic that this Joslin came back 7 years later to complete this. I thought el Toro was dead, aparantly not. Dude got robbed by a broke ass truck, this must have been eating his soul for the last 7 years. Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/
A Box Of Caps And A Macropad
A macropad with a pixel heart and mlg glasses sit on a clean white background.
Heart Of A Macropad
A pixel heart kecap in the center of a macropad, the macropad is admittedly dirty, filled with small bits of fuzz.
First Cap Hat, It's A Heart
A 3d printed keycap with a heart glued to the top of it. The heart resembles a pixelated game asset.
Big W: A Family Tradition A quick look into where we came from and what inspires us to do what it takes to build a solid reputation. Big W Engineering Solutions Ā· bigwengineering.com [1] I first met Adam in college, he seemed like quite a character on the outside, but was always quite smart and often leaned towards realistic solutions to problems rather than over complicating things. He was part of the SAE Formula car, well known for taking a simple problem and trying to turn it into a real formula one carbon fiber solution. I remember a period where he was a fan of old world blacksmithing as they would say at the time. He even got a few very simple and light parts on the car that were easy to make unlike the carbon fiber alternatives. By the time I was there he was more of a leader and did not do a lot of design on any whole system, but would take out class projects for a component or help with some hard problems. This company feels like it is a great extension of who he was a that time, with about 15 years of professional experience tacked on. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: htt...
If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on gittype [1], created by unhappychoice [2]. A CLI code-typing game that turns your source code into typing challenges References: [1]: https://github.com/unhappychoice/gittype [2]: https://github.com/unhappychoice
First Box Of Caps
A print in place box sitting on the printer bed used as a raft for the 9 caps perectly nestled inside in a 3 by 3 pattern.
Fourth Chorus

zmk two hand hold down

I don’t know about you, but I don’t re-flash my keyboard enough to ever remember where I put the bootloader. Sometimes its the last thing I think about in a refactor and I end up cornering myself into a place where I cant get into that layer anymore. I’ve started putting hardware switches on my newer builds, but some older builds don’t have a hardware one, so it requires disassembly and jumping the microcontroller. Even when I have one though, I gotta flip my board over and its annoying sometimes, so I prefer to have a keystroke for it. Two Hand hold down # [1] 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 [2] [3] 40% layout - similar to corne [4] Here it is on my Son’s 3x5 macropad [5] Here it is on my 3x...
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Lace
Beginning Of Little Boxes
Four little 3d printed boxes laying on a white background, one contains a painted lid that says M 2x5.

Why Make a Website in 2025

Inspired by Jim [1] and Dave [2] It’s Fun # [3] 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 [4] 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 # [5] 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 [6] based on these posts that I find inter...
External Link X (formerly Twitter) Ā· x.com [1] I’ve never tried generated columns, but it is something that I’m interested in. It is nice to have things computed and in the database if you ever need to query on them. My brain is now churning with possibilities and quesions, does this work with Alembic? How does this compare to views? [2] Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://x.com/MeetGor21/status/1967818642768470447 [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/2b763b3d-1709-47e6-a13d-bfec7baef47d.png [3]: /thoughts/
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 [1]. <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> References: [1]: /html/
- 3d-printing is so freaking cool. I love the idea that someone could get a hyperspecific tool to their needs for super cheap. Whether it works permanently or to try out one that you want to spend thousands of dollars on to have well done from some high end materials this is a great application. Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/
A New Chapter In a recent turn of events, I find myself at a bit of a crossroads with an exciting new job on the horizon! In this post, I introduce myself and discuss my vision for the new blog. Jesse Leite Ā· jesseleite.com [1] Sub to this man. I met Jesse long ago as we both spoke at the same remote vim conf. He is into vim, weird keyboards, and medroid what more could you ask for. Now react and exlixer. I only know https://statamic.com/ through Jesse, they have the sickest branding ever. Now I will need to see what this savvycal [2] is about. https://jesseleite.com/feed Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://jesseleite.com/2025/a-new-chapter [2]: https://x.com/savvycal [3]: /thoughts/
"Pacman is currently in use, please wait." / Pacman & Package Upgrade Issues / Arch Linux Forums bbs.archlinux.org [1] I ran into this issue today, never have I ever before though. Omarchy looking a bit sus on me. This was even after a fresh boot, no pacman process running. just realized I forgot to check yay which it has installed for me. I had to force it in. sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=67729 [2]: /thoughts/
Today I learned how to use tar over ssh to save hours in file transfers. I keep all of my projects in ~/git [1] (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 [email protected] 'tar -C /tank/git -cpf - .' \ | tar -C "$HOME/git" -xpf - References: [1]: /glossary/git/
mmulet [1] has done a fantastic job with term.everything [2]. Highly recommend taking a look. Run any GUI app in the terminalā— References: [1]: https://github.com/mmulet [2]: https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything

store

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 # [1] 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 u...
- When you fill all of your time with a bunch of other things, it becomes really hard to become a friendly person. Prime talked about trying to learn how to drop the hurry in his life, and how to not always be in a frenzy of going from one thing to the next. It’s something that puts us in a state that its hard to remember to be friendly. Hard to remember that theres always time for coffee [1]. I do my best to always leave time for coffee, whether at home with my wife and kids, as well as at work. I am in a very unique place at work where I have a rare set of skills for the industry I am in. This comes with a lot of people insterested in how to do things like running data pipelines or managing server infrastructure. I always take time for these conversations, I find them interesting, and useful. Sometimes you end up with someone who asks the same questions every 6 months, other times, you have someone flourish from these conversations. I’m not saying to take on work from every other team in the org, but giving 30 minutes to help mentor others can go a long ways. I’m still not the best, I still get wrapped up in my own stuff just like prime calls out. I sometimes get frustrated...
Skull Ant
I’ve been leaning on lazy-self-installing-python-scripts [1] more and more, but I did not realize how much tooling that uv [2] 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() References: [1]: https://treyhunner.com/2024/12/lazy-self-installing-python-scripts-with-uv/ [2]: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/
Silkspeer
Berry Picking
Hollow Knight: Silksong is breaking Steam, Nintendo’s eShop Valve's usually stable platform struggles thanks in part to lack of pre-loading options. Ars Technica Ā· arstechnica.com [1] Only 1 hour into the release of silksong, and it’s taken down all of the eshops, and steamdb dows 100K concurrent players. The Humble store ran out of steam keys for silksong already. You guys better not break this thing before I get off work and My son gets home cause we are playing this tonight!! I just Check steamDB [2], and they have 441K concurrent players right now. An Indie game! This shows when you treat your fans right and make something incredible they stand behind you. Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/09/hollow-knight-silksong-is-breaking-steam/ [2]: https://steamdb.info/app/1030300/charts/ [3]: /thoughts/
Trump says: With this order, I am announcing ā€œAmerica by Design,ā€ a national initiative to improve experiences for Americans, starting by breathing new life into the design of sites where peopl... Chris Coyier Ā· chriscoyier.net [1] Everything is becoming political these days! I hate it. I regularly hear a friend say these podcasts need to set the politics to the side, but you know what its fukin hard when the gov is upending every corner of life and rebranding it with their own new twist. The billionaire class is winning and it looks like there ain’t a thing we can do about it. Here’s another example of someone taking head of an office they have no business being in. An entire set of working class folks let go for this guy to take over. And what does he want to do, make govt services as satisfying as apple. Apple is cutting edge, it is not something that is one bit sustainable. Their launch sites are generally super heavy, hard to scroll, slow, over animated, but damn they are satisfying the first time you scroll through them, after that just let me through. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts Referenc...
Home Free online tools for people creating pixel art and other low-spec art. Lospec Ā· lospec.com [1] My son introduced me to lospec.com, It has a great set of color palettes and amazing pixel art inspiration. I particularly liked royal armoury [2] and of course I’m a bit partial to hollow [3]. Note This post is a thought [4]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://lospec.com/ [2]: https://lospec.com/palette-list/royal-armoury [3]: https://lospec.com/palette-list/hollow [4]: /thoughts/
Justin Searls @searls GPT-5 + Codex is so fast that when I expressed suspicion that a script was returning too few results (via | wc -l), Codex corrected me that I should have passed --count instead. Sure enough, t… justin․searls․co Ā· justin.searls.co [1] This is hilarious, the llm shames him for not utilizing the --count flag, THAT DIDN’T EXIST WHEN HE RAN THE CLI! Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-09-03-14h21m54s/ [2]: /thoughts/
Vibe code is legacy code Updates and articles from the Val Town team blog.val.town [1] Brilliantly said. Vibe coding [2] is legacy code. It’s code that we forget exists. Code that no one touches, you replace it. If you touch it you are more likely to break it. The worst possible situation is to have a non-programmer vibe code a large project that they intend to maintain. This would be the equivalent of giving a credit card to a child without first explaining the concept of debt. As you can imagine, the first phase is ecstatic. I can wave this little piece of plastic in stores and take whatever I want! … Read more in the full post [1] Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://blog.val.town/vibe-code [2]: /vibe-coding/ [3]: /thoughts/

When To Vibe Code

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 [1] The skill/read spectrum # [2] [3] The first diagram describes that there has become a spectrum of agentic coding from vibe coding [4] 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 # [5] 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, ā€œhow critical is thisā€. 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 # [6] This is the list...
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Rich Pixels Neat Python library by Darren Burns adding pixel image support to the Rich terminal library, using tricks to render an image using full or half-height colored blocks. Here's the key … Simon Willison’s Weblog Ā· simonwillison.net [1] I saw this post from Simon and I had to give it a go and got some pretty good results. His script is a small cli wrapper around Darren Burns’s Rich Pixels [2]. It works well even through tmux, since there is no terminal magic, just unicode blocks. [3] [4] [5] Some not so good, and needed the terminal font size cranked up. [6] [7] Note This post is a thought [8]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/2/rich-pixels/#atom-everything [2]: https://github.com/darrenburns/rich-pixels [3]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/024bf3e0-9c38-4c1e-ad5c-ed0156c9a99b.png [4]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/4bf522eb-4207-4a23-b5d0-626cefc8bdca.png [5]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/d061e85f-98cf-4b3c-871c-e01611022b44.png [6]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/a532f113-185e-44ef-bcf8-30eed7e3f62a.png [7]: https:/...
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 # [1] 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, {} ) References: [1]: #making-it-better
The Knight collects the mark of pride charm after defeating the mantis lords.
The Knight reigns victorious against the three mantis lords, earning the respect of the mantis village.
The Knight falls victim to the Mantis Lords in his first attempt to challenge them.
The little night steps in front of the three mantis lords and draws his nail signaling his challenge.
Parkour though the thorns yields a wanderers journal.
Unlocking the Spore Shroom Charm in Hollow Knight Keeb Run