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.
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Publishing rhythm
Think less, ship more
I do too much thinking about what I want to make, and not enough actually making the thing.
cassidoo.co [1]
I thin a lot of us have this issues, especially on side projects. At work therre are expectations, jira tickets and so on, keeping you shipping. I think there is something to be said about getting that quick and dirty POC to the right group of people early for feedback before you add redis caching, kubernetes, auto scaling, disruption budget, distributed nodes, high availability, backups, disaster recovery. At work you kinda have to have the right person to shoot ideas by that can understand that you probably need some of these complex things for your app and it will take time to get right.
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://cassidoo.co/post/think-less/
[2]: /thoughts/
GitHub - trykimu/videoeditor: Your Creative Copilot for Video Editing
Your Creative Copilot for Video Editing. Contribute to trykimu/videoeditor development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub · github.com [1]
I would love to have a browser based video editor I could throw on a server and do quick edits from anywhere. I tried to get this one to work and struggled to get front end to send api requets to backend. I think the root of it was their redis wants to run on 80, this caused a permission error so I tried to run 8880:80, but redis was still unable to start due to a config permission error.
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://github.com/robinroy03/videoeditor
[2]: /thoughts/
I’m impressed by videoeditor [1] from trykimu [2].
Your Creative Copilot for Video Editing
References:
[1]: https://github.com/trykimu/videoeditor
[2]: https://github.com/trykimu
If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on videoeditor [1], created by robinroy03 [2].
Video Editor Application using React, Remotion & TypeScript.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/robinroy03/videoeditor
[2]: https://github.com/robinroy03
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The ability to query s3 buckets so seamless looks like such a pleasure to work with if you have a use case for that. Kedro catalog takes care of this most of the time for me, but I wonder if there are some cross project searching use cases I might find for this.
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/
PocketCal Build Log
I made a date-sharing app called PocketCal. Here
cassidoo.co [1]
I love this idea of tiny useful apps for yourself. In fact I’m working on a project to built out tinyapps [2] for myself to replace my common needs. I absolutely love that all of the state is stored in the url bar, nothing is stored server side. As much as I love to hate js, I really appreciate that things like this can be built to just live on the web, be accessible from anywhere, and live practically forever as they require such little hosting demand.
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://cassidoo.co/post/pocketcal-build-log/
[2]: /tinyapps/
[3]: /thoughts/
GitHub - numtide/treefmt: the formatter multiplexer [maintainers=@zimbatm,@brianmcgee]
the formatter multiplexer [maintainers=@zimbatm,@brianmcgee] - numtide/treefmt
GitHub · github.com [1]
This looks like a very useful formatting tool to keep in the back of my mind. I do a lot of python and our tool tends to be pre-commit, named after the git [2] hook pre-commit. It specifies a bunch of tools to run, you can run them in ci, manually, and opt into doing it before commit. I like the simplicity of this one not needing a whole ecosystem, but rather just leveraging the cli commands from those tools. This would probably be something that would get in the way of setup for new devs and not something I would throw on one project by itself, its another thing for everyone to figure out how to install and run on every platform, I’m sure its not hard, but being on python teams pre-commit just fits in.
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://github.com/numtide/treefmt
[2]: /glossary/git/
[3]: /thoughts/
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This is one of the greatest pycon keynotes I’ve ever seen, bookmarking this to come back and leave better thoughts on later.
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/
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Focus on the joy, not the suck. Nothing you do in life will be absolute pure joy with no downsides forever, life does not work that way, your brain does not look that way. Look at anyone who ever got massive billion dollar payouts for something like minecraft and how much their life is not glorious when they have nothing to really look forward to.
Prime talks about it in almost a cliche way, every boring ass task is an opportunity to grow. This is so real though, if you look at every task ask a shit you gotta do to check that jira ticket off and make bossy lady not scream at you its going to be a hell. If you rather look at it as opportunities to implement new features in new ways or learn something to better yourself and watch yourself grow you are going to take a big dopamine hit. I think prime talks about this in the sense of larger projects. He as talked about his experience being much less of a daily standup, but more of a ok we got three months to figure this out lets go boys. When you are stuck in that daily jira grind it’s harder to see that larger picture of the learning and growing you are doing over the course of 3 or 6 months.
Timestamped to the part of the vide...
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Should I go to college? Was my education worth it? Should I keep going. A question that comes in all too often accross most industries that require some level of education. DHH has such great takes on it, some I had never fully thought about. He starts out with should we have people study niche topics (using Russian Poetry as an example). Yes the world deserves people who can make their life works out of something that brings them and many other so much joy, but no you probably shouldn’t go 100k’s into debt to do it. Should I get a software engineering degree, or become a doctor also have similar answers, it needs to be somewhat justified and not outrageous as has become the norm.
We used to listen in to Dave Ramsey on long car rides and he would have people call in and say, they went half a million dollars into debt to become a dentist, only to discover they did not want to do dentistry. At this point it’s too bad, you gotta suck it up and pay that off with something that makes some serious cash, and the only skill you probably got that can bring in that level of cash is … dentistry.
They dive into the college experience, learning to have adult debates with classmates abou...
WebTUI
Modular CSS Library that brings the beauty of Terminal UIs to the browser
webtui.ironclad.sh [1]
webtui, looks like a pretty sick design aesthetic. I like the keyboard driven nature of it, the look and feel is on point to a terminal interface, sadly it looks like it is not a 2 way street, you don’t automatically get a tui our of your website, just one that looks the part in the browser.
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://webtui.ironclad.sh/
[2]: /thoughts/
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I’ve never heard of niri, or a scrolling window manager, it looks quite interesting. I think tiling window manager misses out on named sessions and hotkey straight to tmux sessions, Brodi mentions not using tmux right before this segment. Niri looks quite interesting, but looks like it suffers specificity. maybe there are other tools that allow me to jump straight to something like brave, or steam, but I don’t see how I could jump to a specific terminal.
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/
I recently discovered niri [1] by niri-wm [2], and it’s truly impressive.
A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/niri-wm/niri
[2]: https://github.com/niri-wm
I’m impressed by niri [1] from YaLTeR [2].
A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri
[2]: https://github.com/YaLTeR
Backups interrupted by full disk usage | Nic Payne
I just got a message from HCIO that my primary backup script is late... This
happens every now and then but I decided to check on it... Quickly `ssh` in and
I n
pype.dev [1]
I’m way behind on my notification game and need to pick it up. maybe I’ll look into hcio as well. maybe I’ll look into something that goes straight to signal or just get things working on ntfy. An 80GB log file is massive and the kind of thing id like to see notifications more.
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://pype.dev/backups-interrupted-by-full-disk-usage/
[2]: /thoughts/
Queso Notes | Nic Payne
It occured to me that this is my blog... I can write about whatever the heck I want! May 2025 Made 2 quesos very similar - they consisted of: 1.5 lbs ground bee
pype.dev [1]
Taking this as inspiration to do more non-tech on my blog, I’ve branched out into Posts tagged: gaming [2], but need take it to the next step. excited to watch pype.dev evolve as well.
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://pype.dev/queso-notes/
[2]: /tags/gaming/
[3]: /thoughts/
zk [1] by zk-org [2] is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves.
A plain text note-taking assistant
References:
[1]: https://github.com/zk-org/zk
[2]: https://github.com/zk-org
If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on alex [1], created by get-alex [2].
Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing
References:
[1]: https://github.com/get-alex/alex
[2]: https://github.com/get-alex
The work on cbfmt [1] by lukas-reineke [2].
A tool to format codeblocks inside markdown and org documents.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/lukas-reineke/cbfmt
[2]: https://github.com/lukas-reineke
Check out Feel-ix-343 [1] and their project markdown-oxide [2].
PKM Markdown Language Server
References:
[1]: https://github.com/Feel-ix-343
[2]: https://github.com/Feel-ix-343/markdown-oxide
I like hougesen’s [1] project mdsf [2].
Format markdown code blocks using your favorite tools
References:
[1]: https://github.com/hougesen
[2]: https://github.com/hougesen/mdsf
The work on treefmt [1] by numtide [2].
one CLI to format your repo [maintainers=@zimbatm,@brianmcgee]
References:
[1]: https://github.com/numtide/treefmt
[2]: https://github.com/numtide
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")
The ethics of README ads
I’ve been considering accepting sponsorship again for my projects.
Will McGugan · willmcgugan.github.io [1]
I’ve long avoided running ads on my blog for the same reason. For a few months I ran an ad above the fold. It was a “Your Ad Here” kind of thing, and in the messaging I was looking for content relevant to my content, not google driven ads. This resulted in nothing, no hits, not a one. I’m kinda with Will on this one beer money is not worth degrading the project for. I seriously thought some of the big projects with a moderate level of success got a good cut for these sponsorships. Some of the companies are big companies, like how do they even go through meetings and decide who gets beer money without spending more than that in decision making resources. Maybe they have a guy with more autonomy than I would expect.
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://willmcgugan.github.io/the-ethics-of-readme-ads/
[2]: /thoughts/
minio/minio - Docker Image
hub.docker.com [1]
Browsing for the minio tag that I have running right now I discovered that you can do minio --version and you get the same version that matches the docker tag, this is super convenient and helpful. I also notice that they use timestamped version numbers. I kinda dont mind this. It feels easy to understand how far behind it is. I really appreciate that the version in the container matches the version inside the container.
It’s not as pretty or flexible as semver, it does not communicate trees of majors and minors, but how often do we continue supporting/patching older majors and minors, in my experience only really big teams or teams with sufficient motivation are doing this.
food for thought.
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://hub.docker.com/r/minio/minio/tags?name=RELEASE.2025-04-08
[2]: /thoughts/
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 [1].
unset AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY AWS_DEFAULT_REGION
References:
[1]: /running-aws-cli-commands-with-localstack/
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I am going to start trying to employ this rhythm to my writing. I’m not very sure how I feel about it, there is something almost too assertive about it. It’s giving me a (i’m great and you should too) kind of vibe. I want to become more assertive in my writing.
I’m giving this a shot and see what I learn, you might notice in my tils.
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/
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 [1]
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 # [2]
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. I...
kraft
Kraft is the family gaming server that we started early 2025.
Repopulating # [1]
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 [2]
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 [3]
References:
[1]: #repopulating
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/5c160226-1018-4b07-b3a2-a50588006c17.mp4
[3]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/9f618595-f998-4ba7-a925-92c...
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This talk about live store really made me think about database transactions in a new way. They are talking about live-store, and the complexity of distributed applications like a notes app with the ability to go offline and continue working. The complexity of resyncing each instance is not simple, conflict resolution accross all the possible installs that may or may not even be online is a really hard problem. They go deep on discussing an event driven paradigm that is driven off of a log of events and how this changes how we deal with databases. Using the event log as the source of truth we can do things like forget about database migrations, we can replay all of the events onto a new database. Its very interesting to rethink in terms of a log system that speaks in terms of understandable events (not table operations) as the source of truth for an 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/
my nvim spellcheck setup
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 [1], to make it work, and its clunky.
Default keybinds # [2]
- 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 # [3]
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
...
External Link
X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
I need to find this podcast, was DHH this animated through the whole thing?
You don’t need a mentor. There’s no secret sauce left inside anyone’s head any more. It’s all been tapped, bottled, tweeted, and shared a million times. Sample some of that, but also guard your ignorance. You’ll lose it soon enough.
It takes work, one on one hand holding is a shortcut. Sometimes one that we need. Sometimes we need to level up quick, hence why your job might pair you up with someone for the first few months, but it is not something you need, you can figure shit out on your own with hard work. These days we have things like gippity to bounce ideas off, and you can generally get the sense of the direction the average of the internet it was trained on. Always add your own experience and make a choice for yourself.
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://x.com/dhh/status/1928856582588076171
[2]: /thoughts/
External Link
selfh.st [1]
The object storage (S3-compatible) platform MinIO created a bit of a stir this week
I had not heard about this before it came in through selfh.st. I use minio a lot, and did not know there are so many great alternatives out there for it. I might be looking into some of these options such as garage [2].
Its hard to tell from this article what mino dropped, but luckily for me it seems to be all ui related. I use the UI for debugging/feedback/sometimes learning, but at this point I’ve got good flows for setting up new access keys, buckets, and everything with the cli.
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://selfh.st/weekly/2025-05-30/
[2]: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/?ref=selfh.st
[3]: /thoughts/
External Link
X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
I suffer hard from NIH, I’m cheap, I like building things, I hate reading the docs, the perfect recipe for some bad NIH. I really like DHH’s take here. If no one builds anything new we get stuck with the same old shit. I think theres a lot of things that as far as my use case is concerned feature complete and needs no more. I would just build with it or on it, but not re-invent. It’s a slippery slope.
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://x.com/dhh/status/1928450457262850053
[2]: /thoughts/
feat: add hackernews hits on home page · jimniels/blog@b1a250b
Contribute to jimniels/blog development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub · github.com [1]
Jim Nielsen fetches his hacker news ranked articles for his home page.
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://github.com/jimniels/blog/commit/b1a250b2357d21e69a58ce3265114e1761fb47f8
[2]: /thoughts/
External Link
hn.algolia.com [1]
this post [2] by Jim Nielsen, lead me to this commit [3] where I found that he was including posts of his that wound up on hackernews. I really like this idea and might take it, even though i have very few HN linked posts.
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://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=waylonwalker.com&restrictSearchableAttributes=url
[2]: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/playing-with-blog-home/
[3]: https://github.com/jimniels/blog/commit/b1a250b2357d21e69a58ce3265114e1761fb47f8
[4]: /thoughts/
External Links - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
blog.jim-nielsen.com [1]
I really like the idea of Jim’s Eternal Links, and really want to take it for myself. To expand here I want to be able to look for common places for rss feeds, and be able to scrape out rss feeds for sites that I tend to link to often. Also if they have something like a /blogroll it might be a good place to find new great people to follow.
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://blog.jim-nielsen.com/about/external-links/
[2]: /thoughts/
Could I Have Some More Friction in My Life, Please?
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
blog.jim-nielsen.com [1]
Maybe we need a little more friction in the world. More things that merit our time. Less things that don’t.
I can resonate with this post, less friction feels like it leads me to thinking less, having less skin in the game, understanding less, feeling less fulfilled. Vibe coding [2] is a new trend of 2025, it feels like the future, but it does not quite feel like the present yet. It’s riddled with errors and I only get frustrated when it doesn’t work. I like having some friction that leads me to think and pay attention. There might be a future where this is not required for some things like coding up crud apps, but that does not feel like today.
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.jim-nielsen.com/2025/more-friction-please/
[2]: /vibe-coding/
[3]: /thoughts/
A Gentle Intro to RSS
A guide to RSS for the less tech savvy.
Derek Kedziora · derekkedziora.com [1]
Some of the best things from the old internet are still preserved with RSS. Content is shared via simple files, which means the slow-loading, ad-stuffed and tracker-filled clutter of the modern internet are mostly absent.
There aren’t any algorithms. RSS readers are wonderfully dumb. There’s no AI sifting through content to find whatever will outrage you the most. You just get new posts and mark them as read. It’s a calmer world.
With RSS I follow lots of people writing about normal people things. People blog about getting back into playing the drums, a fun book they just read, a tough problem they’re working through and the other day to day things of life. This type of content tends to get buried on social media — it doesn’t get the clicks and sell ads like fear and outrage do.
I feel like a curmudgeon, but i feel all of these things. I dont think that the new web is completely terrible, what is terrible is that the options of an algorithm ran by companies with differing goals is seemingly the only option. RSS still works, its fantastic, I personally love it, but theres on...
Command Line | gitignore.io / docs
To run gitignore.io from your command line you need an active internet connection and an environment function. You need to add a function to your environment that lets you access the gitignore.io API.
docs.gitignore.io [1]
This is a very interesting cli, its so simple. I stumbled accross the gi command awhile back and was like pfft, I dont want to install something for that. Didn’t even realize that you don’t install it, its just http. Their install instructions lead you to putting a curl funtion in your bashrc.
function gi() { curl -sLw \"\\\n\" https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/\$@ ;}
This now has me wondering “What else can build like this?”
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://docs.gitignore.io/install/command-line
[2]: /thoughts/
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linkarzu has a way to navigate his entire mac using a hyper key. Everything looks so tight and polished, also a lot to remember! Lucky he has a system of mnemonics that make it easy to remember. His setup is very Mac focused using mac only apps, so this would not work for me, though I’m sure I could get something similar on linux. He did mention Kanata which is cross platform.
What I do # [1]
I use a far different system that is fast loose and easy. On every system I run I have 9 workspaces that let me put 9 applications, I can easily move apps to different workspaces and have a side by side if I need. The core of what I do is terminal, web browser, and chat. Those go on workspaces 4,5,6, whch are home-row keys. If I’m running obs, that is on 8, steam goes on 1. but I have some freedom to move. Sometimes 2 will be an image editor or a video editor, sometimes something else all together, but I can quickly go to each app.
What I like from Linkazru # [2]
I do like his layered approach. I run a 42 key keyboard so things can get a bit cramped quickly. And when thinking in mnemonics you only get 26 letters in the alphabet, but prefixing these with another layer this number goes...
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X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
Oh, I feel this. I go through the effort of removing dum ai comments so the ai looks less ai.
you’re not allowed to write comments in your code anymore, because if you do everyone will just think it’s ai generated.
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://x.com/ForrestPKnight/status/1927398791398719997
[2]: /thoughts/
The adapter pattern in python
The Adapter pattern is a design pattern that allows objects with incompatible interfaces to work together. It provides a way to convert the interface of an object into another interface that client...
Rob Parsons · robp.dev [1]
This has me wondering if I need to really learn more patterns, data structures, and algorithms. This looks particularly useful when trying to combine several objects that you dont have full control over and make them behave similarly.
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://robp.dev/the-adapter-pattern-in-python/
[2]: /thoughts/
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"
Adding a Dynamic Now Page in Jekyll
Make an auto-updating now page on a static site like Jekyll, Hugo, 11ty or Gatsby
Derek Kedziora · derekkedziora.com [1]
wow looking at how this is done kinda draws me towards jekyll a little bit, I did not realize some of the similarities that it has with markata.
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://derekkedziora.com/blog/dynamic-now-page
[2]: /thoughts/
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css if() just landed, I’m struggling to understand what I an do with this that I can’t do with something as old as classes. I can get it if I don’t have control over html [1] creation or js to add classes. The example that Una shows includes data that could directly be a classname with a set of styles in css rather than this crazy css variable unpacking out of a data attribute and an if statement.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /html/
[2]: /thoughts/
wants
Personal website. Webby personsite. Amateur hour round the clock.
maya.land · maya.land [1]
Allen Carr1 on quitting smoking:
[Carr] recommends working to really notice and internalise that disconnect [between what we want and what we enjoy]. He tells smokers to pay attention to their next cigarette. It’s like mindfulness but for noticing the unpleasantness.
I can appreciate the restraint here, theres something about the mindfulness behind it all.
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://maya.land/wants/
[2]: /thoughts/
wants
Inspired by mara.town/wants [1]
want but do not enjoy # [2]
- New hardware that cannot be repaired
- Disciplining Children
- Nice landscaping which requires regular maintenance
enjoy but do not want # [3]
- breakfast
- Fancy things
- Manual Labor in moderation
- Vacations to far away places
References:
[1]: https://maya.land/wants/
[2]: #want-but-do-not-enjoy
[3]: #enjoy-but-do-not-want
Linux Is About Choice
This Luke Smith video came across my feed Linux, Bitcoin: When Tech Projects
Become “Too Popular…” Don’t forget the
goal. [1]. 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 # [2]
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 s...