A Gentle Intro to RSS
A guide to RSS for the less tech savvy.
Derek Kedziora Ā· 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 arenāt any algorithms. RSS readers are wonderfully dumb. Thereās no AI sifting through content to find whatever will outrage you the most. You just get new posts and mark them as read. Itās 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 theyāre working through and the other day to day things of life. This type of content tends to get buried on social mediaāāāit doesnāt 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...
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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. Didnāt even realize that you donāt 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 āWhat else can build like this?ā
Note
This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās 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 Iām 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 Iām 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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Oh, I feel this. I go through the effort of removing dum ai comments so the ai looks less ai.
youāre not allowed to write comments in your code anymore, because if you do everyone will just think itās ai generated.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās 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 Ā· 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]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās 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 canāt 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 Ā· 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
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about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://derekkedziora.com/blog/dynamic-now-page
[2]: /thoughts/
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css if() just landed, Iām struggling to understand what I an do with this that I canāt do with something as old as classes. I can get it if I donāt 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]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /html/
[2]: /thoughts/
wants
Personal website. Webby personsite. Amateur hour round the clock.
maya.land Ā· 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. Itās 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]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās 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 āToo Popularā¦ā Donāt forget the
goal. [1]. Itās 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. Iām 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...
Blogroll
Blogroll - a collection of awesome people I follow online
Waylon Walker Ā· reader.waylonwalker.com [1]
I rolled out the blogroll today, nothing pretty, but is one single page of the rss feeds I follow.
Note
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about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://reader.waylonwalker.com/blogroll/
[2]: /thoughts/
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Markata got a shout out part way through the latest episode of LNL, I will go back, re-listen and take some of the feedback. His thoughts on Markata were interesting. On one hand it really is a thing for me that works for me, and as a person with too many side projects I donāt have the focus to really give it polish. On the other hand it really confirms why listen to podcasts, news, finger on the pulse, opinions and how often these guys are wrong, they are not the expert they probably look at 6 things like this a week. He said that it was some sort of javascript thing, that maybe he could fix or customize with javascript if he wanted, kinda shocking, I thought maybe I accidentally added node modules or something dumb, nope, I have a whopping 1.4% js. So most of the comments were plain wrong. I get it he probably peeked at it for 30s and realized it wasnāt the thing for his problem. At the same time I should probably do a better job at marketing what it really is, cleaning up the docs and demo.
Note
This post is a thought [1]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /thoughts/
[1]
Such a great message right now. I feel like everywhere I turn is negativity, especially social media. It feels like so many things are trying to divide and create hate. āThisā is what we should be doing with social media. There are a lot of elements of āthere are two ways to have the biggest building in town, tear down all the bigger buildings, or just build the biggest fucking buildingā, If you want to be successful in X then surround yourself with others successful in X. This is a catalytic skill that everyone needs to have in their belt.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /static/https://josephthacker.com/personal/2025/05/13/root-for-your-friends.html
[2]: /thoughts/
Iām 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.
Iām trying to make these apps super simple, self hosted [1] out of minio, static
html [2], and javascript. Itās 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.
[3]
References:
[1]: /self-host/
[2]: /html/
[3]: https://b64.wayl.one
f2 [1] by ayoisaiah [2] 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!
References:
[1]: https://github.com/ayoisaiah/f2
[2]: https://github.com/ayoisaiah
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Great conversation with Billy Basso the creator of Animal Well on the code architecture of Animal well. Itās all hand crafted C++. He talks about early games he tried to build being heavy in oop, and really got lost in oop. Animal well is very flat, there is no inheritance, just lists of entities that all implement similar methods in their own way. Layering and order of entities becomes very important. Its crazy how much he had to think about hardware and MS build being very helpful with this, but needing to know all of the console apis.
Note
This post is a thought [1]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /thoughts/
Just fucking code.
justfuckingcode.com [1]
This is great, beautifully captures a modern backend view of https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/. I honestly resonate with almost all of this. I have found myself in more trouble than help when trying to fully vibe out a project. It never refactors, it leaves it shit everywhere, it mostly does what you say, until you get to something that seems easy, so you try to do it yourself, but you break its brittle piece of shit into pieces any time you try to touch it. AI coding help is great, mcp seems like it really has some game changing abilities, but hands of vibe coded crap aint there yet for me.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://www.justfuckingcode.com/
[2]: /thoughts/
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I did not realize half of this, and it took me at least 4 watches through this to catch everything.
Note
This post is a thought [1]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /thoughts/
k8s-monitoring-helm/charts/k8s-monitoring/docs/examples/private-image-registries/globally/values.yaml at main Ā· grafana/k8s-monitoring-helm
Contribute to grafana/k8s-monitoring-helm development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub Ā· github.com [1]
k8s-monitoring requires setting imageregistry and pullsecrets twice
global:
image:
registry: my.registry.com
pullSecrets:
- name: my-registry-creds
imageRegistry: my.registry.com
imagePullSecrets:
- name: my-registry-creds
Note
This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://github.com/grafana/k8s-monitoring-helm/blob/main/charts/k8s-monitoring/docs/examples/private-image-registries/globally/values.yaml#L29
[2]: /thoughts/
No docs, no bugs
If your library doesn't have any documentation, it can't have any bugs. Documentation specifies what your code is supposed to do. Your tests specify what it actually does. Bugs exist ā¦
Simon Willisonās Weblog Ā· simonwillison.net [1]
Bugs exist when your test-enforced implementation fails to match the behavior described in your documentation. Without documentation a bug is just undefined behavior.
This is quite an interesting thought, so does this mean that, none of my undocumented side projects have bugs? no I think there is still some implied behavior that naming things covers. a function get_bucket_contents implies doing something wtih s3, getting stuff from your local filesystem or crashing would be considered a bug. I think the argument here is that if I start mining bitcoin when you call get_bucket_contents and I have not documented it that this is a feature not a bug. If I were to take this a step further, now do I need to document that this does not also start a bitcoin miner? maybe this is more of an unwanted feature than a bug, Iām convincing myself more and more.
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about someone elseās ...
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So many small details go into making hollow knight such a great game, but it starts with such good controls, every thing is so fluid and predictable. I knew about coyote time, but not some of the other details that Juniper covers, such as hang time, and faster decent than jump.
Note
This post is a thought [1]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /thoughts/
tinyapps
Iām 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 [1]. 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 [2]
renamed
The original title of this post was "Replacing Google Search Apps With Self Hosted Web Apps"
Iām leaning on web wakelock [3] to keep the screen on while these apps are
running, primarily clos, timer, and stopwatch.
Clock # [4]
A large displya clock.
[5]
Timer # [6]
A simple timer that counts down from thet set time.
[7]
Stopwatch # [8]
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.
[9]
Dice # [10]
A simple dice roller, this one is the one that I decided to start adding ?
for help.
[11]
UUID # [12]
It displays a uuid, thats it. ctrl + c to copy.
[13]
b64 # [1...
Iām 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 [1],
clock [2] and timer [3], 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();
References:
[1]: https://stopwatch.wayl.one
[2]: https://clock.wayl.one
[3]: https://timer.wayl.one
Iām impressed by dbztui [1] from pypeaday [2].
A DBZ TUI built with an early version of ninesUI and Windsurf
References:
[1]: https://github.com/pypeaday/dbztui
[2]: https://github.com/pypeaday
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Excited to hear this story, they have so many key players in the trailer this will be fantastic.
Note
This post is a thought [1]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /thoughts/
Iāve been working on
ninesui [1],
inspired by k9s see thoughts-633 [2].
I want a good flow for making video for the readme and I am using charm.sh [3]ās vhs [4] for this.
Its running in an archBTW distrobox and looks gawdaweful.
sort.mp4 [5]
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 # [6]
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 [7]
NinesUI # [8]
Iām using these in my ninesui [9]
project, right now they are in the readme, but maybe some docs will grow
eventually. Right now its hardcore explore phase.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker/ninesui/blob/main/README.md
[2]: https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/post/633
[3]: https://charm.sh/apps/
[4]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs
[5]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/e86047ed-6881-43f7-8e3a-30411d51afaf.mp4
[6]: #after
[...
External Link
christopherbiscardi.com [1]
Interesting take on kubernetes from a front end perspective. All valid arguments to me, and really the answer to any do you need to any specific implementation of tech is probably no. We got along just fine before k8s ever existed and you still can, but its really nice in a lot of cases. If your skills lean toward backend or infrastructure I encourage you to give it a try.
k8s distros # [2]
There are a lot of beginner friendly k8s distros that you can setup with relative ease, kind and k0s are great for single node, If you want multi-node k3s is what I generally use. If you want a very lightweight OS that you only interact with through an api, and has a very small attack surface talos is an amazing product.
When else might you want k8s # [3]
Internal, on-prem, self hosted [4]. If you are trying to avoid the cloud for cost, rules, regulations, red tape, kubernetes is a great option to manage your container workflows yourself without needing to have a cloud budget, get approvals and sign offs on running workflows in a public cloud.
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This post is a thought [5]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #t...
m9a devlog 1
Itās 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 # [1]
I like tuis, I like staying in the terminal. I use
lf [2] daily to move files around when I
want something more than mv and cp. I use
k9s [3] hourly to monitor and manage my
kubernetes cluster.
Are they worth the effort?? # [4]
As awesome as tuiās 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) # [5]
inspired by k9s
Like I said I really like k9s and use it all the time, It really makes running
kubectl commands a ...
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Just listened to this as I am really starting to get into grafana and feel like there isnāt a mountain of setup this time around realizing how much of my stack is brand new. Drill Down and Alloy are both new and key to my setup. The Ai integrations at the end sound wicked good, I will be interested if you can do similar things with an MCP vs how much proprietary stuff needs grafana cloud.
Note
This post is a thought [1]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /thoughts/
Textual - The future of Textualize
Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.
Textual Documentation Ā· textual.textualize.io [1]
Ultimately though a business needs a product. Textual has always been a solution in search of a problem. And while there are plenty of problems to which Textual is a fantastic solution, we werenāt able to find a shared problem or pain-point to build a viable business around.
I can totally see this. Finding a marketable business idea is not easy, working in the developer space where everyone wants to do it themselves is no better. Textual specifically I could see, I really wanted to build things on it as it came out, I had ideas, it was hard to use at the time and changing, so I took a break, got busy with far too many other things, and really I ām good with rich most of the time.
I daily use k9s, its absolutely amazing at what it does and appreciate that I could build something like it in python, its just hard to justify the time investment for the things I tend to work on.
Which is why Textualize, the company, will be wrapping up in the next few weeks.
Damn, that hit hard, its been an adventure watching textual ge...
Whatās next?
Some years ago I had the opportunity to work fulltime on project of mine. This was at a time where I fully intended to take a year off, but being able to make a living off a project of your own cre...
Will McGugan Ā· willmcgugan.github.io [1]
So itās back to plan A: taking a year off. I plan on using this time to focus on my healthāsomething I havenāt prioritized while working as a CEO / Founder of a startup.
Wish you the best Will, you have given us textual and rich, and from what I can tell left it in some great hands.
All I can say for certain is that I would like to write more. Writing scratches many of the same itches as software development, and it is a skill Iād like to nurture.
Go get em Will, write to your hearts desire, and resist the urge to make an SSG company this time.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://willmcgugan.github.io/whats-next/
[2]: /thoughts/
Too much magic
A common criticisms of frameworks like Textual is that they have ātoo much magicā.
Will McGugan Ā· willmcgugan.github.io [1]
Now ātoo much magicā is not the same thing as ābad magicā, although they are often conflated. Bad magic is when the implementation details leak out from the level below. This can manifest itself as cryptic errors that reference the magicās implementation.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://willmcgugan.github.io/too-much-magic/
[2]: /thoughts/
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Dang Strong takes against markdown here with a strong push for bespoke content models/structures. This idea is completely foreign and wild to me. I get it that markdown has its issues with flavors, add ons and what not, but overall its mostly transportable, its a skill that works most content sites and writing tools. I am so far on the other side that I seek out tools with markdown as an option and lean away from wsiwyg tools with specialized data formats on the backend.
Iāll end with, Iām also a dev that creates very simplified content and maybe seeing the backend of a site with lots of custom fields would be very eye opening for me.
Note
This post is a thought [1]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /thoughts/
Week Links ā2: April 2025
Last year I attempted to do some newsletter-style link aggregationā¦ that good intention imploded spectacularly. But I switched to Obsidian this month and now I have a better system for aggregatin...
daverupert.com Ā· daverupert.com [1]
Last year I attempted to do some newsletter-style link aggregationā¦ that good intention imploded spectacularly. But I switched to Obsidian this month and now I have a better system for aggregating links (post on that coming later). Inside this issue youāll find some games, some homelab [2] server hardware, some AI discourseā¢, some musical instruments, and more.
This hits so close to home, I even went through the effort of making a weeknotes script, one weeknote post. I also was inspired by obsidian but it didnāt work out for me, so my script uses data from markata.
[3]
Note
This post is a thought [4]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://daverupert.com/2025/05/week-links-2/
[2]: /homelab/
[3]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/b1a5212b-846f-4144-82ab-51cd9ace086d.webp
[4]: /thoughts/
What ChatGPT is NOT - Tech Raven Blog
There is a lot of excitement about ChatGPT and how it allows us to interact with information and technology. I am actually excited that it now exists and still, I think it is being way overhyped. I...
Tech Raven Blog - Ā· blog.techravenconsulting.com [1]
Do you remember regression models from college: given some data, you find a best fit line that allows you to predict Y given X. At the end of the day, ChatGPT, and LLMs in general, are the same thing as the regression model ā itās just that ChatGPT is the largest and fanciest model we currently have to model language and information.
I really am coming to the idea of calling it a āword calculatorā, this seems to be the most succinct description of llms that the lay person can comprehend and relate to.
ChatGPT does not hallucinate or become unhinged
I think Steve goes much deeper on this in his intervew on fafo.fm [2]. They describe it more as a pleaser or āyes manā essentially all the companies that are building these models want to give the ābestā answer, better than their competitors. With this comes the risk of it being completely wrong, they are designed to always give an answer.
O...
āIād rather read the promptā
Clayton Ramsey grades student assignments and gets papers that are just obviously ChatGPT output. I think any of us can spot it by now: awkward repetitive prose, heavy on bullet points with bold inā¦
Chris Coyier Ā· chriscoyier.net [1]
Iāll triple down on the link-blog chain here, see this one going around all over this week and finally had time to read through when it hit my rss reader via Chris.
It should come as no surprise that nearly every vibe-coded app on the Internet struggles with security issues; look no further than the vibe-coded recipe app that leaks its OpenAI keys. Every time one generates code by prompt, they create a new stillborn program; vibe coding [2] is the art of stitching together their corpses into Frankensteinās monster.
Damn, that is a strong statement, stitching together the corpses, strong statement here. The OpenAI key thing feels kind of obvious to me, every set of docs, blogs and examples on the internet need to be runnable for people to learn and try out new tech easy, putting secrets in the wrong place is easy, putting them somewhere that you can decode them without sharing them is hard team specific, app specific...
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Under 2000 everything is happy, green field. Any decision you have made is relatively easy to back out of (barring you making a library with downstream users), but as you go, regret kicks in. Regret we didnāt make that pydantic 2 upgrade earlier, as new features become more apealing. Regret that we chose sqlite for simplicity, speed, agility, and now we might need robust and distributed. Regret that you chose a front end framework, or to have a front end at all to a backend problem. Regret that you put 6 layers of abstraction on your db early on and now that you understand the problem you want different abstractions, but all of your endpoints deeply depend on the current one.
Vibe coding [1] will not save you, it will only make these wrong decisions for you without the context that you have. You will hate itās decisions more because you had no input into some of them.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /vibe-coding/
[2]: /thoughts/
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āGradually roll out your releases to a small group of peopleā
~ roughly what prime said (Iām listening live)
This really hit home with me, tests can be so good at making sure that we dont repeat bugs and that laser focused things work, tests are generally small and focused, but this does not replace some sort of integration testing. These days very few things are written as a monolith, and hence there are a lot of interactions that really need to play well together accross various systems.
They call out Crowdstrike here, which took down the world blue screening critical windows systems everywhere in 2024. It was revealed that a small changed was rushed through and skipped critical rollout paths since it seemed like a small change. Crowdstrike also runs at a super low kernel level of access and a small memory bug can kill the system.
Note
This post is a thought [1]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /thoughts/
External Link
waylonwalker.com [1]
Iām trying to level up my sre game. Iām trying to set up grafana dashboards for everything and it is such a wide surface area. Itās never just one thing you have to have 3 or more things hooked together in order for the data to flow.
Iām really getting not invented here vibes, and thoughts that I can just build this myself. Not grafana and itās scalability necessarily, but small components of observability.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://waylonwalker.com/thoughts/thought-623/
[2]: /thoughts/
Kubernetes Monitoring Helm tutorial | Grafana Loki documentation
Grafana Labs Ā· grafana.com [1]
This is a really great guide to setting up kubernetes monitoring with helm, it uses loki as a log datasource and alloy as a collector of kubernetes logs, events, and nodes. The charts are setup really well to start collecting logs from all your kubernetes pods.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/send-data/k8s-monitoring-helm/
[2]: /thoughts/
Configure the Tempo data source | Grafana documentation
Grafana Labs Ā· grafana.com [1]
Really helpful article to getting tempo datasource setup in grafana, this enables you to see span and trace data within grafana. This data helps debug and work through issues that you might come into with performance and need to see the timing of requests along with logs.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/tempo/configure-tempo-data-source/
[2]: /thoughts/
Iām 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.
[1]
[2]
[3]
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
name: my-dashboard
namespace: meta
labels:
grafana_dashboard: "1"
data:
my-dashboard.json: |
{
"annotations": {
"list": [
...
"uid": "fel2uhjhepg5ce",
"version": 3
}
References:
[1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/530e8515-a72a-4341-82d7-37f6f985e327.webp
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/d792b2db-2dcf-465f-a400-e84f199ec22d.webp
[3]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/684701cc-efec-4e2b-9630-c8aea7ff5b14.webp
Just starred postiz-app [1] by gitroomhq [2]. Itās an exciting project with a lot to offer.
šØ The ultimate social media scheduling tool, with a bunch of AI š¤
References:
[1]: https://github.com/gitroomhq/postiz-app
[2]: https://github.com/gitroomhq
hollow knight home row layout
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
ā ReznoRMichael hollow-knight-completion-check [1] 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 # [2]
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 Iāve 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 # [3]
My daily driver keyboard is a custom built 40% monoblo...
I recently discovered wezterm [1] by wezterm [2], and itās truly impressive.
A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
References:
[1]: https://github.com/wezterm/wezterm
[2]: https://github.com/wezterm
fix feed descriptions
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 # [1]
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 # [2]
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 # [3]
[4]
After # [5]
[6]
References:
[1]: #better-description
[2]: #more-description
[3]: #before
[4]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/8e9cf8e3-50ab-4e0a-be76-7241fbfe44c5.webp
[5]: #after
[6]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/29f96255-a89f-4ec6-b9e7-f61551366264.webp
Vectorizing Your Databases with Steve Pousty
What exactly is an LLM doing and why do you need to learn so many new terms? Steve Pousty is here to explain that most of those new terms are things you already knoā¦
Fork Around And Find Out Ā· fafo.fm [1]
Steve is such a great listen, the neurospicy š¶ļø rambles this episode goes on is so relatable. I feel like I really missed out on some great takes on intellij vs neovim, but got some really great knowledge about vector dbās, embedding, text compression, similarities to vector algegra like infinite craft.
Just popped open infinitecraft and Iāve definitely played this with my kids before, super fun, just could not remember the name of this one. I do remember an android one as well that is alchemist or something like that, which we have also played a lot.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://www.fafo.fm/vectorizing-your-databases-with-steve-pousty/
[2]: /thoughts/
External Link
fafo.fm [1]
This episode really got me thinking about the difference between HA and DR and my approach to each one. They talk about it from the perspective of a cach cow kind of app rather than a homelab [2] or internal tooling, but think of HA as 9ās how many 9s are we willing to pay for, tink of DR as dollars how many dollars will we loose during the period of recovery. So much more in the episode, a lot of talk around cloud vendors and what they give you vs a purpose build platform with HA and DR in mind.
Note
This post is a thought [3]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://www.fafo.fm/recovering-from-disaster-with-seth-eliot/
[2]: /homelab/
[3]: /thoughts/