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Great panel of software folks at open sauce. It was interesting hearing from all these creators from the perspective of an open sauce panel.
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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Publishing rhythm
[1]
New release out for nvim-manager that supports installing pre-configured distros. It’s such a breeze to install these now, its been fun to go through each of them. The currently included distros are.
- LazyVim
- AstroVim
- kickstart
- NvChad
- LunarVim
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /static/https://github.com/WaylonWalker/nvim-manager/releases/tag/v0.0.2
[2]: /thoughts/
Releases · WaylonWalker/nvim-manager
manage dotfiles with nvim_appname. Contribute to WaylonWalker/nvim-manager development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub · github.com [1]
First release of nvim-manager is out. Your dotfiles change a lot, sometimes it’s hard to manage all of the places you have installed them and potentially made hand edits to. nvim-manager allows you to easily make static releases of your dotfiles, and keep your nvim install from breaking by leveraging NVIM_APPNAME and pinned releases of your dotfiles stored in ~/.config. In this directory you might have many nvim configurations installed, nvim-manager automates the process of installing and updating from your dotfiles, while keeping previous pinned versions untouched.
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/WaylonWalker/nvim-manager/releases
[2]: /thoughts/
[1]
Nice list of url escape codes. I did not actually know that to get a literal sequence like %2D you can use $2D.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /static/https://docs.microfocus.com/OMi/10.62/Content/OMi/ExtGuide/ExtApps/URL_encoding.htm
[2]: /thoughts/
GitHub - ngalaiko/tree-sitter-go-template: Golang template grammar for tree-sitter
Golang template grammar for tree-sitter. Contribute to ngalaiko/tree-sitter-go-template development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub · github.com [1]
This setup fixed my nvim syntax highlighting in helm templates.
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/ngalaiko/tree-sitter-go-template
[2]: /thoughts/
GitHub - imagegenius/docker-immich: Monolithic (Single) Docker Container for Immich
Monolithic (Single) Docker Container for Immich. Contribute to imagegenius/docker-immich development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub · github.com [1]
imagegenius has made an immich all in one setup that looks much easier to use than immich.
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/imagegenius/docker-immich/
[2]: /thoughts/
Owning It · Matthias Ott
Owning your content and platform means true independence on the web. Why it matters more than ever for creators.
Matthias Ott – Web Design Engineer · matthiasott.com [1]
I can say I had the same kind of feelings when I first saw something called “Own Your Web” being run in Buttondown. I totally get it. It takes time and effort to build your own stuff, email sending is hard, not done right ends you in the spam folder. There is something about the name though that I think needs to set an example and self host [2] as much as it possibly can.
The changelog has covered this several times, do they need to go to the crazy lengths they do to run their site, no probably not, but it keeps them in the loop. They are using the tech they talk about in a very real and production critical way to run the show.
Cant wait to see more from ownyourweb.site
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://matthiasott.com/notes/owning-it
[2]: /self-host/
[3]: /thoughts/
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Gyroscope better than a mouse?? Nerd nest really sells how having two gyros in the way they have done for noise cancelling changes the game on it, and makes it a contender to replace a mouse.
It really makes me want to try it. I love how repairable this controller looks. I’ve got to imagine that the fact that it comes as a kit, and all the parts are available that this hits S tier repairability. My current controller of choice is a PS5 and I’ve had stick issues I wish I could fix.
No analog triggers, I’m out. Maybe they will make it an option in the future idk. I don’t play shooters where I need a hair trigger, this won’t work on session or driving games.
micro usb, seriously, that kinda kills it for me too.
edit I looked on their website and they have usb c in the latest version
Note
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about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /thoughts/
Postiz: The All-in-One agentic social media scheduling tool
Streamline your social media with Postiz. Schedule posts, analyze performance, and manage all accounts in one place.
Postiz · postiz.com [1]
postiz looks like a very polished way to automate and schedule posts to all the social services.
Note
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about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://postiz.com/
[2]: /thoughts/
GitHub - gitroomhq/postiz-helmchart: Helm for Postiz
Helm for Postiz. Contribute to gitroomhq/postiz-helmchart development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub · github.com [1]
Reminder to myself, look into self hosting postiz with this helm chart later.
Note
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about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://github.com/gitroomhq/postiz-helmchart
[2]: /thoughts/
Realign
I just popped out a realign of the ol’ personal website. I only say realign as I didn’t rethink every single detail of the thing. I’d say probably 40% of the original HTML and CSS…
Chris Coyier · chriscoyier.net [1]
Chris Coyier had a small re-align on his site, some good nuggets in here.
I like the idea of having a photo of myself prominently on the site, so you know who you’re dealing with here.
I really like this after thinking about it and I think I am going to make sure I get my face back on my posts. I do have my 8bit style pixel art image of me that I use on social media, but no real picture.
I feel like a lot of people redesign their entire website when it’s time to update to the latest list of social networks and I’m no different. Once you touch it you gotta keep going.
I can totally relate to this, once you open the thing, you get the build tools greased up, and your confidence high that re-deploying isn’t going to mess something up, I tend to start digging in to other things.
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://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/03/realign/
[2]: /t...
About Harry Roberts – CSS Wizardry
csswizardry.com [1]
I’ve only recently learned what colophon means, and I really like to read through site that use it. If you don’t know its about how the site is built. I’ve always liked peeking under the hood of things to understand how they work, it’s what turned me towards an engineering degree.
I love how he mentions that he chose the name when he was 17 and he is stuck with it. I particularly like the name, it has something special to it. Hats off to you for doing something that has lasted so long for you. I fully understand though, I have projects that I made a year ago that I think why did I name it that. At the same time when I try to think of a name I end up with the I don’t have anything good and I’d rather build the thing so fuck it, its going to be what it is.
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://csswizardry.com/about/#section:colophon
[2]: /thoughts/
Using Obsidian as a Gaming Backlog Library
How to use Obsidian as a gaming backlog library. Get a long-lasting overview of games you want to and have played.
Bryan Hogan · bryanhogan.com [1]
Very interesting way to catalog games, I need to make a catalog of mine, I’ll probably start adding some blog entries for games I’m in and have completed. Wonder if there is a way to hook into steam with python to get achievements and progress live.
Note
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about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://bryanhogan.com/blog/obsidian-gaming-backlog
[2]: /thoughts/
Harry Roberts (@csswizardry.com)
📡 I’ve been writing a lot lately. I’ve also dusted off my RSS reader. Send me your feeds! Mine is at csswizardry.com/feed.xml
https://csswizardry.com/feed.xml
Bluesky Social · bsky.app [1]
Tons of cool people came out with their rss feeds here, again will need to browse more closely later.
Note
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about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://bsky.app/profile/csswizardry.com/post/3lckq4qo6zs22
[2]: /thoughts/
[1]
Sturobson has a ton of rss feeds here, I recognize quite a few, will definitely need to poke at some of these later.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /static/https://github.com/sturobson/myRSS/blob/master/personal-blogs.xml
[2]: /thoughts/
Own Your Web
Own Your Web is a newsletter by Matthias Ott about designing, building, creating, and publishing for and on the Web. Every other week, I send out an exclusive email full of actionable insights, bes...
buttondown.com [1]
I’m a sucker for good own your own shit on the web blogs, and Matthias Ott has a top notch one here. The archive has been a great read so far, I’ve discovered things like slashpages.net.
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://buttondown.com/ownyourweb
[2]: /thoughts/
Fork Around And Find Out | Remaining Authentic in Retirement with Kelsey Hightower
Retirement is about the journey, not the destination. For Kelsey Hightower, it’s been an epic journey. On our debut episode of the Fork Around and Find Out Podcast (and much to Autumn’s elation...
share.transistor.fm [1]
What a great first guest for FAFO. Kelsey is always such a great listen. He talks about killedbygoogle and how engineers get no incentive to work on old projects, google had no incentive, and you got the thing for FREE in the first place. He talks about end of career and having love you money, having so much in the bank you can say no. If you are presented with a project that does not align with your values you can say no.M
Justin even mentions how Google has more killedbygoogle projects than Amazon has total projects.
If we knew how hard it would be, we would never build it.
Autumn’s Fav quote from ep1 of shipit
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about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://share.transistor.fm/s/a9e41e15
[2]: /thoughts/
/start
Welcome to waylonwalker.com, my small corner of the internet. I currently have
3697 posts published,
here are some links to help you get started around here.
[1]
Feeds # [2]
I have quite a few different feeds that you can browse or subscribe to in your
rss reader, you can find them on my feeds [3] page.
Slash posts # [4]
[[ slashes ]]
Slash pages [5] are some evergreen pages that I will do my best to keep up to date,
they are typically not targeted to a specific moment in time, but designed to
be ever living.
- Waylon Walker [6] - Husband, dad of two, and hobbyist builder of things on the internet.
- Ai [7] - Last updated Jan 2026.
- analytics [8] - I've been posting on this site since 2016, when layoffs were rolling through the company I worked for at the time. Starting a personal blog and a pile of…
- /carry/ - I try to keep a pretty light every day carry, but it never works out, keyfobs and headphone cases end up causing more bulk than I'd like, but My EDC is no…
- /c...
slow nfs performance
I’m running a two node k3s cluster at home, I thought I could simply mount an
nfs share on each worker node, and essentially have the same storage accross
all nodes. I’m already learning why this is not reccommended.
[1]
Slow # [2]
I’ve been running some cronjobs and argo workflows on the second node for
awhile, these are things that run in the background and I don’t care if they
take a bit longer to keep my master node freed up for more critical work.
I just started trying to build this site in a cronjob, It was taking 20 minutes
to build, and something I noticed was that markata was taking minutes to run
glob ( search for files ), normally this happens in a few ms and I never
notice this step.
[3]
I just moved into the master node and the results were wild at ~30x faster
Permissions # [4]
I have seen where you can get diffent permissions on the nfs share based on
user id. Since I’m homelabbing here I only have one user per machine. As you
step into enterprise level VMs wi...
Changelog
Maker of web things, sticker merchant, viral toot-based business man, blogger, podcaster, and pizzaiolo. Human dad.
rknight.me [1]
Well done changelog with some really good inspirational nuggets. Many slash pages I want to check out and an 11ty contribution graph.
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://rknight.me/log/
[2]: /thoughts/
slash pages
A guide to common pages you can add to your website
slashpages.net [1]
A nice list of slashpages you might want to consider including / aliasing / 301ing. These feel like nice things to setup and keep in the back pocket for obsidian style wiki link to easily. I get kinda bad at wiki-linking as much as I would like to, mostly because it does require some amount of work to make the page, and keep it up to date over time, then remember that you even have it.
Some are serious, some very common, some quite useful.
[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://slashpages.net/
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/ba4edf27-03d4-49ff-ab4e-712e9ab8acda.webp
[3]: /thoughts/
/colophon
Colophon [1] a page that describes how the site
is made, with what tools, supporting what technologies
Author # [2]
[3]
All posts on this site are written by Waylon
Walker [4], the typical content has changed and evolved
over time. I go back and make a few corrections, but for the most part things
stay pretty much as they were published originally.
see more in Waylon Walker [5]
tech # [6]
This site is a static site build with my own static site generator markata [7], Thoughts [8] or as Simon Willison calls it a link
blog [9] posts
are pulled in as a regular posts, all is hosted on cloudflare pages.
- markata [7]
- Thoughts [8]
- cloudflare pages
see more about these components in about this site [10]
Analytics # [11]
I do not track users, I respect the privacy of my readers and do not track
their information. I do track analytics [12] on my own writing a post rate.
Its more of an interesting history of the site.
meta # [13]
Some evergreen pages that are more about me ...
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Theo does a fantastic history of serverless here.
Kubernetes shit # [1]
Theo can’t have an infra video without shitting on k8s. Specifically people who have never touched k8s pushing fear of k8s to large audiences of people who have never touched k8s. If you are a webdev who solely lives in webdev space and never touches as much as a dockerfile listen to him. If you touch infra at all try it before you take his opinion at face value.
[2]
Serverless shines in high variance # [3]
If you plan on having traffic spikes 10x your regular traffic for something like black friday, serverless might be right for your use case.
stateless programming # [4]
He argues that targeting a stateless deployment of serverless leads to better code. I’d like to see more examples here. Maybe most of the code bases I work on already do this. I’ve never targeted a serverless deployment, but I’ve targeted horizontally scaled deployments many times and they feel like they have the same targets. For instance if I spin up 8 pods for my application or uvicorn with 3 workers I have to target statelessness, all of the state must live in the database and cannot live in memory. Even if I target 1 instanc...
linkding
A self-hosted bookmarking service that is designed to be minimal, fast and easy to set up.
linkding · linkding.link [1]
linkding looks like an interesting alternative to thoughts. Thoughts is focused on the note being a value add tweet length blog post that you share to the public. This seems more focused on fire and forget with some note taking and search ability. I should definitely level up the search and tag discovery in thoughts.
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://linkding.link/
[2]: /thoughts/
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cool video on expanding vim with cli.
piping commands into vim # [1]
[2]
write a healthcheck # [3]
[4]
Note
This post is a thought [5]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: #piping-commands-into-vim
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/4283e98a-9b12-4f8a-9799-a097d5f3184d.webp
[3]: #write-a-healthcheck
[4]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/d90a8c88-4748-4dfe-8569-b51c023c825b.webp
[5]: /thoughts/
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Lane from boot.dev madde this fantastic video about serving files on the internet. It has me wondering if I need to rethink a few of my things that I have built. I have a few things I am serving media from, but I have very aggressive cloudflare cache rules on them, so each file should only be uploaded about once per year.
My problem going straight out of minio right now is how do i set headers for cache control on it. If I can’t set the cache control and everything is coming out of minio this does not solve my problems.
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I went back and played with presigned urls and you can in fact control and set response headers, this is definitely the way and I have been wrong.
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/
curl with partial files
Back in September 2023, we extended the curl command line tool with a new fairly advanced and flexible variable system. Using this, users can use files, environment variables and more in a powerful...
daniel.haxx.se · daniel.haxx.se [1]
This is a cool new feature coming to bash, I can’t think of a use case I have out of the gate, but it looks cool. I’m thinking this might be good to keep in the back pocket for something like CI where I don’t have a hightly tuned bashrc file, and I want a dynamic curl request based on some state that exists as a fille.
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://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/12/30/curl-with-partial-files/
[2]: /thoughts/
The beautiful sentence that is the web
A metaphor for the building blocks of web development.
cassidoo.co [1]
Nicely worded Cassidy! Javascript can be too much, it can bog down low powered devices, we can ship so much that its untenable on poor connections. It can be argued that its a bad language and putting it on the server is a mistake, but it brings sites to life. It makes it possible to extend the static nature of html [2]/css with just a little special spice only your site needs.
I’d add to the argument that a lot of js should go away over time. Over time libraries such as jquery have fallen out of use, not because they are bad, or have been replaced by new libraries, but because the browser has adopted most of the functionality that jquery brought.
As a primarily python dev I’d really like to see htmx [3] die a very similar graceful death. There have been several iterations on this idea, and the crux of it is very similar, give the ability to use HTTP verbs right inside html with some instruction of when to apply them and what to apply them to.
No js should not go away, it never will, we will always find new patterns that the browser should take, sites will always n...
Teleport to coop partner
Hello,
Is there a command where you can teleport to your coop partner? Or is it just this Follow button in chat? :)
Hypixel Forums · hypixel.net [1]
/p warp will warp your party to your current server in hypixel skyblock
[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://hypixel.net/threads/teleport-to-coop-partner.2250505/
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/a4f5be07-5f79-450c-a40d-1f48ac086e05.webp
[3]: /thoughts/
External Link
stackoverflow.com [1]
Today I learned how to configure the baseurl for htmx [2] using the tag. This is pretty handy to be able to configure different baseurls.
<base href="<scheme>://<netloc>/api/v1/">
<button hx-post="clicked"
hx-trigger="click"
hx-target="#parent-div"
hx-swap="outerHTML">
Click Me!
</button>
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://stackoverflow.com/questions/69456875/how-to-configure-base-url-for-all-requests-using-htmx
[2]: /htmx/
[3]: /thoughts/
Addy Osmani (@addyosmani.bsky.social)
Tip: Chrome DevTools can override the content of Fetch/XHR requests! Useful for mocking APIs without waiting on backend changes.
Bluesky Social · bsky.app [1]
WTF, you can just change a server response from devtools and update a vuejs app? Just tried with htmx [2], and my GET requests are not showing up in the sources tab. I’ll keep this in my back pocket for next time I’m supporting a vuejs app though.
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://bsky.app/profile/addyosmani.bsky.social/post/3lei5jhkgdk2k
[2]: /htmx/
[3]: /thoughts/
Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee.com)
2025 : the year of action … who’s finally ready ?
PS: text me for any follow up questions at 📱 1-212-931-5731
#2025 #todo #todolist #motivation #garyvee
Bluesky Social · bsky.app [1]
Gary Vee, is the goat. leaving this image as a reminder for myself
[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://bsky.app/profile/garyvee.com/post/3leidcd6xjk2y
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/074edddb-8b46-4d94-9b55-d70a7bb74366.webp
[3]: /thoughts/
The work on atuin [1] by atuinsh [2].
✨ Magical shell history
References:
[1]: https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin
[2]: https://github.com/atuinsh
Ellie Huxtable (@ellie.wtf)
Atuin v18.4 is out now!
Including atuin wrapped, your year in shell history 🐢
thanks @daveeddy.com for the suggestion!
Bluesky Social · bsky.app [1]
Atuin v18.4 is out with an atuin wrapped command.
Here’s Ellie’s Wrapped.
[2]
This is a pretty sick command, I’ve only been using Atuin about as long as I’ve been on bazzite, so maybe 4 months, but here is my wrapped.
[3]
Comparing to Ellie, I’m surprised that I even have 126 package related commands, being on an immutable distro most of my packages come from the container, I don’t need to run packaging commands. My cd is also super low, I use tmux sessions to take me where I need to be most of the time, which is a project’s root directory, It’s pretty rare to see me outside of a project root directory.
I’d venture to guess that nvim would be higher if it didn’t auto start on every tmux session as well.
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://bsky.app/profile/ellie.wtf/post/3lecj36r5ps2x
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/246f2dc6-4e46-410c-9d25-fa6ccc85f8f2.webp
[3]: https://dropper.waylo...
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Red Hat has donated the whole open alternative to docker to the CNCF, the hosts weigh in with thier opinions all being pretty positive as they seem to be a legitimate donation and not dumping crap on open source.
- podman
- podman-desktop
- buildah
- compose-fs
- podman
- bootc
- scopio
Personally I’ve been running podman exclusively at home since switching to Bazzite in August. I’d like to use buildah in ci. I gave it a try, but was unable to swap out my use of kaniko for buildah, I will get there, but it was not quite as drop in as I wanted.
Note
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about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /thoughts/
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Holy shit these AGI models are incredibly expensive to run, require lots of wild hardware that there is not enough to go around, and requires shit tons of power to run.
Now more than ever is time to distinguish yourself with deep expertise, jack of all trades is being eaten by ai. People with deep expertise are getting a jack of all trades bump from ai, not o3, just the regular stuff.
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/
setting up ucore-zfs
I just setup my oldest hardware on the newest hotest server distro ucore-zfs.
This is a gateway FX6860 manufactured in 2010.
Immutable is the future # [1]
My current boot log shows that I first started daily driving bazzite back in
August 2024. I’ve been hapily using it since my arch install was plaugued
with a crippling display driver error, or something that would lock the display
for minutes every 30s or so, it became unusable. I switched because this is
what I put my son on and it was working great for him.
waylon@razorcrest:~$ journalctl --list-boots
IDX BOOT ID FIRST ENTRY LAST ENTRY
-19 7e6e154d2609407da24fa12814eadbd7 Thu 2024-08-29 16:15:15 CDT Thu 2024-08-29 17:37:25 CDT
Four months later and I am really loving the immutable distro experience. My
base system gets fresh reliable updates, and I barely install anything directly
on it, a handful of things are snaps or flatpaks from the discover store, but
my main workflow is now in distrobox. It has been rock solid reliable...
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Theo weighing in on the 2025 job market. It’s no 2018 out there right now, the ratio of jobs to engineers in the market has flipped big time. Theo as usual really focuses on community, being in a community, and being a good citizen. At the end of the video Theo weighs in on his experience hiring, and generally it starts with we need someone to do x does anyone know someone, then goes to a more formal internal post, then more formally asking internally does anyone know someone, then maybe to his community, and if he really still needs the person it might become an external post. These days there are so many good engineers on the market that very few good jobs actually get a posting for in his opinion.
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kitze hating on python packaging in new ways. Python packaging has a lot of quirks that can make it infuriating. Not once have I thought “you know what this needs, quotes and braces”
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[1]: https://x.com/thekitze/status/1872267874842063223?t=zxq6-kA9atVuXJeWntxfWg&s=09
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/566ff44b-cace-474d-b1bc-62aaf42f419f.webp
[3]: /thoughts/
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This tip of using tinkercad to do boolean operations on an stl of a solid gridfinity bin and an outline is absolute fire 🔥🔥🔥. This feels like a relatively simple operation, but to do it to a generated stl proves hard to do in most modeling software, at least harder than it needs to be. Somehow tinkercad got it right and made it a very basic operation to do.
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It took me a minute to find the Merge button that Uncle Jessy mentioned, they call it a group in TinkerCAD.
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[1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/36826ac6-9e38-4955-b622-4de86900c8b7.webp
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/a22fc486-d627-4e37-8d58-e963919bb8a0.webp
[3]: /thoughts/
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Damn Glorious Eggrolls is still making gaming on linux better. Of course its containerization that drives everything on linux these days. This is a pretty badass talk. Umu is already running in steam and bazzite. Bazzite gamemode uses this to get a gamescope session running.
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Great list of 4 tips for running fastapi applications.
Keep routes small # [2]
Fat routers with all of the logic built in makes them hard to test, hard to refactor, causes lots of duplication, and makes it hard to reuse the business logic code later in something like a cli application.
Deploy Early # [3]
I really like this advice! He reccommends deploying as early as you can get a healthcheck live in your application. I’ve found too many times developers build something that is really hard, or impossible to deploy, when if they had tried to deploy early they would have spotted some easy to fix issues. This is less important if you are building out of a template that your team commonly deploys from, but very important with new patterns.
https://youtu.be/XlnmN4BfCxw?si=ks1wvmgDyoQLgrv2&t=1093 [4]
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[1]: /fastapi/
[2]: #keep-routes-small
[3]: #deploy-early
[4]: https://youtu.be/XlnmN4BfCxw?si=ks1wvmgDyoQLgrv2&t=1093
[5]: /thoughts/
Building Python tools with a one-shot prompt using uv run and Claude Projects
I’ve written a lot about how I’ve been using Claude to build one-shot HTML+JavaScript applications via Claude Artifacts. I recently started using a similar pattern to create one-shot Python uti...
Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1]
This is really interesting, the lazy uv scripts are really becoming quite appealing, especially for something like this to just pop out of an llm ready to run. The article features several examples of these one-shot prompt ideas that I suggest you give a try, and a prompt for creating them.
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[1]: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/one-shot-python-tools/
[2]: /thoughts/
Depot Status
Latest service status for Depot
Depot Status · status.depot.dev [1]
Depot’s uptime seems to be great. I definitely hit some issues with it this afternoon 12/24/24 that were not reported. I wonder if my issues were with the fly integration. Maybe fly ran out of credits to depot or something.
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[1]: https://status.depot.dev/
[2]: /thoughts/
Deploy to Fly using a Depot builder
Using Fly.io's new Depot builder, we'll walk you through how to deploy a TypeScript service globally with speed.
Depot · depot.dev [1]
Here the integration to depot appears to be opt in using the --depot flag on fly deploy. This must have changed over time though because today it was giving me issues and I had to opt out using fly deploy --depot='false'. Looks like a great service and I just learned about them on their bad day.
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[1]: https://depot.dev/blog/how-to-build-with-depot-on-fly
[2]: /thoughts/
Depot
Exponentially faster builds for everyone.
Depot · depot.dev [1]
Just learned about depot today ironically because it seems to be down and fly is using them under the hood to do the container builds, seems like a really great service for fast builds accross your team.
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[1]: https://depot.dev/
[2]: /thoughts/
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This was an eye opening video into agentic editing workflows.
setting rules # [1]
Dfferent ai tools use different rules files, windsurf uses .windsurfrules.
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testing out rules # [3]
Test out your rules file by having it say something at the beginning of the output to verify that the rules are being applied correctly.
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First line # [5]
He suggests to use this key rule for debugging purposes, otherwise you are guessing to what rules if any it is following.
Every time you choose to apply a rule(s), explicitly state the rule(s) in the output. You can abbreviate the rule description to a single word or phrase.
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[1]: #setting-rules
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/f75bf439-919f-4c19-8695-176ca8a7d52d.webp
[3]: #testing-out-rules
[4]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/ebeed79c-435b-4aab-b3dc-c744b144c438.webp
[5]: #first-line
[6]: /thoughts/
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reliablesite.net [1]
Dax talked about this in a recent How about tomorrow podcast https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/post/461. He is using it as his dev machine, he just ssh’s in and devs on it. Feels like quite an interesting workflow, their prices seem competitive, but as a cheap ass homelabber I see their prices and think I could grab a used optiplex for the cost of a month or two of these and probably wouldn’t know the difference. DAX mentions longer compile times so maybe he does notice.
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[1]: https://www.reliablesite.net/dedicated-servers/
[2]: /thoughts/
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This is a pretty great episode talking shop with typecraft. They talk setups, cameras, content creation. I found them talking about their linux setups particularly interesting. Dax talked about his flow from building his own machines to using reliablesite.com.
tmux default leader # [1]
Dax hates on c-a, both typecraft and dax use c-s, which normally freezes a terminal, we can all agree that is useless. I use the default c-b, it seems fine for me.
type crafts setup # [2]
- Ubuntu
- Ghosty
- Tmux
- Nvim
- Ruby
Selling coffee without a web front end # [3]
Dax talks about terminal.shop and how they originally planned to have a web front end, but after they had so much success they stuck with it. now they are leaning harder into it and are building out integrations with a bunch of languages and an api, but no front end.
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[1]: #tmux-default-leader
[2]: #type-crafts-setup
[3]: #selling-coffee-without-a-web-front-end
[4]: /thoughts/
PEP 723 – Inline script metadata | peps.python.org
This PEP specifies a metadata format that can be embedded in single-file Python scripts to assist launchers, IDEs and other external tools which may need to interact with such scripts.
Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) · peps.python.org [1]
PEP 723 is what is inspiring all of these lazy self installing python scripts, Authored by the author of hatch and pyapp. This is a really cool thing that uv has picked up and made python packaging just a bit easier.. maybe… dependency resolution still sucks.
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[1]: https://peps.python.org/pep-0723/
[2]: /thoughts/