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we beat trailmakers

Today we broke through the atmosphere in trailmakers ready for pickup from those back at mission conrol. I haven’t posted a lot of gaming content to by blog, idk why, but I think I am going to start, especially for the ones that are good memories with my son. Today we hit 100% of the required parts required to build the space ship and leave the atmosphere of the planet that the story is set in. Trailmakers is a game where you design and build your own vehicles. The campaign mode standed is a story where you are in a high tech freighter ship that crash lands on a distant planet. Your crew back home can come as far as the planet your on but cannot break through the atmosphere. Your job is to collect all the wreckage and gain all the parts required for a space ship build to take you out of the atmosphere to meet them. [1] [2] There were a couple really heavy salvages to gather up, this one is high in the floating islands and is the cockpit fo the space ship. [3] I thought thi...
External Link devcommunity.x.com [1] Just tried using my twitter api key for the first time in quite awhile. Apps now need to be tied to projects in order to work. It looks like projects are where pricing comes into play. Thankfully they still give a free tier for doing small time things for myself. You can really see the effect that llms have on these things though as it is 5x more expensive to read posts than to make posts currently. Data is the new gold for these kind of companies. References: [1]: https://devcommunity.x.com/t/v2-suddenly-getting-client-not-enrolled-today/195456
GitHub - containers/podman-compose: a script to run docker-compose.yml using podman a script to run docker-compose.yml using podman. Contribute to containers/podman-compose development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com [1] Wild that the podman-compose github readme calls out k3s as an alternative. [2] compose definitely has its place, especially for local development on a developers machine, its so much easier to stand up and get things like hot reload up and running smooth. References: [1]: https://github.com/containers/podman-compose [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/9326cd6f-3f27-4703-85fd-a3b16f7bdc92.webp
The work on podman-compose [1] by containers [2]. a script to run docker-compose.yml using podman References: [1]: https://github.com/containers/podman-compose [2]: https://github.com/containers
bic Static blog generator, in bash bic · bic.sh [1] Intereresting someone built a blog generator in bash. it comes with normal markdown to html [2], static content, robots.txt, sitemap, rss, and tags. It uses pandoc to take markdown to html and mustache for page templates. References: [1]: https://bic.sh/ [2]: /html/
Animate to height: auto; (and other intrinsic sizing keywords) in CSS  |  CSS and UI  |  Chrome for Developers Animate to and from intrinsic sizing keywords with `interpolate-size` and `calc-size()` Chrome for Developers · developer.chrome.com [1] Css is getting so good, new things like interpolate-size are making things that use to require some deep expertise and hacks intuitive and easy. /* Opt-in the whole page to interpolate sizes to/from keywords */ :root { interpolate-size: allow-keywords; /* 👈 */ } References: [1]: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/css-ui/animate-to-height-auto/
[1] Looks like a great start to a rules file for fastapi [2]. - Place the happy path last in the function for improved readability. I have never heard anyone say this. It feels weird to me. The other early return, find and handle errors early all make sense to me, but happy path last is new to me. References: [1]: /static/https://github.com/PatrickJS/awesome-cursorrules/blob/main/rules/py-fast-api/.cursorrules [2]: /fastapi/
Generate Custom .cursorrules for Your Project Based on Community Examples expert led courses for front-end web developers and teams that want to level up through straightforward and concise lessons on the most useful tools available. egghead · egghead.io [1] Really interesting way to generate a rules file for agentic workflows based on your current repo. John uses gitingest here, looks like a fantastic tool, but probably not useful for most private repos. I’m sure you can replicate the same thing in a private repo wtih a small amount of effort the few times you need to do it. gitingest looks like a great way to pull in some extra context for some open source dependencies that you have though. References: [1]: https://egghead.io/generate-custom-cursorrules-for-your-project-based-on-community-examples~eimq2
GitHub - coderamp-labs/gitingest: Replace 'hub' with 'ingest' in any GitHub URL to get a prompt-friendly extract of a codebase Replace 'hub' with 'ingest' in any GitHub URL to get a prompt-friendly extract of a codebase - coderamp-labs/gitingest GitHub · github.com [1] Gitingest has a python package on pypi that you can run with uvx, and it accepts the same arguments as the web version, right in your terminal ⬢ [devtainer] ❯ uvx gitingest --help Usage: gitingest [OPTIONS] SOURCE Analyze a directory and create a text dump of its contents. Options: -o, --output TEXT Output file path (default: <repo_name>.txt in current directory) -s, --max-size INTEGER Maximum file size to process in bytes -e, --exclude-pattern TEXT Patterns to exclude -i, --include-pattern TEXT Patterns to include --help Show this message and exit. References: [1]: https://github.com/cyclotruc/gitingest
I’m really excited about gitingest [1], an amazing project by cyclotruc [2]. It’s worth exploring! Replace ‘hub’ with ‘ingest’ in any github url to get a prompt-friendly extract of a codebase References: [1]: https://github.com/cyclotruc/gitingest [2]: https://github.com/cyclotruc
Looking for inspiration? gitingest [1] by coderamp-labs [2]. Replace ‘hub’ with ‘ingest’ in any github url to get a prompt-friendly extract of a codebase References: [1]: https://github.com/coderamp-labs/gitingest [2]: https://github.com/coderamp-labs
Gitingest Replace gitingest.com [1] Replace hub with ingest in any github and get a prompt friendly codebase ready to feed into any llm. It combines the entire codebase, based on a gitignore style glob that you pass in, into a single TXT file. References: [1]: https://gitingest.com/
Check out bic [1] by Pinjasaur [2]. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential. Static blog generator, in bash References: [1]: https://github.com/Pinjasaur/bic [2]: https://github.com/Pinjasaur
[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 References: [1]: /static/https://github.com/WaylonWalker/nvim-manager/releases/tag/v0.0.2
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. References: [1]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker/nvim-manager/releases
[1] Nice list of url escape codes. I did not actually know that to get a literal sequence like %2D you can use $2D. References: [1]: /static/https://docs.microfocus.com/OMi/10.62/Content/OMi/ExtGuide/ExtApps/URL_encoding.htm
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. References: [1]: https://github.com/ngalaiko/tree-sitter-go-template
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. References: [1]: https://github.com/imagegenius/docker-immich/
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 References: [1]: https://matthiasott.com/notes/owning-it [2]: /self-host/
- 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
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. References: [1]: https://postiz.com/
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. References: [1]: https://github.com/gitroomhq/postiz-helmchart
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. References: [1]: https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/03/realign/
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. References: [1]: https://csswizardry.com/about/#section:colophon
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. References: [1]: https://bryanhogan.com/blog/obsidian-gaming-backlog
[1]@csswizardry [1]) — 📡 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" loading="lazy"> Harry Roberts (@csswizardry [2]) 📡 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 Tons of cool people came out with their rss feeds here, again will need to browse more closely later. References: [1]: https://bsky.app/profile/csswizardry.com/post/3lckq4qo6zs22 [2]: https://csswizardry.com
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. References: [1]: https://buttondown.com/ownyourweb
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 References: [1]: https://share.transistor.fm/s/a9e41e15

/start

Welcome to waylonwalker.com, my small corner of the internet. I currently have 3734 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] 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… - /colophon - Colop...

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. References: [1]: https://rknight.me/log/
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] References: [1]: https://slashpages.net/ [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/ba4edf27-03d4-49ff-ab4e-712e9ab8acda.webp

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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 ...
- 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. References: [1]: https://linkding.link/
- cool video on expanding vim with cli. piping commands into vim # [1] [2] write a healthcheck # [3] [4] 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
- 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. --- 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.
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. References: [1]: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/12/30/curl-with-partial-files/
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] References: [1]: https://hypixel.net/threads/teleport-to-coop-partner.2250505/ [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/a4f5be07-5f79-450c-a40d-1f48ac086e05.webp
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> References: [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69456875/how-to-configure-base-url-for-all-requests-using-htmx [2]: /htmx/
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. References: [1]: https://bsky.app/profile/addyosmani.bsky.social/post/3lei5jhkgdk2k [2]: /htmx/
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] References: [1]: https://bsky.app/profile/garyvee.com/post/3leidcd6xjk2y [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/074edddb-8b46-4d94-9b55-d70a7bb74366.webp
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. 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.waylonwalker.com/api/file/434e1290-cf81-4ae5-abaf-34927006f3b6.webp
- 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.
- 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.