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all lt keys to hl Ā· WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block@ce25356 Contribute to WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub Ā· github.com [1] Today I swapped out all of my keys that are used dual purpose for letters and layers to homerow layers. This prevents goofy things happening when rolling, and prefers-tap makes it so that keys that are rolled over get hit as letters instead of as layers. This was one of my biggest hurdles jumping into zmk, lt as a homerow key just does not behave the same as the ht/hm behaviors with tap-preferred set. Seealso See previous commit where I added the hl https://github.com/WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block/commit/9522c859cdf024a2c2b73931c130ddc907c09ffc hl: homerow_layer { compatible = "zmk,behavior-hold-tap"; label = "HOMEROW_LAYER"; bindings = <&mo>, <&kp>; #binding-cells = <2>; tapping-term-ms = <150>; flavor = "tap-preferred"; }; 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/zmk-config-42block/commit/ce25356e88eb2439182201700314133de719457e [2]: /thoughts/
I like Infisical’s [1] project infisical [2]. ♾ Infisical is the open-source secret management platform: Sync secrets across your team/infrastructure, prevent secret leaks, and manage internal PKI References: [1]: https://github.com/Infisical [2]: https://github.com/Infisical/infisical
Tips for Being Happier, Healthier, More Productive by The GaryVee Audio Experience Today's podcast episode is an interview I did on the Happier with Gretchen Rubin Podcast with Gretchen Rubin and Elizabeth Craft. We discuss balancing ambition, tenacity, humility, and patience. I … Spotify for Creators Ā· podcasters.spotify.com [1] Deep breath, the deepest you can take in Smile, a real fukin smile not some pansy bullshit Say I’m not going to give a shit about this when I’m 90 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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/garyvee/episodes/Tips-for-Being-Happier--Healthier--More-Productive-e2m4184 [2]: /thoughts/
I came across zmk-config [1] from evantravers [2], and it’s packed with great features and ideas. No description available. References: [1]: https://github.com/evantravers/zmk-config [2]: https://github.com/evantravers
Can't use System update - invalid signature when validating ASN.1 encoded signature Ā· Issue #1316 Ā· ublue-os/bazzite Describe the bug Hello, I installed the nvidia KDE version of bazzite just 2 days ago. Today I wanted to update to the most recent release, but unfortunately, I keep getting the following error: Pu... GitHub Ā· github.com [1] This fixed my bazzite update issues after the signing key was rotated recently. This team is killing it with such a great user experience. curl -sL https://fix.universal-blue.org/ | sudo bash 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/ublue-os/bazzite/issues/1316 [2]: /thoughts/
I like Textualize’s [1] project transcendent-textual [2]. Textual apps and libraries References: [1]: https://github.com/Textualize [2]: https://github.com/Textualize/transcendent-textual
Update Kconfig.shield rec by bravekarma Ā· WaylonWalker/zmk-config-ninepad@8b76b76 zmk configuration for ninpad keyboard. Contribute to WaylonWalker/zmk-config-ninepad development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub Ā· github.com [1] This one space killed my whole config and held me back from learning zmk. 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/zmk-config-ninepad/commit/8b76b76e2f094453aaf7ffe51bb405ce3a25a611 [2]: /thoughts/
[1] The trackball spinner looks sick here. I can imagine using that spinner like a scroll wheel. 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://kbd.news/DragonFruit-2178.html [2]: /thoughts/
[1] They had split ergo boards back in 1983??? WTF who the heck keeps these row stagger boards going. This board looks like endgame material, If this thing was more normal, it’d kill a whole section of the ergo mechanical keyboard industry for good reason. 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://kbd.news/NEC-M-System-1729.html [2]: /thoughts/
- This keyboard layout looks weird af the mix of column staggar and row stagger is wild. Not sure if its genius or an abomination. That solenoid though is absolutely wild though, I kinda want one TBH. and the clear plate with the diodes laid out on it in a herringbone pattern is a very nice touch. 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/
Laying some wire in PortaJohn 1
Close-up view of a barebones custom mechanical keyboard plate and PCB.
Laying down the first test print of a portajohn on a laptop
A setup featuring an open laptop running Ubuntu next to a detached, custom mechanical keyboard.
External Link stackoverflow.com [1] today I learned that there is an accessibility feature in chrome that allows you to place a text cursor anywhere on the page. I had accidentally done this and it drove me mad that it was there. 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://stackoverflow.com/questions/75886276/text-cursor-bug-in-my-chrome-browser-that-causes-the-blinking-cursor-to-appear-e [2]: /thoughts/

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- Hard to argue this take, happy to see that its at the top. With it being such an old language its amazing that it still holds this position, and not surprising that it has warts, and thing that have turn users off from wanting anything to do with it. timestamped in the link 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/
Command Line Interface Guidelines An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day. clig.dev [1] This is a pretty sick set of guidelines to help you write better cli programs, I’m definitely coming back to reading this one more in depth 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]: https://clig.dev/ [2]: /thoughts/
External Link fullystacked.net [1] You can explicitly make a script render blocking, nothing will be rendered until this js is ready. <script blocking="render" src="important.js" defer></script> 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://fullystacked.net/render-blocking-on-purpose/ [2]: /thoughts/
Remove Background Web - a Hugging Face Space by Xenova In-browser background removal huggingface.co [1] I’ve long been a user of remove.bg, and I just discovered that you can run this transformer right within your browser with no api limits. 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://huggingface.co/spaces/Xenova/remove-background-web [2]: /thoughts/
Check out volfpeter [1] and their project fasthx [2]. FastAPI [3] server-side rendering with built-in HTMX [4] support. References: [1]: https://github.com/volfpeter [2]: https://github.com/volfpeter/fasthx [3]: /fastapi/ [4]: /htmx/
FastHX - FastHX volfpeter.github.io [1] Very interesting approach to htmx [2] and fast api. It uses separate decorators for returning template partials and json that can be stacked to include both options on a single route. The templates are explicitly set in the decorator. Separate decorators are used for full page and partial pages. I don’t see an example of full and partial pages being combined. I think the demo app must be behaving in a spa like fashion where it does not get all of the data when it calls index and index will ask for user-list. Definitely going to keep my eye on this project and ponder on it. from fastapi import FastAPI from fastapi.templating import Jinja2Templates from fasthx import Jinja from pydantic import BaseModel # Pydantic model of the data the example API is using. class User(BaseModel): first_name: str last_name: str # Create the app. app = FastAPI() # Create a FastAPI Jinja2Templates instance and use it to create a # FastHX Jinja instance that will serve as your decorator. jinja = Jinja(Jinja2Templates("templates")) @app.get("/") @jinja.page("index.html") def index() -> None: ... @app.get("/user-list") @jinja.hx("user-list.html") async...
FastHX - FastHX volfpeter.github.io [1] Very interesting approach to htmx [2] and fast api. It uses separate decorators for returning template partials and json that can be stacked to include both options on a single route. The templates are explicitly set in the decorator. Separate decorators are used for full page and partial pages. I don’t see an example of full and partial pages being combined. I think the demo app must be behaving in a spa like fashion where it does not get all of the data when it calls index and index will ask for user-list. Definitely going to keep my eye on this project and ponder on it. from fastapi import FastAPI from fastapi.templating import Jinja2Templates from fasthx import Jinja from pydantic import BaseModel # Pydantic model of the data the example API is using. class User(BaseModel): first_name: str last_name: str # Create the app. app = FastAPI() # Create a FastAPI Jinja2Templates instance and use it to create a # FastHX Jinja instance that will serve as your decorator. jinja = Jinja(Jinja2Templates("templates")) @app.get("/") @jinja.page("index.html") def index() -> None: ... @app.get("/user-list") @jinja.hx("user-list.html") async...
Pinout and Schematic - nice!nano Pinout and schematic for the nice!nano nicekeyboards.com [1] Pinout for nice!nano boards. Note that P0.15 means gpio port 0 pin 15, they can be referenced in zmk when setting column and row pins. #include <dt-bindings/zmk/matrix_transform.h> / { chosen { zmk,kscan = &default_kscan; zmk,matrix_transform = &default_transform; /delete-property/ zephyr,console; /delete-property/ zephyr,shell-uart; }; default_kscan: kscan { compatible = "zmk,kscan-gpio-matrix"; label = "default_kscan"; diode-direction = "col2row"; col-gpios = <&gpio0 31 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH> , <&gpio0 29 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH> , <&gpio0 2 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH> ; row-gpios = <&gpio1 15 (GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH | GPIO_PULL_DOWN)> , <&gpio1 13 (GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH | GPIO_PULL_DOWN)> , <&gpio1 11 (GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH | GPIO_PULL_DOWN)> ; }; default_transform: matrix_transform { compatible = "zmk,matrix-transform"; columns = <3>; rows = <3>; map = < RC(0,0) RC(0,1) RC(0,2) RC(1,0) RC(1,1) RC(1,2) RC(2,0) RC(2,1) RC(2,2) >; }; }; 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://nicekeyboard...
I’m impressed by shmux [1] from typecraft-dev [2]. the shell-script tmux management you didn’t know you needed. baby References: [1]: https://github.com/typecraft-dev/shmux [2]: https://github.com/typecraft-dev
I like iximiuz’s [1] project awesome-container-tinkering [2]. List of awesome tools to tinker with containers. References: [1]: https://github.com/iximiuz [2]: https://github.com/iximiuz/awesome-container-tinkering
External Link unix.stackexchange.com [1] today I learned that /dev/pts is a pseudo-tty. It amazes me how much linux is still built around things like hardware terminals. 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://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/93531/what-is-stored-in-dev-pts-files-and-can-we-open-them [2]: /thoughts/
GitHub - svenstaro/miniserve: 🌟 For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now! 🌟 For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now! - svenstaro/miniserve GitHub Ā· github.com [1] miniserve is a sweet http server, replacement for python -m http.server. It’s fast, runs off a small binary, but why would I want to use it over something that already exists on most machines, because it includes a bunch of features like qr codes, pretty themes, and uploads. I’ve used python -m http.server many times to transfer files from one machine to another in a pinch, like at a family members house. But what if they have an android, windows, or something not easy to get a python repl running on, you can run miniserve and upload from their device rather than hosting from their device. 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/svenstaro/miniserve [2]: /thoughts/
Looking for inspiration? miniserve [1] by svenstaro [2]. 🌟 For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now! References: [1]: https://github.com/svenstaro/miniserve [2]: https://github.com/svenstaro
pacman/Tips and tricks - ArchWiki wiki.archlinux.org [1] The arch wiki is always full of good content, and pacman tips and tricks does not disappoint. Today I discovered this command to remove orphaned dependencies on my system. pacman -Qdtq | pacman -Rns - 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://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman/Tips_and_tricks [2]: /thoughts/
Inside 22,734 Steam games About a year ago I blogged about games that use curl. In that post I listed a bunch of well-known titles I knew use curl and there was a list of 136 additional games giving credit to curl. Kind of ... daniel.haxx.se Ā· daniel.haxx.se [1] Interesting to see that curl is used in so many places. I often think of things like games being so windows centric and curl being so linux centric I don’t even think of these things crossing paths as much as they do. 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/2024/06/20/inside-22734-steam-games/ [2]: /thoughts/
wcurl is here Users tell us that remembering what curl options to use when they just want to download the contents of a URL is hard. This is one often repeated reason why some users reach for wget instead of cur... daniel.haxx.se Ā· daniel.haxx.se [1] interesting, seems like such a simple way to completely remove the need of a whole other cli. No offense to anyone working on wget, but generally I use it out of lazyness or something wierd is happening and I am looking for a second opinion. Cool to know that wcurl exists and will start shipping with curl. 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/2024/07/03/wcurl-is-here/ [2]: /thoughts/
I’ve started leaning in on kubernetes kustomize to customize my manifests per deployment per environment. Today I learned that it comes with a diff command. kubectl diff -k k8s/overlays/local You can enable color diffs by using an external diff provider like colordiff. export KUBECTL_EXTERNAL_DIFF="colordiff -N -u" You might need to install colordiff if you don’t already have it. sudo pacman -S colordiff sudo apt install colordiff Now I can try out kustomize changes and see the change with kustomize diff.
Animal well does not let you remap keys, and really doesn’t even inform you that it is keyboard compatible. I had to play around and discover the keymap, which can be a bit tricky on a 40% board. This is what I found. - wasd - move - space - jump / a - enter - interact / b - x - throw - c - inventory - 1 - left item / rb - 2 - open item menu / triangle - 3 - right item / lb
I recently discovered pydantic-sqlite [1] by Phil997 [2], and it’s truly impressive. Simple package for storing pydantic BaseModels in an in-memory SQLite database. References: [1]: https://github.com/Phil997/pydantic-sqlite [2]: https://github.com/Phil997
Email Address Obfuscation Hide email addresses from bots while keeping them visible to visitors. Cloudflare Docs Ā· developers.cloudflare.com [1] I recently started seeing email-decode.min.js show up on my blog posts, and I wondered what the heck ? I didn’t put it there. Turns out that cloudflare put it there from pages to safely serve email addresses for me. inspecting the page without js running we can see that the mailto email is swapped out for email protected. Neat feature. āÆ curl --silent https://waylonwalker.com/diskcache-as-debounce/ | grep email <a class="decoration-pink-500 hover:decoration-pink-300 hover:text-pink-100" href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a4ccc1c8c8cbe4d3c5ddc8cbcad3c5c8cfc1d68ac7cbc9" rel="me"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="630b060f0f0c2314021a0f0c0d14020f0806114d000c0e">[email&#160;protected]</span></a> <script data-cfasync="false" src="/cdn-cgi/scripts/5c5dd728/cloudflare-static/email-decode.min.js"></script></body> Looking deeper into this article it looks like this feature comes from Scrape Shield and enabling Email Address Obfuscation. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online...
Background Tasks - FastAPI FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production fastapi.tiangolo.com [1] fastapi [2] comes with a concept of background tasks which are functions that can be ran in the background after a function has been ran. This is handy for longer running functions that may take some time and you want to have fast response times. Here is an example from the docs from fastapi import BackgroundTasks, FastAPI app = FastAPI() def write_notification(email: str, message=""): with open("log.txt", mode="w") as email_file: content = f"notification for {email}: {message}" email_file.write(content) @app.post("/send-notification/{email}") async def send_notification(email: str, background_tasks: BackgroundTasks): background_tasks.add_task(write_notification, email, message="some notification") return {"message": "Notification sent in the background"} 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://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/background-tasks/ [2]: /fastapi/ [3]: /thoughts/
markdown-it-pyrs A Python interface for markdown-it.rs, using Rust for blazingly fast Markdown parsing āš”ļø PyPI Ā· pypi.org [1] markdown it py running in rust claims to be 20x faster. I’ll definitely look into this if markdown it py is ever a bottleneck in my performance. At first glance it appears that plugins are written in rust not python, and there is no admonition plugin, so I’ll keep my eye on it for now, but I can’t use it. 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://pypi.org/project/markdown-it-pyrs/ [2]: /thoughts/
[1] diskcache has a peekitem method that allows you to lookup the expire_time of a cached item without changing it. I recently used this to implement debounce for fastapi [2] background tasks with multiple workers running. since all the workers I care about are on the same machine, but running in different processes diskcache was a great option. All workers have access to the same disk, but not the same variables in memory. Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /static/https://grantjenks.com/docs/diskcache/api.html#diskcache.Cache.peekitem [2]: /fastapi/ [3]: /thoughts/
I’ve been using fastapi [1] more and more lately and one feature I just started using is background tasks [[ thoughts-333 ]]. Seealso basic diskcache example <a href="/python-diskcache/" class="wikilink" data-title="How I setup a sqlite cache in python" data-description="When I need to cache some data between runs or share a cache accross multiple processes my go to library in python is . It&#39;s built on sqlite with just enough..." data-date="2022-03-29">How I setup a sqlite cache in python</a> One Background Task per db entry # [2] I am using it for longer running tasks and I don’t want to give users the ability to spam these long running tasks with many duplicates running at the same time. And each fastapi worker will be running in a different process so I cannot keep track of work in memory, I have to do it in a distributed fashion. Since they are all running on the same machine with access to the same disk, diskcache is a good choice What I need # [3] - check if a job is running - automatically expire jobs Less infrastructure complexity # [4] My brain first went to thinking I needed another service like redis running alongside fastapi for this, then it hit me that...
I’m really excited about homelab-diagrams [1], an amazing project by Doomlab7 [2]. It’s worth exploring! A repository to house diagrams for my homelab [3] References: [1]: https://github.com/Doomlab7/homelab-diagrams [2]: https://github.com/Doomlab7 [3]: /homelab/
learn-pdm [1] by pypeaday [2] is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves. A repository for learning and playing with the pdm package manager/system for python References: [1]: https://github.com/pypeaday/learn-pdm [2]: https://github.com/pypeaday
If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on zmk-config-fourpad [1], created by wyattbubbylee [2]. my fourpad keybord References: [1]: https://github.com/wyattbubbylee/zmk-config-fourpad [2]: https://github.com/wyattbubbylee

kind cluster

kind [1]{.hoverlink} is a very useful tool to quickly standup and teardown kubernetes clusters. I use it to run clusters locally. Generally they are short lived clusters for trying, testing, and learning about kubernetes. Kind is Kubernetes in Docker, its very fast to get a new cluster up and running. Other than checking a box in docker desktop it is the easiest way currently to get a cluster up and running. I’ve used docker desktop for k8s before I really developed on k8s and it was buggy at the time and sometimes started and sometimes didn’t, when it didnt I had no idea how to fix it. I’d suggest kind as the best option to get a cluster up and running locally. Not Production # [2] If you are looking for a production ready cluster this is not it. I really like k3s [3]{.hoverlink}. At the time that I chose k3s it was the most lightweight option that easily supported multi-node clusters. Starting a kind cluster # [4] The first step, and maybe only one that you need is to create ...
Yesterday I realized that I have overlooked the default installation method of the sealed secrets controller for kubernetes kubeseal [1] this whole time an jumped straight to the helm section. I spun up a quick kind cluster [2] and had it up quickly. I can’t say this is any better or worse than helm as I have never needed to customize the install. According to the docs you can customize it with [[ kustomize ]] or helm. # option if you don't have a cluster try with kind kind create cluster curl -L https://github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets/releases/download/v0.27.0/controller.yaml > controller.yaml kubectl apply -f controller.yaml References: [1]: /kubernetes-kubeseal/ [2]: /kind-cluster/
I like rothgar’s [1] project bashScheduler [2]. Kubernetes scheduler written in less than 100 lines of bash 😬 šŸ˜† References: [1]: https://github.com/rothgar [2]: https://github.com/rothgar/bashScheduler
Alternatives A Pro Micro alternative for wireless keyboards. Contribute to joric/nrfmicro development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub Ā· github.com [1] Huge list of micro controllers tried and used in keeb builds. 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/joric/nrfmicro/wiki/Alternatives [2]: /thoughts/
I’m impressed by nrfmicro [1] from joric [2]. A Pro Micro alternative for wireless keyboards References: [1]: https://github.com/joric/nrfmicro [2]: https://github.com/joric
External Link X (formerly Twitter) Ā· x.com [1] Not gonna lie, kinda pumped about this one. I manually did one, jotted down the coordinates, opened the gcode in vim, added markers between setup/teardown and print. then added the wipe, the copy pasted the print+wipe section a bunch of times. My printer tends to run a bit better on single prints than printing a dozen at once as it has less issues with retract start and stop. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://x.com/_WaylonWalker/status/1807594004453667134 [2]: /thoughts/