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- Nice take by @t3dotgg [1]. Some of the old patterns that go deep into webdev, MVC, separation of concerns, REST, are things we are told to believe on day one, thrown so many things, no mental bandwidth, or experience to form our own opinions we must take them as fact. Rarely do we take these facts and revisit them with our new understandings years 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://twitter.com/t3dotgg [2]: /thoughts/
External Link X (formerly Twitter) Ā· twitter.com [1] Today I learned the meaning of abhorrent abhorrent ăb-hĆ“r′ənt, -hŏr′- adjective Disgusting, loathsome, or repellent. Feeling repugnance or loathing. 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://twitter.com/pypeaday/status/1727156823185113304 [2]: /thoughts/
I’m really excited about sqlmodel [1], an amazing project by fastapi [2]. It’s worth exploring! SQL databases in Python, designed for simplicity, compatibility, and robustness. References: [1]: https://github.com/fastapi/sqlmodel [2]: https://github.com/fastapi
If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on draw-a-ui [1], created by SawyerHood [2]. Draw a mockup and generate html [3] for it References: [1]: https://github.com/SawyerHood/draw-a-ui [2]: https://github.com/SawyerHood [3]: /html/
Heroicons Beautiful hand-crafted SVG icons, by the makers of Tailwind CSS. Heroicons Ā· heroicons.com [1] heroicons is a really nice set of many of the basic icons that you will need for building nice ui’s. They have a really nice copy as svg or jsx button, so that you can just yank it and paste it on your page without any extra packages or installation. 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://heroicons.com/ [2]: /thoughts/
Uptime Kuma A self-hosted monitoring tool uptime.kuma.pet [1] Uptime kuma is a fantastic self hosted [2] monitoring tool. One docker run command and you are up and running. Once you are in you have full control over checking status of urls, frequency, allowed timeouts, and a HUGE list of notification providers docker run -d --restart=always -p 3001:3001 -v uptime-kuma:/app/data --name uptime-kuma louislam/uptime-kuma:1 I deployed it in my homelab [3] today. [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]: https://uptime.kuma.pet/ [2]: /self-host/ [3]: /homelab/ [4]: https://twitter.com/_WaylonWalker/status/1723077941649707468 [5]: /thoughts/
I came across uptime-kuma [1] from louislam [2], and it’s packed with great features and ideas. A fancy self-hosted [3] monitoring tool References: [1]: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma [2]: https://github.com/louislam [3]: /self-host/
kv - Command | Vault | HashiCorp Developer The "kv" command groups subcommands for interacting with Vault's key/value secret engine. kv - Command | Vault | HashiCorp Developer Ā· developer.hashicorp.com [1] hashi vault lets you manage secrets right from your cli. # set your vault url export VAULT_ADDR=https://myvault.mydomain vault login # get a secret vault kv get secret/hvac # put a secret vault kv put -mount=secret creds passcode=my-long-passcode # get it vault kv get secret/creds # == Secret Path == # secret/data/creds # # ======= Metadata ======= # Key Value # --- ----- # created_time 2023-11-05T02:53:40.978120001Z # custom_metadata <nil> # deletion_time n/a # destroyed false # version 3 # # ====== Data ====== # Key Value # --- ----- # bar baz # passcode my-long-passcode # get one field vault kv get -field=passcode secret/creds # my-long-passcode vault kv put -mount=secret creds bar=baz # set more keys vault kv put -mount=secret creds passcode=my-long-passcode bar=baz # # == Secret Path == # secret/data/creds # # ======= Metadata ======= # Key Value # --- ----- # created_time 2023-11-05T03:24:14.65958906Z # custom_metadata <nil> # deletion_time n/a # destroyed fa...
Looking for inspiration? cloudflared [1] by cloudflare [2]. Cloudflare Tunnel client (formerly Argo Tunnel) References: [1]: https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared [2]: https://github.com/cloudflare
The work on vhs [1] by charmbracelet [2]. Your CLI home video recorder šŸ“¼ References: [1]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs [2]: https://github.com/charmbracelet
Check out Kanaries [1] and their project Rath [2]. Next generation of automated data exploratory analysis and visualization platform. References: [1]: https://github.com/Kanaries [2]: https://github.com/Kanaries/Rath
The work on local-ai-stack [1] by ykhli [2]. A starter kit to build local-only AI apps that cost $0 to run – starting with document Q&A. Written in Javascript References: [1]: https://github.com/ykhli/local-ai-stack [2]: https://github.com/ykhli
I’m impressed by pywebcopy [1] from rajatomar788 [2]. Locally saves webpages to your hard disk with images, css, js & links as is. References: [1]: https://github.com/rajatomar788/pywebcopy [2]: https://github.com/rajatomar788
I’m impressed by fem-htmx [1] from ThePrimeagen [2]. No description available. References: [1]: https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/fem-htmx [2]: https://github.com/ThePrimeagen
Just starred fem-htmx-proj [1] by ThePrimeagen [2]. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer. No description available. References: [1]: https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/fem-htmx-proj [2]: https://github.com/ThePrimeagen
I’m impressed by stamina [1] from hynek [2]. Production-grade retries for Python References: [1]: https://github.com/hynek/stamina [2]: https://github.com/hynek
GitHub - johanhaleby/kubetail: Bash script to tail Kubernetes logs from multiple pods at the same time Bash script to tail Kubernetes logs from multiple pods at the same time - johanhaleby/kubetail GitHub Ā· github.com [1] Kubetail is a pretty sick bash script that allows you to tail logs for multiple pods in one stream. Very handy when you have more than one replica running. wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/johanhaleby/kubetail/master/kubetail chmod u+x ./kubetail Now with kubetail I can tail all the logs for every shot-wayl-one pod in the shot namespace. ./kubetail shot-wayl-one -n shot [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://github.com/johanhaleby/kubetail [2]: https://screenshots.waylonwalker.com/kubetail.png [3]: /thoughts/
I’m impressed by kubetail [1] from johanhaleby [2]. Bash script to tail Kubernetes logs from multiple pods at the same time References: [1]: https://github.com/johanhaleby/kubetail [2]: https://github.com/johanhaleby
- I am converting my docker compose env secrets over to k8s secrets. This guide was clear and to the point how I can replicate this exact workflow. First set the secret, the easiest way is to use kubectl wtih –from-literal because it automatically base64 encodes for you. kubectl create secret generic minio-access-key --from-literal=ACCESS_KEY=7FkTV**** -n shot If you don’t use the --from-literal you will have to base64 encode it. echo "7FkTV****" | openssl base64 Once you have your secret deployed, you have to update the container spec in your deployment manifest to get the valueFrom secretKeyRef. spec: containers: - env: - name: ACCESS_KEY valueFrom: secretKeyRef: key: ACCESS_KEY name: minio-access-key - name: SECRET_KEY valueFrom: secretKeyRef: key: SECRET_KEY name: minio-secret-key image: registry.wayl.one/shot-scraper-api name: shot-wayl-one ports: - containerPort: 5000 protocol: TCP resources: {} restartPolicy: Always 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/
External Link X (formerly Twitter) Ā· twitter.com [1] Wow, shocked at these results. All this time I’ve been told and believed that k8s is incredibly hard, and you need a $1M problem before you think about it because it will take a $1M team to maintain it. So far my experience has been good, and I definitely do not have a $1M problem in my homelab [2]. [1] 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://twitter.com/_WaylonWalker/status/1718300097174270193 [2]: /homelab/ [3]: /thoughts/
External Link X (formerly Twitter) Ā· twitter.com [1] Wes has some of the coolest OG [2] images i’ve ever seen. Here he talks about how to enable cache configuration so that its constantly updating the cache without the user waiting for the image to be created. 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://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1717923624559005977 [2]: /og/ [3]: /thoughts/
Looking for inspiration? NeoComposer.nvim [1] by ecthelionvi [2]. Neovim plugin that simplifies macros, enhancing productivity with harmony. References: [1]: https://github.com/ecthelionvi/NeoComposer.nvim [2]: https://github.com/ecthelionvi
htmx ~ Locality of Behaviour (LoB) Carson Gross explores the Locality of Behaviour (LoB) principle, which emphasizes making the behavior of code units obvious on inspection to enhance maintainability. He discusses the tradeoffs betw... htmx.org [1] Interesting principle here. What a great example, If I’m looking at the second jQuery example, I have to dig into dev tools or make some assumtions that this team uses jQuery, and selects by id, therefore I can grep for $("#d1"). Consider two different implementations of an AJAX request in HTML [2], the first in htmx [3]: <button hx-get="/clicked">Click Me</button> > and the second in jQuery: ``` js $("#d1").on("click", function(){ $.ajax({ /* AJAX options... */ }); }); <button id="d1">Click Me</button> 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://htmx.org/essays/locality-of-behaviour/ [2]: /html/ [3]: /htmx/ [4]: /thoughts/
External Link thoughts.waylonwalker.com [1] I was looking to add running kubernetes jobs to a python cli I am creating, and I found this solution, mostly thanks to ollama run mistral:7b-instruct-q4_K_M and my loose understanding of what the yaml syntax is supposed to look like for a kubernetes job. This will let me create a job in the cluster, choose the image that runs, the command that is called, and how long until the job expires and is cleaned up. While the job still exists I can go in and look at the logs, but once its ttl has expired they are gone. from kubernetes import client, config # Load the default kubeconfig config.load_kube_config() # Define the API client for batch jobs api_instance = client.BatchV1Api() # Create a new job object job = client.V1Job( api_version="batch/v1", kind="Job", metadata=client.V1ObjectMeta(name="myjob"), spec=client.V1JobSpec( ttl_seconds_after_finished=100, template=client.V1PodTemplateSpec( metadata=client.V1ObjectMeta(labels={"app": "myjob"}), spec=client.V1PodSpec( containers=[ client.V1Container( name="myjobcontainer", image="busybox", command=["ls", "/"], ), ], restart_policy="Never", ), ), backoff_limit=1, )...
Check out kevinhwang91 [1] and their project nvim-ufo [2]. Not UFO in the sky, but an ultra fold in Neovim. References: [1]: https://github.com/kevinhwang91 [2]: https://github.com/kevinhwang91/nvim-ufo
https://neovim.io/doc/user/diagnostic/ neovim.io [1] Clear out lsp diagnostics in nvim. lua vim.diagnostic.reset() 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://neovim.io/doc/user/diagnostic.html#vim.diagnostic.reset() [2]: /thoughts/
How to kill process based on the port number in Linux Learn to kill a process by port in Linux using fuser, lsof, and ss commands. Essential for system admins managing network processes efficiently. LinuxConfig Ā· linuxconfig.org [1] I’ve often struggled to find and kill a process using a certain port on archlinux. Mainly becuase most guides use netstat rather than ss. Here is how I just killed the process using port 5000 using fuser. sudo fuser -k 5000/tcp You can also get information about the process by running lsof āÆ lsof -i :5000 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME thoughts 1058292 waylon 11u IPv4 119622828 0t0 TCP *:commplex-main (LISTEN) 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://linuxconfig.org/how-to-kill-process-based-on-the-port-number-in-linux [2]: /thoughts/
GitHub - mkimuram/k8sviz: Generate Kubernetes architecture diagrams from the actual state in a namespace Generate Kubernetes architecture diagrams from the actual state in a namespace - mkimuram/k8sviz GitHub Ā· github.com [1] This is a sick kubernetes architecture diagran generation tool. Here is an example [2] installation # [3] $ curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mkimuram/k8sviz/master/k8sviz.sh $ chmod u+x k8sviz.sh Usage # [4] ./k8sviz.sh --kubeconfig ~/.config/kube/falcon-k3s.yaml -t png -o k8sviz.png Note This post is a thought [5]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://github.com/mkimuram/k8sviz [2]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mkimuram/k8sviz/master/examples/wordpress/default.png [3]: #installation [4]: #usage [5]: /thoughts/
Just starred just [1] by casey [2]. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer. šŸ¤– Just a command runner References: [1]: https://github.com/casey/just [2]: https://github.com/casey
GitHub - casey/just: šŸ¤– Just a command runner šŸ¤– Just a command runner. Contribute to casey/just development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub Ā· github.com [1] I think just, might just be the thing I have been looking for. I’ve been looking for some ci/cd that I can host myself, but everything looks pretty big, so for now I am going to use just as my task runner. I installed with installer. curl https://i.wayl.one/casey/just | bash I set up my devtainer builds with just. Here is my justfile, yes you just need the cli and a file named justfile. default: base alpine slim base: build deploy alpine: build-alpine deploy-alpine slim: build-slim deploy-slim build: podman build -t registry.wayl.one/devtainer:latest . deploy: podman push registry.wayl.one/devtainer build-alpine: podman build -f docker/Dockerfile.alpine -t registry.wayl.one/devtainer:alpine . deploy-alpine: podman push registry.wayl.one/devtainer:alpine build-slim: podman build -f docker/Dockerfile.slim -t registry.wayl.one/devtainer:slim . deploy-slim: podman push registry.wayl.one/devtainer:slim Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thou...
Translate a Docker Compose File to Kubernetes Resources What Kubernetes Ā· kubernetes.io [1] kompose is a sick cli to convert docker-compose.yml to kubernetes manifest. # install curl -L https://github.com/kubernetes/kompose/releases/download/v1.26.0/kompose-linux-amd64 -o kompose kompose convert kompose convert -o deployment.yaml 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://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/translate-compose-kubernetes/ [2]: /thoughts/
[1] Running your own docker registry in one line podman run -d -p 5000:5000 --restart=always --name registry registry:latest 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://blog.nashcom.de/nashcomblog.nsf/dx/k3s-podman-and-a-registry.htm [2]: /thoughts/
Kubernetes Persistent Volumes with Deployment and StatefulSet How to use Kubernetes persistent volumes with deployment and stateful set and also when you should use one or another. Alen Komljen Ā· akomljen.com [1] Example of how to add a pvc to a deployment. 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://akomljen.com/kubernetes-persistent-volumes-with-deployment-and-statefulset/ [2]: /thoughts/
[1] I was curious to see what was going on inside of my minio object storage. Great technique here by Frank to create an inspector pod, then you can do as you wish with the data. I created the manifest as pvc-inspector.yml apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: pvc-inspector spec: containers: - image: busybox name: pvc-inspector command: ["tail"] args: ["-f", "/dev/null"] volumeMounts: - mountPath: /pvc name: pvc-mount volumes: - name: pvc-mount persistentVolumeClaim: claimName: pvc-name Then used it like this. # create pvc-inspector pod kubectl apply -f pvc-inspector.yml # exec into inspector kubectl exec -it pvc-inspector -- sh # explore data ls /pvc # cleanup kubectl delete -f pvc-inspector.yml 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://frank.sauerburger.io/2021/12/01/inspect-k8s-pvc.html [2]: /thoughts/
External Link stackoverflow.com [1] In order to use k8s secrets manifest you first need to encode the data values. echo -n 'mega_secret_key' | openssl base64 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/53394973/cant-create-secret-in-kubernetes-illegal-base64-data-at-input [2]: /thoughts/
Can I access k3s using just kubectl (no sudo and no k3s command) Can I access k3s using just kubectl (no sudo and no k3s command) Reddit Ā· reddit.com [1] Right after installing k3s you are going to need to use sudo to use any kubectl command. The reason for this is that the default config is owned by root. To get around this you will need to make your own config and set the KUBECONFIG environment variable To do this I used sudo one last time to copy the k3s.yaml file into my own directory and take ownership of it. sudo cp /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml /home/waylon/.config/kube sudo chown -R waylon:waylon ~/.config/kube export KUBECONFIG=~/.config/kube/k3s.yaml 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://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/cojjf5/can_i_access_k3s_using_just_kubectl_no_sudo_and/ [2]: /thoughts/
Quick-Start Guide | K3s This guide will help you quickly launch a cluster with default options. Make sure your nodes meet the requirements before proceeding. docs.k3s.io [1] I recently spun up k3s in my homelab [2]. I’m trying to offload some work off of my free tier fly.io app in order to keep it free tier without crashing. # install and start k3s curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | sh - # check to see if your nodes are started sudo kubectl get nodes My main hiccup so far was the machine I am running on runs zfs on root, and it would not start the master node. Rather than figuring out how to make zfs play nice I just pointed k3s to a drive that is not zfs. # manuallly sudo k3s server -d /mnt/vault/.rancher/k3s # without editing systemd service sudo ln -s /mnt/vault/.rancher/k3s /var/lib/rancher/k3s 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://docs.k3s.io/quick-start [2]: /homelab/ [3]: /thoughts/
Check out djmaze [1] and their project docker-caching-proxy [2]. Caching proxy docker image References: [1]: https://github.com/djmaze [2]: https://github.com/djmaze/docker-caching-proxy
Looking for inspiration? oterm [1] by ggozad [2]. a text-based terminal client for Ollama References: [1]: https://github.com/ggozad/oterm [2]: https://github.com/ggozad
Litestar: Effortlessly Build Performant APIs We all know about Flask and Django. And of course FastAPI made a huge splash when it came on the scene a few years ago. But new web frameworks are being created all the time. And they have these ea... talkpython.fm [1] Litestar is an interesting api framework similar to fastpi, that I am interested to check out to see if it fits into some project scope. It sounds like it comes with a lot more batteries included for things like auth, but does not have hard opinions like django. At this point I’m not jumping off of fastapi [2], but its something I want to try. 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://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/433/litestar-effortlessly-build-performant-apis [2]: /fastapi/ [3]: /thoughts/
Delete a Postgres Cluster Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io. Fly Ā· fly.io [1] Deleting a fly postgres db cluster was not straightforward to me as the app name is not inferred from the toml like it is for the main app. fly apps destroy <pg-app-name> fly pg db list -a <pg-app-name> 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://fly.io/docs/postgres/managing/deleting/ [2]: /thoughts/
![[None]] Yet again twitter cards were causing me pain. This time it was me not realizing that they require full urls, and not relative or abolute urls. This was not working <meta name="twitter:image" content="/shot/?path={{ request.url|quote_plus }}" content-type='image/png'/> This does work with a full url <meta name="twitter:image" content="https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/shot/?path={{ request.url|quote_plus }}" content-type='image/png'/> 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/
gen.nvim [1] by David-Kunz [2] is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves. Neovim plugin to generate text using LLMs with customizable prompts References: [1]: https://github.com/David-Kunz/gen.nvim [2]: https://github.com/David-Kunz
Ollama Ollama is the easiest way to automate your work using open models, while keeping your data safe. ollama.ai [1] ollama is the easiest to get going local llm tool that I have tried, and seems to be crazy fast. It feels faster than chat gpt, which has not been the experience I have had previously with running llm’s on my hardware. curl https://i.jpillora.com/jmorganca/ollama | bash ollama serve ollama run mistral ollama run codellama:7b-code ollama list 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://ollama.ai/ [2]: /thoughts/
Check out Boeing [1] and their project config-file-validator [2]. Cross Platform tool to validate configuration files References: [1]: https://github.com/Boeing [2]: https://github.com/Boeing/config-file-validator
If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on NeoTweet [1], created by ChristianChiarulli [2]. No description available. References: [1]: https://github.com/ChristianChiarulli/NeoTweet [2]: https://github.com/ChristianChiarulli