Notes – 05:09 Tue 9 Dec 2025
Notes – 05:09 Tue 9 Dec 2025
dbushell.com · dbushell.com [1]
Age verification hitting bluesky?? At least its not yet requiring your govt issued id or anything, but stepping that direction. I don’t know how I feel about age checks, does it actually protect kids when parents aren’t involved? I can’t say anything there, but it really does feel like its about ready to hurt the rest of us, requiring us to whip out ids and personal data for anything done online. This is a real problem that is hard to solve, and reasons why it has not been solved yet.
References:
[1]: https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-12-09T05:09Z/
Publishing rhythm
Deprecations via warnings don’t work for Python libraries
Seth Larson reports that urllib3 2.6.0 released on the 5th of December and finally removed the HTTPResponse.getheaders() and HTTPResponse.getheader(name, default) methods, which have been marked as...
Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1]
Deprecation warnings are so easy to miss, ignore, become numb to. Creating tools and processes to catch and address these issues is important. I’m surprised such big projects let deprecations just hang around for years.
References:
[1]: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/9/deprecations-via-warnings/#atom-everything
A quote from Claude
I found the problem and it's really bad. Looking at your log, here's the catastrophic command that was run: rm -rf tests/ patches/ plan/ ~/ See that ~/ at the …
Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1]
damn this is a rough one. A users entire home directory removed by claude code from an rm command.
rm -rf tests/ patches/ plan/ ~/
Reading the first half of that command it LGTM. If you had approved rm, you are hosed. If this is inside a larger script its running, you really gotta read close. This one still feels pretty obvious, but I can imagine some bash doing some nasty things I miss if I read it and understand it let alone glance at it.
I’ll take this as a reminder that I really need to be paying full-ass attention to agents, and moving towards a better sandbox for them, something in docker, maybe something like distrobox that is a magic wrapper over podman that just gives you the things you need for what it does. Something that starts up with access to start web servers, run agentic cli of choice, see project, git [2] commit. It feels like the right thing has a lot of what distrobox does, but distrobox has too much and would be prone to this us...
OG is short for open graph, a set of standard meta tags that are used for social media sharing. This is what tells other websites how to describe and display your site when shared on social media, text messages, or discord.
One Year Of Shots
I’ve been running my shot scraper api for a year now. It creates og [1] images for
my website and thumbnails for my Reader [2] using a headless chrome instance.
- 25870 shots
- 73 shots per day on average
- 12-09-2025 first shot taken
Histogram # [3]
[4]
a histogram of shot counts by day
You can see in the histogram that I’ve had a few big spike days, This has been
mostly for days that I’ve integrated into a new service or changed the
endpoint. On February 13, 2025 I swapped over from using the post to using
template specific to open graph images.
-content = "https://shots.waylonwalker.com/shot/?url={{ config.url }}{{ post.slug }}&height=600&width=1200&scaled_width=1200&scaled_height=600"
+content = "https://shots.waylonwalker.com/shot/?url={{ config.url }}{{ post.slug }}/og/&height=600&width=1200&scaled_width=1200&scaled_height=600"
Image Comparison
Original Post Image
[5]
originally I simply used an image of the post itself
New OG Image
[6]
In Feb 2025 I made OG spe...
I found snow-fall component from zachleat, and its beautiful… to me. I like the way it looks, its simple and whimsical.
Install #
There is an npm package <a href="https://zachleat.com" class="mention" data-name="Zach Leatherman" data-bio="A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)" data-avatar="https://www.zachleat.com/og/opengraph-default.png" data-handle="@zachleat">@zachleat</a>/snow-fall if that’s your thing. I like
vendoring in small things like this.
curl -o static/snow-fall.js https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zachleat/snow-fall/refs/heads/main/snow-fall.js
I generally save it in my justfile so that I remember how I got it and how to update…. yaya I could use npm, but I don’t for no build sites.
get-snowfall:
curl -o static/snow-fall.js https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zachleat/snow-fall/refs/heads/main/snow-fall.js
Usage #
Now add the component to your page.
<!-- This belongs somewhere inside <head> -->
<script type="module" src="snow-fall.js"></script> <!-- Adjust the src to your path -->
<!-- This belongs somewhere inside <body> -->
<!-- Anything before will be below the snow. -->
<snow-fall></snow-fall>
<!-- Anything after will show above the snow. -->
Today I learned an important lesson that you should periodically check on your kubeconfigs expiration date. It’s easy to do. You can ask for the client-certificate-data from your kubeconfig, decode it, and use openssl to get the expiration date.
kubectl config view --raw -o jsonpath='{.users[0].user.client-certificate-data}' \
| base64 -d 2>/dev/null \
| openssl x509 -noout -dates
Note
This will only work for the first user, if you have more than one user or context defined in your kubeconfig you will need to adjust.
Not every print needs supports
Not every print needs supports. So many models default to having it on,
whether needed or not. Well designed parts, designed for 3d printing almost
never need supports (depending on constraints).
reminder Include steps to reproduce
Include steps to reproduce your bug when you file a bug report or issue. You
may quickly forget how you got there, and no one can fix a bug that is not
reproducible.
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This looks like a really good low cost option for some workholding. There is never a shortage of workholding in the shop and everything has a place. Having something low cost that you can have a bunch of makes a lot of sense. Maybe you still need a super scucum unit for really clamping the shit out of something, but this easily covers most use cases in a garage workshop. I want to build it.
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Moore’s Law is Dead pitches a pretty ingenious sku for the new gabecube aka steam machine. I fully support repairability and ewaste reduction. most of these components have not had MAJOR improvements in years, hence his channel name. There is a possibility here that Valve could ship with their unique hardware, (apu, psu, case, ports, networking) and let you bring your own ssd and ram from an old device that you might not use anymore. I love this idea. At the same time it feels like entering the star wars universe where there are no more new manufacturing and everything is cobbled together from old hardware made long ago.
All I want for Christmas is, filliment
All I want for Christmas is filament
I don’t need gifts or fancy things
I just wanna model, tinker, and print,
watch layers stack just right.
Santa, if you’re listening... PLA, PETG, ABS will do.
When using two GitHub accounts the gh cli gives very easy gh auth switch workflow from the cli.
from the docs
gh auth switch –help Switch the active account for a GitHub host.
This command changes the authentication configuration that will be used when running commands targeting the specified GitHub host.
If the specified host has two accounts, the active account will be switched
automatically. If there are more than two accounts, disambiguation will be
required either through the --user flag or an interactive prompt.
# list accounts
gh auth status
# switch accounds (interactive if more than 2, i've never seen this personally)
gh auth switch