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webi-installers [1] by webinstall [2] is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves. Primary and community-submitted packages for webinstall.dev References: [1]: https://github.com/webinstall/webi-installers [2]: https://github.com/webinstall
Fixing The Marquee For Jolly Holiday
Waylon up at the Marquee of the theater fixing the fallen letters before the night show.
You Might Also Like: My Notes Blog Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web. blog.jim-nielsen.com [1] I really like a good link blog, it’s the old timers version of a reaction video. It gives me new posts to discover from other writers, and gives additional perspectives from ones I trust enough to add to my RSS. It’s nice to have a place where I can jot down a few notes, fire off my reaction, and nobody can respond to it lol. At least, not in any easy, friction-less way. You’d have to go out of your way to read my commentary, find my contact info, and fire off a message (critiquing or praising). That’s how I like it. Cuts through the noise. Ditto Jim. I’ve oddly found mine more useful to search than blog posts, zettlekaten, notes, whatever you want to call them. For me writing something down makes it more concrete in my brain that I’m less likely to need to go reference, but I often need to re read or references posts from others, this is where Thoughts [2] comes in handy for me Like Jim I have a bunch of feeds [3] you can subscribe to if you want some or all of my stuff, but I aggregate everything to the same root site. References...

Gross phone

Is there a world that giving my phone to my kids does not result in it being covered in peanut butter and snot?

Developer Vs Artist Ai

The other day I was watching [thePrimeTimeagen]https://youtube.com/@theprimetimeagen?si=jVcp23FbfQSFZfDc) and he talked about devs loving ai and artists revolting. There was some discussion in chat about art being more creative and prime quickly squashed that. He ended with being oddly confused why developers are jumping on board and artists are not. Both had their art stolen to build out the models. [1] my own vibes I'm writing this from my phone without further research, all vibes, personal experience, and thoughts, no research. Good Tools # [2] First I want to argue that artists have had some form of ai in their tools for years. Idk, probably not ai as we know it today but functionally similar. Content aware fill. This is a Photoshop feature from Adobe, as far as I know it’s one of the special things you get from Adobe that you don’t get from the FOSS alternatives easily. This is an example of a good took that is well loves by the community and widely used, if you put ai i...
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“You should never build a CMS” | Sanity Lee Robinson migrated cursor.com off Sanity. He made good points. Here's what he missed. Sanity.io · sanity.io [1] Such a good breakdown of the leerob article, that is hitting everywhere right now. Feels like sanity was just a bit late to getting things right and it would have just worked for them how leerob was trying to use it, but MCP sucked so he jumped. Reading their loose descriptions of a CMS, its an interesting realization to realize I’m rolling my own cms. I kinda feel like theres a few inspiration features to take from here, but I have no regrets. As a developer I like being able to build my own tools, I like being able to search and edit from nvim, and not have to write GROQ queries, and transforms. There were some really good points here that as I get more and more content on my personal site, I do kinda feel it. I’m surprised there is not more tooling that does some of these things for piles of markdown. pinning this to re-read later, feels like a lot of good tidbits here. References: [1]: https://www.sanity.io/blog/you-should-never-build-a-cms
- It really feels like M$ is coming down hard on GH lately to make some unfavorable decisions for users. Maybe there is good reason for all of these changes from a business perspective, I can’t judge that. But right now there are some really great alternatives out there. I’m so grateful for what forgejo and gittea offer, and at the same time seeing the community get split up from GH is sad.

Ping 12

Is `bet` new teen lingo? My kid is starting to say _bet_ in every sentence. > So he explained it as "I'm down", "You bet", "Yes", "I like that", "You betcha"

Ping 11

Naming things is hard, pings will now be numbered.
- Silksong DLC announcement already, we waited 8 years for the game, and are getting DLC’s months after launch. Dudes I haven’t even finished the game get, maybe not even half way. It’s amazing. Its amazing that these three make such a kick ass game with great art, story, voice, gameplay, and now drop a free dlc in 2026.

I'm being gaslit by the ai

I'm being gaslit by the ai. It just did a big hard change, now cant do a seemingly basic change, and assures me that that its fixed my issue on every iteration.
Finished Elf House
Waylon and Rhiannon standing in front of a mostly finished elf house built for the Jolly Holiday Performance at the local theater.
Cogwork Saved Pill

I’ve been using this one for awhile now, I have a post type that I only edit from my phone, but I have all the post numbered. I set up a template in obsidian for using templater, the template goes right in the static site repo, I point templater to the templates directory and this has been working pretty seamlessly for awhile.

---
date: <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss") %>
templateKey: myposttype
published: true
tags:
- myposttype
<%*
const folder = "pages/myposttype";

// get all files in the vault, keep only those inside the folder
const files = app.vault.getFiles().filter(f => f.path.startsWith(folder + "/"));

// extract numeric suffixes from filenames like myposttype-123.md
const nums = files.map(f => {
  const m = f.basename.match(/^myposttype-(\d+)$/);
  return m ? parseInt(m[1], 10) : null;
}).filter(n => n !== null);

// next number (start at 1 if none exist)
const next = (nums.length ? Math.max(...nums) : 0) + 1;

// include the .md extension when moving
const newPath = `${folder}/myposttype-${next}`;
await tp.file.move(newPath);
%>
---
- Kelsey has a really good lightbulb moment here about platform engineering. “if you had to do all the deployments for the entire company what questions would you ask of the development team?” That’s your api, your platform, this is your product as a platform engineer. It’s not images, docker, terraform, hcl, yaml, kubernetes, It’s building out the right api for your company to deploy its products effectively. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdUbTyvrfKo&t=429s [1] timestamped References: [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdUbTyvrfKo&amp;t=429s
Check out andrii-kryvoviaz [1] and their project slink [2]. Self-hosted [3] image sharing service References: [1]: https://github.com/andrii-kryvoviaz [2]: https://github.com/andrii-kryvoviaz/slink [3]: /self-host/

notifications for static site builds

This morning I set up notifications for changes to my static site builds leveraging git name status [1] and ntfy. ![notification of changes](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/1c69e648-5aa3-4f66-9085-a045b99450a5.webp) References: [1]: /git-name-status/

--name-status is a great way to see what files have changed in a git diff alongside the status code. I recently used this in a script to create a report of new and modified files during a build.

git diff --name-status
git diff --name-status origin/main
git diff --name-status --staged
git diff --name-status 'HEAD@{3 days ago}'
Dude Locked In
My son wanted to help shovel snow, usually this means, I'll piddle around, have Fun, maybe make things worse, but it's ok cause I'll make it a good time. Tonight he was LOCKED IN and got a good chunk of the neighbors drive and entire sidewalk done.

fast changing dev server today

The dev server is cooking today, I've dropped markata builds from 2m40s (hot cache) in prod to 15s (hot cache) in dev. Currently building 2745 posts and 274 feeds. ![screenshot of the dev builds from k9s](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/c3e8b9de-d4be-4c7c-ab9b-a13a25c7673c.webp)