2025-11-27 Notes | Nic Payne
yesterday: [[2025-11-26-notes]] Big Changes Got my workspaces script in working order It's not quite configurable yet This will allow an easy way to setup
pype.dev [1]
Nic is also building out a similar workspaces script. This feels like such a great thing to have ai work on fully customized tools for your personal workflow. Also Nice shout out!
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This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://pype.dev/2025-11-27-notes/
[2]: /thoughts/
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Check out dawarich [1] by Freika [2]. Itās a well-crafted project with great potential.
Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)
References:
[1]: https://github.com/Freika/dawarich
[2]: https://github.com/Freika
K8s Diagram Builder - Visual Kubernetes YAML Generator
Free Kubernetes diagram builder with drag-and-drop design. Auto-generate production-ready YAML for Ingress, Services, Deployments, ConfigMaps, Secrets & more. No signup required.
K8s Diagram Builder Ā· k8sdiagram.fun [1]
This looks like great prototyping tool for k8s. I too often ask ai to get me going with the things I need. Iāve used k8s long enough that I can generally remember all the things I need, roughly where they go, would probably forget a few things and need to iterate, but I cannot remember exactly what goes where and need examples at a minimum. I need to give this a go from desktop and see if it will work for me. Right now looking through mobile looks promising.
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This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: http://k8sdiagram.fun/
[2]: /thoughts/
chr15m [1] has done a fantastic job with runprompt [2]. Highly recommend taking a look.
Run LLM prompts from your shell
References:
[1]: https://github.com/chr15m
[2]: https://github.com/chr15m/runprompt
setting COLUMNS env var to a number greater than 0 will make the terminal resize to that number of columns.
COLUMNS=80 uvx --from rich-cli rich myscript.py
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Not all programs respct the COLUMNS env var, but rich does, and a lot of
stuff Iām building uses rich.
I discovered this when I was trying to make a low effort readme generated from
the code, but did not depend on the size of terminal it was ran on.
# justfile
readme:
echo "# Workspaces" > README.md
echo "" >> README.md
echo '``` bash' >> README.md
COLUMNS=80 ./workspaces.py --help >> README.md
echo '```' >> README.md
Iām really excited about alloy-scenarios [1], an amazing project by grafana [2]. Itās worth exploring!
A collection of working Alloy scenarios
References:
[1]: https://github.com/grafana/alloy-scenarios
[2]: https://github.com/grafana
The tea command for gitea (used by forgejo) has a flag for login. With gitea
you can have multiple accounts logged in. When you try to run a command such
as repo create it will prompt you which login to use, but I learned that you
can bake it in to all of them with --login <login-name>
⯠tea repo create --name deleteme --description 'for example'
ā NOTE: no gitea login detected, whether falling back to login 'git.waylonwalker.com'?
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tea repo create --name deleteme --description 'for example' --login git.wayl.one
References:
[1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/11dc820d-1680-414c-9624-cd970b057a74.webp
Looking for inspiration? wyattbubbylee.com [1] by WaylonWalker [2].
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References:
[1]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker/wyattbubbylee.com
[2]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker
If youāre into interesting projects, donāt miss out on qmk_firmware [1], created by WaylonWalker [2].
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
References:
[1]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker/qmk_firmware
[2]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker
2025-11-21 Notes
Learned about nginx_auth today. Feels good to unlock a new skill that I did not quite understand before. I don't think I grasped that there is a backend...
Check out octelium [1] by octelium [2]. Itās a well-crafted project with great potential.
A next-gen FOSS self-hosted [3] unified zero trust secure access platform that can operate as a remote access VPN, a ZTNA platform, API/AI/MCP gateway, a PaaS, an ngrok-alternative and a homelab [4] infrastructure.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/octelium/octelium
[2]: https://github.com/octelium
[3]: /self-host/
[4]: /homelab/
2025-11-19 Notes
Making progress on dropper this week.
Another Big Cloud Outage Nov 2025
Today I woke up to finding out that cloudflare hade a widespread outage. My [[Reader]] uses tailwind cdn for styles and it was down. Otherwise it was not so impactful to me and felt kike they were quick to have it up.
Iām not really researching here, just jotting thoughts down from a parking lot waiting for pickup.
It feels like we are seeing a lot of these lately. They feel much more frequent. It feels like a whole industry was sold on 9ās and reliability of big cloud that we just arenāt getting.
Thereās a huge push to go back to self hosting, racking and stacking. I think this is great. I love it. Iām a big proponent for ownership and self hosting. Itās not the right move for everything and everyone, and is certainly not something to make a knee jerk reaction about in the moment of frustration.
Thereās a lot of things that are just impossible to do yourself, cdn caching, edge compute, ddos protection.
These companies are not magic they are vulnerable to changes just like you ...
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šššpreach it prime! M$ continues to prove that they are not making products for you something else is affoot and shit you donāt want is shoved down your throat and forced on you.
Prime points out that the agentic is prompt injected itselfš. Rather than making a better os experience itās assuming you are stupid and need everything done for you. But what I donāt get here in the text scaling example. Why the F does it not just fix it for me. When I ask the machine to make text bigger it puts a flashy circle where to click. This is a one time setup for someone who gives no fucks to remember how to do it. Why is the machine doing this weird hand holding watching us do itās work rather than just doing it? I like the pattern when you change display setting it gives you a counter that reverts everything if for some reason shit is so bad you canāt even see it. Do that, not this help me click bs.
Now in parallel we have steam making Linux desktop better and better. Allowing you to just access the hardware you own to do what you want to do with it. Providing a fantastic hands off out of the box experience for the price of the hardware. No ongoing fees, no upgrade cycle, soft lock, ari...
PETaflop cluster
AI is a pain in the back.
Justin Garrison Ā· justingarrison.com [1]
Justin makes the coolest kubernetes clusters wishing I could see it in the flesh at Kubecon.
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This post is a thought [2]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://justingarrison.com/blog/petaflop-cluster/
[2]: /thoughts/
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Absolutely banger of a video, what a wild idea to send gippity a bit off course and just see how far off the rails it will go. Dude did a banger of an edit on it. Iāll admit that I listened to the whole thing, but did not watch much, saving here as I might go back when I have time to really watch it. It was really weird how easy it was for chat to say something that could be true, but nearly no chance of it actually happening over and over and just keep it going down this dark spiral of conspiracies. It was ready to electrocute him and separate him from anyone who had a chance of being a non believer. At any moment was ready to say that those closest to him might be his problem. gipity is not your friend, or your therapist.
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This post is a thought [1]. Itās a short note that I make
about someone elseās content online #thoughts
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[1]: /thoughts/
I found an interesting side effect of manually running my script to generate [[
stars ]] posts is that you get notified when one gets renamed. Today I noticed
that Ned Batchelder created a coveragepy org.
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[1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/cf6dd0cc-5a74-40bf-8512-f62471ea1e56.png