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Blog tonsky.me · tonsky.me [1] Niki has one of the coolest yet simple personal sites that I have seen in a long time. We need more of this on the internet! hover over his face, try dark mode, submit personal data, there are so many really cool Easter eggs to discover! 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://tonsky.me/ [2]: /thoughts/

We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles Lockfiles are an absolutely unnecessary concept that complicates things without a good reason. Dependency managers can and are working without it just the same. tonsky.me · tonsky.me [1] I wholeheartedly agree that packaging is broken, semver is broken, expecting much better from a system of oss that is built on top of volunteers, passion projects, nights and weekends is a fools errand. With that I disagree that we we dont need lockfiles. Maybe its Nikki’s experience in java and my lack that puts us on this opposite spectrum, but without lockfiles the world changes underneath us as we release. One small change to your source can introduce a whole set of new features/bugs that you did not plan on without a good locking system. It can also cause you to need to do dependency resolution at application build time and not ahead of time. 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://tonsky.me/blog/lockfiles/ [2]: /thoughts/

[1] Fantastic write up on their experience in ai, opinions on ai being a hoax with a veil of reasonable usefulness. Arguing that most people do not understand enough to see the difference, and thought leaders see where it is now, see where it was yesterday, it must be going to general intelligence tomorrow and you all will loose your jobs without this. I appreciate the satirical language here. 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://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/?ref=wheresyoured.at [2]: /thoughts/

- Letting Ai drive code feels like giving up so much control. It feels like its leaving so many brain cycles open for other things, yet its not quite good enough to do production level things on its own, so we must watch it, we must review it, yet its code can be some of the worst to review left unattended. I’m feeling this right now as I’m avoiding writing a bit of js that I could probably do myself. Some day this is likely to flip, and it will get better and we will spend our brain cycles thinking about architecture, security, marketing, big picture ideas about the problem we are trying to solve, but we are not yet there and as long as we still need to review I find it a much more pleasant workflow to have in a separate window than have it change the whole fucking project for a simple change. 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/

A quote from greyduet on r/teachers I teach HS Science in the south. I can only speak for my district, but a few teacher work days in the wave of enthusiasm I'm seeing for AI tools … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1] Woof, ai is sucking the soul from everything, being forced onto teachers who don’t want or care about it and are simply sharing ai-slop to their kids without giving it much thought. remember that it is rude [2] to share ai-slop with others that you have not vetted, It’s next level to turn this into teaching material for children who are forced into your classroom and have no choice about the matter, you should be ashamed. 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://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/5/greyduet-on-rteachers/#atom-everything [2]: https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/ [3]: /thoughts/

I have a couple of use cases for simple qr codes in python coming up. One is for blog posts, the other is for auth into a new server application logged to a terminal. I tried the qrcode [1] library and it does not look as nice to me and I found pyqrcode [2] to be quite nice. import pyqrcode url = pyqrcode.create('https://waylonwalker.com/qr-codes-in-python') url.svg('qr-codes-in-python.svg', scale=8) print(url.terminal(quiet_zone=1)) url.svg('qr-codes-in-python.svg', scale=12) url.svg('qr-codes-in-python.svg', omithw=True) # width is controlled by the container url.svg('qr-codes-in-python.svg', omithw=True, module_color='#ffd119') url.svg('qr-codes-in-python.svg', omithw=True, module_color='#ff69b4', background='#2b034c') result # [3] Here is the final svg result. Here is what it looks like in the terminal. [4] If you want fancier qrcodes check out https://mydigitalharbor.com/ References: [1]: https://pypi.org/project/qrcode/ [2]: https://pypi.org/project/pyqrcode/ [3]: #result [4]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/c644bd34-b5da-48a3-b6cf-c89efb546114.png

Colors • Pico CSS Pico comes with 380 manually crafted colors to help you personalize your brand design system. Pico CSS · picocss.com [1] A great alternative to tailwind colors that has everything defined in one colors file for only 0.3kb. it feels well worth the weight if you are trying to skip a build step or avoid npm/node. It has even more colors than tailwind. I appreciate that there is a grey palette that is fully desaturated. 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://picocss.com/docs/colors [2]: /thoughts/

GitHub - rushter/selectolax: Python binding to Modest and Lexbor engines. Fast HTML5 parser with CSS selectors for Python. Python binding to Modest and Lexbor engines. Fast HTML5 parser with CSS selectors for Python. - rushter/selectolax GitHub · github.com [1] Selectolax you have my attention! I will be giving this a try for markata which often suffers from slow beautifulsoup. It appears to have everything I need for my simple use cases. [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/rushter/selectolax [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/b5d8930f-59e0-4947-9500-717f66ce33dc.png [3]: /thoughts/

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on selectolax [1], created by rushter [2]. Python binding to Modest and Lexbor engines (fast HTML5 parser with CSS selectors). References: [1]: https://github.com/rushter/selectolax [2]: https://github.com/rushter

I like rqlite’s [1] project rqlite [2]. The lightweight, user-friendly, distributed relational database built on SQLite. References: [1]: https://github.com/rqlite [2]: https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite

How To Build The Tallest Building In Town There are two ways you can build the tallest building in town. Once you understand this, things get really good. Gary Vaynerchuk · garyvaynerchuk.com [1] Have some positivity! “Just Build the Tallest Fucking Building” is one of my favorite Gary Vee quotes. Build good community, bring others up, and stop tearing everyone down, listen to the vid. 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://garyvaynerchuk.com/build-the-tallest-building-in-town/ [2]: /thoughts/

External Link meetgor.com [1] Yes, I can review the code and make changes, but who in the world loves reviewing code? Do you love reviewing peers’ PRs? really? I’m with MeetGor here 100%. reviewing the nuance, not being as involved with the process of creating the architecture design, not solving the problems that arise in development make it hard to effectively review and not turn into LGTM man. 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.meetgor.com/thoughts/i-kind-of-hate-agentic-ides-for-the-sake-of-productivity/ [2]: /thoughts/

I’ve got a few samba shares going in my homelab [1], and I’m struggling finding a great app to scroll through vacation photos with my wife. I want something intuitive, non intimidating, and just works. Turns out that the default file browser application for hyprland works great, but you need to enable previews for remote storage for it to work for my use case here. [2] References: [1]: /homelab/ [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/3940267e-3727-4e7b-8f7f-aebb49d79326.png

External Link meetgor.com [1] Sometimes, all you need is a mindset shift, a blocker in your mind that holds you back from doing certain things. And for me, I have consumed enough tutorials and posts about Kubernetes, that I need to put to use and create. I have been stuck in the learning cycle, lets push to prod with kubernetes. This hurts. I know others with this learning style that need to see the full picture before actually doing something with new tech. The way I first got into kubernetes I was looking for the easy route and somehow k8s came up several times as a suggested route Looking for a Heroku replacement, What I found was shocking! [2], So I dove in head first with k3s [3] and kompose [4]. What I found was that it was not all that hard once you start to see how the pieces fit together, no amount of reading tutorials would have gotten me there. Does anyone care if you use simple yet fragile bash scripts or heavy weight Kubernetes cluster for just clicking buttons and creating and updating rows in a database? No! You know what, let’s fucking use Kubernetes. Let’s Gooo. Use what is right for you and stop parroting kubernets is hard, heavy, for big companies, maybe...

External Link meetgor.com [1] If you want to use it for the purpose of learning it, please do use it. Kubernetes as usual is a tool like others, you can’t use one tool everywhere. Where bash scripts work, they just work, where they don’t they fall apart too, kubernetes works like a charm. Use your grug brains a little and choose wisely! In the end, who the hell cares if you use kubernetes or bash scripts to scale if your users are happy? Well Said! 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.meetgor.com/thoughts/kubernetes-isn-t-for-you/ [2]: /thoughts/