Never did I think I would see the day that theprimeagen decided to run archlinux. Furthermore him to start ricing it, EVEN furthermore, Pewdiepie runs arch now, and thinks you should too?? and is promoting it on one of the largest YouTube channels ever?? Even DHH is getting in the mix with omarchy Such a cool transistion to see everyone find their way to linux and diving deep into the freedom and customization.
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Failed to gpg-setup-for-kdewallet correctly on hyprland, brave still complains. Maybe someday I'll figure it out and complete the post.
This has to be top tier dopest home page of all time. The commands are all so well customized and whimsical on the terminal.
Iāve ran my homelab on k3s for a year and a half now, and have had talos fomo the whole time. Iām not sure if this article helps or hurts. Helps to see that techdufus struggled and wished he went k3s first, but theres so much good to it that I want it.
Iām getting there, ok, I have some of it figured out but not firing on all cylinders like I want.
for PostgreSQL (way better than managing databases manually)
Amen to this, cnpg is kick ass and has me tempted to drop sqlite for my production database default. I mostly make small shit on the side that is never going to blow up. sqlite is really good, but the automation that comes along with cnpg to just run it on all nodes and backups once you establish the pattern with the first one is sick.
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just fucking use kubernetes
You want to run containers?
JUST FUCKING USE KUBERNETES.
Shut up. Close twitter and fucking do something. Life is complicated. You know what else is complicated? Email. DNS. Life. Kubernetes is the least painful way to orchestrate containers at scale. Docker Compose is for your laptop.
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principal-engineer-at-meta
Jake Bolam principal engineer at Meta, has some of the best career advice for those looking to become principal or just be better at their craft. This video was such a banger I had to bring it in as a full post, and not just a thought. It was a random YouTube auto play, something that I probably wouldnāt have clicked on given title an thumbnail, but turned out to be very impactful. Jake is such a smart guy with a lot of great insights, and I can tell he thinks really quick on his feet, he just pulled all of these things out of his head on the fly.
Jake had a super long period of on boarding at meta, he came in as a seasoned leader yet took many months to get going. This was a phase during or near the end of the COVID-19...
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For anyone self hosting a bunch of apps under one domain, I just swapped all of mine to Host matching which includes the full subdomain, and it is glorious to not have 9+ items hit on all of your pages and only the one that you actually want.
open one > edit > gear icon next to url > Host
vim usage is becoming normie level. Just like archinstall made it too easy to install arch and brought normies into the ecosystem. It killed ArchBTW^TM^, distros like lazyvim have killed vimBTW^TM^. It used to be that to run arch, vim, nvim you had to read the docs, and go deep on understanding. running archinstallor lazyvim make it so easy to get started that you miss all of the details, you no longer have to understand ctags, quickfix, what an lsp is, or even how to set your own keybindings. You just use the damn thing, like you would with VSC****. No shame to anyone who does this, but you are probably missing out on a bunch of really useful features of a very core tool in your workflow.
Just discovered Sylvan Franklin in this post and he is cracked, sub now.
Wish I would have saw this guide and provided assembly file for setting up virt-manager in distrobox. They call out immutable distros like the knew I was coming.
I got virtual machine manager running on two Bazzite machines today. It was a bit tricky, more than I thought actually. I ran into all sorts of virtualisation not setup issues when I tried the flatpak. Then I found that Bazzite comes with a ujust setup-virtualization command that does all the work for me. I tried that and again virtual machine manager was here, but not working, this time it feels like flatpak issues.
In a Hail Mary attempt I got it working by using an ubuntu distrobox container to run the UI. And it worked!
From the host we create the container to use from distrobox. This is an ubuntu machine, it can be any os of your choosing, preferably one that you are familiar with and contains virt-manager in its package repos.
distrobox create -i ubuntu distrobox enter ubuntu
from inside the distrobox container #
Now that we are in the distrobox we are no longer in an immutable distro and we can easily install anything we want. I actually like this process. I might have shit like this that I use for a month or a few...
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perfect
Perfect is a made up word that humans use to describe something that is above average, or works really well for them. The idea of perfection is fleeting, as you think more deeply about something, you can continue to chase the idea of perfection to unimaginable senses. Sometimes perfect simply means good enough. Could there be something better, Always, but at what cost. If I spent 10 more minutes on this post would it be better, maybe, but I might fuck it up. If I spent my lifetime studying how humans read and think, sole focused on how it pertains to this post, ya it would get better. When I use this word perfect itās not meant in the most literal sense of the word, but perfect to me, maybe good enough given the constraints I have, its the best thing Iāve got.
Whatās even real anymore? What a shitty age we are in that you have to form an opinion about news outlets and media outlets.
I just never quite understood why the word just can send people over the top. I get it when you donāt know someone, you donāt have history with them, and they come in saying you are doing something wrong.
I pulled this out into a full post just
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I just never quite understood why the word just can send people over the top. I get it when you donāt know someone, you donāt have history with them, and they come in saying you are doing something wrong.
When you say ājust,ā youāre skipping over all the invisible complexity. Youāre assuming the problem is simple, and that the person asking for help hasnāt already considered the obvious.
Youāre not seeing the constraints:
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2025 is not the year to get put on the market, its rough out there. Juniorās have little chance, senior+ are even struggling. We had it easy from 2020-2023, now its over saturated and you have to want to be in this industry to be here and stay here. It used to be a fine place to get a good job to pay the bills, the bar has been raised and if you donāt want to be here you are going to struggle. Theo covers this in this linked video deeply [[ thoughts-472 ]].
Nailed the netflix documentary style. Videos like this make me so grateful that I have a job in this rough market, if youāve followed jepiās series you know heās been out of a job for months, and he is not alone in this. This is the year of ālaid of, i didnāt get laid off, I left to focus on my startupā, [[ thoughts-716 ]]