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[1] 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. 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://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/posts/run_libvirt_in_distrobox.md [2]: /thoughts/

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 # [1] 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 # [2] 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 months, on a normal distro, this is fully installed on the os, raises the potential of package conflicts and lengthens the update ...

Looking for inspiration? opencode [1] by sst [2]. AI coding agent, built for the terminal. References: [1]: https://github.com/sst/opencode [2]: https://github.com/sst

I’m impressed by opencode [1] from anomalyco [2]. The open source coding agent. References: [1]: https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode [2]: https://github.com/anomalyco

Notes – 06:11 Sun 22 Jun 2025 Notes – 06:11 Sun 22 Jun 2025 dbushell.com · dbushell.com [1] What’s even real anymore? What a shitty age we are in that you have to form an opinion about news outlets and media outlets. 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://dbushell.com/notes/2025-06-22T06:11Z/ [2]: /thoughts/

neverjust a guide to better developer communication neverjust · neverjust.net [1] I just never quite understood why the word just can send people over the top. I get it when you don’t know someone, you don’t have history with them, and they come in saying you are doing something wrong. I pulled this out into a full post just [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://www.neverjust.net/ [2]: /just/ [3]: /thoughts/

- 2025 is not the year to get put on the market, its rough out there. Junior’s 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 don’t want to be here you are going to struggle. Theo covers this in this linked video deeply [[ thoughts-472 ]]. 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/

- Nailed the netflix documentary style. Videos like this make me so grateful that I have a job in this rough market, if you’ve followed jepi’s series you know he’s been out of a job for months, and he is not alone in this. This is the year of “laid of, i didn’t get laid off, I left to focus on my startup”, [[ thoughts-716 ]] 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/

Notes – 09:32 Thu 19 Jun 2025 Notes – 09:32 Thu 19 Jun 2025 dbushell.com · dbushell.com [1] David’s design on his blog is fantastic likely from years of small improvements like this converting ugly quotes to pretty quotes and optimizing fonts. It’s common for markdown libraries to convert the first to the second like my build script does. This is new to me, I had no idea that markdown libraries did this, I’m now interested if markdown-it does it. For subsetting I use the fontTools library but I’ve no idea how to setup Python environments. I got it working once and failed to document the process. David, David, David, I’m sorry python has done you this dirty. I should do a post on making python environments in the age of Posts tagged: uv [2]. You got options to run in docker/podman, a whole ass vm, uv venv, uvx, uv run, uv script, python -m venv, virtualenv, poetry, hatch, and too many more. The ones that matter are containers or uv. 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://dbushell.com/notes/2025-06-19T09:32Z/ [2]: /tags/uv/ [3]: /thoughts/

Copier has a few quirks with vcs that I just discovered by trying to test out some changes. I may have some config that I have long forgotten about somewhere deep in my dotfiles, I don’t think so, but id love to be wrong and corrected, please reach out. What Doesn’t Work # [1] I tried throwing everything at this template to make it work. I tried a bunch of flags that did not work. I tried making commits to the local repo to get rid of the dirty warning. I really wanted to test new changes locally without committing and pushing untested and potentially broken changes. uvx copier copy ../markata-blog-starter . uvx copier copy gh:waylonwalker/markata-blog-starter@develop . uvx copier copy ../markata-blog-starter . -wlg --trust What Works - –vcs-ref # [2] Finally after trying everything to get the local copy to work, and my guess of @branch not working I found this to work. It does require me to go to the repo on my develop branch. uvx copier copy gh:waylonwalker/markata-blog-starter --vcs-ref develop . What Works - delete .git # [4] Really this might be my best option to make quick changes and test them locally without going through a version control system. It is not ideal, ...

I came across checkbox [1] from canonical [2], and it’s packed with great features and ideas. Checkbox is a testing framework used to validate device compatibility with Ubuntu Linux. It’s the testing tool developed for the purposes of the Ubuntu Certification program. References: [1]: https://github.com/canonical/checkbox [2]: https://github.com/canonical

Bug: Pypi metadata is wrong (Requires: Python >=3.6) · Issue #1131 · jmcnamara/XlsxWriter Current behavior When pulling the dependency with pip (without pinning the version), our python3.6 tester pulls 3.2.3 and not 3.2.2 even though the version is no longer compatible with python 3.6. ... GitHub · github.com [1] pypi yanks suck, they are rare, this one got me today as it was a pinned dependency in my dependency chain. The latest release broke python 3.6/3.7 (which 3.6 has been EOL for 3.5 years btw), and it claimed >=3.6. In order to allow users to still install xlsxwriter without pinning down it needed yanked. I’m not sure if there was another way around it as pypi releases are immutable, so you cannot fix [2] This now has me wondering what the heck is using it with old pythons. It appears to have broken builds on Canonical/checkbox for ubuntu 18.04. Checkbox is a device compatibility testing framework. https://github.com/canonical/checkbox/actions/runs/14644718138/job/41098549191#step:8:125 [3] Note This post is a thought [4]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://github.com/jmcnamara/XlsxWriter/issues...

Conventional Commits A specification for adding human and machine readable meaning to commit messages Conventional Commits · conventionalcommits.org [1] I try to use conventional commits on all of my commits, but I often end up only using feat/fix. I need to keep this page handy and get new verbiage worked into my language - fix: - feat: - build: - chore: - ci: - docs: - style: - refactor: - perf: - test: Optionally include a scope fix(parser): A bang indicates a breaking change note. For example … chore!: drop support for Node 6 BREAKING CHANGE: use JavaScript features not available in Node 6. 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.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/ [2]: /thoughts/

- Wyatt built out this full world to start making a film series about FROGS. The entire set it built on a flat world, but yet feels so immersive. 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/

Visualizing My Blog’s Internal Links Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web. blog.jim-nielsen.com [1] I like Jim’s visualizations on his site, reminds me a lot of obsidian. I’ve tried to do the same on my analytics [2] page in the past, but it didn’t come out right. I’m going to have to give this another go. 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://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/visualizing-my-blogs-links/ [2]: /analytics/ [3]: /thoughts/

Your Framework is Showing The one where I’ve had enough of the same Next.js error dbushell.com · dbushell.com [1] Great breakdown of nextjs. I was highly unaware of its performance optimizations before reading this. The smell of vendor lock in from next/vercel has been there from the start, this is the first real claim I’ve seen. I’m out on modern js front ends, complex builds that change every 6 months, design patterns are out of date just as fast. Its hard to keep up, especially when you don’t have the use case for highly interactive apps. Libraries like htmx [2] or plain ol js gets the job done on the majority of sites and everything I tend to work on. 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://dbushell.com/2025/06/13/your-framework-is-showing-nextjs-error/ [2]: /htmx/ [3]: /thoughts/

- I’m totally with Prime here, there is something about the read only, mouse clicking part of my brain that causes me to be more critical of the code at a different level. It doesn’t hit the part of my brain thinking about the edit or how to do the edit, it hits a part thats thinking about how I will have to deal with the code moving forward. 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/