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Next.js 15.1+ is unusable outside of Vercel TBD Omar Abid - Personal Blog · omarabid.com [1] Vendor lock in disguised as performance. Nextjs aparantly now streams all of your metadata on the fly with js. This would obviously kill all seo right, well not if you’re on vercel they automatically detect search crawlers and serve the metadata. Why the f do they need to do this and not just serve everyone the metadata. The Web is this beautiful place where anyone can create and build amazing things with a relatively low skill. Js is meant to be enhancement, not degrade the experience of its users. 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://omarabid.com/nextjs-vercel [2]: /thoughts/

I’ve been using gitingest [1] web ui [[ thoughts-516 ]] for quite awhile to serialize git [2] repo into llm friendly text files. This gives tools context about repos that are not in the training data so that it knows about it and how to use the code in the repo. gitingest also has a python library [[ thoughts-517 ]] I had a use case for a project not yet on git, and found yek. Installing yek # [3] Their instructions tell you to curl to bash. curl -fsSL https://bodo.run/yek.sh | bash I don’t like curl to bash from random sites, so I have my own self hosted [4] version of i.jpillora.com. I like using this because it pulls from github and I trust github as a source for artifacts as good as the repo I am pulling from. curl https://i.jpillora.com/bodo-run/yek | bash Using yek # [5] yek /tmp/yek-output/yek-output-bb01e621.txt This will give you a link to a text file that you can add to many llm tools. This happened so fast for me that I didn’t even believe that it worked properly. more options # [6] As with most clis, you can run yek --help to see the options available. yek --help References: [1]: https://gitingest.com/ [2]: /glossary/git/ [3]: #installing-yek [4]: /self-h...

Today I discovered brightnessctl to adjust the screen brightness on my AwesomeWM machine. Its a command line utility that you can use to adjust the brightness of your screen. A command line interface like this gives you the ability to bind keys with something like [[xbindkeys]] or your window manager configuration. sudo apt install brightnessctl # or paru -S brightnessctl Now that you have it installed you can use it to adjust the brightness of your screen, this worked particularly well for my laptop screen, I don’t think this works for monitors, in my experience they are usually controlled by the built in osd. # Increase brightness by 10% brightnessctl set +10% # Decrease brightness by 10% brightnessctl set 10%- # Set brightness to 50% brightnessctl set 50% # Set brightness to 100% brightnessctl set 100% Note on my machine I had to use `sudo` to run the command, otherwise I got the following error: Can't modify brightness: Permission denied You should run this program with root privileges. Alternatively, get write permissions for device files.

Think less, ship more I do too much thinking about what I want to make, and not enough actually making the thing. cassidoo.co [1] I thin a lot of us have this issues, especially on side projects. At work therre are expectations, jira tickets and so on, keeping you shipping. I think there is something to be said about getting that quick and dirty POC to the right group of people early for feedback before you add redis caching, kubernetes, auto scaling, disruption budget, distributed nodes, high availability, backups, disaster recovery. At work you kinda have to have the right person to shoot ideas by that can understand that you probably need some of these complex things for your app and it will take time to get right. 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://cassidoo.co/post/think-less/ [2]: /thoughts/

GitHub - trykimu/videoeditor: Your Creative Copilot for Video Editing Your Creative Copilot for Video Editing. Contribute to trykimu/videoeditor development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com [1] I would love to have a browser based video editor I could throw on a server and do quick edits from anywhere. I tried to get this one to work and struggled to get front end to send api requets to backend. I think the root of it was their redis wants to run on 80, this caused a permission error so I tried to run 8880:80, but redis was still unable to start due to a config permission error. 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://github.com/robinroy03/videoeditor [2]: /thoughts/

I’m impressed by videoeditor [1] from trykimu [2]. Your Creative Copilot for Video Editing References: [1]: https://github.com/trykimu/videoeditor [2]: https://github.com/trykimu

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on videoeditor [1], created by robinroy03 [2]. Video Editor Application using React, Remotion & TypeScript. References: [1]: https://github.com/robinroy03/videoeditor [2]: https://github.com/robinroy03

- The ability to query s3 buckets so seamless looks like such a pleasure to work with if you have a use case for that. Kedro catalog takes care of this most of the time for me, but I wonder if there are some cross project searching use cases I might find for this. 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/

PocketCal Build Log I made a date-sharing app called PocketCal. Here cassidoo.co [1] I love this idea of tiny useful apps for yourself. In fact I’m working on a project to built out tinyapps [2] for myself to replace my common needs. I absolutely love that all of the state is stored in the url bar, nothing is stored server side. As much as I love to hate js, I really appreciate that things like this can be built to just live on the web, be accessible from anywhere, and live practically forever as they require such little hosting demand. 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://cassidoo.co/post/pocketcal-build-log/ [2]: /tinyapps/ [3]: /thoughts/

GitHub - numtide/treefmt: the formatter multiplexer [maintainers=@zimbatm,@brianmcgee] the formatter multiplexer [maintainers=@zimbatm,@brianmcgee] - numtide/treefmt GitHub · github.com [1] This looks like a very useful formatting tool to keep in the back of my mind. I do a lot of python and our tool tends to be pre-commit, named after the git [2] hook pre-commit. It specifies a bunch of tools to run, you can run them in ci, manually, and opt into doing it before commit. I like the simplicity of this one not needing a whole ecosystem, but rather just leveraging the cli commands from those tools. This would probably be something that would get in the way of setup for new devs and not something I would throw on one project by itself, its another thing for everyone to figure out how to install and run on every platform, I’m sure its not hard, but being on python teams pre-commit just fits in. 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/numtide/treefmt [2]: /glossary/git/ [3]: /thoughts/

- This is one of the greatest pycon keynotes I’ve ever seen, bookmarking this to come back and leave better thoughts on later. 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/

- Focus on the joy, not the suck. Nothing you do in life will be absolute pure joy with no downsides forever, life does not work that way, your brain does not look that way. Look at anyone who ever got massive billion dollar payouts for something like minecraft and how much their life is not glorious when they have nothing to really look forward to. Prime talks about it in almost a cliche way, every boring ass task is an opportunity to grow. This is so real though, if you look at every task ask a shit you gotta do to check that jira ticket off and make bossy lady not scream at you its going to be a hell. If you rather look at it as opportunities to implement new features in new ways or learn something to better yourself and watch yourself grow you are going to take a big dopamine hit. I think prime talks about this in the sense of larger projects. He as talked about his experience being much less of a daily standup, but more of a ok we got three months to figure this out lets go boys. When you are stuck in that daily jira grind it’s harder to see that larger picture of the learning and growing you are doing over the course of 3 or 6 months. Timestamped to the part of the vide...

- Should I go to college? Was my education worth it? Should I keep going. A question that comes in all too often accross most industries that require some level of education. DHH has such great takes on it, some I had never fully thought about. He starts out with should we have people study niche topics (using Russian Poetry as an example). Yes the world deserves people who can make their life works out of something that brings them and many other so much joy, but no you probably shouldn’t go 100k’s into debt to do it. Should I get a software engineering degree, or become a doctor also have similar answers, it needs to be somewhat justified and not outrageous as has become the norm. We used to listen in to Dave Ramsey on long car rides and he would have people call in and say, they went half a million dollars into debt to become a dentist, only to discover they did not want to do dentistry. At this point it’s too bad, you gotta suck it up and pay that off with something that makes some serious cash, and the only skill you probably got that can bring in that level of cash is … dentistry. They dive into the college experience, learning to have adult debates with classmates abou...

WebTUI Modular CSS Library that brings the beauty of Terminal UIs to the browser webtui.ironclad.sh [1] webtui, looks like a pretty sick design aesthetic. I like the keyboard driven nature of it, the look and feel is on point to a terminal interface, sadly it looks like it is not a 2 way street, you don’t automatically get a tui our of your website, just one that looks the part in the browser. 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://webtui.ironclad.sh/ [2]: /thoughts/

- I’ve never heard of niri, or a scrolling window manager, it looks quite interesting. I think tiling window manager misses out on named sessions and hotkey straight to tmux sessions, Brodi mentions not using tmux right before this segment. Niri looks quite interesting, but looks like it suffers specificity. maybe there are other tools that allow me to jump straight to something like brave, or steam, but I don’t see how I could jump to a specific terminal. 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/

I recently discovered niri [1] by niri-wm [2], and it’s truly impressive. A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. References: [1]: https://github.com/niri-wm/niri [2]: https://github.com/niri-wm

I’m impressed by niri [1] from YaLTeR [2]. A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. References: [1]: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri [2]: https://github.com/YaLTeR

Backups interrupted by full disk usage | Nic Payne I just got a message from HCIO that my primary backup script is late... This happens every now and then but I decided to check on it... Quickly `ssh` in and I n pype.dev [1] I’m way behind on my notification game and need to pick it up. maybe I’ll look into hcio as well. maybe I’ll look into something that goes straight to signal or just get things working on ntfy. An 80GB log file is massive and the kind of thing id like to see notifications more. 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://pype.dev/backups-interrupted-by-full-disk-usage/ [2]: /thoughts/

Queso Notes | Nic Payne It occured to me that this is my blog... I can write about whatever the heck I want! May 2025 Made 2 quesos very similar - they consisted of: 1.5 lbs ground bee pype.dev [1] Taking this as inspiration to do more non-tech on my blog, I’ve branched out into Posts tagged: gaming [2], but need take it to the next step. excited to watch pype.dev evolve as well. 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://pype.dev/queso-notes/ [2]: /tags/gaming/ [3]: /thoughts/

zk [1] by zk-org [2] is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves. A plain text note-taking assistant References: [1]: https://github.com/zk-org/zk [2]: https://github.com/zk-org