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External Link X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1] kitze hating on python packaging in new ways. Python packaging has a lot of quirks that can make it infuriating. Not once have I thought “you know what this needs, quotes and braces” [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://x.com/thekitze/status/1872267874842063223?t=zxq6-kA9atVuXJeWntxfWg&s=09 [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/566ff44b-cace-474d-b1bc-62aaf42f419f.webp [3]: /thoughts/

- This tip of using tinkercad to do boolean operations on an stl of a solid gridfinity bin and an outline is absolute fire 🔥🔥🔥. This feels like a relatively simple operation, but to do it to a generated stl proves hard to do in most modeling software, at least harder than it needs to be. Somehow tinkercad got it right and made it a very basic operation to do. [1] It took me a minute to find the Merge button that Uncle Jessy mentioned, they call it a group in TinkerCAD. [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://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/36826ac6-9e38-4955-b622-4de86900c8b7.webp [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/a22fc486-d627-4e37-8d58-e963919bb8a0.webp [3]: /thoughts/

- Damn Glorious Eggrolls is still making gaming on linux better. Of course its containerization that drives everything on linux these days. This is a pretty badass talk. Umu is already running in steam and bazzite. Bazzite gamemode uses this to get a gamescope session running. 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/

- Great list of 4 tips for running fastapi applications. Keep routes small # [2] Fat routers with all of the logic built in makes them hard to test, hard to refactor, causes lots of duplication, and makes it hard to reuse the business logic code later in something like a cli application. Deploy Early # [3] I really like this advice! He reccommends deploying as early as you can get a healthcheck live in your application. I’ve found too many times developers build something that is really hard, or impossible to deploy, when if they had tried to deploy early they would have spotted some easy to fix issues. This is less important if you are building out of a template that your team commonly deploys from, but very important with new patterns. https://youtu.be/XlnmN4BfCxw?si=ks1wvmgDyoQLgrv2&t=1093 [4] Note This post is a thought [5]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /fastapi/ [2]: #keep-routes-small [3]: #deploy-early [4]: https://youtu.be/XlnmN4BfCxw?si=ks1wvmgDyoQLgrv2&t=1093 [5]: /thoughts/

Building Python tools with a one-shot prompt using uv run and Claude Projects I’ve written a lot about how I’ve been using Claude to build one-shot HTML+JavaScript applications via Claude Artifacts. I recently started using a similar pattern to create one-shot Python uti... Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1] This is really interesting, the lazy uv scripts are really becoming quite appealing, especially for something like this to just pop out of an llm ready to run. The article features several examples of these one-shot prompt ideas that I suggest you give a try, and a prompt for creating them. 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://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/one-shot-python-tools/ [2]: /thoughts/

Depot Status Latest service status for Depot Depot Status · status.depot.dev [1] Depot’s uptime seems to be great. I definitely hit some issues with it this afternoon 12/24/24 that were not reported. I wonder if my issues were with the fly integration. Maybe fly ran out of credits to depot or something. 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://status.depot.dev/ [2]: /thoughts/

Deploy to Fly using a Depot builder Using Fly.io's new Depot builder, we'll walk you through how to deploy a TypeScript service globally with speed. Depot · depot.dev [1] Here the integration to depot appears to be opt in using the --depot flag on fly deploy. This must have changed over time though because today it was giving me issues and I had to opt out using fly deploy --depot='false'. Looks like a great service and I just learned about them on their bad day. 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://depot.dev/blog/how-to-build-with-depot-on-fly [2]: /thoughts/

Depot Exponentially faster builds for everyone. Depot · depot.dev [1] Just learned about depot today ironically because it seems to be down and fly is using them under the hood to do the container builds, seems like a really great service for fast builds accross your team. 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://depot.dev/ [2]: /thoughts/

- This was an eye opening video into agentic editing workflows. setting rules # [1] Dfferent ai tools use different rules files, windsurf uses .windsurfrules. [2] testing out rules # [3] Test out your rules file by having it say something at the beginning of the output to verify that the rules are being applied correctly. [4] First line # [5] He suggests to use this key rule for debugging purposes, otherwise you are guessing to what rules if any it is following. Every time you choose to apply a rule(s), explicitly state the rule(s) in the output. You can abbreviate the rule description to a single word or phrase. Note This post is a thought [6]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: #setting-rules [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/f75bf439-919f-4c19-8695-176ca8a7d52d.webp [3]: #testing-out-rules [4]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/ebeed79c-435b-4aab-b3dc-c744b144c438.webp [5]: #first-line [6]: /thoughts/

Dedicated Servers | Intel Servers | AMD Servers - Dedicated Hosting reliablesite.net [1] Dax talked about this in a recent How about tomorrow podcast https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/post/461. He is using it as his dev machine, he just ssh’s in and devs on it. Feels like quite an interesting workflow, their prices seem competitive, but as a cheap ass homelabber I see their prices and think I could grab a used optiplex for the cost of a month or two of these and probably wouldn’t know the difference. DAX mentions longer compile times so maybe he does notice. 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.reliablesite.net/dedicated-servers/ [2]: /thoughts/

- This is a pretty great episode talking shop with typecraft. They talk setups, cameras, content creation. I found them talking about their linux setups particularly interesting. Dax talked about his flow from building his own machines to using reliablesite.com. tmux default leader # [1] Dax hates on c-a, both typecraft and dax use c-s, which normally freezes a terminal, we can all agree that is useless. I use the default c-b, it seems fine for me. type crafts setup # [2] - Ubuntu - Ghosty - Tmux - Nvim - Ruby Selling coffee without a web front end # [3] Dax talks about terminal.shop and how they originally planned to have a web front end, but after they had so much success they stuck with it. now they are leaning harder into it and are building out integrations with a bunch of languages and an api, but no front end. Note This post is a thought [4]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: #tmux-default-leader [2]: #type-crafts-setup [3]: #selling-coffee-without-a-web-front-end [4]: /thoughts/

PEP 723 – Inline script metadata | peps.python.org This PEP specifies a metadata format that can be embedded in single-file Python scripts to assist launchers, IDEs and other external tools which may need to interact with such scripts. Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) · peps.python.org [1] PEP 723 is what is inspiring all of these lazy self installing python scripts, Authored by the author of hatch and pyapp. This is a really cool thing that uv has picked up and made python packaging just a bit easier.. maybe… dependency resolution still sucks. 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://peps.python.org/pep-0723/ [2]: /thoughts/

Switching from virtualenvwrapper to direnv, Starship, and uv Earlier this week I considered whether I should finally switch away from virtualenvwrapper to using local .venv managed by direnv. I’ve never … treyhunner.com [1] I’ve kinda fallen out of using direnv now that a lot of my projects use hatch, I generally just hatch shell into them. I just need to make sure I go through all of them and make my installer uv. Now I’ve been thinking about making uv my only needed dependency to run a python project and leaning more to something like uv run --with . uvicorn myapp --reload 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://treyhunner.com/2024/10/switching-from-virtualenvwrapper-to-direnv-starship-and-uv/ [2]: /thoughts/

Lazy self-installing Python scripts with uv I frequently find myself writing my own short command-line scripts in Python that help me with day-to-day tasks. It’s so easy to throw together … treyhunner.com [1] I really like Trey’s steps to making an executable python script with uv his old process seems to be the same with a new shebang - Add an appropriate shebang line above the first line in the file (e.g. #!/usr/bin/env python3) - Aet an executable bit on the file (chmod a+x my_script.py) - Place the script in a directory that’s in my shell’s PATH variable (e.g. cp my_script.py ~/bin/my_script) And here is the new format the the shebang followed by the metadata comment block defined in PEP 723. #!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script # /// script # requires-python = ">=3.12" # dependencies = [ # "ffmpeg-normalize", # ] # /// 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://treyhunner.com/2024/12/lazy-self-installing-python-scripts-with-uv/ [2]: /thoughts/

My approach to running a link blog I started running a basic link blog on this domain back in November 2003—publishing links (which I called “blogmarks”) with a title, URL, short snippet of commentary and a “via” … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1] I still cannot believe I thought I had such a unique idea with thoughts only to find out shortly thereafter that Simon beat me to the punch by about 20 years! Simon put a lot of work into this post [2] please check it out. Its not only filled with tons of little nuggets about blogging, it has just a ton of links to other posts I’m itching to read now. https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/#thoughts.waylonwalker.com a linkblog proves that you read # [3] Simon mentions it in the post as well, but one thing about having a link blog does is that it proves that you actually read articles that you share. This is really more about proving to myself, and reminding myself that anyone else, it’s a good feeling. Trying to add soemthing extra # [4] - include names of people, and add tags for common people - something extra - the whole point is to bring something to the post without stealing thunder, but rather li...

This is a test post. I just updated the chrome extension for thoughts to take a the thumbnail image on open of the chrome extension so that it is rea... thoughts.waylonwalker.com [1] [1] References: [1]: https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/post/455

I really like this idea of keeping a set up contacts in a markdown repo, and being able to wikilink them to different tickets / meetings and what not.... thoughts.waylonwalker.com [1] [1] References: [1]: https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/post/454

How I use Obsidian Templater One of my favorite Obsidian plugins is Templater, which lets you create reusable templates in your notes vault! cassidoo.co [1] I really like this idea of keeping a set up contacts in a markdown repo, and being able to wikilink them to different tickets / meetings and what not. I’m imagining the graph you can build, it feels quite interesting. Even more relevant as we see things like teams rolling out retention limits to messages. Here is Cassidy’s format, I like it but I’m probably not going to track the birthday of most people I work with, thats just not the relationship I tend to have with work friends. It might be a midwest or non tech thing, but I am not even aware if any of my co-workers have social media, and I assume that if they did it would not include anything work related but more football and other sports. [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://cassidoo.co/post/obsidian-templater/ [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/32859bd6-1b9f-4d40-a87c-0b96a5a42084.webp [3]: /thoughts/

docker context (and an issue to question your sanity) | Nic Payne docker contexts are great, would recommend putting them in your prompt though (via starship or something else)... here's why I like to manage my containers pype.dev [1] Dang context can really cause you to pull your hair out. Context seems so freaking convenient, but I’ve avoided it and just ssh in for these reasons. Maybe I’ll come around eventually but for now ssh is my friend. 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/docker-context-and-an-issue-to-question-your-sanity [2]: /thoughts/