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This is a pretty nice gear generator. I printed a few gears today and it worked great so far.

This is kinda sick, its a tool to clean up container images in a k8s cluster.

I recently discovered eraser by eraser-dev, and it’s truly impressive.

🧹 Cleaning up images from Kubernetes nodes

distrobox gives you distrobox-host-exec to run commands on the host. This is handy to get access to host level clis that you probably wouldn’t want to run from the container like podman, docker, flatpak.

DESCRIPTION distrobox-host-exec lets one execute command on the host, while inside of a container.

Under the hood, distrobox-host-exec uses host-spawn a project that lets us execute commands back on the host. If the tool is not found the user will be prompted to install it.

A comprehensive community built index of anti-cheat support for linux very similar to proton, but specific to anticheat support.

ublue-os makes a github template for making your own git repo with actions that build out your own personal ublue iso.

The work on image-template by ublue-os.

Build your own custom Universal Blue Image!

Distrobox is so interesting and cool, I’ve only recently started realizing how much it can do especially related to hardware and graphics, this is quite an example that runs obs in a distrobox. I had no idea distrobox would let you connect to cameras and gpus so seemlessly, and give you a gui to work from. And with distrobox you can export so that it just looks like an app on your system.

The work on obs-studio-portable by ublue-os.

OCI container image of OBS Studio that bundles a curated collection of 3rd party plugins

andydunstall has done a fantastic job with piko. Highly recommend taking a look.

An open-source alternative to Ngrok, designed to serve production traffic and be simple to host (particularly on Kubernetes)

2024 has been a wild year for infra with going “back” to on prem being made popular by @dhh. Well it looks like ahrefs saw right through the cloud trends an decided to ride the anti cloud train until it came back around to the station.

Being just a bit critical of the article it is impossible to get an apples to apples without actually running something of this scale and spending too much to find out. I cant imagine raw ec2 and ebs being the cheapest route into aws. They used no serverless tech in their article, but I digress, because I like this own your shit and build good product train.

What about People?!

This follow up does dive into the typical gut reaction that people cost a lot of money, you must account for them. You see when you hire people who are actually good at what they do, and run lean a lot of cost goes away, you have levels of management that disappear, levels of tooling that don’t need to exist, departments of IT don’t need to exist.

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When using justfiles each line is ran separately from the last, unless you specify the file to be ran by something other than just such as bash. If you want variables to persist you need to set a shebang.

Also if you are using your script i a way that you want it to exit when it fails you need to set -e and -o pipefail. This is critical if you are thinking about using just for production scripts like ci/cd. I’ve hit too bugs where ci passes, but no artifacts were created issues for this exact reason.

This is a dope ass cheat sheet for justfiles. It’s filled with good examples that are short and to the point, probably all from the docs, but anyways I need to do some like this for myself.

Damn this Tim Paul quote finishes hard and such a good point. None of the stuff around llms just work. Good ui’s, front end, back end, infrastructure, product. All these things still need to exist, and in fact for ai to be good we need to still go hard on them otherwise everything will die in a heaping pile of ai slop

I’m no developer, but I got the AI part working in about an hour.

What took longer was the other stuff: identifying the problem, designing and building the UI, setting up the templating, routes and data architecture.

It reminded me that, in order to capitalise on the potential of AI technologies, we need to really invest in the other stuff too, especially data infrastructure.

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PopSql looks like a very innovative product to bring collaboration to data exploration and visualization in a way you would expect from something like vscode liveshare. This looks far more appealing than a traditional BI data tool.

interesting pricing model from popsql (pronounces Popsicle). At a glance you pay for data retention, want the abiltiy to recall all the queries you ran within the last year, run at a higher frequency, you jump a pricing tier.

such a sick episode with dax.

SST’s free tier will be free as long as aws allows a free tier, their free tier literally costs them nothing.

They talked about keeping SST small, the limitations that brings, but also the number of problems that just go away when you only have 3 people building. Lots of process disappears, everyone can trust everyone, no one needs to wait for approval, everyone is their own PM and just builds cool shit. They don’t have to worry about big costs and making payroll because they are profitable so much higher than their costs.

If they can get through phase one of just being the go platform for a very specific audience of users, and gain marketshare, the ideas of offerings on top of this are endless.

I had no idea that you could just drop an msi installer right in steam. This worked for me, and was much easier to install pokemon tcg live in 05-2024 on ubuntu 22-04. I added the msi to steam from my downloads, hit start, failed right away like he said it would. changed compatability to proton experimental, and it opened right up.

The work on datastar by starfederation.

The hypermedia framework.

exclude=True and repr=False is a good pydantic combination for secret attributes such as user passwords, or hashed passwords. exclude keeps it out of model_dumps, and repr keeps it out of the logs.