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⭐ catppuccin ulauncher
The work on ulauncher [1] by catppuccin [2]. 🇺 Soothing pastel theme for Ulauncher References: [1]: https://github.com/catppuccin/ulauncher [2]: https://github.com/catppuccin
⭐ codex-team editor.js
The work on editor.js [1] by codex-team [2]. A block-style editor with clean JSON output References: [1]: https://github.com/codex-team/editor.js [2]: https://github.com/codex-team
basecamp/omakub: Opinionated Ubuntu Setup github.com
GitHub - basecamp/omakub: Opinionated Ubuntu Setup Opinionated Ubuntu Setup. Contribute to basecamp/omakub development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com [1] This is DHH’s linux startup script. Call it a distro if you want, but he doesn’t. It’s made to take a vanilla ubuntu install and configure everything the way he likes it. There’s a number of great nuggets in here to pick up on. No need to write bespoke configs for every essential tool just to get started or to be up on all the latest command-line tools. Omakub is an opinionated take on what Linux can be at its best. Check it out and give it a ⭐ basecamp/omakub [1]{.hoverlink}. References: [1]: https://github.com/basecamp/omakub
From the Circle to Epicycles (Part 1) - An animated introducti... www.andreinc.net
From the circle to epicycles | Personal Site of Andrei N. Ciobanu This article will be part of an extensive series in which I plan to explore various aspects of Fourier Mathematics. I will take notes, create some visuals (a good pretext to learn more about graphi... andreinc.net [1] This is a really cool animated visual representation of how sine waves work, how they relate to circles, pi, rad, and how to add up a series of waves to make square and sawtooth waves. References: [1]: https://www.andreinc.net/2024/04/24/from-the-circle-to-epicycles
⭐ darrenburns posting
Check out darrenburns [1] and their project posting [2]. The modern API client that lives in your terminal. References: [1]: https://github.com/darrenburns [2]: https://github.com/darrenburns/posting
How to Force Dark Mode on Every Website in Google Chrome www.howtogeek.com
How to Force Dark Mode on Every Website in Google Chrome Do you like dark mode? Chrome now lets you forcibly enable it for every site on the web. No more blindingly bright websites. How-To Geek · howtogeek.com [1] Sometimes I struggle to get my os to report dark mode to chrome, luckily there is a way to force chrome to always use dark mode. I’ve never really gotten into dark reader and extensions like this. For some reason they all make websites look really weird to me and I don’t really care for it. What I want is websites designed to be in dark/light to always go dark, if the designer didn’t design dark just let it be light. References: [1]: https://www.howtogeek.com/446198/how-to-force-dark-mode-on-every-website-in-google-chrome/

Tailscale allows you to ssh into all of your tailscale machines, it busts through firewalls and accross networks without complex setup. If you have used tailscale before this is an obvious no brainer. What is not obvious is that you can configure tailscale to allow ssh connections from devices within your tailnet without even a ssh daemon process running right through the tailscale daemon.

tailscale status
tailscale set --ssh

I picked this up from the tailscale youtube channel.

Tailscale

xxHash - Extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm xxhash.com
xxHash - Extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm xxhash.com [1] xxHash is an extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm, working at RAM speed limit. It is proposed in four flavors (XXH32, XXH64, XXH3_64bits and XXH3_128bits). The latest variant, XXH3, offers improved performance across the board, especially on small data. References: [1]: https://xxhash.com/
xxhash · PyPI pypi.org
xxhash Python binding for xxHash PyPI · pypi.org [1] I hit an issue with markata where even though a bunch of articles were cached, the site build was still slow because I was hitting hashlib.sha256 so hard for cache keys. I was shocked when this popped up in my profiler as a significant portion of the time spent. I swapped out for xxhash and that issue completely went away. References: [1]: https://pypi.org/project/xxhash/

I just implemented a latest blog post link in Markata by asking for the first post slug from the blog feed. The implementation uses the jinja_md plugin to render jinja against the markdown and a tag to redirect.

My latest blog post is [[ {{ markata.feeds.blog.posts[0].slug }} ]].  Click the
link if you are not automatically redirected.

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url='/{{ markata.feeds.blog.posts[0].slug }}'" />

Setting up the feed #

Feeds are setup in markata.toml configuration. They provide a handy way to create an html feed, rss feed, and quickly reference a filtered set of posts like this.

# you will need to enable the jinja_md plugin along with the defaults
[markata]
hooks = [
    "markata.plugins.jinja_md",
    "default",
    ]

# set up the blog feed
[[markata.feeds]]
slug = 'blog'
template = "feed.html"
filter = "date<=today and templateKey in ['blog-post'] and published"
sort = "date"
reverse = true

For more information on markata check out the full markata post.

Replicate — Run AI with an API replicate.com
Replicate - Run AI with an API Run open-source machine learning models with a cloud API replicate.com [1] This is so easy compared to self hosting stable diffusion yourself. It even has a nice api that you can hit with curl or python. The pricing seems competitive as well. Bookmarking this to try next time I need something like it. References: [1]: https://replicate.com/
How to Deliver Code Every Day | Jake Worth www.jakeworth.com
How to Deliver Code Every Day I recently calculated that I merge 0.8 pull requests every day into my team repo. Let’s round up and say I merge about one PR every day, delivering one or more features to production. I like this... Jake Worth · jakeworth.com [1] Great set of tips here! No waiting. No “waiting until tomorrow” or “It’s Friday, let’s wait until Monday” to deploy. If your deploys are so slow that deploying an hour before the end of the day is a risk, that’s a separate problem. If you’re afraid of a Friday deploy, your system is too brittle, or you don’t have foolproof rollback procedures, or you don’t have people you trust on call to resolve it. Each of these is a problem that you can fix. This one I find interesting I think there are some industries where customers come in large waves over the weekend, and a weekend bug can not only ruin someones day off, take longer to fix, but also cost a lot of money. Not deploying on Friday is totally what that team should be doing. Most of us are not that team. Most of us work on small teams supporting some sort of product that Should be able to be tested and rolled back. I completely agree with Jake here, if your not will...
Be Fast | Jake Worth www.jakeworth.com
You Have to Get Fast to Get Good at Programming Great programmers aren’t fast because they’re great. They’re great because they’re fast. Jake Worth · jakeworth.com [1] Be Fast, Practice, Hone your craft. There’s a lot to be said here about honing your craft for editing text, picking up a few extra WPM, learning vim shortcuts. Also just build shit. The more you build new and different things the more not only your text editing will just roll out, your skills to see patterns in code and architecture will flourish. Read their bios, and the answer is always no. They loved to play, sure. They had some base talent, typically. But they also invested an absurd amount of time into that skill set. This! is actually what turned me on to Post Malone. I remember hearing his story in how he was just known as the guy with a guitar because he was always playing it between class and everything. References: [1]: https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/be-fast/

Refactoring one line links into wikilinks

Previously I had setup a feature of my website to expand one line links into a card. This was not a standard, even to the point that some formatters wrap the links with , thus breaking my custom plugin. Moving to the wikilink standard will allow my markdown posts to work accross more site builders without custom integrations. Expand One Line Links [1] What is a wikilink # [2] Wikilinks are standard to a lot of wikis written in markdown. markdown-it-wikilinks [3] The wikilink syntax is a slug wrapped in double square brackets. [[ slug ]] Marksman lsp will even autocomplete these for you, its pretty sweet. Note I recently implemented hover for wikilinks and and am pretty stoked about the result. Check this one out sick wikilink hover [4]. Vim Quickfix # [5] You could use vimgrep to fill your quickfix list will all of the one line links but I am less familiar with vimgrep and kept missing posts for some reason, I think it was something in my file glob missing some directori...
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about this site

I registered waylonwalker.com and started making content for it in 2017 after a big industry downturn in 2016 that left me scared for what would happen if I were laid off. The company I was working for at the time did it’s first major downsizing in history sending many really good engineers out to look for new opportunities in a world flooded with many in the same situation. This was very similar to what happened to the tech industry in 2024. This was very similar to what happened to the tech industry in 2024. See Waylon Walker [1] for more about me. What is this site? # [2] - It’s a blog - Digital Garden - Learn in public - TIL - portfolio - my personal corner of the internet It’s [NOT]{.text-red-500 .text-6xl .font-bold} Perfect # [3] - There will be mistakes - I will learn - Grammar will be fine, but never perfect - Code will run on my machine, but not guaranteed to be perfect - There will be days when the whole site is broken It started as a blog # [4] This site...
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⭐ pypeaday eol-dr
Just starred eol-dr [1] by pypeaday [2]. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer. A crowd-sourced guide to help techs help their non-tech spouses / partners / parents / kids when we are at the end-of-life References: [1]: https://github.com/pypeaday/eol-dr [2]: https://github.com/pypeaday

sick wikilink hover

Today I set up some sick wikilink hover effects using tailwind see A Case For Tailwindcss [1]. When you hover over them they show an image preview of the link that you are going to. I cant find where I have seen this but it comes from some docs sites. I’ll finish this article later, just excited to see it up. References: [1]: /a-case-for-tailwindcss/
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