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This is a sick looking bash script generator for installing binaries off of github releases. it reccomends curl into bash, but you could curl into install.sh and toss that in your dotfiles repo or wherever.
Install installer with installer
podman comes with a nice command for generating systemd service files (units).
I like MordechaiHadad’s project bob.
A version manager for neovim
Pagefind is absolutely insane. I’ve tried a number of static site searches, and found them all hard to get get going, clunky and not the best experience as a user or developer.
I setup pagefind in about 2 minutes on my site where it found and indexed 833 pages in 2 minutes.
The only downside I see so far is that it is a lot of bandwidth to the user. On simulated slow 3G you can definitly feel it, but not terrible. Anything slower and its going to start feeling frustrating.
edit: I have actually fully deployed it on waylonwalker.com, and its fast!
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If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on project.nvim, created by ahmedkhalf.
The superior project management solution for neovim.
I’ve recently given tailwindcss a second chance and am really liking it. Here is how I set it up for my python based projects.
https://waylonwalker.com/a-case-for-tailwindcss
npm is used to install the cli that you will need to configure and compile tailwindcss.
npm install -g tailwindcss-cli
Setup #
You will need to create a tailwind.config.js file, to get this you can use the cli.
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Dang Mariah, killing it with continuous learning perspective.
A Case For Tailwindcss
I was watching @theprimeagen recently and I think he sold me on using tailwindcss. The thing about tailwind is that it is not a big component library, it’s a set of css classes mapped to a few (usually one) style.
All css classes are shitty, so you might as well use someone else’s shitty css classes on all your projects rather than thinking you’re being smart with a new set of classes that you will hate in 6 months when you come back to the project. roughly quoted from memory of @theprimeagen
So unlike big component libraries like tailwind, it comes with a cli that that it uses to create the final css file. It is able to treeshake out all the tailwind classes that you are not using and only ship the ones that you are using.
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Kinda mindblown that this is even possible. This is so far outside of my current thinking that i didn’t even think of an elegant way to implement semantic search accross images and text at the same time. I know it happens at Google, but I envision that as still text search accross tags and meta data about the image.
Based on the number of responses CLIP is the thing that does this.
I came across textual-web from Textualize, and it’s packed with great features and ideas.
Run TUIs and terminals in your browser
This is the greatest nvim emmet plugin I have tried. In the past I had tried the vim plugin a few times and just could not get a good flow with the keybindings and found it confusing for my occasional use. emmet-ls just uses lsp-completion, so its the same flow as other completions.
You can try it out by installing with :Mason
Simon’s llm cli is getting quite interesting. I really want to run some clustering on my website content.
Tried out biome today and it worked better than prettier on jinja templates, I might adopt this over prettier.
Make the easy things easy
It’s so easy to get out of rhythm, get busy, and drop the ball on some things that you really want to do or should do. This blog is a good example. I took some time off for some family reasons, but have taken a long time to get back to it simply because I am out of rhythm. As I am trying to get back into the rhythm there is some tooling that I have set up for it that I completely forgot about that feel good to use again.
Simple Repetitive Tasks that I have to do often can just feel soul crushing, and one main thing that got me interested in programming.
AI tools are becoming more and more useful at solving these problems. For instance code generation tools like co-pilot or codeium are really good at boilerplate and pattern repetition. Things that used to be a few vim macros is now just banging on tab.
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Check out aboutfeeds by genmon. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential.
Web feeds/RSS “getting started” guide for new users.
An extension to disable elements during flight of an htmx request, Looks super useful for things like a create or delete button where the server would end up with an error if you double delete or double create. This eliminates an error path that the user might see under normal use of the ui.
The htmx-request class is added to htmx-target elements. You can target this css selector to create loading state throbbers.
By default the target element will the self, but you can use the typical htmx css selector to select which element will recieve the htmx-request class while the request is running.
The only way to override the name of the class is through config.