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I found an interesting side effect of manually running my script to generate [[ stars ]] posts is that you get notified when one gets renamed. Today I noticed that Ned Batchelder created a coveragepy org. [1] References: [1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/cf6dd0cc-5a74-40bf-8512-f62471ea1e56.png

Today I learned how to use AliasChoices with pydantic settings to setup common aliases for the same field. I’m bad about remembering these things, and hate looking up the docs. I like things to be intuitive and just do the thing I want it to do. Especially when they get configured through something like yaml and do not have a direct lsp look up right from my editor. I figured out how to support what might be common aliases for a storage directory. These can be set up as environment variables and used by config. from pathlib import Path from pydantic import Field from pydantic import AliasChoices from pydantic_settings import BaseSettings class Settings(BaseSettings): storage_dir: Path | None = Field( default=None, validation_alias=AliasChoices( "STORAGE_DIR", "STORAGE_DIRECTORY", "STORAGE_PATH", "STORAGE_PATHNAME", "DROPPER_STORAGE_DIR", "DROPPER_STORAGE_DIRECTORY", "DROPPER_STORAGE_PATH", "DROPPER_STORAGE_PATHNAME", ), description="Directory for stored files", )

Mark Zuckerberg scaled Facebook in 2005 - without Kubernetes, Serverless Functions, Redis, Managed Auth, Rust, or Kafka. No fancy orchestration. No distributed event streams. No cloud-native… | Anton Martyniuk | 270 comments Mark Zuckerberg scaled Facebook in 2005 - without Kubernetes, Serverless Functions, Redis, Managed Auth, Rust, or Kafka. No fancy orchestration. No distributed event streams. No cloud-native anyth… LinkedIn · linkedin.com [1] Lean on your skills and your goals. If your goals are to have fun, use whatever you want. If you are looking for a job, Lean on tech that bridges the gap between your resume and the job you want. If you want to build a good product use the tech you are best at. No one in their right mind would throw away 20 years of tech progression because Zuck built facebook ftping php to a server. The sentiment in this post is fine at best the picture feels triggering and oversimplies way too much. If you like kubernetes just fucking use kubernetes [2]. This topic deserves a full on post, maybe later. 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://www.linkedi...

- Are we cooked? Are we? Yes the consumers are cooked there are no more affordable cars with basic shit that you need to go point a to point b. Ford make us cars we can afford and you won’t be cooked by this dumb shit. If you can market it? Most people don’t care what sticker price is and only the monthly payment. This is why we are cooked. We stopped caring that these things cost way too much. I’m probably in a small minority that just want an affordable reliable vehicle and could care less about features past climate control. I don’t use them. My phone has maps and music I don’t need a screen in my vehicle for anything. 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/

mcat [1] by Skardyy [2] is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves. Terminal image, video, directory, and Markdown viewer References: [1]: https://github.com/Skardyy/mcat [2]: https://github.com/Skardyy

- #minecraft" playlabel="Play: I refuse to change the way I play… 😂🔥 #comedy #videogames #minecraft [1]"> Microsoft has been addding features to Minecraft for over 10 years now. Idk if there was momentum from the mojang theme, but we’ve barely paid attention to any updates in the last five years. The ocean update was huge, caves and cliffs were huge then it trailed off to we play each release on release day, use commands to try out new features, then never touch them again either to play minecraft as we always have or to play a modded pack with crazy new features that really make an impact on gameplay. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /tags/minecraft/ [2]: /thoughts/

- Absolutely incredible what Preston is doing with his time. What a life changing experience this must be for him. Good job to Turso for making this happen. We are going to end up with very feature rich file based databases out of this that the whole world will benefit from. 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/

- Absolutely love this selfhosted arc of pewdiepie that is going on right now. It’s crazy to witness now fast he is picking up linux / self hosting, and sounds like soon will be programming. In this one he built a $20k AI beast that crushes gippity with power, speed, proximity, and security. No one to take your data, no latency to the data center, no one else bogging down your prompts, just raw speed. It looks absolutely wild. He implemented RAG and gave it a bunch of data about himself and its able to spit out his wife’s name and phone number in under a second. It writes code at blazing pace. This may be the future that we get over the next few years as things shift towards AI there will be more affordable options, and a larger second hand market for building out these highly capable machines. 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/

The Glorious Pipe Operator (Elixir for PHP Devs) Let's talk about how how the functional pipe operator helps to simplify and improve code readability and composability, and how it contrasts with the fluent interface design pattern commonly used i... Jesse Leite · jesseleite.com [1] I’m so glad that python supports method chaining out of the box, very similar to the pipe operator that Jesse mentions here. It makes everything much more readable to follow the flow rather than needing to parse nested funcion calls out(inside()). 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://jesseleite.com/2025/the-glorious-pipe-operator [2]: /thoughts/

- I greatly appreciated the wide variety of experienced maintainers of large oss projects. From webdev to desktop application. The most common sentiment here was don’t contribute to open source just to contribute to open source. Bring something meaningful to the project. Find a project you like, look at the discussions/issues for work or start some discussions. If there are no meaningful features that you can add to projects that you use and love, make your own thing. Adam from tailwind really hit on this one several times. He has made tailwind extensible so that you don’t have to contribute to tailwind to get new capabilities, you can probably just extend tailwind with your thing. Its likely that it makes a lot more sense or your use case, and if it turns out that it makes sense for everyone have the discussion about bringing it in. The upside to small oss projects is that you can move at whatever pace you want and break them all you want when the user base is just you. As you move your stuff into tailwind you have to be very careful not to break the massive tailwind user base and you have to bend to the release schedule of tailwind. The other adjacent topic that kept coming ...

rustfs [1] by rustfs [2] is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves. 🚀 RustFS is an open-source, S3-compatible high-performance object storage system supporting migration and coexistence with other S3-compatible platforms such as MinIO and Ceph. References: [1]: https://github.com/rustfs/rustfs [2]: https://github.com/rustfs

You already have a git server: (Maurycy's blog) maurycyz.com [1] It’s so easy to forget low level tech sometimes. Things that are dead simple and just work without a hitch. git is one of those rock solid things thats very easy to remember all that it does, this is a classic use case. This just works cd /parent/directory/for/repo git clone ssh://username@server/path/to/repo In order to recieve you must update the remote to allow recieve. git config receive.denyCurrentBranch updateInstead Now you can pull update push. It’s funny how this was the way I first learned to do Continuous Deployment to a RHEL7 machine, also how Heroku worked, but its so easy to forget this solution is there. I come across it every few years and immediately have a few use cases in mind. 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://maurycyz.com/misc/easy_git/ [2]: /thoughts/

Please don't give Reflect Orbital money: (Maurycy's blog) maurycyz.com [1] Well done write up about reflecting solar energy back to earth from low orbit space. I did not know this was a thing, apparently it is/isn’t. Solar is a great technology, its largest limitations are that its not consistent. This tech does not fix this problem, what does is efficient long term storage. I’ve seen some crazy ideas going back to my days in school, maybe elementry school. Theres a lot of innovative ways to store potential energy by moving heavy objects uphill whether fluid or solid. The issue is that energy storage at grid scale is HUGE and not efficient enough. Even assuming this idea had any legs at all, it still doesn’t solve the problem of inconsistent power because it still cant go through clouds! 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://maurycyz.com/misc/sunlight_as_a_service/ [2]: /thoughts/

Melo (@letitmelo.bsky.social) I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research. [… Bluesky Social · bsky.app [1] Wild to see the LinkedIn post linked here to see how out of touch this feels. I find it astonishing that they have something so ingrained into gaming culture as twitch, yet build something like Prime Gaming. Maybe I have no idea what Prime gaming is, but it feels like the opposite of ownership. What I get from steam is a sense of ownership. I own the desktop/laptop/handheld, no one cough nintendo cough cough cant remotely disable my device for using it inappropriately. I have a sense of trust with steam that as long as Gabe is alive I own what I paid for and will be able to open up and play anything at any time on any device I want. It might be a $100 dell workstation raised out of the coorporate refurb bin, it might be a high end machine, It could be my 2010 gateway or my 2045 custom build and they are all likely to play a good amount of my library at some level. I still understand that I really own nothing and the moment s...

External Link X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1] ROASTED Unfortunately that game uses some of the worst spyware in the industry, it will never work outside of > Windows with secure boot enabled and TPM hardware. Consider Dota 2 or other mobas by competent developers 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://x.com/bazzite_gg/status/1983204433627623590 [2]: /thoughts/

Meredith Whittaker (@meredithmeredith.bsky.social) 📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, … Bluesky Social · bsky.app [1] Great justification for using the cloud. The infrastructure requirement for signal to be such a great app would be massive for a small team with low budget. The cloud is fantastic at unknown scaling, bursts beyond reasonable capacity to run yourself, getting compute everywhere in the world, and offloading huge infrastructure management costs. DHH is 100% right that we have gone too far, too many things come out cloud first for services that can be ran locally cough such as your bed cough cough. One week ago when the world came to a hault, I did not bat an eye at these small teams with complex requirements going down with AWS. Their own products seem quite damning to me. It signals that they cannot themselves become resilient to themselves. It shows how hard this problem is, how much cost in complexity and resources it requires. I’m sure there are fail overs that happened successfully that we will never hear ...

Just starred croc [1] by schollz [2]. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer. Easily and securely send things from one computer to another 🐊 📦 References: [1]: https://github.com/schollz/croc [2]: https://github.com/schollz

I often want to run an s3 sync in an isolated environment, I don’t want to set any environment variables, I don’t want anything secret in my history, and I don’t want to change my dotenv into something that exports variables, I just want s3 sync to work. dotenv run is the tool that I’ve been using for this, and this uv one liner lets it run fully isolated from the project. one liner # [1] uv tool run --from 'python-dotenv[cli]' dotenv run -- uv tool run --from awscli aws s3 sync s3://bucket data multi-line # [2] same thing formatted for readability uv tool run \ --from 'python-dotenv[cli]' \ dotenv run -- \ uv tool run \ --from awscli \ aws s3 sync s3://dropper data There are probably 10 ways to skin this cat, but this is what I did, if you have a better way let me know, I’ll link you below. References: [1]: #one-liner [2]: #multi-line

- Atuin desktop sounds dope AF, tried to install it off the AUR [1] and it was broken for me. Seems early and the dev team is all in on mac. They have an official .deb and .rpm. I’ll have to try again later, maybe the binary will work. The idea of building out runbooks from my Atuin data sounds dope AF. It sounds like a mix of markdown and executable cells like a jupyter notebook, but not. Really pitching hard to those of us in the system administration, dev ops, SRE space. Having something that you walk through when a system goes down and you are feeling panicked in DR mode sounds relieving. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /aur/ [2]: /thoughts/

- Cloud is cooked bois. Seriously too much dumb shit relies on the cloud. Too much critical shit relies on single AZ’s. If normies are literally loosing sleep over an AWS outage (queue the Uncle Roger Voice), You’ve Fucked up. It’s wild to even think about a bed relying on the cloud let alone fully stop working when UE-1 goes down. I want to live in a world of opt in FEATURES, things that bring value to a product because it makes it better. Somehow a bed smells suspiciously like a cash grab for a subscription because its cloud connected. And yet for some reason it takes 16GeeeBee’s per month. I don’t own one of these, and I don’t want to. I don’t want a subscription for everything, I want my shit to just work. The future we are headed towards a world that is ever more reliant on a few key clouds. Which is fine. It’s fantastic that small companies can start and scale without owning an infrastructure team. It’s great that they have the ability to give us many nines of reliability. Some things just don’t need the cloud. 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/