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Blogroll Blogroll - a collection of awesome people I follow online Waylon Walker · reader.waylonwalker.com [1] I rolled out the blogroll today, nothing pretty, but is one single page of the rss feeds I follow. 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://reader.waylonwalker.com/blogroll/ [2]: /thoughts/

- Markata got a shout out part way through the latest episode of LNL, I will go back, re-listen and take some of the feedback. His thoughts on Markata were interesting. On one hand it really is a thing for me that works for me, and as a person with too many side projects I don’t have the focus to really give it polish. On the other hand it really confirms why listen to podcasts, news, finger on the pulse, opinions and how often these guys are wrong, they are not the expert they probably look at 6 things like this a week. He said that it was some sort of javascript thing, that maybe he could fix or customize with javascript if he wanted, kinda shocking, I thought maybe I accidentally added node modules or something dumb, nope, I have a whopping 1.4% js. So most of the comments were plain wrong. I get it he probably peeked at it for 30s and realized it wasn’t the thing for his problem. At the same time I should probably do a better job at marketing what it really is, cleaning up the docs and demo. 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/

[1] Such a great message right now. I feel like everywhere I turn is negativity, especially social media. It feels like so many things are trying to divide and create hate. “This” is what we should be doing with social media. There are a lot of elements of “there are two ways to have the biggest building in town, tear down all the bigger buildings, or just build the biggest fucking building”, If you want to be successful in X then surround yourself with others successful in X. This is a catalytic skill that everyone needs to have in their belt. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /static/https://josephthacker.com/personal/2025/05/13/root-for-your-friends.html [2]: /thoughts/

I’m currently [[replacing-google-search-apps-with-self-hosted-web-apps]] and decided to create a simple b64 encoder/decoder, just start typing to enter text, escape to deselect, then e/d to encode/decode. I’m trying to make these apps super simple, self hosted [1] out of minio, static html [2], and javascript. It’s been fun to get back to some simple interactive web development like this. No build just a website that does something. No broken builds, no containers to deploy, just push to minio. encoded = btoa(content); decoded = atob(encoded); Here is the result. [3] References: [1]: /self-host/ [2]: /html/ [3]: https://b64.wayl.one

f2 [1] by ayoisaiah [2] is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves. F2 is a cross-platform command-line tool for batch renaming files and directories quickly and safely. Written in Go! References: [1]: https://github.com/ayoisaiah/f2 [2]: https://github.com/ayoisaiah

- Great conversation with Billy Basso the creator of Animal Well on the code architecture of Animal well. It’s all hand crafted C++. He talks about early games he tried to build being heavy in oop, and really got lost in oop. Animal well is very flat, there is no inheritance, just lists of entities that all implement similar methods in their own way. Layering and order of entities becomes very important. Its crazy how much he had to think about hardware and MS build being very helpful with this, but needing to know all of the console apis. 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/

Just fucking code. justfuckingcode.com [1] This is great, beautifully captures a modern backend view of https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/. I honestly resonate with almost all of this. I have found myself in more trouble than help when trying to fully vibe out a project. It never refactors, it leaves it shit everywhere, it mostly does what you say, until you get to something that seems easy, so you try to do it yourself, but you break its brittle piece of shit into pieces any time you try to touch it. AI coding help is great, mcp seems like it really has some game changing abilities, but hands of vibe coded crap aint there yet for me. 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.justfuckingcode.com/ [2]: /thoughts/

- I did not realize half of this, and it took me at least 4 watches through this to catch everything. 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/

k8s-monitoring-helm/charts/k8s-monitoring/docs/examples/private-image-registries/globally/values.yaml at main · grafana/k8s-monitoring-helm Contribute to grafana/k8s-monitoring-helm development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com [1] k8s-monitoring requires setting imageregistry and pullsecrets twice global: image: registry: my.registry.com pullSecrets: - name: my-registry-creds imageRegistry: my.registry.com imagePullSecrets: - name: my-registry-creds 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://github.com/grafana/k8s-monitoring-helm/blob/main/charts/k8s-monitoring/docs/examples/private-image-registries/globally/values.yaml#L29 [2]: /thoughts/

No docs, no bugs If your library doesn't have any documentation, it can't have any bugs. Documentation specifies what your code is supposed to do. Your tests specify what it actually does. Bugs exist … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1] Bugs exist when your test-enforced implementation fails to match the behavior described in your documentation. Without documentation a bug is just undefined behavior. This is quite an interesting thought, so does this mean that, none of my undocumented side projects have bugs? no I think there is still some implied behavior that naming things covers. a function get_bucket_contents implies doing something wtih s3, getting stuff from your local filesystem or crashing would be considered a bug. I think the argument here is that if I start mining bitcoin when you call get_bucket_contents and I have not documented it that this is a feature not a bug. If I were to take this a step further, now do I need to document that this does not also start a bitcoin miner? maybe this is more of an unwanted feature than a bug, I’m convincing myself more and more. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s ...

- So many small details go into making hollow knight such a great game, but it starts with such good controls, every thing is so fluid and predictable. I knew about coyote time, but not some of the other details that Juniper covers, such as hang time, and faster decent than jump. 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/

I’m trying to replace my usage of google inline search apps with real apps, today I used a stopwatch to time some things out at work by opening stopwatch. This was something I just wanted running in a tab on another screen, it was not timing running code or anything, I was using it as a reminder to check browser caches every 5 minutes or so for some testing. So tonight I whipped up a stopwatch [1], clock [2] and timer [3], all of which are using the wakelock API to keep the screen on while the app is running. // Wake Lock support let wakeLock = null; async function requestWakeLock() { try { if ('wakeLock' in navigator) { wakeLock = await navigator.wakeLock.request('screen'); console.log("Wake lock acquired"); } } catch (err) { console.error("Wake lock error:", err); } } document.addEventListener("visibilitychange", () => { if (wakeLock !== null && document.visibilityState === "visible") { requestWakeLock(); } }); requestWakeLock(); References: [1]: https://stopwatch.wayl.one [2]: https://clock.wayl.one [3]: https://timer.wayl.one

I’m impressed by dbztui [1] from pypeaday [2]. A DBZ TUI built with an early version of ninesUI and Windsurf References: [1]: https://github.com/pypeaday/dbztui [2]: https://github.com/pypeaday

- Excited to hear this story, they have so many key players in the trailer this will be fantastic. 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/

I’ve been working on ninesui [1], inspired by k9s see thoughts-633 [2]. I want a good flow for making video for the readme and I am using charm.sh [3]’s vhs [4] for this. Its running in an archBTW distrobox and looks gawdaweful. sort.mp4 [5] The over saturated colors give it a really retro look, seems fine, but not my cup of tea. I tried to change the textual theme to tokyo-night and it might have made it a bit better, but still over-saturated. After # [6] What I found is that vhs has themes, setting it to dracula made everything much better. # sort.tape Output assets/sort.mp4 Output assets/sort.gif Require echo Set Shell "bash" Set FontSize 32 Set Width 1920 Set Height 1080 + Set Theme 'Dracula' sort.mp4 [7] NinesUI # [8] I’m using these in my ninesui [9] project, right now they are in the readme, but maybe some docs will grow eventually. Right now its hardcore explore phase. References: [1]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker/ninesui/blob/main/README.md [2]: https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/post/633 [3]: https://charm.sh/apps/ [4]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs [5]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/e86047ed-6881-43f7-8e3a-30411d51afaf.mp4 [6]: #after [...

External Link christopherbiscardi.com [1] Interesting take on kubernetes from a front end perspective. All valid arguments to me, and really the answer to any do you need to any specific implementation of tech is probably no. We got along just fine before k8s ever existed and you still can, but its really nice in a lot of cases. If your skills lean toward backend or infrastructure I encourage you to give it a try. k8s distros # [2] There are a lot of beginner friendly k8s distros that you can setup with relative ease, kind and k0s are great for single node, If you want multi-node k3s is what I generally use. If you want a very lightweight OS that you only interact with through an api, and has a very small attack surface talos is an amazing product. When else might you want k8s # [3] Internal, on-prem, self hosted [4]. If you are trying to avoid the cloud for cost, rules, regulations, red tape, kubernetes is a great option to manage your container workflows yourself without needing to have a cloud budget, get approvals and sign offs on running workflows in a public cloud. Note This post is a thought [5]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #t...

- Just listened to this as I am really starting to get into grafana and feel like there isn’t a mountain of setup this time around realizing how much of my stack is brand new. Drill Down and Alloy are both new and key to my setup. The Ai integrations at the end sound wicked good, I will be interested if you can do similar things with an MCP vs how much proprietary stuff needs grafana 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/

Textual - The future of Textualize Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development. Textual Documentation · textual.textualize.io [1] Ultimately though a business needs a product. Textual has always been a solution in search of a problem. And while there are plenty of problems to which Textual is a fantastic solution, we weren’t able to find a shared problem or pain-point to build a viable business around. I can totally see this. Finding a marketable business idea is not easy, working in the developer space where everyone wants to do it themselves is no better. Textual specifically I could see, I really wanted to build things on it as it came out, I had ideas, it was hard to use at the time and changing, so I took a break, got busy with far too many other things, and really I ’m good with rich most of the time. I daily use k9s, its absolutely amazing at what it does and appreciate that I could build something like it in python, its just hard to justify the time investment for the things I tend to work on. Which is why Textualize, the company, will be wrapping up in the next few weeks. Damn, that hit hard, its been an adventure watching textual ge...

What’s next? Some years ago I had the opportunity to work fulltime on project of mine. This was at a time where I fully intended to take a year off, but being able to make a living off a project of your own cre... Will McGugan · willmcgugan.github.io [1] So it’s back to plan A: taking a year off. I plan on using this time to focus on my health–something I haven’t prioritized while working as a CEO / Founder of a startup. Wish you the best Will, you have given us textual and rich, and from what I can tell left it in some great hands. All I can say for certain is that I would like to write more. Writing scratches many of the same itches as software development, and it is a skill I’d like to nurture. Go get em Will, write to your hearts desire, and resist the urge to make an SSG company this time. 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://willmcgugan.github.io/whats-next/ [2]: /thoughts/

Too much magic A common criticisms of frameworks like Textual is that they have “too much magic”. Will McGugan · willmcgugan.github.io [1] Now “too much magic” is not the same thing as “bad magic”, although they are often conflated. Bad magic is when the implementation details leak out from the level below. This can manifest itself as cryptic errors that reference the magic’s implementation. 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://willmcgugan.github.io/too-much-magic/ [2]: /thoughts/