Posts tagged: thought

An Ode To My 10-Year-Old Thinkpad T440 mbrizic.com [1] I like reading about old hardware and how to keep it running, sending shit out to e-waste after barely using it for a year makes my skin crawl. I find it interesting how most of these resurrections start with a linux build, and the author giving in and going for linux for the first time and enjoying being able to use something they thought was useless for real work. That being said I have weird thoughts similar to this guy about being able to take a machine and write a novel somewhere off in the distance, but any time I try to do real work form any laptop these days the ergonomics become so unappealing that I tend to just not do anything away from my desk. Theres something that sounds so great about opening vim on old hardware that could last for hours, sip on coffee and write away, but it never works out like that in practice. References: [1]: https://mbrizic.com/blog/thinkpad-t440/

Transparent Textures transparenttextures.com [1] Fantastic resource of background textures, I will be using this for some projects. References: [1]: https://transparenttextures.com/

uv run for running tests on versions of Python Using uv run with make to replace tox or nox for testing multiple versions of Python locally. https://daniel.feldroy.com · daniel.feldroy.com [1] Such a fantastic use of uv, its so fast and flexible and does everything I need that next time I go to set up some more complex testing like this I’m going to lean towards it more than i would something like tox. In the post Daniel sets up matrix testing for testing out different versions of python with the same pytest test suite. References: [1]: https://daniel.feldroy.com/posts/2025-07-uv-run-for-testing-python-versions

[1]2025-07-09 Notes [1] from yesterday I have temporal stuff kind of going with postiz in a windsurf session working on [[thoughts-to-nostr]] Been cleaning up my z" loading="lazy"> 2025-07-10 Notes | Nic Payne 2025-07-09 Notes [2] from yesterday I have temporal stuff kind of going with postiz in a windsurf session working on [[thoughts-to-nostr]] Been cleaning up my z pype.dev big fan of eza and dust, I like these aliases to have some common commands at my fingertips. I often use the tree command and yes it sometimes goes too deep to actually be useful. alias lt='eza -T --level=2' # Tree view, 2 levels deep alias ltt='eza -T --level=3' # Tree view, 3 levels deep alias du1='dust -d 1' # Show only 1 level deep alias du2='dust -d 2' # Show 2 levels deep References: [1]: https://pype.dev/2025-07-10-notes/ [2]: /2025-07-09-notes/

- Love this dudes casual dry humor style, not afraid to poke fun at things with his dry ass satire. that being said, fc is new and as a long time fan of up arrow and !! I will be using this often.

Quickshell A fully user customizable desktop shell quickshell · quickshell.org [1] This has to be the most incredible looking Desktop experience I’ve ever seen, riced to the nines, more polished than macos, more features than kde plasma, this looks incredible and I want to try it and feel it. https://quickshell.org/assets/showcase/end4.mp4 References: [1]: https://quickshell.org/

- DT says it so well in this video, I’ve never really been one to shit on software projects, with maybe a VERY small handful of exceptions. The shitting on ubuntu always rubbed me wrong, shitting on flatpak and snap I never got, shitting on systemd because of Leonard Pottering I never got, DT puts it in such good words here. If you don’t like it you are probably not the target audience. If Ubuntu is too bloated, don’t try to debloat it, this is not windows, we have options, Ubuntu is one option and so much is intertwined together in something like Ubuntu if you think you want to try to “debloat” it good luck. If you have a problem with Snaps, this is probably not for you. You are probably looking for a distro with more control, probably something that you choose everything for.

Lab Update Update on the lab setup and what I’ve been working on recently. Cloudy with a Chance of Tech · blog.thomaswimprine.com [1] Always enjoy a good read through someone elses setup. I appreciate the desire for pi clusters they are cute, they seem cheap, but feel a bit overrated (at least for those of us with relatively cheap electricity). I love seeing the refurb “tiny desktops” getting a second useful life in a homelab [2] after they have serve their useful life in the corporate world sitting behind the monitor of some reception desk. These things rock, they are underrated, x86_64, not ARM, so they just work. Until ARM becomes more normalized in the datacenter this is where its at. References: [1]: https://blog.thomaswimprine.com/blog/2025-07-07-Lab-Update/ [2]: /homelab/

Notes – 17:00 Wed 9 Jul 2025 Notes – 17:00 Wed 9 Jul 2025 dbushell.com · dbushell.com [1] Enjoying watching David bring together his rss reader day by day. Excited to see where it goes. Im trying to get better at dropping notes like this without a ton of context, without needing to be right, just a note of whats on my mind and what I’m doing. References: [1]: https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-07-09T17:00Z/

uv cache prune If you're running low on disk space and are a uv user, don't forget about uv cache prune: uv cache prune removes all unused cache entries. For example, the cache … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1] Good point to check on your uv cache if you are running low on disk space. I checked mine today, and it wasn’t too bad so I left it alone. du -sh `uv cache dir` References: [1]: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/8/uv-cache-prune/#atom-everything

[1] I’m digging these web2app’s from DHH’s omarchy for setting up an opinionated archlinux hyprland. This gives a way to quickly open a web app as an app either with a hotkey or run launcher in its own dedicated window that you can put on it’s own workspace. I really like a workflow of keeping one window per workspace on one monitor and I can quickly navigate between apps with a single hotkey. This gives you the power to switch through things like chat, terminal, browser, steam game with blazing speed from the keybaord, no clicking no searching, just going directly to it. References: [1]: /static/https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/master/install/webapps.sh

GitHub - chase/awrit: A full graphical web browser for Kitty terminal with mouse and keyboard support A full graphical web browser for Kitty terminal with mouse and keyboard support - chase/awrit GitHub · github.com [1] awrit is a full graphical browser that runs inside of kitty. I’ve moved on some of my machines away from kitty as the maintainer has seemed so hostile and there are other great therminals out there, but I’m going to give this a go. I have kitty running on my hyprland setup as it is the default anyways. It is actual chromium rendering to a kitty graphics protocol. References: [1]: https://github.com/chase/awrit

External Link stackoverflow.com [1] I need to give this a try for markata glossary References: [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56755439/modifying-hover-in-tailwindcss

- Never did I think I would see the day that theprimeagen decided to run archlinux [1]. Furthermore him to start ricing it, EVEN furthermore, Pewdiepie runs arch [2] now, and thinks you should too?? and is promoting it on one of the largest YouTube channels ever [3]?? Even DHH is getting in the mix with omarchy [4] Such a cool transistion to see everyone find their way to linux and diving deep into the freedom and customization. References: [1]: https://archlinux.org/ [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVI_smLgTY0 [3]: https://socialblade.com/youtube/lists/top/100/subscribers/all/global [4]: https://omarchy.org/

Home | { TechDufus } TechDufus writes about platform engineering, homelab rebuilds, and agent workflows that hold up in the real world. { TechDufus } · techdufus.com [1] This has to be top tier dopest home page of all time. The commands are all so well customized and whimsical on the terminal. [2] References: [1]: https://techdufus.com/#timeline [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/5387bb34-4a9d-4a51-95d2-ed6242c411f8.webp

[1] I’ve ran my homelab [2] on k3s for a year and a half now, and have had talos fomo the whole time. I’m not sure if this article helps or hurts. Helps to see that techdufus struggled and wished he went k3s first, but theres so much good to it that I want it. Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring (because you can’t manage what you can’t see) # [3] I’m getting there, ok, I have some of it figured out but not firing on all cylinders like I want. CloudNativePG # [4] for PostgreSQL (way better than managing databases manually) Amen to this, cnpg is kick ass and has me tempted to drop sqlite for my production database default. I mostly make small shit on the side that is never going to blow up. sqlite is really good, but the automation that comes along with cnpg to just run it on all nodes and backups once you establish the pattern with the first one is sick. 🤣🤣🤣 actually read the docs 🤣🤣🤣 # [5] [6] Is This Overkill for a Homelab? # [7] Absolutely. Could do most of this with k3s or Docker Compose. But where’s the fun in that? Speaking my language here! Again I’m well past the 1 year mark of running k3s and i’ve had no regrets. Kubernetes is about establishing and replica...

Forming URIs for Autofill | Bitwarden Find out more about how URI match detection works in the Bitwarden password manager. Bitwarden · bitwarden.com [1] For anyone self hosting a bunch of apps under one domain, I just swapped all of mine to Host matching which includes the full subdomain, and it is glorious to not have 9+ items hit on all of your pages and only the one that you actually want. open one > edit > gear icon next to url > Host References: [1]: https://bitwarden.com/help/uri-match-detection/

- vim usage is becoming normie level. Just like archinstall made it too easy to install arch and brought normies into the ecosystem. It killed ArchBTW^TM^, distros like lazyvim have killed vimBTW^TM^. It used to be that to run arch, vim, nvim you had to read the docs, and go deep on understanding. running archinstallor lazyvim make it so easy to get started that you miss all of the details, you no longer have to understand ctags, quickfix, what an lsp is, or even how to set your own keybindings. You just use the damn thing, like you would with VSC****. No shame to anyone who does this, but you are probably missing out on a bunch of really useful features of a very core tool in your workflow. Just discovered Sylvan Franklin in this post and he is cracked, sub now.

[1] Wish I would have saw this guide and provided assembly file for setting up virt-manager in distrobox. They call out immutable distros like the knew I was coming. References: [1]: /static/https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/posts/run_libvirt_in_distrobox.md

Notes – 06:11 Sun 22 Jun 2025 Notes – 06:11 Sun 22 Jun 2025 dbushell.com · dbushell.com [1] What’s even real anymore? What a shitty age we are in that you have to form an opinion about news outlets and media outlets. References: [1]: https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-06-22T06:11Z/