Posts tagged: thought

Availability Software Engineer at Bluesky specializing in developer productivity, AI-assisted development, and accessibility. Creator of The Balanced Engineer newsletter and co-host of the Overcommitted podcast. Brittany Ellich · brittanyellich.com [1] nice overview of availability measurements and what they really mean. The crazy world we live in today depends on so many things runnig, its also so hard to measure your uptime, The uptime metrics can mean a lot of different things. The site is up and accepting traffic, but can users make changes or submit orders, there is a lot more to it than just up or down. I really appreciate Brittany’s story from Nike nested in there. References: [1]: https://brittanyellich.com/note/availability/

nRF52840 Wireless Controller Development Board - kriscables SuperMini nRF52840 Wireless Controller Development Board kriscables - Custom Ergo Keyboards and Cables · kriscables.com [1] The SuperMini nrf52840 is a sick controller for building keyboards, affordable, easy to get, and compact. Bluetooth and wired setup just works in zmk. This page has a nice image of the pinout. References: [1]: https://kriscables.com/supermini-nrf52840/

Quick Start - kotaemon Docs cinnamon.github.io [1] interesting UI for RAG based workflows, i.e. chatting with your documents. It looks like it can run a number of models, feels like ollama with RAG and a nice web ui. References: [1]: https://cinnamon.github.io/kotaemon/

Bluesky is more like Twitter than X is joelhooks.com [1] Bluesky is almost excatly like twitter was when I joined years ago. It’s gone crazy lately bogged deep in politics, bots, and ads. I’ve seen like two scroll pages of ads in a row, its nuts. What I did not know before Joel pointed out here is that the feed I am looking at is my following feed, its only feed of people I follow in descending order. On bluesky you get to pick your feed!!! This feels like tweetdeck did back when we were able to run that. You could tune in search terms and save them it was glorious. Bluesky has some really interesting ones that you can use like popular with friends, only posts, my bangers, that have a pre defined algorithms. References: [1]: https://joelhooks.com/bluesky

- This man is responsible for making gaming on linux what it is today. Such a heartfelt story to hear that reviving his dad’s machine was at the core of what drove him to do what he has done for the wider gaming on linux community. Update on your schedule, remove all the tracking and bloatware, this is what drove him to start using linux before making it accessible for his Dad. But really do update, this is not your 2002 PHP box, things need updated and regular updates help the process.

External Link devcommunity.x.com [1] Just tried using my twitter api key for the first time in quite awhile. Apps now need to be tied to projects in order to work. It looks like projects are where pricing comes into play. Thankfully they still give a free tier for doing small time things for myself. You can really see the effect that llms have on these things though as it is 5x more expensive to read posts than to make posts currently. Data is the new gold for these kind of companies. References: [1]: https://devcommunity.x.com/t/v2-suddenly-getting-client-not-enrolled-today/195456

GitHub - containers/podman-compose: a script to run docker-compose.yml using podman a script to run docker-compose.yml using podman. Contribute to containers/podman-compose development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com [1] Wild that the podman-compose github readme calls out k3s as an alternative. [2] compose definitely has its place, especially for local development on a developers machine, its so much easier to stand up and get things like hot reload up and running smooth. References: [1]: https://github.com/containers/podman-compose [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/9326cd6f-3f27-4703-85fd-a3b16f7bdc92.webp

bic Static blog generator, in bash bic · bic.sh [1] Intereresting someone built a blog generator in bash. it comes with normal markdown to html [2], static content, robots.txt, sitemap, rss, and tags. It uses pandoc to take markdown to html and mustache for page templates. References: [1]: https://bic.sh/ [2]: /html/

Animate to height: auto; (and other intrinsic sizing keywords) in CSS  |  CSS and UI  |  Chrome for Developers Animate to and from intrinsic sizing keywords with `interpolate-size` and `calc-size()` Chrome for Developers · developer.chrome.com [1] Css is getting so good, new things like interpolate-size are making things that use to require some deep expertise and hacks intuitive and easy. /* Opt-in the whole page to interpolate sizes to/from keywords */ :root { interpolate-size: allow-keywords; /* 👈 */ } References: [1]: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/css-ui/animate-to-height-auto/

[1] Looks like a great start to a rules file for fastapi [2]. - Place the happy path last in the function for improved readability. I have never heard anyone say this. It feels weird to me. The other early return, find and handle errors early all make sense to me, but happy path last is new to me. References: [1]: /static/https://github.com/PatrickJS/awesome-cursorrules/blob/main/rules/py-fast-api/.cursorrules [2]: /fastapi/

Generate Custom .cursorrules for Your Project Based on Community Examples expert led courses for front-end web developers and teams that want to level up through straightforward and concise lessons on the most useful tools available. egghead · egghead.io [1] Really interesting way to generate a rules file for agentic workflows based on your current repo. John uses gitingest here, looks like a fantastic tool, but probably not useful for most private repos. I’m sure you can replicate the same thing in a private repo wtih a small amount of effort the few times you need to do it. gitingest looks like a great way to pull in some extra context for some open source dependencies that you have though. References: [1]: https://egghead.io/generate-custom-cursorrules-for-your-project-based-on-community-examples~eimq2

GitHub - coderamp-labs/gitingest: Replace 'hub' with 'ingest' in any GitHub URL to get a prompt-friendly extract of a codebase Replace 'hub' with 'ingest' in any GitHub URL to get a prompt-friendly extract of a codebase - coderamp-labs/gitingest GitHub · github.com [1] Gitingest has a python package on pypi that you can run with uvx, and it accepts the same arguments as the web version, right in your terminal ⬢ [devtainer] ❯ uvx gitingest --help Usage: gitingest [OPTIONS] SOURCE Analyze a directory and create a text dump of its contents. Options: -o, --output TEXT Output file path (default: <repo_name>.txt in current directory) -s, --max-size INTEGER Maximum file size to process in bytes -e, --exclude-pattern TEXT Patterns to exclude -i, --include-pattern TEXT Patterns to include --help Show this message and exit. References: [1]: https://github.com/cyclotruc/gitingest

Gitingest Replace gitingest.com [1] Replace hub with ingest in any github and get a prompt friendly codebase ready to feed into any llm. It combines the entire codebase, based on a gitignore style glob that you pass in, into a single TXT file. References: [1]: https://gitingest.com/

[1] Definitely need to give codecompanion.nvim a try, it looks like a competitor to windsurf but in nvim. It looks so feature complete that its hard to grasp all of what it does. References: [1]: /static/https://github.com/olimorris/codecompanion.nvim

- Great panel of software folks at open sauce. It was interesting hearing from all these creators from the perspective of an open sauce panel.

[1] New release out for nvim-manager that supports installing pre-configured distros. It’s such a breeze to install these now, its been fun to go through each of them. The currently included distros are. - LazyVim - AstroVim - kickstart - NvChad - LunarVim References: [1]: /static/https://github.com/WaylonWalker/nvim-manager/releases/tag/v0.0.2

Releases · WaylonWalker/nvim-manager manage dotfiles with nvim_appname. Contribute to WaylonWalker/nvim-manager development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com [1] First release of nvim-manager is out. Your dotfiles change a lot, sometimes it’s hard to manage all of the places you have installed them and potentially made hand edits to. nvim-manager allows you to easily make static releases of your dotfiles, and keep your nvim install from breaking by leveraging NVIM_APPNAME and pinned releases of your dotfiles stored in ~/.config. In this directory you might have many nvim configurations installed, nvim-manager automates the process of installing and updating from your dotfiles, while keeping previous pinned versions untouched. References: [1]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker/nvim-manager/releases

[1] Nice list of url escape codes. I did not actually know that to get a literal sequence like %2D you can use $2D. References: [1]: /static/https://docs.microfocus.com/OMi/10.62/Content/OMi/ExtGuide/ExtApps/URL_encoding.htm

GitHub - ngalaiko/tree-sitter-go-template: Golang template grammar for tree-sitter Golang template grammar for tree-sitter. Contribute to ngalaiko/tree-sitter-go-template development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com [1] This setup fixed my nvim syntax highlighting in helm templates. References: [1]: https://github.com/ngalaiko/tree-sitter-go-template

GitHub - imagegenius/docker-immich: Monolithic (Single) Docker Container for Immich Monolithic (Single) Docker Container for Immich. Contribute to imagegenius/docker-immich development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com [1] imagegenius has made an immich all in one setup that looks much easier to use than immich. References: [1]: https://github.com/imagegenius/docker-immich/