Tickle My Keys
Keyboards so good your fingers will be begging to tickle these keys.
ticklemykeys.com [1]
I’ve been working on something, I’m gong to combine my mechanical engineering skills with my love of great keyboards and start a custom keyboard shop for building custom keyboards for exactly what people need with an emphasis on portability.
References:
[1]: https://ticklemykeys.com/
Thoughts
Link based "commentary" style posts, commenting on a web link
Publishing rhythm
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Damn Prime covers this so well from all angles. Can’t overstate the importance of that last step. Look at the issues, and raise an issue if there is not one before putting in a bunch of hard work. Make sure that the maintainers are open for your changes and no one else is already working on it.
References:
[1]: /glossary/git/
sqlite-jiff
I linked to the brand new Jiff datetime library yesterday. Alex Garcia has already used it for an experimental SQLite extension providing a timezone-aware jiff_duration() function - a useful new …
Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1]
Sqlite is getting rust extensions now, and datetimes make it totally worth if if they work well and and fast, two things that don’t always go together in datetime libraries
References:
[1]: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/23/sqlite-jiff/
There’s a TUI for that with Nick Janetakis (Changelog & Friends #53)
Nick Janetakis is back and this time we're talking about TUIs (text-based user interfaces) — some we've tried and some we plan to try. All are collected from Justin Garrison's Awesome TUIs repo o...
Changelog · changelog.com [1]
50 minutes into this episode they start a discussion on seo, and naming posts. They give Jerod the task of googling for tmux and see how high up the ranking they find Nick, expecting a number one post, and he cant even get to Nick.
The problem? Jerod is such a beginner he doesn’t even know what to search, he starts with a long query about getting started with tmux, but all of Nick’s videos are why you should use advanced features of tmux, but Jerod has yet to discover that these exist.
As experts we often come up wtih a post title for the exact thing that we are trying to teach someone how to do, but yet, they haven’t discussed that they need that feature yet, they just want the getting started guide, or tell me why I should start using tmux. Not why sessions are better than windows, and tabs suck all together.
Definitely an eye opening conversation listening to two experts sit in...
The Verge (@verge) on X
Stress testing a snack-proof keyboard
X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
This is a wild keyboard test. This is exactly what I want to see from ticklemykeys.com. I want to make ergomechanical boards that you can use and abuse. I want you to not be afraid to take them with you or to eat a nutrigrain bar in the same room (cough 2015 mac). And If something does go out, I want users to be able to repair it themsleves, key caps, switches, batteries, and microcontrollers should be replacible parts they can get at a good cost from the shop if they have paid for a board.
References:
[1]: https://x.com/verge/status/984764889754456065
all lt keys to hl · WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block@ce25356
Contribute to WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub · github.com [1]
Today I swapped out all of my keys that are used dual purpose for letters and layers to homerow layers. This prevents goofy things happening when rolling, and prefers-tap makes it so that keys that are rolled over get hit as letters instead of as layers. This was one of my biggest hurdles jumping into zmk, lt as a homerow key just does not behave the same as the ht/hm behaviors with tap-preferred set.
Seealso
See previous commit where I added the hl https://github.com/WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block/commit/9522c859cdf024a2c2b73931c130ddc907c09ffc
hl: homerow_layer {
compatible = "zmk,behavior-hold-tap";
label = "HOMEROW_LAYER";
bindings = <&mo>, <&kp>;
#binding-cells = <2>;
tapping-term-ms = <150>;
flavor = "tap-preferred";
};
References:
[1]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block/commit/ce25356e88eb2439182201700314133de719457e
Tips for Being Happier, Healthier, More Productive by The GaryVee Audio Experience
Today's podcast episode is an interview I did on the Happier with Gretchen Rubin Podcast with Gretchen Rubin and Elizabeth Craft. We discuss balancing ambition, tenacity, humility, and patience. I …
Spotify for Creators · podcasters.spotify.com [1]
Deep breath, the deepest you can take in
Smile, a real fukin smile not some pansy bullshit
Say I’m not going to give a shit about this when I’m 90
References:
[1]: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/garyvee/episodes/Tips-for-Being-Happier--Healthier--More-Productive-e2m4184
Can't use System update - invalid signature when validating ASN.1 encoded signature · Issue #1316 · ublue-os/bazzite
Describe the bug Hello, I installed the nvidia KDE version of bazzite just 2 days ago. Today I wanted to update to the most recent release, but unfortunately, I keep getting the following error: Pu...
GitHub · github.com [1]
This fixed my bazzite update issues after the signing key was rotated recently. This team is killing it with such a great user experience.
curl -sL https://fix.universal-blue.org/ | sudo bash
References:
[1]: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/issues/1316
Update Kconfig.shield rec by bravekarma · WaylonWalker/zmk-config-ninepad@8b76b76
zmk configuration for ninpad keyboard. Contribute to WaylonWalker/zmk-config-ninepad development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub · github.com [1]
This one space killed my whole config and held me back from learning zmk.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker/zmk-config-ninepad/commit/8b76b76e2f094453aaf7ffe51bb405ce3a25a611
[1]
The trackball spinner looks sick here. I can imagine using that spinner like a scroll wheel.
References:
[1]: /static/https://kbd.news/DragonFruit-2178.html
[1]
They had split ergo boards back in 1983??? WTF who the heck keeps these row stagger boards going. This board looks like endgame material, If this thing was more normal, it’d kill a whole section of the ergo mechanical keyboard industry for good reason.
References:
[1]: /static/https://kbd.news/NEC-M-System-1729.html
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This keyboard layout looks weird af the mix of column staggar and row stagger is wild. Not sure if its genius or an abomination.
That solenoid though is absolutely wild though, I kinda want one TBH.
and the clear plate with the diodes laid out on it in a herringbone pattern is a very nice touch.
External Link
stackoverflow.com [1]
today I learned that there is an accessibility feature in chrome that allows you to place a text cursor anywhere on the page. I had accidentally done this and it drove me mad that it was there.
References:
[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75886276/text-cursor-bug-in-my-chrome-browser-that-causes-the-blinking-cursor-to-appear-e
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Hard to argue this take, happy to see that its at the top. With it being such an old language its amazing that it still holds this position, and not surprising that it has warts, and thing that have turn users off from wanting anything to do with it.
timestamped in the link
Command Line Interface Guidelines
An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.
clig.dev [1]
This is a pretty sick set of guidelines to help you write better cli programs, I’m definitely coming back to reading this one more in depth later.
References:
[1]: https://clig.dev/
External Link
fullystacked.net [1]
You can explicitly make a script render blocking, nothing will be rendered until this js is ready.
<script blocking="render"
src="important.js"
defer></script>
References:
[1]: https://fullystacked.net/render-blocking-on-purpose/
Remove Background Web - a Hugging Face Space by Xenova
In-browser background removal
huggingface.co [1]
I’ve long been a user of remove.bg, and I just discovered that you can run this transformer right within your browser with no api limits.
References:
[1]: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Xenova/remove-background-web
FastHX - FastHX
volfpeter.github.io [1]
Very interesting approach to htmx [2] and fast api. It uses separate decorators for returning template partials and json that can be stacked to include both options on a single route. The templates are explicitly set in the decorator. Separate decorators are used for full page and partial pages. I don’t see an example of full and partial pages being combined. I think the demo app must be behaving in a spa like fashion where it does not get all of the data when it calls index and index will ask for user-list.
Definitely going to keep my eye on this project and ponder on it.
from fastapi import FastAPI
from fastapi.templating import Jinja2Templates
from fasthx import Jinja
from pydantic import BaseModel
# Pydantic model of the data the example API is using.
class User(BaseModel):
first_name: str
last_name: str
# Create the app.
app = FastAPI()
# Create a FastAPI Jinja2Templates instance and use it to create a
# FastHX Jinja instance that will serve as your decorator.
jinja = Jinja(Jinja2Templates("templates"))
@app.get("/")
@jinja.page("index.html")
def index() -> None:
...
@app.get("/user-list")
@jinja.hx("user-list.html")
async...
FastHX - FastHX
volfpeter.github.io [1]
Very interesting approach to htmx [2] and fast api. It uses separate decorators for returning template partials and json that can be stacked to include both options on a single route. The templates are explicitly set in the decorator. Separate decorators are used for full page and partial pages. I don’t see an example of full and partial pages being combined. I think the demo app must be behaving in a spa like fashion where it does not get all of the data when it calls index and index will ask for user-list.
Definitely going to keep my eye on this project and ponder on it.
from fastapi import FastAPI
from fastapi.templating import Jinja2Templates
from fasthx import Jinja
from pydantic import BaseModel
# Pydantic model of the data the example API is using.
class User(BaseModel):
first_name: str
last_name: str
# Create the app.
app = FastAPI()
# Create a FastAPI Jinja2Templates instance and use it to create a
# FastHX Jinja instance that will serve as your decorator.
jinja = Jinja(Jinja2Templates("templates"))
@app.get("/")
@jinja.page("index.html")
def index() -> None:
...
@app.get("/user-list")
@jinja.hx("user-list.html")
async...
Pinout and Schematic - nice!nano
Pinout and schematic for the nice!nano
nicekeyboards.com [1]
Pinout for nice!nano boards. Note that P0.15 means gpio port 0 pin 15, they can be referenced in zmk when setting column and row pins.
#include <dt-bindings/zmk/matrix_transform.h>
/ {
chosen {
zmk,kscan = &default_kscan;
zmk,matrix_transform = &default_transform;
/delete-property/ zephyr,console;
/delete-property/ zephyr,shell-uart;
};
default_kscan: kscan {
compatible = "zmk,kscan-gpio-matrix";
label = "default_kscan";
diode-direction = "col2row";
col-gpios
= <&gpio0 31 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>
, <&gpio0 29 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>
, <&gpio0 2 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>
;
row-gpios
= <&gpio1 15 (GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH | GPIO_PULL_DOWN)>
, <&gpio1 13 (GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH | GPIO_PULL_DOWN)>
, <&gpio1 11 (GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH | GPIO_PULL_DOWN)>
;
};
default_transform: matrix_transform {
compatible = "zmk,matrix-transform";
columns = <3>;
rows = <3>;
map = <
RC(0,0) RC(0,1) RC(0,2)
RC(1,0) RC(1,1) RC(1,2)
RC(2,0) RC(2,1) RC(2,2)
>;
};
};
References:
[1]: https://nicekeyboards.com/docs/nice-nano/pinout-schematic/
External Link
unix.stackexchange.com [1]
today I learned that /dev/pts is a pseudo-tty. It amazes me how much linux is still built around things like hardware terminals.
References:
[1]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/93531/what-is-stored-in-dev-pts-files-and-can-we-open-them
GitHub - svenstaro/miniserve: 🌟 For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now!
🌟 For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now! - svenstaro/miniserve
GitHub · github.com [1]
miniserve is a sweet http server, replacement for python -m http.server. It’s fast, runs off a small binary, but why would I want to use it over something that already exists on most machines, because it includes a bunch of features like qr codes, pretty themes, and uploads. I’ve used python -m http.server many times to transfer files from one machine to another in a pinch, like at a family members house. But what if they have an android, windows, or something not easy to get a python repl running on, you can run miniserve and upload from their device rather than hosting from their device.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/svenstaro/miniserve
pacman/Tips and tricks - ArchWiki
wiki.archlinux.org [1]
The arch wiki is always full of good content, and pacman tips and tricks does not disappoint. Today I discovered this command to remove orphaned dependencies on my system.
pacman -Qdtq | pacman -Rns -
References:
[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman/Tips_and_tricks
Inside 22,734 Steam games
About a year ago I blogged about games that use curl. In that post I listed a bunch of well-known titles I knew use curl and there was a list of 136 additional games giving credit to curl. Kind of ...
daniel.haxx.se · daniel.haxx.se [1]
Interesting to see that curl is used in so many places. I often think of things like games being so windows centric and curl being so linux centric I don’t even think of these things crossing paths as much as they do.
References:
[1]: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/06/20/inside-22734-steam-games/
wcurl is here
Users tell us that remembering what curl options to use when they just want to download the contents of a URL is hard. This is one often repeated reason why some users reach for wget instead of cur...
daniel.haxx.se · daniel.haxx.se [1]
interesting, seems like such a simple way to completely remove the need of a whole other cli. No offense to anyone working on wget, but generally I use it out of lazyness or something wierd is happening and I am looking for a second opinion. Cool to know that wcurl exists and will start shipping with curl.
References:
[1]: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/07/03/wcurl-is-here/
Email Address Obfuscation
Hide email addresses from bots while keeping them visible to visitors.
Cloudflare Docs · developers.cloudflare.com [1]
I recently started seeing email-decode.min.js show up on my blog posts, and I wondered what the heck ? I didn’t put it there. Turns out that cloudflare put it there from pages to safely serve email addresses for me.
inspecting the page without js running we can see that the mailto email is swapped out for email protected. Neat feature.
❯ curl --silent https://waylonwalker.com/diskcache-as-debounce/ | grep email
<a class="decoration-pink-500 hover:decoration-pink-300 hover:text-pink-100" href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a4ccc1c8c8cbe4d3c5ddc8cbcad3c5c8cfc1d68ac7cbc9" rel="me"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="630b060f0f0c2314021a0f0c0d14020f0806114d000c0e">[email protected]</span></a>
<script data-cfasync="false" src="/cdn-cgi/scripts/5c5dd728/cloudflare-static/email-decode.min.js"></script></body>
Looking deeper into this article it looks like this feature comes from Scrape Shield and enabling Email Address Obfuscation.
References:
[1]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/tools/scrape-shield/email-address-obfuscation/
Background Tasks - FastAPI
FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
fastapi.tiangolo.com [1]
fastapi [2] comes with a concept of background tasks which are functions that can be ran in the background after a function has been ran. This is handy for longer running functions that may take some time and you want to have fast response times.
Here is an example from the docs
from fastapi import BackgroundTasks, FastAPI
app = FastAPI()
def write_notification(email: str, message=""):
with open("log.txt", mode="w") as email_file:
content = f"notification for {email}: {message}"
email_file.write(content)
@app.post("/send-notification/{email}")
async def send_notification(email: str, background_tasks: BackgroundTasks):
background_tasks.add_task(write_notification, email, message="some notification")
return {"message": "Notification sent in the background"}
References:
[1]: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/background-tasks/
[2]: /fastapi/
markdown-it-pyrs
A Python interface for markdown-it.rs, using Rust for blazingly fast Markdown parsing ⚡️
PyPI · pypi.org [1]
markdown it py running in rust claims to be 20x faster. I’ll definitely look into this if markdown it py is ever a bottleneck in my performance. At first glance it appears that plugins are written in rust not python, and there is no admonition plugin, so I’ll keep my eye on it for now, but I can’t use it.
References:
[1]: https://pypi.org/project/markdown-it-pyrs/
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diskcache has a peekitem method that allows you to lookup the expire_time of a cached item without changing it. I recently used this to implement debounce for fastapi [2] background tasks with multiple workers running. since all the workers I care about are on the same machine, but running in different processes diskcache was a great option. All workers have access to the same disk, but not the same variables in memory.
References:
[1]: /static/https://grantjenks.com/docs/diskcache/api.html#diskcache.Cache.peekitem
[2]: /fastapi/
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Great intro into kustomize. This helped me get started with kustomize.
Alternatives
A Pro Micro alternative for wireless keyboards. Contribute to joric/nrfmicro development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub · github.com [1]
Huge list of micro controllers tried and used in keeb builds.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/joric/nrfmicro/wiki/Alternatives
waylon walker (@_WaylonWalker) on X
First bit of hand written gcode in 12 years let's go!
X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
Not gonna lie, kinda pumped about this one. I manually did one, jotted down the coordinates, opened the gcode in vim, added markers between setup/teardown and print. then added the wipe, the copy pasted the print+wipe section a bunch of times.
My printer tends to run a bit better on single prints than printing a dozen at once as it has less issues with retract start and stop.
References:
[1]: https://x.com/_WaylonWalker/status/1807594004453667134
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another great use and demo of the one eyed fighting kirby
[1]
Damn, supply chain vector attacks are wild. Random guy in Primes stream was getting $40k offers to buy their open source project while in university and they have never made anything from it. What a social engineering attack this is. It would be so easy to make it look like a good deal and that the package was going to a good new owner who has real resources to maintain it.
References:
[1]: /static/https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=6NK4iCu1b1rCDo7a&t=555&v=mmlHQyMOK7Y&feature=youtu.be
Found: OverlayKey X
Designed by @yfuku_, a keyboard to place on top of your laptop.
Thomas Baart's Microblog · micro.thomasbaart.nl [1]
This is almost exactly what I have been thinking about building for quite awhile. I am going to give it a good try with a few $$ in filiment some cheap switches a microcontroller and go pretty bare bones, maybe open wiring on the bottom.
References:
[1]: https://micro.thomasbaart.nl/2024/06/12/overlaykey-x/
Queueing – An interactive study of queueing strategies
In this blog, we go on an interactive journey to understand common queueing strategies for handling HTTP requests.
encore.dev [1]
Absolutely sick post. This is top tier animated blog posts. This posts demos how different queuing systems work with fantastic interactive demos.
References:
[1]: https://encore.dev/blog/queueing
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Supply chain attacks are so big these days engineers definitely need to take these into consideration. It’s wild that such a simple attack vector hit some really big applications. This particular vector is so easy to avoid. You are already hosting web content, just curl the file and self host [1] the script, then you own it. That eliminates this attack vector all together, but doesn’t completely remove supply chain attacks, the js file can still hit external apis internally.
What I see has happened in this case is that the owner of the domain polyfill.io changed. so anyone who directly linked to them got a malware injected script used.
I can only imagine the number of applicatons that are not even being maintained anymore getting hit by this. TLDR, if you are taking something to production, where you are goind to deploy it and let it run, host the js yourself. these cdns are great for prototyping, but tread with caution.
References:
[1]: /self-host/
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
youtube.com [1]
Well spoken prime. Co-pilot is a fantastic tool for templating, boilerplate, or just getting something done that is just outside your knowledge or care to know. Bit if you really want to learn something, you need to use your hands. Reading the solution only gives you the happy path. This does not give you that path that most people would take, and completely misses debugging. If you are very new and learning it’s unlikely that you can write large blocks of code without running a test or a script to try it. Taking these shortcuts will hinder your ability to do it yourself.
If I were to devils advocate here, copilot is still not the greatest at the big picture, you still have to drive, and tell it I want to use python, fastapi [2], I want to load settings from .env. taking these shortcuts can help you move quick and get the big picture. This is especially helpful for someone who might know one language or framework and is trying a different one, but at some point you need to do the work and learn if you are going to be effecti...
GitHub - dropbox/pyannotate: Auto-generate PEP-484 annotations
Auto-generate PEP-484 annotations. Contribute to dropbox/pyannotate development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub · github.com [1]
pyannotate is a tool that uses runtime types to suggest type annotations to use. Test runners such as pytest can be used to generate the types.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/dropbox/pyannotate
[1]
Interesting, linux supports 32 programmable buttons, special buttons that do nothing that hotkey programs like xbindkeys can pick up and run things, seems like it would be very intersting to use on a macro pad. You could easily do dynamic and complex tasks without clashing that keybinding with something else.
I’m going to look into this for my next obs setup. No matter what I try to do with the hyper key it always tends to do odd things depending on the application I am in. typically its tmux, and it starts trying to do something I don’t want it to.
References:
[1]: /static/https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/master/docs/features/programmable_button.md
GitHub - tusharsadhwani/yen: The last Python environment manager you'll ever need.
The last Python environment manager you'll ever need. - tusharsadhwani/yen
GitHub · github.com [1]
Create virtual environments for any Python version, without needing Python installed.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/tusharsadhwani/yen
Where DOESN’T curl run with curl BDFL Daniel Stenberg (Changelog & Friends #49)
Daniel Stenberg shares his guiding principles for BDFL'ing curl, gives us his perspective on the state of the internet, talks financial independence, ensuring curl won't be the next XZ & more!
Changelog · changelog.com [1]
Love how Daniel just brushed off the number of netflix tv installs as small beans for curl installs. overall great episode on open source, owning a major component to technology with such a small team.
References:
[1]: https://changelog.com/friends/49
External Link
keyboard.university [1]
Great keyboard design guide for all the different mounting options that are normal for keyboards with pros and cons of each.
References:
[1]: https://www.keyboard.university/200-courses/keyboard-mounting-styles-4lpp7
Welcome to RSS Club
Congratulations on joining a secret society! If you’re reading this, that means my message has been transmitted successfully. This post is only available to you, Reader, through the ancient peer-...
daverupert.com · daverupert.com [1]
Super cool idea, kinda breaking the rules by talking about it here, but Its a cool idea to throw out posts to the core audience. Apparently its been around for quite while Dave started in 2018.
References:
[1]: https://daverupert.com/2018/01/welcome-to-rss-club/
GitHub - stackrox/kube-linter: KubeLinter is a static analysis tool that checks Kubernetes YAML files and Helm charts to ensure the applications represented in them adhere to best practices.
KubeLinter is a static analysis tool that checks Kubernetes YAML files and Helm charts to ensure the applications represented in them adhere to best practices. - stackrox/kube-linter
GitHub · github.com [1]
A linter for linting kubernetes manifests and help charts.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/stackrox/kube-linter
Keycodes Overview | QMK Firmware
Documentation for QMK Firmware
docs.qmk.fm [1]
Full reference to all of the qmk keycode list. Handy reference to refer to all of the keycodes that qmk has.
References:
[1]: https://docs.qmk.fm/keycodes
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Fantastic guide to building handwried keyboards. I used this guide to build my first hand-wired macro pad.
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Two inspirational people in one podcast, its cool to see how adam thinks about code, css, webdev, and building businesses.
Best practices for Docker in production
You
talkpython.fm [1]
Great listen for anyone interested in productionizing python code with docker. Itamar brings up some
Don’t trust base images for security, upgrade your packages. Vulnerabilties become published and solved giving the bad guys istructions how to wreck your day and these fixes wont come to your docker application for up to two weeks due to image build tatency.
For job based containers pre-compile your pyc for faster startup.
Alpine linux is probably not what you want for python. Many packages such as postgres ship pre-copiled binaries that work for most linux distributions wich use glibc, but alpine uses musl so the binaries will be incompatable requiring you to need to install a bunch of build dependencies.
References:
[1]: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/323/best-practices-for-docker-in-production
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Homelabbers have been some of the best co-workers I have ever had. Typically have a get shit done, If there’s a way I will find it kind of mentality. If you are struggling to get a job in tech right now its tough. Starting a homelab on a pc you pull out of the trash is a good way to get some experience that you can talk about in interview questions.
Linked video has some great points!
References:
[1]: /homelab/