This is a sick looking bash script generator for installing binaries off of github releases. it reccomends curl into bash, but you could curl into install.sh and toss that in your dotfiles repo or wherever.
Install installer with installer
Thoughts
Link based "commentary" style posts, commenting on a web link
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latest post 2026-04-16
Publishing rhythm
podman comes with a nice command for generating systemd service files (units).
Pagefind is absolutely insane. I’ve tried a number of static site searches, and found them all hard to get get going, clunky and not the best experience as a user or developer.
I setup pagefind in about 2 minutes on my site where it found and indexed 833 pages in 2 minutes.
The only downside I see so far is that it is a lot of bandwidth to the user. On simulated slow 3G you can definitly feel it, but not terrible. Anything slower and its going to start feeling frustrating.
edit: I have actually fully deployed it on waylonwalker.com, and its fast!
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Dang Mariah, killing it with continuous learning perspective.
Kinda mindblown that this is even possible. This is so far outside of my current thinking that i didn’t even think of an elegant way to implement semantic search accross images and text at the same time. I know it happens at Google, but I envision that as still text search accross tags and meta data about the image.
Based on the number of responses CLIP is the thing that does this.
This is the greatest nvim emmet plugin I have tried. In the past I had tried the vim plugin a few times and just could not get a good flow with the keybindings and found it confusing for my occasional use. emmet-ls just uses lsp-completion, so its the same flow as other completions.
You can try it out by installing with :Mason
Simon’s llm cli is getting quite interesting. I really want to run some clustering on my website content.
Tried out biome today and it worked better than prettier on jinja templates, I might adopt this over prettier.
An extension to disable elements during flight of an htmx request, Looks super useful for things like a create or delete button where the server would end up with an error if you double delete or double create. This eliminates an error path that the user might see under normal use of the ui.
The htmx-request class is added to htmx-target elements. You can target this css selector to create loading state throbbers.
By default the target element will the self, but you can use the typical htmx css selector to select which element will recieve the htmx-request class while the request is running.
The only way to override the name of the class is through config.
Prime concisely made sense of why htmx is so awesome compared to what has become modern reactive web dev in 2 minutes. I had never thought of it this way and it’s incredible.
One thing I have comepletely missed out on with my use of htmx is setting the disabled state while the server is working, what a genius move!
Three ways to support updating other content. Fantastic article walking through the different ways to update other parts of the screen using htmx.
In htmx there is no 2 way data binding, the dom is your state, and if you have elements derived from the same data on the screen in different places you need to think about how to keep them in sync.
Fastapi lets you tag your APIRouter’s so that the swagger docs are grouped according to the router.
router = APIRouter(tags=['router'])
Now all routes in router will appear in the router group in the swagger docs.
Datasette has its own static server that can host assets such as style sheets.
Tailwind css component library. There are many examples with copy and pastabily with the tailwind classes already setup.
A nice searchable cheatsheet for tailwindcss classes.
Busting cache with curl. I’m not sure how much gets cached by curl, but I have ran into several cases where I am looking for new content and I want to ensure the content is new and no chance of being cached.
This article suggests 3 different techniques.
sqlite has 3 different tokenizers, porter, ascii, trigram.
These can be used with sqlite-utils.
sqlite-utils enable-fts --tokenize porter database.db post title message tags
And with the python api.
Bat is my favorite pager, its the one for me that seems to just work more than the rest. colors, syntax highlighting, line numbers search, it just feels the most natural.
sqlite-utils is primarily a cli tool for sqlite operations such as enabling full text search, and executing searches, but it also has a nice python api that is exposed and pretty straightforward to use.
from sqlite_utils import Database db = Database("database.db") db["post"].enable_fts(["title", "message", "tags]) db["post"].search("water")
This returns a generator object that you can iterate over the row objects with.
Use prettier to format all files in a directory. By default prettier does not write, it just echos out the format that it would do. Give it the --write and it will write the changes to the files.
prettier --write .
I just used this on my thoughts repo.
datasette really does everything doesn’t it!
> A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites
Daaaang, this is such an elegantly simple way to get web screenshots with a cli. I was literally up and running with two commands on my arch linux machine (which it warned was unsupported by playwright).
pip install shot-scraper # Now install the browser it needs: shot-scraper install shot-scraper waylonwalker.com shot-scraper https://datasette.io/ shot-scraper https://datasette.io/ -h 1280 -w 1920 shot-scraper https://datasette.io/ -h 480 -w 720 shot-scraper shot --selector '#posts' https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/post/89
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shot-scraper https://datasette.io/is a full length screenshot of the entire page.Oh and its pretty dang fast, let alone the setup time, this crushes on startup time in my attempts to use a headless browser in the past.
An interesting way to build automatically annotaatd docs with arrows pointing to elements on a webpage.
I’d never given this much thought, but there are so many guides that are complete guides for beginner workflows, but once you get beyond beginner there is likely no manual for what you are trying to do in programming. There is no guide that will tell you the best way to get your companies salesforce data, alongside of the ERP data and present it to the users who need to know in a way that compels them to make the right decisions. You are going to have to build this out for yourself by piecing together knowledge about each subject.
An alternative approach to building modern web withhout heavy js and json, but instead html over the wire, keeping the logic in the backend of rails.
How to pass form data with curl, give it the d.
A super handy reference to the vuejs lifecycle.
Most of the time when creating links in html you want to maintain the default behavior, as this is what users are going to expect, but sometimes your site behaves such that it does not fit, and it does something unexpected anyways. in this case you might want to make the default behavior to open the link in a new tab rather than relying on users to control click.
Use this with restraint as this can make your site feel janky and do things that do not feel natural to the web.
Creating many to many relationships with sqlmodel requires a LinkTable Model. The link model will keep track of the linked id’s between each of the models.
I went down the route of leveraging the json-enc extention in htmx, but later realized that this completely breaks browsers/users who do not wish to use javascript. While most of the web would feel quite broken with javascript disabled, I don’t want to contribute to that without good reason.
Taking a second look into this issue, rather than using json-enc, and using as_form to get form data into a model keeps the nice DX fo everything being a pydantic model, but the site still works without js. with js htmx kicks in, you get a spa like experience by loading partials onto the page, and without, you just get a full page reload.