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Wow, I’ve never seen or thought of multi setup parts this is very thought provoking, not sure how useful it is as we have good adhesives and stuff for printed parts. I definitely want to try this though
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I can’t believe this thing is so devicive. I kinda can’t belive that I sit on the same side as Mathes and his always against the grain, non corporate influenced response. So many others have praised Haiden for bringing back the real gladiator bloodsport that SX is, is it that though?? It’s a race to the finish. different than a lot of other racing its very unpredictable takeout moves happen, occasionally as an accident, often taking both riders down at the same time.
Also different than MANY sports we have a huge industry of weekend warriors, Some of which make it into the night show of the biggest race on TV. You see we only bring 20 riders from each class, the top half to top quarter are “Factory” riders, the rest are privateers, sometimes these privateers are completely their on their own.
There is also something called a last chance qualifier. This is your last chance to get into the night show, often fought by these privateers out of box vans with their brother as a mechanic. Often that last spot is filled by sketchy on edge riding and takeout moves from a rider that looks like he is barely making it, but would run circles around anyone at your local race.
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Epic that this Joslin came back 7 years later to complete this. I thought el Toro was dead, aparantly not. Dude got robbed by a broke ass truck, this must have been eating his soul for the last 7 years.
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Big W: A Family Tradition
A quick look into where we came from and what inspires us to do what it takes to build a solid reputation.
Big W Engineering Solutions · bigwengineering.com [1]
I first met Adam in college, he seemed like quite a character on the outside, but was always quite smart and often leaned towards realistic solutions to problems rather than over complicating things. He was part of the SAE Formula car, well known for taking a simple problem and trying to turn it into a real formula one carbon fiber solution. I remember a period where he was a fan of old world blacksmithing as they would say at the time. He even got a few very simple and light parts on the car that were easy to make unlike the carbon fiber alternatives. By the time I was there he was more of a leader and did not do a lot of design on any whole system, but would take out class projects for a component or help with some hard problems. This company feels like it is a great extension of who he was a that time, with about 15 years of professional experience tacked on.
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I’ve never tried generated columns, but it is something that I’m interested in. It is nice to have things computed and in the database if you ever need to query on them. My brain is now churning with possibilities and quesions, does this work with Alembic? How does this compare to views?
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3d-printing is so freaking cool. I love the idea that someone could get a hyperspecific tool to their needs for super cheap. Whether it works permanently or to try out one that you want to spend thousands of dollars on to have well done from some high end materials this is a great application.
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A New Chapter
In a recent turn of events, I find myself at a bit of a crossroads with an exciting new job on the horizon! In this post, I introduce myself and discuss my vision for the new blog.
Jesse Leite · jesseleite.com [1]
Sub to this man. I met Jesse long ago as we both spoke at the same remote vim conf. He is into vim, weird keyboards, and medroid what more could you ask for. Now react and exlixer. I only know https://statamic.com/ through Jesse, they have the sickest branding ever. Now I will need to see what this savvycal [2] is about.
https://jesseleite.com/feed
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[1]: https://jesseleite.com/2025/a-new-chapter
[2]: https://x.com/savvycal
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"Pacman is currently in use, please wait." / Pacman & Package Upgrade Issues / Arch Linux Forums
bbs.archlinux.org [1]
I ran into this issue today, never have I ever before though. Omarchy looking a bit sus on me. This was even after a fresh boot, no pacman process running. just realized I forgot to check yay which it has installed for me. I had to force it in.
sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
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When you fill all of your time with a bunch of other things, it becomes really hard to become a friendly person. Prime talked about trying to learn how to drop the hurry in his life, and how to not always be in a frenzy of going from one thing to the next. It’s something that puts us in a state that its hard to remember to be friendly. Hard to remember that theres always time for coffee [1].
I do my best to always leave time for coffee, whether at home with my wife and kids, as well as at work. I am in a very unique place at work where I have a rare set of skills for the industry I am in. This comes with a lot of people insterested in how to do things like running data pipelines or managing server infrastructure. I always take time for these conversations, I find them interesting, and useful. Sometimes you end up with someone who asks the same questions every 6 months, other times, you have someone flourish from these conversations. I’m not saying to take on work from every other team in the org, but giving 30 minutes to help mentor others can go a long ways.
I’m still not the best, I still get wrapped up in my own stuff just like prime calls out. I sometimes get frustrated...
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X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
This is a really great animation of latency across different aws regions based on us-east-1.
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[1]: https://x.com/BenjDicken/status/1963998076198105475
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Hollow Knight: Silksong is breaking Steam, Nintendo’s eShop
Valve's usually stable platform struggles thanks in part to lack of pre-loading options.
Ars Technica · arstechnica.com [1]
Only 1 hour into the release of silksong, and it’s taken down all of the eshops, and steamdb dows 100K concurrent players. The Humble store ran out of steam keys for silksong already.
You guys better not break this thing before I get off work and My son gets home cause we are playing this tonight!!
I just Check steamDB [2], and they have 441K concurrent players right now. An Indie game! This shows when you treat your fans right and make something incredible they stand behind you.
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[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/09/hollow-knight-silksong-is-breaking-steam/
[2]: https://steamdb.info/app/1030300/charts/
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Trump says: With this order, I am announcing “America by Design,” a national initiative to improve experiences for Americans, starting by breathing new life into the design of sites where peopl...
Chris Coyier · chriscoyier.net [1]
Everything is becoming political these days! I hate it. I regularly hear a friend say these podcasts need to set the politics to the side, but you know what its fukin hard when the gov is upending every corner of life and rebranding it with their own new twist. The billionaire class is winning and it looks like there ain’t a thing we can do about it. Here’s another example of someone taking head of an office they have no business being in. An entire set of working class folks let go for this guy to take over. And what does he want to do, make govt services as satisfying as apple. Apple is cutting edge, it is not something that is one bit sustainable. Their launch sites are generally super heavy, hard to scroll, slow, over animated, but damn they are satisfying the first time you scroll through them, after that just let me through.
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Free online tools for people creating pixel art and other low-spec art.
Lospec · lospec.com [1]
My son introduced me to lospec.com, It has a great set of color palettes and amazing pixel art inspiration. I particularly liked royal armoury [2] and of course I’m a bit partial to hollow [3].
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[1]: https://lospec.com/
[2]: https://lospec.com/palette-list/royal-armoury
[3]: https://lospec.com/palette-list/hollow
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Justin Searls
@searls
GPT-5 + Codex is so fast that when I expressed suspicion that a script was returning too few results (via | wc -l), Codex corrected me that I should have passed --count instead. Sure enough, t…
justin․searls․co · justin.searls.co [1]
This is hilarious, the llm shames him for not utilizing the --count flag, THAT DIDN’T EXIST WHEN HE RAN THE CLI!
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[1]: https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-09-03-14h21m54s/
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Vibe code is legacy code
Updates and articles from the Val Town team
blog.val.town [1]
Brilliantly said. Vibe coding [2] is legacy code. It’s code that we forget exists. Code that no one touches, you replace it. If you touch it you are more likely to break it.
The worst possible situation is to have a non-programmer vibe code a large project that they intend to maintain. This would be the equivalent of giving a credit card to a child without first explaining the concept of debt.
As you can imagine, the first phase is ecstatic. I can wave this little piece of plastic in stores and take whatever I want! …
Read more in the full post [1]
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[1]: https://blog.val.town/vibe-code
[2]: /vibe-coding/
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Rich Pixels
Neat Python library by Darren Burns adding pixel image support to the Rich terminal library, using tricks to render an image using full or half-height colored blocks. Here's the key …
Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1]
I saw this post from Simon and I had to give it a go and got some pretty good results. His script is a small cli wrapper around Darren Burns’s Rich Pixels [2]. It works well even through tmux, since there is no terminal magic, just unicode blocks.
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Some not so good, and needed the terminal font size cranked up.
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[1]: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/2/rich-pixels/#atom-everything
[2]: https://github.com/darrenburns/rich-pixels
[3]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/024bf3e0-9c38-4c1e-ad5c-ed0156c9a99b.png
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This is a really uniquely designed print in place bb launcher. I’ve never seen bb’s on a zip tie like that, they look smooth and molded. Interesting to hear about the design process.
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Learn to use email with git!
git-send-email.io [1]
This site gives us a glimpse into the development workflow using git [2] over email, without remote centralized servers. I found it interesting how patches can be sent with an optional cover letter nearly like a pr would be made.
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[1]: https://git-send-email.io/
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Repository Mirrors | Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge.
forgejo.org [1]
Forgejo supports repository mirrors, I think this is how I am going to handle migrating all of my github repos into forgejo. over time I’ll probably go through and delete a bunch of unnecessary one from github, ones that might have a user or two I might keep on github. I have such small scale projects with almost no users I am not sure that It really matters for me or not.
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[1]: https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/repo-mirror/
[2]: /thoughts/
Vertical combos are dumb, this makes way more sense. · WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block@48c30d2
Contribute to WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub · github.com [1]
This commit to my keymap gets rid of vertical combos, those were a bad idea to me. Maybe I didnt give it a shot, but hitting two keys at once on purpose with the same finger is a skill, one that I don’t have. This change maps those symbols so that they work as a combo or layer switch, so getting the layer key in first does it by layer, but pressing them at the same time gives me the combo, kinda feels genius. We will see how it goes.
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[1]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block/commit/48c30d2ee4efcdd08266093b5ce79bba5730e6f0
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Let's Make Sure Github Doesn't Become the only Option - Edward Loveall
blog.edwardloveall.com [1]
This post is a masterclass in blogging, cross linking, backing up your ideas with posts from other great sources. I have a week of reading inside this post, and need to come back later when Im not sick.
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I’m playing through peak right now with Wyatt and it is a great game, a small wholesome indiegame that is legit hard, but fun with the simplest concept. You are a scout who has crashlanded on an island, your goal is to get to the peak with your friends. You must manage hunger, stamina, weight, health and energy. You have limited resources and must help everyone to the top, if someone is low on stamina, they are going to need a helping hand or a stonger climber to go up and set pitons and ropes. Its a fantastic collaborative play game
PEAK - 2025-08-27 8-49-54 PM.mp4 [1]
a short clip of me playing with wyatt, I did not have anything great to add, but this is just a random clip
Ripped off # [2]
It was insta-ripped off by roblox with microtransactions pay to win garbage. It looks one for one the same damn models and interface, they spared nothing at making it look exactly like the original. They let you buy a golden apple assuming it gives you crazy stamina to climb with ease, and it costs goddam robux. As Big A says here theres nothing they can really do, the roblox platform just lets this happen, and if they didn’t they would loose huge revenue because this is so prevelant....
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Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.
Forgejo · git.dbushell.com [1]
damn david has been busy, this is sick seeing all of the repos, I’m ready to jump in!
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Eric (@[email protected])
This was pushed out with a rushed security review, a coerced and unwilling engineering team, and in full opposition to our supposed company values.
If you don't want it, tell them. Social media …
Mastodon · social.ericwbailey.website [1]
damn, M$ really pushing hard on moving github into the ai org.
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[1]: https://social.ericwbailey.website/@eric/115100947111974331
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This man feels sad, he never had a chance to bloom. He was stuck behind the drudgery of jira tickets. This is what the consultant driven agile has got us. Its ripped out all the thinking and creativity, its left us with moving tickets across the board, not allowed time to run on an idea when we have one. Not allowed to do extra work or refactoring in a module that we are already in. pushed to move faster for less.
I feel like this mans experience has been quite different from my own and I’m grateful to have some leeway to be creative and do some meaningful work outside the jira board. I’m grateful to be able to provide a good income for my family without taking on all the risk myself.
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Reflection - AI Work and ADHD | Nic Payne
Reflection It's time to be more devoted to my work... AI has been a cool technology to
watch and experience but one thing I'm allowing it to do to me
pype.dev [1]
Crazy that we wrote such similar posts on the same day independantly, I just wrote I'm Out On Agents [2] sitting offline in a doctor office. The two pull out’s are very good,
“AI is not magic, it’s a headache”.
By definition AI is magic to the vast majority of people, but funny how true this is.
“When I finish tasks, I’m not fulfilled… if anything I’m relieved.”
I just wrote something very similar, maybe this feeling can be used for guidance to when to use AI. When you complete this task will you feel relieved its over? Is it a chore? or creative work you want to accomplish.
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[1]: https://pype.dev/reflection-ai-work-and-adhd/
[2]: /im-out-on-agents/
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GitHub - cortesi/modd: A flexible developer tool that runs processes and responds to filesystem changes
A flexible developer tool that runs processes and responds to filesystem changes - cortesi/modd
GitHub · github.com [1]
Gave modd a try today, and I like it, its something I am going to consider slotting right into my justfiles [2]. Gave it a try and it seems to work really well out of the box and easy to configure.
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[1]: https://github.com/cortesi/modd
[2]: https://github.com/casey/just
[3]: /thoughts/
combos only on default layer · WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block@2398fc7
Contribute to WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub · github.com [1]
Fighting some parens in hollow knight lead me to subtle little pauses when playing, I’m swapping combos to only work on the default layer, except for grave, I must have it for minecraft.
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[1]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block/commit/2398fc73b247b9f491e14b605fef1c6910939298
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THE_DEATH_OF_THE_USER_INTERFACE.md [1]
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# The Death of the User Interface
> **TL;DR:** We're witnessing the end of graphical user interfaces. AI agents like Claude Code are eliminating the need for windows, menus, and clicks, replacing them with natural language. The computer is finally learning to speak human, not the other way around.
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## đź”® A Personal Revelation
Last week, I realized something profound: **I haven't opened Finder in months.** Not once.
Where I once clicked through nested folders, dragged and dropped files, and navigated hierarchical menus, I now simply tell Claude Code exactly what I need:
- _"Find all the test files modified in the last week"_
- _"Move the old backups to archive"_
The commands execute instantly, precisely, without me ever seeing a window, icon, or folder.
> This isn't just about convenience. It's a fundamental shift in how humans interact with computers, and it signals the beginning of the end for user interfaces as we know them.
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## 🚴 → 🚀 The Bicycle That Became a Teleporter
In 1990, Steve Jobs famously described computers as "bicycles for the mind," drawing from a Scientific American study showing that humans on bi...
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Damn, social media is at an all time low. I’ve felt all of these issues and when I got a new phone I started fresh, I didn’t install one social media app. Luckily Youtube has remained solid for me. Yes shorts are a bit less what I came for and more addicting content they had to do in order to keep up. There are some legit good commedians, a bit of good knowledge and a bunch of trash that is hard to look away from on shorts. I still find myself able to find content I enjoy and signed up for on YouTube. I feel like I get a one way relationship with someone similar to a TV show or news anchor of old media.
Social Media has morphed from follows likes and similar, to viral posts by creators I don’t recognize. posting and immediately getting like by two hot women with accounts created this week. The rest of the real creators left on there are stuck trying to keep up, echo viral trends, trying to keep up the content treadmill. A few come through, but most feel somewhat forced. A lot of it is ai generated, and whats not mostly doesn’t feel that human anyways.
The people on here seem to really tie the internet to social media and are ready to quit the internet. I think there is more...
Search Needs a Human Solution: A Manifesto
When was the last time you felt genuine discovery on the internet?
Not algorithmic recommendations. Not SEO-optimized listicles.
I mean real, surprising, meaningful discovery.
Search is brok…
Candid and colorful thoughts on enterprise readiness · simplecto.com [1]
The hype bro influencer culture is over, we are fucking burnt the fuck out. I’m done scrolling through ai slop [2] on social media, I like in a few times a week with hopes to see some friends at the top of my feed and jump out. The Doom and Gloom of politics, everyone has a side that will bring glory and the other side will start an apocalypse did me in, ai generated bs is just driving those platforms further into the ground, I’m tired and done.
I’m starting to lean into RSS, I hope for projects like Sam [3] mentions here make this more possible for the average person. I hope that real people make awesomelists like he mentions. I hope that the internet becomes more human again.
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[1]: https://simplecto.com/search-needs-a-human-solution-a-manifesto/
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You Should Be Hiring Mullets. (write that down)
Not because it's cool (it is), but because it's what your company actually needs right now.
"Business in the front, party in the back" isn't just some throwback style. It's the whole point.
In ou…
Candid and colorful thoughts on enterprise readiness · simplecto.com [1]
We need more mullets (as sam describes them). Not so serious, but serious when it counts. Ready to back you up, get some shit shipped, roll up their sleeves and do the work, stand up in front of people and pitch ideas. We have too many hustle bros pitching shit they cant do, ai doomers who have been here 10 minutes think they can replace everything they don’t understand with a word calculator, framework Andys afraid to ship till its perfect [2]. Grow a Mullet.
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[1]: https://simplecto.com/you-should-be-hiring-mullets-write-that-down/
[2]: /perfect/
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The most under hyped, under engineered text editor overtype. Going to be popping this into some places like Thoughts [2], and maybe more, looks small and easy to use. Gives just a bit of nice features over a text editor.
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Damn this VAnessa is hitting my feed with hard topics, I’m not sure whether to subscribe or to block. These top websites only feel worse every day, when I post on twitter and I get 4 likes by accounts that were created 5 minutes ago with racy profile pics it feels obvious. I wonder how larger accounts deal with it. Now that llms have made making these bots mimic humans easy It really makes you want out. I’ve really become a curmudgeon and leaning on rss over the past year, I dont like it, but idk what to do.
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This is a crazy theory I did not realize was out there, but damn power just keeps costing more and more. She does not mention it here, but there are many sources of power for the grid that cost vastly different amounts to produce, generally “clean energy” solutions are harder and more expensive to bring online and don’t just turn on and off at the flick of a switch. Anyways, how are the power companies divying this power out to users, do some get preferred rates or supply? My rates just went up for the summer period “temporarily”. Our infrastructure is aging hard to upgrade and needs something done to it. Who’s really going to pay for it, these AI companies are throwing big numbers but do they have any real money? Do they have any real revenue after building out massive data centers filling them with the most expensive hardware? These guys are burning cash like crazy.
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Digitized Signatures
signature.cnrad.dev [1]
seriously cool dumb app that no one asked for but is really creative and unique.
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X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
Today I learned that its spelled “Rite of Passage”, and is short for ritual. Mac has so many of these things that are just different, but do not let you reconfigure them and you are stuck with it. copy / paste I don’t get, the 3 times I’ve touched a mac since I was a kid its frustrated me. Is it lock in? or is it them actually thinking this is the right way and you all shall do as we say.
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Performance Difference between RWX and RWO volumes · longhorn longhorn · Discussion #6964
Hey all, because of some internal testing I made a couple of experiments on our Cluster related to performance of RWX and RWO volumes. Because this might be of interest to some people I thought I s...
GitHub · github.com [1]
Interesting longhorn storage performance test, author does highlight right away that this is a simulation and not a REAL test. I did not fully understand the storage semantics before reading through this.
- RWO - Always presents a filesystem ext4 or xfs
- RWX/ROX - Always presents a network share nfs to the pod.
This is an important distinction for applications that use sqlite or a tool on top of sqlite such as diskcache. With sqlite it is not recomended to run over nfs due to missing required file locking mechanisms.
Longhorn storage still provides a lot of benefits to these applications as the storage is automatically replicated, if the node that your application is running on goes offline a new pod will start on an existing node. If you have planned downtime, you can cordon and drain a node. Since the data is available in another location you will be able to s...
GitHub Ensloppification
The one where I say goodbye to GitHub
dbushell.com · dbushell.com [1]
David’s got me looking at Forgejo. I’ve seen a lot of GitHub jumpers just this week, and I’ve been tempted for a long time to self host one anyways, so it might be time. I don’t have hard issues with anything, I just like self hosting my own personal stuff.
On the flipside, I hope this does not turn yet another thing to shit. I lived through the download software from sourceforge and hope you get the right download now button and not the one from the virus ad. I’m not putting my really public/useful projects on a self hosted [2] platform… well not as the only source, I see how that comes off edgy. I like having some trust in the platform. Currently theres a lot of issues with M$ and GitHub using you for your data, but I don’t think injecting virus, malware, bitcoin miners is a worry I have coming from a GitHub release, unless it was put there by the author.
Note
This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://dbushell.com/2025/08/11/github-ensloppification/
[2]: /self-host/
[3]: /thoughts/
[1]
Great list of self hosted [2] markdown editors. Looking for a good one for my wife and family to use that does not look like editing code.
Note
This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /static/https://awesome-selfhosted.net/tags/note-taking--editors.html
[2]: /self-host/
[3]: /thoughts/
Slops
AI-generated slop that I thought was worth sharing.
justin․searls․co · justin.searls.co [1]
Justin has such great feeds on his site, I love how the main feeds are so prominant just to the left of the article you are reading. slops in particular feels like a great category. Saving this chat for later, or found it particularly interesting, but don’t really want to make a post about it.
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://justin.searls.co/slops/
[2]: /thoughts/
External Link
X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
kinda wild, you can chat with an ai bot over a dns request??
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This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://x.com/noahgsolomon/status/1954035351510716670
[2]: /thoughts/
blakewatson.com turns 20 - blakewatson.com
I bought this domain as a college student using a friend’s credit card. Twenty years later, it’s one of the best decisions I've ever made.
blakewatson.com [1]
20 years is a long time to work on something, congrats Blake! So many great links to small web creators, why, and how to build your own site.
As algos turn to shit the small web remains a space that cannot be ruined. There will always be rss feeds from real humans writing for other humans.
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://blakewatson.com/journal/blakewatson-com-turns-twenty/
[2]: /thoughts/
External Link
X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
there is literally no universe that this is true
10k lines and its not bug filled crap? ok Lex Luthor, its time to step away from the keys
Is this 10k real production code? Dry in the sense that it hasn’t re-implemented the same s3 api dozens of time? What language are we talking something dense like python? something very verbose like html [2]? Maybe a language where you implement everything from scratch like lua. This matters a lot. Playing with little POC applications that dont mean anything I can quickly come up with 500-1k likes of code that I may never look at again. I’m sure I can come up wtih 10k decent lines of code a day.
But for the same application without duplicating everything over and over? For something that moves the needle and really matters?? every single day?? Consistently +10k, not 10k changes, not 10k deletes of yesterdays code. nah thats wack.
Note
This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://x.com/ThePrimeagen/status/1953502301173244004
[2]: /html/
[3]: /thoughts/
The Brutalist Report
The day
brutalist.report [1]
Discovered the Brutalist Report from CJ [2] on syntax.fm on their rss-is-not-dead [3] episode. The way he described it, I was like gnaw thats whack, not into it, but I had to check it out. It’s actually great! Except the political shit, I go to rss to get away from political finger pointing. The Hacker News list is great, maybe I need to pay more attention to hacker news??
Note
This post is a thought [4]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://brutalist.report/
[2]: https://coding.garden/
[3]: https://syntax.fm/show/926/rss-is-not-dead
[4]: /thoughts/
Omarchy is on the move
Omarchy has been improving at a furious pace. Since it was first released on June 26, I've pushed out 18(!) new releases together with a rapidly growing community of collaborators, users, and new-t...
world.hey.com [1]
It’s facinating how many people are making the jump from mac/windows, not just to linux, not just to archlinux, but to a full on tiling window manager. DHH has omakub and omarchy. Omakub is advertised as easy and for beginners, but many are skipping right over that to go straight for the hard stuff.
DHH mentions hyprland here, one thing I think he is missing is that this is the first real mainstream tiling window manager that is a competitor to i3, awesomewm, qtile that runs Wayland. I think they were able to pull a bunch of great benefits such as lack of screen tearing and animations from this.
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://world.hey.com/dhh/omarchy-is-on-the-move-8f848fa4
[2]: /thoughts/
YouTube has earned its crown
I often give Google a lot of shit for shutting down services whenever they're bored, hire a new executive, or face a three-day weekend. The company seems institutionally incapable of standing behin...
world.hey.com [1]
I wonder how much of killed-by-google [2] is due to is 20 percent time [3]. Allowing engineers to follow a passion project turns into a real product that doesn’t have full backing and support of the company.
similar to DHH as much as I am hurt by reader and all of their privacy BS that comes from ad based revenue I appreciate YouTube and them supporting all of the creators on it. Giving a platform for small creators the ability to sustain themselves and reach a larch audience without big coorporate rules.
Note
This post is a thought [4]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://world.hey.com/dhh/youtube-has-earned-its-crown-48f12ccc
[2]: https://killedbygoogle.com/
[3]: https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/post/787
[4]: /thoughts/
[1]
Googles 20 percent time is fascinating to me. It seems like a great way for engineers to fill up their tank with new skills, passion projects, and the need to scratch an itch. To me these days it feels like something that would incentivize good talent to join.
I can remember back earlier in my career December and January were slow months for big companies. Riddled with vacation and annual planning cycle. I would use this time to create tools and libraries that would help me move quicker throughout the year.
I clearly remember having a conversation with a colleague several salary grades ahead of me come mid February asking what I was up to. I was furiously pecking away at some of these projects while he let me know that he had been waiting for this years plan for months and had no tasks from the boss.
That said, I don’t think any major tech company is going to adopt 20% time these days. It’s too chaotic, too hard to manage and impossible to measure.
This line from Ted feels exactly why 20 percent time generally blows up and likely turns into another killed-by-google [2] product that has a small user base and is furious about it being killed. With enough of these at least...
Blog
tonsky.me · tonsky.me [1]
Niki has one of the coolest yet simple personal sites that I have seen in a long time. We need more of this on the internet! hover over his face, try dark mode, submit personal data, there are so many really cool Easter eggs to discover!
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://tonsky.me/
[2]: /thoughts/
We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles
Lockfiles are an absolutely unnecessary concept that complicates things without a good reason. Dependency managers can and are working without it just the same.
tonsky.me · tonsky.me [1]
I wholeheartedly agree that packaging is broken, semver is broken, expecting much better from a system of oss that is built on top of volunteers, passion projects, nights and weekends is a fools errand. With that I disagree that we we dont need lockfiles. Maybe its Nikki’s experience in java and my lack that puts us on this opposite spectrum, but without lockfiles the world changes underneath us as we release. One small change to your source can introduce a whole set of new features/bugs that you did not plan on without a good locking system. It can also cause you to need to do dependency resolution at application build time and not ahead of time.
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This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://tonsky.me/blog/lockfiles/
[2]: /thoughts/