k8s-monitoring-helm/charts/k8s-monitoring/docs/examples/private-image-registries/globally/values.yaml at main · grafana/k8s-monitoring-helm
Contribute to grafana/k8s-monitoring-helm development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub · github.com [1]
k8s-monitoring requires setting imageregistry and pullsecrets twice
global:
image:
registry: my.registry.com
pullSecrets:
- name: my-registry-creds
imageRegistry: my.registry.com
imagePullSecrets:
- name: my-registry-creds
References:
[1]: https://github.com/grafana/k8s-monitoring-helm/blob/main/charts/k8s-monitoring/docs/examples/private-image-registries/globally/values.yaml#L29
Thoughts
Link based "commentary" style posts, commenting on a web link
Publishing rhythm
No docs, no bugs
If your library doesn't have any documentation, it can't have any bugs. Documentation specifies what your code is supposed to do. Your tests specify what it actually does. Bugs exist …
Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1]
Bugs exist when your test-enforced implementation fails to match the behavior described in your documentation. Without documentation a bug is just undefined behavior.
This is quite an interesting thought, so does this mean that, none of my undocumented side projects have bugs? no I think there is still some implied behavior that naming things covers. a function get_bucket_contents implies doing something wtih s3, getting stuff from your local filesystem or crashing would be considered a bug. I think the argument here is that if I start mining bitcoin when you call get_bucket_contents and I have not documented it that this is a feature not a bug. If I were to take this a step further, now do I need to document that this does not also start a bitcoin miner? maybe this is more of an unwanted feature than a bug, I’m convincing myself more and more.
References:
[1]: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/22/no-docs-no-bugs/#atom-everything
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So many small details go into making hollow knight such a great game, but it starts with such good controls, every thing is so fluid and predictable. I knew about coyote time, but not some of the other details that Juniper covers, such as hang time, and faster decent than jump.
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Excited to hear this story, they have so many key players in the trailer this will be fantastic.
External Link
christopherbiscardi.com [1]
Interesting take on kubernetes from a front end perspective. All valid arguments to me, and really the answer to any do you need to any specific implementation of tech is probably no. We got along just fine before k8s ever existed and you still can, but its really nice in a lot of cases. If your skills lean toward backend or infrastructure I encourage you to give it a try.
k8s distros # [2]
There are a lot of beginner friendly k8s distros that you can setup with relative ease, kind and k0s are great for single node, If you want multi-node k3s is what I generally use. If you want a very lightweight OS that you only interact with through an api, and has a very small attack surface talos is an amazing product.
When else might you want k8s # [3]
Internal, on-prem, self hosted [4]. If you are trying to avoid the cloud for cost, rules, regulations, red tape, kubernetes is a great option to manage your container workflows yourself without needing to have a cloud budget, get approvals and sign offs on running workflows in a public cloud.
References:
[1]: https://www.christopherbiscardi.com/wtf-is-kubernetes
[2]: #k8s--distros-
[3]: #when-...
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Just listened to this as I am really starting to get into grafana and feel like there isn’t a mountain of setup this time around realizing how much of my stack is brand new. Drill Down and Alloy are both new and key to my setup. The Ai integrations at the end sound wicked good, I will be interested if you can do similar things with an MCP vs how much proprietary stuff needs grafana cloud.
Textual - The future of Textualize
Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.
Textual Documentation · textual.textualize.io [1]
Ultimately though a business needs a product. Textual has always been a solution in search of a problem. And while there are plenty of problems to which Textual is a fantastic solution, we weren’t able to find a shared problem or pain-point to build a viable business around.
I can totally see this. Finding a marketable business idea is not easy, working in the developer space where everyone wants to do it themselves is no better. Textual specifically I could see, I really wanted to build things on it as it came out, I had ideas, it was hard to use at the time and changing, so I took a break, got busy with far too many other things, and really I ’m good with rich most of the time.
I daily use k9s, its absolutely amazing at what it does and appreciate that I could build something like it in python, its just hard to justify the time investment for the things I tend to work on.
Which is why Textualize, the company, will be wrapping up in the next few weeks.
Damn, that hit hard, its been an adventure watching textual ge...
What’s next?
Some years ago I had the opportunity to work fulltime on project of mine. This was at a time where I fully intended to take a year off, but being able to make a living off a project of your own cre...
Will McGugan · willmcgugan.github.io [1]
So it’s back to plan A: taking a year off. I plan on using this time to focus on my health–something I haven’t prioritized while working as a CEO / Founder of a startup.
Wish you the best Will, you have given us textual and rich, and from what I can tell left it in some great hands.
All I can say for certain is that I would like to write more. Writing scratches many of the same itches as software development, and it is a skill I’d like to nurture.
Go get em Will, write to your hearts desire, and resist the urge to make an SSG company this time.
References:
[1]: https://willmcgugan.github.io/whats-next/
Too much magic
A common criticisms of frameworks like Textual is that they have “too much magic”.
Will McGugan · willmcgugan.github.io [1]
Now “too much magic” is not the same thing as “bad magic”, although they are often conflated. Bad magic is when the implementation details leak out from the level below. This can manifest itself as cryptic errors that reference the magic’s implementation.
References:
[1]: https://willmcgugan.github.io/too-much-magic/
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Dang Strong takes against markdown here with a strong push for bespoke content models/structures. This idea is completely foreign and wild to me. I get it that markdown has its issues with flavors, add ons and what not, but overall its mostly transportable, its a skill that works most content sites and writing tools. I am so far on the other side that I seek out tools with markdown as an option and lean away from wsiwyg tools with specialized data formats on the backend.
I’ll end with, I’m also a dev that creates very simplified content and maybe seeing the backend of a site with lots of custom fields would be very eye opening for me.
Week Links №2: April 2025
Last year I attempted to do some newsletter-style link aggregation… that good intention imploded spectacularly. But I switched to Obsidian this month and now I have a better system for aggregatin...
daverupert.com · daverupert.com [1]
Last year I attempted to do some newsletter-style link aggregation… that good intention imploded spectacularly. But I switched to Obsidian this month and now I have a better system for aggregating links (post on that coming later). Inside this issue you’ll find some games, some homelab [2] server hardware, some AI discourse™, some musical instruments, and more.
This hits so close to home, I even went through the effort of making a weeknotes script, one weeknote post. I also was inspired by obsidian but it didn’t work out for me, so my script uses data from markata.
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References:
[1]: https://daverupert.com/2025/05/week-links-2/
[2]: /homelab/
[3]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/b1a5212b-846f-4144-82ab-51cd9ace086d.webp
What ChatGPT is NOT - Tech Raven Blog
There is a lot of excitement about ChatGPT and how it allows us to interact with information and technology. I am actually excited that it now exists and still, I think it is being way overhyped. I...
Tech Raven Blog - · blog.techravenconsulting.com [1]
Do you remember regression models from college: given some data, you find a best fit line that allows you to predict Y given X. At the end of the day, ChatGPT, and LLMs in general, are the same thing as the regression model – it’s just that ChatGPT is the largest and fanciest model we currently have to model language and information.
I really am coming to the idea of calling it a “word calculator”, this seems to be the most succinct description of llms that the lay person can comprehend and relate to.
ChatGPT does not hallucinate or become unhinged
I think Steve goes much deeper on this in his intervew on fafo.fm [2]. They describe it more as a pleaser or “yes man” essentially all the companies that are building these models want to give the “best” answer, better than their competitors. With this comes the risk of it being completely wrong, they are designed to always give an answer.
O...
“I’d rather read the prompt”
Clayton Ramsey grades student assignments and gets papers that are just obviously ChatGPT output. I think any of us can spot it by now: awkward repetitive prose, heavy on bullet points with bold in…
Chris Coyier · chriscoyier.net [1]
I’ll triple down on the link-blog chain here, see this one going around all over this week and finally had time to read through when it hit my rss reader via Chris.
It should come as no surprise that nearly every vibe-coded app on the Internet struggles with security issues; look no further than the vibe-coded recipe app that leaks its OpenAI keys. Every time one generates code by prompt, they create a new stillborn program; vibe coding [2] is the art of stitching together their corpses into Frankenstein’s monster.
Damn, that is a strong statement, stitching together the corpses, strong statement here. The OpenAI key thing feels kind of obvious to me, every set of docs, blogs and examples on the internet need to be runnable for people to learn and try out new tech easy, putting secrets in the wrong place is easy, putting them somewhere that you can decode them without sharing them is hard team specific, app specific...
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Under 2000 everything is happy, green field. Any decision you have made is relatively easy to back out of (barring you making a library with downstream users), but as you go, regret kicks in. Regret we didn’t make that pydantic 2 upgrade earlier, as new features become more apealing. Regret that we chose sqlite for simplicity, speed, agility, and now we might need robust and distributed. Regret that you chose a front end framework, or to have a front end at all to a backend problem. Regret that you put 6 layers of abstraction on your db early on and now that you understand the problem you want different abstractions, but all of your endpoints deeply depend on the current one.
Vibe coding [1] will not save you, it will only make these wrong decisions for you without the context that you have. You will hate it’s decisions more because you had no input into some of them.
References:
[1]: /vibe-coding/
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“Gradually roll out your releases to a small group of people”
~ roughly what prime said (I’m listening live)
This really hit home with me, tests can be so good at making sure that we dont repeat bugs and that laser focused things work, tests are generally small and focused, but this does not replace some sort of integration testing. These days very few things are written as a monolith, and hence there are a lot of interactions that really need to play well together accross various systems.
They call out Crowdstrike here, which took down the world blue screening critical windows systems everywhere in 2024. It was revealed that a small changed was rushed through and skipped critical rollout paths since it seemed like a small change. Crowdstrike also runs at a super low kernel level of access and a small memory bug can kill the system.
External Link
waylonwalker.com [1]
I’m trying to level up my sre game. I’m trying to set up grafana dashboards for everything and it is such a wide surface area. It’s never just one thing you have to have 3 or more things hooked together in order for the data to flow.
I’m really getting not invented here vibes, and thoughts that I can just build this myself. Not grafana and it’s scalability necessarily, but small components of observability.
References:
[1]: https://waylonwalker.com/thoughts/thought-623/
Kubernetes Monitoring Helm tutorial | Grafana Loki documentation
Grafana Labs · grafana.com [1]
This is a really great guide to setting up kubernetes monitoring with helm, it uses loki as a log datasource and alloy as a collector of kubernetes logs, events, and nodes. The charts are setup really well to start collecting logs from all your kubernetes pods.
References:
[1]: https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/send-data/k8s-monitoring-helm/
Configure the Tempo data source | Grafana documentation
Grafana Labs · grafana.com [1]
Really helpful article to getting tempo datasource setup in grafana, this enables you to see span and trace data within grafana. This data helps debug and work through issues that you might come into with performance and need to see the timing of requests along with logs.
References:
[1]: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/tempo/configure-tempo-data-source/
External Link
fafo.fm [1]
Steve is such a great listen, the neurospicy 🌶️ rambles this episode goes on is so relatable. I feel like I really missed out on some great takes on intellij vs neovim, but got some really great knowledge about vector db’s, embedding, text compression, similarities to vector algegra like infinite craft.
Just popped open infinitecraft and I’ve definitely played this with my kids before, super fun, just could not remember the name of this one. I do remember an android one as well that is alchemist or something like that, which we have also played a lot.
References:
[1]: https://www.fafo.fm/vectorizing-your-databases-with-steve-pousty/
Recovering from Disaster with Seth Eliot
Disaster recovery is more than automation and infrastructure. There's a lot that goes into your services and some of those things can't be defined as code or automa…
Fork Around And Find Out · fafo.fm [1]
This episode really got me thinking about the difference between HA and DR and my approach to each one. They talk about it from the perspective of a cach cow kind of app rather than a homelab [2] or internal tooling, but think of HA as 9’s how many 9s are we willing to pay for, tink of DR as dollars how many dollars will we loose during the period of recovery. So much more in the episode, a lot of talk around cloud vendors and what they give you vs a purpose build platform with HA and DR in mind.
References:
[1]: https://www.fafo.fm/recovering-from-disaster-with-seth-eliot/
[2]: /homelab/
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Astral is doing great things in the python industry. They are disrupting entire categories of tools with extremely fast, easy to use, and feature rich alternatives that make it really hard to keep using the incumbent. So far I am seeing no signs of evil, sometimes with such a disrupter there is some sort of downside that make it hard to want to do the switch. In the interview they even mention things like leaning on lsp so that it works across all editors rather than building out vscode integrations that work for most developers. As a neovim user I greatly apreciate this.
Playground | ty
An in-browser playground for ty, an extremely fast Python type-checker written in Rust.
types.ruff.rs [1]
ty, has a playground running at types.ruff.rs. You can edit code in there and see what the type checker results would be in browser. This looks good, excited to see it running in my lsp.
Here is an example where a Optional may not be defined.
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Checking for existance before using it resolves the issue.
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References:
[1]: https://types.ruff.rs/
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/783e4d9e-8b23-4304-8921-2ae05aebcc8a.webp
[3]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/cc28335c-4130-4bf4-829d-0ff39f2aa32d.webp
ty
An extremely fast Python type checker, written in Rust.
PyPI · pypi.org [1]
Astral is working on some great things around python, they have created a high standard for python tooling built on rust that works really well, runs fast and covers everything in the space it resides in. ty appears to be their linter coming soon.
References:
[1]: https://pypi.org/project/ty/
3D Printable Power Brick Bracket Designer
Generate custom 3D printable power brick brackets for your devices. Design and export your own mounting solutions.
Bracket Engineer · bracket.engineer [1]
This is madness that Wes Bos made this with manifold.js and no openscad! Yes, I have these stupid brackets everywhere, yes, I hand model my own brackets. No I don’t do it enough. I don’t like that these model generators like openscad cannot make fillets and chamfers, but I appreciate the heck out of the speed and automation you can make iterations of things.
Link to the promo video.
https://bsky.app/profile/wesbos.com/post/3lo4h7unk6s2i
References:
[1]: https://bracket.engineer/?width=113.5&height=63&depth=98&bracketThickness=3&ribbingCount=9&ribbingThickness=2.5&holeDiameter=5&holeCount=1&earWidth=17&keyHole=on&color=%2344ff00
661: Working Vacations, Ripping Out JavaScript, and Non-US Cloud Service Options
What are the non-US cloud services options, falling off the blogging train and trying to get back on, working on vacation, Chris recaps the Alaskan Folk Festival experience, how often do you go bac…
ShopTalk · shoptalkshow.com [1]
Chris hit me where it feels about 10 minutes in. He said he has not been writing on his site as much lately and how hard it is to get back in. He mentions having a baby idea of a post, but then having the thought do you really want to come back from a long break with this!
Momentum is a b**** when you got it you cant stop, and when you don’t you can’t stop.
References:
[1]: https://shoptalkshow.com/661/
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How is usability and it doing the thing I paid for it to do a selling point?? Any time I’ve touched a windows machine in the past 7 years has felt awkward, I have no idea where things are now, but they look so much worse.
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How is usability and it doing the thing I paid for it to do a selling point?? Any time I’ve touched a windows machine in the past 7 years has felt awkward, I have no idea where things are now, but they look so much worse.
A quote from Mark Zuckerberg
You also mentioned the whole Chatbot Arena thing, which I think is interesting and points to the challenge around how you do benchmarking. How do you know what models are …
Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1]
Interesting how confidently he says we can easily go to the top. really makes you wonder what we the normies are leaving on the table by using these general purpose models and what could be achieved with really tuned in models. Could I make an automatic blog tagger more accurately, maybe smaller, maybe tuned so well it runs fine on cpu?
References:
[1]: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/1/mark-zuckerberg/#atom-everything
P. Martin Ortiz: Web apps can easily adapt to whatever device you’re on. A single responsive website can run on your desktop, phone, tablet, or even a VR headset. What’s even more, they can be ...
Chris Coyier · chriscoyier.net [1]
The web is everywhere, its the one true write once and run anywhere platform. Millions sunk into browser performance and things like the v8 engine allow us to run our shitty websites anywhere and it still runs good…. most of the time
References:
[1]: https://chriscoyier.net/2025/04/30/12292/
Helm - Postiz Documentation
Install Postiz using Kubernetes and Helm
Postiz Documentation · docs.postiz.com [1]
I didn’t realize that postiz had a helm chart, I just hand rolled mine based on the compose file they provide. I went from running the compose stack locally to running in my homelab [2] with kubernetes. I am using cnpg rather than a postgres container which I really like the workflow of as far as backup and restore. The one hiccup I ran into was changing the domain from localhost to my homelab domain killed all of my integrations and they needed the redirect url updated.
References:
[1]: https://docs.postiz.com/installation/kubernetes-helm
[2]: /homelab/
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Great talk from Lous Rossman! TLDR you don’t own it, and stop pointing the finger calling everyone else an idiot for supporting the other brand, cause your’s probably also has different issues.
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This is a wild concept for a slicer, essentially he didn’t even make a slicer just a crazy pre-process and post prossess to cura slicer, deforming the part until it doesn’t have any overhangs, creating a normal planar slice, then undeforming the output from cura. He also mentions that the rapid moved needed modified as well. I’m assuming this is because they are generally long distances and not short, without breaking these long lines up we would still end up wtih a straight line after deform.
Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem
Marp (also known as the Markdown Presentation Ecosystem) provides an intuitive experience for creating beautiful slide decks. You only have to focus on writing your story in a Markdown document.
marp.app [1]
Intersting markdown presentation tool, Looks very simple. I really like split on --- much better than by h1 or h2. Their theme looks really nice in the screenshots.
References:
[1]: https://marp.app/#get-started
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How to make an entire clickable without presenting the entire content of the card as the link title. These videos are great, I’ve ran into these types of problems so many times, and definitely did not know about things like isolate to keep the z-index scoped to one element.
- isolate - scope z-index inside this element so that it does not leak out.
- [.relative [.absolute, inset-0, z-10]] - the inset zero is a modern shorthand for zeroing all sides, top-0, right-0, bottom-0, left-0.
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This is an absolute banger of a review by prime and Dylan Beetle. I love the similar takes with different perspectives, would really like to see them podcast together, but this one way style interview does really well to cover a lot of issues in open source, rug pulls, version pinning, thankless maintainers, what its like to open source from a large company.
Perils of Self-Hosting
We speak to Kevin and Patricia from Traefik, discuss Alex's recent ZFS snafu and we wonder if the new Chromecasts can match up to the Nvidia Shield.
Self-Hosted · selfhosted.show [1]
Interesting takes on Diun here. I agree that I like to be in control of updates and pinning not to latest. both seemed like they weren’t going to run it because they can look up the latest version. Maybe I need to be less aggressive on keeping things up to date and its a me problem. I just got diun setup and hooked into ntfy, and I kinda like the automated checklist of new images that I can review and update.
To be a bit more clear, having control over changes coming in from others, even if I dont care to see the changelog, it is nice to roll out an update, have it in your git [2] history, watch it deploy and work like before, if not roll back and read the changelog. For internal applications I’m down for automated releases like argo image updater give you, this thing has already gone through review, launch the damn thing at least to a dev space.
References:
[1]: https://selfhosted.show/29?t=637
[2]: /glossary/git/
Spring 2025: Self-Hosted Update
The one where things plod along.
dbushell.com · dbushell.com [1]
Davids blogs always have so many links that send me down new rabbit holes. Interesting that his experience with smart home is turning away, I’ve been somewhat interested for awhile, but never fully pulled the trigger on buying things.
I really hope tailscale enshitification does not take off, but really for me, I barely use it even as a homelabber. Idk why, but every other homelabber praises it so much and I just dont find myself using it.
References:
[1]: https://dbushell.com/2025/04/13/self-hosted-update-spring-2025/
Characters
Xe Iaso
xeiaso.net [1]
xeiaso, has the coolest characters on her blog. Definitely something I’d like to replicate. I really appreciate how each one has its own sprite sheet, and they have conversations with each other.
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References:
[1]: https://xeiaso.net/characters/
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/77dd4cb5-4fdb-4d09-8b9b-d9cdd72b2490.webp
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I want to go build these now, these are suspension setups I had no idea you could do in trailmakers.
GitHub - adrianlopezroche/fdupes: FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.
FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories. - adrianlopezroche/fdupes
GitHub · github.com [1]
keeping this in my back pocket for now. I just moved a few TB’s of data in the homelab [2] and I am expecting a lot of duplication to show up.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes
[2]: /homelab/
Diun
Receive notifications when a Docker image is updated on a Docker registry
crazymax.dev [1]
Diun, looks like a very interesting tool to monitor for image updates, it does not make any change, it only makes notifications. This feels like an easy start to getting image updates started with low effort, keep git [2] ops, but requires manual updates. I see this as a tool that would be a great start and pair well with automated image updaters to ensure they are working as expected.
References:
[1]: https://crazymax.dev/diun/
[2]: /glossary/git/
Keel
Kubernetes Operator to automate Helm, DaemonSet, StatefulSet & Deployment updates
keel.sh [1]
Keel looks interesting, I might give it a try as a simple image updater. I’m unsure if it fits my gitops patterns though. I like to keep everything defined in git [2], I don’t like drift outside of that so Keel might not be the thing I want.
References:
[1]: https://keel.sh/
[2]: /glossary/git/
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]
Damn he makes this easy. I did not know about hx-select. yes there is waste in requesting the entire thing every 5s, but damn that was easy to get life reload. I’ve only done very specific backend endpoints, built pages up from partials, made endpoints for partials. keeping this one in my back pocket.
I’m just kind of amazed that he could do this all in html [2] without touching the backend or js, typically things like this require one or the other. Yes js is running, but no other js library I’m aware of lets you do this.
References:
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch
[2]: /html/
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This is a handy line to reset your admin password in nextcloud.
References:
[1]: /static/https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/configuration_user/reset_admin_password.html
Redis configuration
Overview of redis.conf, the Redis configuration file
Docs · redis.io [1]
redis has all of their default self documented configs hosted here. You can pull the default redis.conf for any of the major releases.
References:
[1]: https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/management/config/
hotel_bookings.csv
Discover what actually works in AI. Join millions of builders, researchers, and labs evaluating agents, models, and frontier technology through crowdsourced benchmarks, competitions, and hackathons.
kaggle.com [1]
nice dataset to use for example / test projects. I’m using it to play with duckdb currently.
References:
[1]: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ahmedsafwatgb20/hotel-bookingscsv?resource=download
The State of Secrets Sprawl 2025
GitGuardian's 2025 report reveals 70% of leaked secrets remain active two years later. Discover the alarming state of secrets sprawl & protect your organization.
GitGuardian Blog - Take Control of Your Secrets Security · blog.gitguardian.com [1]
Good report, make notes later
References:
[1]: https://blog.gitguardian.com/the-state-of-secrets-sprawl-2025/
Mill-Max Hotswap Sockets
Mill-Max sockets for adding hotswap support to regular PCBs. Sold in packs of 60 (good for 30 switches). Info about the different types 7305-0: Gold-plated sockets (7305-0-15-15-47-27-10-0) Shorter...
Keebio · keeb.io [1]
looking into trying these Mill-Max pins on a handwired 3d printed build to see if I can get away from specialty hot swap sockets. Damn they aren’t exactly cheap, I really want the nice short ones but they start at $20 per 60ct and you need two per key, that adds up quick.
References:
[1]: https://keeb.io/products/mill-max-hotswap-sockets?variant=32377167511646
External Link
r.jina.ai [1]
jina reader is a pretty sweet tool to convert a site to ai compatible text. There are other web to markdown types of tools, but the convenience of just adding r.jina.ai to the front of any page makes it so easy to grab for one page of docs.
References:
[1]: https://r.jina.ai/
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the racked up 4 framework mainboards sound wild. connected with usb4 and 5gig ethernet. they said they can run big models quantized down from 600Gb to within the 512GB limit they have. This seems wild to bring this level of capability to such a low price point. It will be really cool to start to see demos come out.