Today I Learned

Check out dawarich [1] by Freika [2]. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential. Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History) References: [1]: https://github.com/Freika/dawarich [2]: https://github.com/Freika

K8s Diagram Builder - Visual Kubernetes YAML Generator Free Kubernetes diagram builder with drag-and-drop design. Auto-generate production-ready YAML for Ingress, Services, Deployments, ConfigMaps, Secrets & more. No signup required. K8s Diagram Builder · k8sdiagram.fun [1] This looks like great prototyping tool for k8s. I too often ask ai to get me going with the things I need. I’ve used k8s long enough that I can generally remember all the things I need, roughly where they go, would probably forget a few things and need to iterate, but I cannot remember exactly what goes where and need examples at a minimum. I need to give this a go from desktop and see if it will work for me. Right now looking through mobile looks promising. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: http://k8sdiagram.fun/ [2]: /thoughts/

chr15m [1] has done a fantastic job with runprompt [2]. Highly recommend taking a look. Run LLM prompts from your shell References: [1]: https://github.com/chr15m [2]: https://github.com/chr15m/runprompt

setting COLUMNS env var to a number greater than 0 will make the terminal resize to that number of columns. COLUMNS=80 uvx --from rich-cli rich myscript.py Note Not all programs respct the COLUMNS env var, but rich does, and a lot of stuff I’m building uses rich. I discovered this when I was trying to make a low effort readme generated from the code, but did not depend on the size of terminal it was ran on. # justfile readme: echo "# Workspaces" > README.md echo "" >> README.md echo '``` bash' >> README.md COLUMNS=80 ./workspaces.py --help >> README.md echo '```' >> README.md

I’m really excited about alloy-scenarios [1], an amazing project by grafana [2]. It’s worth exploring! A collection of working Alloy scenarios References: [1]: https://github.com/grafana/alloy-scenarios [2]: https://github.com/grafana

The tea command for gitea (used by forgejo) has a flag for login. With gitea you can have multiple accounts logged in. When you try to run a command such as repo create it will prompt you which login to use, but I learned that you can bake it in to all of them with --login <login-name> ❯ tea repo create --name deleteme --description 'for example' ┃ NOTE: no gitea login detected, whether falling back to login 'git.waylonwalker.com'? [1] tea repo create --name deleteme --description 'for example' --login git.wayl.one References: [1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/11dc820d-1680-414c-9624-cd970b057a74.webp

Looking for inspiration? wyattbubbylee.com [1] by WaylonWalker [2]. No description available. References: [1]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker/wyattbubbylee.com [2]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on qmk_firmware [1], created by WaylonWalker [2]. Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families References: [1]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker/qmk_firmware [2]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker

Check out octelium [1] by octelium [2]. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential. A next-gen FOSS self-hosted [3] unified zero trust secure access platform that can operate as a remote access VPN, a ZTNA platform, API/AI/MCP gateway, a PaaS, an ngrok-alternative and a homelab [4] infrastructure. References: [1]: https://github.com/octelium/octelium [2]: https://github.com/octelium [3]: /self-host/ [4]: /homelab/

- 👏👏👏preach it prime! M$ continues to prove that they are not making products for you something else is affoot and shit you don’t want is shoved down your throat and forced on you. Prime points out that the agentic is prompt injected itself😂. Rather than making a better os experience it’s assuming you are stupid and need everything done for you. But what I don’t get here in the text scaling example. Why the F does it not just fix it for me. When I ask the machine to make text bigger it puts a flashy circle where to click. This is a one time setup for someone who gives no fucks to remember how to do it. Why is the machine doing this weird hand holding watching us do it’s work rather than just doing it? I like the pattern when you change display setting it gives you a counter that reverts everything if for some reason shit is so bad you can’t even see it. Do that, not this help me click bs. Now in parallel we have steam making Linux desktop better and better. Allowing you to just access the hardware you own to do what you want to do with it. Providing a fantastic hands off out of the box experience for the price of the hardware. No ongoing fees, no upgrade cycle, soft lock, ari...

PETaflop cluster AI is a pain in the back. Justin Garrison · justingarrison.com [1] Justin makes the coolest kubernetes clusters wishing I could see it in the flesh at Kubecon. 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://justingarrison.com/blog/petaflop-cluster/ [2]: /thoughts/

- Absolutely banger of a video, what a wild idea to send gippity a bit off course and just see how far off the rails it will go. Dude did a banger of an edit on it. I’ll admit that I listened to the whole thing, but did not watch much, saving here as I might go back when I have time to really watch it. It was really weird how easy it was for chat to say something that could be true, but nearly no chance of it actually happening over and over and just keep it going down this dark spiral of conspiracies. It was ready to electrocute him and separate him from anyone who had a chance of being a non believer. At any moment was ready to say that those closest to him might be his problem. gipity is not your friend, or your therapist. Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

I found an interesting side effect of manually running my script to generate [[ stars ]] posts is that you get notified when one gets renamed. Today I noticed that Ned Batchelder created a coveragepy org. [1] References: [1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/cf6dd0cc-5a74-40bf-8512-f62471ea1e56.png

Today I learned how to use AliasChoices with pydantic settings to setup common aliases for the same field. I’m bad about remembering these things, and hate looking up the docs. I like things to be intuitive and just do the thing I want it to do. Especially when they get configured through something like yaml and do not have a direct lsp look up right from my editor. I figured out how to support what might be common aliases for a storage directory. These can be set up as environment variables and used by config. from pathlib import Path from pydantic import Field from pydantic import AliasChoices from pydantic_settings import BaseSettings class Settings(BaseSettings): storage_dir: Path | None = Field( default=None, validation_alias=AliasChoices( "STORAGE_DIR", "STORAGE_DIRECTORY", "STORAGE_PATH", "STORAGE_PATHNAME", "DROPPER_STORAGE_DIR", "DROPPER_STORAGE_DIRECTORY", "DROPPER_STORAGE_PATH", "DROPPER_STORAGE_PATHNAME", ), description="Directory for stored files", )

Mark Zuckerberg scaled Facebook in 2005 - without Kubernetes, Serverless Functions, Redis, Managed Auth, Rust, or Kafka. No fancy orchestration. No distributed event streams. No cloud-native… | Anton Martyniuk | 270 comments Mark Zuckerberg scaled Facebook in 2005 - without Kubernetes, Serverless Functions, Redis, Managed Auth, Rust, or Kafka. No fancy orchestration. No distributed event streams. No cloud-native anyth… LinkedIn · linkedin.com [1] Lean on your skills and your goals. If your goals are to have fun, use whatever you want. If you are looking for a job, Lean on tech that bridges the gap between your resume and the job you want. If you want to build a good product use the tech you are best at. No one in their right mind would throw away 20 years of tech progression because Zuck built facebook ftping php to a server. The sentiment in this post is fine at best the picture feels triggering and oversimplies way too much. If you like kubernetes just fucking use kubernetes [2]. This topic deserves a full on post, maybe later. 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://www.linkedi...

- Are we cooked? Are we? Yes the consumers are cooked there are no more affordable cars with basic shit that you need to go point a to point b. Ford make us cars we can afford and you won’t be cooked by this dumb shit. If you can market it? Most people don’t care what sticker price is and only the monthly payment. This is why we are cooked. We stopped caring that these things cost way too much. I’m probably in a small minority that just want an affordable reliable vehicle and could care less about features past climate control. I don’t use them. My phone has maps and music I don’t need a screen in my vehicle for anything. Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

mcat [1] by Skardyy [2] is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves. Terminal image, video, directory, and Markdown viewer References: [1]: https://github.com/Skardyy/mcat [2]: https://github.com/Skardyy

- #minecraft" playlabel="Play: I refuse to change the way I play… 😂🔥 #comedy #videogames #minecraft [1]"> Microsoft has been addding features to Minecraft for over 10 years now. Idk if there was momentum from the mojang theme, but we’ve barely paid attention to any updates in the last five years. The ocean update was huge, caves and cliffs were huge then it trailed off to we play each release on release day, use commands to try out new features, then never touch them again either to play minecraft as we always have or to play a modded pack with crazy new features that really make an impact on gameplay. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /tags/minecraft/ [2]: /thoughts/

- Absolutely incredible what Preston is doing with his time. What a life changing experience this must be for him. Good job to Turso for making this happen. We are going to end up with very feature rich file based databases out of this that the whole world will benefit from. Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

- Absolutely love this selfhosted arc of pewdiepie that is going on right now. It’s crazy to witness now fast he is picking up linux / self hosting, and sounds like soon will be programming. In this one he built a $20k AI beast that crushes gippity with power, speed, proximity, and security. No one to take your data, no latency to the data center, no one else bogging down your prompts, just raw speed. It looks absolutely wild. He implemented RAG and gave it a bunch of data about himself and its able to spit out his wife’s name and phone number in under a second. It writes code at blazing pace. This may be the future that we get over the next few years as things shift towards AI there will be more affordable options, and a larger second hand market for building out these highly capable machines. Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/