Today I Learned

I like DigitalHarbor7’s [1] project engineering-status-pages [2]. Static sites for engineering project status updates References: [1]: https://github.com/DigitalHarbor7 [2]: https://github.com/DigitalHarbor7/engineering-status-pages

Today I ran into an interesting question, why am I being asked to configure tzdata while installing npm. Turns out that the aptitude cli has a why command that very handily nails down why you have something installed on a debian based system. Install aptitude # [1] apt install aptitude Why tzdata # [2] Now we can query why we need tzdata and see the full chain with the root package being npm. root@47685221fb82:/# aptitude why tzdata i npm Depends node-gyp i A node-gyp Depends gyp (>= 0.1+20200513gitcaa6002) i A gyp Depends python3:any i A python3 Provides python3:any i A python3 Depends python3.12 (>= 3.12.3-0~) i A python3.12 Depends tzdata References: [1]: #install-aptitude [2]: #why-tzdata

Today I ran into this interactive prompt on ubuntu while installing node and npm, and I do not want to manually configure this interactively every time I run an install, moreso in docker I do not have the interactive terminal to do so. Configuring tzdata ------------------ Please select the geographic area in which you live. Subsequent configuration questions will narrow this down by presenting a list of cities, representing the time zones in which they are located. 1. Africa 2. America 3. Antarctica 4. Arctic 5. Asia 6. Atlantic 7. Australia 8. Europe 9. Indian 10. Pacific 11. Etc 12. Legacy Geographic area: Why tzdata # [1] Checking aptitude why tzdata it shows that the chain goes back through npm. root@47685221fb82:/# aptitude why tzdata i npm Depends node-gyp i A node-gyp Depends gyp (>= 0.1+20200513gitcaa6002) i A gyp Depends python3:any i A python3 Provides python3:any i A python3 Depends python3.12 (>= 3.12.3-0~) i A python3.12 Depends tzdata The solution, configure tzdata # [2] export TZ="America/Chicago" export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt update apt install tzdata -y ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ /etc/localtime dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata D...

Colors - Core concepts Using and customizing the color palette in Tailwind CSS projects. tailwindcss.com [1] Tailwind has the best color system, very well done. Even if you don’t use it, it serves as a great color picker. 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://tailwindcss.com/docs/colors [2]: /thoughts/

External Link wyattbubbylee.com [1] So proud of Wyatt for writing in his own blog! 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://wyattbubbylee.com/dst-forever-world/ [2]: /thoughts/

- Big fan of Primes setup. I was not far off of his setup before he really came on the scene, but I’ve picked up a ton of nuggets from him and how he operates. I took his first developer productivity course on Front End Masters as it came out. It is interesting to see him roll back his ansible scripts for bash scripts here. I converted my setup to ansible after watching his first, but have also since rolled back to bash scripts for quite similar reasons. Ansible is great for remote tasks that need to be done on a fleet of machines, but like he says here overkill for this purpose and ends up something that you need to read the docs for every change to your dotfiles. Unlike prime I’ve really leaned harder on installing everything in a docker image and developing out of a docker image. I’ve long built docker images of my dotfiles with the idea that its nice to be able to just use them on other machines, but it rarely happened. In the past year I’ve moved bazzite, an immutable distro. It comes with podman and distrobox, so I install very little on it, a few flatpaks from the store for brave and signal, but most of what I really use day to day comes from my devtainer. It’s nice t...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03KsS09YS4E&t=610s [1] Today I learned about the basic calculator, bc. At the very end of this video prime uses it to add numbers in vim. REPL # [2] You can start a calculator repl at the command line, by running bc. Vim # [3] Since bc supports standard unix pipes you can easily pipe data from vim into bc and back out using !!bc. All you need is a string of math on the line you want to calculate, go to normal mode and run !!bc to get the answer. Traditionally I will open my system calculator or ipython to do something like this. To keep the equation and the result in the same line you can send the equation to stderr and the result to stdout using tee. :.!tee >(cat >&2) | bc References: [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03KsS09YS4E&t=610s [2]: #repl [3]: #vim

emoji [1] by carpedm20 [2] is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves. emoji terminal output for Python References: [1]: https://github.com/carpedm20/emoji [2]: https://github.com/carpedm20

The work on sqlite-s3vfs [1] by uktrade [2]. Python writable virtual filesystem for SQLite on S3 References: [1]: https://github.com/uktrade/sqlite-s3vfs [2]: https://github.com/uktrade

Jhey ʕ·ᴥ·　ʔ (@jhey.dev) breakin' down classics CSS background-image + background-blend-mode + custom properties = holo-like effects with parallax ✨ Bluesky Social · bsky.app [1] Jhey has the coolest webdev demos! 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://bsky.app/profile/jhey.dev/post/3lgoev36hps2h [2]: /thoughts/

ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH Learn how to troubleshoot ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH when using Cloudflare SSL/TLS. Cloudflare Docs · developers.cloudflare.com [1] Today I learned that cloudflare free tier universal certs do not support multilevel subdomains. By default, Cloudflare Universal SSL certificates only cover your apex domain and one level of subdomain. [2] 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://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/troubleshooting/version-cipher-mismatch/ [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/7d1fe806-a3d0-47e3-8eb1-08c1a0965728.webp [3]: /thoughts/

[1] Migrating from kedro 0.18.4 to the latest version involves handling the deprecated OmegaConf loader. Switching over does not look as bad as I originally thought. - installing kedro 0.18.5+ - set the CONFIG_LOADER_CLASS in settings.py - swap out import statements - config must be yaml or json - getting values from config must be done with bracket __getattr__ style not with .get - any Exceptions caught from Templated config loader will need to be swapped to OmegaConfig exceptions, similar to #3 - templated values must lead with an _ - Globals are handled different - OmegaConfig does not support jinja2 sytax, but rather a ${variable} syntax Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /static/https://docs.kedro.org/en/stable/configuration/config_loader_migration.html [2]: /thoughts/

[1] Prime mentioned on stream that Whites were his favorite switch. I tend to like lighter switches and want to give it a try. I really like my Durock lupine’s at 55g, the box whites are 45g, that feels like it would take quite a bit more control, floating over the keys. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /static/https://www.kailh.net/search?q=box+white&_pos=2&_psq=white&_ss=e&_v=1.0 [2]: /thoughts/

Check out cloudnative-pg [1] and their project cloudnative-pg [2]. CloudNativePG is a comprehensive platform designed to seamlessly manage PostgreSQL databases within Kubernetes environments, covering the entire operational lifecycle from initial deployment to ongoing maintenance References: [1]: https://github.com/cloudnative-pg [2]: https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg

Just starred open-webui [1] by open-webui [2]. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer. User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, …) References: [1]: https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui [2]: https://github.com/open-webui

I like fcsonline’s [1] project tmux-thumbs [2]. A lightning fast version of tmux-fingers written in Rust, copy/pasting tmux like vimium/vimperator References: [1]: https://github.com/fcsonline [2]: https://github.com/fcsonline/tmux-thumbs

I’ve been back to putting some images on my blog lately and thinking about making them a bit thinner through the use of aspect ratio for simplicity. I’m leaning pretty heavy on tailwindcss these days due to some weird quirks of markdown-it-attrs I cannot have slashes in classes from markdown so I made a .cinematic class to achieve this. .cinematic { @apply aspect-[2.39/1]; } Example [1] References: [1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/50cfa8dc-9d46-4f02-877b-688fa5510a83.png

An Aspect Ratio Guide for Every Filmmaker How can the aspect ratio of your film or TV show contribute to your story? No Film School · nofilmschool.com [1] A good reference of common screen ratios. I just realized that 16:9 is also 1.78:1. I’ve been putting some images on my blog again, and thinking about using some 2.39:1 ratio on them. 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://nofilmschool.com/cinematic-aspect-ratio [2]: /thoughts/

- There is a glimmer of hope out there that normal people can scrap together enough gpu to really run the latest models themselves. The ui really appears to be having huge leaps forward such that doing things like rag is no longer such a research project that it was just a few years ago. So excited to see Prime go through this homelab [1] exercise. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /homelab/ [2]: /thoughts/

Attrs does not like ‘/’ characters in its classes, so to use some tailwind classes with custom values we must make new classes in our tailwind input css. .cinematic { @apply aspect-[2.39/1]; } Given the following markdown with attrs added to the image and to the paragraph block. {.aspect-[2.39/1]} {.cinematic} {.cinematic}  We get the following output with only the middle one working correctly. [1]{.aspect-[2.39/1]} [1] [1] Note The inline version of `.cinematic` works, but `.aspect-[2.39/1]` does not, it turns into text after the image. The block version with the class before the image applies to the paragraph, not the image. References: [1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/50cfa8dc-9d46-4f02-877b-688fa5510a83.png