Just learned about depot today ironically because it seems to be down and fly is using them under the hood to do the container builds, seems like a really great service for fast builds accross your team.
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Publishing rhythm
This was an eye opening video into agentic editing workflows.
Dfferent ai tools use different rules files, windsurf uses .windsurfrules.
Test out your rules file by having it say something at the beginning of the output to verify that the rules are being applied correctly.
He suggests to use this key rule for debugging purposes, otherwise you are guessing to what rules if any it is following.
Dax talked about this in a recent How about tomorrow podcast https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/post/461. He is using it as his dev machine, he just ssh’s in and devs on it. Feels like quite an interesting workflow, their prices seem competitive, but as a cheap ass homelabber I see their prices and think I could grab a used optiplex for the cost of a month or two of these and probably wouldn’t know the difference. DAX mentions longer compile times so maybe he does notice.
This is a pretty great episode talking shop with typecraft. They talk setups, cameras, content creation. I found them talking about their linux setups particularly interesting. Dax talked about his flow from building his own machines to using reliablesite.com.
Dax hates on c-a, both typecraft and dax use c-s, which normally freezes a terminal, we can all agree that is useless. I use the default c-b, it seems fine for me.
Dax talks about terminal.shop and how they originally planned to have a web front end, but after they had so much success they stuck with it. now they are leaning harder into it and are building out integrations with a bunch of languages and an api, but no front end.
PEP 723 is what is inspiring all of these lazy self installing python scripts, Authored by the author of hatch and pyapp. This is a really cool thing that uv has picked up and made python packaging just a bit easier.. maybe… dependency resolution still sucks.
I’ve kinda fallen out of using direnv now that a lot of my projects use hatch, I generally just hatch shell into them. I just need to make sure I go through all of them and make my installer uv. Now I’ve been thinking about making uv my only needed dependency to run a python project and leaning more to something like uv run --with . uvicorn myapp --reload
I really like Trey’s steps to making an executable python script with uv
his old process seems to be the same with a new shebang
And here is the new format the the shebang followed by the metadata comment block defined in PEP 723.
I still cannot believe I thought I had such a unique idea with thoughts only to find out shortly thereafter that Simon beat me to the punch by about 20 years!
Simon put a lot of work into this [post](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/#thoughts.waylonwalker.com) please check it out. Its not only filled with tons of little nuggets about blogging, it has just a ton of links to other posts I’m itching to read now.
This is a test post. I just updated the chrome extension for thoughts to take a the thumbnail image on open of the chrome extension so that it is rea... thoughts.waylonwalker.com
I really like this idea of keeping a set up contacts in a markdown repo, and being able to wikilink them to different tickets / meetings and what not.... thoughts.waylonwalker.com
I really like this idea of keeping a set up contacts in a markdown repo, and being able to wikilink them to different tickets / meetings and what not. I’m imagining the graph you can build, it feels quite interesting. Even more relevant as we see things like teams rolling out retention limits to messages.
Here is Cassidy’s format, I like it but I’m probably not going to track the birthday of most people I work with, thats just not the relationship I tend to have with work friends. It might be a midwest or non tech thing, but I am not even aware if any of my co-workers have social media, and I assume that if they did it would not include anything work related but more football and other sports.
Dang context can really cause you to pull your hair out. Context seems so freaking convenient, but I’ve avoided it and just ssh in for these reasons. Maybe I’ll come around eventually but for now ssh is my friend.
tui-network by Zatfer17 is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves.
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I came across markitdown from microsoft, and it’s packed with great features and ideas.
Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
gh-skyline by github is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves.
A GitHub CLI extension to generate a 3D model of your GitHub contribution history
Reminder to tune in later, can’t watch now, but saw a link on Dave’s blog.
Cheers to the Unique brains dave. I can say I am 100% with Dave on all of these, except the clean environment thing, lucky Dave. If I have enough room to see what I am doing and walk around a mess, I probably wont even notice it. I’m so hyper focused on what is right in front of me that mess could be a huge pile of cash and i’d never see it.