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Interact with your SQL database, Natural Language to SQL using LLMs

Check out sqlsync by orbitinghail. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential.

SQLSync is a collaborative offline-first wrapper around SQLite. It is designed to synchronize web application state between users, devices, and the edge.

Oh I kinda like the name blogmark, as opposed to thoughts like I have chose for the same thing. Aparantly Simon beat me to the punch by 20 years on this one.

THIS! is the same reasons that I built thoughts{.hoverlink}. Simon has bee a big inspiration along the way. He defintely changed the format of my posts as I watched him build out his quote posts.

Link blogging is a pleasantly low-pressure way of writing online. Found something interesting? Post a link to it, with a sentence or two about why it’s worth checking out.

Ditto! just make a post.

Kellan brings some interesting thoughts on where the internet is headed in 2024. Interestingly I see myself headed in a similar direction. Feeling like I know just enough to say fuck it and build my own platform for me to me me, from thoughts{.hoverlink} where I link and make thoughts on posts like this, to reader{.hoverlink} which is my rss reader replacement that I wanted in 2013 when it was killedbygoogle

And particular with the collapse of the social spaces many of us grew up with, I feel called back to earlier forms of the Internet, like blogs, and in particular, starting a link blog.

Ai has really had quite the two sided effect since...

Setting up DNS overTLS in opnsense has made my dns just a bit more secure and reliable. I recently had an outage of half the internet within my house. This also hit some of my friends and not some. It did not hit my mobile network. What seems to have happened is a dns issue with my isp not resolving some domains. This setup corrected my issue and I was back online more securely.

Argo events is an event driven automation framework for kubernetes that can create kubernetes objects among other things based on events. I’ve been using native kubernetes cronjobs to kick off jobs based on a cron trigger.

For instance I am running reader.waylonwalker.com every hour, to rebuild the site and re-deploy it. It takes about two minutes to fetch every rss feed, so this is a nice application of a job compared to a web server fetching the feeds live. Now my posts may be up to an hour stale but they load fast.

Argo events takes event drien architecture to the next level allowing to be triggered by many more things, and do many more things than creating a cron job. I’m definitely thinking about dropping this in my homelab.

Today I am playing around with tailwind, flexing the css muscle and learning how to build new and different layouts with it.

I created a new post template that mimics a terminal look in css where I could inject the post title, description, and other frontmatter elements.

I think this is a pretty cool layout, I could make a carbon.now.sh{.hoverlink} clone or more realistically I could make it into a template for blog pages and this could become og images.

Still...

I am using this theme for Ulauncher in arch and it looks fantastic! One line install (read it first).

Just discovered this really cool launcher from the DHH distro omakub. github.com/omakub{.hoverlink}.

Ulauncher comes out of the box looking good, supports extensions, and shortcuts like I have a lot of mac launchers have. I installed it plus a theme and in no time It was looking good and launching applications.

In the past I have leaned in on rofi for task launching, it is good. I just felt it was harder to configure to get right or look good.

The work on ulauncher by catppuccin.

🇺 Soothing pastel theme for Ulauncher

The work on editor.js by codex-team.

A block-style editor with clean JSON output

This is a sick steam deck dock! With a corne built in laptop style.

This is DHH’s linux startup script. Call it a distro if you want, but he doesn’t. It’s made to take a vanilla ubuntu install and configure everything the way he likes it. There’s a number of great nuggets in here to pick up on.

No need to write bespoke configs for every essential tool just to get started or to be up on all the latest command-line tools. Omakub is an opinionated take on what Linux can be at its best.

Check it out and give it a ⭐ basecamp/omakub{.hoverlink}.

This is a really cool animated visual representation of how sine waves work, how they relate to circles, pi, rad, and how to add up a series of waves to make square and sawtooth waves.

This looks like a sweet tui postman clone. Darren is really rolling with these tui’s. Cant wait to see where this one goes.

Check out darrenburns and their project posting.

The modern API client that lives in your terminal.

Sometimes I struggle to get my os to report dark mode to chrome, luckily there is a way to force chrome to always use dark mode.

I’ve never really gotten into dark reader and extensions like this. For some reason they all make websites look really weird to me and I don’t really care for it. What I want is websites designed to be in dark/light to always go dark, if the designer didn’t design dark just let it be light.

Tailscale allows you to ssh into all of your tailscale machines, it busts through firewalls and accross networks without complex setup. If you have used tailscale before this is an obvious no brainer. What is not obvious is that you can configure tailscale to allow ssh connections from devices within your tailnet without even a ssh daemon process running right through the tailscale daemon.

tailscale status tailscale set --ssh

I picked this up from the tailscale youtube channel.

Tailscale

xxHash is an extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm, working at RAM speed limit. It is proposed in four flavors (XXH32, XXH64, XXH3_64bits and XXH3_128bits). The latest variant, XXH3, offers improved performance across the board, especially on small data.