Today I Learned

The work on mise [1] by jdx [2]. dev tools, env vars, task runner References: [1]: https://github.com/jdx/mise [2]: https://github.com/jdx

Maxteabag [1] has done a fantastic job with sqlit [2]. Highly recommend taking a look. A user friendly TUI for SQL databases. Written in python. Supports SQL server, Mysql, PostreSQL and SQLite, Turso and more. References: [1]: https://github.com/Maxteabag [2]: https://github.com/Maxteabag/sqlit

webi-installers [1] by webinstall [2] is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves. Primary and community-submitted packages for webinstall.dev References: [1]: https://github.com/webinstall/webi-installers [2]: https://github.com/webinstall

You Might Also Like: My Notes Blog Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web. blog.jim-nielsen.com [1] I really like a good link blog, it’s the old timers version of a reaction video. It gives me new posts to discover from other writers, and gives additional perspectives from ones I trust enough to add to my RSS. It’s nice to have a place where I can jot down a few notes, fire off my reaction, and nobody can respond to it lol. At least, not in any easy, friction-less way. You’d have to go out of your way to read my commentary, find my contact info, and fire off a message (critiquing or praising). That’s how I like it. Cuts through the noise. Ditto Jim. I’ve oddly found mine more useful to search than blog posts, zettlekaten, notes, whatever you want to call them. For me writing something down makes it more concrete in my brain that I’m less likely to need to go reference, but I often need to re read or references posts from others, this is where Thoughts [2] comes in handy for me Like Jim I have a bunch of feeds [3] you can subscribe to if you want some or all of my stuff, but I aggregate everything to the same root site. Note This...

“You should never build a CMS” | Sanity Lee Robinson migrated cursor.com off Sanity. He made good points. Here's what he missed. Sanity.io · sanity.io [1] Such a good breakdown of the leerob article, that is hitting everywhere right now. Feels like sanity was just a bit late to getting things right and it would have just worked for them how leerob was trying to use it, but MCP sucked so he jumped. Reading their loose descriptions of a CMS, its an interesting realization to realize I’m rolling my own cms. I kinda feel like theres a few inspiration features to take from here, but I have no regrets. As a developer I like being able to build my own tools, I like being able to search and edit from nvim, and not have to write GROQ queries, and transforms. There were some really good points here that as I get more and more content on my personal site, I do kinda feel it. I’m surprised there is not more tooling that does some of these things for piles of markdown. pinning this to re-read later, feels like a lot of good tidbits here. 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://www.sanity.io/...

- It really feels like M$ is coming down hard on GH lately to make some unfavorable decisions for users. Maybe there is good reason for all of these changes from a business perspective, I can’t judge that. But right now there are some really great alternatives out there. I’m so grateful for what forgejo and gittea offer, and at the same time seeing the community get split up from GH is sad. 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/

- Silksong DLC announcement already, we waited 8 years for the game, and are getting DLC’s months after launch. Dudes I haven’t even finished the game get, maybe not even half way. It’s amazing. Its amazing that these three make such a kick ass game with great art, story, voice, gameplay, and now drop a free dlc in 2026. 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’ve been using this one for awhile now, I have a post type that I only edit from my phone, but I have all the post numbered. I set up a template in obsidian for using templater, the template goes right in the static site repo, I point templater to the templates directory and this has been working pretty seamlessly for awhile. --- date: <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss") %> templateKey: myposttype published: true tags: - myposttype <%* const folder = "pages/myposttype"; // get all files in the vault, keep only those inside the folder const files = app.vault.getFiles().filter(f => f.path.startsWith(folder + "/")); // extract numeric suffixes from filenames like myposttype-123.md const nums = files.map(f => { const m = f.basename.match(/^myposttype-(\d+)$/); return m ? parseInt(m[1], 10) : null; }).filter(n => n !== null); // next number (start at 1 if none exist) const next = (nums.length ? Math.max(...nums) : 0) + 1; // include the .md extension when moving const newPath = `${folder}/myposttype-${next}`; await tp.file.move(newPath); %> ---

- Kelsey has a really good lightbulb moment here about platform engineering. “if you had to do all the deployments for the entire company what questions would you ask of the development team?” That’s your api, your platform, this is your product as a platform engineer. It’s not images, docker, terraform, hcl, yaml, kubernetes, It’s building out the right api for your company to deploy its products effectively. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdUbTyvrfKo&t=429s [1] timestamped 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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdUbTyvrfKo&amp;t=429s [2]: /thoughts/

Check out andrii-kryvoviaz [1] and their project slink [2]. Self-hosted [3] image sharing service References: [1]: https://github.com/andrii-kryvoviaz [2]: https://github.com/andrii-kryvoviaz/slink [3]: /self-host/

--name-status is a great way to see what files have changed in a git [1] diff alongside the status code. I recently used this in a script to create a report of new and modified files during a build. git diff --name-status git diff --name-status origin/main git diff --name-status --staged git diff --name-status 'HEAD@{3 days ago}' References: [1]: /glossary/git/

I learned to today that setting MEMORY on your minecraft server causes the JVM to egregiously allocate all of that memory. Not setting it causes slow downs and potential crashes, but setting INIT_MEMORY and MAX_MEMORY gives us the best of both worlds. It is allowed to use more, but does not gobble it all up on startup. In this economy we need to save all the memory we can! Here is a non-working snippet for a minecraft server deployment in kubernetes. containers: - name: dungeon image: itzg/minecraft-server env: - name: EULA value: "true" - name: INIT_MEMORY value: "512M" - name: MAX_MEMORY value: "3G" and in docker compose dungeon: image: itzg/minecraft-server environment: EULA: "true" INIT_MEMORY: "512M" MAX_MEMORY: "3G"

- I did not realize all the places to be considered as AI water usage. Hank goes deep highlighting all of the sources he is aware of, most reports leave off a lot of these sources, some reports go maybe too far adding sources that may not make sense depending on the question you are asking. As someone that runs computers with gpus in their house, and watching LTT make AIO installs on GPUs I’ve wondered what would AI use water for, now I understand that its a lot. No where near agriculture, but a lot. Unlike running a gpu in your house, potentially with a closed loop AIO, data centers are filled with hardware making heat and it all must go somewhere. Current technology has this done with evaporative cooling, i.e. its not a closed loop, the water goes into the sky. He goes on to point out that its not just the data center, using water, but also chip fab and power plants. Something I hadn’t put a lot of thought into is the type of water. While a lot of agriculture and power applications do not use municipal water, a lot of data centers do, putting excess strain on water treatment. Something I find interesting is that Altman is doing the same thing here that he does on his fin...

Notes – 05:09 Tue 9 Dec 2025 Notes – 05:09 Tue 9 Dec 2025 dbushell.com · dbushell.com [1] Age verification hitting bluesky?? At least its not yet requiring your govt issued id or anything, but stepping that direction. I don’t know how I feel about age checks, does it actually protect kids when parents aren’t involved? I can’t say anything there, but it really does feel like its about ready to hurt the rest of us, requiring us to whip out ids and personal data for anything done online. This is a real problem that is hard to solve, and reasons why it has not been solved yet. 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://dbushell.com/notes/2025-12-09T05:09Z/ [2]: /thoughts/

Deprecations via warnings don’t work for Python libraries Seth Larson reports that urllib3 2.6.0 released on the 5th of December and finally removed the HTTPResponse.getheaders() and HTTPResponse.getheader(name, default) methods, which have been marked as... Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1] Deprecation warnings are so easy to miss, ignore, become numb to. Creating tools and processes to catch and address these issues is important. I’m surprised such big projects let deprecations just hang around for years. 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://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/9/deprecations-via-warnings/#atom-everything [2]: /thoughts/

A quote from Claude I found the problem and it's really bad. Looking at your log, here's the catastrophic command that was run: rm -rf tests/ patches/ plan/ ~/ See that ~/ at the … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1] damn this is a rough one. A users entire home directory removed by claude code from an rm command. rm -rf tests/ patches/ plan/ ~/ Reading the first half of that command it LGTM. If you had approved rm, you are hosed. If this is inside a larger script its running, you really gotta read close. This one still feels pretty obvious, but I can imagine some bash doing some nasty things I miss if I read it and understand it let alone glance at it. I’ll take this as a reminder that I really need to be paying full-ass attention to agents, and moving towards a better sandbox for them, something in docker, maybe something like distrobox that is a magic wrapper over podman that just gives you the things you need for what it does. Something that starts up with access to start web servers, run agentic cli of choice, see project, git [2] commit. It feels like the right thing has a lot of what distrobox does, but distrobox has too much and would be prone to this us...

OG is short for open graph, a set of standard meta tags that are used for social media sharing. This is what tells other websites how to describe and display your site when shared on social media, text messages, or discord.

I found snow-fall component from zachleat [1], and its beautiful… to me. I like the way it looks, its simple and whimsical. Install # [2] There is an npm package @zachleat/snow-fall if that’s your thing. I like vendoring in small things like this. curl -o static/snow-fall.js https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zachleat/snow-fall/refs/heads/main/snow-fall.js I generally save it in my justfile so that I remember how I got it and how to update…. yaya I could use npm, but I don’t for no build sites. get-snowfall: curl -o static/snow-fall.js https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zachleat/snow-fall/refs/heads/main/snow-fall.js Usage # [3] Now add the component to your page. <!-- This belongs somewhere inside <head> --> <script type="module" src="snow-fall.js"></script> <!-- Adjust the src to your path --> <!-- This belongs somewhere inside <body> --> <!-- Anything before will be below the snow. --> <snow-fall></snow-fall> <!-- Anything after will show above the snow. --> References: [1]: https://www.zachleat.com/web/snow-fall/ [2]: #install [3]: #usage

Today I learned an important lesson that you should periodically check on your kubeconfigs expiration date. It’s easy to do. You can ask for the client-certificate-data from your kubeconfig, decode it, and use openssl to get the expiration date. kubectl config view --raw -o jsonpath='{.users[0].user.client-certificate-data}' \ | base64 -d 2>/dev/null \ | openssl x509 -noout -dates Note This will only work for the first user, if you have more than one user or context defined in your kubeconfig you will need to adjust.