Today I Learned Archive

rsync delays

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:31:53 +0000

I've been deploying my site old school for most of this year, rsync to a volume mounted to nginx. I ran into an issue today where I updated my site and all...

setopt HIST_IGNORE_SPACE

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:15:37 +0000

To ignore commands that start with a space character, use the option in bash or zsh.

forgejo push to create

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:58:55 +0000

I just learned that forgejo has a push to create repo feature and it is a gamechanger. Upon first try it didn't work, with just a couple of environment...

nless

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:45:01 +0000

nless is a seriously sick tui for exploring streaming data. It makes it seriously simple to pivot (U), drill in (Enter), sort (s). It leave breadcrumbs as...

image compare in markata go

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:40:44 +0000

now has web awesome integration for image compare. It renders a nice web component with a slider to compare two images.

testing copilot model flag

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:05:39 +0000

Today I found a way to test model syntax, cause the clankers always get the exact model name that copilot wants wrong.

stow local ignore

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:36:00 +0000

Stow comes with a local and global ignore list that you can use to ignore certain files or directories.

move zmk keyboard to new bluetooth adapter

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:59:59 +0000

I've been having issue with my keyboard disconnecting to my main desktop for awhile. Today I got a cheap bluetooh dongle in and am giving it a run this week...

dot dockerenv

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:07:16 +0000

Today I learned that docker creates an empty file to indicate that you are running in a docker container. Other runtimes like podman commonly use ....

gh do I have a pr

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:47:44 +0000

In the age of agents sometimes work gets done on so many different worktrees and branches its hard to tell if there is already a PR or any of them or not,...

double gutter

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 09:12:42 +0000

I keep forgetting about the double gutter problem with nested containers. When you put padding on a parent and the child also has padding, you get twice the...

diff kubernetes manifest with cluster

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:37:39 +0000

Like a dufus this morning I did a hard reset on a git repo for getting I was working on a manifest for. You see I generally use argo, but occasionally I have...

format markdown with mdformat

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:41:14 +0000

I really wish I would have got this right a few years ago. Theres a couple of flags I had to use to get mdformat to do hard wraps at 80 characters and not...

opencode variants

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:53:36 +0000

Opencode is changing on the daily right now, today I noticed the word pop up in Orange text in my opencode window. Looking into this they are exposing...

opencode init prompt

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:32:12 +0000

This is opencode's init prompt.

tpope vim-speeddating

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:59:33 +0000

Today I discovered vim-speeddating by tpope. I'm sure I've seen years ago but it did not click for my workflow until today. I often go through pictures from...

light mode screen recording css

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 10:29:10 +0000

Yesterday I wrote about a way to do light-mode-screen-recording to convert to light mode from dark mode with ffmpeg. I was wondering if it could be done...

light mode screen recording

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 10:14:17 +0000

I saw this tip from Cassidoo and had to try it out for myself. I kicked on a screen recording right from where my terminal was, converted it, and it actually...

YouTube Gemini is Actually Useful

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 10:09:55 +0000

I've found Gemini to be very useful lately, especially for finding information within long form content.

numbered posts in obsidian

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:28:28 +0000

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...

git name status

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 07:53:57 +0000

is a great way to see what files have changed in a git diff alongside the status code. I recently used this in a script to create a report of new and...

minecraft server memory

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:46:36 +0000

I learned to today that setting on your minecraft server causes the JVM to egregiously allocate all of that memory. Not setting it causes slow downs and...

web snow fall

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:21:17 +0000

I found snow-fall component from zachleat, and its beautiful... to me. I like the way it looks, its simple and whimsical.

check your kubeconfig expire time

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:59:27 +0000

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...

gh auth switch

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 10:55:55 +0000

When using two GitHub accounts the gh cli gives very easy workflow from the cli.

setup bambu-studio in distrobox

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 21:17:39 +0000

gpus-are-awesome and I need one for Bambu Studio to be usable in a distrobox. Adding the flag to bind mounts the nvidia devices and sets up the necessary...

k3s system-upgrade minor by minor

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:25:39 +0000

The k3s system-upgrade controller is a fantastic tool for upgrading k3s automatically. It has done a fantastic job for me every time I've used it. Today I...

COLUMNS env var

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:24:38 +0000

setting env var to a number greater than 0 will make the terminal resize to that number of columns.

tea login flag

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 21:09:36 +0000

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...

side effect of just stars

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:33:33 +0000

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...

pydantic settings alias choices

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:23:58 +0000

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...

uv s3 sync with dotenv

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 10:16:41 +0000

I often want to run an s3 sync in an isolated environment, I don't want to set any environment variables, I don't want anything secret in my history, and I...

starlette head request

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:11:31 +0000

Starlette has a head request that works right along side your get requests. This morning I fiddled around with custom routes for and , but had to manually...

Don't copy your gitignore to stignore

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:43:00 +0000

Today I learned that while and look very similar they are not. My obsidian directory had been locked up for a few weeks and I had no idea why until I logged...

vanilla html hover text

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:39:41 +0000

I needed to display some hover text in a web app that I am using tailwind and jinja on. It has no js, and no build other than the tailwind. I want this to...

tar over ssh

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 10:50:42 +0000

Today I learned how to use tar over ssh to save hours in file transfers. I keep all of my projects in ~/git (very creative I know, I've done it for years and...

uv script management

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 20:22:56 +0000

I've been leaning on lazy-self-installing-python-scripts more and more, but I did not realize how much tooling that uv gives you to help manage your scripts.

nvim delete current file

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:23:21 +0000

This one is one that I've been using quite often, I did't have a hotkey for it, I just used the shell command.

vim noa

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:32:44 +0000

Vim is a command that runs what you call without autocommands on. This is typically used when you have some commands for formatting, most auto formatters are...

modd

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 10:48:01 +0000

Today I gave modd a try, and it seems like a good file watcher executor. I tried using libnotify to send desktop notifications, but all I got was modd, I...

bash timestamp

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:35:36 +0000

Today I needed to make a backup of some config. I wanted to add a timestamp so that I knew when the backup was made. This would make unique backups easy, and...

qr codes in python

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:32:12 +0000

I have a couple of use cases for simple qr codes in python coming up. One is for blog posts, the other is for auth into a new server application logged to a...

Dolphin Remote Storage Previews

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 14:58:09 +0000

I've got a few samba shares going in my homelab, and I'm struggling finding a great app to scroll through vacation photos with my wife. I want something...

fc

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 07:52:53 +0000

I am a linux user through and through. Desktop, server, vms, containers, everything except my phone is linux. With this I spend a lot of time in the...

pygments htmlformatter

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:45:19 +0000

I've been a long user of pygments, it's been the thing that injects with funny little class names like and into the code blocks of my website. I've even gone...

tmux clipboard on hyprland

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 20:45:47 +0000

Smooth clipboard settings for tmux is critical for my workflow. I'm often grabbing snippets of terminal output to paste into team chats, blog posts, or llm...

virt manager on bazzite

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 21:09:05 +0000

I got virtual machine manager running on two Bazzite machines today. It was a bit tricky, more than I thought actually. I ran into all sorts of...

copier vcs quirks

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 08:04:51 +0000

Copier has a few quirks with vcs that I just discovered by trying to test out some changes. I may have some config that I have long forgotten about somewhere...

using yek to serialize text files into llm friendly file

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:01:34 +0000

I've been using gitingest web ui thoughts-516 for quite awhile to serialize git repo into llm friendly text files. This gives tools context about repos that...

brightnessctl adjust screen brightness

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 08:42:36 +0000

Today I discovered to adjust the screen brightness on my AwesomeWM machine. Its a command line utility that you can use to adjust the brightness of your...

rich theme

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:37:10 +0000

The rich console is themeable, I've been a long time user of rich and had no Idea. You can define your own theme keywords and use them just like you use...

unset multiple environment variables

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:21:11 +0000

You can unset multiple environment variables at once. I did not know this was a thing, its something that ended up happening organically on a call and asking...

i3lock on AwesomeWM

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:40:56 +0000

is a fantastic lockscreen for tiling window managers.

kubernetes node labels

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 28 May 2025 18:49:19 +0000

If you need to target a specific k8s node in the cluster, you can use labels. You want to treat your nodes as much like cattle as you can, but sometimes...

javascript b64

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 25 May 2025 21:01:04 +0000

I'm currently replacing-google-search-apps-with-self-hosted-web-apps and decided to create a simple b64 encoder/decoder, just start typing to enter text,...

web wakelock

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 21 May 2025 20:50:22 +0000

I'm trying to replace my usage of google inline search apps with real apps, today I used a stopwatch to time some things out at work by opening stopwatch....

vhs themes

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 16 May 2025 08:24:51 +0000

I've been working on ninesui, inspired by k9s see thoughts-633. I want a good flow for making video for the readme and I am using charm.sh's vhs for this....

grafana dashboards as k8s configmap

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 06 May 2025 20:24:35 +0000

I'm trying to learn proper logs, monitoring, otel, and grafana. Today I imported a bunch of pre-made k8s dashboards and made a few of my own for specific...

ruff single line import

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 04 May 2025 14:23:41 +0000

I've been using ruff to lint my python code for quite awhile now, I was pretty early to jump on it after release. Some of my projects have had a nice...

Markata list posts by year

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 01 May 2025 22:35:47 +0000

I was looking back at my analytics page today and wondered what were my posts about back at the beginning. My blog is managed by markata so I looked at a few...

Use pbpaste for clean shell history

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Using for command substitution keeps sensitive or long URLs out of your shell history. Instead of typing , copy the URL to clipboard and run . This prevents...

pre-commit exclude

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:11:35 +0000

I run tailwind for my personal blog, whenever I update it, pre-commit goes in and fixes end of file. I'm sick of these things fighting each other, since it...

newlines in css before

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 09:28:48 +0000

I'm building in a fragmentions implementation into my blog, I wanted to add some text before the fragment to indidate that it was the highlighted fragment...

testing nvim installs

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 21:02:03 +0000

Testing fresh nvim installs can be a pain, and hard to di without borking your known good install. I've been using to run a test nvim in a sandbox that wont...

vim date

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:51:00 +0000

When I want to put a date in a document like a blog post from vim I use !!date from insert mode. Note that entering from normal mode puts you in command mode...

aptitude why

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:55:04 +0000

Today I ran into an interesting question, why am I being asked to configure tzdata while installing npm. Turns out that the cli has a why command that very...

configure timezone

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 13:35:24 +0000

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...

bc

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 09:30:08 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03KsS09YS4E&t=610s Today I learned about the basic calculator, bc. At the very end of this video prime uses it to add numbers in vim. REPL # You can start a calculator repl at the command line, by running bc. Vim # 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...

tailwind aspect

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 14:35:02 +0000

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...

markdown it attrs with slashes dont work

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 11:21:10 +0000

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.

setting up nvim-manager starship prompt

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:03:46 +0000

I built out a tool for myself to manage my nvim configuration, and I wanted to quickly see which one I am running in my starship prompt. Here's the config I...

emoji in headless chrome in docker

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:55:37 +0000

I recently noticed that my og images were missing emoji. They were taken using headless chrome in a container. I fixed it by adding an emoji font in the...

postiz-file-upload

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 20:35:39 +0000

Today I learned that the docs in postiz are a bit behind, (fantastic docs btw, they are to the point, and cover almost all of what you need). The docs state...

Links rely on color to be distiniquishable

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:25:12 +0000

Today i got hit by this accessibility issue on my site. Low contrast links are not distiniquishable. I had not seen this error title before it was new to me,...

urllink

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 11:11:52 +0000

Today I discovered the function in bash from the ujust tool from ublue.it. Seems like a cool trick, but might not work everywhere.

debug cloudflared tunnel

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:36:37 +0000

I've been debugging a cloudflared tunnel issue in my homelab all day today, and getting really frustrated. My issue ended up being that it was running twice,...

setup cloudflared tunnel on ubuntu

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 15:43:45 +0000

I run a cloudflared tunnel on my ubuntu server to expose applications running on the server to the internet. I'm setting up a new server and running...

price an stl print on slant3d

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:29:30 +0000

I've been playing with 3d printing some items through the slant3d api. I've been pricing out different prints by running a slice request through their api.

k3s config after first install

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 16:57:41 +0000

After first setting up a new k3s instance your kubeconfig file will be located in /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml.

Vim-gq

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 12:22:00 +0000

Vim has a handy feature to format text with . You can use it in visual mode, give it a motion, or if you give it it will format the current line. I use this...

Slug

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 11:45:00 +0000

A slug is the part of the url that comes after the domain. Commonly matches the file name of a markdown file many blogging systems. These are typically human...

Obsidian-new-file

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 11:44:00 +0000

Wikilinks are a core concept within obsidian to link to documents by slug wrapped in double square brackets. These are commonly used within wiki site...

Obsidian-go-to-definition

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 20:35:00 +0000

It was not obvious to me, but if you have a wikilink such as trying-obsidian, you can jump to the file in obsidian, just like you can with lsp go to...

Obsidian Using Templater Like Copier

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 13:34:00 +0000

I've long used copier to create all of my posts for my blog, and it works really well for my workflow. I think of a title, call a template, and give it a...

Obsidian Image Converter

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 21:09:35 +0000

I'm giving obsidian a go as an editor for my blog and one of the main things I want to fix in my workflow is the ability to quickly drop in images. on first...

convert mp4 for twitter with ffmpeg

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:51:29 +0000

I've had a couple of uploads to twitter fail recently and has been a pain. I tried some online converters for convenience, but none of them worked. I reached...

arch remove orphaned packages

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 11:34:31 +0000

k8s kustomize diff

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 09:42:42 +0000

I've started leaning in on kubernetes kustomize to customize my manifests per deployment per environment. Today I learned that it comes with a diff command.

kubectl dash k

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 20:15:11 +0000

Kubernetes ships with a feature called kustomize that allows you to customize your manifests in a declarative way. It's a bit like helm, but easier to use. I...

animal well keyboard

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 21:58:41 +0000

Animal well does not let you remap keys, and really doesn't even inform you that it is keyboard compatible. I had to play around and discover the keymap,...

diskcache as debounce

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 11:14:11 +0000

I've been using fastapi more and more lately and one feature I just started using is background tasks thoughts-333.

Install sealed-secreats via manifest

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 07:54:01 +0000

Yesterday I realized that I have overlooked the default installation method of the sealed secrets controller for kubernetes-kubeseal this whole time an...

playerctl fixes arch media keys

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:23:41 +0000

I've long had issues with my qmk keyboard media keys on my arch install, I always thought it was on the keyboard end. Today I learned that playerctl fixes this.

tailwind post template

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 14:47:42 +0000

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

tailscale ssh

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:40:18 +0000

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...

Latest Page in Markata

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 21:01:26 +0000

I just implemented a latest blog post link in Markata by asking for the first post slug from the blog feed. The implementation uses the jinja_md plugin to...

just picker

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 08 May 2024 20:48:23 +0000

has been by go to tool for saving commands in a way that I can replay them and have team members replay them without relying on the shell history of any...

showmount-e

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:15:29 +0000

TIL how to display the list of nfs mounts on your network.

control minio token access

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:03:34 +0000

To allow access only to the , you can pass add the Resource field to the User Policy when you create a new token.

How to List Sqlite tables

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:03:27 +0000

You can inspect sqlite tables with the sqlite shell.

Redka Runs on SQLite

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 19:54:24 +0000

With the liscense changes to redis there are several new forks out there. One that I am particularly interested in is redka.

Am I vulnerable to the xz backdoor?

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 07:53:54 +0000

The main system that I am concerned about is my arch BTW machine. I found a great article from the official archlinux site covering it.

arch dependencies

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 07:42:21 +0000

paru has some nice features that I rarely use, and hav to look up when I need them. Here are two commands to help with dependency management.

copier trust

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:41:06 +0000

I recently had to update my copier-gallery command to trust my own templates because some of them have shell scripts that run afterwards. Be warned that this...

ipython f2

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:40:41 +0000

Today I accidentally ran f2 in ipython to discover that it opens your $EDITOR! I use this feature quite often in zsh, it is bound to for me, and since I have...

sqlmodel indexes

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 21:55:25 +0000

I've really been enjoying using sqlmodel for my projects that need a database. One thing that I definitely lacked on for too long was indexing my database. I...

python inline snapshot

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 13:32:53 +0000

is a new tool that I am trying out for python testing. It takes snapshots of your outputs and places them inline with the test.

sqlite vacuum

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 21:31:24 +0000

Today I learned how to VACUUM a sqlite database and cut its size in about half. It's a database that I have had running for quite awhile and has some decent...

Tailwind Animations

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 21:19:21 +0000

I learned that tailwind animations are pretty easy to add only needing a few classes. For some reason though my brain broke, thinking that I could...

How to kill ollama server

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 18:31:36 +0000

I recently updated ollama, and it now installs a systemd service that I was not expecting. Seems like a great option, but I hadn't expeted this and I was...

Composing Typer clis

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 08:27:26 +0000

Typer makes it easy to compose your cli applications, like you might with a web router if you are more familiar with that. This allows you to build smaller...

tailwind arbitrary values

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 21:21:42 +0000

I learned not to fear the arbitrary size feature of tailwind. While building out reader.waylonwalker.com I kept getting content flowing off the screen, and...

fix npm global install needs sudo

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 13:28:17 +0000

Each time I go to set up npm I am frustrated by the errors saying that I don't have permission to , and it's frustrating. And I forget what I need to do to...

darkmode scrollbars

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 11:56:38 +0000

If you are designing a website in dark mode the scrollbars can be finicky to match the theme. Here is a pretty sane default that looks nice without being...

Udating Cloudflare Pages using the Wrangler cli

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 17:03:51 +0000

Before deploying to cloudflare pages with wrangler you need a cloudflare api token. You can get one at dash.cloudflare.com/profile/api-tokens.

scheduling cron jobs in kubernetes

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 16:56:46 +0000

For my reader app I am using cronjobs to schedule my a new build and upload to cloudflare pages every hour. In this example I have built a docker image and...

jinja macros

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 14:54:08 +0000

I am working on a page for htmx-patterns and I ran into a situation with lots of duplication. Especially when i am using tailwind I run into situations where...

jinja loop variable and htmx

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 20:47:13 +0000

jinja has a loop variable that is very handy to use with htmx. Whether you want to implement a click to load more or an infinite scroll this loop variable is...

fastapi jinja url_for with query params

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 20:43:32 +0000

Out of the box Starlette does not support url_for with query params it throws the following error.

setting up a kind cluster with argocd installed

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:42:18 +0000

Kind (Kubernetes in Docker) is a tool that makes it easy to create and tear down local clusters quickly. I like to use it to test out new workflows.

kubernetes kubeseal

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:02:57 +0000

In my homelab kubernetes cluster I am using kubeseal to encrypt secrets. I have been using it successfully for a few months now wtih great success. It allows...

nvim stupid gf bind

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 10:04:57 +0000

So after months of fighting with gf not going to template files, I finally decided to put in some effort to make it work.

cli auth

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 20:09:03 +0000

Authentication from cli tools can be a bit of a bear, and I have to look it up every time. This is my reference guide for future me to remember how to easily...

Hiding Form input During htmx Request

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 07:56:27 +0000

I am working on fokais.com's signup page, and I want to hide the form input during an htmx request. I was seeing some issues where I was able to prevent...

Stripe Cancellations in FastAPI and SQLModel

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 22:29:15 +0000

Today I am working on fokais.com, trying to get to a point where I can launch by workig through stripe integrations. This is my first time using stripe, so...

Still Loving Tailwind

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 11:54:52 +0000

I've been using tailwind for a few months now and I can still say I'm loving it. I've been using it to create some rapid prototypes that may or may not ever...

jpillora-installer

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 19:28:33 +0000

jpillora/installer is the install script generator I have been looking for. It downloads binaries for your machine from GitHub releases and unzips them for...

how to host static content with fastapi

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 08:32:58 +0000

I wanted to host some static files through fastapi. Typical use cases for this might be some static web content like html/css/js. It could also be images or...

Set up minio bucket entrypoint

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 20:11:51 +0000

I recently se tup minio object storage in my homelab for litestream sqlite backups. The litestream quickstart made it easy to get everything up and running...

Setup Tailwind for Jinja

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 17:10:32 +0000

I've recently given tailwindcss a second chance and am really liking it. Here is how I set it up for my python based projects.

Python scandir ignores hidden directories

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 20:19:59 +0000

The next version of markata will be around a full second faster at building it's docs, that's a 30% bump in performance at the current state. This...

setting up paru | installing from the AUR for the first time

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 27 May 2023 20:22:42 +0000

paru is an aur helper that allows you to use a package manager to install packages from the aur.

Releasing a New Version of Your Python Package Just Got Easier

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 10:52:19 +0000

Quickly and easily create new versions of your Python package with the command. Get the version number, changelog, and

Arch Linux Randomly Rejecting Passwords

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 07:46:31 +0000

Fix Arch Linux randomly rejecting passwords with one command. Try > 'faillock --user $USER' to reset login counter and regain access. Quick > solution for a...

dash e your github docker actions

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 13:09:37 +0000

Give github actions the -e flag in the shebang so they fail on any one command failure. Otherwise each line will set the exit status, but only the last one...

ssh copy id

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 20:10:05 +0000

I recently setup some vm's on my main machine and got sick of signing in with passwords.

tmux push/pull panes

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 13:25:54 +0000

Moving panes between tmux sessions is something that makes tmux a very flexible and powerful tool. I don't need this feature very often, but it comes in...

ssh key permissions

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:16:38 +0000

I just shared some ssh keys with myself and ran into this error telling me that I did not set the correct permissions on my key.

nvim navic

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 20:13:20 +0000

With the latest release of version of nvim 0.8.0 we get access to a new winbar feature. One thing I have long wanted somewhere in my nvim is navigation for...

pipx textual devtools

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 08:16:33 +0000

I really like having global cli command installed with pipx. Since textual (the css release) is out I want to be able to pop into textual devtools easily...

textual app devtools

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 07:42:48 +0000

I am working through the textual tutorial, and I want to put it in a proper cli that I can pip install and run the command without . This is a fine pattern,...

obs virtual camera on boot

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 08:34:25 +0000

For far too long I have had to fidget with v4l2oloopback after reboot. I've had this happen on ubuntu 18.04, 22.04, and arch.

localstack status permission

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 08:55:26 +0000

I ran into an issue where I was unable to ask localstack for its status. I would run the command and it would tell me that it didn't have permission to read...

Markata Supports Jinja Plugins 0.5.0.dev2

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 14:34:35 +0000

Markata now allows you to create jinja extensions that will be loaded right in with nothing more than a .

Getting Started with Django REST framework

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 15:57:37 +0000

In my adventure to learn django, I want to be able to setup REST api's to feed into dynamic front end sites. Potentially sites running react under the hood.

Markata now uses hatch

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 07:25:10 +0000

Markata now uses hatch as its build backend, and version bumping tool. , and are completely gone.

django create superuser

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 07:14:04 +0000

My next step into django made me realize that I do not have access to the admin panel, turns out that I need to create a cuper user first.

django disallowed host

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 06:15:24 +0000

I am continuing my journey into django, but today I am not at my workstation. I am ssh'd in remotely from a chromebook. I am fully outside of my network, so...

Trying out django

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 18:47:54 +0000

I have no experience in django, and in my exploration to become a better python developer I am dipping my toe into one of the most polished and widely used...

how to escape variables in jinja templates

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 15:18:50 +0000

While updating my site to use Markata's new configurable head I ran into some escaping issues. Things like single quotes would cause jinja to fail as it was...

I've made my ipython config too complicated, let's fix it.

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:40:31 +0000

When I am developing python code I often have a repl open alongside of it running snippets ofcode as I go. Ipython is my repl of choice, and I hace tricked...

markata extend in configuration

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 20:25:45 +0000

A long needed feature of markata has been the ability to really configure out templates with configuration rather. It’s been long that you needed that if you really want to change the style, meta tags, or anything in the head you needed to write a plugin or eject out of the template and use your own. Adding some Head # Now you can add some extra style to your site with the existing built-in template. [[markata.head]] text = """ <style> img { width: 100%; height:...

Create a new Python Project with the Hatch Cli

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 07:54:03 +0000

I'm really getting into using hatch as my go to build system, and I am really liking it so far. I am slowly finding new things that just work really well. is...

Versioning Python Projects with Hatch

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 13:19:22 +0000

Hatch has an amazing versioning cli for python packages that just works. It takes very little config to get going and you can start bumping versions without...

From Markdown to Blog with Markata | lightning talk | python web conf 2022

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 10:01:09 +0000

Markata is a great python framework that allows you to go from markdown to a full website very quickly. You can get up and running with nothing more than...

I spoke at Python Web Conf 2022

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 08:40:22 +0000

I spoke at python webconf in March 2022 about how I deploy this blog on a continuous basis.

I turned on 2FA for all of my pypi packages

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 07:51:54 +0000

I got all the pypi packages that I own behind 2 factor authentication. 💪

use vim to remove duplicates

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 06:50:32 +0000

I just love how some features of vim are so discoverable and memorable once you really start to grasp it. Sorting and uniqing your files or ranges is one of...

Highlighting text ranges with Rich | python

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 20:06:34 +0000

Today I've been playing with py-tree-sitter a bit and I wanted to highlight match ranges, but was unable to figure out how to do it with rich, so I reached...

vimgrep open buffers

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 13:17:32 +0000

How to vimgrep over hidden files.

markata 0.3.0 is 15-20% faster

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 13:53:20 +0000

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name it claim it aim it

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 14:28:30 +0000

People exceptionally talented in the Deliberative theme are best described by > the serious care they take in making decisions or choices. They anticipate >...

get the version of any python package | python api

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 15:48:36 +0000

A common meta thing that I need in python is to find the version of a package. Most of the time I reach for , but that does not always work.

Two new shell aliases for git

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:31:10 +0000

Recently I added two new bash/zsh aliases to make my git experience just a tad better.

IPython q to exit

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 10:10:34 +0000

So many terminal applications bind to exit, even the python debugger, its muscle memory for me. But to exit ipython I have to type out . This is fine, but...

Copier Slugify | python templating | using cookiecutter

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 12:37:50 +0000

It's no secret that I love automation, and lately my templating framework of choice has been copier. One hiccup I recently ran into was having spaces in my...

Textual has devtools

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 21:21:11 +0000

Textual has devtools in the upcoming css branch, and its pretty awesome!

Using Different versions of python with pipx | pyenv

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 28 May 2022 20:38:42 +0000

I love using pipx for automatic virtual environment management of my globally installed python cli applications, but sometimes the application is not...