Oh, this kills me to hear it. RSS is the OG way to subscribe and share content out to others. It gives you control of what you subscribe to and reminds you when new content lands on your favorite sites. It is a huge component of web 1.0 and I feel is the most decentralized social media can ever hope to be.
Publishing rhythm
markata 0.8.0
I realize that I never did a post on markata 0.8.0, so here it is. 0.8.0 was released on Jan 2, 2024, just over a year ago at this point. This was the release that we got pydantic support, and multi feeds. Pydantic Support Was kinda big # Markata is leaning on pydanttic for configuration and Post models. These models are filled with validators such that you can give it an empty markdown post and it will figure out some pretty sane default values for the frontmatter. From there you can progressivly enhance your post with more information like title, date, tags, slug, description. validators are awesome!! for instance I don’t set the description on many of my posts by hand, I let the auto_description grab the first bit of text from the post most of the time. Multi Feeds # Markata==0.8.1 brought multiple feeds into the mix, and started to take place of rss and sitemap. Feeds are a list of posts that are configured with a slug, filter, sort, reverse, description, and a template. These feed…
markata 0.8.0
I realize that I never did a post on markata 0.8.0, so here it is. 0.8.0 was released on Jan 2, 2024, just over a year ago at this point. This was the release that we got pydantic support, and multi feeds. Pydantic Support Was kinda big # Markata is leaning on pydantic for configuration and Post models. These models are filled with validators such that you can give it an empty markdown post and it will figure out some pretty sane default values for the frontmatter. From there you can progressively enhance your post with more information like title, date, tags, slug, description. validators are awesome!! for instance I don’t set the description on many of my posts by hand, I let the auto_description grab the first bit of text from the post most of the time. Multi Feeds # Markata==0.8.1 brought multiple feeds into the mix, and started to take place of RSS and sitemap. Feeds are a list of posts that are configured with a slug, filter, sort, reverse, description, and a template. These feed…
Behold, the Steam Brick A modder has transformed the Steam Deck in a screen-less, controller-less Steam Brick. Rock Paper Shotgun · rockpapershotgun.com I fully believe in our right to repair, ewaste reduction, and bringing a second life to still good hardware that is not up for it’s originally intended purpose. This is a sick console like experience you can strap to the back of a tv, throw in your back to take on a trip, or leave stuffed in your vehicle to game in the backseat. Sucks that it cant do 4k, but I’ve used mine on large screens, and it does quite well for a lot of games, maybe not AAA, but the cartoony multplayer games I play with my kids do quite well.
asottile has done a fantastic job with all-repos. Highly recommend taking a look. Clone all your repositories and apply sweeping changes.
If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on tailpipe, created by turbot. select * from logs; Tailpipe is an open source SIEM for instant log insights, powered by DuckDB. Analyze millions of events in seconds, right from your terminal.
I recently discovered roomy by muni-town, and it’s truly impressive. ATproto-connected p2p group comms
Damn these deepseek memes go hard. Wild to see openai get played by their own game. It’s crazy that the normie news that I have seen on deepseek shows that the Chinese made what the Americans did at a fraction of the price, without taking notice that they are building on the shoulders of openai.
👏👏👏 This one is really good. I’m right there with him on most of this. I am very hesitant on subscription models, and all the ai tools feel like they are getting ready to be the next round of death by a thousand cuts, this time with pretty limited free tier and relatively high prices to run. I’m sure we will see companies get taken by huge bills soon by building off of someone else’s service. On the flip side I’m definitely the guy that gets in a rut of just copy paste to the ai, wait for codeium to to inject. I feel like I have issues of momentum more than anything. When I’m on one side or the other I tend to stick it out for too long, but less so on going without because that llm drug is calling you when you hit a hard problem. I’m excited to see him build out a homelab for llm stuff that he mentioned at the top. I’m interested, but probably not building one out for myself until we start to see some cheaper maybe used hardware to do it.
markata search
A side effect of Markata DidYouMean is that we are able to implement some rudimentary search based on slug, title, tags, and description. I made a video of the early work on using this side effect to search for content on markata.dev. This was first implemented to solve 404 pages giving users a way to try to find the page that they tried to access. But it turned out to be a decent way to search through the docs.
Kelsey says several times in this interview, you don’t need kubernetes. If you are running one node you don’t need kubernetes. My question though is, would you use kubernetes? Ya I get it if you are a web developer, data scientist, backend dev, but if you are looking to bee a whole ass engineer, or infrastructure engineer, you know kubernetes, Should you use kubernetes on single node?
Markata DidYouMean
Coming in Markata 0.9.1 is far better documentation. i.e. Documentation that actually exists for everything. As part of poking around I realized that I often go to look up the docs for a plugin and forget that the path is, sometimes I might try or or or I might even forget the plugin name exactly and try something like and get a 404. So I added a plugin to markata that takes care of this. I made a quick recording of this early feature, pay close attention to the url as it automatically updates to the correct page. Happy Path # direct forward If you have one post called, and it is the only post called feeds, any combination of or or will all automatically redirect with an html page (not a server 3xx) to the post. Here is the snippet that does the redirect. You won’t see it unless you are on a really bad network, or you have js disabled, but this is what it would look like if you ever saw it. Notice there is a backup link if you have js disabled. Multiple Similar Posts # list of options…
Models Pydantic Docs · docs.pydantic.dev I came accross from_attributes today it allows creation of pydantic models from objects such as a sqlalchemy Model or while nesting pydantic models. I believe in the past I have ran into some inconsistencies with nesting pydantic models and I’ll bet one had from_attributes set and another did not. Arbitrary class instances¶ (Formerly known as “ORM Mode”/from_orm). Pydantic models can also be created from arbitrary class instances by reading the instance > attributes corresponding to the model field names. One common application of this functionality is integration with object-relational mappings (ORMs). To do this, set the from_attributes config value to True (see the documentation on Configuration for more details). The example here uses SQLAlchemy, but the same approach should work for any ORM.
Dang strong stance that tmux and zellij should not exist. I really do get his point though. Theres a good number of terminal features I often miss out on because I run tmux. Its an app that runs apps, and doesn’t let all of the signals back to the host. But its fantastic at what it does, and brings so much to the table that the little bit of downside it brings is well worth it to me. The other thing missing in this discussion is that I can take my hotkeys and session workflow to any machine just by running tmux. I do not need to run a certain terminal, or install it headlessly on a server to get special features just for it.
cold builds
Here are a list of some cold builds from my site. I’ve ran this site for a long time and would like to have some references to go back to, and wish I had kept a few profiles of cold builds laying around to compare with. The time is now lets keep some cold build links around for reference. 01/27/2025 # https://ec314b08.waylonwalker-com.pages.dev/_profile/ - 429s - markata==0.9.0.dev5 has md_video open cache on every post issue https://27f117fd.waylonwalker-com.pages.dev/_profile/ - 112s- markata==0.9.0.dev5 after fixing md_video issue https://e6b8f64a.waylonwalker-com.pages.dev/_profile/ - 16s - markata==0.9.0.dev5 1 post not skipped, this one https://10b778b4.waylonwalker-com.pages.dev/_profile/ - 5.65s - markata==0.9.0.dev5 fully hot cache build with no changes
pesos
Pesos is the act of Publish Elsewhere Syncicate to Own Site. It is an indieweb concept that I recently started applying to my own site. here does it skip again Note See https://indieweb.org/PESOS for more information, they have a ton of information about the indieweb In short it is the concept of pulling data from other sites that you use and republishing it to your own site. This gives a single source of information for you, and protection against sites and apis changing or rug pulling. Other people might have a lot more use cases for this, but I already begin a lot of my data right on my site. GitHub stars # I am using the github api to get a list of my stars and then create posts in the github repo for my blog. This allows me to keep track of things I star on GitHub in my own way, and share them out with my rss feeds.
Check out veekaybee and their project gitfeed. Feed of posts from Bluesky that have a GitHub link
I came across llama.vim from ggml-org, and it’s packed with great features and ideas. Vim plugin for LLM-assisted code/text completion
hover z-index and positioning
I broke my sick wikilink hover recently in a refactor, today I did some diving in to figure out what happened. Before # As you can see in the screenshot below, the link is in a list of links, and when the hover image pops up it sits behind all of the other text. The z-index of the list-item is supposed to be raised above the others on hover. Manually setting z-index to 20 in the inspector I noticed this message from devtools, “The position: static property prevents z-index from having an effect. Try setting position to something other than static.”, looking back at some of my refactoring I had relative in an old template and it was lost. After # After properly setting position to relative on the list-item, the hover image is raised above the others.
Top Python libraries of 2024 Dive into our 10th annual Python Libraries roundup for 2024, now featuring separate curated lists for General Use and AI / ML / Data tools. Discover this year's most innovative additions to the eco... Tryolabs · tryolabs.com Really good listicle of new modern top python libraries from 2024. Very well done article with images, links, and an actually quality listicle with many things I’ve never even heard of.