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I’m impressed by rocketnotes from fynnfluegge.
AI-powered markdown editor - leverage vector embeddings and LLMs with your personal notes - 100% local or in the cloud
faststream by airtai is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves.
FastStream is a powerful and easy-to-use Python framework for building asynchronous services interacting with event streams such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS and Redis.
I came across faststream from ag2ai, and it’s packed with great features and ideas.
FastStream is a powerful and easy-to-use Python framework for building asynchronous services interacting with event streams such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS and Redis.
pypeaday has done a fantastic job with learn-kestra. Highly recommend taking a look.
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Aaron Francis is a database master, pumped for thsi dude and all that he is able to accomplish.
This new demo of textual is wildly awesome, so many widgets and features being added into the main library. The themes and animations are on point and far surpass my expectations of a tui.
Loving this 6 pink with blueforward multicolor combo the porta john has going right now. Also my son printed me a cute black pumpkin.
I like joshmedeski’s project sesh.
Smart session manager for the terminal
ploopy just dropped a trackpad that runs qmk. This sounds so cool. I’m excited to see some videos on it. It would be sick to get this incorporated into a porta john running zmk, one bluetooth device to run all the peripherals.
Zulip was just featured on a changelog clip as a self-hosted chat offering. I’m interested to give this a go and see how it compares to matrix. glancing at it, it looks a lot like slack.
Just starred windsurf.nvim by Exafunction. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer.
A native neovim extension for Codeium
I’m really excited about codeium.nvim, an amazing project by Exafunction. It’s worth exploring!
A native neovim extension for Codeium
weazyprint was throwing me some errors, turns out that it’s currently not compatible with the latest pydyf package.
my error
TypeError: __init__() takes 1 positional argument but 3 were give
I fixed it by locking in pydyf at 0.8.0
helix inspired treesitter select outwards and select inwards.
Helix officially made it in my devtainer. I am installing the binary right out of the github release with wget and tar. I can’t use installer because their release format does not match what installer is looking for.
Here are some really great keybinds to make helix vim-like. It feels very antithetical to use this whole sale and forego the helix motion-verb language, but there are some nuggets like G in here that I find useful.
helix multicursor has the ability to do what vims :s/hello/world/gc does by using ) to cycle through cursors, and n to discard unwanted cursors.
Here is a really good vim substitute with regex capture groups, saving this one for a rainy day.
* Reading 1: This is a title to a link * Reading 2: This is another title
:%s/\v(: )(.+)$/\1\[\2\]\(
Interesting take on refactoring the whole codebase from your editor. In this thread the-mikedavis suggests multicursor as a replacement for substitute, and later in the thread takes the side that larger workspace wide edits are outside the scope of helix and he would reach for a refactoring tool like fastmod to do the job.
I like facebookincubator’s project fastmod.
A fast partial replacement for the codemod tool
I am a heavy user off substitutions in vim, helix does not substitutions built in, rather it leans on multicursor support.
to replace every instance of hello with world in vim
:%s/hello/world/g<CR>
and in helix you would
How to make helix themes transparent. You can make any built-in theme transparent in helix with one line, a few extras and you can make all the pop ups, help menus and status line trransparant as well.
mkdir -p ~/.config/helix/themes hx
:o ~/.config/helix/themes/dracula_transparant.toml
# ~/.config/helix/themes/dracula_transparant.toml inherits = "dracula" "ui.background" = { fg = "foreground" } "ui.menu" = { fg = "white" } "ui.popup" = { fg = "white" } "ui.window" = { fg = "white" } "ui.help" = { fg = "light-gray" } "ui.statusline" = { fg = "gray" } "ui.statusline.inactive" = { fg = "black" }
:config-edit
This post shows how to set up multiple LSP’s in helix, the example uses pyright and ruff-lsp for python.
Add this to your ~/.config/helix/languages.toml a
How to set your python formatter to black with helix. The following snippet lays out how to set the helix editor to auto-format on save with the black formatter.
Simon shared a really cool new utility tool for sqlite ispired by rsync. It checks hashes of each sqlite page and syncs pages. So if nothing in the database has changed it will only require 0.5% the bandwidth as a copy would.
porta-john design update, working on moving the seams to line up with an edge to eliminate long noticable seams. These seams are required because I don’t have a printer big enough to print this in one shot.
hotswaps are going in. I’m getting really excited for hotswaps as they will make keebs more repairable, and users can self change out the switches if they want. I can also pre-build them ready to go, and drop in switches at the time of order. I did learn today that these are hyper specific to gateron, damn all these switch manufacturers and their special pinouts.
Last thing I gotta make more room for wiring the microcontroller and running wires out to the rows and columns, my first prototype build took waay to long to build.
Is Jesse going to get sniped by the helix community?
This low profile design almost made it to 9. I think blending together the custom brim to make them all one piece really made the final difference here. The custom brim is two layers thick, only touching on the top layer making it very easy to peel off, but gives better adhesion to the bed, and does not loose one like this print did.
really excited for how these caps of my own design are working out. Having the extra control is the first time I’ve been able to print more than one at a time without some hacky gcode. I’ve got a set of nine here that I have printed 4 times without a single failure.
The work on zmk-config-wyatt-3x5 by wyattbubbylee.
wyatt-3x5
MX keycap stem dimensions. I used these to create my new caps and all these dimensions worked great. The one dimension I had issues with was the outer diameter off the cap stem, not shown here. 5.3mm ended up being a good outer diameter for me. I print them at an angle and the bottom of the stem can get a bit of sag, pressing out on the outer wall of the switch and can actually stick the key.
This page is gold. It lays out all of the distrobox assemble api with some good examples of how to get access to things like podman and kind from inside of containers.
Especially this example.
This is a very well thought out zmk config featuring many macros, numword, and timeless homerow mods. The build system to build locally looks on point, I really need to give that a try!
Today I learned that you can use init_hooks to access host machine commands from inside a distrobox container. This is super handy for things that you cannot get to from inside the container and need ran outside (docker, podman, flatpak, xdg-open).
I’m really excited about manyfold, an amazing project by manyfold3d. It’s worth exploring!
A self-hosted digital asset manager for 3d print files.
Tailscale comes with a feature called taildrop that lets you easily share files between machines on your tailnet. If you have tailscale on ios/android it shows up as a share target when you try to share something, and you can pick the machine to share with.
What was not obvious to me was how to receive the file on linux. The linux tailscale service does not automatically receive the file, which can be kinda nice that you can put it where you want, but was not obvious to me at first. Use this command to receive files.
I’m really excited about django-admin-tui, an amazing project by valberg. It’s worth exploring!
Django Admin in the terminal!
The Heawood42 is an interesting diodeless keyboard that is not direct wired. According to the repo this is the only keyboard to be diodeless and not direct wired. It does this through the use of a graph.
This is a wild key cap that uses a lever to convert horizontal key presses to vertically press the switch down. The leveret v2 uses two of these on thumbs, one to press outward, and what appears to be one straight forward which feels like it would have to be a wrist motion, but who am I to judge without having it in person.
After first setting up a new k3s instance your kubeconfig file will be located in /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml.
You cans use it from here by setting $KUBECONFIG to that file.
export KUBECONFIG=/etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml
Or you can copy it to ~/.kube/config
cp /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml ~/.kube/config
If you have installed k3s on a remote server and need the config on your local machine then you will need to modify the server address to reflect the remote server.
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A nice set of blacks to use in web design. Subtle variants off of black or white like this can really make your design look nice and modern.
This is a pretty incredible use of css grid to overlay items overtop of each other without needing to resort to position: absolute and the side effects that it brings.
Some sick looking icons no attribution needed.
I’m impressed by pifi-openwrt-raspberry-pi from pifi-org.
Firmware Files for Raspberry Pi (PiFI)
Today I gave n8n a try using podman, their docs gave me docker commands, but it ran fine on my machine using podman.