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Cutaway Key Cap Up
A cutaway keycap sitting on a durock lupine switch
Freshly Cut Keycap Cut Away
A keycap glued to a 2x4 freshly turned into a cut away keykap.

Keycap Cut Away

I was curious how/if my custom keycap design was hitting my switches. So I set out to find out what the fitup inside of this assembly looks like, but not theoretically, a fully sliced view into their fit up in the flesh.

To setup for this cut, I flooded the edge of a 2x4 with hot glue, and inserted the cap such that the step was tangent with the edge. This way I could use the edge as a guide to cut one side off and leave the stem in tact. I took a handsaw to it and filed it smooth.

Removal was applying some isopropyl alcohol and it popped right off.

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The long trek has paid off and we have aquired Isma's tear, it coats our outter shell with protective coating from the acid, giving us access to new parts of the world.
Finishing the battle before accessing Isma's tear in Hollow Knight
Making light moves of this tricky parkour run between deepnest and the royal waterways

Knife Sharpener Small Upgrade

I’ve used this knife sharpener that I printed for a few years now. I thought that it was based on the Russian designed TSPROF, but in looking through the history it looks very similar to the USA Edge Pro Inc Apex designs that goes back to the 1990’s. The angle isn’t quite holding like it used to. I’ve got a lot of ideas for my own model, but for now I’m going to print some spacers to help get repeatable angles.

setting the angle on my sharpener

Where I want to place a fixed height collar

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Vim is a command that runs what you call without autocommands on. This is typically used when you have some commands ...

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I'm Out On Agents

Its the year 2025 and we are only a few years into having 6 months to live before ai takes our jobs, and the big push right now is agents, managing agents. I will fully concede to I’m not doing it right, or a future state gets better than where we are right now, but right now they kinda suck.

Chat is what really kicked off ai uses and goes back as old as computers, but it always sucked. Then chatgpt rocked the world with the biggest launch day in history and showed us that it could actually be pretty good. Unethically trained on everything they could get their hands on, burning cities worth of electricity to train, and keep training to stay ahead of the competition. It does a damn good job. There are tells, and if you see enough of it there is a lot that turns to slop, but if you had never seen it before, there is no way you would assume that it was not a computer.

It does a damn good job at being average, it can do what seems like everything not related to security and authentication at a pretty average level. This is its super power. Whenever you are trying to bridge between something you know and something new, you can get a pretty good answer, and likely spot the bs in what you know.

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Doing Some Keeb Modeling And Thought This Was Cool
The inside of a keyboard before the tools are used to cut away switch cutouts in the board.

Today I gave modd a try, and it seems like a good file watcher executor. I tried using libnotify to send desktop noti...

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2025-08-25 Notes

Gave modd a try and it seems pretty good, will likely be slotting it in next to my justfile usage.

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2025-08-23 Notes

Today, some great work on the knife sharpener re-design. I've been using the same one since I first got my ender 3 3d printer, and have wanted to make some...

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Knife Sharpener Double Hinge Wing Nut
A 3 lobed wing nut perfectly hiding the m4 cap screw underneath of it, flooded in uv resin.
Testing out the double hinge knife sharpener holder for the first time.
Knife Sharpenter Double Hinge Mid Print
A bambu A1 printer printing my double hinge mid print under a uv light
Unlocking Kings station in my hollow knight keyboard only run
The final blow to the Dung Defender as he admits defeat and allows the little knight to access the valve in the royal waterways.
Using desolate dive to unlock the Royal Waterway bench in my Hollow Knight keeb only run.
Entering the royal waterway during my hollow knight keeb only run.
Using the simple key to unlock the Royal Waterway in Hollow Knight during my keeb only run.
Purchasing the Lumafly Lanten from Sly's shop in Dirtmouth during my Hollow Knight keeb only run.
Helmet Hidden In Design
A CAD design for a movable hinge that turned out looking like a space helmet.

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. ...

2025-08-21 Notes

https://youtu.be/-EYRzF0zp3U?si=mKCPlMDecrqzvjuF

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2025-08-17 Notes

After a long time I begrudgingly setup window rules for hyprland. What I wanted was the ability to log out and jump back into work with a freshened work...

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Wyatt Drew A Watertower In Aesprite
A post apocolptic water tower sitting on a rock drawn in blues and greens with moss hanging from it, including a rusty red top and legs. Drew by Wyatt.

2025-08-16 Notes

[x] remove nextcloud - [x] pause photoprism - [x] pause syncthing - [x] move data to walkershare - [x] filepermissions 1000:1000 all of it - [x] organize how...

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2025-08-14 Notes

Huge progress on shots not to be confused with shots inspired by . I'm building out my own instagram grid design, right now its 4 wide, but I wonder if it...

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2025-08-13 Notes

Inspired by Justin Searls Shots, I made started my own shots feed for self hosted Instagram style photos. The layout could use a lot of work, the feed seems...

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2025-08-12 Notes

Sad day yesterday. We discovered that our freezer was left cracked over a day or so. Kids self serviced themselves to some sausage dogs at some point and...

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2025-08-08 Notes

I found this post from miriam.codes while reading dbushell's notes. I kinda agree with Miriam and David here. AI is really making me feel like an old...

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2025-08-05 Notes

Yesterday I started building out some qrcode tooling for myself starting with qrcode.waylonwalker.com. This is part of my tinyapps project.

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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 in...

Homelab Update Jul 2025
Basement shelf with 3 computers, a network switch, an uninterubptable power supply, one monitor underneath, and a wifi access point to the right.

2025-07-27 Notes

Today Wyatt and I conquered cathulu in Cat quest III.

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