Today I Learned

Check out garbage-day.nvim [1] by Zeioth [2]. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential. Garbage collector that stops inactive LSP clients to free RAM References: [1]: https://github.com/Zeioth/garbage-day.nvim [2]: https://github.com/Zeioth

snow-fall Web Component—zachleat.com A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat) Zach Leatherman · zachleat.com [1] This is a very fun way to add some whimsy to your site, added it to mine immediately when I saw it. This is what digital gardens are for, Fun, entertainment, and self-exxpression. 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.zachleat.com/web/snow-fall/ [2]: /thoughts/

- This ball vise Idea is incredible and I want one. Its a heavy workholding unit that can accept a variety of tools and manipulate things to a lot of angles while working on them. This looks really good for painting miniatures soldering or generally working on small 3d printed parts that I do. 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/

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 ran it on a cluster that needed to upgrade several minors and I learned that the controller does not pick up on changes to the channel url if you change from minor to minor. The solution I came up with was to name the plan with the version it supports. Then on each patch upgrade, change both the plan name and the channel. I use gitops with argocd, it automcatically cleaned up old plans, created new plans, and the system-upgrade-controller picked up the plan and started applying immediately. # Server plan apiVersion: upgrade.cattle.io/v1 kind: Plan metadata: name: server-plan-v1.33 # <- This is important if you want to change the channel name namespace: system-upgrade spec: concurrency: 1 cordon: true nodeSelector: matchExpressions: - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane operator: In values: - "true" serviceAccountName: system-upgrade upgrade: image: rancher/k3s-upgrade channel: https://update.k3s.io/v1-release/channels/v1.33 --- # Agent plan apiVersion: upgrade.cattle.io/v1 kind: Plan metadata: name: age...

Deleting Code for Performance The one where I clean up an asynchronous mess. dbushell.com · dbushell.com [1] I did not realize that David’s site was built on a homegrown Static Site Generator. As someone who also does this myself I appreciate the effort. I build my site on markata [2]. It started as a project to learn a set of tools and has become a project that I depend on everywhere and cant put down. It’s a great tool, but you probably shouldn’t use it. Anyways, I feel this really shows on David’s site. His site is filled with custom features that make it very unique, one off, and always a pleasure to read. Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://dbushell.com/2025/12/04/deleting-code-for-performance/ [2]: /markata/ [3]: /thoughts/

I recently discovered posse_party [1] by searlsco [2], and it’s truly impressive. Quit social media by posting more References: [1]: https://github.com/searlsco/posse_party [2]: https://github.com/searlsco

- Niche companies will rise from the ashes. Companies that want to build good products for customers. Companies that will get hundreds of users. They will treat them right and make enough money to support themselves, maybe. Alongside them we will self host [1]. We will run our own services out of our basement. There will be downtime, but its ok. We will enjoy ourselves. We will tell everyone how much better it is BTW Next to that is a firehose of shit piling back into the circular snakes mouth as all of your data flows freely between any company that can get their hands on it. These companies will spend and make money hand over fist. Most people will continue to use these services until enough is enough and unplug from everything. In this world I don’t see how we sustain the amount of engineers we have created. Small companies run lean, small, and allow slow organic growth happen. It will be interesting to see play out. [2] Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /self-host/ [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/95ae2a95-308b-4d1d-bff8-8ce6194db132.webp [3]: /thoughts/

I’m impressed by awesome-nanobanana-pro [1] from ZeroLu [2]. 🚀 An awesome list of curated Nano Banana pro prompts and examples. Your go-to resource for mastering prompt engineering and exploring the creative potential of the Nano banana pro(Nano banana 2) AI image model. References: [1]: https://github.com/ZeroLu/awesome-nanobanana-pro [2]: https://github.com/ZeroLu

Malicious Traffic and Static Sites Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web. blog.jim-nielsen.com [1] These look like fun endpoints to add anti-maliciously, give good stuff for the sleezy things to read. 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://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/malicious-traffic-on-static-sites/ [2]: /thoughts/

A ChatGPT prompt equals about 5.1 seconds of Netflix In June 2025 Sam Altman claimed about ChatGPT that "the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours". In March 2020 George Kamiya of the International Energy Agency estimated that "streaming a … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1] This feels very promising for the future as we enter a world that is more and more dependent on AI that inference is so cheap. I did not understand the scale to how much cheaper inference is compared to training. As we get better with training I imagine this gets significantly better as well. I know they all claim to be profitable on inference, but scrolling through Simon’s feed here you see several articles on the stark difference. 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/Nov/29/chatgpt-netflix [2]: /thoughts/

A pretty good email scam How I helped family recover from a clever email scam that hid behind sneaky account settings cassidoo.co [1] scams suck. This is a good story, sorry to hear that it happened to a real person. If you or anyone in your family has a compromised email, add these to your checklist to fix. - automatic forwards - 2-factor email 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://cassidoo.co/post/email-settings-scam/ [2]: /thoughts/

2025-11-27 Notes | Nic Payne yesterday: [[2025-11-26-notes]] Big Changes Got my workspaces script in working order It's not quite configurable yet This will allow an easy way to setup pype.dev [1] Nic is also building out a similar workspaces script. This feels like such a great thing to have ai work on fully customized tools for your personal workflow. Also Nice shout out! 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://pype.dev/2025-11-27-notes/ [2]: /thoughts/

Check out dawarich [1] by Freika [2]. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential. Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History) References: [1]: https://github.com/Freika/dawarich [2]: https://github.com/Freika

K8s Diagram Builder - Visual Kubernetes YAML Generator Free Kubernetes diagram builder with drag-and-drop design. Auto-generate production-ready YAML for Ingress, Services, Deployments, ConfigMaps, Secrets & more. No signup required. K8s Diagram Builder · k8sdiagram.fun [1] This looks like great prototyping tool for k8s. I too often ask ai to get me going with the things I need. I’ve used k8s long enough that I can generally remember all the things I need, roughly where they go, would probably forget a few things and need to iterate, but I cannot remember exactly what goes where and need examples at a minimum. I need to give this a go from desktop and see if it will work for me. Right now looking through mobile looks promising. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: http://k8sdiagram.fun/ [2]: /thoughts/

chr15m [1] has done a fantastic job with runprompt [2]. Highly recommend taking a look. Run LLM prompts from your shell References: [1]: https://github.com/chr15m [2]: https://github.com/chr15m/runprompt

setting COLUMNS env var to a number greater than 0 will make the terminal resize to that number of columns. COLUMNS=80 uvx --from rich-cli rich myscript.py Note Not all programs respct the COLUMNS env var, but rich does, and a lot of stuff I’m building uses rich. I discovered this when I was trying to make a low effort readme generated from the code, but did not depend on the size of terminal it was ran on. # justfile readme: echo "# Workspaces" > README.md echo "" >> README.md echo '``` bash' >> README.md COLUMNS=80 ./workspaces.py --help >> README.md echo '```' >> README.md

I’m really excited about alloy-scenarios [1], an amazing project by grafana [2]. It’s worth exploring! A collection of working Alloy scenarios References: [1]: https://github.com/grafana/alloy-scenarios [2]: https://github.com/grafana

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 repo create it will prompt you which login to use, but I learned that you can bake it in to all of them with --login <login-name> ❯ tea repo create --name deleteme --description 'for example' ┃ NOTE: no gitea login detected, whether falling back to login 'git.waylonwalker.com'? [1] tea repo create --name deleteme --description 'for example' --login git.wayl.one References: [1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/11dc820d-1680-414c-9624-cd970b057a74.webp

Looking for inspiration? wyattbubbylee.com [1] by WaylonWalker [2]. No description available. References: [1]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker/wyattbubbylee.com [2]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on qmk_firmware [1], created by WaylonWalker [2]. Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families References: [1]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker/qmk_firmware [2]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker