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I’m going to leave the title off this post and see what happens. Titles are a lot of pressure! I think there is a reason that the big text-based social networking sites (Mastodon, X, Facebook… Chris Coyier · chriscoyier.net [1] Interesting thoughts here on blog post titles, do we need them? They are so ingrained into everything. It makes me think about markata.dev. I don’t require you to add any meta data to your post, you don’t need a title at all, but you do have to name a markdown file, and this does end up being your title if you don’t set one. Titles are a lot of pressure! I think there is a reason that the big text-based social networking sites (Mastodon, X, Facebook, Threads, LinkedIn, Bluesky, etc.) don’t have titles. Especially for short posts, the title just isn’t necessary. Just say the thing. Interesting observation what rss readers do without one. My own favorite[rss reader], Feedbin, shows the author of the post as the title if it’s missing. Eh, not great not horrible. Hilariously he puts a title on the OG [2] image for the post. I was interested in seeing what would happen in signal, it appears to be showing the author name as well. [3] Confirmed the pag...

AI workloads on Talos Linux Companies are exploring how to run GPU accelerated workloads on Kubernetes. Sidero Labs · siderolabs.com [1] cool article for setting up talos linux with an nvidia gpu. What a wild world it we are living in where these devices that started out being only for hardcore gamers are becoming commonplace in servers and slowly entering the homelab [2] space. 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://www.siderolabs.com/blog/ai-workloads-on-talos-linux/ [2]: /homelab/ [3]: /thoughts/

- Damn prime makes an interesting point near then end of this video. He’s seen a bunch of people able to just throw down charts and shit at their company and end up being “the coding guy” cause they proompted something once. In a way I can relate, I got into software in a similar way, but at a time that it took a lot more hard work, understanding , and copy past from the right stack overflow. Based on some of the people around me at the time I can only imagine how some people must feel like they got pushed into it without wanting it, and now are building something they don’t know anything about with no care about it or care to build any expertise. Is the future proompted charts from enterprise chatgpt or do we only continue growing more need for software from here. [1] 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://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/d43265cd-7fe1-4cb4-a22e-d82a37a2e368.webp [2]: /thoughts/

I like duckdb’s [1] project pg_duckdb [2]. DuckDB-powered Postgres for high performance apps & analytics. References: [1]: https://github.com/duckdb [2]: https://github.com/duckdb/pg_duckdb

Just starred xan [1] by medialab [2]. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer. The CSV magician References: [1]: https://github.com/medialab/xan [2]: https://github.com/medialab

I’m impressed by upvote-rss [1] from johnwarne [2]. Generate rich RSS feeds from Reddit, Hacker News, and Lemmy References: [1]: https://github.com/johnwarne/upvote-rss [2]: https://github.com/johnwarne

Looking for inspiration? rugpulls.dev [1] by caniszczyk [2]. No description available. References: [1]: https://github.com/caniszczyk/rugpulls.dev [2]: https://github.com/caniszczyk

I’m really excited about pangolin [1], an amazing project by fosrl [2]. It’s worth exploring! Tunneled Mesh Reverse Proxy Server with Identity and Access Control and Dashboard UI References: [1]: https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin [2]: https://github.com/fosrl

Looking for inspiration? Flexbox-Labs [1] by prazzon [2]. A web app for creating flexible layouts with the power of CSS Flexbox. References: [1]: https://github.com/prazzon/Flexbox-Labs [2]: https://github.com/prazzon

Check out llm-sort [1] by vagos [2]. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential. Sort input lines semantically with llm References: [1]: https://github.com/vagos/llm-sort [2]: https://github.com/vagos

Testing fresh nvim installs can be a pain, and hard to di without borking your known good install. I’ve been using NVIM_APPNAME to run a test nvim in a sandbox that wont bork my main install. This usually runs for me in under a minute, can be down under 15s if I remove some of the TreeSitter installs at the end. This beats a full docker build of my full devtainer to test out nvim packaging woes. rm ~/.cache/wwtest -rf rm ~/.local/share/wwtest -rf rm ~/.config/wwtest -rf cp -r nvim/.config/nvim/ ~/.config/wwtest NVIM_APPNAME=wwtest nvim --headless "+Lazy sync" +qa NVIM_APPNAME=wwtest nvim --headless "+TSUpdateSync" "+sleep 5000m" +qa NVIM_APPNAME=wwtest nvim --headless "+MasonUpdate" +qa NVIM_APPNAME=wwtest nvim --headless "+TSInstallSync! c cpp go lua python rust tsx javascript typescript vimdoc vim bash yaml toml vue just" +qa NVIM_APPNAME=wwtest nvim --headless "+MasonInstall lua-language-server rustywind ruff ruff-lsp html-lsp typescript-language-server beautysh fixjson isort markdownlint stylua yamlfmt python-lsp-server" +qa NVIM_APPNAME=wwtest nvim I’ve started to use this as a just recipe to run before deploying a new version of my dotfiles. So far its pairing nicely with...

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 with :.! filled out. This runs a shell command, i.e. date for this example. It outputs the following Fri Jan 31 08:46:11 PM CST 2025 You can also pass in a date such as tommorrow by pasdding in the -d date -d tomorrow. It outputs the following Sat Feb 1 08:53:20 PM CST 2025 codeium just taught me this one with autocomplete :put =strftime('%Y-%m-%d') This outputs the following 2025-01-31 What I like about the :put =strftime( method is that you can add a format, but that is a lot more for me to remember than !!date A few weeks later # [1] I’m going through a bunch of blog posts and dont want my date formats to change to the Wed Feb format so I broke down and made these keybindings. I think I’m still going to be using .!date a lot, but these keybindings will be nice for editing blog post frontmatter. set("n", "<leader>dd", "<cmd>put =strftime('%Y-%m-%d')<cr>", { noremap = true, silent = true }) set("n", "<leader>dt", "<cmd>put =strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')<cr>", { noremap = true, silent = true }) - dd 2025-02-...

I like DigitalHarbor7’s [1] project engineering-status-pages [2]. Static sites for engineering project status updates References: [1]: https://github.com/DigitalHarbor7 [2]: https://github.com/DigitalHarbor7/engineering-status-pages

Today I ran into an interesting question, why am I being asked to configure tzdata while installing npm. Turns out that the aptitude cli has a why command that very handily nails down why you have something installed on a debian based system. Install aptitude # [1] apt install aptitude Why tzdata # [2] Now we can query why we need tzdata and see the full chain with the root package being npm. root@47685221fb82:/# aptitude why tzdata i npm Depends node-gyp i A node-gyp Depends gyp (>= 0.1+20200513gitcaa6002) i A gyp Depends python3:any i A python3 Provides python3:any i A python3 Depends python3.12 (>= 3.12.3-0~) i A python3.12 Depends tzdata References: [1]: #install-aptitude [2]: #why-tzdata

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 an install, moreso in docker I do not have the interactive terminal to do so. Configuring tzdata ------------------ Please select the geographic area in which you live. Subsequent configuration questions will narrow this down by presenting a list of cities, representing the time zones in which they are located. 1. Africa 2. America 3. Antarctica 4. Arctic 5. Asia 6. Atlantic 7. Australia 8. Europe 9. Indian 10. Pacific 11. Etc 12. Legacy Geographic area: Why tzdata # [1] Checking aptitude why tzdata it shows that the chain goes back through npm. root@47685221fb82:/# aptitude why tzdata i npm Depends node-gyp i A node-gyp Depends gyp (>= 0.1+20200513gitcaa6002) i A gyp Depends python3:any i A python3 Provides python3:any i A python3 Depends python3.12 (>= 3.12.3-0~) i A python3.12 Depends tzdata The solution, configure tzdata # [2] export TZ="America/Chicago" export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt update apt install tzdata -y ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ /etc/localtime dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata D...

Colors - Core concepts Using and customizing the color palette in Tailwind CSS projects. tailwindcss.com [1] Tailwind has the best color system, very well done. Even if you don’t use it, it serves as a great color picker. 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://tailwindcss.com/docs/colors [2]: /thoughts/

External Link wyattbubbylee.com [1] So proud of Wyatt for writing in his own blog! 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://wyattbubbylee.com/dst-forever-world/ [2]: /thoughts/

- Big fan of Primes setup. I was not far off of his setup before he really came on the scene, but I’ve picked up a ton of nuggets from him and how he operates. I took his first developer productivity course on Front End Masters as it came out. It is interesting to see him roll back his ansible scripts for bash scripts here. I converted my setup to ansible after watching his first, but have also since rolled back to bash scripts for quite similar reasons. Ansible is great for remote tasks that need to be done on a fleet of machines, but like he says here overkill for this purpose and ends up something that you need to read the docs for every change to your dotfiles. Unlike prime I’ve really leaned harder on installing everything in a docker image and developing out of a docker image. I’ve long built docker images of my dotfiles with the idea that its nice to be able to just use them on other machines, but it rarely happened. In the past year I’ve moved bazzite, an immutable distro. It comes with podman and distrobox, so I install very little on it, a few flatpaks from the store for brave and signal, but most of what I really use day to day comes from my devtainer. It’s nice t...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03KsS09YS4E&t=610s [1] Today I learned about the basic calculator, bc. At the very end of this video prime uses it to add numbers in vim. REPL # [2] You can start a calculator repl at the command line, by running bc. Vim # [3] 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 open my system calculator or ipython to do something like this. To keep the equation and the result in the same line you can send the equation to stderr and the result to stdout using tee. :.!tee >(cat >&2) | bc References: [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03KsS09YS4E&amp;t=610s [2]: #repl [3]: #vim

emoji [1] by carpedm20 [2] is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves. emoji terminal output for Python References: [1]: https://github.com/carpedm20/emoji [2]: https://github.com/carpedm20