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💭 COLUMNS env var

2025-12-03T11:40:58Z

Here’s my thought on COLUMNS env var

Awesome awesome TIL with COLUMNS for some nicer terminal printouts for READMEs and such

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💭 Docker | Atuin Docs

2025-11-22T20:58:59Z

Here’s my thought on Docker | Atuin Docs

A 2-fer… So I want to host atuin and share shell history across my machines on my tailnet I think… it’s such a nice interface but I barely use it so I’m sure the features will improve some aspects of my life. And secondly, this section on using systemd is interesting… I hadn’t thought to use systemd to schedule container upgrades - sounds incredibly trivial and probably a widely practiced thing now that I say it out loud… Saving here for implementing something… sometime…

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💭 You already have a git server: (Maurycy’s blog)

2025-10-28T11:16:37Z

Here’s my thought on You already have a git server: (Maurycy’s blog)

Using my server’s filesystem + ssh + git-hooks for the simplest self-hosted CI pipelines ever sounds like a pretty cool setup. Probably would lose any cool graphics like GH Actions gives you but for full sovereignty over your code + zero bloat it’s an appealing pattern

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💭 uv script management

2025-09-08T11:25:33Z

Here’s my thought on uv script management

Dang Waylon! Love these few lines… uv is great, been using it for environment and project requirements management but I didn’t realize it was this easy to setup a pep 723 compliant script!

Love this sed -i '1i #!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script' little gem too - I typically do uv run script.py so I’ll see about making this a simple zsh alias for faster iteration on python scripts… I often have AI write quick bash scripts to accomplish things, but it’s quite a bit harder for me to read than python, and with the power uv is bringing to the python ecosystem, maybe it’s fine to just be a little higher in the programming stack for script-kitty stuff

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💭 Engineering excellence starts on edge

2025-09-06T11:27:07Z

Here’s my thought on Engineering excellence starts on edge

I have become a huge DHH fan, maybe that means I’m just a basic bish but as I’ve become aware of who he has I haven’t yet disagreed with much that he has to say… And fortunately or unfortuntaely that remanins true with this post about getting involved “at the edge”.

I feel like I bounce between “give me bleeding edge” and “give me unshakable stability” on the daily, and there’s probably a time and place for both… I think I am prone to take on initial viewpoints and so I don’t want to abandon my desire for stability, but man… maybe running Arch wouldn’t be that bad, maybe a release-candidate container for an app at home here or there would be an interesting way to give back even a fraction to the FOSS community.

I try to open issues on GH and such when things happen, but I could take a more proactive approach especially with the software that I use more regularly…

Thanks DHH for posting these thoughts, keep em coming!

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💭 Docker Swarm Still Rocks

2025-08-26T14:43:44Z

Here’s my thought on Docker Swarm Still Rocks

Apparently docker swarm is still a thing and now I have to try it

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💭 Codeberg Pages | Codeberg Documentation

2025-08-19T11:35:38Z

Here’s my thought on Codeberg Pages | Codeberg Documentation

Forgejo has a github pages like feature… this might be nice to use sometime as I try to lean into forgejo, but the last thought/bookmark on using traefik + nginx in a compose stack feels simple too. I’ll keep it in mind as I explore the forgejo setup at home

After reading it again I missed something. Codeberg pages is not exactly like github pages, seems more like the github readme thing - you have to use a repo called “pages” and then you’ll get {username}.codeberg.page… so they own this TLD, and so I’m not sure it’s worth exploring this for homelab situations when traefik + nginx or something is pretty simple as well

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💭 Use Traefik 2 with Nginx, Apache, or CaddyServer to Serve Stat…

2025-08-19T11:28:37Z

Here’s my thought on Use Traefik 2 with Nginx, Apache, or CaddyServer to Serve Static Files

Looks like a nice way to use git to back static sites, which I already do with my blog but this would be a simple way to centralize some content I like to serve up. Might make it easier to self-host everything as well!

NOTE: this is in karakeep already

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💭 Setting up a Self-Hosted Forgejo Actions Runner with Docker Co…

2025-08-14T11:30:54Z

Here’s my thought on Setting up a Self-Hosted Forgejo Actions Runner with Docker Compose — Linus Groh

As I explore forgjeo this post has a title that sounds very promising! I would like everything to be a docker compose stack for now and I’m struggling a bit with the runner installation - I might be over-complicating it but some parts of the docs aren’t as clear as I want them to be - hopefully this post is a good supplement

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I’ve read through this - it’s definitely older than forgejo docs on compose, but I like the setup better… It’s more of what I would’ve guessed whereas the official docs have a dind image being used it looks like to proxy the tcp traffic from the runner through to a docker engine running in a containerized environment… now that I say it out loud maybe I do like that better… regardless, looking forward to having some self-hosted actions running before EOD

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💭 Static egress IPs for machines - Fresh Produce - Fly.io

2025-08-05T11:50:12Z

Here’s my thought on Static egress IPs for machines - Fresh Produce - Fly.io

I’m starting to setup litestream for replicating sqlite dbs of my apps to my self-hosted MinIO instance… only issue is most of my networking assumes client connectivity via tailscale so I whitelist pretty much every accessible domain. This has gotten me in trouble once or twice, and I’m currently in the throws of backing up sqlite from fly.io. The easiest solution for me would be to add egress IP cidr blocks to my traefik whitelisting configuration and wouldn’t ya know it - in september 2024 fly.io released the ability to set static egress IPs!

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💭 caronc/apprise-api: A lightweight REST framework that wraps th…

2025-08-04T01:08:10Z

Here’s my thought on caronc/apprise-api: A lightweight REST framework that wraps the Apprise Notification Library

I just stood this up and I am very excited about how easy it was to setup and get a message through my gotify instance at home - just a few minutes once I got through my think head on the config in the web front-end… I expect to lean into this heavily in the future

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💭 The Remarkable Incompetence At The Heart Of Tech

2025-08-03T11:39:14Z

Here’s my thought on The Remarkable Incompetence At The Heart Of Tech

What a great post… the majority of my tech experience has been at a large non-tech company and this just couldn’t be more true… we’ve got folks who made 150k+ in just cash salary who would take 3 months to learn what a firewall rule even was… I heard at one time there were 6 different salesforce accounts across 3 different cloud providers… The incompetence in management, new-hires, those in charge of hiring, etc. is just mind-boggling. I have been fortunate to have generally awesome peers and helpful direct managers but generally I see every ounce of truth in this article… but what does it matter? I kind of think it doesn’t… there’s nothing I or anyone can do to change this wide-spread problem… companies will throw money at other companies while employing dozens (if not more) of engineers who think Excel is Big Data…

overall great read, much respect

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💭 Kinopio

2025-07-31T23:34:41Z

Here’s my thought on Kinopio

kinopio is a pretty sweet map-mapping type of application. It’s localfirst, you can run it for free with state kept locally and that’s pretty dope. Heard about it on ep 9 of the localfirst.fm podcast. Very impressive app

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💭 My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup

2025-07-25T19:56:38Z

Here’s my thought on My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup

great post on self-hosting. I think in a lot of similar ways and had a siar journey. There’s things I want to accomplish as time goes on, looking for motivation to get a post like this going myself

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💭 It’s rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich

2025-07-21T11:46:43Z

Here’s my thought on It’s rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich

Great read on LLM output, and the slop that’s already been dumped into the internet. I’ve become a pretty heavy AI user - mostly for code and then thoughts organization. With code (that matters) I review everything AI makes. When I ask gemma3 via ollama to organize my thoughts, I reiterate the importance in my prompt to not re-word things, but to just organize and then help me work through whatever I’m working through in the post.

I’ve generated a blog post or 2 with AI only, and it’s still relatively clear to me when AI writes vs when a human writes. This post does a good job of highlighting how 1. this is a hilariously old sci-fi problem (there’s nothing new under the sun, ammirite?) 2. how AI is a useful tool and 3. how in the age of AI we’re still actually just battling other humans…. but humans are simple creatures in a lot of ways - we take the path of least resistance the vast majority of the time, and LLM sloppy output that looks not shitty is certainly a low-resistance path to a post or commit… but was the post or commit worth anything?

without proof of thought - no.

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💭 Anthropic Is Bleeding Out

2025-07-19T10:44:56Z

Here’s my thought on Anthropic Is Bleeding Out

Ah… so things are rough on the business side according to Edward Zitron

An intere|ing note is that anthropic models make more more than half of all token related to programming through OpenRouter… so they clearly have marketshare but if they’re losing money on every single customer then oof… what does the future of vibe coding look like? And who can afford it?

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💭 Thread by @windsurf_ai on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

2025-07-18T10:54:50Z

Here’s my thought on Thread by @windsurf_ai on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

Claude 4 is pretty impressive, I’m enjoying using it at work and now I’ll certainly burn some credits at home.

Also I like this Threadreader thing… may need to look into it

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💭 AI INTERVIEWS ARE HERE!! SO I TROLLED ONE TO SHOW YOU… - You…

2025-07-17T10:41:04Z

Here’s my thought on AI INTERVIEWS ARE HERE!! SO I TROLLED ONE TO SHOW YOU… - YouTube

AI has provided a lot of value in my life for sure… but it’s still not my favorite piece of technology, and the nearish-term-future certainly has some dystopian qualities to it. AI interviews definitely are in that category and Josh does a good and comical job of highlighting the ridiculousness of it.

I envy no one looking for a job, and I double envy no one who has to deal with AI powered HR solutions…

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💭 Agile Was Never Your Problem Pt 1/2 | The Cynical Developer

2025-07-13T18:13:08Z

Here’s my thought on Agile Was Never Your Problem Pt 1/2 | The Cynical Developer

Love this post - feels like it vindicates a lot of my opinions (that I’ve been pretty loud about professionally). I love agile but I HATE Agile… and this helps put years of my feelings into semi-structured text… Agile isn’t the problem but it certainly is a broad label for many many problems

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💭 OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf’s CEO is going to…

2025-07-12T10:48:05Z

Here’s my thought on OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google | The Verge

Welp I’m not upset the OpenAI deal fell through (I mean probably not great for those at Codeium, but I don’t want these big tech firms to keep buying out the competition… So even though I’m not upset about it - I can’t say going to Google is my favorite alternative… I’m a windsurf user at home but if the Google deal goes through I may drop windsurf entirely and stick to roo…

Look at me care about who owns my editor when I’ll just root myself deeper into vs**** #smh

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💭 Docker Brings Compose to the AI Agent Era | Docker

2025-07-11T11:49:41Z

Here’s my thought on Docker Brings Compose to the AI Agent Era | Docker

Seems like docker is leaning harder into compose - which is great for me as a heavy compose user. I had heard about some of the LLM enablements directly through docker desktop - for example taking fuller advantage of the host’s compute power without paying the penalty of the nvidia runtime or something… I can’t claim to have followed it all but I heard “run LLMs in docker directly for a bigger boost” and I’m in.

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💭 Tyblog | systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success

2025-07-11T11:00:54Z

Here’s my thought on Tyblog | systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success

I found this post on systemd this morning, and although I’ve been a Linux user for around 6 years now, there’s some levels of it that are pretty foreign to me. One of the things I never got was the drama around systemd - but that’s because I wasn’t around in the beforefore times, I don’t use cron THAT MUCH, and I’ve only had to setup a few systemd unit files - not enough to generate a real opinion on it. But lately I’m looking into more automation at home - and some stuff is fun to put into an overkill of a platform for a homelab, like temporal, but some stuff should probably be run in more hardened ways (backups for example) - so getting a little download this morning on systemd from a clearly seasoned Linux user is a nice addition to my hot cup of coffee.

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💭 restic · Backups done right!

2025-07-08T11:53:41Z

Here’s my thought on restic · Backups done right!

Welp, I need to be backing up my desktop home directory, specifically a directory of docker volume data… I thought duplicati made sense, but that mostly targets cloud-based backends, and rsync is great but I wasn’t sure how i wanted to manage the job. Through a little AI chat I learned about restic and am working on a compose stack to run restic in a container to regularly backup my home directory via sftp to my NAS to then be swept up in my NAS backup workflow

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💭 Add confirmation for hard reset by stefanhaller · Pull Request…

2025-07-08T11:25:30Z

Here’s my thought on Add confirmation for hard reset by stefanhaller · Pull Request #4704 · jesseduffield/lazygit

I float between lazygit and gitui still for my terminal-based git flow and I want to lean into lazygit more fully. One issue is that the keybinding for lazygit brings up a menu there the first option is to nuke the entire working tree… in gitui this just resets the one file that’s highlighted in the TUI. So that’s obviously 100% my fault, however it’s nice to see this PR open for adding confirmation for this potential blunder that has cost me several uncommitted scripts and changes…

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💭 HomeBox

2025-07-07T10:48:12Z

Here’s my thought on HomeBox

I stumbled onto homebox this morning scrolling a newsletter and it looks like something I’ve been lightly thinking about for a while. I have wanted a way to track all the things in my house, but I haven’t given it enough thought to come up with the specific manner in which to do it. I’ve seen other asset trackers but today this one excited me. I spun it up at home quick and it looks great - It’ll take quite a lot of time to fill it out but here’s a few features I love out of the gate:

the default setup seems very useful - pre-populated locations and tags for cataloging assets reduces the barrier to entry for me
it’s pretty nice lookin
there’s a label generator including qr codes that take you to the record in your homebox… I had an idea for something like this a while ago - qr codes to link to instructions for things around the house (like cleaning the oven or something). So it’s neat to see that similar idea played out in another more useful way!

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💭 postmarketOS // v24.06: The One With Over 250 Devices

2025-07-06T11:31:19Z

Here’s my thought on postmarketOS // v24.06: The One With Over 250 Devices

This is the OS you can install onto an old phone to run linux on it - using this OS you could set-up a cluster of phones. I’m interested in this someday, although today the to-do list is too long to worry about it

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💭 Self-Hosting A Cluster On Old Phones | Hackaday

2025-07-06T11:30:17Z

Here’s my thought on Self-Hosting A Cluster On Old Phones | Hackaday

Came across a blog and article on using a mobile OS to self-host a cluster on old phones… I happen to keep several old android phones lying around and although I’m not presently super interested in figuring out an android/arm based homelab, I am excited for the next coming years when I’m sure it’ll only get easier, phones will only be more powerful, and perhaps we’ll be running full blown CV pipeline in k8s clusters running on Pixel devices!

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💭 Build backend | uv

2025-07-04T11:43:30Z

Here’s my thought on Build backend | uv

uv build backend ready for production! Dang… I need to visit my hatch builds, I love hatch’s simplicity specifically with versioning… Not sure if it’s worth actually switching to uv for my builds or not, but it is dang cool to see astral take on the python space with unbelievable improvements

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💭 TimoStahl/kanboard_plugin_bigboard: A Kanboard that can displa…

2025-07-02T11:31:34Z

Here’s my thought on TimoStahl/kanboard_plugin_bigboard: A Kanboard that can display multiple projects

I use kanboard to keep myself focused at home - it’s great because it’s simple enough but does have complex features (that I largely don’t need). It’s got a great REST API for integrations and looks decent. Well today I discovered “plugins” for it - and those make it even better - tis BigBoard plugin gives me a way better view of my projects, letting me minimize the ones I don’t need to look at “right now” but not using any weird search filters or anything - a simple intuitive “big board” of my projects and their subsequent tasks. Very excited to find some more useful plugins!

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💭 { TechDufus } | Blog

2025-07-02T11:09:01Z

Here’s my thought on { TechDufus } | Blog

Just came across TechDufus today… love his blog style… it’s beautiful… definitely not gonna potentially rip this off…

I like the estimated reading time
the tree/ls like view of the posts is super cool

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💭 { TechDufus } | Building a Talos Kubernetes Homelab with Terra…

2025-07-02T11:00:52Z

Here’s my thought on { TechDufus } | Building a Talos Kubernetes Homelab with Terraform on Proxmox

Caught this blog post from Waylon - I added this guy to my RSS feed to star this post. I have tried talos with terraform and struggled myself… I was new to k8s when I first tried but definitely got NOWHERE with it… I don’t use k8s at home for anything beyond playing, and I see the power in using it but for now I’m sticking with my pretty vanilla compose setup (plus a few just recipes for yeeting config files to a server)

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💭 Also done with second braining

2025-07-02T10:57:57Z

Here’s my thought on Also done with second braining

Oddly enough I am just now really getting into the second brain idea… a zettlekasten has been taking shape in my life through the use of markata and some markdown plugins for neovim… Interesting to see Derek here giving up on the idea… I wonder what my second brain will look like in the next few years… I certainly hope it remain valuable to me and doesn’t become a burden…

One thing in this post I find interesting is that Derek said keeping his second brain might stop him from reading due to the pressure to take notes - but ironically, NOT having a second brain has stopped me from reading because I get paralyzed about where to keep notes, how to use them later, etc… I like the system taking shape in my life, and again I hope it only increases in value as time goes on.

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💭 Switching pip to uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App — Nick …

2025-06-27T11:18:16Z

Here’s my thought on Switching pip to uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App — Nick Janetakis

It’s nice to see uv gaining popularity in so many places - and replacing vanilla pip with uv in containerized environments seems great due if for no other reason than the time you’ll save in CI… A few years ago I refactored a disjointed container build process to use uv instead of pip, and due to the design of the build pipelines we went from 10-15 minute builds to 2-3 minutes…

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💭 Containers are available in public beta for simple, global, an…

2025-06-26T11:20:11Z

Here’s my thought on Containers are available in public beta for simple, global, and programmable compute

I’ve been learning a lot just about basic web-development as I work on my blog. I’m not actively learning the ins and outs to be honest - AI is both helpful and harmful in this regard for me I think - but in that knowledge-gathering and experience-gaining I’ve gotten my head around deploying a static site to a simple web server and how that’s different than deploying a simple container with a backend. I use cloudflare for my DNS already, and I have an app or 2 on fly - but depending on the IaC support for container deployment that are now available with cloudflare I may look to switch…

I suppose I should do a little PoC first, and so this thought will be a reminder to take a stab at it

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💭 Genesis 1 and Its ANE Polemic, Part 2 - Dr. Michael Heiser

2025-06-25T11:29:10Z

Here’s my thought on Genesis 1 and Its ANE Polemic, Part 2 - Dr. Michael Heiser

I’m preparing for a conversation on Genesis 1 this morning, and so I of course wanted to read through a few of Mike’s old posts… I’m going to write a longer post about the impact Mike had on my life… he died in February of 2023 of pancreatic cancer and everytime I visit his site I get a little teary eyed…

The guy brought SO MUCH clarity to me regarding the Bible and some of the silly ideas I had about i growing up (and indeed MOST of the people in America that I have ever talked to about the Bible also have).

So this thought is a reminder to me to not forget to write more about him - Jesus touched so many people through Mike’s ministry of studying the Bible for what it is, not what the arrogant Western mind wants it to be.

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💭 Notes – 06:11 Sun 22 Jun 2025 – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)

2025-06-25T11:04:29Z

Here’s my thought on Notes – 06:11 Sun 22 Jun 2025 – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)

I see that most of the tech world, at least in public, leans left… which is fine. I think politically I’d have leaned left in the 90s/00s if I had been old enough to pay attention and understand.

But the sold-out hatred for Elon and Trump is wild to me… Nothing makes the reality of propganda in 2025 more clear to me than the manufactured hate of 2 guys who the Left USED to love… I’m not like all in on either guy - but the politically driven hatred which has led to physical violence against both of these guys is insane….

Dave’s ending thought here “We’re entering a Misinformation Age” is funny to me… Misinformation has been around forever - the CIA has admitted to an absolutely hilarious amount of things that over the years the government (US Government) had denied and the news had been complicit in covering up - right up until it was just undeniable and finally “ok ya everyone we did do that mind control experiment - BUT WE’LL NEVER DO IT AGAIN”… “ok ya everyone we did know the Taliban has been on the receiving end of millions of US dollars every year but don’t worry about it”… But for everyone to NOW get all up in arms over 2 guys the news will not shut up about, is just comically out of touch with history to me…

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💭 Copilot Instructions

2025-06-23T11:14:02Z

Here’s my thought on Copilot Instructions

I have tried a few different cursorrules/windsurfrules with windsurf, but I didn’t even know you could give copilot custom instructions. I see python + fastapi on here, which I build with frequently at home, so I’ll look forward to seeing if the results are any better with a custom prompt using copilot

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💭 You asked, we built it: Firefox tab groups are here

2025-06-22T13:18:49Z

Here’s my thought on You asked, we built it: Firefox tab groups are here

I stumbled into tab groups today when rearranging my tabs in firefox while bouncing between a few different things this morning. I’m thankful this article is from April of this year… otherwise this was a super boomer moment for me… As a heavy tech user I don’t think a lot about my internet browsing experience except from a privacy standpoint. So thinking about automation and comfort within the browser - treating it like a first-class citizen in my development workflow and toolkit, will hopefully help me stay just a little bit more organized

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💭 Control Your n8n Instance Remotely with Telegram Bot Commands …

2025-06-22T00:38:53Z

Here’s my thought on Control Your n8n Instance Remotely with Telegram Bot Commands | n8n workflow template

I’m doing a lot of thinking and brainstorming about how I want to run some pipelines I have in my head, at home… things like image gen for blog posts, posting to various social media, click to generate qr codes and send emails, etc… things that require a lot of integration.

I tried n8n a while ago with 1 use case, it didn’t work but times have changed and whatever was wrong for that use case is now just fixed with a few updates… so I’m strongly considering n8n as a platform I build my workflows on, and using telegram as a simple entry-point into workflow execution is kind of intriguing… imagine sending a message to telegram to generate an image with SD based on a picture you took with our phone, maybe do something else with that image (turn it into a qr code or something), and then email it? all with a text message and pic? that sounds pretty cool… not sure what I"ll have spun up but I am excited to be making some progress on the automation ideas

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💭 matduggan.com/what-would-a-kubernetes-2-0-look-like/

2025-06-20T11:53:33Z

Here’s my thought on matduggan.com/what-would-a-kubernetes-2-0-look-like/

This article was longer than I had time to really consume but a heading caught my eye that I wanted to agree with - the author says k8s 2.0 may consider HCL instead of YAML. And as a recent terraform / open-tofu adopter I gotta say I would be ALL FOR THIS

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💭 pypeaday/whose-turn-is-it: Simple uv webapp to determine order…

2025-06-20T01:23:26Z

Here’s my thought on pypeaday/whose-turn-is-it: Simple uv webapp to determine order fo players for an event

We pray together as a family every night, but every single flipping night my daughter’s fight about the order we go in… well, NO MORE!

I built a simple uv fastapi app that randomly sorts a list from an environment var PLAYERS and presents it in the web page at /generate.

Super easy uv run at home…

I love that with enough knowledge, or the right kind of knowledge, you can build like anything you want!

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💭 Microsoft planning thousands of job cuts aimed at salespeople,…

2025-06-19T10:51:59Z

Here’s my thought on Microsoft planning thousands of job cuts aimed at salespeople, Bloomberg News reports | Reuters

more cuts for the sake of AI investment… this is getting out of hand. I’m thankful that I don’t work in a field that will be overtaken by AI in the sense of losing my job (I mean we’re like 47 months into AI will end dev jobs tomorrow) - of course I have to learn about the tools and LLMs have increased my output in many ways. If I was fearful of losing my job, for example being in Sales at Microsoft, I would be using every on-the-clock hour to find a new job…

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💭 microsandbox/microsandbox: Self-Hosted Plaform for Secure Exec…

2025-06-19T10:46:03Z

Here’s my thought on microsandbox/microsandbox: Self-Hosted Plaform for Secure Execution of Untrusted User/AI Code

There’s a ton of AI related tools I want to play with, and there are several I run in docker pretty willy nilly. However, the MCP server stuff as of late has felt fast and borderline reckless so I like seeing a project seeking to make it easy to sandbox code… I get blocked by this idea cause I’ll want to setup a VM on a VLAN or something before just spinning up an mcp server idk if I should trust - but if I can do it with a library then that’s amazing!

We just have to hope the motivation to try this stays strong enough to get started

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💭 neverjust

2025-06-18T10:33:49Z

Here’s my thought on neverjust

Your “just” comes from seeing only the surface of the problem. Like an iceberg, what’s visible is just a fraction

This is a good reminder when discussing issues within a team or with your buddies… trivializing someone else’s problem, in tech or out, it not a good look

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💭 A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

2025-06-17T11:56:10Z

Here’s my thought on A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

I am interested in the topic of “digital gardening”, and I didn’t realize how long the term has been around. As a relatively new member of the blogging community I’d like to formulate my own understanding and continue to grow in practicing tending to what I put out their in the digi-space.

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💭 Cross Account AWS Security Group ID Reference

2025-06-16T20:56:57Z

Here’s my thought on Cross Account AWS Security Group ID Reference

I needed to update some ingress rules across several AWS accounts and ran into an issue when I had to reference a security group id in another account - turns out / is the money maker

EDIT: this requires VPC Peering…

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💭 Failed to load state: unsupported checkable object kind var - …

2025-06-16T20:27:07Z

Here’s my thought on Failed to load state: unsupported checkable object kind var - #2 by apparentlymart - Terraform - HashiCorp Discuss

I have spacelift stacks managed with open tofu and stacks managed with terraform… Due to this very issue I think, I ran into a problem where a terraform-managed spacelift stack couldn’t use the terraform_remote_state data resource to load the state of the open-tofu managed stacks because of state file differences

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💭 Snowflake Status - Certificate Authority Update for AWS Regions

2025-06-16T16:37:12Z

Here’s my thought on Snowflake Status - Certificate Authority Update for AWS Regions

A recent Snowflake issue borked some old pipelines - thankfully it appears to be a simple fix. Just goes to show you that you can’t just deploy pipelines and expect them to live forever, they have to be maintained when there are ANY external dependencies

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💭 Visualizing My Blog’s Internal Links - Jim Nielsen’s Blog

2025-06-16T11:26:29Z

Here’s my thought on Visualizing My Blog’s Internal Links - Jim Nielsen’s Blog

Someday I will build a thing to see the relationship in my posts and notes. Right now I’m working on writing consistently, improving my tagging, using wikilinks, and just generally thinking about what I want my website to contain - and a mindmap like this would be just awesome

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💭 Stable Diffusion QR Code 101

2025-06-16T11:24:46Z

Here’s my thought on Stable Diffusion QR Code 101

My brother asked me to generate some QR codes for his link page that I manage. It’s been a long time since I’ve used SD to make codes, and for the life of me I cannot find my notes anywhere… That unfortunate disorganization aside I think I followed Anthony’s guides before, and they’ve only gotten better… Time to get prompting!

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💭 Normal boyhood is ADHD

2025-06-13T10:58:01Z

Here’s my thought on Normal boyhood is ADHD

I may want to write a longer post about this or just capture some quick thoughts but I appreciate DHH’s take here…. ADHD diagnosis is an epidemic… Humans are different and I think we should seek to build society that makes space for differences, rather than medicating everyone into more or less the same robotic blog to work and pay taxes.

However I came across this post on another platform with commenting, and most of the commentators were upset with the post saying things like “tell me you have no idea what ADHD is without telling me” and long explanation of honestly regurgitated talking points from a very pro-pharma worldview position… it’s kind of a chicken or egg thing to me - because you don’t have to be a doctor to read and do your own research, and to “just trust the experts” is the most unscientific saying in history… but the folks criticizing this post claiming DHH is speaking out of turn are taking JUST as arrogant approach to ADHD or mental health, only they put more faith in a medical community (which I’ve written about a little and am sus of due to the money), but they put ZERO faith in their own ability to think critically or observe patterns about the world…

Thanks DHH for the thoughts here, as a guy recently diagnosed with ADHD and Autism I’ve done my own reflection and simply agree with a lot of what he puts down here

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💭 “We would be less confidential than Google” – Proton threatens…

2025-06-13T02:19:29Z

Here’s my thought on “We would be less confidential than Google” – Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law | TechRadar

I’ve been a proton user for several years now, and pay a decently hefty subscription fee for some of their services that I love having access to (multiple domains, email relay, simplelogin, etc.). This privacy impact in Switzerland is concerning and I am definitely biting my nails over the future of this platform

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💭 Exploiting Copilot AI for SharePoint | Pen Test Partners

2025-06-13T02:17:17Z

Here’s my thought on Exploiting Copilot AI for SharePoint | Pen Test Partners

In hindsight this vulnerability isn’t even that clever, hopefully the share holders of the companies that rushed to throw AI into everything will make it out ok

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💭 slash pages

2025-06-12T11:41:43Z

Here’s my thought on slash pages

Waylon’s mentioned slash pages before, but as I work on building my blog again and writing more regularly thanks to “thoughts” etc. I’d like to start putting together some meaningful slash pages for myself… I’m not sure what to put out there yet but this thought can serve as a todo for me

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💭 The Meaning of “Mammon” in the Bible | Matthew 6:24

2025-06-12T11:03:13Z

Here’s my thought on The Meaning of “Mammon” in the Bible | Matthew 6:24

I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the future, planning and saving, making sure to the best of my ability and capability right now, that my family is financially taken care of for my whole life and beyond. It’s a challenging thing to wrestle with building wealth while understanding Jesus’ call to live a life focused on others and Heaven. He certainly never says having wealth is bad or sinful, but the point in this short 1 minute video on mammon was good for me be encouraged by. Mammon (or stuff, possessions, etc) has the tendency to lead people astray into trusting in it… how many times to people straight up freak out when the stock market dips? But using mammon to care for others is one of the points of Christian living. God has been good to me, and as we seek to be good to others I pray we (my family and I) are bringing glory to his name and not doing anything for our own vanity

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💭 N.T. Wright on The Unseen Realm & Heiser - YouTube

2025-06-12T10:59:29Z

Here’s my thought on N.T. Wright on The Unseen Realm & Heiser - YouTube

I don’t write enough short thoughts on theology stuff, I’m usually trying to have some longer thought to unpack or to summarize a longer teaching. I came across this video this morning after a Bible Project video - I love Michael Heiser, he’s given me such a strong framework for understanding the Bible, and now to see an example of NT Wright talking about him and some of those ideas is really exciting. Wright nails it around 9 minutes in - that the primary point of the supremacy of Jesus, and his victory over the ruling powers from Deut 32, is a great short truth that more Christians needs to learn… Jesus doesn’t magically your life better, he invites you to submit to his authority rather than the authority of the present ruling forces, and yes this does make your life better but only if you are truly submissive to him can you understand “better” appropriately.

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💭 qwen3

2025-06-11T02:23:23Z

Here’s my thought on qwen3

I really don’t know much about every self-hostable LLM out there… so much as happened. I am blessed at home with a pretty beefy GPU and so although I don’t know all the deets, I can run a lot of the reasonably large “open source” models. The one I’ve been playing with lately is qwen3. The conversational flow has felt more natural with it compared to llama3.2 or dolphin3. Granted I might need to update something and my experience is limited. I’ve also had good experience with gemma3 as a noteworthy contender for my go-to LLM right now in open-webui

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💭 daily challenge leaderboard | typ.ing

2025-06-09T13:45:07Z

Here’s my thought on daily challenge leaderboard | typ.ing

typ.ing is like monkeytype to a degree. it’s made by ZSA, who makes my keyboard, and I love the idea of a simple training tool for getting fluent with my board and keymaps. The daily challenge is a nice little way to earn some internet points, and although I missed a day recently I want to stay consistent with it each morning… someday I’ll hit 130 99% accuracy

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💭 News - Apps - App Store - Nextcloud

2025-06-09T11:37:39Z

Here’s my thought on News - Apps - App Store - Nextcloud

I just started using FreshRSS to get familiar with subscribing to RSS feeds and leaning into that as opposed to social media… Twitter has become basically just a news outlet for me, not a place to connect with devs (except for 2 or 3 who are active). RSS seems like such cool and ancient technology that is protected from the corporate tentacles that hold up every social media outlet save for nostr…

So as I look for an RSS reader and/or feed aggregator this Nextcloud plugin seems like a good choice to look at since I’m already hosting NC.. although do I really want to lean into it for more and more?

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💭 ELEMENT.FM - unlimited podcast hosting

2025-06-09T11:30:38Z

Here’s my thought on ELEMENT.FM - unlimited podcast hosting

I heard about element.fm as a possible self-hosted podcast solution. They also have a service that looks pretty nice and reasonable. As I help Cameron with Pilgrim’s Creek this might be a platform we lean into

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Thoughts

2025-06-09T11:30:21Z

Thoughts

My thoughts are found at my thoughts feed

thoughts was built by Waylon and is a place where I drop things not ready for a blog but that I don’t want to forget. Waylon created Markata and paired with thoughts I’m able to capture much more of my thinking than I could before.

💭 Keynote Speaker - Cory Doctorow - YouTube

2025-06-08T17:43:16Z

Here’s my thought on Keynote Speaker - Cory Doctorow - YouTube

What a great talk - will pull this thought into a post someday but the guy hits like 9 out of 10 on this one, great stuff to consider in general

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💭 Linux Explained: What is The Linux Kernel? - YouTube

2025-06-07T11:28:18Z

Here’s my thought on Linux Explained: What is The Linux Kernel? - YouTube

I’m getting sucked into the Linux is a kernel not an operating system crowd because tonight I realized I couldn’t describe what a kernel is so I YouTubeda few things and before you know it you joined a decades old war before finishing loading the dishwasher

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💭 What are these 100.x.y.z addresses? · Tailscale Docs

2025-06-07T11:27:43Z

Here’s my thought on What are these 100.x.y.z addresses? · Tailscale Docs

I have had serious issues with a whitelist I set in my traefik config and then reaching some services on my tailnet… turns out I whitelisted 10.64.0.0/10 instead of 100.64.0.0/10 in my traefik configuration file…

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💭 SearXNG | Open WebUI

2025-05-25T11:21:40Z

Here’s my thought on SearXNG | Open WebUI

I’ve been meaning to set searxng for a while - it comes out of the box with khoj but I want an instance for open-webui as I get serious about deciding on a self-hosted AI tool-chain solution. It look like the setup for open-webui is a touch more than “docker compose up” so it’ll take probably 15-20 minutes of dedicated time to try this out

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💭 Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium

2025-04-28T14:07:51Z

Here’s my thought on Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium

My jetKVM is a flipping dream - plug and play kvm that worked out of the box. I want to put tailscale on it so I can hit my server from anywhere no matter what - this article appears to walk through doing it.

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💭 Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium

2025-04-28T14:07:50Z

Here’s my thought on Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium

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💭 Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium

2025-04-28T14:07:48Z

Here’s my thought on Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium

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💭 Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium

2025-04-28T14:07:48Z

Here’s my thought on Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium

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💭 Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium

2025-04-28T14:07:43Z

Here’s my thought on Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium

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💭 Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium

2025-04-28T14:07:43Z

Here’s my thought on Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium

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💭 Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium

2025-04-28T14:07:39Z

Here’s my thought on Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium

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💭 Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium

2025-04-28T14:07:38Z

Here’s my thought on Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium

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💭 Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium

2025-04-28T14:07:37Z

Here’s my thought on Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium

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💭 Self-Hosting selfh.st/icons With Git-Sync

2025-01-12T14:51:56Z

Here’s my thought on Self-Hosting selfh.st/icons With Git-Sync

I like a nice icon for dashboards I’ve put together and having a convenient way to load them up off line would be nice

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💭 Mastering Argo CD image updater with Helm: a complete configur…

2025-01-04T15:10:30Z

Here’s my thought on Mastering Argo CD image updater with Helm: a complete configuration guide | CNCF

image updater is a great little tool that I’m using at work and I want to use it in the best way. I’ll come back to this blog as I revisit our applications

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💭 Craig

2025-01-03T20:39:25Z

Here’s my thought on Craig

Craig is a discord bot to do multi-track recording, seems like a super easy way to get started with a podcast where the hosts are virtual. Excited to try this out for pilgrims creek!

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💭 memory - Check which processes are eating swap on Linux? - Sup…

2025-01-01T16:04:56Z

Here’s my thought on memory - Check which processes are eating swap on Linux? - Super User

I often max my swap on all my machines, and I still have no idea what I’m dong different than anyone else. But using top I guess it’s easy to see swap usage by process after adding it to the menu by hitting f, finding SWAP, then hit space and the right arrow key to move it to a convenient spot in the column order… Helped me see that I had 1 python process using over a full GeeBee of swap today!

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💭 🏡 Home | Open WebUI

2025-01-01T13:26:50Z

Here’s my thought on 🏡 Home | Open WebUI

I’ve been using openwebui at home, mostly with llama3.2, to do some basic things - meal planning and short script generation. One thing I want to do is generate shrotened versions of my favorite books to read to my kids. For example, the Narnia series. It’s already a kid’s book, but a 3 year old can’t stay focused for even a whole chapter. I’d love for AI to shorten up the narrative to keep the jist of the story but in about 1000 words or so… I haven’t gotten it perfect, but openwebui lets me upload documents (for example, a pdf of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, and then use that for context… It’s not quite RAG I don’t think, and that’s on the list of ideas to play with to this end.

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💭 Do you really need Kubernetes?

2024-12-30T02:06:41Z

Here’s my thought on Do you really need Kubernetes?

The other shoe just dropped

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💭 audiobookshelf

2024-12-29T20:53:19Z

Here’s my thought on audiobookshelf

Audiobookshelf looks like a solid competitor for booksonic. I’ve liked the simple subsonic api driven nature of booksonic but my wife would like some more appropriate and easy-to-use organization… booksonic is not a great “library”… I’m looking forward to putting this into my homelab soon

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💭 Assistants API overview - OpenAI API

2024-12-29T20:26:01Z

Here’s my thought on Assistants API overview - OpenAI API

OpenAI assistants seem like a sweet idea… I wonder if I could use one as a project manager that manages my issues and prioritizes my day like a scrum master might

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💭 Do you need Kubernetes?

2024-12-29T16:15:43Z

Here’s my thought on Do you need Kubernetes?

do you though?

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