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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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