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I’m back from the dead

2026-01-23T05:38:29Z

The flu hit me like a freight train right at the start of the year, along with the most stress I’ve ever felt at work dropping on me at the same time, I’ve been out of commission for what feels like forever. But this week I’ve been bouncing back and I feel like a million bucks now… and a lot has happened

This post isn’t a review, it’s a note for me to come back and build on with some more posts probably. My life has been a bit chaotic but in God’s good grace on my life, that chaos hasn’t ruined anything (I am still wrestling with one aspect of it) but something’s changed this year… I’m not only back from the flu over the last several weeks, I feel like I’ve been resurrected as a developer. I’d written a few times last summer, feeling like I was in a rut, and I felt good coming out of that low season, but as I’ve reflected it’s really the last couple of years have been a slow descent into, not into depression, but something akin to it…

Not only is that season either over or on pause, cause I’ve been buzzin on building things for a week now like I can hardly remember, but I’ve had some significant work changes. Longer reflection post to come - but after much toil I am actually back in Caterpillar Autonomy, a group I left from burn-out 5 years ago. In fact, I’m on the same project, but with new eyes, new passion, new knowledge and experience, and the fun part for me now is new tools. AI hasn’t been my friend the whole time, I’ve vibe-coded some disasters, pseudo-vibe-coded some cool stuff, but ultimately it’s not been a net positive for me until this week. Getting a workflow ironed out in order to keep up with the group’s pace, or the pace I want us to be at, has been exciting and I swear I’ve done a month’s work of work since Monday… no hype, no selling, just letting you know that AI can’t do it all, but with good design it sure can generate some code that doesn’t suck.

So… I’m back, almost from the dead, and it’s January 23 but let’s kick 2026 right in the cajones!

💭 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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Check SWAP in htop

2025-11-15T06:52:14Z

I struggle with maxxing swap on all my machines, I am sure it’s a neovim config that I’ve propagated everywhere and I’m too lazy to figure it out. Instead I just swapoff and swapon kind of often… but this morning I had to know how to see what’s using all that swap….

The way to see SWAP usage by process in htop is:

open htop
Slam F2 (f if you’re just in old school top)
see the screenshot, find M_SWAP
move M_SWAP to Active Columns

Credit to this superuser post

💭 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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💭 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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💭 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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💭 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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