Latest Shots #

Great Taste Of Pharloom
Chef Lugoli
Turning my Desktop into a Production Machine
I'm setting up production workloads on my desktop, perhaps against my better judgment, building my blog hourly without much fuss
Couriers Rasher Full
I almost made it. Couriers Rasher is such a long run.
Couriers Rasher So Close Full
Raging Conchfly
Clearing out Creige's Cellar for the Vintage Nectar.
Fighting the second Savage Beastfly in Far Fields

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Latest Blog Posts #

/carry/ #

EDC

I try to keep a pretty light every day carry, but it never works out, keyfobs and headphone cases end up causing more bulk than I’d like, but My EDC is no where near the bulk I had as a kid with my cargo pants decked out with everything I could possibly need.

I hold no attachment to anything in my EDC. Nothing on my person has sentimental value. Anything I carry can be lost, stolen, or destroyed at any point in time. I pick things of sufficient usable, utilitarian, quality sufficient to work. No extra fluff.


  • Google Pixel 6

  • Ridge Wallet

  • Olight Perun - Since April 2022

  • Civivi Qubit - Since March 2024 after my last one was donated to the Indianapolis Stadium

  • OpenFit Shokz


Rules

  • lightweight

  • replacable

  • no emotional attachments

  • utilitarian

  • everything serves a purpose

My kit

Photo taken March 2023

Phone

Google Pixel 6

I will not get finance a new phone for the foreseeable future again. The last time I feel like I got a phone that felt lik…

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I Built A Tmux Session Switcher #

I’ve been thinking about this for awhile now. For years now, fuzzy pickers and last session have been my go to. They have served me well. I can typically only keep so much in my head anyways. I’m often doing a hub and spoke pattern between main project, notes, and infra repo, maybe two projects. Don’t get me wrong, I regularly run with a dozen or more sessions running at a time, but only two to three are in my immediate context at any point anyways.

The Design

harpoon for tmux

press a hotkey followed by one more keystroke, currently any left hand letter SIMPLE, FAST, thats of utmost importance, what I want are sessions that I can can be assigned in order of importance from middle row, top row, bottom row.

I added this binding to my tmux config. Now I can press c-a a to go to the first session, c-a s to go to the second session. c-a and pause to think j/k to navigate, space to pick up a session and move it, x to kill it.

bind-key -n c-a popup -E '~/go/bin/tgo' Enter the agents

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/verify #

Inspired by @mollywhite’s verify [1] slashpage [2]. This page serves as the system of record for my online identity. The best places to follow me are:
  • My Website: waylonwalker.com [3]

  • YouTube: Waylon Walker [4]

  • YouTube Gaming: Waylon Walker Gaming [5]

  • Twitch: Waylon Walker [6]

  • Twitter: @_WaylonWalker [7]

  • LinkedIn: Waylon Walker [8]

  • GitHub: WaylonWalker [9]

  • Dev.to: Waylon Walker [10]

  • Bluesky: @waylonwalker.com [11]

References: [1]: https://mollywhite.net/verify/ [2]: https://slashpages.net [3]: https://waylonwalker.com [4]: https://youtube.com/waylonwalker [5]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHuxc1HRsd3aRjvL6C817tQ [6]: https://www.twitch.tv/waylonwalker [7]: https://twitter.com/_WaylonWalker [8]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waylonwalker [9]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker [10]: https://dev.to/waylonwalker [11]: https://bsky.app/profile/waylonwalker.com

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First W In Brotato #

After having brotato and doing a few runs every once in a while I finally beat the most basic balanced run in the game! Wyatt wanted to play tonight and its such an easy game to jump in do a few runs and move on without getting overly invested.

Watching back I cannot believe how lucky I got, barely scraping by with 1hp at this point

the last 80s of the game

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/top4 #

Definitive ranked lists of my top 3 favorites plus an honorable mention.

Terminal Tools

  • neovim [1] - modal editing changed how I think about text

  • tmux [2] - terminal sessions that survive disconnects and allow me to hop between projects at the speed of thought.

  • k9s [3] - S tier tui interface that all tuis should strive for

Honorable mention: ipython [4]

Python Tools

  • pandas [5] - This is what got me out of corporate spreadsheets and back into code/software.

  • kedro [6] - data pipelines with opinions I agree with

  • fastapi [7] - my favorite python web framework

Honorable mention: typer [8] - fast cli apps

Games to Play with Kids

multiplayer

  • Minecraft [9] - infinite creativity, modding potential

  • Wobbly Life [10] - Open World Co-op

  • Stardew Valley [11] - cozy, collaborative farming

Honorable mention: Terraria [12] - 2d world builder

Games to Play Alone

singleplayer

  • Hollow Knight [13]/Hollow Knight Silksong [14] - S tier 2d platformer with adventure, mys…

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Recent TIL #

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I havent used windows in years at this point, but I feel this on the products I am forced to use for work. Basic features are not right, kinda work most of the time. New features, ai integrations, new skin/design, but still teams can’t use my system mic appropriately yet every other app does.

Also feel this computers have not got significantly better since around getting ssds. Yes they are better, but not at the same rate of being obsolete every two years. I hope we hit local model land and it flips this a bit, not in quite the obsolete every two years range, but some new hardware actually lets you do meaningful more new things.

Note

This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

How to Install Silksong mods on the Steam Deck Having a tough time with Hollow Knight: Silksong? These mods will help. Long Play Tech · longplaytech.com [1]

Really good tutorial for how to mod silksong on the steam deck. We just did this on my son’s steam deck. I’d add a reccomendation to map ~ to a back button like L4. I think this guy was docked with a keyboard.

Note

This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

References: [1]: https://longplaytech.com/posts/how-to-install-silksong-mods-on-the-steam-deck/

Building For The Future This afternoon, we sent the following email to our global team. One of our core values at Cloudflare is transparency, and we believe it The Cloudflare Blog · blog.cloudflare.com [1]

Full salary for the rest of the year after being let go. As much as this sucks as much as the job market sucks. It’s good to see that these companies laying off huge numbers during good times are trying to take care of those they brought on.

Note

This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

References: [1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/

Programming Still Sucks. — Writing Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And... stvn.sh [1]

Absolute banger of a post, this is the time we are living in. Explain “are you afraid AI is going to take your job” to a non tech blue collar worker. Broken over promises, greed, and projects mismanaged by leadership who has no idea what the day to day work actually does and how critical it is.

I’m not quite in Sara’s position, but I feel something shielded by half of this working deep inside of a non tech part of a non tech company leading a very small rag tag team with get shit done attitude.

But I feel it, I see colleagues hit by these blasts.b I get clipped with shrapnel from some of the largest blasts. But nothing as significant as I see many others hit with

Note

This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

References: [1]: https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

I just learned that forgejo has a push to create repo feature and it is a gamechanger. Upon first try it didn’t work, with just a couple of environment variables I was up and running with push to create.

notify.wayl.one on  main is 📦 v0.1.62  v3.14.4 NO PYTHON VENV SET  USING SYSTEM NVIM ❯ git remote add origin https://git.waylonwalker.com/waylon/notify.wayl.one notify.wayl.one on  main is 📦 v0.1.62  v3.14.4 NO PYTHON VENV SET  USING SYSTEM NVIM ❯ git push remote: Push to create is not enabled for users. fatal: unable to access 'https://git.waylonwalker.com/waylon/notify.wayl.one/': The requested URL returned error: 403 So I added the following environment variables.

Author: Waylon S. Walker <[email protected]> Date: Wed May 6 21:56:53 2026 -0500

enable push to create

diff –git a/k8s/forgejo/deployment.yaml b/k8s/forgejo/deployment.yaml index d77daab..9346763 100644 — a/k8s/forgejo/deployment.yaml +++ b/k8s/forgejo/deployment.yaml @@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ spec: value: "0.0.0.0"

  • name: FORGEJO__server__HTTP_PORT value: "3000"
    • name: FORGEJO__repository__ENABLE_PUSH_CREATE_USER
  • value: "true"
    • name: FORGEJO__repository__ENABLE_PUSH_CREATE_ORG
  • value: "tru…

git

nless is a seriously sick tui for exploring streaming data. It makes it seriously simple to pivot (U), drill in (Enter), sort (s). It leave breadcrumbs as you go and you can press q to back out.

Play with your kubernetes events. Ya, my homelab is far from perfect, dont judge.

kubectl get events -A -w | uvx –from nothing-less nless

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