Posts tagged: thought

- vim usage is becoming normie level. Just like archinstall made it too easy to install arch and brought normies into the ecosystem. It killed ArchBTW^TM^, distros like lazyvim have killed vimBTW^TM^. It used to be that to run arch, vim, nvim you had to read the docs, and go deep on understanding. running archinstallor lazyvim make it so easy to get started that you miss all of the details, you no longer have to understand ctags, quickfix, what an lsp is, or even how to set your own keybindings. You just use the damn thing, like you would with VSC****. No shame to anyone who does this, but you are probably missing out on a bunch of really useful features of a very core tool in your workflow. Just discovered Sylvan Franklin in this post and he is cracked, sub now.

[1] Wish I would have saw this guide and provided assembly file for setting up virt-manager in distrobox. They call out immutable distros like the knew I was coming. References: [1]: /static/https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/posts/run_libvirt_in_distrobox.md

Notes – 06:11 Sun 22 Jun 2025 Notes – 06:11 Sun 22 Jun 2025 dbushell.com · dbushell.com [1] What’s even real anymore? What a shitty age we are in that you have to form an opinion about news outlets and media outlets. References: [1]: https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-06-22T06:11Z/

neverjust a guide to better developer communication neverjust · neverjust.net [1] I just never quite understood why the word just can send people over the top. I get it when you don’t know someone, you don’t have history with them, and they come in saying you are doing something wrong. I pulled this out into a full post just [2] References: [1]: https://www.neverjust.net/ [2]: /just/

- 2025 is not the year to get put on the market, its rough out there. Junior’s have little chance, senior+ are even struggling. We had it easy from 2020-2023, now its over saturated and you have to want to be in this industry to be here and stay here. It used to be a fine place to get a good job to pay the bills, the bar has been raised and if you don’t want to be here you are going to struggle. Theo covers this in this linked video deeply [[ thoughts-472 ]].

- Nailed the netflix documentary style. Videos like this make me so grateful that I have a job in this rough market, if you’ve followed jepi’s series you know he’s been out of a job for months, and he is not alone in this. This is the year of “laid of, i didn’t get laid off, I left to focus on my startup”, [[ thoughts-716 ]]

Notes – 09:32 Thu 19 Jun 2025 Notes – 09:32 Thu 19 Jun 2025 dbushell.com · dbushell.com [1] David’s design on his blog is fantastic likely from years of small improvements like this converting ugly quotes to pretty quotes and optimizing fonts. It’s common for markdown libraries to convert the first to the second like my build script does. This is new to me, I had no idea that markdown libraries did this, I’m now interested if markdown-it does it. For subsetting I use the fontTools library but I’ve no idea how to setup Python environments. I got it working once and failed to document the process. David, David, David, I’m sorry python has done you this dirty. I should do a post on making python environments in the age of Posts tagged: uv [2]. You got options to run in docker/podman, a whole ass vm, uv venv, uvx, uv run, uv script, python -m venv, virtualenv, poetry, hatch, and too many more. The ones that matter are containers or uv. References: [1]: https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-06-19T09:32Z/ [2]: /tags/uv/

Bug: Pypi metadata is wrong (Requires: Python >=3.6) · Issue #1131 · jmcnamara/XlsxWriter Current behavior When pulling the dependency with pip (without pinning the version), our python3.6 tester pulls 3.2.3 and not 3.2.2 even though the version is no longer compatible with python 3.6. ... GitHub · github.com [1] pypi yanks suck, they are rare, this one got me today as it was a pinned dependency in my dependency chain. The latest release broke python 3.6/3.7 (which 3.6 has been EOL for 3.5 years btw), and it claimed >=3.6. In order to allow users to still install xlsxwriter without pinning down it needed yanked. I’m not sure if there was another way around it as pypi releases are immutable, so you cannot fix [2] This now has me wondering what the heck is using it with old pythons. It appears to have broken builds on Canonical/checkbox for ubuntu 18.04. Checkbox is a device compatibility testing framework. https://github.com/canonical/checkbox/actions/runs/14644718138/job/41098549191#step:8:125 [3] References: [1]: https://github.com/jmcnamara/XlsxWriter/issues/1131 [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/2ba70753-5723-4b96-8f2b-8090be07d6ad.webp [3]: https://dro...

Conventional Commits A specification for adding human and machine readable meaning to commit messages Conventional Commits · conventionalcommits.org [1] I try to use conventional commits on all of my commits, but I often end up only using feat/fix. I need to keep this page handy and get new verbiage worked into my language - fix: - feat: - build: - chore: - ci: - docs: - style: - refactor: - perf: - test: Optionally include a scope fix(parser): A bang indicates a breaking change note. For example … chore!: drop support for Node 6 BREAKING CHANGE: use JavaScript features not available in Node 6. References: [1]: https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/

- Wyatt built out this full world to start making a film series about FROGS. The entire set it built on a flat world, but yet feels so immersive.

Visualizing My Blog’s Internal Links Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web. blog.jim-nielsen.com [1] I like Jim’s visualizations on his site, reminds me a lot of obsidian. I’ve tried to do the same on my analytics [2] page in the past, but it didn’t come out right. I’m going to have to give this another go. References: [1]: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/visualizing-my-blogs-links/ [2]: /analytics/

Your Framework is Showing The one where I’ve had enough of the same Next.js error. dbushell.com · dbushell.com [1] Great breakdown of nextjs. I was highly unaware of its performance optimizations before reading this. The smell of vendor lock in from next/vercel has been there from the start, this is the first real claim I’ve seen. I’m out on modern js front ends, complex builds that change every 6 months, design patterns are out of date just as fast. Its hard to keep up, especially when you don’t have the use case for highly interactive apps. Libraries like htmx [2] or plain ol js gets the job done on the majority of sites and everything I tend to work on. References: [1]: https://dbushell.com/2025/06/13/your-framework-is-showing-nextjs-error/ [2]: /htmx/

- I’m totally with Prime here, there is something about the read only, mouse clicking part of my brain that causes me to be more critical of the code at a different level. It doesn’t hit the part of my brain thinking about the edit or how to do the edit, it hits a part thats thinking about how I will have to deal with the code moving forward.

Next.js 15.1+ is unusable outside of Vercel TBD Omar Abid - Personal Blog · omarabid.com [1] Vendor lock in disguised as performance. Nextjs aparantly now streams all of your metadata on the fly with js. This would obviously kill all seo right, well not if you’re on vercel they automatically detect search crawlers and serve the metadata. Why the f do they need to do this and not just serve everyone the metadata. The Web is this beautiful place where anyone can create and build amazing things with a relatively low skill. Js is meant to be enhancement, not degrade the experience of its users. References: [1]: https://omarabid.com/nextjs-vercel

Think less, ship more I do too much thinking about what I want to make, and not enough actually making the thing. cassidoo.co [1] I thin a lot of us have this issues, especially on side projects. At work therre are expectations, jira tickets and so on, keeping you shipping. I think there is something to be said about getting that quick and dirty POC to the right group of people early for feedback before you add redis caching, kubernetes, auto scaling, disruption budget, distributed nodes, high availability, backups, disaster recovery. At work you kinda have to have the right person to shoot ideas by that can understand that you probably need some of these complex things for your app and it will take time to get right. References: [1]: https://cassidoo.co/post/think-less/

GitHub - trykimu/videoeditor: Your Creative Copilot for Video Editing Your Creative Copilot for Video Editing. Contribute to trykimu/videoeditor development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com [1] I would love to have a browser based video editor I could throw on a server and do quick edits from anywhere. I tried to get this one to work and struggled to get front end to send api requets to backend. I think the root of it was their redis wants to run on 80, this caused a permission error so I tried to run 8880:80, but redis was still unable to start due to a config permission error. References: [1]: https://github.com/robinroy03/videoeditor

- The ability to query s3 buckets so seamless looks like such a pleasure to work with if you have a use case for that. Kedro catalog takes care of this most of the time for me, but I wonder if there are some cross project searching use cases I might find for this.

PocketCal Build Log I made a date-sharing app called PocketCal. Here cassidoo.co [1] I love this idea of tiny useful apps for yourself. In fact I’m working on a project to built out tinyapps [2] for myself to replace my common needs. I absolutely love that all of the state is stored in the url bar, nothing is stored server side. As much as I love to hate js, I really appreciate that things like this can be built to just live on the web, be accessible from anywhere, and live practically forever as they require such little hosting demand. References: [1]: https://cassidoo.co/post/pocketcal-build-log/ [2]: /tinyapps/

GitHub - numtide/treefmt: the formatter multiplexer [maintainers=@zimbatm,@brianmcgee] the formatter multiplexer [maintainers=@zimbatm,@brianmcgee] - numtide/treefmt GitHub · github.com [1] This looks like a very useful formatting tool to keep in the back of my mind. I do a lot of python and our tool tends to be pre-commit, named after the git [2] hook pre-commit. It specifies a bunch of tools to run, you can run them in ci, manually, and opt into doing it before commit. I like the simplicity of this one not needing a whole ecosystem, but rather just leveraging the cli commands from those tools. This would probably be something that would get in the way of setup for new devs and not something I would throw on one project by itself, its another thing for everyone to figure out how to install and run on every platform, I’m sure its not hard, but being on python teams pre-commit just fits in. References: [1]: https://github.com/numtide/treefmt [2]: /glossary/git/

- This is one of the greatest pycon keynotes I’ve ever seen, bookmarking this to come back and leave better thoughts on later.