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💭 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

July 25, 2025

#homelab #thoughts True

💭 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

July 21, 2025

#ai #thoughts True

💭 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 m

July 19, 2025

#llm #anthropic #ai #thoughts True

💭 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 l

July 18, 2025

#windsurf #rss #threadreader #thoughts True

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

AI has provided a lot of value in my life for sure... but it's still not my favorite piece of technology, and the nearis

July 17, 2025

#ai #josh-fluke #interview #thoughts True

💭 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

July 13, 2025

#agile #thoughts True

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

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

July 12, 2025

#windsurf #ai #thoughts True

💭 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

July 11, 2025

#docker #ai #homelab #thoughts True

💭 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 leve

July 11, 2025

#systemd #linux #blog #thoughts True

💭 restic · Backups done right!

Welp, I need to be backing up my desktop home directory, specifically a directory of docker volume data... I thought dup

July 08, 2025

#nas #homelab #backups #thoughts True

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

I float between lazygit and gitui still for my terminal-based git flow and I want to lean into lazygit more fully. One i

July 08, 2025

#lazygit #git #github #thoughts True

💭 HomeBox

I stumbled onto homebox this morning scrolling a newsletter and it looks like something I've been lightly thinking about

July 07, 2025

#homelab #asset-management #thoughts True

💭 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

July 06, 2025

#k8s #mobile # #thoughts True

💭 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

July 06, 2025

#k8s #linux #android #homelab #thoughts True

💭 Build backend | uv

uv build backend ready for production! Dang... I need to visit my hatch builds, I love hatch's simplicity specifically w

July 04, 2025

#uv #python #dev #tech #thoughts True

💭 TimoStahl/kanboard_plugin_bigboard: A Kanboard that can displa...

I use kanboard to keep myself focused at home - it's great because it's simple enough but does have complex features (th

July 02, 2025

#kanboard #productivity #thoughts True

💭 { TechDufus } | Blog

Just came across TechDufus today... love his blog style... it's beautiful... definitely not gonna potentially rip this o

July 02, 2025

#blog #todo #thoughts True

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

Caught this blog post from Waylon - I added this guy to my RSS feed to star this post. I have tried talos with terraform

July 02, 2025

#todo #review #thoughts True

💭 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

July 02, 2025

#second-brain #thoughts True

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

It's nice to see uv gaining popularity in so many places - and replacing vanilla pip with uv in containerized environmen

June 27, 2025

#python #pip #uv #dev #tech #thoughts True

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

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 ou

June 26, 2025

#webdev #cloudflare #containers #todo #thoughts True

💭 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 ol

June 25, 2025

#reflection #heiser #ane #genesis #todo #thoughts True

💭 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

June 25, 2025

#ai #politics #thoughts True

💭 Copilot Instructions

I have tried a few different cursorrules/windsurfrules with windsurf, but I didn't even know you could give copilot cust

June 23, 2025

#ai #copilot #prompt #agentic #thoughts True

💭 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

June 22, 2025

#firefox #organization #browser #thoughts True

💭 Control Your n8n Instance Remotely with Telegram Bot Commands ...

I'm doing a lot of thinking and brainstorming about how I want to run some pipelines I have in my head, at home... thing

June 22, 2025

#n8n #homelab #todo #telegram #thoughts True

💭 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

June 20, 2025

#k8s #tech #devops #thoughts True

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

We pray together as a family every night, but every single flipping night my daughter's fight about the order we go in..

June 20, 2025

#homelab #tech #reflection #thoughts True

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

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 w

June 19, 2025

#layoffs #microsoft #tech #thoughts True

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

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

June 19, 2025

#github #ai #llm #security #sandbox #thoughts True

💭 neverjust

Your "just" comes from seeing only the surface of the problem. Like an iceberg, what's visible is just a fraction This

June 18, 2025

#just #dev #tech #thoughts True

💭 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 relati

June 17, 2025

#digital-garden #blog #thoughts True

💭 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 securi

June 16, 2025

#aws #infrastructure #thoughts True

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

I have spacelift stacks managed with open tofu and stacks managed with terraform... Due to this very issue I think, I ra

June 16, 2025

#spacelift #terraform #infrastructure #open-tofu #tofu #thoughts True

💭 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 tha

June 16, 2025

#snowflake #tech #python #thoughts True

💭 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 consistentl

June 16, 2025

#blog #mindmap #links #thoughts True

💭 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

June 16, 2025

#stable-diffusion #qr #thoughts True

💭 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.... AD

June 13, 2025

#dhh #adhd #mental-health #thoughts True

💭 "We would be less confidential than Google" – Proton threatens...

I've been a proton user for several years now, and pay a decently hefty subscription fee for some of their services that

June 13, 2025

#proton #email #security #privacy #tech #thoughts True

💭 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 thro

June 13, 2025

#security #infosec #sharepoint #microsoft #ai #copilot #thoughts True

💭 slash pages

Waylon's mentioned slash pages before, but as I work on building my blog again and writing more regularly thanks to "tho

June 12, 2025

#blog #slash-pages #til #todo #thoughts True

💭 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

June 12, 2025

#wealth #faith #bible-project #thoughts True

💭 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 su

June 12, 2025

#faith #heiser #nt-wright #divine-council #thoughts True

💭 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 pre

June 11, 2025

#llm #ollama #homelab #qwen #thoughts True

Thoughts

Thoughts My thoughts are found at [my thoughts feed](/my-thoughts) [thoughts](https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com) was built by Waylon and is a place where I drop

June 09, 2025

#thoughts True

💭 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 trainin

June 09, 2025

#zsa #typing #keyboard #challenge #thoughts True

💭 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 m

June 09, 2025

#rss #news #nextcloud #homelab #thoughts True

💭 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

June 09, 2025

#podcast #self-hosted #thoughts True

💭 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 stuf

June 08, 2025

#pycon #keynote #economics #thoughts True

💭 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 descri

June 07, 2025

#linux #youtube #kernel #thoughts True

💭 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... t

June 07, 2025

#tailscale #thoughts True

💭 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 a

May 25, 2025

#open-webui #search #ai #self-hosted #thoughts True