Finally moved the homelab control plane of RPi4s over to SSDs for etcd. Picked up some cheap ones and honestly not doing bad at all. So dang easy with Talos.

Today is my wife’s birthday and the official launch of her art site/shop! If you love fantasy, gothic, or tattoo inspired art, check out the shop and pick up some prints! angelinasmithyackey.com #art #illustration #artist #fantasy

Angelina Smith Yackey — Original works on paper

Mixed-media drawings of winged figures and quiet myths — ink, watercolor, and colored pencil on paper, made by hand by Angelina Smith Yackey.

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Almost ready to share scoot for folks to try out. Got the flake and cachix setup done, working on the greeter support now with ReGreet. Loving how it feels. Trading animations for more speed and low resource usage to start

The compositor/bar is coming along! Happy I got the bar working with workspaces and the clock. Working on the other widgets here soon now too.

Started using nix flakes more in everyday development, and now I can’t tell if it’s 5.5 models generally or it correlating using nix with it, but I’ve seen Claude wanting to fork open source things and fix underlying bugs way more often. Anybody else noticing this?

Eyyyy! Got scootbg into a pretty solid place. Claude’s putting some finishing touches on it for the flake. Thinking I’ll eventually clean it up and make it an easy nix module to do a whole desktop experience. Probably gonna do a bar next, because why not. #scoot #scootbg #nixos #wayland

Just found out that Ohio has some express BMV machines in drug stores. I will 100% go to a Drug Mart before having to sit in line at the BMV.

Yesssss got scoot (my new Wayland compositor) to build in a Claude code cloud agent with devenv 🎉. Planning on expanding to build a bar, bg, and all too to fill out a shell.

Got my new compositor running enough to run noctalia with it. Definitely underestimated the things I’d have to implement to make that work smoothly. Been a good way to get things rounded out more quickly though. Prob gonna make a custom bar and stuff to go with it.

Me: “I’m feeling very declarative” Angelina: “I can tell!” Me: “Just like I like my operating systems” A: “I don’t like the turn this is taking…” Me: “Can I talk to you about NixOS?” A: *turns away quickly*

Me after giving up on a busted remote, trying to turn on cartoons: “We’ll just have to get a new remote” My 4yo: “Does that mean we’re selling our house?” 🤣🤣🤣

Got my old M2 MacBook Air running NixOS yesterday too, and feels good to be baaaaaaack.

This weekend’s fun — I’m building out a Wayland compositor that works well in NixOS based, webtop style containers as well as microVMs where you don’t have a GPU to allocate.

Tonight’s experiment: NixOS running in a webtop-style container. Got it working with Niri already, seeing if I can get a couple other DEs working for fun.

I love having good homelab o11y. I’m running Talos, and just realized why etcd is mad half the time (honeycomb canvas FTW). Accidentally put a slow microSD card in one of the Pi4s last time I redid it 🤦‍♂️ I’ll get around to adding SSDs eventually, but was awesome to find a quick root cause.

Anybody running RMK? I’ve got two Ferris sweeps (one on ZMK, one on QMK), but thinking about getting my Miryoku based layout working on some good ol rust based firmware. The wireless one has nice!nanos in it, but the Bluetooth seems finicky and possibly like not mapped right #keyboards

Juuuust about got my actions runner fork with otel support where I want it. Been running it for a while. Otel semconv for CI/VCS and all 🎉

I wish GitHub supported some kind of ARC runners for user-wide repo support similar to org support. I know you can name which repos, but love the simplicity for orgs and ARC runners.

Seems like every year around this time I get the urge to jump back into tiling WMs. Time to try out OmniWM on my Mac!

Who all is going to #CloudNative #KubeCon NA this year? Finally able to make it this year 🎉 Planning to hit up o11y day too Any tips for first time attendance?

It’s been a lot of fun slowly building freshstrings.app for guitar maintenance. Thinking mobile is next once I add a few more features.

Bought a fountain pen on a whim and think I’m hooked. I’d been going all in with AI note taking, assistants, etc. I was getting solid coaching notes too but feeling like I couldn’t keep anything in my head anymore. It’s refreshing going back to pen and paper for tasks and notes.

Heck yeah. Think I got a diesel-libsql crate working with full native OTel support

Building with AI has made me even more healthily detached from what I make for fun. Naming used to be hard and feel permanent. Now I just enjoy making up names that make me laugh. Did I release a crate this morning for ts client generation from Axum routes called axfetchum? Yeah. And I’m delighted.

Finally moved the homelab to @honeycomb.io and the o11y 2.0 gains for agents hype is real. Game changer using it with an agent. Fixed a weird tracing issue with like 2 prompts with Claude (using the skill/MCP) to review, find and fix.

It’s been a blast building more than ever with AI. Legit explored more ideas in the last 3 months than probably the last year or more. Didn’t see myself running out of private GHA minutes, but with the new move to paid self hosted, moved to Forgejo.

⚡️ Vite 7.0 is out! - Browser Target Changed to Baseline Widely Available - Node 18 support dropped. Vite is now distributed as ESM only - And feats, fixes, and cleanups, while we prepare for rolldown!

Vite 7.0 is out!

Vite 7 Release Announcement

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we are delighted to announce that nuxt v4 alpha ships TODAY! 🎉 ... and we're aiming for a stable release of v4 by the end of the month. (nuxt v5 will come later this year once nitro v3 is ready) 👉 you can read the full article at nuxt.com/blog/roadma...

Roadmap to v4 · Nuxt Blog

We have some exciting news about the roadmap to Nuxt 4, including a new timeline and what to expect in the next few weeks.

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It’s Publication Day!

Mary C. Murphy@marycmurphy.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today is publication day for @casbsstanford.bsky.social Summer Institute on Diversity alumna @oneyaokuwobi.bsky.social’s terrific book Who Pays for Diversity! I had the pleasure of reading an advance copy and it’s clear to me we need this now more than ever. Pick up your copy today!

It’s been super fun building FreshStrings.app for tracking guitar maintenance with @nuxt.com and NuxtHub. #guitar #bass #nuxt