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I feel a great disturbance in the Force.

bketelsenon Notion-like WYSIWYG editor with export to a beautiful static HTML website

this looks really nice, thanks for sharing.

bketelsenon JRuby funding at Red Hat stopped – call for sponsors

Charlie, thanks for all your work on JRuby. It helped me smuggle Ruby and OSS into environments that were openly hostile towards both :) Good luck with the sponsors, I'm sure you'll do well.

bketelsenon Ask HN: What book have you written?

https://www.manning.com/books/go-in-action?a_aid=goinaction

Pro Tip: write a tech book to advance your career, to scratch an itch, to learn by teaching. Don't write a tech book to make money. I don't have the exact numbers off the top of my head, but Go In Action is considered a successful tech book and it hasn't made enough money to make it worth the time invested if money was the only motivator. We donate all the royalties to a non-profit (Go Bridge https://gobridge.org ), so that was never our motivation... but I'd be seriously disappointed if I expected to make a living doing tech books with a traditional publisher. Maybe others who self-publish can chime in on how that's going for them.

Glad I did it. Wouldn't do it again :)

bketelsenon Cheyenne Super Computer Auction

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.

Sorry I couldn't resist.

bketelsenon Project Bluefin: an immutable, developer-focused, Cloud-native Linux

Bluefin has been my daily driver for over a year now. Love the community of people just trying to make Linux awesome on the desktop. I'm happy to answer questions about the project too.

bketelsenon Prompt – A terminal for a container-oriented desktop

yes! I've been using the nightly for a few weeks now and this is as close to the perfect terminal as I've found. I love the integration with containers, I do next to nothing on the host itself, instead using Distrobox and Incus. Prompt makes that delightful.

bketelsenon Show HN: Holocron, Notion like editor for Markdown files, synced with GitHub

Looks interesting, but why aren’t they dogfooding it? the attached blog is powered by Notion.

bketelsenon Project Bluefin Linux

Good eye! Those scripts are not used anymore, they were early prototypes. You can see the comments in the PR here: https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin/pull/606#issue-195447621...

bketelsenon Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system

Nice, looks like you're headed in a good direction with this!

bketelsenon GitHub started advertising on file preview screens

You know they're a for-profit company, right?

bketelsenon The Magic Nix Cache, a GitHub Action for speeding up your Nix workflows

this looks awesome, can't wait to try it out.

bketelsenon My First Impressions of Nix

very much so, that's how I use it. Especially if you want your dotfiles/configs to come with it.

bketelsenon My First Impressions of Nix

(fleek author here) Fleek is a simplified wrapper around Nix Home-Manager, which is used to install and configure the apps that make up your $HOME and shell environment.

bketelsenon NixOS for the Impatient

We built Bluefin - https://ublue.it for just this case. A custom version of Silverblue, primed for Nix with Devbox + Fleek global profiles.

bketelsenon My “no-monitor” setup, tested for two weeks

Saw this article on wednesday and bought the Xreal Air glasses on a whim to try it out. My take: it was close, but not crisp enough for all-day usage writing text. Returning them. If I were only interested in content consumption (video, especially) I would have kept them. Everyone who tried them in my house thought they were very nice.

bketelsenon Fleek: A human-friendly Nix wrapper

fish isn't supported, but could be if we had some guidance on what would be needed. Could you open an issue to start a discussion?

bketelsenon Fleek: A human-friendly Nix wrapper

Author here: Hey thanks for checking Fleek out. Let us know what you think about it.

bketelsenon I tried a $7,600 desk that lets you get horizontal at work

the desk is very adjustable for table height and angle. if you adjust it to a position where your arms are at a 90 degree bend of the elbow then there is no pressure on your hands/wrists while you type. No discomfort at all.

bketelsenon I tried a $7,600 desk that lets you get horizontal at work

That's correct. Rare earth magnets with double sided tape keep the keyboard in place. The mouse pad is magnetic and the edges are metallic to attract a magnet attached to the mouse which anchors it and keeps it from falling. Instead, I use a trackpad which I find more comfortable.

bketelsenon I tried a $7,600 desk that lets you get horizontal at work

Most people consider this desk a toy for people with too much money, but the real target is people with physical disabilities or limitations. I have spinal column deterioration and got the AltWork desk three years ago. Previously I would spend my days in moderate discomfort moving from desk to couch to kitchen every hour trying to find comfort. With the AltWork desk I'm able to work a full day with almost no pain. It looks strange, it takes up a lot of space, and it limits how you can setup your computers (heavy bias towards laptops). I couldn't imagine working without it now.

bketelsenon Airport runway names shift with magnetic field

This happened here in Tampa (TPA) just a few years ago. They shut down the runways to rename them from 18 to 19 to account for the magnetic shift. Must be a lot of repainting, it took a few days.

bketelsenon Pony Programming Language

If you're curious about how Pony works, I did a Youtube stream(1) a few years back with Sean Allen from Wallaroo Labs. He patiently walked me through many of Pony's features.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4W4Jb-AAVI

bketelsenon LG 28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor

I thought I was the clumsiest person in the world until I stopped wearing mine. I was tripping on everything constantly.

bketelsenon 2XL – ‘70s toy that faked AI with an 8-track [video]

I had one! it was awesome, I used it all the time to play music too because it was a regular 8 track player.

bketelsenon Distraction Osteogenesis (Surgery)

My infant son was born with Muenke syndrome which caused craniosynostosis - a problem mentioned in this article. You can see several pictures of him pre and post surgery on my twitter account @bketelsen. The surgery was absolutely terrifying, and he still has the distracting rods in place. They come out in two weeks. It seems to have been very successful in creating enough space for his brain. Without the surgery he would have begun to have seizures some time in the next year or so because his brain had no room to grow in his skull.

Interesting to come across this article here. So few people have heard of distraction or seen someone with active distraction happening.

bketelsenon Spin – WebAssembly Framework

I have a demo Spin application running on a small VPS [1] and the performance is amazing. It boggles the mind that the server is loading the WASM, instantiating a runtime, parsing markdown, applying templates, etc. all in just a few milliseconds. You can see the source for the blog [2], and the original blog engine Bartholomew [3] that it's based on.

Note this is a toy deployment, not actual content. Don't expect all the links to work or any content to be accurate or relevant :)

[1] https://spin.brian.dev/blog/2022-03-18-caddy-zero-downtime [2] https://github.com/bketelsen/wasmblog [3] https://github.com/fermyon/bartholomew

bketelsenon Windows Containers on Linux

i don’t have a link handy but you’re looking for quickemu

bketelsenon Cue, an open-source data validation language

Related hobby project - we've been building cueblox (cueblox.com) as a way to create, consume, and validate data in YAML and Markdown using cue. Cue is very powerful, and it's been fun working on this project.