Peyton Walters

I love living in the city, but my heart yearns for nature.

I normally cook by feel, but that doesn’t work with an Instant Pot.

NYC finally implemented congestion pricing!

My friend told me that you can request a download of all your listening activity from Spotify!

Most people believe our education system is broken, but in my experience, it’s not common that two people actually have the same gripe with the system.

Growing up, I thought of myself as a bad writer.

The greatest lesson I ever learned was that I could do so much more than I thought.

I do basically all of my interesting work through prototypes.

I’ve spent a lot of my life getting good at broadcast-style instruction, specifically lecturing and technical writing.

I turn 24 today which means I’ve spent half my life writing code.

In order to understand a given concept, there are a set of “dependent concepts” that are required.

Recently, I wanted to share my Syncthing config across multiple NixOS hosts, and I couldn’t find any good information on it online.

I came across one of my favorite quotes ever sampled in a song, and I had to share it here.

The world of programming content is a shitshow.

I don’t understand why today’s LLMs are so large.

Let me preface by saying, NixOS running on Asahi is the best Linux experience I’ve ever had.

I don’t really care if people use Vim, even if I love it.

Ollama is a tool for running LLMs locally, inspired by the DevX of Docker.

Nix is a tool for building reproducible environments.

I can never remember how to do this thing.

The Asahi project is a set of projects & people focused on building out support for ARM Mac devices in the Linux kernel.

I’ve had a lot of fun playing with LLMs recently.

I recently moved into an apartment which means I get to have something I’ve missed for the last four years: a homelab!

Right before my junior year of high school, I hit a very lucky break and got the opportunity to work at a datacenter part-time during school.

NOTE: This post was cross-posted from the Penn Labs blog!

I’ve tried to write this blog post many times before, but I always get stuck at the prose here.

NOTE: This post was cross-posted from the Penn Labs blog!

NOTE: FaunaDB the company died, so this approach no longer is in use.

For about 2 years now, I’ve been very interested in learning Kubernetes and potentially using it in my homelab, but there’s always been one main thing holding me back: the complexity.

🎉 We made it!

I’m back!

While working on my load balancer, Caplance, I ran into a very strange error when trying to establish a connection between a client and a backend.

Recently, I moved from writing my Go in VSCode to writing it in Neovim.

After countless hours spent reading the GoDocs, googling “gre packets golang”, and staring at the term SIGSEV, I’ve got an update!

From Sunday, 3/10/19 to today, Tuesday 5/21/19, I’ve been working on improving.

For about 2 years, I built and led the NEAT Rack Project, a program meant to teach high school and college aged students network engineering.

When reading Google’s SRE book, I came across the section on load balancing.

Over the past few years, I’ve started to see a multitude of online videos/articles about the weakening value of college, particularly in the area of computer science.

Recently, my family has been playing Farkle, a simple but difficult-to-analyze dice game.

VPLS is extremely useful in allowing multiple sites to be connected to a single bridged domain.