Weeknotes #18 (March 08, 2025)

Posted on: Mar 08, 2025

Things I found, read, did, and produced this past week.

Things I worked on

After watching Xe's stream last week on Yoke which deploys Kubernetes resources via WASM programs, I wanted to try and see if I could do it in Rust, and the answer is yes: https://github.com/lannonbr/yoke-testing. Also I've been watching the main repo and they're actively pushing a PR for consuming WASM from OCI registries which is a really interesting avenue where you can treat a WASM file like a docker container and push it to places like ghcr.io or docker hub. (Edit: The PR was merged!)
I've found an alternative TCGPlayer API called tcgcsv.com that offers all of the various categories for TCGPlayer's site and the products for such. I'm exploring how I can integrate the Japanese Pokemon cards into my TCG app for tracking prices as something I've found is if I want a particular card and don't care about actually playing with it competively, the Japanese variant is usually cheaper, so being able to track JP cards will be useful. That said, I am unsure if I can do a direct mapping between a JP and EN card though as 2-3 JP sets usually merge down into one EN one, and not all cards are 1:1, but I at least can have the JP listings in my app.

Alongside Yoke using WASM, another app I've played with in the past Zellij also uses such for their plugin system. It was on some wobbly footing with async plugins & reaching out to the web, but late last year they finally resolved those issues and I'm thinking of trying of building some plugins to make dashboard layouts within Zellij.
Apple unveiled the M4 Macbook Air. I know I don't need it, but the blue color is really sleek and I eventually want to downgrade my laptop to one of these and then upgrade my Mac Mini up to a Studio. Also $999 for 16GB/256GB is a really nice offer for most people.
After watching the Gundam GQuuuuuuX movie last week, it was announced that the full series is coming to Amazon Prime Video internationally in April.