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Lex Speedman — Lex at 2x, guest at 1x

2026-09-06T16:06:46Z

This is such a cool site. It parses lex’s transcript and sets the speed for lex and the guest at different speeds, so you can get through his super long episodes quicker without sacrificing the guest responses.

I Make My Own Field Notes (and it costs almost nothing)

2026-09-06T15:44:18Z

This is the first time I’ve seen or heard of Perry Daniels, I really like his editing style, it reminds me of good eats; the tone, tempo, the resesarch, the odd camera angles.

I found this video very inspiring to go make something, My wife likes to keep field notes and sometimes has one for a few different tasks at the same time. It would be so cool to make her some custom ones for each.

Super creative notebooks that Perry made.

The use of the corner rounding punch makes it sooo clean

Nate Berkopec (@nateberkopec) on X

2026-09-05T16:41:50Z

Nate Berkopec (@nateberkopec) on X

So many people are about to self-retire from our industry as a result of LLMs completing changing how coding is done.

They hate it. They hate prompting, managing agents, reviewing. They want it to…

X (formerly Twitter) · x.com

The world has changed it’s now different and there is no going back. You get to choose to adopt it or not. You get to choose your attitude. But at this point the agents write most average code, better than the average developer, faster than the average developer, and the average developer sucks at steering it. Over time we will get better at steering them, they will continue to get better at breakneck speeds for a long time. We will either learn restraint or they will get better at making that choice not to boil the ocean for us.

I really do get this feeling of the self-retire. It’s so easy to let agents do everything, and it so hard to watch the world turn to slop around us. No one can simply answer a question in a meeting or an interview without referring to their clanker and its it’s so irritating from both ends. It sucks to hear no one understands the depth of projects anymore, and at the same time it sucks to get called out on the complexity you glossed over.

Things are changing fast, like it or hate it, its not stopping because of your opinions, you get to choose your outlook on it.

I Tried The OS Everyone Says Will Replace macOS

2026-09-02T15:45:09Z

It’s crazy how many people are discovering linux here and are like why would I use this, oh it has tiling, it has workspaces. No shit so does every other good desktop environment that’s has came out in the last 10 years.

All of these reviews are missing the polish that you don’t recognize until you have done it by hand. Full disk encryption setup with noting more than a password. Agents property use pkexec to ask for sudo permissions with a message saying what they are running. Out of the box I get snapshots and boot into snapshot. If I like using agents and I add an API key, I get a crash agent when any application fails if I choose to click the notification to have the agent fix my issue. Themes has polish that no other distro can claim. There are many good looking themes that automatically theme so many if the applications.

You can do all of this yourself and maybe you should if you really like Linux and want to understand.

The magic is how it is all assembled. The community being built to make it work on so many different devices, with a taste for speed and design.

Lukschangekey to change full disk encryption password

2026-09-01T21:51:16Z

I’m playing with omarchy on an old laptop and decided I want to share it with my kids without sharing what I also set up as my sudo password.

Lsblk -f

Look for the one labeled crypto_LUKS

Sudo cryptsetup luksChangeKey /dev/nvme0n1p2

Then you will be asked for your sudo password, previous full disk encryption password, then the new one twice.

Now my laptop can be shared without sharing my private sudo password.

Touch dishwasher controls

2026-09-01T03:20:51Z

Touch dishwasher controls that don’t work with wet hands should be illegal, I’ll be starting mine with dried on s**** now.

how to set up a boot drive

2026-08-31T02:05:28Z

First Find your usb disk. You should be able to identify it by size and name using lsblk.

lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,MODEL,TRAN,RM,MOUNTPOINTS

Here I see my good ol Trans-It Drive. It’s not fancy, it wasnt even at the time it was new, but I have it and it works. next we run the disk destroyer dd to copy raw bytes right on to the drive.

Warning

This is a full reformat of the drive, nothing on the drive will be recoverable afterwards. I keep this drive around as a boot disk and it just changes distro occasionally.

sudo dd if=~/Downloads/omarchy-4.0.1.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M status=progress conv=fsync

Note

Don’t forget the bs, the default block size is so slow it will take an eternity to copy a linux iso on to a boot drive.

Installing omarchy #

I wanted to give omarchy quatro a try, here is the session to get it.

~  NO PYTHON VENV SET  USING SYSTEM NVIM
❯ lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,MODEL,TRAN,RM,MOUNTPOINTS
NAME          SIZE MODEL                      TRAN   RM MOUNTPOINTS
sda         119.2G SAMSUNG MZNLN128HAHQ-000H1 sata    0 
├─sda1          1G                                    0 
└─sda2      118.2G                                    0 
sdb           7.6G Trans-It Drive             usb     1 
├─sdb1        5.8G                                    1 
└─sdb2         23M                                    1 
zram0        93.9G                                    0 [SWAP]
nvme0n1     931.5G Samsung SSD 980 1TB        nvme    0 
├─nvme0n1p1     1G                            nvme    0 /boot
└─nvme0n1p2 930.5G                            nvme    0 /var/log
                                                        /var/cache/pacman/pkg
                                                        /home
                                                        /

~  NO PYTHON VENV SET  USING SYSTEM NVIM
❯ sudo dd if=~/Downloads/omarchy-4.0.1.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M status=progress conv=fsync

Second Sentinal Final Audience Wish

2026-08-29T09:42:03Z

Second Sentinal Final Audience Wish

Second Sentinal Second Encounter

2026-08-29T09:40:48Z

Second Sentinal Second Encounter

Second Sentinal First Encounter

2026-08-29T09:40:08Z

Second Sentinal First Encounter

Stl Text Lab Update

2026-08-28T12:20:05Z

I’m building out a set of tools for 3d printing. Things that I have not found out there yet, they may exist, they may not. The first was Posts tagged: caps, Now I’m taking the core of that project and starting a new one. Not sure if it counts as an update when I have had a lack of really posting about it.

putting text on stl #

The full interface

focusing in on the text projection

politics in linux

2026-08-27T01:34:00Z

IDK if I agree with DHH on politics, have not gone looking for his views, dont really care to. I can 100% get behind leaving politics out of work, foss, linux. Until he starts dropping that omarchy money on some non-oss linux manner I’m with it. I dont think there is a world in which you can completely disassociate yourself with everyone that has a different viewpoint than yourself. There will always be things that simply don’t align with your lived experiences and that is okay.

when did openai bring back the hourly limit

2026-08-27T01:17:11Z

Here I am cranking away with lunamax tokenmaxxing on my $20 plus sub trying to keep 3 running around the clock to burn those precious tokens when open ai comes back and re-introduces the 5 hour limit, I just got used to rocking only a weekly limit.

2026-08-27 Notes

2026-08-27T00:00:00Z

plaindown #

working on plaindown performance, and things are actually feeling much better as I type, it actually does feel like a huge difference until we hit a huge lag spike. Lag spikes are getting fewer and fewer in between.

current input delay is 65ms longest is 995ms, which is about what I’m feeling. The one spike was about a second, my p50 is 9ms and p95 at 19ms feels very snappy.

The thing we are missing next is templates being ready immediately.

2026-08-25 Notes

2026-08-25T00:00:00Z

md.waylonwalker.com #

Getting some great improvements on the lag spikes this morning.

Another @theo banger #

Automatic memory sucks, it chooses the wrong thing to keep, rarely references what it does keep, then when it does choose to reference something its not the right thing anyways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf54k7tFeEc

Turn off Claude Code’s Memory

@poteto tweet

A quote from Linus Torvalds

2026-08-22T21:46:36Z

Will models become more stubborn as we use them more and feed us using them as long running agents where we simply ask for what seems to be an impossible task to be spit out by the all mighty clanker with all of the time in the world to try every way possible, add obnoxious amounts of telemetry, and somehow digest the flood of data it brings back?

second brain slop is dumb

2026-08-22T02:52:49Z

The second brain hype train of people looking at fancy graphs in obsidian of the content their clanker wrote for them is top tier cringe. If you actually want to get better at anything you need to actually put some effort in with your first brain.

Stop Making TUIs

2026-08-21T17:15:51Z

Hard to argue this so hard here. For me it’s convenience. I work from a terminal most things that are real work get done there so this provide a convenient proximity to real work. If it’s a developer tool for me to use alongside development work I prefer a tui if it can be done in a text interface.

Clis are different. Clis provide a great interface into automation, scripting, agent use, interop from two things no one else uses together.

Alternatively to the argument for agents making real user interfaces easy I’m going to argue if that’s the case you should have your backend logic hooked into all the interfaces a user could want, CLI, tui, html, rest/http api.

I honestly feel like the training data for a good tui just isn’t there and agents default to making bad this.

Boomer Chat Achiement Unlocked

2026-08-20T00:12:27Z

openai, It’s 2026 and you still dont compact in boomer chat?

Caps Bed Adhesion

2026-08-19T02:32:53Z

I’m working on a new keyboard for my son and he does not want blank keycaps so I’m vibe coding a new tool.

caps bed adhesion

Bed adhesion options in caps.

f1e1f192-afb0-4d79-a73a-b0ffd843b2d2.mp4

Shortened version highlighting a finished sink+crop

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Shortened version highlighting a finished raft