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Confident Cat On A Rail
Ginger has no fear
Friday Afternoon Americano At Work
Friday afternoon americano at work
I’m done with devices that do everything youtube.com
Interesting device from Scott Tolinski here. Looks like a fun, novel build for a problem he has that no one else is going to just build for him. I like how he was able to build it with such cheap and available hardware. I’m not sure how I feel about this single purpose device movement. Coming from a generation who dreamed of the phones we have today it feels weird to go the other way.
State of Agentic Coding #10 with Armin and Ben youtube.com
The state of agentic coding is one of my favorite new podcasts of late. The name sounds just like the same slop as everything else, but Ben and Armin are top tier hosts that actually do this stuff for work and on the side. slowing down and speeding up # [1] Which brings me to the first intersting topic they talked about. Both talked about going slow at work. Ben still reads everything and deeply understands the insode of what he is working on. Home is a different story. At home both are cranking on new side projects, vibing them out quick and fast. The projects work for them and thats all they need. They dont need to support hundreds of users. All making it much easier to just let thr clanker kick new things out fast. open weight # [2] An interesting side topic on open weight models. Armin opened with them being too expensive. The big labs have such good subsidies right now that it’s hard to justify not using them. He did have an interesting use case though. He has a side project using cheap Chinese carplay devices. When trying to get openai to work on them it tends to refuse to work for security reasons, but if he starts thr session with kimi, openai has no problems continu...
Work in progress on hosting stl models in my homelab.
I Make My Own Field Notes (and it costs almost nothing) www.youtube.com
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. [1] Super creative notebooks that Perry made. [2] The use of the corner rounding punch makes it sooo clean References: [1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/ea0dffdf-15e3-474f-8211-24da5d7e0acb.webp [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/2f6733f8-2f37-43aa-8e5f-844b319c8800.webp
Nate Berkopec (@nateberkopec) on X x.com
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 [1] 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 g...
I Tried The OS Everyone Says Will Replace macOS youtube.com
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.

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

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

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
Second Sentinal Second Encounter
Second Sentinal First Encounter

Stl Text Lab Update

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 [1], 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 # [2] [3] The full interface [4] focusing in on the text projection [5] References: [1]: /tags/caps/ [2]: #putting-text-on-stl [3]: https://dropper.wayl.one/file/0a8d8ea3-6dac-47e6-89a1-920adc38c98f.webp [4]: https://dropper.wayl.one/file/44034253-a102-41a5-8aa1-8477c8402581.webp [5]: https://dropper.wayl.one/file/b6134789-df54-42a0-bdda-589fb40fcc62.webp

politics in linux

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

Here I am cranking away with luna==max== 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.
A quote from Linus Torvalds simonwillison.net
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

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 simonwillison.net
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 [1], 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. References: [1]: /html/
Boomer Chat Achiement Unlocked
boomer chat achiement unlocked
Bed adhesion options in caps.
Cracked Caps
I learned that my caps were set to interface fit and most crack on install. Making the + pattern bigger makes them easier to get on and actually hold tighter.

agentic engineering takes discipline

Agents allow so much scope creep it is harder to say no than it is to say yes, and let the model just pop in a new feature for you alongside you current pr with almost no effort on your befalf, staking up so much validation work for you to do that it becomes very difficult to merge. We are all learning this discipline right now.
I’m done with terminals youtube.com
Hard agree with Theo, terminals suck to use on a phone. Unless you have an attached keyboard they are unusable IMHO. t3 code ad # [1] https://youtu.be/dLhcLqoff6k?t=1354&is=xDCw0PpqH2zkZDou [2] This part of the pitch is fantastic. I think most of the people I talk to can relate to being unsure about when to start work because you want to keep your agents working. My morning process generally includes walking around tmux greeting all of my agents that were working hard last night and unblocking them to get them going for the day. Before even opening team chat, but after checking status pages that #1. My going home routine now has to start about an hour before I leave questioning whether I should start a session or not. References: [1]: #t3-code-ad [2]: https://youtu.be/dLhcLqoff6k?t=1354&is=xDCw0PpqH2zkZDou
Any Guesses What I’M Printing
Any Guesses What I'm Printing
This DIY Datacenter is NUTS
I have so much more appreciation for hetzner after seeing how the sausage is made. Their drive for efficiency is unparalleled. Not top tier performance, straight up well done engineering on the things that matter. No showing off or fancy stuff. The way they rack up their machines on a piece of sheet metal, that linus akinned to a desktop pc case without the front and side panels was chefs kiss.
Cap Sander V1
cap sander v1
Demo of different fonts in caps.
Caps Gets Striped Keys
caps gets striped keys
Demo of different view modes in caps.

Dammit I think I made an editor

What started as a Joke, a test to gippity, has turned into personal software that I now depend on. Now from anywhere I can make a post to my website in just a few keystrokes. I can put it in the feed I want, encrypt it if I want, and it's live in like 12s.
DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control youtube.com
DHH is such an OG [1] tech founder, I don’t think I realized his first paychecks from 37Signals was in the form of apple tech. What a shift to being such an apple fanboy to rage quitting and building a great linux distro that is siphoning his followers out of Mac. I love the reminder of Gary V’s Jab, Jab, Right Hook. Meaning that you should build a following first, give, give, teach, show you have value then ask for something. The host mentioned one day they were frustrated with something, his co-founder suggested basecamp, and his response was buy it. Not shop around, see if theres something better, just buy it. He said these are my people, they’ve already given so much that I have no questions to whether or not we should give them money. References: [1]: /og/
Dark Foggy Tunnel
dark foggy tunnel
Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors youtube.com
As always with Charity Majors this was a pretty great interview. Lots of repeat ideas with some good nuggets. One common new theme here is getting comfortable shipping code you have never seen before. Pointing out there are few real differences in the before and the now, a lot of the same priciple apply to get the right #obervability stack setup, the right deployment patterns setup. Now we don’t have a person that immediately jumps up and yell’s I wrote that, Sorry everyone, and has a fix in 2 minutes because they know the exact failure mode they caused in an instant. Charity truely believes the kids will be alright. She is working with some high school aged kids making some incredible projects right now. The industry will need to learn how to re-embrace juniors and the non grey-beards. Why I’m sharing this link.