Untitled 2026-08-09
Plaindown new post of type shot is failing
Publishing rhythm
Blogging and blog setups
Jack Baty's blog — posts, journal, notes.
baty.net · baty.net [1]
Damn this hits. I’m trying to change it up, but I’m far on the right. constantly greasing the pipeline and writing about it. or lately just not writing at all.
[2]
Shots fired from Rakhim [3]
References:
[1]: https://baty.net/notes/2026/08/blogging-and-blog-setups/
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/43533900-fc9f-4dcb-842f-207d8154aa70.webp
[3]: https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/
thinking about headlines
I updated [plaindown](https://waylonwalker.com/) to support _cool_ heading formats, and I'm digging it, markata you are next. Time to make the web weird again and really start writing more again.
---
## The code to make it ~~easy~~ ^**fun**^ to write
Here's the `markdown` that wrote it followed by the output here.
``` md
# Build **good places** for _interesting people_.
## Make room for ==the weird idea.==
Some normal paragraph text between headings.
## Build a `personal web` that feels ^**yours**^.
More ordinary prose.
## Follow the [~small~ web](https://waylonwalker.com), not the cr^owd^.
## Make a ~~perfect~~ memorable site.
## Leave space for ==**strange little ideas.**==
## Sometimes the ~~obvious answer~~ ==weird answer== is the interesting one.
## A **good theme** makes _quiet words_, `technical words`, and ==loud words== belong together.
## ==A...
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I really like the art style of this game. Love that someone is making something Hollow Knight like in their own style. The bosses though… oddly a little close to hollow knight characters.
[1]
Those flowers
[2]
How is this not one of the city guards
References:
[1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/e13a0d9a-a012-49a9-b7ab-e3fb9c4d3e84.webp
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/f3366447-2474-40e5-b1bb-ac136464f70d.webp
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Interesting tangent here on sleep, Adam talks about jet lag and his experience taking abien to shift his sleep schedule. In his experience it helped fix the sleep schedule, but did nothing to change how he actually felt during that time of re orienting in a new drastically different time zone. He was reminded of all of the sleep studies they did on mythbusters and how they found that it did not matter so much how much “sleep” you got that lying there still and quiet was nearly as effective as sleeping. Knowing this will, like others mentioned, will greatly relieve the sleep pressure I feel on nights of restlessness.
Ping 66
Human say few word, machine make big wow
Helix has got to have one of the easiest configurations. It is this easy to get the markata-go lsp in helix.
markata-go lsp setup --editor helix
# Helix languages.toml (usually ~/.config/helix/languages.toml)
[language-server.markata-go]
command = "markata-go"
args = ["lsp"]
[[language]]
name = "markdown"
language-servers = ["markata-go"]
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I had no idea how these pipes work, I’ve accidentally spawned so many that have sat there and waited for something to come down the pipe, but did not know this is what was happening.
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Every Dax Raad interview is worth a listen, this one does not disappoint. They talk about running local dev setups in a vm in the cloud. Always connected, seemlessly upgrading hardware without you needing to buy sell or trade a thing. They talk about the one model that drove them into psycosis, I’m pretty sure it was 5.6 sol, but it could not be revealed at the time. Software engineering is still required alive and well even through the agentic era here.
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Great reference to 11 laws of the universe.
Bluesky
Bluesky Social · bsky.app [1]
So much nuance in model selection its hard to keep up.
References:
[1]: https://bsky.app/profile/thdxr.com/post/3mqsgohylgd2v
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Completely missing the point of physical media. I don’t see why preserving physical media is a win for xbox right now. The game is not on disk. In 30 years when the game servers are gone, I wont be able to play the game. I wont be able to buy cheap used copies in 6 months as people beat the game. I wont be able to trade in games I’ve beat to get a different game at a low cost. own nothing and be happy.
Ping 65
Usage Resets??
Apparently you can use a reset to completely reset your codex usage limits. I
never knew these existed and apparently I have some expiring soon. Not sure if
they auto apply and this is why I get the weirdest reset experience on the
usage chart or what.
I have 3? they expire soon, how many have I missed out on.
One time only
I don’t run into windows file endings very often, so when I see little ^M’s
all over your file, I think “shit I know what these are and cant remember”
They represent the windows carriage return.
Linux vs Unix Line Endings #
The difference here is that Unix uses \n and Linux uses \r\n, going all the
way back to the typewriter it represents the two keys that a typist would have
to press to get a new line and return the carriage back to the beginning.
Vim/Neovim #
When I open up a file and see this garbage all over, its not cozy, I want them gone, I dont want them all over my editor. I’m not sure what this would look like on windows, I haven’t been able to afford a windows machine in years, but its gross on my machine.
Remove them with a substitution command from normal mode.
:%s/\r//g
removing carriage returns with a substitution command
I ran into an issue where my pinentry was unable to connect, blocking me from
doing commits. You can use this to continue signing commits.
export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
gpg-connect-agent updatestartuptty /bye
printf test | gpg \
--local-user 9A47900E81415D65C32C630066E2BF2B4190EFE4 \
--pinentry-mode loopback \
--sign >/dev/nul
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Interesting thoughts from a real OG [1] Kent Beck. He argues we are whitnissing the biggest advancement in computing in 40 years. For 40 years we have been almost exclusively writing in compiled languages. Languages that output to some sort of binary compiled assembly instructions for each processor type. Before that it was all hand written instructions directly to CPU. Now we are seeing the genie revolution. The genie is good a writing in many different programming languages given english prompts. It loves to complete problems and is not afraid to write lots of code very quickly. Its quite good at skirting around our best judgement in order to accomplish the goal we set.
Some take aways from this talk is that NO ONE knows what the fuck is next. No one knows the best ways to use these things. Everyone has their own opinion wrapped around their experience that might be wildly different than yours. It seems clear this is changing every day and ways no one can measure, predict, or prepare for. So much sits in the hands of model labs and model providers. Without real access to any of it, its all magic.
References:
[1]: /og/
[1]
I align a lot with this post. From growing up in a rural house where internet access was harder to get. It was slow and only had one line, if you were on the internet, no one in the house could recieve a phone call. Idk if what is now the smol webl, the indieweb, is seeing a resurgence, if I’m just noticing it more. It does feel like along there has been a very small number of users willing to get their own domain, their own server, and host their own shit. A few of these are starting to really break out occasionally, see things like wordle [2] hitting mass adoptioun before being swooped up by a giant.
I too miss the internet of old, heck I really dont even mind the middle era of fb, twitter, instagram dominance, but what we have now is dominated by political undertones on it all with everyone shouting “Fake News” at each other. These sites are the easiest place to stay in touch with those you have met online, yet they are riddled with so much toxicity its impossible to have a great experience on them. I’m about a year and a half of not having a single one on my phone, and at this point I barely log into them once a week. RSS is the way forward, as long as its not killed b...
I’ve been running fedora coreos on my home servers for awhile. I really liked
the stability I got from bazzite, and have since enjoyed the stability of
fedora coreos. Since it’s an immutable system I’ve never quite known if I need
to reboot or not, and was unsure how to check for updates. Today I learned you
can use rpm-ostree status to see if your
fedora coreos system is up to date.
rpm-ostree status
For me it listed security advisories with a count of each severity unknown, low, moderate, and important.
This morning I had a machine crash on me and came back to an error.
Error
zsh: corrupt history file /home/u_walkews/.zsh_history
Dammit I don’t want to redo my shell history, I checked with a clanker and they
came up with this solution using strings that only prints printable
characters.
cp ~/.zsh_history ~/.zsh_history.bak
mv ~/.zsh_history ~/.zsh_history.corrupt
touch ~/.zsh_history
chmod 600 ~/.zsh_history
strings ~/.zsh_history.corrupt > ~/.zsh_history
chmod 600 ~/.zsh_history
Reddit
reddit.com [1]
Absolute whimsy achieved in this book themed #keeb [2] build!
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References:
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/1u9awcz/nibelungenlied40_book_split_keyboard_design/?utm_source=cassidoo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=u1f6b8-you-can-make-anything-by-writing-cs-lewis
[2]: /tags/keeb/
[3]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/b3f7c96c-805b-4a6b-8ebc-efde8ba11816.webp
hmmm.
TIL, `?.` is sometimes pronounced as a `hmm dot`
Does codex change throughout the token usage window?
Is it me or can you feel the 5 hour and weekly limit of codex nearing. It
feels like it slowly stops working tasks to completion and asking to continue.
I nearly start yelling into the enter, "YES, DO WHAT WE AGREED ON, STOP ASKING"
then I notice I'm in the single digits of remaining window left.
T Handle Wire Puller
I’ve been fighting not having a proper
pick/hook in my toolbox for a long time. This fathers day weekend my son
pulled out an old box of rc plane supplies from my days trying to build planes
like flight test. Inside there was a pack of piano wire.
Rules [1]-8
Need a tool make a tool.
He had pulled this out while I had the soldering iron hot plucking away at a
keeb build that I’ve had sitting idle on the workbench for a long time. The
dream of having several identical working builds at the same time is very close
to fruition, I just need some more work on the clone.
Posts tagged: keeb [2]
I was struggling to pull wires through traces of 3d prints. You see I was once
a mechanical engineer, not electrical, so 3d modeling is my hammer that I can
turn into a tool for any solution, and I’ve just not put the time into learning
pcb design. Someday maybe. I always just take some scrap copper make a little
look and twist it around until I can get it close enough to pull with some
tweezer...
Keys.waylonwalker.com
Today I got sick of my go to online keyboard
tester [1] not supporting holds and fighting an
issue with holds on one of my boards, I vibed out a replacement. I did a bit
of work with it to get it how I wanted. gpt5.4 still likes to make lots of
cards and build readable sites with a reasonable width for reading, not full
page apps.
keyboard tester
A keyboard tester that works for me, how I like it
keys.waylonwalker.com [2]
The main feature is to be able to see when alt+key or shift+key is pressed, the
keyboard tester was not able to do this.
73e71d2d-eaf9-4a0a-9e04-0039a1df0b26.mp4 [3]
Here is a video of me using it.
I tend to use keyboard tester a lot as I build a lot of weird keyboards so I
suspect this one to get a lot of use and may grow over time, but for now it
works good enough for me.
I can already think of a whole list of features like supporting keycodes for
js, pygame, zmk, qmk. But for now I’m just building what I need and not
overcomplicating it.
test commit
Re...
Malicious Aur Packages Jun 2026
Recent Arch linux vulnerabilities are a good reminder of a few things.
- AUR [1] is not the official package repo
- The AUR is community driven
- AUR packages are not always safe
The first thing I’m doing to stop myself from running any aur updates
automatically is removing any arch helper.
sudo pacman -Rns yay paru paru-bin
Currently the reported vulnerabilities are supply chain attacks limited to the
aur, keep your arch system up do date, BUT do not update packages from the
AUR right now. In fact I’m auditing my aur usage and removing anything I have
not used in awhile.
Here is a nice script I’m using to walk through my packages and get rid of
things I installed and probably don’t need anymore.
pacman -Qemq |
fzf -m --preview '
echo "== package =="
pacman -Qi {} 2>/dev/null
echo
echo "== required by =="
pacman -Qi {} 2>/dev/null | grep "Required By"
' |
xargs -r -o sudo pacman -Rns
Supply chain attacks are getting real scary in 2026, maybe we should listen to
Ginger...
Prompt Seagulls
I was listening to @syntaxfm this morning and @wesbos said at
328s [1] “The prompt seagulls
are driving me nutty”. 100% hard agree Wes. Now I didnt just come off of a
conference where they dropped fable 5. I’ve not logged into twitter in months,
but I see it around work.
prompt-seagulls
“Prompt, PR-ompt, promt, PROMT”
There is no such thing as magic [2] # [3]
Asking for the prompt as a first question here, is a clear sign you are looking
for magic. What are the magical incantations I must pass to all master clanker
to get it to do the things that I want. Wrong, there is no magic prompt to
get impressive results, its people that know and understand their craft that
get amazing results. They have taste. They have design in mind, They see
what the end product should be. They are guiding the model to do what they
want and are not surprised when they get it.
prompt-seagulls
“Prompt, PR-ompt, promt, PROMT”
process # [4]
No one is one shotting their work and kicking up their feet f...
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oof Mark, this does not feel like it is set to age well. These people in power feel so disconnected from regular people with a job trying to do work.
Mythos gone already
Mythos released days ago, now its gone, before most of us were
allowed to touch it.
Just give em the ol one eyed fighting Kirby
This is a vim substitution technique to capture the rest of the line as a capture group.
:'<,'>s/longhorn\(.*\)/longhorn\1-rwx
This one captures pesky optional " and places it back at the end if it found
one.
:'<,'>s/longhorn\("\?\)\(.*\)/longhorn\2-rwx\1
!!! see-also
<a href="/thought-200/" class="wikilink" data-title="The One Eyed Fighting Kirby" data-description="!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Ekt1PZBzQ&t=351s" data-date="2024-01-26">The One Eyed Fighting Kirby</a>
just good enough
I built shit on the web before AI, some of it was okay, some I put a lot of
time into, but some was just really shitty. Done just well enough to get the
job done. All of it had to be written by hand or copy pasted from stack
overflow. It was a lot of fun. Now we have a new level of shitty, it looks
fine. It looks like it should work good. None of it is just barely good
enough, nearly browser default style anymore.
I’ve been deploying my site old school for most of this year, rsync to a volume mounted to nginx. I ran into an issue today where I updated my site and all of the pages updated first, followed by upload. The issue this created was that the new cache busted css files were not up yet and the site had no styles for a brief period during upload.
I found that delaying updates and delaying deletes until the new content exists first solves this problem pretty well. Theres still possiblility of jank while uploading to a live directory and not doing some sort of hot swap, but I’m good with this low budget option for now.
sync:
rsync -rlt --delete --omit-dir-times \
--info=progress2 \
--delay-updates \
--delete-delay \
./output/ \
server:/mnt/mysite