I had no idea how these pipes worked, I’ve accidentally spawned so many that have sat there and waited for something to come down the pipe, but did not know this was what was happening.
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, seamlessly upgrading hardware without you needing to buy, sell, or trade a thing. They talk about the one model that drove them into psychosis, I’m pretty sure it wa…
dax (@thdxr.com) so obviously n=1 but anecdotes matter a lot here i gave kimi k3 and sol the same task - simple issue with hovers in the tui being the wrong color sol found and fixed the issue with $0.30 of spend… Bluesky Social · bsky.app So much nuance in model selection. It’s hard to keep up.
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 won’t be able to play the game. I won’t be able to buy cheap used copies in 6 months as people beat the game. I won’t be able to t…
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?
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Jul 6 – Jul 12, 20263 months ago
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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 can’t remember”
They represent the Windows carriage return.
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.
When I open up a file and see this garbage all over, it’s not cozy, I want them
gone, I don’t 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
Writing
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.
Interesting thoughts from a real OG Kent Beck. He argues we are witnessing 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…
Jun 29 – Jul 5, 20264 months ago
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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.
Writing
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.
The Internet I Grew Up With Doesn’t Exist Anymore A thorough retrospective of my time on the internet. cleberg.net 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 p…
Jun 22 – Jun 28, 20264 months ago
Photo journal · Jun 22 – Jun 28, 2026
In pictures 5 photographs
Marin refresh 2026 wen't so good, the bike now shifts through all of the gears super smooth and is an absolute joy to ride.Super cool tunnel on our bike ride feels like air conditioning even on the hottest days.Some rich greenery surrounding a beautiful creek entering a long tunnel.Shot of the freshly rebuilt Marin Kentfield in the dark.I did one more prompt to a long running performance tuning session, that included many runs-reruns, and it took a chunk out of my 5 hour limit.
Today I got sick of my go to online keyboard tester 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 pa…
Recent Arch linux vulnerabilities are a good reminder of a few things. AUR 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. Currently the reported vulnerabilities…
I was listening to @syntaxfm this morning and @wesbos said at 328s “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” Ther…
Photo journal · Jun 15 – Jun 21, 2026
In pictures 5 photographs
T Handle Wire Puller in Action, sliding in to grab some fresh copper.T Handle Wire Puller, with just the right hook on the end, and filed down just thin enough to slip in and grab wire.SharpdartFleatopia SuppliesOut on a night ride on the trail
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.
Jun 8 – Jun 14, 20264 months ago
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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.
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.
Jun 1 – Jun 7, 20264 months ago
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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.
The Website Specification A platform-agnostic, full specification of the technical features a good website should have. Built in the open under an MIT licence. The Website Specification · specification.website A solid checklist for agents to implement on most sites. Very few sites need 100% coverage, but most should pr…
May 25 – May 31, 20265 months ago
Featured this week / Writing
Photo journal · May 25 – May 31, 2026
In pictures 2 photographs
First SinnerChain between the gears, its almost more frustrating that it still works most of the time and teases me that if I just knew what I was doing I could fix it properly.
Revisiting the closed canon A post I wrote in 2023, the closing of the canon, predicted that LLM answers would replace search results, dramatically lowering traffic to individual sites, thereby removing the incentives to eve... Derek Kedziora · derekkedziora.com This is what makes rss so interesting to me. Its boring o…
On Rendering Diffs A technical deep dive into how we built the @pierre/diffs package and CodeView component for zero-blanking diff rendering. Pierre Computer Company · pierre.computer It’s incredible how some problems seem so simple until you load the browser with so much text it just bogs to nothing and how impossibly…
#tech #coding" playlabel="Play: His presence is still felt in the codebase to this day 😂 #codingmemes #developermemes #tech #coding"> Remember this clip in 5 years, after the churn we just had with RTO and ai this is going to hit. Or AI will just figure is all out for us, who knows anymore. Not that they will figure ou…
Not sure how this matters to anyone else, but I’m sitting in the car and letting the thoughts flow.
I’m having really interesting conversations with ai recently. Like things I never thought I would care this deeply about. In part because it feels like the vulns are coming faster and harder, and in part because it is really enabling me to invest some time into the development that I would not otherwise have. I’m thinking about least privilege, reducing dependencies in containers, limiting pod access to the Internet and other pods. Reducing the blast radius.
Now I’ve always been hesitant to bring in new dependencies. I’ve always tried to strip to the lowest possible dependency set n my containers, but I would also re-use the main server container to run cron job workflows. I wasn’t giving much thought about what services they could access, or their internet access
How many people watching this sent their clankers out to make a uuid service for them as they were watching it. UUID as a service sounds great, heck @steipete just has to mention it and his claws are on it building out the service, no need to even type anything or directly form a thought, just mention it in the meeting…
Lamb of God, a true classic, This album takes me back to high school. I don’t think I listened to the sacrament album as much, but “The Ashes of the Wake” was my jam for awhile, particularly hourglass.