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Jul 27 – Aug 2, 20263 months ago

Featured this weekWriting

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"]

Photo journal · Jul 27 – Aug 2, 2026

In pictures 1 photographs

I Feel Called Out For Burning Things In The Oven
I Feel Called Out For Burning Things In The Oven

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Human say few word, machine make big wow

Jul 20 – Jul 26, 20263 months ago

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Jul 13 – Jul 19, 20263 months ago

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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.

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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 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…

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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?

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Jul 6 – Jul 12, 20263 months ago

Featured this weekWriting

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.

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, 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.

131d6463-bcbb-4ee8-80aa-bb7355915eb9.webp

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.

export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
gpg-connect-agent updatestartuptty /bye

printf test | gpg \
  --local-user 9A47900E81415D65C32C630066E2BF2B4190EFE4 \
  --pinentry-mode loopback \
  --sign >/dev/null

Photo journal · Jul 6 – Jul 12, 2026

In pictures 1 photographs

got me my first set of akko rosewoods
got me my first set of akko rosewoods

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Jun 29 – Jul 5, 20264 months ago

Featured this weekWriting

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.

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

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Jun 22 – Jun 28, 20264 months ago

Photo journal · Jun 22 – Jun 28, 2026

In pictures 5 photographs

Fresh Marin
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.
Into The Tunnel
Super cool tunnel on our bike ride feels like air conditioning even on the hottest days.
Entering The Tunnel
Some rich greenery surrounding a beautiful creek entering a long tunnel.
Fresh Marin In The Dark
Shot of the freshly rebuilt Marin Kentfield in the dark.
I Did One More Prompt To A Long Running Session A Day Later
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.

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hmmm.

TIL, ?. is sometimes pronounced as a hmm dot

Jun 15 – Jun 21, 20264 months ago

Featured this weekWriting

Keys.waylonwalker.com

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…

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Malicious Aur Packages Jun 2026

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…
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Prompt Seagulls

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…
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Photo journal · Jun 15 – Jun 21, 2026

In pictures 5 photographs

T Handle Wire Puller In Action
T Handle Wire Puller in Action, sliding in to grab some fresh copper.
T Handle Wire Puller
T Handle Wire Puller, with just the right hook on the end, and filed down just thin enough to slip in and grab wire.
Sharpdart
Fleatopia Supplies
Out On A Night Ride On The Trail
Out on a night ride on the trail

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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.

Jun 8 – Jun 14, 20264 months ago

Featured this weekWriting

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

Photo journal · Jun 8 – Jun 14, 2026

In pictures 2 photographs

The Daylilies Are In Full Bloom 2026
The daylilies are in full bloom 2026
The Unraveled

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Mythos gone already

Mythos released days ago, now its gone, before most of us were allowed to touch it.

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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.

Jun 1 – Jun 7, 20264 months ago

Featured this weekWriting

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

Photo journal · Jun 1 – Jun 7, 2026

In pictures 3 photographs

The Unraveled Fail
Surgeons Key
Liquid Laquer

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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 weekWriting

Photo journal · May 25 – May 31, 2026

In pictures 2 photographs

First Sinner
Almost Broken Drivetrain
Chain 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.

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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…

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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…

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Flowing Thoughts Ai To Help Blast Radius

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

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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…

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