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Apr 20 – Apr 26, 20266 months ago

Photo journal · Apr 20 – Apr 26, 2026

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Raging Conchfly

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Can You Feel the Slop

Do you ever vibe code out a POC, and you can just feel the shitty code underneath? Every change causes 3 things to break and wires get crossed all over the place. Sometimes I just want to write the code again. Maybe its time to slow down.

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approve rm

Hot take, if you are unwilling to approve rm you should rethink your workflow, git state, or backups.

Apr 13 – Apr 19, 20266 months ago

Featured this weekWriting

Stow comes with a local and global ignore list that you can use to ignore certain files or directories.

If you put Perl regular expressions, one per line, in a .stow-local-ignore file within any top level package directory, in which case any file or directory within that package matching any of these regular expressions will be ignored. In the absence of this package-specific ignore list, Stow will instead use the contents of ~/.stow-global-ignore, if it exists. If neither the package-local or global ignore list exist, Stow will use its own built-in default ignore list, which serves as a useful example of the format of these ignore list files:

Example given from the docs

RCS
.+,v

CVS
\.\#.+       # CVS conflict files / emacs lock files
\.cvsignore

\.svn
_darcs
\.hg

\.git
\.gitignore
\.gitmodules

.+~          # emacs backup files
\#.*\#       # emacs autosave files

^/README.*
^/LICENSE.*
^/COPYING

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https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/manual/html_node/Types-And-Syntax-Of-Ignore-Lists.html

Photo journal · Apr 13 – Apr 19, 2026

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When You Reach That F-It Moment And Screw Your Carpet To The Floor
When you reach that f-it moment and screw your carpet to the floor

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I’m regressing back to boomer ai for more plan mode style prompting at home… It does a decent job at ingesting a repo and coming up with plans before I start spending precious tokens.

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Tokens Just don’t go as far as they used to

Not sure if this is simply the flavor of the month, or a shift in gpt5.4 being super subsidized on release and now that we have gpt5.4-mini-fast out they have shifted, but I’m burning through half of my $20 gippity sub in a day with hobby level use. Second week in a row its burning so fast.

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Is it just me or are the agents not behaving today?

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“Am I Crazy?” [Wading Through AI - Episode 3] www.youtube.com ↗
Casey had an interesting point here. I think demitri came back with some sense of sanity that its just not how corporations look at employee cost, but I still thought it was a head scratcher. Roughly translated not quoted If the sellers of ai are telling you that your developers are going to be 10x productive, why are…

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A love letter to Pi | Lucas Meijer www.youtube.com ↗
I hate how he called out terminal user interfaces as shit… then proved web interfaces to be superior. Damn him. I love working from my terminal, but having ai prove itself through html reports including video, image, metrics, charts, and text is goated. Rethinking yourself has the bottleneck not the orchestrator feels…

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I wrote code by hand today… I was out of tokens

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Write It First, Then Let AI Drive - Kenneth Reitz kennethreitz.org ↗
Write It First, Then Let AI Drive There's a thing that happens when you start using AI coding tools seriously. You assume the best workflow is obvious: let AI generate the first draft, then... Kenneth Reitz · kennethreitz.org Interesting take by Kenneth Reitz. Not quite sure how I feel about it anymore. It kinda hurts,…

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I am slowly coming around to AI assisted programming. x.com ↗
ThePrimeagen (@ThePrimeagen) on X I am slowly coming around to AI assisted programming. I am genuinely trying to codify every rule about programming that I have and using that + several stages to build out small changes. Not s… X (formerly Twitter) · x.com If agents make prime a bit faster, what does that mean for the…

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AIs aren’t good rule followers x.com ↗
Uncle Bob Martin (@unclebobmartin) on X AIs aren’t good rule followers. The older the rule in the context window, the less priority it is given. So the best way to enforce the rules is with external tools that communicate failure to th… X (formerly Twitter) · x.com I’ve gotta agree with bob on this one, the first thing…

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Prove Yourself Agent

Ask your agents to prove their work. Include it in the initial prompt, not later.

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A quote from Steve Yegge simonwillison.net ↗
Steve Yegge Steve Yegge: I was chatting with my buddy at Google, who's been a tech director there for about 20 years, about their AI adoption. Craziest convo I've had all year. … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net behind, yet positioned to completely dominate this race by hitting it with some sense. Making tre…

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What happens when the 0 days are exposed?

What’s going to happen to all of our software when Anthropic Mythos finds all of the 0 day vulnerabilities? Will everything depending on the bugs break? Will it be possible to fix them cleanly? Will we all get pwnd when the bad actors get access to them before everything is patched? Will LTS Operating Systems Die?

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How does Claude Code actually work? - YouTube www.youtube.com ↗
5 star video, if you are going to watch one video to understand how harnesses and agents work, this is it. This really had my gears spinning on what tools do for agents and how big of a difference they make in their ability to manage context efficiently and accurately create changes. It’s crazy how good bash works, and…

Apr 6 – Apr 12, 20266 months ago

Photo journal · Apr 6 – Apr 12, 2026

In pictures 2 photographs

Clearing out Creige's Cellar for the Vintage Nectar.
Fighting the second Savage Beastfly in Far Fields

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Artemis II Lunar Flyby www.nasa.gov ↗
Artemis II Lunar Flyby - NASA The first flyby images of the Moon captured by NASA’s Artemis II astronauts during their historic test flight reveal regions of the Moon's far side, as well as an in-space solar eclipse. Released... NASA · nasa.gov One of the biggest scientific achievement of our lifetime happened this wee…

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@seldo.com on Bluesky bsky.app ↗
Laurie Voss (@seldo.com) Project Glasswing is a glimpse at an oncoming future in which agents do things humans could never have accomplished and the results are handled by other agents faster than humans could react and we... Bluesky Social · bsky.app Is Glasswing the next inflection point

Mar 30 – Apr 5, 20267 months ago

Photo journal · Mar 30 – Apr 5, 2026

In pictures 10 photographs

3x3-3 Gaming Keeb Complete
freshly built gaming keyboard for @wyatt sitting on my desk
Wonka Letters
Wonka letters all cut out ready to get some stiffeners and go off for paint.
Hair Whittling Sharp
Hair whittling sharp, Do I get my redneck nerd card yet?
Llama In Pi Thinks Its Claude
I just launched ollama picked pi as it asked what harness I wanted to run, and it responded telling me it was claude.
Ty 0.0.26
ty 0.0.26 was released on 3/26/26, nice work planning.
What a banger of a tui, fantastic job cloning monkeytype. Looks so good. The toast messages are a tell tale built with textual.
Sparklines On The Feeds Header
View of the new markata-go feeds header with the banger of a sparkline.
Getting Excited For This New Feeds Page
This sparklines on this new feeds page are chefs kiss.
A person holds a clear, compartmentalized tray containing multiple small sections filled with light-colored, granular material
A person holds a clear, compartmentalized tray containing multiple small sections filled with light-colored, granular material. The tray is set against the backdrop of an outdoor wooden deck railing.
Wyatt’s First Printed Cosplay Scales
Wyatt printed these sick scales today and they came out so good on first try, luckily Rhiannon already had the fabric for him and he was able to follow his passion on this project while the spark was lit.

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BumpMesh by CNC Kitchen bumpmesh.com ↗
BumpMesh by CNC Kitchen Add displacement textures to STL, OBJ, and 3MF models directly in your browser. Preview, mask, bake, and export printable textured meshes locally. BumpMesh · bumpmesh.com Absolutely sick texture app from cnc kitchen. Like him I’ve spent a bunch of time attempting and failing to learn blender, I’…

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What is this job anymore

The job of writing code is dying, models are getting better, the average person will have their average features implemented in average ways with no effort by agents, the writing is on the wall. We are still trying to review most of the critical code, this is slowing us down, is it really stopping any bugs or giving us any more familiarity with the product, marginally.

The time is now to grease up your UAT, testing, deployment pipelines. Dont let agents delete entire regions. Review your backup and restore strategy, you do have a DR plan right?

Things are changing fast, the best of us are still better than the clankers. Most of us have more context than the clankers. Most of us have more intuition of what and where to implement fixes. Context windows and memory will be solved problems. Your DR plan, UAT, testinng and QA environments will not come for free, you need to make them, and deeply integrate them into your processes.

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GitHub - kraanzu/smassh at terminaltrove · GitHub github.com ↗
GitHub - kraanzu/smassh at terminaltrove Smassh your Keyboard, TUI Edition. Contribute to kraanzu/smassh development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com smassh is the coolest monkeytype tui clone, its impressively accurate. Easy to install and run, all the same themes appear to be there and everything…

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The final nail for Windows?

Easy anticheat for linux is out.

If this were real what would you play first? For me it’s skate . is really the only thing I care about and I’m fine without it.

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Tuesday, March 31, 2026 | Baty.net baty.net ↗
External Link baty.net emacs config so bad he launch obsidian, YIKES! grantid I’m using obsidian currently on my phone, not for this post, but for journal entries while I’m away from my desk. Use this as a reminder that you can swim through murky waters with your dotfiles for awhile, but occasionally its good to do a c…

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Release 0.9.17 · astral-sh/uv · GitHub github.com ↗
Release 0.9.17 · astral-sh/uv Release Notes Released on 2025-12-09. Enhancements Add torch-tensorrt and torchao to the PyTorch list (#17053) Add hint for misplaced –verbose in uv tool run (#17020) Add support for relative du… GitHub · github.com uv adds dependency cooldowns via #16814. Well needed feature in todays wor…

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Package Managers Need to Cool Down simonwillison.net ↗
Package Managers Need to Cool Down Today's LiteLLM supply chain attack inspired me to revisit the idea of dependency cooldowns, the practice of only installing updated dependencies once they've been out in the wild for a … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net 2026, finding the balance between fixed bugs and zero…

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no one read the source x.com ↗
ThePrimeagen (@ThePrimeagen) on X don't forget last time Anthropic, in their infinite PhD level wisdom, leaked their own source code (Feb 25) they DMCA'd all repos that had their code. Careful storing the code because Anthropic w… X (formerly Twitter) · x.com Everyone look away, nothing to see here.

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safe words x.com ↗
Mete Polat (@metedata) on X @Fried_rice @Scobleizer Anthropic is now officially more open than OpenAI X (formerly Twitter) · x.com Anthropic safewords are the talk of the town today.

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the cheng lou pretext tweet x.com ↗
Cheng Lou (@_chenglou) on X My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important f… X (formerly Twitter) · x.com webdev twitter is blowing up with implementations of pretext text c…

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you can replace the spinning verbs in Claude Code x.com ↗
Josh Medeski (@joshmedeski) on X Did you know you can replace the spinning verbs in Claude Code. I'm having fun with it. X (formerly Twitter) · x.com The claude code source code leaked today and the tweets are great, maybe twitter is back. Did you know you can replace the spinning verbs in Claude Code. I’m having fun w…

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Okay so I logged into twitter today, and we are back…. probably not for long, but we are for now. Claude Code source leaked, the tweets are great. [[ thoughts-956 ]], [[ thoughts-958 ]], [[ thoughts-959 ]], Some typescript css text layout with bouncing balls, bubbles, strings, and webcam video to text is blowing up [[ thoughts-957 ]]. This is the tech twitter I remember no sad news how the world is corrupt by the other side.

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@nicknisi.com on Bluesky bsky.app ↗
@nicknisi) — Y'all, I think I'm a convert to pi" loading="lazy"> Nick Nisi ( @nicknisi) Y'all, I think I'm a convert to pi Bluesky Social · bsky.app I’m about to be pi pilled.