Daily Notes

2026-08-27 Notes

2026-08-27T00:00:00Z

plaindown #

working on plaindown performance, and things are actually feeling much better as I type, it actually does feel like a huge difference until we hit a huge lag spike. Lag spikes are getting fewer and fewer in between.

current input delay is 65ms longest is 995ms, which is about what I’m feeling. The one spike was about a second, my p50 is 9ms and p95 at 19ms feels very snappy.

The thing we are missing next is templates being ready immediately.

2026-08-25 Notes

2026-08-25T00:00:00Z

md.waylonwalker.com #

Getting some great improvements on the lag spikes this morning.

Another @theo banger #

Automatic memory sucks, it chooses the wrong thing to keep, rarely references what it does keep, then when it does choose to reference something its not the right thing anyways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf54k7tFeEc

Turn off Claude Code’s Memory

@poteto tweet

2026-08-13 Notes

2026-08-13T00:00:00Z

Notable ^listens #

https://youtu.be/HC8T1OlgYi0

Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors

As always with Charity Majors this was a pretty great interview. Lots of repeat ideas with some good nuggets.

Aug 13, 2026

https://youtu.be/Gf0pR4_bv-o

There was a particularly good section about influence vs. manipulation. The line can be very thin and hard to ride between the two. Both can drive people to do work.

pmf #

poor mans fiberglass

first layer right on foam 50:50 water to glue
iron on canvas
final layer 25:75 water to glue

PlainDown #

Really happy with the progress I’m making on plaindown, today I really have the flow of pulling in changes between desktop and phone greased up. A dritical keybinding to get commits in with ctrl + enter landed and it feels really good to get it all keyboard centric.

Untitled 2026-08-11

2026-08-11T18:03:22Z

https://youtu.be/e1snsuY4lTI

great video on setting up skills and agents.md need to take some notes on it.

Many Small Skills #

Something I noticed here was that theo has many small skills. Prime example he talked about his pr skill, he split out file-pr and babysit-pr into separate skills.

html">HTML #

I like how he set up his html reporting skill so that he can one line HTML at the end and get the agent to start responding in html.

waylonwalker.com on new builder #

new builder watcher, kicks off immediately on commit through websocket connection back to the repo.

plaindown↓ performance #

Working on md.waylonwalker.com performance, and I think we are seeing really good reponses. Things are moving much quicker with less noticable lag spikes than before, they are not completely gone, but we are really getting there. 󱨛.

@clanker

Performance #

Moved Markdown parsing to a Web Worker.
Delayed preview updates until the editor is idle.
Reduced work during typing.
Typing now stays responsive while the preview updates.

baseline numbers #

Preview render: 289 ms average
Preview render P95: 671 ms
Preview render maximum: 769 ms
Typing latency P95: 22.6 ms
Worst recorded character input: 52 ms

Preview performance

xychart-beta
    title "Preview render time — lower is better"
    x-axis ["Average", "P95"]
    y-axis "Milliseconds" 0 --> 700
    bar [289, 671]
    bar [122, 184]

Typing performance #

xychart-beta
    title "Typing latency"
    x-axis ["P50", "P95"]
    y-axis "Milliseconds" 0 --> 25
    bar [8.2, 22.6]
    bar [6.7, 20.4]

rendering in the latest version is quite slow, it really waits until I am done before it renders a preview. I think we are going to have to change this.

daily 2026-08-10

2026-08-10T15:31:06Z

Moving waylonwalker.com to the builder admin so that I get live builds on the main waylonwalker.com site, automated reader updates, updates from git push. This will pair very well with my new editor md.waylonwalker.com.

working an a fullsize keyboard build #

Wyatt and Rhiannon both have wanted this for awhile. Maybe more Wyatt, not sure. Wyatt wants something small, because he likes small cute things, but he also wants dedicated numbers, f-keys, arrows, print screen. so it

full size keyboard build

Looking at this image I realize that I need to open some of the bottom to let fingers in.

plaindown features #

Mobile #

Plaindown is working fantastic as a note editor from mobile, but has a few things hard to get to when you are raw doggin a phone with no keeb attached. Pull up push down second footer with some buttons to help authorship.

Upload image
Favorite templates
Fuzzy picker

Alternatively remove filename and words from footer in mobile mode.

Desktop features #

I cannot believe that its becoming something that I use on desktop. Am I giving up my beloved nvim, no they are different, but there is something hyper specific here that is working.

quickfix feed
drag from sidebar into post to link
control enter to commit
diffs have use remote and use mine but no merge
commit is a bit slow with no indication to what is being done, some slowdown for the api is expected, but something on the screen showing what’s going on would help. For sure disable and spin the commit button.

Untitled 2026-08-09

2026-08-09T17:23:28Z

Plaindown new post of type shot is failing

Daily note should be published and not draft by default

2026-04-06 Notes

2026-04-06T08:37:37Z

https://youtu.be/cbgSkrQ3HNg?si=VJ2kqj8XD0P6ukI_

Slow down to move fast It feels painful to exercise restraint and see competition move forward Clarity first Long term health Stop trying to operate in the future

2026-03-03 Notes

2026-03-03T14:34:59Z

The big news today sweeping everywhere is the weekend bombing of Iran, Anthropic had an ultimatum to allow AI agents to autonomously pull the trigger on life or death decisions and monitor every citizen in public spaces. They stood their ground and it looks like many Americans stood with them, while spending millions on superbowl ads did almost nothing to them, this shot them to the top app downloads as openai subs plummet and anthropic subs soar.

I’m old enough to remember 9/11/01, an event that would kick off decade long war. It felt different then. Maybe because I was 12, maybe because the Internet was not the prominant source of live new information. The vibe was support. Support to right the wrongs, prevent future attacks. That day had lasting effects for decades to come to the people on the ground.

This is not meant to be politicaly in any way, not take any side good, bad, right, wrong, purple, or grey, just the vibes I’m feeling and wanted to document for some reason. Logging this one in unpublished, idk, not really my expertise just wanted to write feelings.

2026-01-23 Notes

2026-01-23T22:28:38Z

Next for markata go

Embed post, internal and external
Og images
Post importer - thoughts
Reader / blogroll plugin
K9s inspired tui
:files, :posts, :tags, :feeds,

Extra classes

Wikilinks

Lsp

Complete wikilinks
Complete mentions
Document diagnostic
Workspace diagnostics
Config completions

Jinja_md obsidian like support

View as in footer

Archive missing grid of pages

Nav footer different on feeds than post Sometimes the skip to content peeks into the top left corner of the page by a few pixels, it’s distracting

Tap to zoom image

Google font

Sitemap

Background image support

Mouse support in tui works, not in tmux

All optional plugins with config from user should raise warning configured not able

Lines of code should be separate from word count

Tui press enter, should see full post and scroll/read render markdown

Update branding from fast to comprehensive

Debug pages, show config

Image gallery
carousel
Prev/next
Embedfeed
Fix aside
Contrast / flashbang check on admonitions styles on all themes.
Glossary
Banner post
Keys
Containers

Page 1 link is always highlighted
Page 1 link is broken when coming from page 1
On mobile search is too wide
Shots needs warmed with a head request

2025-11-21 Notes

2025-11-21T14:25:59Z

Learned about nginx_auth today. Feels good to unlock a new skill that I did not quite understand before. I don’t think I grasped that there is a backend server in this flow to handle every request. I could not fathom how this was secure with nginx alone.

https://git.wayl.one/waylon/learn-nginx-auth

I’m excited to give this a try in my homelab with k3s ingress next.

2025-11-19 Notes

2025-11-19T18:55:14Z

Making progress on dropper this week.

In prod.

resize for image and video
File feed with paging
New plain filesystem backend

In dev

Robust video conversion that seems to work on all my test videos
Duplicate file detection

Thinking about kedro pipelines from my phone in a parking lot here. I’m thinking about big picture what’s next for my pipelines. I want an effective Dr plan. I want to create telemetry endpoints for catalog. This will enable the Dr plan to identify critical data that is not created by a pipeline and communication points to other teams.

2025-11-04 Notes

2025-11-04T18:43:38Z

Today I gave mcat a try and it’s so sick. It can cat anything right in the terminal, pdf, image, even video. It even works inside tmux unlike almost anything else that I’ve tried.

2025-08-25 Notes

2025-08-25T10:45:08Z

Gave modd a try and it seems pretty good, will likely be slotting it in next to my justfile usage.

Gave sus a try, but it lacked the configurability and flexibility I was looking for. For now I will stick to markata-redirects plugin.

2025-08-23 Notes

2025-08-23T19:27:05Z

Knife Sharpener #

Today, some great work on the knife sharpener re-design. I’ve been using the same one since I first got my ender 3 3d printer, and have wanted to make some changes ever since.

Wyatt sat with me through the design, I probably would not have gone this deep without him, he thought the helmet look was hilarious

Knife Sharpener Double Hinge First Try

Notice one of the biggest problems with this one here is how much is slides around

This wing nut really set it apart

Hollow Knight #

Progress on the Hollow Knight Keeb Run. SILKSONG in 2 WEEKS!!

Getting The Lumafly Lantern In My Hollow Knight Keeb Run Unlocking Royal Waterways In Hollow Knight Keeb Run Entering Royal Waterway Hollow Knight Keeb Run Unlock Royal Waterway Bench In Hollow Knight Keeb

todays script #

Made a little script to grab these

for post in m.feeds.today.posts:
    if post.get('image', None):
        print(f'![{post["title"]}]({post["image"]})')
    else:
        print(f'[{post["title"]}]({post["url"]})')

2025-08-21 Notes

2025-08-21T07:43:49Z

https://youtu.be/-EYRzF0zp3U?si=mKCPlMDecrqzvjuF

Is ai in 2025 like a Roomba vacuum? The ads make it look fantastic but after some time it becomes worthless and needs constant monitoring.

https://youtube.com/shorts/iIDVm_J-JxU?si=WRiLXASnXlqqidLi

For some reason the first one has kinda stuck with me.

You think youre thinking, but you’re mostly remembering. Your thoughts are just loops your nervous system finds familiar, your not making decisions, your repeating emotional echos. Unless you interrupt the loop your future is your past in disguise.

2025-08-17 Notes

2025-08-17T12:21:47Z

After a long time I begrudgingly setup window rules for hyprland. What I wanted was the ability to log out and jump back into work with a freshened work space. Right now I’m running on low ram and disk on hyprland and sometimes I need to just quit everything and get back to work quick. So I setup exec-once to start my terminal, browser, and chat. These are my main applications that run on my power fingers 456 (which are on a layer that present under jkl). I use them every time I log in and will need them no matter what I do. When I exec once them, they just dump onto one workspace, you can pick it but no matter the timing, you end up with race conditions that end up with you on different workspaces.

So I setup window rules. I avoided this for a long time, because of my workflow on awesomewm, I thought this manual workspace selection was superior. What I really think happened was that awesomewm was a little trickier for me to figure out what things were named and to actually get the rules setup correctly.

hyprland makes this pretty simple with its great cli.

hyprctl clients -j | jq | grep class

Now that I can see attributes of these windows as I open them I can set up rules for them to go onto the correct workspace, or to float them. I have a couple of things like a file picker coming from a browser showing up in the tiled layout, when a file picker like this shows up, just cover everything up its temporary, no need to squeeze it into the tiled layout.

the file picker float also fixed an issue I had where they would not show up, and lock up brave when its in full screen mode and I don’t realize it.

windowrulev2 = workspace 1, class:^(steam)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 4, class:^(kitty)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 5, class:^(firefox)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 5, class:^(brave-browser)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 5, class:^(google-chrome)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 6, class:^(Signal)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 2, class:^(krita)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 8, class:^(brave-chat.openai.com__-Default)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 8, class:^(brave-youtube.com__-Default)$
windowrulev2 = float, class:^(org.pulseaudio.pavucontrol)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 9, class:^(org.prismlauncher.PrismLauncher)$
windowrulev2 = float, class:^(org.prismlauncher.PrismLauncher)$, title:^(Console window.*)
windowrulev2 = float, class:^(xdg-desktop-portal-gtk)$

2025-08-16 Notes

2025-08-16T10:07:21Z

homelab-cleanup-day">HomeLab cleanup day #

remove nextcloud
pause photoprism
pause syncthing
move data to walkershare
filepermissions 1000:1000 all of it
organize how I want
resume photoprism
resume syncthing - update share locations
expose to mac over smb
ensure mac can write over smb
expose to archlinux oversmb
ensure archlinux can write over smb
expose to syncthing over pvc
expose to my terminal over pvc

wishlist

Forgejo repos
Forgejo runners
explore moving from docker repository to repoflow

2025-08-14 Notes

2025-08-14T20:15:54Z

Huge progress on shots not to be confused with shots inspired by https://justin.searls.co/shots/. I’m building out my own instagram grid design, right now its 4 wide, but I wonder if it should be 3 wide to match up with the old instagram grid designs, and I could do cool crops like instagram used to.

I went through a bunch of old Posts tagged: gratitude posts and pulled images from all of them, and update all of the images to use dropper while I was at it.

More work after kids bed time and came up with a great concept that needs to go into markata, yes its more configuration. markata is quickly becoming death by config. What I wanted was the ability to make different cards different sizes.

What I came up with was adding “card_classes” to the front matter of the markdown file. This is a list of classes that will be added to the card div when the card is rendered. This way I can make cards different sizes. Here are a couple of good results I had.

A landscape shot of quarry lake

An image of Rhiannon and I at sunset

Made a bit of cyberbrink crane progress, glued in a few cables and put the cab on top of the tower.

2025-08-13 Notes

2025-08-13T21:23:24Z

Inspired by Justin Searls Shots, I made started my own shots feed for self hosted Instagram style photos. The layout could use a lot of work, the feed seems like its breaking on rebuild due to some cache issues, but its there and kind of works and eventually will get a proper prominently placed link, for now its an idea for anyone who sees this.

https://waylonwalker.com/shots/

By the way what a boss domain searls.co is. I’ve seen Chris Coyier just got coyer.com and talked about being able to use it as a family domain.

2025-08-12 Notes

2025-08-12T16:46:31Z

Sad day yesterday. We discovered that our freezer was left cracked over a day or so. Kids self serviced themselves to some sausage dogs at some point and wedged the box in the door. Everything was over 40F and done.

Lessons learned for everyone. For the kids, see something say something, food should not come out of a freezer soft and barely fridge temp. For the parents, don’t get in a rush when loading the freezer. If something doesn’t quite look like it’s going to stay out, it probably won’t and next person to use it will pay… Or you will pay when they don’t notice. Last lesson for everyone, when you come home late and tired from a family trip to Grandma’s and hear beeping it’s probably important and investigate.

I need some more ram… Was waiting out prime day, prices went up and haven’t gone down.

forgejo is pretty dope, played with it for awhile today locally, create repos with curl, git push, actions working with multiple runners.