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Touch dishwasher controls

2026-09-01T03:20:51Z

Touch dishwasher controls that don’t work with wet hands should be illegal, I’ll be starting mine with dried on s**** now.

politics in linux

2026-08-27T01:34:00Z

IDK if I agree with DHH on politics, have not gone looking for his views, dont really care to. I can 100% get behind leaving politics out of work, foss, linux. Until he starts dropping that omarchy money on some non-oss linux manner I’m with it. I dont think there is a world in which you can completely disassociate yourself with everyone that has a different viewpoint than yourself. There will always be things that simply don’t align with your lived experiences and that is okay.

when did openai bring back the hourly limit

2026-08-27T01:17:11Z

Here I am cranking away with lunamax tokenmaxxing on my $20 plus sub trying to keep 3 running around the clock to burn those precious tokens when open ai comes back and re-introduces the 5 hour limit, I just got used to rocking only a weekly limit.

second brain slop is dumb

2026-08-22T02:52:49Z

The second brain hype train of people looking at fancy graphs in obsidian of the content their clanker wrote for them is top tier cringe. If you actually want to get better at anything you need to actually put some effort in with your first brain.

agentic engineering takes discipline

2026-08-18T14:18:23Z

Agents allow so much scope creep it is harder to say no than it is to say yes, and let the model just pop in a new feature for you alongside you current pr with almost no effort on your befalf, staking up so much validation work for you to do that it becomes very difficult to merge. We are all learning this discipline right now.

Dammit I think I made an editor

2026-08-14T23:29:35Z

What started as a Joke, a test to gippity, has turned into personal software that I now depend on. Now from anywhere I can make a post to my website in just a few keystrokes. I can put it in the feed I want, encrypt it if I want, and it’s live in like 12s.

Microsoft can only 50k

2026-08-14T12:40:49Z

Microsoft can only build software that takes 50,000 people.

No one wants to on call vibes

2026-08-13T02:41:18Z

No one wants to be on call for ai/agentic/vibes.

At the same time no one wants to give it up

thinking about headlines

2026-08-07T02:16:17Z

I updated plaindown 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.

# 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 highlighted phrase can be long enough to wrap onto another line and test the highlight background.==

## Make a [**~small~ corner of the web**](https://waylonwalker.com) that feels _like yours._

## Chemistry should still work: H~2~**O** and x^2^

## Keyboard syntax should still work: ++Ctrl+C++

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, 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 highlighted phrase can be long enough to wrap onto another line and test the highlight background. #

Make a _small corner of the web that feels like yours. #

Chemistry should still work: H₂O and x² #

Keyboard syntax should still work: `Ctrl`+`C` #

Ping 66

2026-07-31T21:54:11Z

Human say few word, machine make big wow

Ping 65

2026-07-13T07:22:58Z

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

hmmm.

2026-06-22T19:50:49Z

TIL, ?. is sometimes pronounced as a hmm dot

Does codex change throughout the token usage window?

2026-06-21T19:50:49Z

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.

Mythos gone already

2026-06-13T08:32:03Z

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

just good enough

2026-06-10T21:00:55Z

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.

Flowing Thoughts Ai To Help Blast Radius

2026-05-29T17:41:35Z

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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2026-05-23T20:28:48Z

“All you have to be is good”

source

Not sure if this is a quote from somewhere but thought it was some interesting advice that @thorstenball received when he was starting into web development. He asked a friend already in the industry if he thought he had a shot. He had no degree, no credentials, no experience at the time.

remember rule 4

2026-05-20T20:39:22Z

I almost for got Rules 4 today, rollout when smooth late in the day right before a vacation day (terrible time to deploy I admit not my clearest plan). Race conditions are a b****, all around on this one. The app I was concerned about won the race to deploy first and was fine by itself, then another app had a race condition inside itself that killed it

almost left tokens on the table

2026-05-05T07:33:20Z

Almost didn’t get through those gippity tokens this week, woke up yesterday with 50% and a day to use them, cut full 5.4 loose on a big project that needs a lot of work an it gobbled em right up throughout the day ran out just before bed.

Can You Feel the Slop

2026-04-26T12:38:58Z

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.