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Social Media is dead, interest media killed it long ago. I no longer feel like I’m connecting to people, creating community, having fun, learning. I feel like I’m being shoveled slop from the slop machine, I’m sure mostly create by well intentioned people just trying to make it in the world, trying to make their mark, trying to make something of themselves. The algos long lost the idea of subs and likes, and transitioned to how long you will pause on a topic. What used to be a series of recognizable faces, names, avatars, each with their own personality that I could come to learn and know who was just trollin, who was serious, is now mostly unrecognizable. Platforms have changed and fractured communities people went separate ways, not all the same ways. No one community is like it used to be, and its hard to find.
/carry/
EDC I try to keep a pretty light every day carry, but it never works out, keyfobs and headphone cases end up causing more bulk than I’d like, but My EDC is no where near the bulk I had as a kid with my cargo pants decked out with everything I could possibly need. I hold no attachment to anything in my EDC. Nothing on my person has sentimental value. Anything I carry can be lost, stolen, or destroyed at any point in time. I pick things of sufficient usable, utilitarian, quality sufficient to work. No extra fluff. Google Pixel 6 Ridge Wallet Olight Perun - Since April 2022 Civivi Qubit - Since March 2024 after my last one was donated to the Indianapolis Stadium OpenFit Shokz Rules lightweight replacable no emotional attachments utilitarian everything serves a purpose My kit Phone Google Pixel 6 I will not get finance a new phone for the foreseeable future again. The last time I feel like I got a phone that felt like an upgrade was 2018 when I went to the Pixel 3. The pixel 6 and pixel 8…
Where Is The Tech Industry Going
Agents suck
Get left behind if you don’t use them
Burn out if you use them too much
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To Live In A World Without AI I'm finding lately that I wish we could go back to pre-ChatGPT... A world without a code-gen easy button, where "easy" was LSP autocomplete, where tools were... My mental data-lake · pype.dev We f& #ing said @pype, well f& #ing said. I think a lot of us are feeling this, we’ve pitched our brain into a bucket and we are no longer stretching it in the same way. We still work in similar ways of old, with new ways of turning off and saying yes a bunch of times. the best thing I can hope for is that as things get better we have fewer yes loops, and more architectural design debates and deep thoughts. But I fear deep thoughts are gone to the way of “research the leading 10 frameworks and pick the best one for this project.” and letting the clankers do the deep thinking. Its signing us up for a weird distopia. I think a lot of us wish we could undo what has happened and go back to actually understanding what we are doing, but the world has changed, and if you are building average shit, like the average person, using models trained on average people doing average shit you cant keep up anymore.
My Thoughts on Beads Steve Yegge is a pretty well-known individual in the tech field, having been around for a long time at some of the larger companies. He's making quite a... My mental data-lake · pype.dev I’m in step with @pype here, I really want beads to work for me, but my systems for infra/platform work are all over the place, not one repo. I’m considering trying the env var but idk if it fits my workflow. For now, similar to @pype, I am rocking my own home vibed solution that I’ve intentionally put little effort in and its working great and I expect it to be broken and not working with the latest harnesses and models within a few months anyways, cause there is no predicting this train.
paynepride dot com outage on vacation The day after I leave for vacation I start getting SSL errors on every homelab service I host for myself and others. The culprit was my Cloudflare API token... My mental data-lake · pype.dev oof, outage on the homelab during vacation, brutal. I can think of a couple of similar solutions to what @pype has done to tailscale in, but I’m not sure that I could do this remotely. On one hand I’m so glad that cloudflared just takes care of certs on the other hand this really brings a gap in my understanding of what the heck I would do if it were broken. An untested DR plan is not a DR plan. An untested backup does not exist.
Is Compaction The Issue
I saw today in work chat something along the lines of “we need bigger context windows” “compaction times are holding us back”. Maybe I’m just blessed with the lack of lord jira, maybe juggle too many projects at once and they are all pretty much done when I get back. Maybe I do more long running specs and spend time making good plans that it does not matter.
Anyways the point I’m getting to is that if you think that compaction is your main issue slowing you down, and 10x this if you are a manager thinking this is what is slowing down your team you need to look at your workflow. Not because it sucks. Not only because it could be better. Because you are signing yourself and your team up for burnout if you are sitting there watching these things run like waiting for paint to dry and firing more prompts at them as soon as they are done. It feels easy. It feels like you are going fast. Its eating more brainpower than you think, and its not getting you to your...
Vibe coding is going so far into the news sphere now that Adam Savage even weighs in with perspectives from someone who has built a life around building things with his hands, keeping up with new making techniques, discovering old techniques as they combine with new. He talks about 3d printing reviving his love of the pantograph as one automation technique eases the most difficult part of another.
Lets Land The Plane
Part of @steveyegge ’s gastown/beads is a prompt “Lets land the plane”. It’s very straightforward forward and what any sane human would probably do before finishing work, except the last part. The “generate a handoff prompt for the next session” was not something I’ve put much thought into. But now that I juggle 6 sessions at a time and often end up with 20 sessions open because I don’t want to close them and loose the last bit of context. This is what I need to keep from crippling my laptop memory from all of these stale sessions hanging around.
Taken from https://ianbull.com/posts/beads
Reddit reddit.com This is a fantastic progression through kuberentes concepts. From running a pod, to making it resiliant, holding secrets, accepting traffic, and autoscaling.
I’ve been having issue with my keyboard disconnecting to my main desktop for awhile. Today I got a cheap bluetooh dongle in and am giving it a run this week to see how things go. The first step was to move it to the new adapter. I’ve never had multiple adapters installed so this was a new to me process.
I was able to do it all with the same keyboard, It did require some juggling between usb and bluetooth modes pluging and unplugging, two keyboards would be simpler to reason about.
I can’t be bothered to change my brain to think about this machine on a different zmk profile it is of absolute importance for it to remain on the same profile, otherwise this would be a simple bind to another empty profile.
Why not use a cable on desktop?
I dont mind cable, and have used one on this setup for years, but I have actually been picking up and moving this keyboard and using it with different devices.
I’ve got a big battery and performace cranked up, unless my machine is under load I do not notice any key lag.
I did it with bluetoothctl, I’m sure it could have been done with a gui like
blueberry or blueman.
bluetoothctl
# list adapters
list
select <old-adapter>
devices
# fin the MAC address of the device 42BLOCK
remove <42BLOCK_MAC>
Now I plugged into usb. And importantly cleared out the zmk profile. If you do not clear the profile your board does not go into pairing mode.
bluetoothctl
# switch adapters
select <new-adapter>
power on
agent on
default-agent
scan on
Put 42Block in pairing mode, then:
pair <42BLOCK_MAC>
trust <42BLOCK_MAC>
At this pint I saw this show up in the logs, I think there was some masking issues or something in zmk, output kept going out usb no matter what so I disconnected the keyboard and typed the passkey in, and it worked.
[agent] Passkey: 540044
Boom, it just started working right away.
bluetoothctl
connect <42BLOCK_MAC>
info <42BLOCK_MAC>
scan off
exit
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