ascii.rest: animated ascii art for web pages, by @bas3line 241 animated ascii pieces for web pages, in TypeScript with no dependencies: for React, Next.js, Astro, or one HTML tag. MIT licensed. ascii.rest · ascii.rest such a cool collection of highly detailed animated ascii. everything from charts and graphs to bob ross scenary with more detail than any ascii ive see before, verging on the edge of a detailed pixel art.
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What to do while you wait for your agent
Why is this still a question? You start another one, thats how this works now. I often have 23 agents up and going, maybe 3-5 actively cooking. A bunch of them are done that im reviewing the final statement, maybe i want to make a note still, or need to review the output, or debating a follow up.
Im not saying its the most healthy, productive, or best. But its what all of the people I talk to that actually build things are doing
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prs are dead. called it 2026 Predictions. Its sad to see all of these great open source projects die. The bigger the project, the greater the project, the bigger the flood of shit from random people with random harness, random, models I like the idea of keeping issues open. I see a flow in the future of a claw like system for some projects that just kick on investigation right away, auto close duplicates, solved etc. When maintainer approves it just makes it. As cool as this sounds it also sounds sad and souless.
Is Your Org Ready For Agents
Listening to this video and feeling inspired. It’s crazy how the Conference AI Engineer feels like such a hype bro conference ready to tell you just do more, let go, you’re cooked if you’re not on the train, gaslighting you to believe something they lack evidence for. But what it really is, is a group of talks that are done by some of the best engineers trying to make it through this transition just like the rest of us. Drawing the lines between the past and the current. How do you get comfortable with the current without letting go, without giving in to shipping slop, but shipping real good work with confidence. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Se8jHLliLXE It turns out that good Developer Experience is also good Agent Experience Checklist I’m sure I’m missing a lot here, but this is what I’m thinking off the cuff. If you dont have these you need to rethink the first job for your new agents to begin work on your codebase. testing, linting, sast, type checking continuous integration continuo…
bloatware is dying
Yesterday my daughter and I were waiting for her practice to start and we wanted to play a game. She downloaded an app on her phone that allows you to record your voice and play it in reverse. Here’s the game we came up with. say a word in the recording play it back in reverse to the next person The next person says exactly what they hear without thinking Every single one was followed up with a Suppa Hot Fire Ahh hhh hh reaction by everyone around. They all sounded like complete gibberish, yet came out like the person was talking in a weird accent. Everyone was shocked to hear it was understandable what they were saying reversing their speech. Seriously give it a try Especially if you have kids, it’s so fun to have a small group of people speaking gibberish and out comes something understandable. Next Day The next day I was out with my son and telling him about how cool the game was and how you just gotta hear it to understand it. I was driving so I handed him my phone and said downloa…
Friday, October 2, 2026 Jack Baty's blog — posts, journal, notes. baty.net · baty.net It’s wild how apple went from there will be no app store and everything will be a web app to walled gardens of native apps that lock users in. And not just users but friends of users. Apple was supposed to lean on the web for all of its apps. It was Jobs’s original vision, but it was shortlived for one version before the app store was launched.
yes Linus, this is the future super optimized personal software using tokens we buy from the big bois. I feel the same feel you can see on Luke’s face, this is here, there’s no going back. It’s one part absolutely amazing and 2 parts scary shit. To answer Linus’s question how do you hire someone, when you run all custom software. We stop hiring experts in adobe suite and hiring expert storytellers who have taste, style, and the ability to create something amazing that users want no matter what suite they are in. Someone who understands the craft of making something good, how to feel when it’s wrong, and turn it around. I can totally see part of this future where someone is making amazing content for and Linus hires them cause they look good, but turns out just had a cracked dev that made the greatest way to click together content for their audience that was foolproof and the guy had no idea what he was doing. I get it, this is not the future that anyone wanted, no one asked for, for every upside, there are so many flaws, but this is now the generation we are working in and we gotta figure out how to make it work.
This, THIS is what I’ve been saying all along. To the point where friends will show me what they are doing and before they can say the word mcp they say,. Almost always I end with that coulda been CLI/REST, or nah it’s auth mcp is fINe, followed by woah that’s some cool shit, I’m gonna ask my clanker to do that too.
Bastardica A type foundry for bastard web fonts. Bastardica · bastardica.mitpit.com Oh this is such a sick way to make a cool fontpack of random fonts.
Brain Rot Or The New Normal
I watched through this video earlier of this guy roasting t3.gg and his level of agentic ai brain rot. https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZumXpZzDsgo I really do think this guy had a lot of valid comments about people not being able to look at long form content, not being able to focus long enough to read a page of ai output. Losing our ability to think critically. He points to some of t3.gg’s videos at certain points where Theo says, I’m not even going to read this I’m going to have the agent xyx and move on. The guy roasting Theo seems like a really smart guy, an academic kind of guy. A guy that really values knowledge. Mad props for this and his ability to avoid the brain rot. I think we have a lot of folks out there that are talking the talk without walking the walk. This guy seems genuine. He seems like he really knows what he is talking about and that he is still reading and writing every line of code himself. I think we still need people that can carry this torch. It’s going to be a lo…
The timing of watching this talk is uncanny. Just this week I started building out something that started as a prompt to pull pr data, and as I typed out the prompt in the moment it turned into something that is more like a software factory. I think I have a lot of the general ideas that Matt shares here. Around harnessing up automated review, fix, fix corrections. I need to read through some of his specifics as they seem better and more well honed than what I have. Had I not started just this week I probably would have glazed over during the talk and been like sure sounds good, but having just started this I was pulled in. One of my favorite things I have in mine so far is really good hotkeys. I can fly through reviews, diffs, approve and merge in just a few keystrokes. This was a huge hurdle in existing tools so much that I put off a lot of sweeping changes I’ve needed to do and I’m cranking through them this week.
The Vomit Prompt
I heard Lex Friedman talk about this method he uses to create Greenfield apps really fast and he claimed worked really well with the latest Gen models at the time. This was during the DHH round 2, 5 hour interview. Lex asked if DHH uses voice chat at all. DHH claimed it was too uncanny for him. Too weird. He said he still likes to feel like he is chiseling out something by hand. He has interacted with a computer for a quarter of a CENTURY to write open source code by typing into it with a keyboard, and it feels weird to talk to it. Lex went on to say next time you have a greenfield project, something you want to turn out well and fit your needs, and not have to fuss with it, turn on the mic and just word vomit for 20 minutes. The models do surprisingly well at this. Today I was feeling the weight of 20 or so PR’s opened up mostly by agents awaiting my review. This whole thing sits on my shoulders. I’m the one that gets the calls when it’s down, and I’m the one with the final say, but g…
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