A ChatGPT prompt equals about 5.1 seconds of Netflix In June 2025 Sam Altman claimed about ChatGPT that "the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours". In March 2020 George Kamiya of the International Energy Agency estimated that "streaming a … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net This feels very promising for the future as we enter a world that is more and more dependent on AI that inference is so cheap. I did not understand the scale to how much cheaper inference is compared to training. As we get better with training I imagine this gets significantly better as well. I know they all claim to be profitable on inference, but scrolling through Simon’s feed here you see several articles on the stark difference.
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I’m impressed by awesome-nanobanana-pro from ZeroLu. 🚀 An awesome list of curated Nano Banana pro prompts and examples. Your go-to resource for mastering prompt engineering and exploring the creative potential of the Nano banana pro(Nano banana 2) AI image model.
A pretty good email scam How I helped family recover from a clever email scam that hid behind sneaky account settings cassidoo.co scams suck. This is a good story, sorry to hear that it happened to a real person. If you or anyone in your family has a compromised email, add these to your checklist to fix. automatic forwards 2-factor email
2025-11-27 Notes yesterday: 2025-11-26-notes My mental data-lake · pype.dev Nic is also building out a similar workspaces script. This feels like such a great thing to have ai work on fully customized tools for your personal workflow. Also Nice shout out!
K8s Diagram Builder - Visual Kubernetes YAML Generator Free Kubernetes diagram builder with drag-and-drop design. Auto-generate production-ready YAML for Ingress, Services, Deployments, ConfigMaps, Secrets & more. No signup required. K8s Diagram Builder · k8sdiagram.fun This looks like great prototyping tool for k8s. I too often ask ai to get me going with the things I need. I’ve used k8s long enough that I can generally remember all the things I need, roughly where they go, would probably forget a few things and need to iterate, but I cannot remember exactly what goes where and need examples at a minimum. I need to give this a go from desktop and see if it will work for me. Right now looking through mobile looks promising.
Check out dawarich by Freika. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential. Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)
chr15m has done a fantastic job with runprompt. Highly recommend taking a look. Run LLM prompts from your shell
setting COLUMNS env var to a number greater than 0 will make the terminal resize to that number of columns.
COLUMNS=80 uvx --from rich-cli rich myscript.py
Note
Not all programs respct the COLUMNS env var, but rich does, and a lot of
stuff I’m building uses rich.
I discovered this when I was trying to make a low effort readme generated from the code, but did not depend on the size of terminal it was ran on.
# justfile
readme:
echo "# Workspaces" > README.md
echo "" >> README.md
echo '``` bash' >> README.md
COLUMNS=80 ./workspaces.py --help >> README.md
echo '```' >> README.md
I’m really excited about alloy-scenarios, an amazing project by grafana. It’s worth exploring! A collection of working Alloy scenarios
The tea command for gitea (used by forgejo) has a flag for login. With gitea
you can have multiple accounts logged in. When you try to run a command such
as repo create it will prompt you which login to use, but I learned that you
can bake it in to all of them with --login <login-name>
❯ tea repo create --name deleteme --description 'for example'
┃ NOTE: no gitea login detected, whether falling back to login 'git.waylonwalker.com'?
tea repo create --name deleteme --description 'for example' --login git.wayl.one
Looking for inspiration? wyattbubbylee.com by WaylonWalker. No description available.
If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on qmk_firmware, created by WaylonWalker. Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
2025-11-21 Notes
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...
Check out octelium by octelium. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential. A next-gen FOSS self-hosted unified zero trust secure access platform that can operate as a remote access VPN, a ZTNA platform, API/AI/MCP gateway, a PaaS, an ngrok-alternative and a homelab infrastructure.
2025-11-19 Notes
Making progress on dropper this week.
Another Big Cloud Outage Nov 2025
Today I woke up to finding out that cloudflare hade a widespread outage. My Reader uses tailwind cdn for styles and it was down. Otherwise it was not so impactful to me and felt kike they were quick to have it up. I’m not really researching here, just jotting thoughts down from a parking lot waiting for pickup. It feels like we are seeing a lot of these lately. They feel much more frequent. It feels like a whole industry was sold on 9’s and reliability of big cloud that we just aren’t getting. There’s a huge push to go back to self hosting, racking and stacking. I think this is great. I love it. I’m a big proponent for ownership and self hosting. It’s not the right move for everything and everyone, and is certainly not something to make a knee jerk reaction about in the moment of frustration. There’s a lot of things that are just impossible to do yourself, cdn caching, edge compute, ddos protection. These companies are not magic they are vulnerable to changes just like you and I. It re…
👏👏👏preach it prime! M$ continues to prove that they are not making products for you something else is affoot and shit you don’t want is shoved down your throat and forced on you. Prime points out that the agentic is prompt injected itself😂. Rather than making a better os experience it’s assuming you are stupid and need everything done for you. But what I don’t get here in the text scaling example. Why the F does it not just fix it for me. When I ask the machine to make text bigger it puts a flashy circle where to click. This is a one time setup for someone who gives no fucks to remember how to do it. Why is the machine doing this weird hand holding watching us do it’s work rather than just doing it? I like the pattern when you change display setting it gives you a counter that reverts everything if for some reason shit is so bad you can’t even see it. Do that, not this help me click bs. Now in parallel we have steam making Linux desktop better and better. Allowing you to just access the hardware you own to do what you want to do with it. Providing a fantastic hands off out of the box experience for the price of the hardware. No ongoing fees, no upgrade cycle, soft lock, aribraray c…
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