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Vertical combos are dumb, this makes way more sense. · WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block@48c30d2 Contribute to WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com This commit to my keymap gets rid of vertical combos, those were a bad idea to me. Maybe I didnt give it a shot, but hitting two keys at once on purpose with the same finger is a skill, one that I don’t have. This change maps those symbols so that they work as a combo or layer switch, so getting the layer key in first does it by layer, but pressing them at the same time gives me the combo, kinda feels genius. We will see how it goes.
I’m playing through peak right now with Wyatt and it is a great game, a small wholesome indiegame that is legit hard, but fun with the simplest concept. You are a scout who has crashlanded on an island, your goal is to get to the peak with your friends. You must manage hunger, stamina, weight, health and energy. You have limited resources and must help everyone to the top, if someone is low on stamina, they are going to need a helping hand or a stonger climber to go up and set pitons and ropes. Its a fantastic collaborative play game Ripped off It was insta-ripped off by roblox with microtransactions pay to win garbage. It looks one for one the same damn models and interface, they spared nothing at making it look exactly like the original. They let you buy a golden apple assuming it gives you crazy stamina to climb with ease, and it costs goddam robux. As Big A says here theres nothing they can really do, the roblox platform just lets this happen, and if they didn’t they would loose huge revenue because this is so prevelant. Legal fees would crush this small team that made it.
Explore Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job. Forgejo · git.dbushell.com damn david has been busy, this is sick seeing all of the repos, I’m ready to jump in!
This man feels sad, he never had a chance to bloom. He was stuck behind the drudgery of jira tickets. This is what the consultant driven agile has got us. Its ripped out all the thinking and creativity, its left us with moving tickets across the board, not allowed time to run on an idea when we have one. Not allowed to do extra work or refactoring in a module that we are already in. pushed to move faster for less. I feel like this mans experience has been quite different from my own and I’m grateful to have some leeway to be creative and do some meaningful work outside the jira board. I’m grateful to be able to provide a good income for my family without taking on all the risk myself.
Reflection - AI Work and ADHD It's time to be more devoted to my work... AI has been a cool technology to watch and experience but one thing I'm allowing it to do to me is to kill my love... My mental data-lake · pype.dev Crazy that we wrote such similar posts on the same day independantly, I just wrote I'm Out On Agents sitting offline in a doctor office. The two pull out’s are very good, “AI is not magic, it’s a headache”. By definition AI is magic to the vast majority of people, but funny how true this is. “When I finish tasks, I’m not fulfilled… if anything I’m relieved.” I just wrote something very similar, maybe this feeling can be used for guidance to when to use AI. When you complete this task will you feel relieved its over? Is it a chore? or creative work you want to accomplish.

I’m Out On Agents

Its the year 2025 and we are only a few years into having 6 months to live before ai takes our jobs, and the big push right now is agents, managing agents. I will fully concede to I’m not doing it right, or a future state gets better than where we are right now, but right now they kinda suck. Transparency I’m sitting offline right now as I write this, These are my feels, no research, no links, no ai, just vibes. Chat Chat is what really kicked off ai uses and goes back as old as computers, but it always sucked. Then chatgpt rocked the world with the biggest launch day in history and showed us that it could actually be pretty good. Unethically trained on everything they could get their hands on, burning cities worth of electricity to train, and keep training to stay ahead of the competition. It does a damn good job. There are tells, and if you see enough of it there is a lot that turns to slop, but if you had never seen it before, there is no way you would assume that it was not a compu…
Doing Some Keeb Modeling And Thought This Was Cool
The inside of a keyboard before the tools are used to cut away switch cutouts in the board.
GitHub - cortesi/modd: A flexible developer tool that runs processes and responds to filesystem changes A flexible developer tool that runs processes and responds to filesystem changes - cortesi/modd GitHub · github.com Gave modd a try today, and I like it, its something I am going to consider slotting right into my justfiles. Gave it a try and it seems to work really well out of the box and easy to configure.
combos only on default layer · WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block@2398fc7 Contribute to WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com Fighting some parens in hollow knight lead me to subtle little pauses when playing, I’m swapping combos to only work on the default layer, except for grave, I must have it for minecraft.

Today I gave modd a try, and it seems like a good file watcher executor. I tried using libnotify to send desktop notifications, but all I got was modd, I might not have notifications setup right on the awesomewm machine.

config goes in modd.conf

**/*.py {
  # check formatting via ruff
  prep: ruff format --check .

  # check docstring formatting
  prep: pydocstyle .
  #
  # # check type hints via ty
  prep: ty check .
  #
  # # run linter via ruff
  prep: ruff check .
}

I installed it using installer from jpillora, pulling pre-built binaries right out of the github repo.

curl https://i.jpillora.com/cortesi/modd | bash

Then you can install it, and on file change it will run the commands you configured.

modd

2025-08-25 Notes

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

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THE_DEATH_OF_THE_USER_INTERFACE.md markdown This is an insane level of agentic llm use, the author claims to not even use his filesystem anymore, its too cumbersome to find where downloads and documents are and way too easy to ask an agent to move all pdf’s from downloads to documents. This scares me on multiple levels, theres the epidemic of ai datacenters and ai companies burning cash, burning through gpu’s and api calls to a giant data center just to move files sounds absolutely insane to me. Then there is the level of accuracy. There’s a level of interpretation that happens with english that does not happen in code, code generally does what it does repeatably. The examples of “Move old backups to archive” is so open for interpretation that its ready to ruin your day, which backup, which archive, how old? Dude is ready to loose his files. Last is privacy, there is going to be a privacy epidemic that is going to pwn so many people giving these things full access to email, chat, ALL of YOUR FILES, and computer, your whole network. Look I get it this is where things are going, but dude is early, like too early. These things need to become far more accurate, less power hungry, and r…
Damn, social media is at an all time low. I’ve felt all of these issues and when I got a new phone I started fresh, I didn’t install one social media app. Luckily Youtube has remained solid for me. Yes shorts are a bit less what I came for and more addicting content they had to do in order to keep up. There are some legit good commedians, a bit of good knowledge and a bunch of trash that is hard to look away from on shorts. I still find myself able to find content I enjoy and signed up for on YouTube. I feel like I get a one way relationship with someone similar to a TV show or news anchor of old media. Social Media has morphed from follows likes and similar, to viral posts by creators I don’t recognize. posting and immediately getting like by two hot women with accounts created this week. The rest of the real creators left on there are stuck trying to keep up, echo viral trends, trying to keep up the content treadmill. A few come through, but most feel somewhat forced. A lot of it is ai generated, and whats not mostly doesn’t feel that human anyways. The people on here seem to really tie the internet to social media and are ready to quit the internet. I think there is more to the…

2025-08-23 Notes

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...

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Knife Sharpener Double Hinge Wing Nut
A 3 lobed wing nut perfectly hiding the m4 cap screw underneath of it, flooded in uv resin.
Testing out the double hinge knife sharpener holder for the first time.