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312 posts latest post 2026-09-06
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Jul 2026 | 5 posts

Is Ai Faster Yet

Is AI making us more productive yet, more faster yet? Non-code # [1] probably not I’ve seen this question hitting all over the Internet lately, and often points to people not writing code. Copilot turns prompts into emails, emails back into summaries that look a lot like prompts. I think there’s a place for this, making rambled thoughts sound more coherent, summarizing notes and meeting minutes. All good stuff but does it make us more productive, probably not by an amount that you can put $ $ behind, unless you are reducing headcount. thats not what we are doing right??? Coding # [2] with chat, probably not When we talk about chatbots like gippity I think there’s a benefit to having someone with jr skills in everything to talk to, someone who can read all of the docs in an instant to get you some code snippet that might have taken all day to research and get right, but more productive, probably not. Agentic Coding # [3] maybe I’ve hit a stride with coding agents this year u...
trash on X: “loving the state of development right now https:/… x.com
trash (@trashh_dev) on X loving the state of development right now X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1] There are so many config files right now, glad to see some standards coming in around Agents.md, but so much is still specialized to a whole host of tools that have not been standardized on yet. References: [1]: https://x.com/trashh_dev/status/2024476878015468027

I keep forgetting about the double gutter problem with nested containers. When you put padding on a parent and the child also has padding, you get twice the spacing you wanted.

The Problem #

.container {
  padding: 2rem;
}

.child {
  padding: 2rem;
}

Now your content is 4rem from the edge. Not what I meant at all.

The Fix #

Either remove padding from the parent or use box-sizing: border-box and plan for it. I usually just drop the parent padding when I realize what I have done.

dax on X: “finally got around to setting up an always on openc… x.com
dax (@thdxr) on X finally got around to setting up an always on opencode server so i can run sessions on any device from anywhere takes a few minutes - showed it off here X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1] I tried this flow [of running an opencode server on tailscale] on day one of getting opencode, I wanted to prompt from my phone while were were running lights at the theater. It kinda worked, but the ui was really bad on phone, hard to use and the experience overall–it felt buggy. Happy to see they are making improvements and it might now be ready for some real use. https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/9065fcb2-5e40-479c-967e-498bc9bb6a4f.mp4 References: [1]: https://x.com/thdxr/status/2017691649384620057

What Your Coding Tool Says About You

- open code - libre free as in beer and speech - Copilot - corporate 9-5er - Cursor - You sip on Philz coffee with your macbook - Claude Code - Agentic Workflows or Bust - Jetbrains - I didn’t know you wrote java - Vim/neovim - definite neck beard - VsCode - What else is there?
feat: add llms.txt endpoint for LLM-optimized documentation by… github.com
feat: add llms.txt endpoint for LLM-optimized documentation by quantizor · Pull Request #2388 · tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com Add /llms.txt endpoint that serves a concatenated, text-only version of all Tailwind CSS documentation pages optimized for Large Language Model consumption. Extract text from MDX files, removing J… GitHub · github.com [1] Damn this one is getting some reach, I’ve seen it from Simon Willison [2] and Justin Searls [3] and t3.gg [4]. I feel for Adam, He has built a fantastic product that the world is running with, something we all needed. Something that everyone laughs at turns their nose up “ppft I don’t need that” the first time they see it, but once they try people get it, and a lot of them like it and keep it. But its something that no one really wants to pay for, no matter how big of products get built on it. As we see more and more features coming to css, its not stopping, the work will always be there. I really hope to see something happen to tailwind to keep it afloat. massive growth and revenue down 80% does not help. References: [1]: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#issuecomment-3717222957 [2]: https://simonwillison.net/20...

Yesterday I wrote about a way to do light mode screen recording to convert to light mode from dark mode with ffmpeg. I was wondering if it could be done entirely on the front end for web applications. Turns out you can. I’m sure there are limited wikis and site builders that don’t allow adding style like this, but it works if you can.

<video
    src="https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/1c53dbcb-4b84-4e94-9f04-a42986ab3fa1.mp4?width=800"
    controls
    style="filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) contrast(1.2) saturate(1.1);"
    >

<!--markata-attribution-->
</video>

0 deg hue rotate

90 deg hue rotate

180 deg hue rotate

270 deg hue rotate

I saw this tip from Cassidoo and had to try it out for myself. I kicked on a screen recording right from where my terminal was, converted it, and it actually looks pretty good.

ffmpeg \
   -i screenrecording-2026-01-01_10-10-49.mp4 \
   -vf "negate,hue=h=180,eq=contrast=1.2:saturation=1.1" \
   screenrecording-2026-01-01_10-10-49-light.mp4

Dark Mode

Light Mode

There are a few unsettling things about it, but overall I feel like it was a success.

Using stderr/stdout correctly - YouTube youtu.be
- Yeah there’s some basics, you know things you might expect like using standard error and standard out correctly. One thing I’ll say on that because I think this is commonly misunderstood, standard error is not for errors, it’s for any information that isn’t part of the normal output. So you know often times that’s warnings and errors, but it might just be progress information. You know anytime that you just need to have something go to the user that’s what it’s there for." (6:15 - 6:42) I’ve definitely done this sin in my own tooling before, and it does make things harder to use. I think I still take err/out at face value. I really like the translation Jeff gave here, one is for normal output, i.e. what the user asked for and the other is extra information. So if I wanted to list something and pipe it into something else, stdout only captures the list, thats it. if you have a bunch of information about config warnings, showing environment, are you sure questions, none of that is captured.
“You should never build a CMS” | Sanity www.sanity.io
“You should never build a CMS” | Sanity Lee Robinson migrated cursor.com off Sanity. He made good points. Here's what he missed. Sanity.io · sanity.io [1] Such a good breakdown of the leerob article, that is hitting everywhere right now. Feels like sanity was just a bit late to getting things right and it would have just worked for them how leerob was trying to use it, but MCP sucked so he jumped. Reading their loose descriptions of a CMS, its an interesting realization to realize I’m rolling my own cms. I kinda feel like theres a few inspiration features to take from here, but I have no regrets. As a developer I like being able to build my own tools, I like being able to search and edit from nvim, and not have to write GROQ queries, and transforms. There were some really good points here that as I get more and more content on my personal site, I do kinda feel it. I’m surprised there is not more tooling that does some of these things for piles of markdown. pinning this to re-read later, feels like a lot of good tidbits here. References: [1]: https://www.sanity.io/blog/you-should-never-build-a-cms
The Github Tax (I can&rsquo;t believe they actually did this&hellip;) - Y&hellip; www.youtube.com
- It really feels like M$ is coming down hard on GH lately to make some unfavorable decisions for users. Maybe there is good reason for all of these changes from a business perspective, I can’t judge that. But right now there are some really great alternatives out there. I’m so grateful for what forgejo and gittea offer, and at the same time seeing the community get split up from GH is sad.

I’ve been using this one for awhile now, I have a post type that I only edit from my phone, but I have all the post numbered. I set up a template in obsidian for using templater, the template goes right in the static site repo, I point templater to the templates directory and this has been working pretty seamlessly for awhile.

---
date: <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss") %>
templateKey: myposttype
published: true
tags:
- myposttype
<%*
const folder = "pages/myposttype";

// get all files in the vault, keep only those inside the folder
const files = app.vault.getFiles().filter(f => f.path.startsWith(folder + "/"));

// extract numeric suffixes from filenames like myposttype-123.md
const nums = files.map(f => {
  const m = f.basename.match(/^myposttype-(\d+)$/);
  return m ? parseInt(m[1], 10) : null;
}).filter(n => n !== null);

// next number (start at 1 if none exist)
const next = (nums.length ? Math.max(...nums) : 0) + 1;

// include the .md extension when moving
const newPath = `${folder}/myposttype-${next}`;
await tp.file.move(newPath);
%>
---

I found snow-fall component from zachleat, and its beautiful… to me. I like the way it looks, its simple and whimsical.

Install #

There is an npm package <a href="https://zachleat.com" class="mention" data-name="Zach Leatherman" data-bio="A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)" data-avatar="https://www.zachleat.com/og/opengraph-default.png" data-handle="@zachleat">@zachleat</a>/snow-fall if that’s your thing. I like vendoring in small things like this.

curl -o static/snow-fall.js https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zachleat/snow-fall/refs/heads/main/snow-fall.js

I generally save it in my justfile so that I remember how I got it and how to update…. yaya I could use npm, but I don’t for no build sites.

get-snowfall:
    curl -o static/snow-fall.js https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zachleat/snow-fall/refs/heads/main/snow-fall.js

Usage #

Now add the component to your page.

<!-- This belongs somewhere inside <head> -->
<script type="module" src="snow-fall.js"></script> <!-- Adjust the src to your path -->

<!-- This belongs somewhere inside <body> -->
<!-- Anything before will be below the snow. -->
<snow-fall></snow-fall>
<!-- Anything after will show above the snow. -->
snow-fall Web Component—zachleat.com www.zachleat.com
snow-fall Web Component—zachleat.com A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat) Zach Leatherman · zachleat.com [1] This is a very fun way to add some whimsy to your site, added it to mine immediately when I saw it. This is what digital gardens are for, Fun, entertainment, and self-exxpression. References: [1]: https://www.zachleat.com/web/snow-fall/
2025-11-27 Notes pype.dev
2025-11-27 Notes | Nic Payne yesterday: [[2025-11-26-notes]] Big Changes Got my workspaces script in working order It's not quite configurable yet This will allow an easy way to setup pype.dev [1] 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! References: [1]: https://pype.dev/2025-11-27-notes/

FastAPI.">Starlette has a head request that works right along side your get requests. This morning I fiddled around with custom routes for GET and HEAD, but had to manually set some things about the file, and was still missing e-tag in the end. Turns out as a developer you can just add a head route to your get routes and starlette will strip the content for you, while preserving all of those good headers that fastapi FileResponse created automatically for you.

from fastapi import APIRouter
from fastapi.response import FileResponse
from fastapi import Request
from pathlib import Path

router = APIRouter()

@router.get("/file/{filename}")
@router.head("/file/{filename}")
async def get_file(filename: str, request: Request,):
    headers = {
      "Cache-Control": "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate",
    }
    from pathlib import Path
    filename = Path(f"data/{filename}")
    if not filename.exists():
        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="File not found")
    return FileResponse(filename, headers=headers)

Here is an example of the response with curl.

❯ curl -I -L "http://localhost:8100/api/file/e5523925-1565-454c-bab3-c70c4deabc83.webp?width=250"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:16:03 GMT
server: uvicorn
cache-control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
content-type: image/webp
content-length: 17206
last-modified: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:03:20 GMT
etag: f891660c1543feb1af7564f08abdd511

❯ curl -I -L "http://localhost:8100/api/file/unknown-file.webp?width=250"
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:16:11 GMT
server: uvicorn
content-length: 27
content-type: application/json
This Web Server Is 100% Solar Powered - YouTube www.youtube.com
- This is super cool, thanks to Brodie for reading me this content as I do household chores. lowtech magazine [1] is a website ran completely on solar power with only enough battery backup to cover most days. Adding enough to cover all days would increase its carbon footprint and negate the carbon offset of the solar panels it runs on. It’s fascinating to see a web server running completely off grid in a close power system. These interesting websites are fascinating keep em coming Brodie. References: [1]: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
Litewind litewindcss.com
Litewind Litewind is Tailwind without the build step litewindcss.com [1] This is a sick no-build version of tailwind. I have a couple of projects that the build step of tailwind is cumbersome on, mostly because they are for non-js devs. Some are for backend python devs, some are for folks that mostly want markdown with some styles. This is a perfect no-build tailwind alternative. References: [1]: https://litewindcss.com/
Running Software on Software You’ve Never Run blog.jim-nielsen.com
Running Software on Software You’ve Never Run Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web. blog.jim-nielsen.com [1] Running software applications in production today is crazy. One point release opens up for supply chain attacks. What’s crazier is not running your production applications without a lock file, potentially running dependencies you’ve never ran before for the first time in prod. References: [1]: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/run-software-on-software-youve-never-run/