{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "Thoughts", "home_page_url": "https://waylonwalker.com/thoughts-feed/", "feed_url": "https://waylonwalker.com/thoughts-feed/feed.json", "description": "Link based \"commentary\" style posts, commenting on a web link", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker" } ], "items": [ { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/lex-speedman-lex-at-2x-guest-at-1x/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/lex-speedman-lex-at-2x-guest-at-1x/", "title": "Lex Speedman — Lex at 2x, guest at 1x", "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eThis is such a cool site. It parses lex’s transcript and sets the speed for lex and the guest at different speeds, so you can get through his super long episodes quicker without sacrificing the guest responses.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\nThis is such a cool site. It parses lex's transcript and sets the speed for lex and the guest at different speeds, so you can get through his super long episodes quicker without sacrificing the guest responses.", "summary": "Play Lex Fridman Podcast episodes with Lex sped up and the guest at 1x by default.", "date_published": "2026-09-06T16:06:46Z", "date_modified": "2026-09-06T16:06:46Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "dev", "podcast" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/i-make-my-own-field-notes-and-it-costs-almost-nothing/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/i-make-my-own-field-notes-and-it-costs-almost-nothing/", "title": "I Make My Own Field Notes (and it costs almost nothing)", "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eThis is the first time I’ve seen or heard of Perry Daniels, I really like his editing style, it reminds me of good eats; the tone, tempo, the resesarch, the odd camera angles.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI found this video very inspiring to go make something, My wife likes to keep field notes and sometimes has one for a few different tasks at the same time. It would be so cool to make her some custom ones for each.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/ea0dffdf-15e3-474f-8211-24da5d7e0acb.webp\" class=\"glightbox-link\" aria-label=\"ea0dffdf-15e3-474f-8211-24da5d7e0acb.webp\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/ea0dffdf-15e3-474f-8211-24da5d7e0acb.webp\" alt=\"ea0dffdf-15e3-474f-8211-24da5d7e0acb.webp\"/ data-glightbox=\"description: ea0dffdf-15e3-474f-8211-24da5d7e0acb.webp\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003cfigcaption\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuper creative notebooks that Perry made.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/2f6733f8-2f37-43aa-8e5f-844b319c8800.webp\" class=\"glightbox-link\" aria-label=\"2f6733f8-2f37-43aa-8e5f-844b319c8800.webp\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/2f6733f8-2f37-43aa-8e5f-844b319c8800.webp\" alt=\"2f6733f8-2f37-43aa-8e5f-844b319c8800.webp\"/ data-glightbox=\"description: 2f6733f8-2f37-43aa-8e5f-844b319c8800.webp\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003cfigcaption\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe use of the corner rounding punch makes it sooo clean\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n", "content_text": "\nThis is the first time I've seen or heard of Perry Daniels, I really like his editing style, it reminds me of good eats; the tone, tempo, the resesarch, the odd camera angles.\n\nI found this video very inspiring to go make something, My wife likes to keep field notes and sometimes has one for a few different tasks at the same time. It would be so cool to make her some custom ones for each.\n\n![ea0dffdf-15e3-474f-8211-24da5d7e0acb.webp](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/ea0dffdf-15e3-474f-8211-24da5d7e0acb.webp)\nSuper creative notebooks that Perry made.\n\n![2f6733f8-2f37-43aa-8e5f-844b319c8800.webp](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/2f6733f8-2f37-43aa-8e5f-844b319c8800.webp)\nThe use of the corner rounding punch makes it sooo clean", "summary": "I don't know where Field Notes gets off charging $5.00 a pop for pocket notebooks, but you can make a DIY version for less than a buck. Tools Used (Affiliate...", "image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zYn8PBWR2lg/maxresdefault.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-06T15:44:18Z", "date_modified": "2026-09-06T15:44:18Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "gift", "notetaking" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/nate-berkopec-nateberkopec-on-x/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/nate-berkopec-nateberkopec-on-x/", "title": "Nate Berkopec (@nateberkopec) on X", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\"\u003e\n \u003ca class=\"embed-card-link\" href=\"https://x.com/nateberkopec/status/2095726775821312495\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-image\"\u003e\n \u003cimg src=\"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1905366180376006656/kYntWlPf_400x400.jpg\" alt=\"Nate Berkopec (@nateberkopec) on X — So many people are about to self-retire from our industry as a result of LLMs completing changing how coding is done.\n\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;They hate it. They hate prompting, managing agents, reviewing. They want it to go back to the way it was.\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;\n\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;They\u0026#39;re realizing it\u0026#39;s never going back.\u0026#34; loading=“lazy”\u0026gt;\n\u0026lt;/div\u0026gt;\n\u0026lt;div class=\" embed-card-content glightbox\"=\"\"/ data-glightbox=\"description: Nate Berkopec (@nateberkopec) on X — So many people are about to self-retire from our industry as a result of LLMs completing changing how coding is done.\n\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;They hate it. They hate prompting, managing agents, reviewing. They want it to go back to the way it was.\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;\n\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;They\u0026#39;re realizing it\u0026#39;s never going back.\u0026#34; loading=“lazy”\u0026gt;\n\u0026lt;/div\u0026gt;\n\u0026lt;div class=\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eNate Berkopec (@nateberkopec) on X\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-description\"\u003eSo many people are about to self-retire from our industry as a result of LLMs completing changing how coding is done.\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey hate it. They hate prompting, managing agents, reviewing. They want it to…\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003eX (formerly Twitter) · x.com\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe world has changed it’s now different and there is no going back. You get to choose to adopt it or not. You get to choose your attitude. But at this point the agents write most average code, better than the average developer, faster than the average developer, and the average developer sucks at steering it. Over time we will get better at steering them, they will continue to get better at breakneck speeds for a long time. We will either learn restraint or they will get better at making that choice not to boil the ocean for us.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI really do get this feeling of the self-retire. It’s so easy to let agents do everything, and it so hard to watch the world turn to slop around us. No one can simply answer a question in a meeting or an interview without referring to their \u003ccode\u003eclanker\u003c/code\u003e and its it’s so irritating \u003cem\u003efrom both ends\u003c/em\u003e. It sucks to hear no one understands the depth of projects anymore, and at the same time it sucks to get called out on the complexity you glossed over.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThings are changing fast, like it or hate it, its not stopping because of your opinions, you get to choose your outlook on it.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\"\u003e\n \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/nateberkopec/status/2095726775821312495\" class=\"embed-card-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-image\"\u003e\n \u003cimg src=\"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1905366180376006656/kYntWlPf_400x400.jpg\" alt=\"Nate Berkopec (@nateberkopec) on X — So many people are about to self-retire from our industry as a result of LLMs completing changing how coding is done.\n\nThey hate it. They hate prompting, managing agents, reviewing. They want it to go back to the way it was.\n\nThey\u0026#39;re realizing it\u0026#39;s never going back.\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eNate Berkopec (@nateberkopec) on X\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-description\"\u003eSo many people are about to self-retire from our industry as a result of LLMs completing changing how coding is done.\n\nThey hate it. They hate prompting, managing agents, reviewing. They want it to...\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003eX (formerly Twitter) \u0026middot; x.com\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nThe world has changed it's now different and there is no going back. You get to choose to adopt it or not. You get to choose your attitude. But at this point the agents write most average code, better than the average developer, faster than the average developer, and the average developer sucks at steering it. Over time we will get better at steering them, they will continue to get better at breakneck speeds for a long time. We will either learn restraint or they will get better at making that choice not to boil the ocean for us.\n\nI really do get this feeling of the self-retire. It's so easy to let agents do everything, and it so hard to watch the world turn to slop around us. No one can simply answer a question in a meeting or an interview without referring to their `clanker` and its it's so irritating _from both ends_. It sucks to hear no one understands the depth of projects anymore, and at the same time it sucks to get called out on the complexity you glossed over. \n\nThings are changing fast, like it or hate it, its not stopping because of your opinions, you get to choose your outlook on it.", "summary": "So many people are about to self-retire from our industry as a result of LLMs completing changing how coding is done. They hate it. They hate prompting, managing agents, reviewing. They want it to go back to the way it was. They're realizing it's never going back.", "image": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1905366180376006656/kYntWlPf_400x400.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-05T16:41:50Z", "date_modified": "2026-09-05T16:41:50Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/i-tried-the-os-everyone-says-will-replace-macos/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/i-tried-the-os-everyone-says-will-replace-macos/", "title": "I Tried The OS Everyone Says Will Replace macOS", "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eIt’s crazy how many people are discovering linux here and are like why would I use this, oh it has tiling, it has workspaces. No shit so does every other good desktop environment that’s has came out in the last 10 years.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll of these reviews are missing the polish that you don’t recognize until you have done it by hand. Full disk encryption setup with noting more than a password. Agents property use pkexec to ask for sudo permissions with a message saying what they are running. Out of the box I get snapshots and boot into snapshot. If I like using agents and I add an API key, I get a crash agent when any application fails if I choose to click the notification to have the agent fix my issue. Themes has polish that no other distro can claim. There are many good looking themes that automatically theme so many if the applications.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can do all of this yourself and maybe you should if you really like Linux and want to understand.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe magic is how it is all assembled. The community being built to make it work on so many different devices, with a taste for speed and design.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\nIt's crazy how many people are discovering linux here and are like why would I use this, oh it has tiling, it has workspaces. No shit so does every other good desktop environment that's has came out in the last 10 years.\n\nAll of these reviews are missing the polish that you don't recognize until you have done it by hand. Full disk encryption setup with noting more than a password. Agents property use pkexec to ask for sudo permissions with a message saying what they are running. Out of the box I get snapshots and boot into snapshot. If I like using agents and I add an API key, I get a crash agent when any application fails if I choose to click the notification to have the agent fix my issue. Themes has polish that no other distro can claim. There are many good looking themes that automatically theme so many if the applications.\n\nYou can do all of this yourself and maybe you should if you really like Linux and want to understand.\n\nThe magic is how it is all assembled. The community being built to make it work on so many different devices, with a taste for speed and design.", "summary": "It's crazy how many people are discovering linux here and are like why would I use this, oh it has tiling, it has workspaces. No shit so does every other...", "image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/P0q9GDghAKY/maxresdefault.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-02T15:45:09Z", "date_modified": "2026-09-02T15:45:09Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "linux", "omarchy" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/a-quote-from-linus-torvalds/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/a-quote-from-linus-torvalds/", "title": "A quote from Linus Torvalds", "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eWill models become more stubborn as we use them more and feed us using them as long running agents where we simply ask for what seems to be an impossible task to be spit out by the all mighty clanker with all of the time in the world to try every way possible, add obnoxious amounts of telemetry, and somehow digest the flood of data it brings back?\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\nWill models become more stubborn as we use them more and feed us using them as long running agents where we simply ask for what seems to be an impossible task to be spit out by the all mighty clanker with all of the time in the world to try every way possible, add obnoxious amounts of telemetry, and somehow digest the flood of data it brings back?\n", "summary": "Will models become more stubborn as we use them more and feed us using them as long running agents where we simply ask for what seems to be an impossible...", "date_published": "2026-08-22T21:46:36Z", "date_modified": "2026-08-22T21:46:36Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/stop-making-tuis/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/stop-making-tuis/", "title": "Stop Making TUIs", "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eHard to argue this so hard here. For me it’s convenience. I work from a terminal most things that are real work get done there so this provide a convenient proximity to real work. If it’s a developer tool for me to use alongside development work I prefer a tui if it can be done in a text interface.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClis are different. Clis provide a great interface into automation, scripting, agent use, interop from two things no one else uses together.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlternatively to the argument for agents making \u003cmark\u003ereal\u003c/mark\u003e user interfaces \u003cem\u003eeasy\u003c/em\u003e I’m going to argue if that’s the case you should have your backend logic hooked into all the interfaces a user could want, CLI, tui, \u003ca href=\"/html/\" class=\"glossary-term\" title=\"HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the standard markup language used to create and design documents on the World Wide Web. It structures web content by...\"\u003ehtml\u003c/a\u003e, rest/http api.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI honestly feel like the training data for a good tui just isn’t there and agents default to making bad this.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\nHard to argue this so hard here. For me it's convenience. I work from a terminal most things that are real work get done there so this provide a convenient proximity to real work. If it's a developer tool for me to use alongside development work I prefer a tui if it can be done in a text interface.\n\nClis are different. Clis provide a great interface into automation, scripting, agent use, interop from two things no one else uses together.\n\nAlternatively to the argument for agents making ==real== user interfaces _easy_ I'm going to argue if that's the case you should have your backend logic hooked into all the interfaces a user could want, CLI, tui, html, rest/http api.\n\nI honestly feel like the training data for a good tui just isn't there and agents default to making bad this.", "summary": "Hard to argue this so hard here. For me it's convenience. I work from a terminal most things that are real work get done there so this provide a convenient...", "date_published": "2026-08-21T17:15:51Z", "date_modified": "2026-08-21T17:15:51Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "ai", "cli", "tui" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/im-done-with-terminals/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/im-done-with-terminals/", "title": "I\u0026rsquo;m done with terminals", "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eHard agree with Theo, terminals suck to use on a phone. Unless you have an attached keyboard they are unusable IMHO.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"t3-code-ad\"\u003et3 code ad \u003ca href=\"#t3-code-ad\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/dLhcLqoff6k?t=1354\u0026amp;is=xDCw0PpqH2zkZDou\" style=\"--favicon-url: url(\u0026#39;/assets/markata/link-avatars/youtu.be.png\u0026#39;);\" data-favicon=\"/assets/markata/link-avatars/youtu.be.png\" class=\"has-avatar has-avatar-before\"\u003ehttps://youtu.be/dLhcLqoff6k?t=1354\u0026amp;is=xDCw0PpqH2zkZDou\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis part of the pitch is fantastic. I think most of the people I talk to can relate to being unsure about when to start work because you want to keep your agents working.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy morning process generally includes walking around tmux greeting all of my agents that were working hard last night and unblocking them to get them going for the day. Before even opening team chat, but after checking status pages that #1.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy going home routine now has to start about an hour before I leave questioning whether I should start a session or not.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\nHard agree with Theo, terminals suck to use on a phone. Unless you have an attached keyboard they are unusable IMHO.\n\n## t3 code ad\n\nhttps://youtu.be/dLhcLqoff6k?t=1354\u0026is=xDCw0PpqH2zkZDou\n\nThis part of the pitch is fantastic. I think most of the people I talk to can relate to being unsure about when to start work because you want to keep your agents working.\n\nMy morning process generally includes walking around tmux greeting all of my agents that were working hard last night and unblocking them to get them going for the day. Before even opening team chat, but after checking status pages that #1.\n\nMy going home routine now has to start about an hour before I leave questioning whether I should start a session or not.\n", "summary": "Hard agree with Theo, terminals suck to use on a phone. Unless you have an attached keyboard they are unusable IMHO.", "date_published": "2026-08-18T12:10:53Z", "date_modified": "2026-08-18T12:10:53Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "agents", "ai", "cli" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/this-diy-datacenter-is-nuts/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/this-diy-datacenter-is-nuts/", "title": "This DIY Datacenter is NUTS", "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eI have so much more appreciation for hetzner after seeing how the sausage is made. Their drive for efficiency is unparalleled. Not top tier performance, straight up well done engineering on the things that matter. No showing off or fancy stuff. The way they rack up their machines on a piece of sheet metal, that linus akinned to a desktop pc case without the front and side panels was chefs kiss.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\nI have so much more appreciation for hetzner after seeing how the sausage is made. Their drive for efficiency is unparalleled. Not top tier performance, straight up well done engineering on the things that matter. No showing off or fancy stuff. The way they rack up their machines on a piece of sheet metal, that linus akinned to a desktop pc case without the front and side panels was chefs kiss.\n", "summary": "I have so much more appreciation for hetzner after seeing how the sausage is made. Their drive for efficiency is unparalleled. Not top tier performance,...", "image": "https://youtu.be/MQeJYEN_lrg", "date_published": "2026-08-17T23:23:43Z", "date_modified": "2026-08-17T23:23:43Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "data center", "dev" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/dhh-how-to-build-a-profitable-company-without-losing-control/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/dhh-how-to-build-a-profitable-company-without-losing-control/", "title": "DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control", "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eDHH is such an \u003ca href=\"/og/\" class=\"glossary-term\" title=\"OG is short for open graph, a set of standard meta tags that are used for social media sharing. This is what tells other websites how to describe and display...\"\u003eOG\u003c/a\u003e tech founder, I don’t think I realized his first paychecks from 37Signals was in the form of apple tech. What a shift to being such an apple fanboy to rage quitting and building a great linux distro that is siphoning his followers out of Mac.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI love the reminder of Gary V’s Jab, Jab, Right Hook. Meaning that you should build a following first, give, give, teach, show you have value then ask for something. The host mentioned one day they were frustrated with something, his co-founder suggested basecamp, and his response was buy it. Not shop around, see if theres something better, just buy it. He said these are my people, they’ve already given so much that I have no questions to whether or not we should give them money.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\nDHH is such an OG tech founder, I don't think I realized his first paychecks from 37Signals was in the form of apple tech. What a shift to being such an apple fanboy to rage quitting and building a great linux distro that is siphoning his followers out of Mac.\n\nI love the reminder of Gary V's Jab, Jab, Right Hook. Meaning that you should build a following first, give, give, teach, show you have value then ask for something. The host mentioned one day they were frustrated with something, his co-founder suggested basecamp, and his response was buy it. Not shop around, see if theres something better, just buy it. He said these are my people, they've already given so much that I have no questions to whether or not we should give them money.", "summary": "DHH is such an OG tech founder, I don't think I realized his first paychecks from 37Signals was in the form of apple tech. What a shift to being such an...", "date_published": "2026-08-14T23:23:01Z", "date_modified": "2026-08-14T23:23:01Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/stop-being-skeptical-about-ai-for-development-with-charity-majors/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/stop-being-skeptical-about-ai-for-development-with-charity-majors/", "title": "Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors", "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eAs always with Charity Majors this was a pretty great interview. Lots of repeat ideas with some good nuggets.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne common new theme here is getting comfortable shipping code you have never seen before. Pointing out there are few real differences in the before and the now, a lot of the same priciple apply to get the right #obervability stack setup, the right deployment patterns setup. Now we don’t have a person that immediately jumps up and yell’s I wrote that, Sorry everyone, and has a fix in 2 minutes because they know the exact failure mode they caused in an instant.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharity truely believes the kids will be alright. She is working with some high school aged kids making some incredible projects right now. The industry will need to learn how to re-embrace juniors and the non grey-beards.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy I’m sharing this link.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\nAs always with Charity Majors this was a pretty great interview. Lots of repeat ideas with some good nuggets.\n\nOne common new theme here is getting comfortable shipping code you have never seen before. Pointing out there are few real differences in the before and the now, a lot of the same priciple apply to get the right #obervability stack setup, the right deployment patterns setup. Now we don't have a person that immediately jumps up and yell's I wrote that, Sorry everyone, and has a fix in 2 minutes because they know the exact failure mode they caused in an instant.\n\nCharity truely believes the kids will be alright. She is working with some high school aged kids making some incredible projects right now. The industry will need to learn how to re-embrace juniors and the non grey-beards.\n\nWhy I'm sharing this link.", "summary": "As always with Charity Majors this was a pretty great interview. Lots of repeat ideas with some good nuggets.", "date_published": "2026-08-13T13:30:54Z", "date_modified": "2026-08-13T13:30:54Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "dev", "observability", "ops" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/thought-1025/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/thought-1025/", "title": "Blogging and blog setups — baty.net", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\"\u003e\n \u003ca class=\"embed-card-link\" href=\"https://baty.net/notes/2026/08/blogging-and-blog-setups/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-image\"\u003e\n \u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://baty.net/img/opengraph.jpg\" alt=\"Blogging and blog setups — Jack Baty\u0026#39;s blog — posts, journal, notes.\" loading=\"lazy\"/ data-glightbox=\"description: Blogging and blog setups — Jack Baty\u0026#39;s blog — posts, journal, notes.\"\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eBlogging and blog setups\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-description\"\u003eJack Baty\u0026#39;s blog — posts, journal, notes.\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003ebaty.net · baty.net\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDamn this hits. I’m trying to change it up, but I’m far on the right. constantly greasing the pipeline and writing about it. or lately just not writing at all.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/43533900-fc9f-4dcb-842f-207d8154aa70.webp\" class=\"glightbox-link\" aria-label=\"image\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/43533900-fc9f-4dcb-842f-207d8154aa70.webp\" alt=\"image\"/ data-glightbox=\"description: image\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003cfigcaption\u003e\u003cp\u003eShots fired from \u003ca href=\"https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/\" style=\"--favicon-url: url(\u0026#39;/assets/markata/link-avatars/rakhim.org.png\u0026#39;);\" data-favicon=\"/assets/markata/link-avatars/rakhim.org.png\" class=\"has-avatar has-avatar-before\"\u003eRakhim\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\"\u003e\n \u003ca href=\"https://baty.net/notes/2026/08/blogging-and-blog-setups/\" class=\"embed-card-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-image\"\u003e\n \u003cimg src=\"https://baty.net/img/opengraph.jpg\" alt=\"Blogging and blog setups — Jack Baty\u0026#39;s blog — posts, journal, notes.\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eBlogging and blog setups\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-description\"\u003eJack Baty\u0026#39;s blog — posts, journal, notes.\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003ebaty.net \u0026middot; baty.net\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nDamn this hits. I'm trying to change it up, but I'm far on the right. constantly greasing the pipeline and writing about it. or lately just not writing at all.\n\n![image](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/43533900-fc9f-4dcb-842f-207d8154aa70.webp)\nShots fired from [Rakhim](https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/)\n", "summary": "!https://baty.net/notes/2026/08/blogging-and-blog-setups/", "date_published": "2026-08-08T23:03:05Z", "date_modified": "2026-08-08T23:03:05Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "blog", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/thought-1024/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/thought-1024/", "title": "Heart of Mycelium - Gameplay Trailer - YouTube", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"JBGhVcF3OJc\" title=\"Heart of Mycelium - Gameplay Trailer\" playlabel=\"Play: Heart of Mycelium - Gameplay Trailer\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI really like the art style of this game. Love that someone is making something Hollow Knight like in their own style. The bosses though… oddly a little close to hollow knight characters.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/e13a0d9a-a012-49a9-b7ab-e3fb9c4d3e84.webp\" class=\"glightbox-link\" aria-label=\"image\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/e13a0d9a-a012-49a9-b7ab-e3fb9c4d3e84.webp\" alt=\"image\"/ data-glightbox=\"description: image\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003cfigcaption\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose flowers\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/f3366447-2474-40e5-b1bb-ac136464f70d.webp\" class=\"glightbox-link\" aria-label=\"image\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/f3366447-2474-40e5-b1bb-ac136464f70d.webp\" alt=\"image\"/ data-glightbox=\"description: image\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003cfigcaption\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow is this not one of the city guards\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"JBGhVcF3OJc\" title=\"Heart of Mycelium - Gameplay Trailer\" playlabel=\"Play: Heart of Mycelium - Gameplay Trailer\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nI really like the art style of this game. Love that someone is making something Hollow Knight like in their own style. The bosses though... oddly a little close to hollow knight characters.\n\n![image](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/e13a0d9a-a012-49a9-b7ab-e3fb9c4d3e84.webp)\nThose flowers\n\n![image](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/f3366447-2474-40e5-b1bb-ac136464f70d.webp)\nHow is this not one of the city guards\n", "summary": "!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBGhVcF3OJc", "date_published": "2026-08-06T13:35:21Z", "date_modified": "2026-08-06T13:35:21Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "gaming", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/thought-1023/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/thought-1023/", "title": "The Truth About Turning Your Hobby Into a Job", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"oMnpatXgMzU\" title=\"The Truth About Turning Your Hobby Into a Job\" playlabel=\"Play: The Truth About Turning Your Hobby Into a Job\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInteresting tangent here on sleep, Adam talks about jet lag and his experience taking abien to shift his sleep schedule. In his experience it helped fix the sleep schedule, but did nothing to change how he actually felt during that time of re orienting in a new drastically different time zone. He was reminded of all of the sleep studies they did on mythbusters and how they found that it did not matter so much how much “sleep” you got that lying there still and quiet was nearly as effective as sleeping. Knowing this will, like others mentioned, will greatly relieve the sleep pressure I feel on nights of restlessness.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"oMnpatXgMzU\" title=\"The Truth About Turning Your Hobby Into a Job\" playlabel=\"Play: The Truth About Turning Your Hobby Into a Job\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nInteresting tangent here on sleep, Adam talks about jet lag and his experience taking abien to shift his sleep schedule. In his experience it helped fix the sleep schedule, but did nothing to change how he actually felt during that time of re orienting in a new drastically different time zone. He was reminded of all of the sleep studies they did on mythbusters and how they found that it did not matter so much how much \"sleep\" you got that lying there still and quiet was nearly as effective as sleeping. Knowing this will, like others mentioned, will greatly relieve the sleep pressure I feel on nights of restlessness.\n", "summary": "!https://youtube.com/watch?v=oMnpatXgMzU\u0026is=Hc3yGTgzP2WsRQBi", "date_published": "2026-08-04T15:31:00Z", "date_modified": "2026-08-04T15:31:00Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "life", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/thought-1022/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/thought-1022/", "title": "Pipes: Blocking Communication - YouTube", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"BG4tjLZ7G1Q\" title=\"Pipes: Blocking Communication\" playlabel=\"Play: Pipes: Blocking Communication\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI had no idea how these pipes work, I’ve accidentally spawned so many that have sat there and waited for something to come down the pipe, but did not know this is what was happening.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"BG4tjLZ7G1Q\" title=\"Pipes: Blocking Communication\" playlabel=\"Play: Pipes: Blocking Communication\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nI had no idea how these pipes work, I've accidentally spawned so many that have sat there and waited for something to come down the pipe, but did not know this is what was happening.\n", "summary": "!https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BG4tjLZ7G1Q", "date_published": "2026-07-21T12:37:12Z", "date_modified": "2026-07-21T12:37:12Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "dev", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/thought-1021/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/thought-1021/", "title": "What happens when your team 5x their token usage - YouTube", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"oDUBsE09n5c\" title=\"We got addicted to an AI model we can\u0026#39;t talk about\" playlabel=\"Play: We got addicted to an AI model we can\u0026#39;t talk about\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery Dax Raad interview is worth a listen, this one does not disappoint. They talk about running local dev setups in a vm in the cloud. Always connected, seemlessly upgrading hardware without you needing to buy sell or trade a thing. They talk about the one model that drove them into psycosis, I’m pretty sure it was 5.6 sol, but it could not be revealed at the time. Software engineering is still required alive and well even through the agentic era here.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"oDUBsE09n5c\" title=\"We got addicted to an AI model we can\u0026#39;t talk about\" playlabel=\"Play: We got addicted to an AI model we can\u0026#39;t talk about\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nEvery Dax Raad interview is worth a listen, this one does not disappoint. They talk about running local dev setups in a vm in the cloud. Always connected, seemlessly upgrading hardware without you needing to buy sell or trade a thing. They talk about the one model that drove them into psycosis, I'm pretty sure it was 5.6 sol, but it could not be revealed at the time. Software engineering is still required alive and well even through the agentic era here.\n", "summary": "!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDUBsE09n5c\u0026t=483s", "date_published": "2026-07-21T00:53:05Z", "date_modified": "2026-07-21T00:53:05Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "dev", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/thought-1020/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/thought-1020/", "title": "11 Laws of the Universe - YouTube", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"DRX5JpyX0B8\" title=\"11 Laws of the Universe\" playlabel=\"Play: 11 Laws of the Universe\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreat reference to 11 laws of the universe.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"DRX5JpyX0B8\" title=\"11 Laws of the Universe\" playlabel=\"Play: 11 Laws of the Universe\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nGreat reference to 11 laws of the universe.\n", "summary": "!https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DRX5JpyX0B8", "date_published": "2026-07-21T00:49:26Z", "date_modified": "2026-07-21T00:49:26Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/thought-1019/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/thought-1019/", "title": "Post by @thdxr.com — Bluesky", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\"\u003e\n \u003ca class=\"embed-card-link has-avatar has-avatar-before\" href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/thdxr.com/post/3mqsgohylgd2v\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"--favicon-url: url(\u0026#39;/assets/markata/link-avatars/bsky.app.png\u0026#39;);\" data-favicon=\"/assets/markata/link-avatars/bsky.app.png\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eBluesky\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003eBluesky Social · bsky.app\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo much nuance in model selection its hard to keep up.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\"\u003e\n \u003ca href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/thdxr.com/post/3mqsgohylgd2v\" class=\"embed-card-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eBluesky\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003eBluesky Social \u0026middot; bsky.app\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nSo much nuance in model selection its hard to keep up.\n", "summary": "!https://bsky.app/profile/thdxr.com/post/3mqsgohylgd2v", "date_published": "2026-07-17T00:12:23Z", "date_modified": "2026-07-17T00:12:23Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "agents", "ai", "llm", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/thought-1018/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/thought-1018/", "title": "XBOX DISC TO DIGITAL COMING SOON #shorts - YouTube", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"pdy00S2dxuI\" title=\"XBOX DISC TO DIGITAL COMING SOON #shorts\" playlabel=\"Play: XBOX DISC TO DIGITAL COMING SOON #shorts\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompletely missing the point of physical media. I don’t see why preserving physical media is a win for xbox right now. The game is not on disk. In 30 years when the game servers are gone, I wont be able to play the game. I wont be able to buy cheap used copies in 6 months as people beat the game. I wont be able to trade in games I’ve beat to get a different game at a low cost. own nothing and be happy.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"pdy00S2dxuI\" title=\"XBOX DISC TO DIGITAL COMING SOON #shorts\" playlabel=\"Play: XBOX DISC TO DIGITAL COMING SOON #shorts\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nCompletely missing the point of physical media. I don't see why preserving physical media is a win for xbox right now. The game is not on disk. In 30 years when the game servers are gone, I wont be able to play the game. I wont be able to buy cheap used copies in 6 months as people beat the game. I wont be able to trade in games I've beat to get a different game at a low cost. own nothing and be happy.\n", "summary": "!https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pdy00S2dxuI", "date_published": "2026-07-16T15:25:55Z", "date_modified": "2026-07-16T15:25:55Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "gaming", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/thought-1017/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/thought-1017/", "title": "Sustainable Augmented Development • Kent Beck • YOW! 2025", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"sMujMp4h_EY\" title=\"Sustainable Augmented Development • Kent Beck • YOW! 2025\" playlabel=\"Play: Sustainable Augmented Development • Kent Beck • YOW! 2025\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInteresting thoughts from a real \u003ca href=\"/og/\" class=\"glossary-term\" title=\"OG is short for open graph, a set of standard meta tags that are used for social media sharing. This is what tells other websites how to describe and display...\"\u003eOG\u003c/a\u003e Kent Beck. He argues we are whitnissing the biggest advancement in computing in 40 years. For 40 years we have been almost exclusively writing in compiled languages. Languages that output to some sort of binary compiled assembly instructions for each processor type. Before that it was all hand written instructions directly to CPU. Now we are seeing the genie revolution. The genie is good a writing in many different programming languages given english prompts. It loves to complete problems and is not afraid to write lots of code very quickly. Its quite good at skirting around our best judgement in order to accomplish the goal we set.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome take aways from this talk is that NO ONE knows what the fuck is next. No one knows the best ways to use these things. Everyone has their own opinion wrapped around their experience that might be wildly different than yours. It seems clear this is changing every day and ways no one can measure, predict, or prepare for. So much sits in the hands of model labs and model providers. Without real access to any of it, its all magic.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"sMujMp4h_EY\" title=\"Sustainable Augmented Development • Kent Beck • YOW! 2025\" playlabel=\"Play: Sustainable Augmented Development • Kent Beck • YOW! 2025\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nInteresting thoughts from a real OG Kent Beck. He argues we are whitnissing the biggest advancement in computing in 40 years. For 40 years we have been almost exclusively writing in compiled languages. Languages that output to some sort of binary compiled assembly instructions for each processor type. Before that it was all hand written instructions directly to CPU. Now we are seeing the genie revolution. The genie is good a writing in many different programming languages given english prompts. It loves to complete problems and is not afraid to write lots of code very quickly. Its quite good at skirting around our best judgement in order to accomplish the goal we set.\n\nSome take aways from this talk is that NO ONE knows what the fuck is next. No one knows the best ways to use these things. Everyone has their own opinion wrapped around their experience that might be wildly different than yours. It seems clear this is changing every day and ways no one can measure, predict, or prepare for. So much sits in the hands of model labs and model providers. Without real access to any of it, its all magic.\n", "summary": "!https://youtube.com/watch?v=sMujMp4h_EY", "date_published": "2026-07-08T17:22:18Z", "date_modified": "2026-07-08T17:22:18Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "dev", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/thought-1016/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/thought-1016/", "title": "The Internet I Grew Up With Doesn’t Exist Anymore - cleberg.net", "content_html": "\u003cfigure\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"/static/https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html\" class=\"glightbox-link\" aria-label=\"https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"/static/https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html\" alt=\"https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html\"/ data-glightbox=\"description: https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI align a lot with this post. From growing up in a rural house where internet access was harder to get. It was slow and only had one line, if you were on the internet, no one in the house could recieve a phone call. Idk if what is now the smol webl, the indieweb, is seeing a resurgence, if I’m just noticing it more. It does feel like along there has been a very small number of users willing to get their own domain, their own server, and host their own shit. A few of these are starting to really break out occasionally, see things like \u003ca href=\"https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle\"\u003ewordle\u003c/a\u003e hitting mass adoptioun before being swooped up by a giant.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI too miss the internet of old, heck I really dont even mind the middle era of fb, twitter, instagram dominance, but what we have now is dominated by political undertones on it all with everyone shouting “Fake News” at each other. These sites are the easiest place to stay in touch with those you have met online, yet they are riddled with so much toxicity its impossible to have a great experience on them. I’m about a year and a half of not having a single one on my phone, and at this point I barely log into them once a week. RSS is the way forward, as long as its not killed by paywalled substack and medium.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n![https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html](/static/https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html)\n\nI align a lot with this post. From growing up in a rural house where internet access was harder to get. It was slow and only had one line, if you were on the internet, no one in the house could recieve a phone call. Idk if what is now the smol webl, the indieweb, is seeing a resurgence, if I'm just noticing it more. It does feel like along there has been a very small number of users willing to get their own domain, their own server, and host their own shit. A few of these are starting to really break out occasionally, see things like [wordle](https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle) hitting mass adoptioun before being swooped up by a giant.\n\nI too miss the internet of old, heck I really dont even mind the middle era of fb, twitter, instagram dominance, but what we have now is dominated by political undertones on it all with everyone shouting \"Fake News\" at each other. These sites are the easiest place to stay in touch with those you have met online, yet they are riddled with so much toxicity its impossible to have a great experience on them. I'm about a year and a half of not having a single one on my phone, and at this point I barely log into them once a week. RSS is the way forward, as long as its not killed by paywalled substack and medium. \n", "summary": "!https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html", "date_published": "2026-07-05T17:27:54Z", "date_modified": "2026-07-05T17:27:54Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "dev", "indieweb", "thought", "webdev" ] } ] }