2026-08-13 Notes

Waylon Walker Author

Aug 13, 2026 1 min read

Notable ^listens^ #

https://youtu.be/HC8T1OlgYi0

Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors

As always with Charity Majors this was a pretty great interview. Lots of repeat ideas with some good nuggets.

Aug 13, 2026

https://youtu.be/Gf0pR4_bv-o

There was a particularly good section about influence vs. manipulation. The line can be very thin and hard to ride between the two. Both can drive people to do work.

pmf #

poor mans fiberglass

first layer right on foam 50:50 water to glue
iron on canvas
final layer 25:75 water to glue

PlainDown #

Really happy with the progress I’m making on plaindown, today I really have the flow of pulling in changes between desktop and phone greased up. A dritical keybinding to get commits in with ctrl + enter landed and it feels really good to get it all keyboard centric.

Latest Thoughts #

Blogging and blog setups — baty.net

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Blogging and blog setups Jack Baty's blog — posts, journal, notes. baty.net · baty.net [1]

Damn 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.

Shots fired from Rakhim [2]

References: [1]: https://baty.net/notes/2026/08/blogging-and-blog-setups/ [2]: https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/

Heart of Mycelium - Gameplay Trailer - YouTube

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I 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.

Those flowers

How is this not one of the city guards

The Truth About Turning Your Hobby Into a Job

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Interesting 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.

Pipes: Blocking Communication - YouTube

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I 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.

What happens when your team 5x their token usage - YouTube

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Every 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.

Recent Pings #

No one wants to on call vibes #

No one wants to be on call for ai/agentic/vibes.

At the same time no one wants to give it up

thinking about headlines #

I updated [plaindown](https://waylonwalker.com/) to support _cool_ heading formats, and I'm digging it, markata you are next. Time to make the web weird again and really start writing more again.

The code to make it easy ^fun^ to write #

Here's the markdown that wrote it followed by the output here.

# Build **good places** for _interesting people_.

## Make room for ==the weird idea.==

Some normal paragraph text between headings.

## Build a `personal web` that feels ^**yours**^.

More ordinary prose.

## Follow the [~small~ web](https://waylonwalker.com), not the cr^owd^.

## Make a ~~perfect~~ memorable site.

## Leave space for ==**strange little ideas.**==

## Sometimes the ~~obvious answer~~ ==weird answer== is the interesting one.

## A **good theme** makes _quiet words_, `technical words`, and ==loud words== belong together.

## ==A...</div>

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<div class="card-text p-content">Usage Resets??

Apparently you can use a reset to completely reset your codex usage limits. I
never knew these existed and apparently I have some expiring soon. Not sure if
they auto apply and this is why I get the weirdest reset experience on the
usage chart or what.

![ce50cedb-fd88-4e39-83d3-698b2f7be399.webp](https://dropper.wayl.one/file/ce50cedb-fd88-4e39-83d3-698b2f7be399.webp)
I have 3? they expire soon, how many have I missed out on.

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<div class="card-text p-content">TIL, `?.` is sometimes pronounced as a `hmm dot`</div>

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