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I'm regressing back to boomer ai for more plan mode style prompting at home...
It does a decent job at ingesting a repo and coming up with plans before I
start spending precious tokens.
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Tokens Just don't go as far as they used to
Not sure if this is simply the flavor of the month, or a shift in gpt5.4
being super subsidized on release and now that we have gpt5.4-mini-fast out
they have shifted, but I'm burning through half of my $20 gippity sub in a
day with hobby level use. Second week in a row its burning so fast.
Stow comes with a local and global ignore list that you can use to ignore certain files or directories.
If you put Perl regular expressions, one per line, in a .stow-local-ignore file within any top level package directory, in which case any file or directory within that package matching any of these regular expressions will be ignored. In the absence of this package-specific ignore list, Stow will instead use the contents of ~/.stow-global-ignore, if it exists. If neither the package-local or global ignore list exist, Stow will use its own built-in default ignore list, which serves as a useful example of the format of these ignore list files:
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RCS .+,v CVS \.\#.+ # CVS conflict files / emacs lock files \.cvsignore \.svn _darcs \.hg \.git \.gitignore \.gitmodules .+~ # emacs backup files \#.*\# # emacs autosave files ^/README.* ^/LICENSE.* ^/COPYING
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Is it just me or are the agents not behaving today?
Casey had an interesting point here. I think demitri came back with some sense of sanity that its just not how corporations look at employee cost, but I still thought it was a head scratcher.
Roughly translated not quoted
If the sellers of ai are telling you that your developers are going to be 10x productive, why are they only spending half their salary in tokens? Why not 9x?
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I wrote code by hand today... I was out of tokens
I hate how he called out terminal user interfaces as shit… then proved web interfaces to be superior. Damn him. I love working from my terminal, but having ai prove itself through html reports including video, image, metrics, charts, and text is goated. Rethinking yourself has the bottleneck not the orchestrator feels real. Validating the work is hard, theres a shift right now and everyone is trying to figure it out. Lucas’s technique is a little bit of be lazy and tell it to prove itself to you, so as you juggle your 15 agents you have a nice report to read.
This is a really good guide, with quite a few good nuggets. I need to try deleting my AGENTS.md and rebuilding it from scratch more often. I liked how he talked about having agents prove their work and tell them up front how they will be judged. What I didn’t care for so much was the feeling that a lot of the rules go in markdown, thats not a rule, thats a suggestion. Rules should be deterministic. They should be tests and linters that ensure they are followed. Suggestions are good, but dont trust the agents to always follow them. And don’t trust that they wont change your rules, keep them honest.
Feeling this today, feels like everything continues to get worse. Trying to be more positive, and its hard.
Interesting take by Kenneth Reitz. Not quite sure how I feel about it anymore. It kinda hurts, but I’m not sure if code aesthetics matter as much as the product anymore. I cared when I was the one editing, but at this point I’m not doing a lot of edits by hand. Do these aesthetics affect the final products that users use, Not sure. AI makes me sad.
Prove Yourself Agent
Ask your agents to prove their work. Include it in the initial
prompt, not later.
If agents make prime a bit faster, what does that mean for the rest of us mortals?
I’ve gotta agree with bob on this one, the first thing I did to my biggest brownfield project I wanted to use agents on BEFORE they did work was a hardened pre-commit.yaml, ci, hardened type checking and linting. SECOND get rid of bad inconsistent patterns, let them replicate consistency, force them to pass checks. Agents will follow all of your markdown suggestions most of the time, enough for you to become complacent if you let it. They are goal seeking, if you put them to a task you thought was possible that is not given your constraints, they will try to find a way given enough tokens. I dont see this ever changing, its one thing that makes them great, it just needs to be kept in check.
behind, yet positioned to completely dominate this race by hitting it with some sense. Making trends in what looks like longevity in the race that is not subsidising to simply get users, but to get by until they figure out how to 100x reduce the cost to a reasonable level. They feel like the guy sitting in the back with nothing big or flashy to say that is going to drop the hammer on their competition that overstretched itself taking on too much debt because it was necessary to change the game. There might be something to having a mix of hipsters, boomers, and luddites all trying to balance each other out.
An ai model created by Anthropic was announced as a closed preview on April 7, 2026 for critical security research and evaluation with its close partners with critical software such as operating systems and browsers. Anthropic claims that mythos is able to reason through so much more context that any model ever before. This enables it to find bugs that are 25 years old in the BSD, considered one of the most secure operating systems we have. Once it finds these zero day bugs never discovered before its able to use them together in malicious ways never expected. In ways the world is not ready for. At the time of writing these are claims without proof. It remains scary to know the potential this has and that there is only a few companies with this potential that will gatekeep who gets access.
What happens when the 0 days are exposed?
What's going to happen to all of our software when Anthropic Mythos finds all
of the 0 day vulnerabilities? Will everything depending on the bugs break?
Will it be possible to fix them cleanly? Will we all get pwnd when the bad
actors get access to them before everything is patched? Will LTS Operating
Systems Die?
5 star video, if you are going to watch one video to understand how harnesses and agents work, this is it. This really had my gears spinning on what tools do for agents and how big of a difference they make in their ability to manage context efficiently and accurately create changes. It’s crazy how good bash works, and that gives the agents the ability to do just about everything, but it could be better.
One of the biggest scientific achievement of our lifetime happened this week. I will forever remember sitting in a Culvers in between theater builds looking through these photos as they came live, looking at them in awe.
One of the most famous images from the shoot “Setting Earth”
What an amazing set of photos created by the Artemis II crew accompanying a fantastic breakdown by Hank Green.
I like this one, as its probably one of the ones not shred a ton
Whole gallery is worth looking at https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/
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A really interesting long form interview with @simonwillison.net. If you follow him closely most of it is probably not new, but I found some interesting nuggets.
Simon is writing most of his code from his phone these days using anthropic hosted platform. He mentioned that a lot of security risks go away when you don’t put secrets on the platform and you let them take the risk of running ai written code with ai chosen supply chain.
He talked about the Pelican Riding a Bike benchmark for quite awhile. He was surprised at how well of a proxy it is for how capable a model is at just about everything. He also said that when he runs the benchmark he also runs half a dozen others that he’s never talked about so that He could see if they were to train a model specific to his benchmark he could catch them, but it seems they had caught on and if they were they seem that they would already be doing it on all of his others anyways.
TDD is incredibly boring for humans, it strips so much creativity and joy from the process. Who cares if agents are bored they do better when doing TDD.
THIS is the future of homelab, excited to see someone who knows so much more about hardware than I do get excited about this.
Is Glasswing the next inflection point
Absolutely sick texture app from cnc kitchen. Like him I’ve spent a bunch of time attempting and failing to learn blender, I’m so glad someone else vibe coded out such a good app that can just add texture to stls with basic masks and is the very basics of what you would want to add to 3d prints to make them interesting, I’m excited to use this for some real projects.
What is this job anymore
The job of writing code is dying, models are getting better, the average person
will have their average features implemented in average ways with no effort by
agents, the writing is on the wall. We are still trying to review most of the
critical code, this is slowing us down, is it really stopping any bugs or
giving us any more familiarity with the product, marginally.
The time is now to grease up your UAT, testing, deployment pipelines. Dont let
agents delete entire regions. Review your backup and restore strategy, you do
have a DR plan right?
Things are changing fast, the best of us are still better than the clankers.
Most of us have more context than the clankers. Most of us have more intuition
of what and where to implement fixes. Context windows and memory will be
solved problems. Your DR plan, UAT, testinng and QA environments will not come
for free, you need to make them, and deeply integrate them into your processes.
Bush on tiny desk. Iconic band on an iconic platform. Will be re-listening to this several times.
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The year of the supply chain attacks
I think I'm starting to understand my role as a platform developer in 2026.
* least priveleged access
* default deny + explicit allow
* understand your blast radius
* **GREASED** creds rotate process
* PIN EVERYTHING
* keep packages up to date
* but not too up to date, use dependency cooldowns
smassh is the coolest monkeytype tui clone, its impressively accurate. Easy to install and run, all the same themes appear to be there and everything. maybe a good way to get a few reps in while agents are running these days.
I need to go back and brush up on my skills I’m down a good 20wpm from what I should be doing.
The final nail for Windows?
Easy anticheat for linux is out.
!!! tip
look at the date
If this were real what would you play first? For me it's `skate .` is really
the only thing I care about and I'm fine without it.
I’ve been thinking about this for awhile and Daniel makes some great arguments here. Interestingly keeping inference cheap removes the incentives to make our tools better, help us choose the right model, lean on local models, open weight models. The frontier models are so affordable through subsidized subscription models why would you deal with anything less intelligent at this point. The tooling we use is not optimized for it, and why should it be.
emacs config so bad he launch obsidian, YIKES! grantid I’m using obsidian currently on my phone, not for this post, but for journal entries while I’m away from my desk. Use this as a reminder that you can swim through murky waters with your dotfiles for awhile, but occasionally its good to do a clean up, pin it, put em in a docker image, have a good fallback to go to if shit really hits the fan. Iv’e been using https://github.com/waylonwalker/nvim-manager as part of my strategy for awhile now.
uv adds dependency cooldowns via #16814. Well needed feature in todays world, far from a guarantee, but its something.
2026, finding the balance between fixed bugs and zero days. There is very unlikely ever a reason you need to be running bleeding edge packages in prod most package managers now support cool downs.
Everyone look away, nothing to see here.
Anthropic safewords are the talk of the town today.
webdev twitter is blowing up with implementations of pretext text calculations. The examples are absolutely fun and ridiculous.
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Okay so I logged into twitter today, and we are back.... probably not for long,
but we are for now. Claude Code source leaked, the tweets are great. [[
thoughts-956 ]], [[ thoughts-958 ]], [[ thoughts-959 ]], Some typescript css
text layout with bouncing balls, bubbles, strings, and webcam video to text is
blowing up [[ thoughts-957 ]]. This is the tech twitter I remember no sad news
how the world is corrupt by the other side.
The claude code source code leaked today and the tweets are great, maybe twitter is back.
Did you know you can replace the spinning verbs in Claude Code. I’m having fun with it.
I’m about to be pi pilled.
Social Media is dead
Social Media is dead, interest media killed it long ago. I no longer feel like
I'm connecting to people, creating community, having fun, learning. I feel
like I'm being shoveled slop from the slop machine, I'm sure mostly create by
well intentioned people just trying to make it in the world, trying to make
their mark, trying to make something of themselves. The algos long lost the
idea of subs and likes, and transitioned to how long you will pause on a topic.
What used to be a series of recognizable faces, names, avatars, each with their
own personality that I could come to learn and know who was just trollin, who
was serious, is now mostly unrecognizable. Platforms have changed and
fractured communities people went separate ways, not all the same ways. No one
community is like it used to be, and its hard to find.
/carry/
I try to keep a pretty light every day carry, but it never works out, keyfobs and headphone cases end up causing more bulk than I’d like, but My EDC is no where near the bulk I had as a kid with my cargo pants decked out with everything I could possibly need.
I hold no attachment to anything in my EDC. Nothing on my person has sentimental value. Anything I carry can be lost, stolen, or destroyed at any point in time. I pick things of sufficient usable, utilitarian, quality sufficient to work. No extra fluff.
Photo taken March 2023
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Where Is The Tech Industry Going
Agents suck
Get left behind if you don't use them
Burn out if you use them too much
The software world has been flipped upside down seemingly overnight. Slow at
first, then all at once. It started with auto complete, to chat, to, ide
integrations, to agents that would f&!^ over your repo more than it would help.
Up till this point we are just little bit better and more specific than copy
paste from Stack Overflow. Then in Nov 2025 models learned how to effectively
use tools and do what you ask of them, sometimes more, sometimes less, but
generally for the basic shit most of us make its a net positive with each
iteration.
Our techniques for managing work need to change.
Our expectations need to change.
Burnout for a lot of folks is coming.
Is Compaction The Issue
I saw today in work chat something along the lines of "we need bigger context
windows" "compaction times are holding us back". Maybe I'm just blessed with
the lack of lord jira, maybe juggle too many projects at once and they are all
pretty much done when I get back. Maybe I do more long running specs and spend
time making good plans that it does not matter.
Anyways the point I'm getting to is that if you think that compaction is your
main issue slowing you down, and 10x this if you are a manager thinking this is
what is slowing down your team you **need** to look at your workflow. Not
because it sucks. Not only because it could be better. Because you are
signing yourself and your team up for burnout if you are sitting there watching
these things run like waiting for paint to dry and firing more prompts at them
as soon as they are done. It feels easy. It feels like you are going fast.
Its eating more brainpower than you think, and its not getting you to your
destination any faster.
We f&#ing said @pype.dev, well f&#ing said. I think a lot of us are feeling this, we’ve pitched our brain into a bucket and we are no longer stretching it in the same way. We still work in similar ways of old, with new ways of turning off and saying yes a bunch of times. the best thing I can hope for is that as things get better we have fewer yes loops, and more architectural design debates and deep thoughts. But I fear deep thoughts are gone to the way of “research the leading 10 frameworks and pick the best one for this project.” and letting the clankers do the deep thinking. Its signing us up for a weird distopia.
I think a lot of us wish we could undo what has happened and go back to actually understanding what we are doing, but the world has changed, and if you are building average shit, like the average person, using models trained on average people doing average shit you cant keep up anymore.
I’m in step with @pype.dev here, I really want beads to work for me, but my systems for infra/platform work are all over the place, not one repo. I’m considering trying the BEADS_DIR env var but idk if it fits my workflow. For now, similar to @pype.dev, I am rocking my own home vibed solution that I’ve intentionally put little effort in and its working great and I expect it to be broken and not working with the latest harnesses and models within a few months anyways, cause there is no predicting this train.
oof, outage on the homelab during vacation, brutal. I can think of a couple of similar solutions to what @pype.dev has done to tailscale in, but I’m not sure that I could do this remotely. On one hand I’m so glad that cloudflared just takes care of certs on the other hand this really brings a gap in my understanding of what the heck I would do if it were broken.
An untested DR plan is not a DR plan.
An untested backup does not exist.
Vibe coding is going so far into the news sphere now that Adam Savage even weighs in with perspectives from someone who has built a life around building things with his hands, keeping up with new making techniques, discovering old techniques as they combine with new. He talks about 3d printing reviving his love of the pantograph as one automation technique eases the most difficult part of another.
Lets Land The Plane
Part of @steveyegge 's gastown/beads is a prompt "Lets land the plane". It's very straightforward forward and what any sane human would probably do before finishing work, except the last part. The "generate a handoff prompt for the next session" was not something I've put much thought into. But now that I juggle 6 sessions at a time and often end up with 20 sessions open because I don't want to close them and loose the last bit of context. This is what I need to keep from crippling my laptop memory from all of these stale sessions hanging around.
Taken from https://ianbull.com/posts/beads
This is a fantastic progression through kuberentes concepts. From running a pod, to making it resiliant, holding secrets, accepting traffic, and autoscaling.
I’ve been having issue with my keyboard disconnecting to my main desktop for awhile. Today I got a cheap bluetooh dongle in and am giving it a run this week to see how things go. The first step was to move it to the new adapter. I’ve never had multiple adapters installed so this was a new to me process.
I was able to do it all with the same keyboard, It did require some juggling between usb and bluetooth modes pluging and unplugging, two keyboards would be simpler to reason about.
I can’t be bothered to change my brain to think about this machine on a different zmk profile it is of absolute importance for it to remain on the same profile, otherwise this would be a simple bind to another empty profile.
I did it with bluetoothctl, I’m sure it could have been done with a gui like blueberry or blueman.
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I love the level of thought that Jim has put into these changes and making sure that urls don’t change. I’ve got a big change in flight to my main site and this is one of the reasons that I’ve been sitting on it so long. I want to make sure urls arent broken, redirects work as they should, and there are no 404’s from existing urls. Currently the new version only exists on a separate deployement https://go.waylonwalker.com/
I also added the ability to “shuffle” between posts. This is mostly for myself. I like to randomly jump through notes I’ve published in the past for reoccurring inspiration
Love this idea and have it on my new site already as well, and have really enjoyed using it by pressing it a dozen or so times over the course of a few sessions. It highlights that I have too many posts like stars and thoughts and I should do some weighting to main posts. mine is at https://go.waylonwalker.com/random/
Does anyone think fast-code will continue to pay the same salary? The answer isn’t to switch your brain off during your McCode shift and write a poem after work. Your job will be replaced by a Banglasdeshi slop-shop if AI improves (which is inevitable, apparently). Possibly the same sweatshop that loomed my £3 T-shirt. The Luddites didn’t accept their fate so easily.
David has some good points here, but I’m feeling the opposite direction a bit. Execs have always liked keeping the PM’s and the people steering the ship close by and were willing to farm out more and more grunt work. It feels like we are in a weird phase where there used to be a big group of people paid to write code. A few of them are exceptionally good at it and will remain. There will be a need for these people everywhere. Somehow we still need people hand editing assembly code optimizations, fortran, and cobol today. Those industries largely moved on, but a few great ones remain. I think this fast-code slop factory is going to be a short forgotten time in history, but no one yet knows what’s next. We are all waiting to find out. Just with anything there is still value in doing it by hand and...
I don't want someone else running my agents
I don't want to review the pr, I dont want to fight the mass of changes
clobbered across the codebase. I want to own my platform. With everything
changing with agents writing more code than I can imagine in a day work looks
different now. I still want to work with real people. I want to collaborate
on ideas. I want someone to bounce ideas off with. I want someone else in the
war room with me on launch day, or when the whole thing goes down. But I don't
them slopping in my sandbox, if someone is going to be stirring the slop in my
product I want it to be me. Work is feeling different now. New lines need to
be drawn in new directions. Expectations are changing, the way work is
completed is changing, and we are all here trying to figure out what this looks
like moving forward.
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When agents do the work its harder to recognize a dead end.
Learning to agent
All we are hearing lately is Agents are the future, something flipped around
NOV 2025 with opus 4.5. It turned snake oil into action. It changed
programmers will be replaced in 6 months to now. Not all of them, but probably
most of us who are not extraordinary. If you fall into the camp of folks not
adopting, I got no issues with that. No one is twisting your arm, well maybe
your boss or cto is, thats on them. I don't mean to say this is the future as
in, get in or get left behind. I mean it as this is where your other engineers
probably are, the junior to mid level engineers are here. If you are not
trying to meet them where they are how are you going to lead them.
Studio Ghibli Images in the Wild
I just stumbled into an image in my org chart of someone who clearly turned
themself into a Studio Ghibli character in chatgpt during the small window of
time that it seemed to do this for everything. Its clearly the aesthetic that
It would do by default for that week, then would not do it whatsoever. I'd
link it, but its from an org chart. I mostly found it interesting how we now
have these recognizable artifacts from specific moments in time.
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I feel like there's an inevitable phase to every ai/agentic worked feature/epic
where you have to get in and chat with it 2025 style (except it actually works
and doesn't turn your project to shit). Planning is great, planning out epics
for full orchestrator's to churn for hours on is amazing, but it always leaves
me with a handful of thorns multiplied by complexity level of things that I
can shout a list of 6 items at a time that it can one shot. I haven't seen
anyone put a name to this phase yet, so I'm going to call it the UAT phase
for now and it seems like a very necessary part of the SDLC. It was
important before, but feels more so now as engineers distance themselves
from the implementation.
Research, Plan, Implement
I heard this term yesterday, and I think a lot of people are missing out on
step 1. It's important to experiment with agents and learn what they can do
well and what they cant, this changes every couple of weeks at this point. You
might be spending hours planning something that could have been implemented
right away, or maybe wasted time planning something that needed more research,
more context engineering. Agents start fresh every session, they cant remember
what you asked them to do 5 minutes ago in the other session, getting the right
tokens in session is critical.
Today I learned that docker creates an empty /.dockerenv file to indicate that you are running in a docker container. Other runtimes like podman commonly use /run/.containerenv. kubernetes uses neither of these, the most common way to detect if you are running in kubernetes is to check for the presence of the KUBERNETES_SERVICE_HOST environment variable. There will also be a directory at /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount that contains the service account credentials if you are running in kubernetes.
Context Poisoning Was There All Along
I wrote some code by hand on Sunday. Sat down with my son and started building
out a game in pygame from scratch. We went to google, we searched how to do
something, we copy and pasted from the docs. Not because we are dumb, but
because we cant remember some aspects of the pygame api. Now that these
patterns are established we no longer have to google them, we simply grep our
codebase and replicate the pattern. Easy right? It's funny that it took ai to
coin the term `context poisoning` even though it was there all along.
Looking for inspiration? OrcaSlicer-FullSpectrum by ratdoux.
G-code generator for Snapmaker U1 with Full Spectrum layer blending
Agents cannot replace the thinking, they only amplify it
Agents cannot replace the thinking, they only amplify it. If you set the
agents off in the wrong direction that's where they will go. They will sprint
there faster than you can go. This is ok, its one of their advantages, they
can give you signal quick. Remember if they are off in the wrong direction
more research and planning is needed, and maybe a little bit more thinking on
your end to steer them in the right direction.
Great gusto here from someone looking to fill landfills less. Get more use from what they paid for. Dodge some tough times in the hardware industry. I’m going to argue that the 10 year computer is not one bit crazy right now. No idea what the future entails, if local llms get good enough to really get so useful they feel required this could easily change. One issue I had with the post as they are looking to get a machine for the next 10 years is they were so focused on themself that they missed the point. They were so focused on buying something that would work for them for 10 years that they bought something brand new rather than thinking about the bigger issue of how do we get hardware to last 10+ years. Some factor of this involves giving our devices a second life. Two things went wrong here. First it appears they they have a perfectly good imac with a broken screen. I know nothing about apple/imac, assuming that the screen is toast and unrepairable, I know you can ssh into a mac this feels like good potential for server hardware. Next they purchased a brand new mac mini. Hardware has been good for a long time, there is no need to buy new right now, especially now. I haven’t bought a new machine in years and most of my hardware is second hand cobbled together stuff, and has no issues. I’ve got one machine thats 16 years old, 2 machines at 9 years, one at 8 years. To get here they need to be repairable, designed to last, and probably no run windows as they will release something that renders them too slow or require new hardware for security that wont work.
Very interesting takes from @thdxr in this interview. A lot has been hashed out by others all over the place, but a hot take here is that code quality is higher than ever right now. Codebases are becoming more consistent than ever. If you are not starting with a good consistent base from the start you are poising your context and doomed to fail and have all the common failures of ai written code. He still reads almost every PR, and will read all of the code eventually. There are a few cases where reading the PR is not worthwhile only when its low stakes, knows that good patterns have been established and followed. He argues that someone needs to be the expert of the code and of the product still and fears that too many people not looking at prs will fail companies.
Thinking about ai productivity again
Thinking about AI productivity again. It's allowing massive amounts of work to
get done, to levels that humans cannot physically type out in some cases. But
not all of this work is necessarily high value work. Right now I'm working on
one of the biggest PRs to an internal cli library. Probably the largest PR
I've ever done professionally. It touches all of the cli, refactors every
command, reaches into the business logic layers to drive deeper separation. I
reaches into the common layers to drive consistency. It ensures that every
command (50 or so) has similar flags, supports --plain, --no-color. It specs
out contracts to ensure that data goes out stdout, any extra goes out stderr.
This makes everything unix pipe friendly. There was quite a bit of research and
prep that went in, that turns out to already be distilled down into clig.dev.
The point is that this is all good work. It will make the product consistent,
repeatable, expected, and most of all boring. Most of the time, it wi...
Kids are leaving the party early, not drinking, cant watch netflix without the laptop open. They are leaving the party early to check on their agents. I get it, that feeling that you need to eek out one more prompt, keep your agents running. if they arent running what are you even doing. If not you 6 others are ready to pass you up. The timeline to be first has shrunk to nothing but unachievable.
😂 Should I be concerned that My 12yo installed Arch BTW on his own?
It’s wild how much of a hit Google took from killing reader, almost any time I hear about killedbygoogle, reader is the top of the list. Its the thing that we all remember being really good and the incumbants just did not match up. Somehow we are here 13 years later still bitching about it, despite it only having a 6 year run. You should probably get an rss reader, and follow some incredible people that make feeds. Most sites that produce content have the ability to subscribe over rss. Unlike @pluralistic.net, I dont read in my reader. My reader is just a list of links out to the web and I typically read it how the author intended on their site. I nod a long to Cory’s enshitified internet just as much as the next guy, I love text based interfaces, I despise the bloat that js has brought on. But I don’t believe all js is bad, I don’t turn it off, even though he has me questioning this now. News sites kinda suck, we can agree there, but its rare that a small indie web creator has fully enshitified their site with js. I don’t buy that. Sub to the feeds.
Sent Justin my list https://go.waylonwalker.com/blogroll, will soon be on the main site, but right now its only on the go subdomain. I’ve long had reader.waylonwalker.com, but thats soon going to be wrapped into the main site as well at /reader.
I’m interested to see what good stuff Justin gets and if you have any good ones to share reply.
Did you even like to code?
Here's something I've been wrestling with lately. I keep hearing people come
to the realization that they never liked coding, they thought they did, but
secretly hated it the whole time. I dont think I've ever kidded myself about
this. I like building things. I like having an idea and see it come to life.
Just because I like the end product more, and that coding really was a means to
an end, something I will never do again in the same capacity that I have in the
past, does not mean I did not enjoy the art of solving problems by typing
syntax into a file to tell a computer how to solve a problem.
The only thing that seems interesting is AI right now
The only thing that seems interesting is AI right now, I'm writing less code,
and I kinda just don't care as much about the small open source stuff as I used
to. I enjoy reading about what other people are thinking, doing, creating.
But when I go to grab a podcast while I wait on my clankers its one talking
about how other people are using them, how to make them more secure, more
effective, how the new models change things, what models are good at what.
It's all so new and changes so fast. Any sort of new open source project
starts out sus that it was just vibe coded anyways, So at the moment it feels
like ooh how did you get that, how do I make mine, and that the thing itself
has less value. I hate that its this way, but it is.
It's all moving so fast
AI is moving so fast this year its hard to keep up, I've written 3 or 4
versions of one blog post to replace I'm Out On Agents [1], but it feels like
everything changes before I can get it out.
References:
[1]: /im-out-on-agents/
I Built A Tmux Session Switcher
I’ve been thinking about this for awhile now. For years now, fuzzy pickers and last session have been my go to. They have served me well. I can typically only keep so much in my head anyways. I’m often doing a hub and spoke pattern between main project, notes, and infra repo, maybe two projects. Don’t get me wrong, I regularly run with a dozen or more sessions running at a time, but only two to three are in my immediate context at any point anyways.
harpoon for tmux
press a hotkey followed by one more keystroke, currently any left hand letter SIMPLE, FAST, thats of utmost importance, what I want are sessions that I can can be assigned in order of importance from middle row, top row, bottom row.
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Is gpt-5.4 slow?
What you don't have six agents orchestrating the work of 6 subagents yet. I
saw in a work chat that people were complaining about 5.4 being too slow and
they keep going back to opus. For me its been working great, I have it working
on critical infrastructure work, that I will need to maintain. I appreciate
its accuracy and completeness. And honestly I'm **rarely** watching agents
run. Its like watching paint dry at this point. Its interesting to read their
thinking prompts, but not productive work. While its running I'm teeing up the
net prompt. Working with another set of agents to write a set of issues for
the next epic. I might be too privileged though. I own a whole platform and
have plenty of autonomy to work on what I see fit for the day. I don't have a
boss breathing down my neck waiting for a single ticket to be complete. I'm
working on 6 projects at a time. I'm taking walks to avoid becoming a burnt
out zombie. I'm definitely not complaining about it kicking out massive
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We are the Grey Beards
In November 2025 everyones beard lost its color, we aged into the next
generation without realizing it. If you were getting paid to write code at
this point in time, you are part of a special point in history where we used to
write code by hand. There will be systems air gapped systems somewhere devs
will continue to do it how we've always done it, some day they will peek out of
this cave and realize that they are the only ones left, no one else remembers
what its like. Writing code will quickly become a hobby that people do, in a
weird niche way. Not because you want to build something, but like the guy
with a mainframe in his garage that likes to watch the lights blink. Because
its nostalgic, it's a very cool skill, its fun and rewarding, but it won't be
to get something done.
Clankers got me tired
I spent all day grinding on a 20 minute fix. I want the agents to do it. They
can do it, but they are missing the harnesses they need to replicate my
workflows of old.
In the age of agents sometimes work gets done on so many different worktrees and branches its hard to tell if there is already a PR or any of them or not, the great gh cli has us covered.
I like version-fox’s project vfox.
A cross-platform and extendable version manager with support for Java, Node.js, Golang, Python, Flutter, .NET & more
Just starred taskdog by Kohei-Wada. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer.
Terminal task manager with intelligent schedule optimization.Keyboard-only. No dragging, no micromanagement.
One of the well worded shitty messages I’ve seen, good severance, help, timeline to cut off coms.
we’re not making this decision because we’re in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we’re already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that’s accelerating rapidly.
Much better than the get rid of people cause AI can do the work. Honestly I feel this though. I was just talking with some colleages how do we divvy work in the age of agents without just constantly walking on each other. If each of us is now an architect who is managing teams of junior agents under us it feels MUCH different than before.
I’m far from working in a large software org like this and I’m feeling it. I only imagine that it gets worse the more people that have to orchestrate around each other.
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The Ghostty Guy
I was today years old when I realized that the ghostty guy is the Hashicorp guy.
This was the inspiration for the next update in dropper that became a full clip editor. The one that I’ve long wanted, but forgotten about. It’s going to include this cropper, resize, image extractor, and trimmer.
Learned about this one from the @stipete interview @scotthanselman did on YouTube. This is proof that the internet is alive. It’s such web 1.0 nostalgia to see that people can just build things! Did you know that you can literally just build things and make them exist? You don’t need users, You don’t need a big platform, you can just make something into existance. It seems like something we have forgotten through web 2.0 where everything as become 4 major apps all linking to each other and trying to hoard all of the attention. Scroll through tehre are some really cool apps, probably nothing that has the polish you want, or is going to change your world. What these apps have more than anything you’ve probably used in the recent years, is inspiration. Its xyz, but the way I wanted, or with my little twist. And no one else has to like it but me because I’m the user.
I saw this in @cassido’s newsletter this week and had to give it a run. I despise that there is no dark mode and it insists on burning my retinas 😤. But really this is an absolute beate of a web based markdown editor, I love the command mode to press slash and it just pops out in this whimsical animation ready for me to pick what I want.
I had no idea there were such things as “reply guy” as a service. I can see this as a really genuine thing where brands want to genuinely engage with their communities, quickly being taken over by slop bros to ruin everything.
Important things to remember in the age of cheap code. More code, not always more better. More code mean, more risk, more maintenance, harder to change.
THIS, THIS is how most people are feeling about AI right now. Theres lots of “oh ai bad”, “but ai help”, “but ai company sleezy”. Cassidy did a fantastic job summarizing how most of us are feeling. Ending with well at the end of the day, I can’t do anything about the bad, the best thing I can do is learn how to embrace the good cause it aint going away any time soon.
This is a wild way to build prototype pcb’s, so cool and creative.
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Had 10 minutes to play with the new session updates this afternoon and it feels so much smoother. I can definitely feel it even as a casual user.
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.
This is an abolute banger of a game on itch. It nails the nes aesthetic while keeping true to the modern silksong movements. You can play through the first boss Moss Mother, and where you start the first ascend into Bone Bottom. I was in shock when I discovered the little climb effect hornet does when you just cant quite make a jump, the hold jump for height is on point. Her downstrike with the hunters crest is perfect.
Wyatt would absolutely love this banger of a level.
To the untrained eye this passes as any normal gui editor.
astral silently dropped a clever uvx.sh to help builders reach a wider audience, no longer does a user need to have python installed prior to installing a python cli. It does have a hard requirement on having curl or wget available.
Use a linux vps, It’s easy, just follow these simple instructions.
We are living through the js framework wars for agents and llms now. We will look back on this with clarity, and wonder why we wasted time with things like graphql, and why we couldn’t see the real winners from the start.
Such a good interview @lexfridman is such a talented interview. It’s so cool to see the other side of this. For weeks we’ve heard about the story of the name change, we’ve seen everyone shitting on the security model, buying up all the mac minis in existance, fear mongering not to install this thing. @steipete.me has such a cool story from the beginning talking about making this thing fun and exciting. Giving it a personality that is not “You are absolutely right”. The story of changing the name twice, and getting pwnd on every step the first time and nailing it the second time is incredible. Dude is having fun trying to make the thing he wants in the world exist.
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.
.container { padding: 2rem; } .child { padding: 2rem; }
Now your content is 4rem from the edge. Not what I meant at all.
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.
The idea of adjustable key caps to mutate your board into something that really fits you, how you type, how your fingers move, is an absolute banger.
First W In Brotato
After having brotato and doing a few runs every once in a while I finally beat the most basic balanced run in the game! Wyatt wanted to play tonight and its such an easy game to jump in do a few runs and move on without getting overly invested.
Watching back I cannot believe how lucky I got, barely scraping by with 1hp at this point
the last 80s of the game
These patterns are really good. I like a good repeating background on a website. Takes me back to the old days of web, but with a nice crispness that was never there on sites of old
Check out nextlevelbuilder and their project ui-ux-pro-max-skill.
An AI SKILL that provide design intelligence for building professional UI/UX multiple platforms
Pm Not Babysitter
Stop babysitting your agents, treat them like a real team and they will reward you.
Back in December I saw theo make a comment that code is now cheap, its the run rate of models, He quoted a study, not sure that he fully even believed it, but it claimed that the average developer after all meetings, training, emails, planning and extra shit in their day averages out 10 well tested lines of code per day. Opus 3.5 made him 10k loc (lines of code) that day.
We have all agreed for decades that lines of code is not a proxy to productivity or quality. Often more code means more risk, more review, more infrastructure. This has become MUCH different. Lines of code are still far from any sort of good metric. That aside, your agents are not doing 10k lines with you babysitting them, and in fact its very likely that the product quality is MUCH worse as you babysit them.
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If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on agent-browser, created by vercel-labs.
Browser automation CLI for AI agents
Like a dufus this morning I did a hard reset on a git repo for getting I was working on a manifest for. You see I generally use argo, but occasionally I have no idea what I am doing or want yet and I start raw doggin it, fully aware that I’m going to just nuke this namespace before getting it into a proper argocd.
I was overjoyed when I found out that you can diff your manifests with live production using the kubectl diff command. It uses standard diff so you can bring all your fancy diff viewers you like.
# regular manifest kubectl diff -f k8s/shots -n shot # kustomize kubectl diff -k k8s -n go-waylonwalker-com # using a fancy diff viewer kubectl diff -f k8s/shots -n shot | delta # using an even fancier diff viewer # pinkies out for this one kubectl diff -f k8s/shots -n shot | delta --diff-so-fancy
Now I can get those changes back that I thought I lost, and apply updates with confidence knowing what is about to change.
If so many developers are so extraordinarily productive usi…
Not surprising theirs a lag, between the models getting better, the tools getting better, and the masses getting better at using them, it takes time. This is still quite a hockey stick. I’m wondering how many are not posting on Show HN embarrassed they built something they know nothing about and afraid to get questions. I have no idea how anyone would get this ratio, but if I were a betting man, Id bet the ratio of build/show went way up. Plus we are probably getting a ton of people who have never heard of HN start building cool bespoke things for themselves and thats it, they use it, they love it, they might tell/show a friend.
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If so many developers are so extraordinarily productive usi…
Not surprising theirs a lag, between the models getting better, the tools getting better, and the masses getting better at using them, it takes time. This is still quite a hockey stick. I’m wondering how many are not posting on Show HN embarrassed they built something they know nothing about and afraid to get questions. I have no idea how anyone would get this ratio, but if I were a betting man, Id bet the ratio of build/show went way up. Plus we are probably getting a ton of people who have never heard of HN start building cool bespoke things for themselves and thats it, they use it, they love it, they might tell/show a friend.
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I taught wyatt `#bada55` green, I apologize in advance, I underestimate
the power of immature humor has on him.
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.wayl.one/file/9065fcb2-5e40-479c-967e-498bc9bb6a4f.mp4
test
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Agents right now
* can I access the project you mentioned?
> yes
* Can i access /tmp
> yes, just do it
* While I'm I at it, `kubctl delete...`
> yanks plug front internet
Agent Management Is Exhausting
The state of development in early 2026 is all wrapped around learning how to manage many agents running in parallel. Everyone’s trying to figure out the workflow.
The secret I’ve discovered is a good, well-defined plan. This could be a markdown file or a GitHub issue. Agents are actually great at writing these for you. They’ll include reproduction steps, outline changes needed, and structure the work.
This is your opportunity to step in. Read the plan. Look for hallucinations. Spot where it’s going off track. Edit the plan before the agent starts coding.
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Pete has a ton of good posts here and actually ships a lot of product. reccommended read.
read later
Stop Using Boomer Ai
I was listening to these guys talk about migrating off of boomer ai the other day. Introducing the term boomer ai to describe using chat, copy, paste instead of agents. Something magical happened to the tooling and models around december, they got really good. The chatgpt $20 plan hooked into opencode is good, the Free models in Opencode Zen (Big Pickle and Kimi K2.5 Free) are really good. Neither of these quite match up to the speed and quality of the larger plans, but they are good. good enough to throw away your boomer ai techniques and start using agents. Agents are the future, and they are here now. If you are still using chat, copy, paste, you are doing it wrong. Stop using boomer ai and start using agents. You will be amazed at how much better your results will be.
I’m jelous… as I was getting better, I got kicked down again. cant hold a conversation without coughing. Its hitting people from all over like crazy this year. so glad its just the flu and not something seriously harmful for hospitalization.
Mentions
I can now just mention people from my markata Waylon Walker [[ blogroll ]] like @simonwillison.net or @swyx.io
/now [[ upto ]] [[ doing ]]
Aside
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The work on fastrender by wilsonzlin.
Experimental new browser engine
2026-01-23 Notes
Next for markata go
Dockframe looks like a really cool concept using the framework tiles ( the connectors idk what they are called ) to build a dock.
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?
Quick Tip To Get Agents Running Longer
Here's a quick tip if you want to get your agents running longer, **prompt better**.
I really wish I would have got this right a few years ago. Theres a couple of flags I had to use to get mdformat to do hard wraps at 80 characters and not wreck tables. This mix of flags and plugins is workign really well for me so far.
mdfmt() { uvx \ --with "mdformat-ruff" \ --with "mdformat-beautysh" \ --with "mdformat-web" \ --with "mdformat-config" \ --with "mdformat-gfm" \ --with "mdformat-front-matters" \ --with "mdformat-wikilink" \ --with "mdformat-simple-breaks" \ mdformat \ --wrap 80 \ --end-of-line lf \ --codeformatters python \ --codeformatters bash \ "$@" }
And as pre-commmit.
Ai prompt music, the right level of cringe to be great.
This post was filled with real life, snark, entertainment, feelings. I get a lot of these emails that claim they can change my SEO game if I give them 500, for a site making 0, Link partnerships from small startups. A lot of these are so automated that if I do respond I dont even get a response. I’ve responded to many simply asking what is this about, I get 10 others just like you a week. Can you tell me what exactly you want and what each of us benefit from it, how did you find me. All normal questions, they almost always result in crickets, no response, maybe its time to implement a Billie for more snark.
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What no one is talking about is that Deegs doesn't get the red plate without
Anstie on the ground.
What is that
I was unironically asked what is that about my keeb today. Followed by no way
that works, how would you type a, s, y, u, after showing, I go the "that's
weird" walk away.
📝 Git Notes
See old revisions of one file # git log --oneline -- <file> git log -n 2 --oneline -- <file> Checkout an old revision of a file # git checkout <commit> -- path/to/file fuzzy pick a file and check out an old revision # #!/usr/bin/env bash set -euo pipefail file="${1:-}" if [[ -z "${file}" ]]; then file="$(git ls-files | fzf --prompt="select file > ")" || exit 0 fi if [[ -z "${file}" ]]; then exit 0 fi if ! git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo "Not a git repository." >&2 exit 1 fi if ! git ls-files --error-unmatch -- "${file}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo "File is not tracked by git: ${file}" >&2 exit 1 fi choice="$( git log --follow --pretty=format:'%h %ad %s' --date=short -- "${file}" | fzf --ansi --no-sort --reverse \ --preview-window=down:70% \ --prompt="checkout revision > " \ --preview "git show --color=always {1}^..{1} -- '${file}' 2>/dev/null || git show --color=always...
Dont Trust Users Tokens
User states: Upon picking up an old project and trying to install pip says “cannot find a version to satisfy”
I’ve got this, I’ve had this a hundred times before it’s a python version, a rogue package, maybe a yank from the pinned deps. I pop open the project get us on the same commit. I get a different error, make a few updates and we are good, except the user gets the same error from the start.
They never saw the error I did, and my fix did not magically resolve their error. We circle all the things it could be for hours. I consistently wipe my venv, and recreate with ease, send them the commands I ran to no avail. Something is up and I can’t put my finger on it. We’ve checked all the things and inched as close as we can to running everything exactly the same.
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What a goat, speedrunning silksong at a competitive pace, live, with live audience, while co hosting, and raising $2M for Prevent Cancer Foundation. CEEN moves in ways that do not compute with my brain, everything looks so simple, things that take me so long are done in a few swipes. Watching this it really make silkspear look OP, this thing does so much damage if you never take damage and can use it continuously without needing silk for healing.
Absolute banger of a conference talk, saving to come back with more notes later.
Opencode is changing on the daily right now, today I noticed the word low pop up in Orange text in my opencode window. Looking into this they are exposing variants to the user. This allows you to change between fast or slow and thinking, the later taking more time to prepare before doing an action.
It looks like this toggle may have been here for awhile and I’m just now discovering it. Potentially because its a new feature of the free Zen provider.
Variants Many models support multiple variants with different configurations. OpenCode ships with built-in default variants for popular providers.
Built-in variants OpenCode ships with default variants for many providers:
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The answer is I do it habitually. If there’s a big enough idea I’ve had floating around in my head and I think others might find it useful / interesting then I usually think it’s worth logging it somewhere. If I don’t, I’ll likely just keep thinking about it so might as well get it out of my head and on the internet where people can find it.
This is how you do it. If you want to do something, you need to make it a habit. Something you crave, something you need. I need to write my ideas down in this blog, it helps me index ideas for later, but more importantly it helps me flesh them out and think through real things.
Congrats on 1k, your site is awesome Hammy
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I'm not sure if its good to keep issues and plans in the repo long term, but
I'm going to give it a shot.
> read @pages/issues/issue-1.md create a plan to fix the issue, then write your
> plan to fix in @pages/plans/fix-issue-1.md
Never believe in absolutes, see what I did there. The hype bros will take you to the extremes, ai will take your jobs in six months or be burned to the ground in six months. How about its useful now and will be more useful in six months. If you turned off the hype bro feed for six months you would probably be fine, in fact you would probably be better off for not capturing so much noise along the way. AI has gone the way of next js framework, it churns fast, hype bros are always an expert that know exactly whats best for everyone. It changes fast, what was the best last week might be dead next week. In fact getting to know what works well for you and knowing that tool really well for a longer period will take you farther.
Salesforce gets pwnd by the ai hype bros and killed its reputation with employees, letting them know where they truely stand with them. 4k people sounds like a lot, its probably a big chunk of savings, but was it worth the loss of reputation? There must be a better way to give this a trial run that lets them understand this before disrupting the lives of real people right???
Ai
Last updated Jan 2026.
Ai is a tool I use a lot for code generation, research, image generation, and debugging. The words I publish on this site are my own unless explicitly stated from the top. There’s only one or two posts in this category.
The core of what this blog is, is my thoughts ideas, sharing experiences. The words are the important part. They are not perfect, I often do not spell or grammer check, and what is here is from a flow state of writing and very often not refactored.
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This looks like a really nice and performant diffing library that supports vanilla and react, with a lot of options.
I thought this was an interesting take from Simon. I’ve been hearing him consistently say there will be more demand for software engineering in the future. More companies will have the ability and need to deal with software applications, but fewer of us will be hand editing any code. I thought this was an interesting interaction in the clip.
Uh Simon, what do you got for us?
I’ve just got the one. I think the act
of the the the job of being paid money to type code into a computer Yeah.
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This is opencode’s init prompt.
Og-Sample
I’m making an effort to make my og images better yet again, I’m going for that next 10% better. I really like my og images, but there are some title sizes that overflow. This page is a page to help debug. How I make these og images is for another day.
I use my own static site generator markata. I can use it to generate a list of posts wrapped in their og image. I use itertools to do a groupby so that I can do roughly every 5 characters larger, and see a wide variety of sizes.
from markata import Markata from itertools import groupby markata = Markata() lens = [{'length':...
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POG: Play Of the Game - used to express shock or excitement after a noteworthy moment.
2026 Resolutions
It’s that time of year, Coming back to work out of a big break and thinking about big changes.
Keep up with daily notes, maybe not here, I tend to have more targeted notes here with full blog posts, but for work daily notes is POG and needs to be leaned on. LLM’s do really good at ingesting markdown and reminding me of things that I need to do, or did, or need to follow up on.
Social media is changing, quickly becoming enshitified, I enjoy interacting with some of the people I’ve met online, reading their opinions, and learning from their experiences. I don’t need their hot takes, don’t care about their political takes. I like boring posts that typically fade out of whats picked up on the algorithm. I like a good 5-10 minute read or a long form podcast talk. I will be aggressively collecting more rss feeds to read and keep up with.
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In all of the documentaries I’ve seen on how hard it is to recycle plastic, how hard it is to separate all the small pieces from each other, how expensive it is, dirty it is, how just plain ineffective we are at doing it I’ve never seen this angle. In a nutshell the other side of the equation is that as we pull natural gas out of shale is that we pull ethylene out as a byproduct. We don’t even ask for it, it just comes with the methane gas that we are going for. So as we drill, Frack, and mine this out to heat our homes and create electricity we are stuck with all of this ethylene. It’s terrible for the environment, just like methane it’s a rough greenhouse gas. Companies are allowed to flare off a certain amount, they can push some down the pipe, but are still left with tons leftover that they practically give away. Turns out that this stuff is very cheap and very much wants to be turned into plastic. Very clean food grade plastic, very easily and cheaply compared to recycling. Excess is a big problem that needs solutions, but it has hard problems at both ends of the situation that don’t make it easy for anyone trying to take care of it.
Extract text from MDX files, removing J…
Damn this one is getting some reach, I’ve seen it from Simon Willison and Justin Searls and t3.gg. 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...
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!!! Rune
ᚨᛚᛚᚨᛁ ᛗᚨᚾᚾᚨ ᚠᚱᛖᛁ
!!! Rune
While the non deterministic nature of llms scare the heck out of me in the sense of just cutting it loose on my writing. letting it go through all of my files and just edit them. I do like the idea of mundane tools like “desaturate”, “Gaussian blur”, evolving out of it for text. I don’t yet see this with the tools we have now, but it will be interesting to see them evolve.
file over app is a fantastic philosophy laid out well and concisely documented very well in this post. The idea is that tools will change, we will want to use different tools, different editors, different computers over time. What’s likely to outlast everything is plain text files that we can interact with a wide variety of tools. Not encrypted in dedicated formats that die with our tools, but in plain text where a computer from 2160 is likey as capable of reading the file as one from 1960 would be.
I recently discovered vim-speeddating by tpope, and it’s truly impressive.
speeddating.vim: use CTRL-A/CTRL-X to increment dates, times, and more
Check out JaKooLit and their project Wallpaper-Bank.
Additional wallpapers which will be offered to users for my hyprland scripts
Today I discovered vim-speeddating by tpope. I’m sure I’ve seen years ago but it did not click for my workflow until today. I often go through pictures from my phone for the past few days and make Posts tagged: shots posts, but I want to date them to about when the image was taken most of the time. This allows me to quickly bump days up and down using c-a and c-x even around the new year.
Sound on, listen to those new switches.
new keeb so good
New keeb feeling so good I don't want to leave it. I'm going to go from having
my worse favorite at work, to having my new favorite at work.
Congrats Simon! Well deserved metric for the level of content that he produces, Its remarkable the amount of high quality posts that come out of Simon Willison. Also this looks like a really great resource to find other high quality blogs that I have not read before.
I’m really excited about gastown, an amazing project by steveyegge. It’s worth exploring!
Gas Town - multi-agent workspace manager
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);" > </video>