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💭 Cloudflare cuts 1100 blog.cloudflare.com

Building For The Future This afternoon, we sent the following email to our global team. One of our core values at Cloudflare is transparency, and we believe it The Cloudflare Blog · blog.cloudflare.com [1] Full salary for the rest of the year after being let go. As much as this sucks as much as the job market sucks. It’s good to see that these companies laying off huge numbers during good times are trying to take care of those they brought on. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/ [2]: /thoughts/

💭 Programming Sucks www.stilldrinking.org

Programming Sucks stilldrinking.org [1] Absolutely incredible, will fill some notes later Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks [2]: /thoughts/

💭 Programming Still Sucks. — Writing www.stvn.sh

Programming Still Sucks. — Writing Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And... stvn.sh [1] Absolute banger of a post, this is the time we are living in. Explain “are you afraid AI is going to take your job” to a non tech blue collar worker. Broken over promises, greed, and projects mismanaged by leadership who has no idea what the day to day work actually does and how critical it is. I’m not quite in Sara’s position, but I feel something shielded by half of this working deep inside of a non tech part of a non tech company leading a very small rag tag team with get shit done attitude. But I feel it, I see colleagues hit by these blasts.b I get clipped with shrapnel from some of the largest blasts. But nothing as significant as I see many others hit with Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp [2]: /thoughts/

forgejo push to create

I just learned that forgejo has a push to create repo feature and it is a gamechanger. Upon first try it didn’t work, with just a couple of environment variables I was up and running with push to create. notify.wayl.one on  main is 📦 v0.1.62  v3.14.4 NO PYTHON VENV SET  USING SYSTEM NVIM ❯ git remote add origin https://git.waylonwalker.com/waylon/notify.wayl.one notify.wayl.one on  main is 📦 v0.1.62  v3.14.4 NO PYTHON VENV SET  USING SYSTEM NVIM ❯ git push remote: Push to create is not enabled for users. fatal: unable to access 'https://git.waylonwalker.com/waylon/notify.wayl.one/': The requested URL returned error: 403 So I added the following environment variables. Author: Waylon S. Walker <[email protected]> Date: Wed May 6 21:56:53 2026 -0500 enable push to create diff --git a/k8s/forgejo/deployment.yaml b/k8s/forgejo/deployment.yaml index d77daab..9346763 100644 --- a/k8s/forgejo/deployment.yaml +++ b/k8s/forgejo/deployment.yaml @@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ spec: value: "0.0.0.0" - name: FORGEJO__server__HTTP_PORT value: "3000" + - name: FORGEJO__repository__ENABLE_PUSH_CREATE_USER + value: "true" + - name: FORGEJO__repository__ENABLE_PUSH_CREATE_ORG + value: "tru...

nless

nless is a seriously sick tui for exploring streaming data. It makes it seriously simple to pivot (U), drill in (Enter), sort (s). It leave breadcrumbs as you go and you can press q to back out. Play with your kubernetes events. Ya, my homelab [1] is far from perfect, dont judge. kubectl get events -A -w | uvx --from nothing-less nless ceda8873-cb08-4436-a3ac-b5bf4a0b2379.mp4 [2] References: [1]: /homelab/ [2]: http://dropper.wayl.one/file/ceda8873-cb08-4436-a3ac-b5bf4a0b2379.mp4

💭 Ghostty is leaving GitHub news.ycombinator.com

[1]Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub Mitchell Hashimoto · mitchellh.com [1]Found on HN: [1]discussion [2] The GitHub tears post. I feel it, maybe not as much as @mitchelh, but I feel it. Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579 [3]: /thoughts/

💭 Red Squares — the GitHub outage graph red-squares.cian.lol

Red Squares — the GitHub outage graph A satirical contribution graph: red squares track GitHub.com platform outages instead of green squares tracking commits. red-squares.cian.lol [1] yet another interesting visualization of github outages. These guys are getting raked over the coals. It really sucks to see. Not quite tears to my eyes mitchelh [2]. But it feels like a core part of opensource has been dying for a few years now and is now getting ripped to shreds. The central location for open source is becoming more fragmented and I don’t see a path to where it ever gets any better. Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://red-squares.cian.lol/ [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579 [3]: /thoughts/

almost left tokens on the table

Almost didn't get through those gippity tokens this week, woke up yesterday with 50% and a day to use them, cut full 5.4 loose on a big project that needs a lot of work an it gobbled em right up throughout the day ran out just before bed.

💭 Desktop Crash 2026 pype.dev

Desktop Crash 2026 | Nic Payne PC Crash Desktop crashed days ago, apparently my primary drive has been going bad for a while and eventually it just died. live-booted to ubuntu server found re pype.dev [1] I’m taking this as a reminder to treat every machine like its about to catch fire, any machine with a user regularly using it already has the match lit. I need to go through and commit draft blog posts, dirty homelab [2] POC’s need to get out or get in, and not forever be in limbo. My efforts this year have been well intention ed to keep projects clean, on main, not dirty, but I think agents are making it worse before they make it better. I have some new ideas forming and old ideas for managing this have failed me. Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://pype.dev/desktop-crash-2026/ [2]: /homelab/ [3]: /thoughts/

💭 ARTEMIS II PHOTO TIMELINE artemistimeline.com

Artemis II Photo Timeline An interactive photo timeline of NASA artemistimeline.com [1] Hank Greed made a really cool site to explore the Artemis II mission with Claude Code. Now this is what agentic coding is for, such a cool app to scroll around on and visualize when the photos were taken. Listening to the video is sounded really hard to get all of the data to line up correctly, between devices and timezones it ws not straightforward even though all of the schedules and images were made public. [2] Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://artemistimeline.com/#jeremy-hansen-suited-up-and-ready [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/72dbd361-091e-4e3e-b965-bca6dd11e33e.webp [3]: /thoughts/

💭 Hacker News RSS hnrss.github.io

Hacker News RSS hnrss.github.io [1] hacker news rss feeds, Nice list of feeds to consider adding to your feed reader. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://hnrss.github.io/ [2]: /thoughts/

image compare in markata go

markata-go now has web awesome integration for image compare. It renders a nice web component with a slider to compare two images. It’s done with a class wrapper around the image components. ::: wa-comparison   ::: Without markata-go’s web awesome integration, the above would look like: <script type="module"> import 'https://ka-f.webawesome.com/[email protected]/components/comparison/comparison.js'; </script> <wa-comparison> <img slot="before" src="https://dropper.wayl.one/file/d628ffba-de18-4fff-91a8-700f037df119.webp" alt="Grayscale version of kittens in a basket looking around." /> <img slot="after" src="https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/ca30665f-1a15-453e-aab8-221901c7df99.webp" alt="Color version of kittens in a basket looking around." /> </wa-comparison>

testing copilot model flag

Today I found a way to test model syntax, cause the clankers always get the exact model name that copilot wants wrong. copilot --model claude-sonnet-4.5 -p "Reply with OK" --allow-all --no-ask-user -s copilot --model gpt-5.4 -p "Reply with OK" --allow-all --no-ask-user -s

💭 Hybrid theory is the greatest album of our generation - YouTube www.youtube.com

- Jaime’s title hooked me in here, what guitar riff from Linkin Park had the greatest riff of our generation. Theres something about Linkin Park unlike Killswitch Engage, Atreyu, Avenged Sevenfold, bands I would listen to at this time that I cant remember a single riff, I can think of Chesters vocals, or the unique scratching they did, but mostly the songs were a whole piece. What riff is he talking about. The very first note of “One Step Closer” plays and I’m immediately transported back to 2003 sitting in my garage watching HuevosIII [1] on repeat. I can still remember the timing that Wes Miller did on the edit. I can see the riders I looked up to for so long riding in formation. Turns out this riff is so recognizable it takes me exactly where I was when I listened to it hundreds of times. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoQ6fUTuYvg&amp;list=PLoSp9yq_oDOdCOfCp_QTS017cjAi4Cv_0&amp;index=2 [2]: /thoughts/

💭 Super Slow-Moto: The www.youtube.com

- The most iconic shots of a scrub ever caught on camera. Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

Can You Feel the Slop

Do you ever vibe code out a POC, and you can just feel the shitty code underneath? Every change causes 3 things to break and wires get crossed all over the place. Sometimes I just want to write the code again. Maybe its time to slow down.

approve rm

Hot take, if you are unwilling to approve rm you should rethink your workflow, git state, or backups. !!! Note This is meant for normal project work with an agent working in the context of a single project, with directory level access to the project.

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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.

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 local ignore

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: Example given from the docs 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 Reference # [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/manual/html_node/Types-And-Syntax-Of-Ignore-Lists.html References: [1]: #reference

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Is it just me or are the agents not behaving today?

💭 "Am I Crazy?" [Wading Through AI - Episode 3] www.youtube.com

- 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? Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

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I wrote code by hand today... I was out of tokens

💭 A love letter to Pi | Lucas Meijer www.youtube.com

- 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 [1] 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. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /html/ [2]: /thoughts/

💭 How Claude Code’s Creator Starts EVERY Project - YouTube www.youtube.com

- 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. Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

💭 POV: Growing up as a Millennial be like 🤣 AC:@mikemancusi #mil... www.youtube.com

- Feeling this today, feels like everything continues to get worse. Trying to be more positive, and its hard. Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

💭 Write It First, Then Let AI Drive - Kenneth Reitz kennethreitz.org

Write It First, Then Let AI Drive There's a thing that happens when you start using AI coding tools seriously. You assume the best workflow is obvious: let AI generate the first draft, then... Kenneth Reitz · kennethreitz.org [1] 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. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-04-12-write_it_first_then_let_ai_drive [2]: /thoughts/

Prove Yourself Agent

Ask your agents to prove their work. Include it in the initial prompt, not later.

💭 I am slowly coming around to AI assisted programming. x.com

External Link X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1] If agents make prime a bit faster, what does that mean for the rest of us mortals? Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://x.com/ThePrimeagen/status/2043861800819761382 [2]: /thoughts/

💭 AIs aren’t good rule followers x.com

External Link X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1] 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. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/2044065822067282396 [2]: /thoughts/

💭 A quote from Steve Yegge simonwillison.net

Steve Yegge Steve Yegge: I was chatting with my buddy at Google, who's been a tech director there for about 20 years, about their AI adoption. Craziest convo I've had all year. … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1] 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. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/13/steve-yegge/#atom-everything [2]: /thoughts/

Anthropic Mythos

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?

💭 How does Claude Code *actually* work? - YouTube www.youtube.com

- 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. Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

💭 Artemis II Lunar Flyby www.nasa.gov

Artemis II Lunar Flyby - NASA The first flyby images of the Moon captured by NASA’s Artemis II astronauts during their historic test flight reveal regions of the Moon's far side, as well as an in-space solar eclipse. Released... NASA · nasa.gov [1] 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. [2] One of the most famous images from the shoot “Setting Earth” Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/ [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/9987010a-a448-472d-9c60-2831b61a1d3a.webp [3]: /thoughts/

💭 Explaining the Most Important Artemis II Photos - YouTube www.youtube.com

- What an amazing set of photos created by the Artemis II crew accompanying a fantastic breakdown by Hank Green. [1] 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/ Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/0b53a4ed-924e-42b5-84f4-51c189f60801.webp [2]: /thoughts/

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💭 An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & ... www.youtube.com

- A really interesting long form interview with @simonwillison [1]. 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. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #th...

💭 DDR5 Prices are Crashing... Kind Of. - YouTube www.youtube.com

- THIS is the future of homelab [1], excited to see someone who knows so much more about hardware than I do get excited about this. [2] Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /homelab/ [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/f69c86b9-ab79-46ad-9ef0-4d794544e943.webp [3]: /thoughts/

💭 @seldo.com on Bluesky bsky.app

Laurie Voss (@seldo.com) Project Glasswing is a glimpse at an oncoming future in which agents do things humans could never have accomplished and the results are handled by other agents faster than humans could react and we... Bluesky Social · bsky.app [1] Is Glasswing the next inflection point [2] Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://bsky.app/profile/seldo.com/post/3miybjol76p2r [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/00bc13be-32bd-4410-b0c4-2ecc0f2f6b95.webp [3]: /thoughts/

💭 BumpMesh by CNC Kitchen bumpmesh.com

BumpMesh by CNC Kitchen Add displacement textures to STL, OBJ, and 3MF models directly in your browser. Preview, mask, bake, and export printable textured meshes locally. BumpMesh · bumpmesh.com [1] 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. [2] [3] Note This post is a thought [4]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://bumpmesh.com/ [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/d959e3dc-3fde-410b-acaf-8f0574f68a1a.webp [3]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/e10dddf6-0f2e-498f-bef7-81901afced7b.webp [4]: /thoughts/

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: Tiny Desk Concert - YouTube www.youtube.com

- Bush on tiny desk. Iconic band on an iconic platform. Will be re-listening to this several times. [1] Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/3b67304c-41cc-4040-b6cd-7e0c16633e3d.webp [2]: /thoughts/