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I ran into an issue where my pinentry was unable to connect, blocking me from doing commits. You can use this to continue signing commits.

export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
gpg-connect-agent updatestartuptty /bye

printf test | gpg \
  --local-user 9A47900E81415D65C32C630066E2BF2B4190EFE4 \
  --pinentry-mode loopback \
  --sign >/dev/nul
Sustainable Augmented Development • Kent Beck • YOW! 2025 youtube.com
- Interesting thoughts from a real OG [1] Kent Beck. He argues we are whitnissing the biggest advancement in computing in 40 years. For 40 years we have been almost exclusively writing in compiled languages. Languages that output to some sort of binary compiled assembly instructions for each processor type. Before that it was all hand written instructions directly to CPU. Now we are seeing the genie revolution. The genie is good a writing in many different programming languages given english prompts. It loves to complete problems and is not afraid to write lots of code very quickly. Its quite good at skirting around our best judgement in order to accomplish the goal we set. Some take aways from this talk is that NO ONE knows what the fuck is next. No one knows the best ways to use these things. Everyone has their own opinion wrapped around their experience that might be wildly different than yours. It seems clear this is changing every day and ways no one can measure, predict, or prepare for. So much sits in the hands of model labs and model providers. Without real access to any of it, its all magic. References: [1]: /og/

I’ve been running fedora coreos on my home servers for awhile. I really liked the stability I got from bazzite, and have since enjoyed the stability of fedora coreos. Since it’s an immutable system I’ve never quite known if I need to reboot or not, and was unsure how to check for updates. Today I learned you can use rpm-ostree status to see if your fedora coreos system is up to date.

rpm-ostree status

For me it listed security advisories with a count of each severity unknown, low, moderate, and important.

The Internet I Grew Up With Doesn’t Exist Anymore - cleberg.net cleberg.net
[1] I align a lot with this post. From growing up in a rural house where internet access was harder to get. It was slow and only had one line, if you were on the internet, no one in the house could recieve a phone call. Idk if what is now the smol webl, the indieweb, is seeing a resurgence, if I’m just noticing it more. It does feel like along there has been a very small number of users willing to get their own domain, their own server, and host their own shit. A few of these are starting to really break out occasionally, see things like wordle [2] hitting mass adoptioun before being swooped up by a giant. I too miss the internet of old, heck I really dont even mind the middle era of fb, twitter, instagram dominance, but what we have now is dominated by political undertones on it all with everyone shouting “Fake News” at each other. These sites are the easiest place to stay in touch with those you have met online, yet they are riddled with so much toxicity its impossible to have a great experience on them. I’m about a year and a half of not having a single one on my phone, and at this point I barely log into them once a week. RSS is the way forward, as long as its not killed b...

This morning I had a machine crash on me and came back to an error.

Error

zsh: corrupt history file /home/u_walkews/.zsh_history

Dammit I don’t want to redo my shell history, I checked with a clanker and they came up with this solution using strings that only prints printable characters.

cp ~/.zsh_history ~/.zsh_history.bak
mv ~/.zsh_history ~/.zsh_history.corrupt
touch ~/.zsh_history
chmod 600 ~/.zsh_history
strings ~/.zsh_history.corrupt > ~/.zsh_history
chmod 600 ~/.zsh_history
Fresh Marin
Marin refresh 2026 wen't so good, the bike now shifts through all of the gears super smooth and is an absolute joy to ride.
Into The Tunnel
Super cool tunnel on our bike ride feels like air conditioning even on the hottest days.
Entering The Tunnel
Some rich greenery surrounding a beautiful creek entering a long tunnel.
Fresh Marin In The Dark
Shot of the freshly rebuilt Marin Kentfield in the dark.
I Did One More Prompt To A Long Running Session A Day Later
I did one more prompt to a long running performance tuning session, that included many runs-reruns, and it took a chunk out of my 5 hour limit.
Nibelungenlied40 | Book Split Keyboard Design www.reddit.com
Reddit - Please wait for verification reddit.com [1] Absolute whimsy achieved in this book themed #keeb [2] build! [3] References: [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/1u9awcz/nibelungenlied40_book_split_keyboard_design/?utm_source=cassidoo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=u1f6b8-you-can-make-anything-by-writing-cs-lewis [2]: /tags/keeb/ [3]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/b3f7c96c-805b-4a6b-8ebc-efde8ba11816.webp

hmmm.

TIL, `?.` is sometimes pronounced as a `hmm dot`

Does codex change throughout the token usage window?

Is it me or can you feel the 5 hour and weekly limit of codex nearing. It feels like it slowly stops working tasks to completion and asking to continue. I nearly start yelling into the enter, "YES, DO WHAT WE AGREED ON, STOP ASKING" then I notice I'm in the single digits of remaining window left.

T Handle Wire Puller

I’ve been fighting not having a proper pick/hook in my toolbox for a long time. This fathers day weekend my son pulled out an old box of rc plane supplies from my days trying to build planes like flight test. Inside there was a pack of piano wire. Rules [1]-8 Need a tool make a tool. He had pulled this out while I had the soldering iron hot plucking away at a keeb build that I’ve had sitting idle on the workbench for a long time. The dream of having several identical working builds at the same time is very close to fruition, I just need some more work on the clone. Posts tagged: keeb [2] I was struggling to pull wires through traces of 3d prints. You see I was once a mechanical engineer, not electrical, so 3d modeling is my hammer that I can turn into a tool for any solution, and I’ve just not put the time into learning pcb design. Someday maybe. I always just take some scrap copper make a little look and twist it around until I can get it close enough to pull with some tweezer...
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keeb
T Handle Wire Puller In Action
T Handle Wire Puller in Action, sliding in to grab some fresh copper.
T Handle Wire Puller
T Handle Wire Puller, with just the right hook on the end, and filed down just thin enough to slip in and grab wire.

Keys.waylonwalker.com

Today I got sick of my go to online keyboard tester [1] not supporting holds and fighting an issue with holds on one of my boards, I vibed out a replacement. I did a bit of work with it to get it how I wanted. gpt5.4 still likes to make lots of cards and build readable sites with a reasonable width for reading, not full page apps. keyboard tester A keyboard tester that works for me, how I like it keys.waylonwalker.com [2] The main feature is to be able to see when alt+key or shift+key is pressed, the keyboard tester was not able to do this. 73e71d2d-eaf9-4a0a-9e04-0039a1df0b26.mp4 [3] Here is a video of me using it. I tend to use keyboard tester a lot as I build a lot of weird keyboards so I suspect this one to get a lot of use and may grow over time, but for now it works good enough for me. I can already think of a whole list of features like supporting keycodes for js, pygame, zmk, qmk. But for now I’m just building what I need and not overcomplicating it. References: [1]...
Out On A Night Ride On The Trail
Out on a night ride on the trail

Malicious Aur Packages Jun 2026

Recent Arch linux vulnerabilities are a good reminder of a few things. - AUR [1] is not the official package repo - The AUR is community driven - AUR packages are not always safe The first thing I’m doing to stop myself from running any aur updates automatically is removing any arch helper. sudo pacman -Rns yay paru paru-bin Currently the reported vulnerabilities are supply chain attacks limited to the aur, keep your arch system up do date, BUT do not update packages from the AUR right now. In fact I’m auditing my aur usage and removing anything I have not used in awhile. Here is a nice script I’m using to walk through my packages and get rid of things I installed and probably don’t need anymore. pacman -Qemq | fzf -m --preview ' echo "== package ==" pacman -Qi {} 2>/dev/null echo echo "== required by ==" pacman -Qi {} 2>/dev/null | grep "Required By" ' | xargs -r -o sudo pacman -Rns Supply chain attacks are getting real scary in 2026, maybe we should listen to Ginger...
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linux

Prompt Seagulls

I was listening to @syntaxfm this morning and @wesbos said at 328s [1] “The prompt seagulls are driving me nutty”. 100% hard agree Wes. Now I didnt just come off of a conference where they dropped fable 5. I’ve not logged into twitter in months, but I see it around work. prompt-seagulls “Prompt, PR-ompt, promt, PROMT” There is no such thing as magic [2] # [3] Asking for the prompt as a first question here, is a clear sign you are looking for magic. What are the magical incantations I must pass to all master clanker to get it to do the things that I want. Wrong, there is no magic prompt to get impressive results, its people that know and understand their craft that get amazing results. They have taste. They have design in mind, They see what the end product should be. They are guiding the model to do what they want and are not surprised when they get it. prompt-seagulls “Prompt, PR-ompt, promt, PROMT” process # [4] No one is one shotting their work and kicking up their feet f...
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tech
The Daylilies Are In Full Bloom 2026
The daylilies are in full bloom 2026

Mythos gone already

Mythos released days ago, now its gone, before most of us were allowed to touch it.

Just give em the ol one eyed fighting Kirby

This is a vim substitution technique to capture the rest of the line as a capture group.

:'<,'>s/longhorn\(.*\)/longhorn\1-rwx

This one captures pesky optional " and places it back at the end if it found one.

:'<,'>s/longhorn\("\?\)\(.*\)/longhorn\2-rwx\1

!!! see-also

<a href="/thought-200/" class="wikilink" data-title="The One Eyed Fighting Kirby" data-description="!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Ekt1PZBzQ&amp;t=351s" data-date="2024-01-26">The One Eyed Fighting Kirby</a>

just good enough

I built shit on the web before AI, some of it was okay, some I put a lot of time into, but some was just really shitty. Done just well enough to get the job done. All of it had to be written by hand or copy pasted from stack overflow. It was a lot of fun. Now we have a new level of shitty, it looks fine. It looks like it should work good. None of it is just barely good enough, nearly browser default style anymore.

I’ve been deploying my site old school for most of this year, rsync to a volume mounted to nginx. I ran into an issue today where I updated my site and all of the pages updated first, followed by upload. The issue this created was that the new cache busted css files were not up yet and the site had no styles for a brief period during upload.

I found that delaying updates and delaying deletes until the new content exists first solves this problem pretty well. Theres still possiblility of jank while uploading to a live directory and not doing some sort of hot swap, but I’m good with this low budget option for now.

sync:
	rsync -rlt --delete --omit-dir-times \
	--info=progress2 \
	--delay-updates \
	--delete-delay \
	./output/ \
	server:/mnt/mysite
The Unraveled Fail
Surgeons Key
Liquid Laquer
The Website Specification specification.website
The Website Specification A platform-agnostic, full specification of the technical features a good website should have. Built in the open under an MIT licence. The Website Specification · specification.website [1] A solid checklist for agents to implement on most sites. Very few sites need 100% coverage, but most should probably check most of these boxes References: [1]: https://specification.website/
Revisiting the closed canon derekkedziora.com
Revisiting the closed canon A post I wrote in 2023, the closing of the canon, predicted that LLM answers would replace search results, dramatically lowering traffic to individual sites, thereby removing the incentives to eve... Derek Kedziora · derekkedziora.com [1] This is what makes rss so interesting to me. Its boring old tech that fell out of mainstream popularity years ago, yet many sites still support it. Not all, especially ones that come with a good dickover [2]. At the same time, it’s sad to see the human internet dying, even more quickly than before. Not only do we have rampant bots and sites seo maxxing to get to the top. We have ai search overview that answers mose simple questions pretty good, chat that does good, and agents at our fingertips. The need for tutorials is pretty much dead. What we need now is human experiences shared and documented more than ever. I’ve been writing a whole lot less simply because this transition has been hard. Most of my pre 2024 posts were how to, notes for future me. Things so simple agents just spat out better versions in seconds these days with barely a question. References: [1]: https://derekkedziora.com/notes/revisiting-the...
On Rendering Diffs :: Pierre Computer Company pierre.computer
On Rendering Diffs A technical deep dive into how we built the @pierre/diffs package and CodeView component for zero-blanking diff rendering. Pierre Computer Company · pierre.computer [1] It’s incredible how some problems seem so simple until you load the browser with so much text it just bogs to nothing and how impossibly difficult it becomes after this point. Very cool implementation of a problem that…. who has this problem. If it takes me 2 mintues to scroll through a diff at mach speed like the video, is a diff going to solve my problem? References: [1]: https://pierre.computer/writing/on-rendering-diffs
His presence is still felt in the codebase to this day 😂 #codi... www.youtube.com
- #tech #coding" playlabel="Play: His presence is still felt in the codebase to this day 😂 #codingmemes #developermemes #tech [1] #coding"> Remember this clip in 5 years, after the churn we just had with RTO and ai this is going to hit. Or AI will just figure is all out for us, who knows anymore. Not that they will figure out the human side, the what does this do, why is it here. A temporary fix is a clear signal to your other devs I didn’t have enough time to do it right, but this works. I think AI will squash a large number of these, especially in big coorporate internal tooling where you are trying to juggle as much as you can and just keep it a float at all times. References: [1]: /tags/tech/

Flowing Thoughts Ai To Help Blast Radius

Not sure how this matters to anyone else, but I'm sitting in the car and letting the thoughts flow. I'm having really interesting conversations with ai recently. Like things I never thought I would care this deeply about. In part because it feels like the vulns are coming faster and harder, and in part because it is really enabling me to invest some time into the development that I would not otherwise have. I'm thinking about least privilege, reducing dependencies in containers, limiting pod access to the Internet and other pods. Reducing the blast radius. Now I've always been hesitant to bring in new dependencies. I've always tried to strip to the lowest possible dependency set n my containers, but I would also re-use the main server container to run cron job workflows. I wasn't giving much thought about what services they could access, or their internet access
UUID as a service?! youtube.com
- How many people watching this sent their clankers out to make a uuid service for them as they were watching it. UUID as a service sounds great, heck @steipete [1] just has to mention it and his claws are on it building out the service, no need to even type anything or directly form a thought, just mention it in the meeting and a new repo will be up by end of meeting. References: [1]: https://steipete.me
First Sinner
Almost Broken Drivetrain
Chain between the gears, its almost more frustrating that it still works most of the time and teases me that if I just knew what I was doing I could fix it properly.

To ignore commands that start with a space character, use the HIST_IGNORE_SPACE option in bash or zsh.

setopt HIST_IGNORE_SPACE
The Point Of Making Things Is To Make Them - YouTube www.youtube.com
- The 3 piece design for wheel s without a z-seam is absolutely genius. That is a sick trick. Love this guys style. Need a tool Make a tool. [1] [2] References: [1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/8b6f5e2d-f8f2-4ff8-9744-0812bff8879c.webp [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/34430a1b-cd5a-4762-89ca-d3428c70e20c.webp
Burgers For Dinner On The Sheetpan
Fresh burgers off the flattop
Power Washing The Sidewalk 2026
It's been a couple of years since I've fully done our sidewalk, it was time before it got slimy again.
Jonathan Blow Made Me Quit My Job | Prime Reacts - YouTube www.youtube.com
- damn Johnathan Blow is not afraid to give you the cold hard opinions. If you want to be good you need to spend your early most formative years doing hard things, because you will not do it later, then goes on to say you should not do anything related to web development during that time as it will rot your brain.
Why Agent Harness Layer is DYING - YouTube www.youtube.com
- Thorsten is always a great listen with well thought out answers. I thought the advice “all you have to be is good” from his is so great, so many people focus too hard on credentials and certificates, they miss the time in the saddle and raw, just being good at what you do. They talk a lot about industry trends and that ai/llms have been here long enough to see that they are the new iphone. In some way you need to learn to work with them. Much of the minutia is churn, it will change and we will forget about it in six months. Working at amp right now is really trying to focus on releasing exactly the right thing and not everything. We’ve been given these great models that can churn out poc very quickly, it is our job to focus on what the right thing to adopt is.
Why Agent Harness Layer is DYING - YouTube www.youtube.com
- Thorsten is always a great listen with well thought out answers. I thought the advice “all you have to be is good” from his is so great, so many people focus too hard on credentials and certificates, they miss the time in the saddle and raw, just being good at what you do. They talk a lot about industry trends and that ai/llms have been here long enough to see that they are the new iphone. In some way you need to learn to work with them. Much of the minutia is churn, it will change and we will forget about it in six months. Working at amp right now is really trying to focus on releasing exactly the right thing and not everything. We’ve been given these great models that can churn out poc very quickly, it is our job to focus on what the right thing to adopt is.

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"All you have to be is good" [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thMFsqe8kbQ) Not sure if this is a quote from somewhere but thought it was some interesting advice that @thorstenball received when he was starting into web development. He asked a friend already in the industry if he thought he had a shot. He had no degree, no credentials, no experience at the time.
Whiteward Spool Fragment
Coral Commandment