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Marrow Skull Tyrant

remember rule 4

I almost for got Rules [1] 4 today, rollout when smooth late in the day right before a vacation day (terrible time to deploy I admit not my clearest plan). Race conditions are a b****, all around on this one. The app I was concerned about won the race to deploy first and was fine by itself, then another app had a race condition inside itself that killed it References: [1]: /rules/
Pump Sprayer Seal Shot
Tried to use the pump sprayer for the first time this year and all of the seals were shot.
Press Escape To Stop Mid Responses
If you are looking for s-tier respnses try pressing escape.
Ginger Chillin Laundry Room
Ginger scared the crap out of me when just chillin at eye level in the dark laundry room.
Rhiannon's Vocal Velocity Stage Setup
A look at the stage setup for Rhiannon's Vocal Velocity set, capturing the atmosphere after a performance. So proud of how well this set turned out, she killed it, the kids nailed the show.
Pilgrims Rhinogrund2
Voltvessels
These Layoffs Backfired Instantly (ft. Primeagen) - YouTube www.youtube.com
- Prime on Big A they make a really great mix. I really like primes perspective on the layoffs here. Adding in an ops perspecive a bit here. Maybe inspiring a full level post. infra, ops, sre roles are incentivised to keep uptime, that is your goal in these roles. Idk how it works on big products, its probably more greased, higher stakes, more well thoguht out, more well discussed. In my role for many small internal applications developers constantly use my platform different and find new edge cases that we never expected to hit. Depending on my week I’m either the team blocker and I’m fighting fires all week making sure new releases are getting out and stay running while everything is breaking, or I’m tending to the fire lanes, predicting the new edges, looking at previous outages and asking myself how do we never see this category of failure again. I think AI is really good a enabling both of these. I think you can probably run a leaner team with AI on the latter half. AI is really good at implementing things consitent (if you are careful) and fast. But when shit hits the fan, you still need the people who know the systems to get things back up quickly and prevent a cascade o...

agents are never done

Agentic coding has this nice trick of letting you bang out a project in an afternoon, something complex that would have take some real time to implement, not just some rounding error that can slip right in between the jira board. Then it will be perpetually never done. There will always be bugs and thorns rear their head up, new features no one ever thought of, and now no one really has to think much about beyond having the idea. This part of software engineering has always been here, its the root of the never complete 200 side projects. But now it feels like fuel has been poured on the fire, like we can get more done than ever. But we are tricking ourselves, these projects will never be “done”. There’s always more to add. Without feeling any of the pain of implementing it yourself, why not just keep adding new features forever. This is the mentality that is crushing me right now. It pulls at your token anxiety like crazy. You look at the usage board and you are almost cooked so y...
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ping
Songclave Supplies Fail
Pilgrims Rhinogrund
Pilgrims Rest Supplies
Pilgrims Rest Supplies Fail
Hivesteel Needle
Great Taste Of Pharloom
Chef Lugoli
Microsoft Doesn't Have it in Them to Win - YouTube youtu.be
- I havent used windows in years at this point, but I feel this on the products I am forced to use for work. Basic features are not right, kinda work most of the time. New features, ai integrations, new skin/design, but still teams can’t use my system mic appropriately yet every other app does. Also feel this computers have not got significantly better since around getting ssds. Yes they are better, but not at the same rate of being obsolete every two years. I hope we hit local model land and it flips this a bit, not in quite the obsolete every two years range, but some new hardware actually lets you do meaningful more new things.
How to Install Silksong mods on the Steam Deck | Long Play Tech longplaytech.com
How to Install Silksong mods on the Steam Deck Having a tough time with Hollow Knight: Silksong? These mods will help. Long Play Tech · longplaytech.com [1] Really good tutorial for how to mod silksong on the steam deck. We just did this on my son’s steam deck. I’d add a reccomendation to map ~ to a back button like L4. I think this guy was docked with a keyboard. References: [1]: https://longplaytech.com/posts/how-to-install-silksong-mods-on-the-steam-deck/
Couriers Rasher Full
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. References: [1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/
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 References: [1]: https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

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: "true"
             - name: FORGEJO__database__DB_TYPE
               value: postgres
             - name: FORGEJO__database__HOST

https://github.com/WaylonWalker/homelab-argo/commit/b2e953bc12

Tried again, and it just worked!

notify.wayl.one on  main is 📦 v0.1.62  v3.14.4  NO PYTHON VENV SET  USING SYSTEM NVIM
❯ git push
Enumerating objects: 171, done.
Counting objects: 100% (171/171), done.
Delta compression using up to 12 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (169/169), done.
Writing objects: 100% (171/171), 176.22 KiB | 16.02 MiB/s, done.
Total 171 (delta 99), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (99/99), done.
To https://git.waylonwalker.com/waylon/notify.wayl.one
 * [new branch]      main -> main

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 is far from perfect, dont judge.

kubectl get events -A -w | uvx --from nothing-less nless
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. References: [1]: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579
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. References: [1]: https://red-squares.cian.lol/ [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579
I almost made it. Couriers Rasher is such a long run.
Couriers Rasher So Close Full

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. References: [1]: https://pype.dev/desktop-crash-2026/ [2]: /homelab/
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] References: [1]: https://artemistimeline.com/#jeremy-hansen-suited-up-and-ready [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/72dbd361-091e-4e3e-b965-bca6dd11e33e.webp
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. References: [1]: https://hnrss.github.io/

markata-go now has web awesome integration for image compare. It renders a nice web component with a slider to compare two images.

d628ffba-de18-4fff-91a8-700f037df119.webp

It’s done with a class wrapper around the image components.

::: wa-comparison
![d628ffba-de18-4fff-91a8-700f037df119.webp](https://dropper.wayl.one/file/d628ffba-de18-4fff-91a8-700f037df119.webp)
![](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/ca30665f-1a15-453e-aab8-221901c7df99.webp)
:::

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>

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. References: [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoQ6fUTuYvg&amp;list=PLoSp9yq_oDOdCOfCp_QTS017cjAi4Cv_0&amp;index=2
Desk Setup with Keepsakes and Tools
A cozy blend of work tools and thoughtful mementos, reminding me of good people and moments.

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.
Raging Conchfly

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.
When You Reach That F-It Moment And Screw Your Carpet To The Floor
When you reach that f-it moment and screw your carpet to the floor

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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 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 #

https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/manual/html_node/Types-And-Syntax-Of-Ignore-Lists.html

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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?