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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.
Publishing rhythm
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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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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.
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/
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Hilarious ai episode of the office. all sort of flaws. nailed the personalities.
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one minute in, I cannot believe Prime has never used a password manager. For all the shit they give Trash for his one password, He does not use a password manager!
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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...
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What a great way to start a Wednesday morning with a fresh brand new tiny desk concert with the Foo Fighters. The killed it, love the classics.
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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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
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/
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's important that you hear this directly from us because 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 Sucks
stilldrinking.org [1]
Absolutely incredible, will fill some notes later
References:
[1]: https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
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
[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
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
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 | 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
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 [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.
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>
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
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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&list=PLoSp9yq_oDOdCOfCp_QTS017cjAi4Cv_0&index=2
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The most iconic shots of a scrub ever caught on camera.
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.