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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.
Publishing rhythm
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
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.
Ping 54
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
Ping 52
Is it just me or are the agents not behaving today?
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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?
Ping 50 A
I wrote code by hand today... I was out of tokens
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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.
References:
[1]: /html/
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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.
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Feeling this today, feels like everything continues to get worse. Trying to be more positive, and its hard.
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.
References:
[1]: https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-04-12-write_it_first_then_let_ai_drive
Prove Yourself Agent
Ask your agents to prove their work. Include it in the initial
prompt, not later.
ThePrimeagen (@ThePrimeagen) on X
I am slowly coming around to AI assisted programming.
I am genuinely trying to codify every rule about programming that I have and using that + several stages to build out small changes.
Not s…
X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
If agents make prime a bit faster, what does that mean for the rest of us mortals?
References:
[1]: https://x.com/ThePrimeagen/status/2043861800819761382
Uncle Bob Martin (@unclebobmartin) on X
@ThePrimeagen AIs aren’t good rule followers. The older the rule in the context window, the less priority it is given. So the best way to enforce the rules is with external tools that communicate...
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.
References:
[1]: https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/2044065822067282396
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.
References:
[1]: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/13/steve-yegge/#atom-everything
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?
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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.
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”
References:
[1]: https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/9987010a-a448-472d-9c60-2831b61a1d3a.webp
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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/
References:
[1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/0b53a4ed-924e-42b5-84f4-51c189f60801.webp