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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.
References:
[1]: https://simonwillison.net
Publishing rhythm
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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]
References:
[1]: /homelab/
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/f69c86b9-ab79-46ad-9ef0-4d794544e943.webp
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]
References:
[1]: https://bsky.app/profile/seldo.com/post/3miybjol76p2r
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/00bc13be-32bd-4410-b0c4-2ecc0f2f6b95.webp
2026-04-06 Notes
https://youtu.be/cbgSkrQ3HNg?si=VJ2kqj8XD0P6ukI_
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]
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
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.
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Bush on tiny desk. Iconic band on an iconic platform. Will be re-listening to this several times.
[1]
References:
[1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/3b67304c-41cc-4040-b6cd-7e0c16633e3d.webp
Ping 47
The year of the supply chain attacks
I think I'm starting to understand my role as a platform developer in 2026.
* least priveleged access
* default deny + explicit allow
* understand your blast radius
* **GREASED** creds rotate process
* PIN EVERYTHING
* keep packages up to date
* but not too up to date, use dependency cooldowns
GitHub - kraanzu/smassh at terminaltrove
Smassh your Keyboard, TUI Edition. Contribute to kraanzu/smassh development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub · github.com [1]
smassh is the coolest monkeytype tui clone, its impressively accurate. Easy to install and run, all the same themes appear to be there and everything. maybe a good way to get a few reps in while agents are running these days.
35102587-dffe-48ec-920a-a037917e7776.mp4 [2]
I need to go back and brush up on my skills I’m down a good 20wpm from what I should be doing.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/kraanzu/smassh?ref=terminaltrove
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/35102587-dffe-48ec-920a-a037917e7776.mp4
The final nail for Windows?
Easy anticheat for linux is out.
!!! tip
look at the date
If this were real what would you play first? For me it's `skate .` is really
the only thing I care about and I'm fine without it.
What Happens When AI Stops Being Artificially Cheap
The subsidy era is ending. Here
danielmiessler.com [1]
I’ve been thinking about this for awhile and Daniel makes some great arguments here. Interestingly keeping inference cheap removes the incentives to make our tools better, help us choose the right model, lean on local models, open weight models. The frontier models are so affordable through subsidized subscription models why would you deal with anything less intelligent at this point. The tooling we use is not optimized for it, and why should it be.
References:
[1]: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/ai-stops-being-artificially-cheap
External Link
baty.net [1]
emacs config so bad he launch obsidian, YIKES! grantid I’m using obsidian currently on my phone, not for this post, but for journal entries while I’m away from my desk. Use this as a reminder that you can swim through murky waters with your dotfiles for awhile, but occasionally its good to do a clean up, pin it, put em in a docker image, have a good fallback to go to if shit really hits the fan. Iv’e been using https://github.com/waylonwalker/nvim-manager as part of my strategy for awhile now.
References:
[1]: https://baty.net/journal/31mar26/
[1]
uv adds dependency cooldowns via #16814 [2]. Well needed feature in todays world, far from a guarantee, but its something.
References:
[1]: /static/https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/tag/0.9.17
[2]: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/16814
Package Managers Need to Cool Down
Today's LiteLLM supply chain attack inspired me to revisit the idea of dependency cooldowns, the practice of only installing updated dependencies once they've been out in the wild for a …
Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1]
2026, finding the balance between fixed bugs and zero days. There is very unlikely ever a reason you need to be running bleeding edge packages in prod most package managers now support cool downs.
References:
[1]: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/24/package-managers-need-to-cool-down/
ThePrimeagen (@ThePrimeagen) on X
don't forget
last time Anthropic, in their infinite PhD level wisdom, leaked their own source code (Feb 25) they DMCA'd all repos that had their code.
Careful storing the code because Anthropic w…
X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
Everyone look away, nothing to see here.
[2]
References:
[1]: https://x.com/ThePrimeagen/status/2038978962089492631
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/090f03b2-e6f5-4ede-a814-bfbb4e237b54.webp
Mete Polat (@metedata) on X
@Fried_rice @Scobleizer Anthropic is now officially more open than OpenAI https://t.co/T6Vgop0cSx
X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
Anthropic safewords are the talk of the town today.
[2]
References:
[1]: https://x.com/metedata/status/2038924041453441422
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/c097c6dc-4b10-4fab-a9f9-1d4181422285.webp
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Cheng Lou (@_chenglou) on X
My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):
I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important f…
X (formerly Twitter) · x.com
webdev twitter is blowing up with implementations of pretext text calculations. The examples are absolutely fun and ridiculous.
[2]
References:
[1]: https://x.com/_chenglou/status/2037713766205608234
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/350a368f-0e6b-4375-98d6-6303961c0d6c.webp
Ping 43
Okay so I logged into twitter today, and we are back.... probably not for long,
but we are for now. Claude Code source leaked, the tweets are great. [[
thoughts-956 ]], [[ thoughts-958 ]], [[ thoughts-959 ]], Some typescript css
text layout with bouncing balls, bubbles, strings, and webcam video to text is
blowing up [[ thoughts-957 ]]. This is the tech twitter I remember no sad news
how the world is corrupt by the other side.
Josh Medeski (@joshmedeski) on X
Did you know you can replace the spinning verbs in Claude Code. I'm having fun with it. https://t.co/NlgOGwZCcK
X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
The claude code source code leaked today and the tweets are great, maybe twitter is back.
Did you know you can replace the spinning verbs in Claude Code. I’m having fun with it.
[2]
References:
[1]: https://x.com/joshmedeski/status/2039010741039120417
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/8cf5cf65-40e1-4f40-8d09-b596a97dd51d.webp
[1]@nicknisi [1]) — Y'all, I think I'm a convert to pi" loading="lazy">
Nick Nisi (@nicknisi [2])
Y'all, I think I'm a convert to pi
Bluesky Social · bsky.app
I’m about to be pi pilled.
References:
[1]: https://bsky.app/profile/nicknisi.com/post/3mhgcbpm4ds2p
[2]: https://nicknisi.com
Social Media is dead
Social Media is dead, interest media killed it long ago. I no longer feel like
I'm connecting to people, creating community, having fun, learning. I feel
like I'm being shoveled slop from the slop machine, I'm sure mostly create by
well intentioned people just trying to make it in the world, trying to make
their mark, trying to make something of themselves. The algos long lost the
idea of subs and likes, and transitioned to how long you will pause on a topic.
What used to be a series of recognizable faces, names, avatars, each with their
own personality that I could come to learn and know who was just trollin, who
was serious, is now mostly unrecognizable. Platforms have changed and
fractured communities people went separate ways, not all the same ways. No one
community is like it used to be, and its hard to find.
/carry/
EDC # [1]
I try to keep a pretty light every day carry, but it never works out, keyfobs
and headphone cases end up causing more bulk than I’d like, but My EDC is no
where near the bulk I had as a kid with my cargo pants decked out with
everything I could possibly need.
I hold no attachment to anything in my EDC. Nothing on my person has
sentimental value. Anything I carry can be lost, stolen, or destroyed at any
point in time. I pick things of sufficient usable, utilitarian, quality
sufficient to work. No extra fluff.
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- Google Pixel 6
- Ridge Wallet
- Olight Perun - Since April 2022
- Civivi Qubit - Since March 2024 after my last one was donated to the Indianapolis Stadium
- OpenFit Shokz
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Rules # [2]
- lightweight
- replacable
- no emotional attachments
- utilitarian
- everything serves a purpose
My kit # [3]
[4]
Photo taken March 2023
Phone # [5]
Google Pixel 6
I will not get finance a new phone for the foreseeable future again. The last
time I feel lik...
Where Is The Tech Industry Going
Agents suck
Get left behind if you don't use them
Burn out if you use them too much
The software world has been flipped upside down seemingly overnight. Slow at
first, then all at once. It started with auto complete, to chat, to, ide
integrations, to agents that would f&!^ over your repo more than it would help.
Up till this point we are just little bit better and more specific than copy
paste from Stack Overflow. Then in Nov 2025 models learned how to effectively
use tools and do what you ask of them, sometimes more, sometimes less, but
generally for the basic shit most of us make its a net positive with each
iteration.
Our techniques for managing work need to change.
Our expectations need to change.
Burnout for a lot of folks is coming.
Is Compaction The Issue
I saw today in work chat something along the lines of "we need bigger context
windows" "compaction times are holding us back". Maybe I'm just blessed with
the lack of lord jira, maybe juggle too many projects at once and they are all
pretty much done when I get back. Maybe I do more long running specs and spend
time making good plans that it does not matter.
Anyways the point I'm getting to is that if you think that compaction is your
main issue slowing you down, and 10x this if you are a manager thinking this is
what is slowing down your team you **need** to look at your workflow. Not
because it sucks. Not only because it could be better. Because you are
signing yourself and your team up for burnout if you are sitting there watching
these things run like waiting for paint to dry and firing more prompts at them
as soon as they are done. It feels easy. It feels like you are going fast.
Its eating more brainpower than you think, and its not getting you to your
destination any faster.
To Live In A World Without AI | Nic Payne
I'm finding lately that I wish we could go back to pre-ChatGPT... A world
without a code-gen easy button, where "easy" was LSP autocomplete, wher
pype.dev [1]
We f&#ing said @pype [2], well f&#ing said. I think a lot of us are feeling this, we’ve pitched our brain into a bucket and we are no longer stretching it in the same way. We still work in similar ways of old, with new ways of turning off and saying yes a bunch of times. the best thing I can hope for is that as things get better we have fewer yes loops, and more architectural design debates and deep thoughts. But I fear deep thoughts are gone to the way of “research the leading 10 frameworks and pick the best one for this project.” and letting the clankers do the deep thinking. Its signing us up for a weird distopia.
I think a lot of us wish we could undo what has happened and go back to actually understanding what we are doing, but the world has changed, and if you are building average shit, like the average person, using models trained on average people doing average shit you cant keep up anymore.
References:
[1]: https://pype.dev/to-live-in-a-world-without-ai/
[2]: https://...
My Thoughts on Beads | Nic Payne
[Steve Yegge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Yegge) is a pretty well-known individual in the tech field, having been
around for a long time at some of the
pype.dev [1]
I’m in step with @pype [2] here, I really want beads to work for me, but my systems for infra/platform work are all over the place, not one repo. I’m considering trying the BEADS_DIR env var but idk if it fits my workflow. For now, similar to @pype [2], I am rocking my own home vibed solution that I’ve intentionally put little effort in and its working great and I expect it to be broken and not working with the latest harnesses and models within a few months anyways, cause there is no predicting this train.
References:
[1]: https://pype.dev/my-thoughts-on-beads/
[2]: https://pype.dev
paynepride dot com outage on vacation | Nic Payne
The day after I leave for vacation I start getting SSL errors on every homelab
service I host for myself and others. The culprit was my Cloudflare API token
exp
pype.dev [1]
oof, outage on the homelab [2] during vacation, brutal. I can think of a couple of similar solutions to what @pype [3] has done to tailscale in, but I’m not sure that I could do this remotely. On one hand I’m so glad that cloudflared just takes care of certs on the other hand this really brings a gap in my understanding of what the heck I would do if it were broken.
An untested DR plan is not a DR plan.
An untested backup does not exist.
References:
[1]: https://pype.dev/paynepride-dot-com-outage-on-vacation/
[2]: /homelab/
[3]: https://pype.dev
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Vibe coding [1] is going so far into the news sphere now that Adam Savage even weighs in with perspectives from someone who has built a life around building things with his hands, keeping up with new making techniques, discovering old techniques as they combine with new. He talks about 3d printing reviving his love of the pantograph as one automation technique eases the most difficult part of another.
References:
[1]: /vibe-coding/
Lets Land The Plane
Part of @steveyegge 's gastown/beads is a prompt "Lets land the plane". It's very straightforward forward and what any sane human would probably do before finishing work, except the last part. The "generate a handoff prompt for the next session" was not something I've put much thought into. But now that I juggle 6 sessions at a time and often end up with 20 sessions open because I don't want to close them and loose the last bit of context. This is what I need to keep from crippling my laptop memory from all of these stale sessions hanging around.
Taken from https://ianbull.com/posts/beads
Reddit - Please wait for verification
reddit.com [1]
This is a fantastic progression through kuberentes concepts. From running a pod, to making it resiliant, holding secrets, accepting traffic, and autoscaling.
References:
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/1rzyhip/kubernetes_is_beautiful/
I’ve been having issue with my keyboard disconnecting to my main desktop for awhile. Today I got a cheap bluetooh dongle in and am giving it a run this week to see how things go. The first step was to move it to the new adapter. I’ve never had multiple adapters installed so this was a new to me process.
I was able to do it all with the same keyboard, It did require some juggling between usb and bluetooth modes pluging and unplugging, two keyboards would be simpler to reason about.
I can’t be bothered to change my brain to think about this machine on a different zmk profile it is of absolute importance for it to remain on the same profile, otherwise this would be a simple bind to another empty profile.
Why not use a cable on desktop?
I dont mind cable, and have used one on this setup for years, but I have actually been picking up and moving this keyboard and using it with different devices.
I’ve got a big battery and performace cranked up, unless my machine is under load I do not notice any key lag.
I did it with bluetoothctl, I’m sure it could have been done with a gui like
blueberry or blueman.
bluetoothctl
# list adapters
list
select <old-adapter>
devices
# fin the MAC address of the device 42BLOCK
remove <42BLOCK_MAC>
Now I plugged into usb. And importantly cleared out the zmk profile. If you do not clear the profile your board does not go into pairing mode.
bluetoothctl
# switch adapters
select <new-adapter>
power on
agent on
default-agent
scan on
Put 42Block in pairing mode, then:
pair <42BLOCK_MAC>
trust <42BLOCK_MAC>
At this pint I saw this show up in the logs, I think there was some masking issues or something in zmk, output kept going out usb no matter what so I disconnected the keyboard and typed the passkey in, and it worked.
[agent] Passkey: 540044
Boom, it just started working right away.
bluetoothctl
connect <42BLOCK_MAC>
info <42BLOCK_MAC>
scan off
exit
More Details Than You Probably Wanted to Know About Recent Updates to My Notes Site
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
blog.jim-nielsen.com [1]
I love the level of thought that Jim has put into these changes and making sure that urls don’t change. I’ve got a big change in flight to my main site and this is one of the reasons that I’ve been sitting on it so long. I want to make sure urls arent broken, redirects work as they should, and there are no 404’s from existing urls. Currently the new version only exists on a separate deployement https://go.waylonwalker.com/
I also added the ability to “shuffle” between posts. This is mostly for myself. I like to randomly jump through notes I’ve published in the past for reoccurring inspiration
Love this idea and have it on my new site already as well, and have really enjoyed using it by pressing it a dozen or so times over the course of a few sessions. It highlights that I have too many posts like stars and thoughts and I should do some weighting to main posts. mine is at https://go.waylonwalker.com/random/
References:
[1]: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/notes-site-updates/
Notes – 06:34 Mon 23 Mar 2026
Notes – 06:34 Mon 23 Mar 2026
dbushell.com · dbushell.com [1]
Does anyone think fast-code will continue to pay the same salary? The answer isn’t to switch your brain off during your McCode shift and write a poem after work. Your job will be replaced by a Banglasdeshi slop-shop if AI improves (which is inevitable, apparently). Possibly the same sweatshop that loomed my £3 T-shirt. The Luddites didn’t accept their fate so easily.
David has some good points here, but I’m feeling the opposite direction a bit. Execs have always liked keeping the PM’s and the people steering the ship close by and were willing to farm out more and more grunt work. It feels like we are in a weird phase where there used to be a big group of people paid to write code. A few of them are exceptionally good at it and will remain. There will be a need for these people everywhere. Somehow we still need people hand editing assembly code optimizations, fortran, and cobol today. Those industries largely moved on, but a few great ones remain. I think this fast-code slop factory is going to be a short forgotten time in history, but no one yet knows what’s next. We are all waiting t...
I don't want someone else running my agents
I don't want to review the pr, I dont want to fight the mass of changes
clobbered across the codebase. I want to own my platform. With everything
changing with agents writing more code than I can imagine in a day work looks
different now. I still want to work with real people. I want to collaborate
on ideas. I want someone to bounce ideas off with. I want someone else in the
war room with me on launch day, or when the whole thing goes down. But I don't
them slopping in my sandbox, if someone is going to be stirring the slop in my
product I want it to be me. Work is feeling different now. New lines need to
be drawn in new directions. Expectations are changing, the way work is
completed is changing, and we are all here trying to figure out what this looks
like moving forward.