Waylon Walker

Recent Arch linux vulnerabilities are a good reminder of a few things. AUR 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. 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. Supply chain attacks are getting real scary in 2026, maybe we should listen to Ginger Bill a bit closer.

I was listening to @syntaxfm this morning and @wesbos said at 328s “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 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 No one is one shotting their work and kicking up their feet for the other 39 3/4 hours of the work week. Theres…

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 you sw…