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Prompt Seagulls

I was listening to @syntaxfm this morning and @wesbos said at 328s [1] “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 [2] # [3] 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 # [4] No one is one shotting their work and kicking up their feet f...
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There is no such thing as magic

Magic exists to describe things that are beyond our current understanding. When you describe your solution to a problem as magic, you are admitting that you have no idea how you fixed it.
The Daylilies Are In Full Bloom 2026
The daylilies are in full bloom 2026

Mythos gone already

Mythos released days ago, now its gone, before most of us were allowed to touch it.

Just give em the ol one eyed fighting Kirby

This is a vim substitution technique to capture the rest of the line as a capture group.

:'<,'>s/longhorn\(.*\)/longhorn\1-rwx

This one captures pesky optional " and places it back at the end if it found one.

:'<,'>s/longhorn\("\?\)\(.*\)/longhorn\2-rwx\1

!!! see-also

<a href="/thought-200/" class="wikilink" data-title="The One Eyed Fighting Kirby" data-description="!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Ekt1PZBzQ&amp;t=351s" data-date="2024-01-26">The One Eyed Fighting Kirby</a>

just good enough

I built shit on the web before AI, some of it was okay, some I put a lot of time into, but some was just really shitty. Done just well enough to get the job done. All of it had to be written by hand or copy pasted from stack overflow. It was a lot of fun. Now we have a new level of shitty, it looks fine. It looks like it should work good. None of it is just barely good enough, nearly browser default style anymore.

I’ve been deploying my site old school for most of this year, rsync to a volume mounted to nginx. I ran into an issue today where I updated my site and all of the pages updated first, followed by upload. The issue this created was that the new cache busted css files were not up yet and the site had no styles for a brief period during upload.

I found that delaying updates and delaying deletes until the new content exists first solves this problem pretty well. Theres still possiblility of jank while uploading to a live directory and not doing some sort of hot swap, but I’m good with this low budget option for now.

sync:
	rsync -rlt --delete --omit-dir-times \
	--info=progress2 \
	--delay-updates \
	--delete-delay \
	./output/ \
	server:/mnt/mysite
The Unraveled Fail
Surgeons Key
Liquid Laquer
The Website Specification specification.website
The Website Specification A platform-agnostic, full specification of the technical features a good website should have. Built in the open under an MIT licence. The Website Specification · specification.website [1] A solid checklist for agents to implement on most sites. Very few sites need 100% coverage, but most should probably check most of these boxes References: [1]: https://specification.website/
Revisiting the closed canon derekkedziora.com
Revisiting the closed canon A post I wrote in 2023, the closing of the canon, predicted that LLM answers would replace search results, dramatically lowering traffic to individual sites, thereby removing the incentives to eve... Derek Kedziora · derekkedziora.com [1] This is what makes rss so interesting to me. Its boring old tech that fell out of mainstream popularity years ago, yet many sites still support it. Not all, especially ones that come with a good dickover [2]. At the same time, it’s sad to see the human internet dying, even more quickly than before. Not only do we have rampant bots and sites seo maxxing to get to the top. We have ai search overview that answers mose simple questions pretty good, chat that does good, and agents at our fingertips. The need for tutorials is pretty much dead. What we need now is human experiences shared and documented more than ever. I’ve been writing a whole lot less simply because this transition has been hard. Most of my pre 2024 posts were how to, notes for future me. Things so simple agents just spat out better versions in seconds these days with barely a question. References: [1]: https://derekkedziora.com/notes/revisiting-the...
On Rendering Diffs :: Pierre Computer Company pierre.computer
On Rendering Diffs A technical deep dive into how we built the @pierre/diffs package and CodeView component for zero-blanking diff rendering. Pierre Computer Company · pierre.computer [1] It’s incredible how some problems seem so simple until you load the browser with so much text it just bogs to nothing and how impossibly difficult it becomes after this point. Very cool implementation of a problem that…. who has this problem. If it takes me 2 mintues to scroll through a diff at mach speed like the video, is a diff going to solve my problem? References: [1]: https://pierre.computer/writing/on-rendering-diffs

dickover n. : a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newsletter, install the website’s mobile app, agree to terms of service, or anything else that the user couldn’t give two shits about.

His presence is still felt in the codebase to this day 😂 #codi... www.youtube.com
- #tech #coding" playlabel="Play: His presence is still felt in the codebase to this day 😂 #codingmemes #developermemes #tech [1] #coding"> Remember this clip in 5 years, after the churn we just had with RTO and ai this is going to hit. Or AI will just figure is all out for us, who knows anymore. Not that they will figure out the human side, the what does this do, why is it here. A temporary fix is a clear signal to your other devs I didn’t have enough time to do it right, but this works. I think AI will squash a large number of these, especially in big coorporate internal tooling where you are trying to juggle as much as you can and just keep it a float at all times. References: [1]: /tags/tech/

Flowing Thoughts Ai To Help Blast Radius

Not sure how this matters to anyone else, but I'm sitting in the car and letting the thoughts flow. I'm having really interesting conversations with ai recently. Like things I never thought I would care this deeply about. In part because it feels like the vulns are coming faster and harder, and in part because it is really enabling me to invest some time into the development that I would not otherwise have. I'm thinking about least privilege, reducing dependencies in containers, limiting pod access to the Internet and other pods. Reducing the blast radius. Now I've always been hesitant to bring in new dependencies. I've always tried to strip to the lowest possible dependency set n my containers, but I would also re-use the main server container to run cron job workflows. I wasn't giving much thought about what services they could access, or their internet access
UUID as a service?! youtube.com
- How many people watching this sent their clankers out to make a uuid service for them as they were watching it. UUID as a service sounds great, heck @steipete [1] just has to mention it and his claws are on it building out the service, no need to even type anything or directly form a thought, just mention it in the meeting and a new repo will be up by end of meeting. References: [1]: https://steipete.me
First Sinner