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
Publishing rhythm
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.
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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
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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?