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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/
Publishing rhythm
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
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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.
Looking for inspiration? tooscut [1] by mohebifar [2].
Professional video editing, right in your browser. Made with Rust, WebGPU, WASM, and Tanstack Start.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/mohebifar/tooscut
[2]: https://github.com/mohebifar
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When agents do the work its harder to recognize a dead end.
I like kraanzu’s [1] project smassh [2].
Smassh your Keyboard, TUI Edition
References:
[1]: https://github.com/kraanzu
[2]: https://github.com/kraanzu/smassh
I’m really excited about KittenTTS [1], an amazing project by KittenML [2]. It’s worth exploring!
State-of-the-art TTS model under 25MB 😻
References:
[1]: https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS
[2]: https://github.com/KittenML
Learning to agent
All we are hearing lately is Agents are the future, something flipped around
NOV 2025 with opus 4.5. It turned snake oil into action. It changed
programmers will be replaced in 6 months to now. Not all of them, but probably
most of us who are not extraordinary. If you fall into the camp of folks not
adopting, I got no issues with that. No one is twisting your arm, well maybe
your boss or cto is, thats on them. I don't mean to say this is the future as
in, get in or get left behind. I mean it as this is where your other engineers
probably are, the junior to mid level engineers are here. If you are not
trying to meet them where they are how are you going to lead them.
Studio Ghibli Images in the Wild
I just stumbled into an image in my org chart of someone who clearly turned
themself into a Studio Ghibli character in chatgpt during the small window of
time that it seemed to do this for everything. Its clearly the aesthetic that
It would do by default for that week, then would not do it whatsoever. I'd
link it, but its from an org chart. I mostly found it interesting how we now
have these recognizable artifacts from specific moments in time.
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I feel like there's an inevitable phase to every ai/agentic worked feature/epic
where you have to get in and chat with it 2025 style (except it actually works
and doesn't turn your project to shit). Planning is great, planning out epics
for full orchestrator's to churn for hours on is amazing, but it always leaves
me with a handful of thorns multiplied by complexity level of things that I
can shout a list of 6 items at a time that it can one shot. I haven't seen
anyone put a name to this phase yet, so I'm going to call it the UAT phase
for now and it seems like a very necessary part of the SDLC. It was
important before, but feels more so now as engineers distance themselves
from the implementation.
Research, Plan, Implement
I heard this term yesterday, and I think a lot of people are missing out on
step 1. It's important to experiment with agents and learn what they can do
well and what they cant, this changes every couple of weeks at this point. You
might be spending hours planning something that could have been implemented
right away, or maybe wasted time planning something that needed more research,
more context engineering. Agents start fresh every session, they cant remember
what you asked them to do 5 minutes ago in the other session, getting the right
tokens in session is critical.
Today I learned that docker creates an empty /.dockerenv file to indicate that
you are running in a docker container. Other runtimes like podman commonly use
/run/.containerenv. kubernetes uses neither of these, the most common way to
detect if you are running in kubernetes is to check for the presence of the
KUBERNETES_SERVICE_HOST environment variable. There will also be a directory
at /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount that contains the service
account credentials if you are running in kubernetes.
Context Poisoning Was There All Along
I wrote some code by hand on Sunday. Sat down with my son and started building
out a game in pygame from scratch. We went to google, we searched how to do
something, we copy and pasted from the docs. Not because we are dumb, but
because we cant remember some aspects of the pygame api. Now that these
patterns are established we no longer have to google them, we simply grep our
codebase and replicate the pattern. Easy right? It's funny that it took ai to
coin the term `context poisoning` even though it was there all along.
If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on qmd [1], created by tobi [2].
mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local
References:
[1]: https://github.com/tobi/qmd
[2]: https://github.com/tobi
Looking for inspiration? OrcaSlicer-FullSpectrum [1] by ratdoux [2].
G-code generator for Snapmaker U1 with Full Spectrum layer blending
References:
[1]: https://github.com/ratdoux/OrcaSlicer-FullSpectrum
[2]: https://github.com/ratdoux
Agents cannot replace the thinking, they only amplify it
Agents cannot replace the thinking, they only amplify it. If you set the
agents off in the wrong direction that's where they will go. They will sprint
there faster than you can go. This is ok, its one of their advantages, they
can give you signal quick. Remember if they are off in the wrong direction
more research and planning is needed, and maybe a little bit more thinking on
your end to steer them in the right direction.