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Reflections on 13 years and 1,000 posts of writing on my blog - HAMY hamy.xyz [1] The answer is I do it habitually. If there’s a big enough idea I’ve had floating around in my head and I think others might find it useful / interesting then I usually think it’s worth logging it somewhere. If I don’t, I’ll likely just keep thinking about it so might as well get it out of my head and on the internet where people can find it. - hammy [2] This is how you do it. If you want to do something, you need to make it a habit. Something you crave, something you need. I need to write my ideas down in this blog, it helps me index ideas for later, but more importantly it helps me flesh them out and think through real things. Congrats on 1k, your site is awesome Hammy [2] Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2026-01_1000-blog-posts [2]: https://hammy.xyz [3]: /thoughts/

Don’t fall into the anti-AI hype I'm glad someone was brave enough to say this. There is a lot of anti-AI sentiment in the software development community these days. Much of it is justified, but if … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1] Never believe in absolutes, see what I did there. The hype bros will take you to the extremes, ai will take your jobs in six months or be burned to the ground in six months. How about its useful now and will be more useful in six months. If you turned off the hype bro feed for six months you would probably be fine, in fact you would probably be better off for not capturing so much noise along the way. AI has gone the way of next js framework, it churns fast, hype bros are always an expert that know exactly whats best for everyone. It changes fast, what was the best last week might be dead next week. In fact getting to know what works well for you and knowing that tool really well for a longer period will take you farther. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/11/dont-fall-into-the-anti-ai-hype/#atom-everythin...

- Salesforce gets pwnd by the ai hype bros and killed its reputation with employees, letting them know where they truely stand with them. 4k people sounds like a lot, its probably a big chunk of savings, but was it worth the loss of reputation? There must be a better way to give this a trial run that lets them understand this before disrupting the lives of real people right??? Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

Diffs, from Pierre @pierre/diffs is an open source diff and code rendering library. It's built on Shiki for syntax highlighting and theming, is super customizable, and comes packed with features. diffs.com [1] This looks like a really nice and performant diffing library that supports vanilla and react, with a lot of options. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://diffs.com/ [2]: /thoughts/

- I thought this was an interesting take from Simon. I’ve been hearing him consistently say there will be more demand for software engineering in the future. More companies will have the ability and need to deal with software applications, but fewer of us will be hand editing any code. I thought this was an interesting interaction in the clip. Uh Simon, what do you got for us? I’ve just got the one. I think the act of the the the job of being paid money to type code into a computer Yeah. will go the same way as punching punch cards. Okay. I do I think in six years time I do not think it will anyone will be paid to 80:56 just do the thing where you type the code. Just type the code. Okay. I think software engineering will still be an enormous career. I just think the software engineers won’t be spending multiple hours of their day in a text editor typing out syntax. 81:09 It will look like punching cards. I think so. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. In uh in six years. Um and but software engineering still very much exists. I believe so. I I hope so. [laughter] I very much hope so because I think the um the challenge of being a software 81:23 engineer is not remembering ho...

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- In all of the documentaries I’ve seen on how hard it is to recycle plastic, how hard it is to separate all the small pieces from each other, how expensive it is, dirty it is, how just plain ineffective we are at doing it I’ve never seen this angle. In a nutshell the other side of the equation is that as we pull natural gas out of shale is that we pull ethylene out as a byproduct. We don’t even ask for it, it just comes with the methane gas that we are going for. So as we drill, Frack, and mine this out to heat our homes and create electricity we are stuck with all of this ethylene. It’s terrible for the environment, just like methane it’s a rough greenhouse gas. Companies are allowed to flare off a certain amount, they can push some down the pipe, but are still left with tons leftover that they practically give away. Turns out that this stuff is very cheap and very much wants to be turned into plastic. Very clean food grade plastic, very easily and cheaply compared to recycling. Excess is a big problem that needs solutions, but it has hard problems at both ends of the situation that don’t make it easy for anyone trying to take care of it. Note This post is a thought [1]. It...

feat: add llms.txt endpoint for LLM-optimized documentation by quantizor · Pull Request #2388 · tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com Add /llms.txt endpoint that serves a concatenated, text-only version of all Tailwind CSS documentation pages optimized for Large Language Model consumption. Extract text from MDX files, removing J… GitHub · github.com [1] Damn this one is getting some reach, I’ve seen it from Simon Willison [2] and Justin Searls [3] and t3.gg [4]. I feel for Adam, He has built a fantastic product that the world is running with, something we all needed. Something that everyone laughs at turns their nose up “ppft I don’t need that” the first time they see it, but once they try people get it, and a lot of them like it and keep it. But its something that no one really wants to pay for, no matter how big of products get built on it. As we see more and more features coming to css, its not stopping, the work will always be there. I really hope to see something happen to tailwind to keep it afloat. massive growth and revenue down 80% does not help. Note This post is a thought [5]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: http...

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Photoshop for text In the near future, transforming text over an entire document will become as commonplace as filtering images. Steph Ango · stephango.com [1] While the non deterministic nature of llms scare the heck out of me in the sense of just cutting it loose on my writing. letting it go through all of my files and just edit them. I do like the idea of mundane tools like “desaturate”, “Gaussian blur”, evolving out of it for text. I don’t yet see this with the tools we have now, but it will be interesting to see them evolve. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://stephango.com/photoshop-for-text [2]: /thoughts/

File over app If you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you... Steph Ango · stephango.com [1] file over app is a fantastic philosophy laid out well and concisely documented very well in this post. The idea is that tools will change, we will want to use different tools, different editors, different computers over time. What’s likely to outlast everything is plain text files that we can interact with a wide variety of tools. Not encrypted in dedicated formats that die with our tools, but in plain text where a computer from 2160 is likey as capable of reading the file as one from 1960 would be. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://stephango.com/file-over-app [2]: /thoughts/

I recently discovered vim-speeddating [1] by tpope [2], and it’s truly impressive. speeddating.vim: use CTRL-A/CTRL-X to increment dates, times, and more References: [1]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-speeddating [2]: https://github.com/tpope

Check out JaKooLit [1] and their project Wallpaper-Bank [2]. Additional wallpapers which will be offered to users for my hyprland scripts References: [1]: https://github.com/JaKooLit [2]: https://github.com/JaKooLit/Wallpaper-Bank

Today I discovered vim-speeddating [1] by tpope. I’m sure I’ve seen years ago but it did not click for my workflow until today. I often go through pictures from my phone for the past few days and make Posts tagged: shots [2] posts, but I want to date them to about when the image was taken most of the time. This allows me to quickly bump days up and down using c-a and c-x even around the new year. Your browser does not support the video tag. [3] Sound on, listen to those new switches. References: [1]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-speeddating [2]: /tags/shots/ [3]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/18c876c3-02ea-4c77-9f62-cdbb1bb759a1.mp4

The most popular blogs of Hacker News in 2025 Michael Lynch maintains HN Popularity Contest, a site that tracks personal blogs on Hacker News and scores them based on how well they perform on that platform. The engine behind … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1] Congrats Simon! Well deserved metric for the level of content that he produces, Its remarkable the amount of high quality posts that come out of Simon Willison. Also this looks like a really great resource to find other high quality blogs that I have not read before. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/2/most-popular-blogs-of-hacker-news/#atom-everything [2]: /thoughts/

I’m really excited about gastown [1], an amazing project by steveyegge [2]. It’s worth exploring! Gas Town - multi-agent workspace manager References: [1]: https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown [2]: https://github.com/steveyegge

Yesterday I wrote about a way to do light mode screen recording [1] to convert to light mode from dark mode with ffmpeg. I was wondering if it could be done entirely on the front end for web applications. Turns out you can. I’m sure there are limited wikis and site builders that don’t allow adding style like this, but it works if you can. <video src="https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/1c53dbcb-4b84-4e94-9f04-a42986ab3fa1.mp4?width=800" controls style="filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) contrast(1.2) saturate(1.1);" > </video> 0 deg hue rotate 90 deg hue rotate 180 deg hue rotate 270 deg hue rotate References: [1]: /light-mode-screen-recording/

Check out 99 [1] by ThePrimeagen [2]. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential. Neovim AI agent done right References: [1]: https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/99 [2]: https://github.com/ThePrimeagen

Convert a video from dark mode to light mode with FFmpeg! Here cassidoo.co [1] Converting video from dark mode to light mode after the fact is a pretty great idea, I’m surprised at how well it does. Its definitely not perfect, but looks really good. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://cassidoo.co/post/ffmpeg-dark-light/ [2]: /thoughts/