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💭 More Details Than You Probably Wanted to Know About Recent Upd...

2026-03-23T12:26:22Z

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.

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/

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💭 The web is bearable with RSS

2026-03-09T09:00:55Z

Pluralistic: The web is bearable with RSS (07 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

It’s wild how much of a hit Google took from killing reader, almost any time I hear about killedbygoogle, reader is the top of the list. Its the thing that we all remember being really good and the incumbants just did not match up. Somehow we are here 13 years later still bitching about it, despite it only having a 6 year run. You should probably get an rss reader, and follow some incredible people that make feeds. Most sites that produce content have the ability to subscribe over rss. Unlike @pluralistic, I dont read in my reader. My reader is just a list of links out to the web and I typically read it how the author intended on their site. I nod a long to Cory’s enshitified internet just as much as the next guy, I love text based interfaces, I despise the bloat that js has brought on. But I don’t believe all js is bad, I don’t turn it off, even though he has me questioning this now. News sites kinda suck, we can agree there, but its rare that a small indie web creator has fully enshitified their site with js. I don’t buy that. Sub to the feeds.

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💭 I need a new blog to subscribe to. Know… | justin․searls․co

2026-03-09T08:31:53Z

Justin Searls @searls

I need a new blog to subscribe to. Know any you think I'd like? E-mail me: justin@searls.co

justin․searls․co · justin.searls.co

Sent Justin my list https://go.waylonwalker.com/blogroll, will soon be on the main site, but right now its only on the go subdomain. I’ve long had reader.waylonwalker.com, but thats soon going to be wrapped into the main site as well at /reader.

I’m interested to see what good stuff Justin gets and if you have any good ones to share reply.

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💭 Reflections on 13 years and 1,000 posts of writing on my blog

2026-01-13T03:15:54Z

Reflections on 13 years and 1,000 posts of writing on my blog - HAMY

hamy.xyz

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

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

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Rune Admonition

2026-01-07T18:18:52Z

!!! Rune

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!!! Rune

hi hello

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💭 Photoshop for text — Steph Ango

2026-01-06T02:48:34Z

Photoshop for text

In the near future, transforming text over an entire document will become as commonplace as filtering images.

Steph Ango · stephango.com

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.

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💭 File over app — Steph Ango

2026-01-05T18:54:06Z

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

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.

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💭 You Might Also Like: My Notes Blog - Jim Nielsen’s Blog

2025-12-19T16:11:31Z

💭 “You should never build a CMS” | Sanity

2025-12-17T15:21:41Z

“You should never build a CMS” | Sanity

Lee Robinson migrated cursor.com off Sanity. He made good points. Here's what he missed.

Sanity.io · sanity.io

Such a good breakdown of the leerob article, that is hitting everywhere right now. Feels like sanity was just a bit late to getting things right and it would have just worked for them how leerob was trying to use it, but MCP sucked so he jumped.

Reading their loose descriptions of a CMS, its an interesting realization to realize I’m rolling my own cms. I kinda feel like theres a few inspiration features to take from here, but I have no regrets. As a developer I like being able to build my own tools, I like being able to search and edit from nvim, and not have to write GROQ queries, and transforms. There were some really good points here that as I get more and more content on my personal site, I do kinda feel it. I’m surprised there is not more tooling that does some of these things for piles of markdown.

pinning this to re-read later, feels like a lot of good tidbits here.

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Ping 11

2025-12-16T08:11:43Z

Naming things is hard, pings will now be numbered.

og

2025-12-09T12:49:21Z

OG is short for open graph, a set of standard meta tags that are used for social media sharing. This is what tells other websites how to describe and display your site when shared on social media, text messages, or discord.

💭 Deleting Code for Performance – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)

2025-12-04T16:12:19Z

Deleting Code for Performance

The one where I clean up an asynchronous mess

dbushell.com · dbushell.com

I did not realize that David’s site was built on a homegrown Static Site Generator. As someone who also does this myself I appreciate the effort. I build my site on markata. It started as a project to learn a set of tools and has become a project that I depend on everywhere and cant put down. It’s a great tool, but you probably shouldn’t use it. Anyways, I feel this really shows on David’s site. His site is filled with custom features that make it very unique, one off, and always a pleasure to read.

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💭 Malicious Traffic and Static Sites - Jim Nielsen’s Blog

2025-12-01T21:41:03Z

Malicious Traffic and Static Sites

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

blog.jim-nielsen.com

These look like fun endpoints to add anti-maliciously, give good stuff for the sleezy things to read.

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A More Human Internet

2025-08-21T14:36:00Z

💭 Glossary Web Component – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)

2025-07-25T02:11:58Z

Glossary Web Component

The one where I put the hypercard in the hyperlink

dbushell.com · dbushell.com

I really enjoy David’s Glossary, he has absolutely nailed it. I’m working on one for myself that feels close but not quite. I want to have a list of words that auto glossary to terms for me, maybe this is too much automation and I should just lean on wikilinks, i.e. sick wikilink hover, they only take wrapping in brackets. But like David mentions here its a lot of work to make sure they are right on all the older posts. I think it needs to be done with js on my setup, I don’t have no fancy wroker to modify html on the way out, I’m fully static right now, so i would need to do full rebuilds any time the glossary changes, i’m trying to cut down on the number of features that require full site rebuilds and potential cache issues.

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💭 Notes – 09:32 Thu 19 Jun 2025 – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)

2025-06-19T13:18:20Z

Notes – 09:32 Thu 19 Jun 2025

dbushell.com · dbushell.com

David’s design on his blog is fantastic likely from years of small improvements like this converting ugly quotes to pretty quotes and optimizing fonts.

It’s common for markdown libraries to convert the first to the second like my build script does.

This is new to me, I had no idea that markdown libraries did this, I’m now interested if markdown-it does it.

For subsetting I use the fontTools library but I’ve no idea how to setup Python environments. I got it working once and failed to document the process.

David, David, David, I’m sorry python has done you this dirty. I should do a post on making python environments in the age of Posts tagged: uv. You got options to run in docker/podman, a whole ass vm, uv venv, uvx, uv run, uv script, python -m venv, virtualenv, poetry, hatch, and too many more. The ones that matter are containers or uv.

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💭 Visualizing My Blog’s Internal Links - Jim Nielsen’s Blog

2025-06-16T00:48:19Z

Visualizing My Blog’s Internal Links

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

blog.jim-nielsen.com

I like Jim’s visualizations on his site, reminds me a lot of obsidian. I’ve tried to do the same on my analytics page in the past, but it didn’t come out right. I’m going to have to give this another go.

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💭 Queso Notes

2025-06-06T15:50:43Z

Queso Notes | Nic Payne

It occured to me that this is my blog... I can write about whatever the heck I want! May 2025 Made 2 quesos very similar - they consisted of: 1.5 lbs ground bee

pype.dev

Taking this as inspiration to do more non-tech on my blog, I’ve branched out into Posts tagged: gaming, but need take it to the next step. excited to watch pype.dev evolve as well.

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💭 The ethics of README ads – Will McGugan – Will McGugan's essays

2025-06-05T14:49:09Z

The ethics of README ads

I’ve been considering accepting sponsorship again for my projects.

Will McGugan · willmcgugan.github.io

I’ve long avoided running ads on my blog for the same reason. For a few months I ran an ad above the fold. It was a “Your Ad Here” kind of thing, and in the messaging I was looking for content relevant to my content, not google driven ads. This resulted in nothing, no hits, not a one. I’m kinda with Will on this one beer money is not worth degrading the project for. I seriously thought some of the big projects with a moderate level of success got a good cut for these sponsorships. Some of the companies are big companies, like how do they even go through meetings and decide who gets beer money without spending more than that in decision making resources. Maybe they have a guy with more autonomy than I would expect.

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💭 feat: add hackernews hits on home page · jimniels/blog@b1a250b

2025-05-31T01:56:00Z

feat: add hackernews hits on home page · jimniels/blog@b1a250b

Contribute to jimniels/blog development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub · github.com

Jim Nielsen fetches his hacker news ranked articles for his home page.

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