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One of the well worded shitty messages I’ve seen, good severance, help, timeline to cut off coms.

we’re not making this decision because we’re in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we’re already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that’s accelerating rapidly.

Much better than the get rid of people cause AI can do the work. Honestly I feel this though. I was just talking with some colleages how do we divvy work in the age of agents without just constantly walking on each other. If each of us is now an architect who is managing teams of junior agents under us it feels MUCH different than before.

I’m far from working in a large software org like this and I’m feeling it. I only imagine that it gets worse the more people that have to orchestrate around each other.

Appreciate the honesty and transparance, but man this sucks for those impacted and the job market right now.

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💭 FancyGist

2026-02-25T08:07:40Z

FancyGist

fancygist.com

I saw this in @cassido’s newsletter this week and had to give it a run. I despise that there is no dark mode and it insists on burning my retinas 😤. But really this is an absolute beate of a web based markdown editor, I love the command mode to press slash and it just pops out in this whimsical animation ready for me to pick what I want.

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💭 Smaller and dumber - daverupert.com

2026-02-23T08:36:05Z

Smaller and dumber

If I can make it smaller, I should.

daverupert.com · daverupert.com

Important things to remember in the age of cheap code. More code, not always more better. More code mean, more risk, more maintenance, harder to change.

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Is Ai Faster Yet

2026-02-20T14:37:36Z

Is AI making us more productive yet, more faster yet?

Non-code #

probably not

I’ve seen this question hitting all over the Internet lately, and often points to people not writing code. Copilot turns prompts into emails, emails back into summaries that look a lot like prompts. I think there’s a place for this, making rambled thoughts sound more coherent, summarizing notes and meeting minutes. All good stuff but does it make us more productive, probably not by an amount that you can put $ $ behind, unless you are reducing headcount. thats not what we are doing right???

Coding #

with chat, probably not

When we talk about chatbots like gippity I think there’s a benefit to having someone with jr skills in everything to talk to, someone who can read all of the docs in an instant to get you some code snippet that might have taken all day to research and get right, but more productive, probably not.

Agentic Coding #

maybe

I’ve hit a stride with coding agents this year unlike I’ve hit before. Its able to bang out huge swaths of code in a prompt, with a good enough spec/plan. It absolutely churns out code. The bottleneck quickly becomes UAT.

I definitely feel like I’m doing a lot. There’s a lot that’s getting done that there’s no way I could do alone, it would take a full team with heavy coordination.

Am I more productive #

I’m definitely doing more, there are more lines of code, more ideas flowing, more docs written, more notes taken, more bugs squashed, more features out.

In the sense of generating more $ $ for the stakeholder. I really don’t know that I’m there yet, everything feels so new and different that there’s a bit of a learning curve to understand it all. There’s a pace and cadence to everything that may not be quite caught up yet.

It definitely feels like more is happening at a different pace that is hard to explain.

I’m sure there is a wide spectrum of folks out there from some generating millions of additional revenue in new greenfield industries, to those burning tokens and getting nothing in return.

With this SUPER AUTO COMPLETE engine it’s easy to say we found a bug affecting a user, but rather than squashing that one and getting a release out quickly squash ALL related bugs that a user might find in this category, it only takes a few more keystrokes right??

Right now it feels like a lot is happening but its hard to sus out the real productivity from the noise.

FIN #

As with anything AI It took me a few weeks to wrap this up and everything is already different. But I had some recent experiences of feeling slower than just doing it, and its all around context. I have built out a lot of the systems that I maintain by hand, I really know them well and I can solve a lot of problems within the hour by hand with coffee break. But now that I’m trying to lean on agents, I know they can do a more thorough job than I can faster, but I don’t have all of the data harnessed up. Just today I spent all day trying to solve CI problems. I can see the issue, I know the solution, but I want agents to solve this for me in the future so I spent the say working on a CLI to pull data from ci pipeline runs, manage the tokens get the logs, status, all of the data. Because I know this will be the way of the future, they will outpace me, I just need to have methods of getting context ready for them, and agents that know how to do it set up.

💭 trash on X: "loving the state of development right now https:/...

2026-02-19T17:07:34Z

There are so many config files right now, glad to see some standards coming in around Agents.md, but so much is still specialized to a whole host of tools that have not been standardized on yet.

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💭 dax on X: "finally got around to setting up an always on openc...

2026-02-03T08:18:39Z

https://dropper.wayl.one/file/9065fcb2-5e40-479c-967e-498bc9bb6a4f.mp4

I tried this flow [of running an opencode server on tailscale] on day one of getting opencode, I wanted to prompt from my phone while were were running lights at the theater. It kinda worked, but the ui was really bad on phone, hard to use and the experience overall–it felt buggy. Happy to see they are making improvements and it might now be ready for some real use.

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What Your Coding Tool Says About You

2026-01-21T16:25:41Z

open code - libre free as in beer and speech
Copilot - corporate 9-5er
Cursor - You sip on Philz coffee with your macbook
Claude Code - Agentic Workflows or Bust
Jetbrains - I didn’t know you wrote java
Vim/neovim - definite neck beard
VsCode - What else is there?

light mode screen recording

2026-01-01T10:14:17Z

I saw this tip from Cassidoo and had to try it out for myself. I kicked on a screen recording right from where my terminal was, converted it, and it actually looks pretty good.

ffmpeg \
   -i screenrecording-2026-01-01_10-10-49.mp4 \
   -vf "negate,hue=h=180,eq=contrast=1.2:saturation=1.1" \
   screenrecording-2026-01-01_10-10-49-light.mp4

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There are a few unsettling things about it, but overall I feel like it was a success.

💭 Using stderr/stdout correctly - YouTube

2025-12-22T15:35:30Z

Yeah there’s some basics, you know things you might expect like using standard error and standard out correctly. One thing I’ll say on that because I think this is commonly misunderstood, standard error is not for errors, it’s for any information that isn’t part of the normal output. So you know often times that’s warnings and errors, but it might just be progress information. You know anytime that you just need to have something go to the user that’s what it’s there for." (6:15 - 6:42)

I’ve definitely done this sin in my own tooling before, and it does make things harder to use. I think I still take err/out at face value. I really like the translation Jeff gave here, one is for normal output, i.e. what the user asked for and the other is extra information. So if I wanted to list something and pipe it into something else, stdout only captures the list, thats it. if you have a bunch of information about config warnings, showing environment, are you sure questions, none of that is captured.

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💭 The Github Tax (I can't believe they actually did this...) - Y...

2025-12-17T15:04:09Z

It really feels like M$ is coming down hard on GH lately to make some unfavorable decisions for users. Maybe there is good reason for all of these changes from a business perspective, I can’t judge that. But right now there are some really great alternatives out there. I’m so grateful for what forgejo and gittea offer, and at the same time seeing the community get split up from GH is sad.

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💭 2025-11-27 Notes

2025-12-01T17:28:13Z

2025-11-27 Notes | Nic Payne

yesterday: [[2025-11-26-notes]] Big Changes Got my workspaces script in working order It's not quite configurable yet This will allow an easy way to setup

pype.dev

Nic is also building out a similar workspaces script. This feels like such a great thing to have ai work on fully customized tools for your personal workflow. Also Nice shout out!

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💭 Running Software on Software You’ve Never Run

2025-09-29T18:54:45Z

Running Software on Software You’ve Never Run

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

blog.jim-nielsen.com

Running software applications in production today is crazy. One point release opens up for supply chain attacks. What’s crazier is not running your production applications without a lock file, potentially running dependencies you’ve never ran before for the first time in prod.

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💭 a new chapter

2025-09-16T01:30:36Z

A New Chapter

In a recent turn of events, I find myself at a bit of a crossroads with an exciting new job on the horizon! In this post, I introduce myself and discuss my vision for the new blog.

Jesse Leite · jesseleite.com

Sub to this man. I met Jesse long ago as we both spoke at the same remote vim conf. He is into vim, weird keyboards, and medroid what more could you ask for. Now react and exlixer. I only know https://statamic.com/ through Jesse, they have the sickest branding ever. Now I will need to see what this savvycal is about.

https://jesseleite.com/feed

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💭 Vibe code is legacy code | Val Town Blog

2025-09-03T02:14:45Z

Vibe code is legacy code

Updates and articles from the Val Town team

blog.val.town

Brilliantly said. Vibe coding is legacy code. It’s code that we forget exists. Code that no one touches, you replace it. If you touch it you are more likely to break it.

The worst possible situation is to have a non-programmer vibe code a large project that they intend to maintain. This would be the equivalent of giving a credit card to a child without first explaining the concept of debt.

As you can imagine, the first phase is ecstatic. I can wave this little piece of plastic in stores and take whatever I want! …

💭 Let's Make Sure Github Doesn't Become the only Option - Edward...

2025-08-28T23:45:53Z

Let's Make Sure Github Doesn't Become the only Option - Edward Loveall

blog.edwardloveall.com

This post is a masterclass in blogging, cross linking, backing up your ideas with posts from other great sources. I have a week of reading inside this post, and need to come back later when Im not sick.

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💭 Explore - Forgejo

2025-08-27T20:38:36Z

Explore

Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.

Forgejo · git.dbushell.com

damn david has been busy, this is sick seeing all of the repos, I’m ready to jump in!

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💭 Eric: "This was pushed out with a rus…" - Mastodon

2025-08-27T20:35:30Z

Eric (@eric@social.ericwbailey.website)

This was pushed out with a rushed security review, a coerced and unwilling engineering team, and in full opposition to our supposed company values.

If you don't want it, tell them. Social media …

Mastodon · social.ericwbailey.website

damn, M$ really pushing hard on moving github into the ai org.

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💭 The BIGGEST lie in software development - YouTube

2025-08-27T20:24:38Z

This man feels sad, he never had a chance to bloom. He was stuck behind the drudgery of jira tickets. This is what the consultant driven agile has got us. Its ripped out all the thinking and creativity, its left us with moving tickets across the board, not allowed time to run on an idea when we have one. Not allowed to do extra work or refactoring in a module that we are already in. pushed to move faster for less.

I feel like this mans experience has been quite different from my own and I’m grateful to have some leeway to be creative and do some meaningful work outside the jira board. I’m grateful to be able to provide a good income for my family without taking on all the risk myself.

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💭 GitHub - cortesi/modd: A flexible developer tool that runs pro...

2025-08-25T15:40:39Z

GitHub - cortesi/modd: A flexible developer tool that runs processes and responds to filesystem changes

A flexible developer tool that runs processes and responds to filesystem changes - cortesi/modd

We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles

Gave modd a try today, and I like it, its something I am going to consider slotting right into my justfiles. Gave it a try and it seems to work really well out of the box and easy to configure.

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modd

2025-08-25T10:48:01Z

Today I gave modd a try, and it seems like a good file watcher executor. I tried using libnotify to send desktop notifications, but all I got was modd, I might not have notifications setup right on the awesomewm machine.

config goes in modd.conf

**/*.py {
  # check formatting via ruff
  prep: ruff format --check .

  # check docstring formatting
  prep: pydocstyle .
  #
  # # check type hints via ty
  prep: ty check .
  #
  # # run linter via ruff
  prep: ruff check .
}

I installed it using installer from jpillora, pulling pre-built binaries right out of the github repo.

curl https://i.jpillora.com/cortesi/modd | bash

Then you can install it, and on file change it will run the commands you configured.

modd

💭 We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles @ tonsky.me

2025-08-06T20:11:31Z

Lockfiles are an absolutely unnecessary concept that complicates things without a good reason. Dependency managers can and are working without it just the same.

tonsky.me · tonsky.me

I wholeheartedly agree that packaging is broken, semver is broken, expecting much better from a system of oss that is built on top of volunteers, passion projects, nights and weekends is a fools errand. With that I disagree that we we dont need lockfiles. Maybe its Nikki’s experience in java and my lack that puts us on this opposite spectrum, but without lockfiles the world changes underneath us as we release. One small change to your source can introduce a whole set of new features/bugs that you did not plan on without a good locking system. It can also cause you to need to do dependency resolution at application build time and not ahead of time.

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💭 How I Use Computers Now - YouTube

2025-07-26T14:41:22Z

Ben is always good for a banger of a video, this images app is something that i really want in my homelab, he did some great polish here! The idea of building vibe coded applications for your own personal use with all of your own personal opinions and workflows is something that has been an appealing part of ai, I’ve definitely tossed a few apps in my homelab that I use occasionally and they do what I ask of them pretty accurately.

This feels great to use, but also seems to kill any startup idea I have, as most of them feel like they could be vibe coded out by someone with a bit of skill and they just host their own. Maybe this is a good thing, maybe we are moving into an era of more people owning their own app they use for themself, maybe i need a security related startup?

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💭 Notes – 17:00 Wed 9 Jul 2025 – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)

2025-07-09T21:35:23Z

Notes – 17:00 Wed 9 Jul 2025

dbushell.com · dbushell.com

Enjoying watching David bring together his rss reader day by day. Excited to see where it goes. Im trying to get better at dropping notes like this without a ton of context, without needing to be right, just a note of whats on my mind and what I’m doing.

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command palettes are overrated

2025-07-06T12:37:40Z

Command palettes are slow, and overrated, you should treat yourself better. You probably installed VSC*** out of the box and your co-workers see you using the mouse and reprimanded you as they should. Mouse usage is not OK if you are a software dev, you should have the cheap ass free mouse that came with your cousins dell machine five years ago and only use if for emergencies. If you want to be fast you cannot do that by moving cursors to imprecise locations and clicking with your hand. You are not a caveman, put down the stones and get with the damn times. You need to be moving with precision.

Stage One, the command palette #

So you are taking your first few baby steps away from that Logitech MX Master and you need to get shit done, during these infant months the command palette is your friend. Use it you will be 10x faster than Razer Naga Ron from accounting. If you are in an IDE like VSC*** or a JEttedBrains editor they come with a command palette for running commands and fuzy finding files, use it. If you are in nvim, move on you probably don’t need this, unless you are still teething on VSC***, during that tim use :Telescope commands.

Close the fn Tree #

You don’t need a goddamn file tree open all the goddamn time, its taking up screen space and filling your brain with useless shit. They can be a helpful tool to move, rename, refactor files, or familiarize yourself with a codebase, but you don’t use one if you want to walk someday, so just like the command palette we are going to give it up for fuzzy find. If you are in nvim you are going to want to use :Telescope find_files those other big brained ides have things, look up the keybinding.

Now that we are crawling #

As you start to get your legs under you and you can crawl away from mamas teet note down the commands that you use all the time, we want to get command palette usage way down. Not to zero, without some sort of fuzzy command picker (even :<tab>) you are probably trying to remember too much and allocating too many brain cells to editing text, don’t do that. Resist over-correcting.

assign hotkeys #

Now you need to get yourself some hotkeys going, this is for the hot shit that you use several times a minute. You should be able to do things like swap between the current file and the last file in one keystroke without wasting a single brain cycle, it should be automatic. Go to definition, go to reference, no searching, searching is slow, find_files is slow. These are tools for exploration we are tyring to get real work done here.

Here’s a few things you should be able to do if you want to keep up with your Grandma, she’s been slayin these keys for years.

go to definition
go to reference
find_files
find and replace
rename
git add this file, commit, push
go to the last file
go up and down the jumplist
go up and down the quickfix list
list open files
harpoon all the files you go to regularly
format
move around your files

fly #

Over time you should be using your command pallete less and less, this is not designed to run every goddamn command through. Note the ones you use a lot and add keybinds. If you are using one of those editors that don’t make it clear what the fuck your running when you execute a command ask gippity, it can probably knock out that binding in 30s just fine.

inspiration #

The decline of “vim btw” by Sylvan Franklin. It’s a pretty incredible video, he is crushing these half satire dry humor tech content videos. He nails that with the death of vimBTW we lost the craft of knowing your editor in and out. We lost the art of flying through text. Now we have plugin kitties that say vimBtw, but they really aren’t using any vim features past hjkl.

[[ thoughts-724 ]]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmnqdAidVeE

principal-engineer-at-meta

2025-06-30T20:22:08Z

Jake Bolam principal engineer at Meta, has some of the best career advice for those looking to become principal or just be better at their craft. This video was such a banger I had to bring it in as a full post, and not just a thought. It was a random YouTube auto play, something that I probably wouldn’t have clicked on given title an thumbnail, but turned out to be very impactful. Jake is such a smart guy with a lot of great insights, and I can tell he thinks really quick on his feet, he just pulled all of these things out of his head on the fly.

YT Algorithm Gold

I don't know what it is about this title and thumbnail, but it gives me "ex

google, ex facebook, ex microsoft, $100M engineer" vibes in a cringy and not satire kind of way. I would have never clicked on it, it autoplayed after a podcast and it hit, immediately I’m like who are these guys? subd and started this post it was so good.

Long On Boarding #

Jake had a super long period of on boarding at meta, he came in as a seasoned leader yet took many months to get going. This was a phase during or near the end of the COVID-19 pandemic and his team was so swamped they were unable to give him time to help him. He felt his on boarding was taking longer than he wanted, and found backend work at Instagram. Moving to Instagram he jumped in and starting making impact quick and found his way moving up the ladder serving as tech lead for several teams.

I grabbed a ton of clips from this video, but did not for this section as it was kinda long.

Always open for a Chat #

As busy as Jake is, he leaves “Always open for a chat” on his internal profile. He does not care about rank into account, the intern can ask for a coffee chat. His key metric is how well is this person receiving information. If they are coming back with the same questions every 3 months he is going to start telling them he does not have the time.

I’ve had a fair amount of personal experience with this. Early in my career I experience quite a bit of higher ranks feeling untouchable, they were impossible to get a hold of, blew you off, and had more meetings than anyone could bear. It made me really look outside the company for inspiration and mentorship most of the time.

There’s always time for coffee #

While I don’t have “Always open for a chat” on my profile, I’ve had many of these types of conversations with my peers. It might be about something career related or more often how to implement containers, cloud, and good practices into small teams.

I remember a course in college shared the famous quote “There’s always time for coffee” and it stuck with me. The demonstration goes that no matter how much you fill your day with big rocks and tiny sand particles, there’s always a little more room for coffee, and he dumps coffee into a jar that he has already filled up.

These conversations often become very impactful. They can lead to having good relationships or job opportunities.

If we are not getting enough feedback, move faster #

Take Down Prod Sometimes #

This was an interesting take. None of us really want to take down prod. No one is advocating for major outages, but this is is not 2005 shipping out software on CD’s anymore. This take 100% depends on what you do and where you work. Obviously some sectors cannot take any downtime; nuclear power, cloud systems supporting nuclear power, navigation systems, idk theres a bunch of stuff. I bet if you are reading this that aint you. You’re probably writing some backend dashboard for the marketing team, or building out a website to upload cat photos on … Wait, thats literally what jake is doing here.

Idea being if you don’t occasionally cause some small production issues, you probably are not taking enough risk. You are moving too slow, getting feedback too late, your competitors just ran past you.

Go where you are rare #

I find this interesting. I’ve found myself within non-software companies doing sofware and data analysis most of my career, the amount of value you can bring by being that one guy that knows some pandas, containerization, how to run a vm is massive in an org that uses excel as its primary database. The rest of the org generally has massive knowledge in the business, but greatly slowed down by their ability to find value in the data.

Do work that you don’t get credit for #

I’ve worked with a lot of people in my 15 years of professional work, and I can tell you the worst ones to work with are the ones that focus too much on value. Every ounce of effort they bring needs to be backed by dollars comming into the business. I’ve seen this shake out a number of ways. You got the guy who sits on his ass all of January waiting for goals to be set, you got the guy who holds everything he knows close to his chest so that he is the one that can take the glory, and you got the guy who wont ever; refactor his code, cleanup, lint, update dependencies, and so on; because that does not have direct line to dollars coming into the business.

The clip goes a bit further than this, and hints at things that are going to enable you and your org to move faster. You might shave off 2 minutes off of ci, or docker builds. You might give everyone an easy way to run dev containers with production like dependencies in a snap. You might give them a way to clone prod data into a sandbox. These type of things provide no dollars to the company, it’s likely that few will notice but damn they add up to an efficient running organization.

Work Diary - the value of writing things down #

This one hits home, for far too long I’ve been in between note taking systems and am finally getting [[ marakta ]] setup to build out a really good zettelkasten style work notes. I’ve kinda had this on my blog for a long time, but not fully. I think the piece that I am missing here is the dumping ground. I don’t yet have a daily notes implementation that lets me just dump idea onto a page that I care little about, but is the process of starting something bigger, crosslinking between people, meetings, tasks, and launchdocs.

I hadn’t heard of the term launchdoc before this, but I took it and I am using it. I generally do an ok doc in the changelog of my products and spice it up to go to the announcement chat channel, but I don’t fully keep record of it, pulling the changelog into a launchdoc gives me that chance to spice it up and have the language it needs to go right into chat.

💭 Forming URIs for Autofill | Bitwarden

2025-06-30T13:21:15Z

Forming URIs for Autofill | Bitwarden

Find out more about how URI match detection works in the Bitwarden password manager.

Bitwarden · bitwarden.com

For anyone self hosting a bunch of apps under one domain, I just swapped all of mine to Host matching which includes the full subdomain, and it is glorious to not have 9+ items hit on all of your pages and only the one that you actually want.

open one > edit > gear icon next to url > Host

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💭 distrobox/docs/posts/run_libvirt_in_distrobox.md at main · 89l...

2025-06-29T02:11:28Z

Wish I would have saw this guide and provided assembly file for setting up virt-manager in distrobox. They call out immutable distros like the knew I was coming.

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💭 Software engineer get laid off in 2025 - YouTube

2025-06-23T13:13:58Z

2025 is not the year to get put on the market, its rough out there. Junior’s have little chance, senior+ are even struggling. We had it easy from 2020-2023, now its over saturated and you have to want to be in this industry to be here and stay here. It used to be a fine place to get a good job to pay the bills, the bar has been raised and if you don’t want to be here you are going to struggle. Theo covers this in this linked video deeply [[ thoughts-472 ]].

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💭 If Netflix Made a ‘Day in the Life of a Software Engineer’ - Y...

2025-06-23T12:51:39Z

Nailed the netflix documentary style. Videos like this make me so grateful that I have a job in this rough market, if you’ve followed jepi’s series you know he’s been out of a job for months, and he is not alone in this. This is the year of “laid of, i didn’t get laid off, I left to focus on my startup”, [[ thoughts-716 ]]

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💭 Conventional Commits

2025-06-17T16:37:14Z

Conventional Commits

A specification for adding human and machine readable meaning to commit messages

Conventional Commits · conventionalcommits.org

I try to use conventional commits on all of my commits, but I often end up only using feat/fix. I need to keep this page handy and get new verbiage worked into my language

fix:
feat:
build:
chore:
ci:
docs:
style:
refactor:
perf:
test:

Optionally include a scope fix(parser):

A bang indicates a breaking change note. For example …

chore!: drop support for Node 6

BREAKING CHANGE: use JavaScript features not available in Node 6.

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💭 I DONT KNOW WHY - YouTube

2025-06-14T22:44:34Z

I’m totally with Prime here, there is something about the read only, mouse clicking part of my brain that causes me to be more critical of the code at a different level. It doesn’t hit the part of my brain thinking about the edit or how to do the edit, it hits a part thats thinking about how I will have to deal with the code moving forward.

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💭 Think less, ship more

2025-06-10T13:02:28Z

Think less, ship more

I do too much thinking about what I want to make, and not enough actually making the thing.

cassidoo.co

I thin a lot of us have this issues, especially on side projects. At work therre are expectations, jira tickets and so on, keeping you shipping. I think there is something to be said about getting that quick and dirty POC to the right group of people early for feedback before you add redis caching, kubernetes, auto scaling, disruption budget, distributed nodes, high availability, backups, disaster recovery. At work you kinda have to have the right person to shoot ideas by that can understand that you probably need some of these complex things for your app and it will take time to get right.

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💭 numtide/treefmt: one CLI to format your repo [maintainers=@zim...

2025-06-08T00:20:41Z

GitHub - numtide/treefmt: the formatter multiplexer [maintainers=@zimbatm,@brianmcgee]

the formatter multiplexer [maintainers=@zimbatm,@brianmcgee] - numtide/treefmt

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

This looks like a very useful formatting tool to keep in the back of my mind. I do a lot of python and our tool tends to be pre-commit, named after the git hook pre-commit. It specifies a bunch of tools to run, you can run them in ci, manually, and opt into doing it before commit. I like the simplicity of this one not needing a whole ecosystem, but rather just leveraging the cli commands from those tools. This would probably be something that would get in the way of setup for new devs and not something I would throw on one project by itself, its another thing for everyone to figure out how to install and run on every platform, I’m sure its not hard, but being on python teams pre-commit just fits in.

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💭 Keynote Speaker - Cory Doctorow - YouTube

2025-06-07T23:00:50Z

This is one of the greatest pycon keynotes I’ve ever seen, bookmarking this to come back and leave better thoughts on later.

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💭 DHH IS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING (Again)? - YouTube

2025-06-07T22:49:47Z

Should I go to college? Was my education worth it? Should I keep going. A question that comes in all too often accross most industries that require some level of education. DHH has such great takes on it, some I had never fully thought about. He starts out with should we have people study niche topics (using Russian Poetry as an example). Yes the world deserves people who can make their life works out of something that brings them and many other so much joy, but no you probably shouldn’t go 100k’s into debt to do it. Should I get a software engineering degree, or become a doctor also have similar answers, it needs to be somewhat justified and not outrageous as has become the norm.

We used to listen in to Dave Ramsey on long car rides and he would have people call in and say, they went half a million dollars into debt to become a dentist, only to discover they did not want to do dentistry. At this point it’s too bad, you gotta suck it up and pay that off with something that makes some serious cash, and the only skill you probably got that can bring in that level of cash is … dentistry.

They dive into the college experience, learning to have adult debates with classmates about which direction a project should go or how to complete it. Great stuff!

Something I had never put thoughts to is how do you feel when class is cancelled or an assignment is removed. Are you excited to “not have to do it”? I’d bet that most people do. That’s probably a good sign that you are there for the wrong reasons. What other industry do you pay a f*** ton of money for a product and be like nah ill just take the receipt, you keep the thing.

This all just gets your foot in the door. If you spent none of that time learning it will become apparent really fast and you will not climb the ladder. Yes climbing the corp ladder is cliche, but at some point you probably want paid more and get opportunity to make more decisions. And if it turns out you really suck, you’re going to find yourself looking for a new job with no skill and a big pile of student debt sitting behind you.

Student debt is probably one of the biggest issues of our generation that only appears to be getting worse, everything signals your need to go to college, presige is important. It feels like the other side is filled with glory lots of money and you will have all that debt paid off in no time. I get it when you’re 18 and you see 50k or 100k in student debt, but 80k or 150k salaries on the other side its like damn I make nothing right now I’ll have that paid off in no time. Then you get out and realize everything costs serious money, housing, kids, cars, broken AC units, and you cant pay off 50k in a year and a half making 80k.

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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

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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💭 DHH on X: "You don't need a mentor. There's no secret sauce le...

2025-05-31T19:49:38Z

I need to find this podcast, was DHH this animated through the whole thing?

You don’t need a mentor. There’s no secret sauce left inside anyone’s head any more. It’s all been tapped, bottled, tweeted, and shared a million times. Sample some of that, but also guard your ignorance. You’ll lose it soon enough.

It takes work, one on one hand holding is a shortcut. Sometimes one that we need. Sometimes we need to level up quick, hence why your job might pair you up with someone for the first few months, but it is not something you need, you can figure shit out on your own with hard work. These days we have things like gippity to bounce ideas off, and you can generally get the sense of the direction the average of the internet it was trained on. Always add your own experience and make a choice for yourself.

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💭 DHH on X: "NIH: Not Invented Here Syndrome might come from a g...

2025-05-31T15:40:11Z

I suffer hard from NIH, I’m cheap, I like building things, I hate reading the docs, the perfect recipe for some bad NIH. I really like DHH’s take here. If no one builds anything new we get stuck with the same old shit. I think theres a lot of things that as far as my use case is concerned feature complete and needs no more. I would just build with it or on it, but not re-invent. It’s a slippery slope.

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💭 Forrest Knight on X: "you're not allowed to write comments in ...

2025-05-29T01:41:41Z

If your library doesn't have any documentation, it can't have any bugs. Documentation specifies what your code is supposed to do. Your tests specify what it actually does. Bugs exist …

Oh, I feel this. I go through the effort of removing dum ai comments so the ai looks less ai.

you’re not allowed to write comments in your code anymore, because if you do everyone will just think it’s ai generated.

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💭 Just fucking code.

2025-05-24T19:31:09Z

Just fucking code.

justfuckingcode.com

This is great, beautifully captures a modern backend view of https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/. I honestly resonate with almost all of this. I have found myself in more trouble than help when trying to fully vibe out a project. It never refactors, it leaves it shit everywhere, it mostly does what you say, until you get to something that seems easy, so you try to do it yourself, but you break its brittle piece of shit into pieces any time you try to touch it. AI coding help is great, mcp seems like it really has some game changing abilities, but hands of vibe coded crap aint there yet for me.

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💭 No docs, no bugs

2025-05-22T19:50:40Z

No docs, no bugs

Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net

Bugs exist when your test-enforced implementation fails to match the behavior described in your documentation. Without documentation a bug is just undefined behavior.

This is quite an interesting thought, so does this mean that, none of my undocumented side projects have bugs? no I think there is still some implied behavior that naming things covers. a function get_bucket_contents implies doing something wtih s3, getting stuff from your local filesystem or crashing would be considered a bug. I think the argument here is that if I start mining bitcoin when you call get_bucket_contents and I have not documented it that this is a feature not a bug. If I were to take this a step further, now do I need to document that this does not also start a bitcoin miner? maybe this is more of an unwanted feature than a bug, I’m convincing myself more and more.

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💭 What's next? – Will McGugan – Will McGugan's essays

2025-05-10T14:08:45Z

What’s next?

Some years ago I had the opportunity to work fulltime on project of mine. This was at a time where I fully intended to take a year off, but being able to make a living off a project of your own cre...

Will McGugan · willmcgugan.github.io

So it’s back to plan A: taking a year off. I plan on using this time to focus on my health–something I haven’t prioritized while working as a CEO / Founder of a startup.

Wish you the best Will, you have given us textual and rich, and from what I can tell left it in some great hands.

All I can say for certain is that I would like to write more. Writing scratches many of the same itches as software development, and it is a skill I’d like to nurture.

Go get em Will, write to your hearts desire, and resist the urge to make an SSG company this time.

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💭 Too much magic – Will McGugan – Will McGugan's essays

2025-05-10T01:49:34Z

Too much magic

A common criticisms of frameworks like Textual is that they have “too much magic”.

Will McGugan · willmcgugan.github.io

Now “too much magic” is not the same thing as “bad magic”, although they are often conflated. Bad magic is when the implementation details leak out from the level below. This can manifest itself as cryptic errors that reference the magic’s implementation.

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💭 The Rule - YouTube

2025-05-09T13:01:16Z

Under 2000 everything is happy, green field. Any decision you have made is relatively easy to back out of (barring you making a library with downstream users), but as you go, regret kicks in. Regret we didn’t make that pydantic 2 upgrade earlier, as new features become more apealing. Regret that we chose sqlite for simplicity, speed, agility, and now we might need robust and distributed. Regret that you chose a front end framework, or to have a front end at all to a backend problem. Regret that you put 6 layers of abstraction on your db early on and now that you understand the problem you want different abstractions, but all of your endpoints deeply depend on the current one.

Vibe coding will not save you, it will only make these wrong decisions for you without the context that you have. You will hate it’s decisions more because you had no input into some of them.

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💭 THE STANDUP - Coding DIRTY Episode 7

2025-05-07T18:00:09Z

“Gradually roll out your releases to a small group of people”

~ roughly what prime said (I’m listening live)

This really hit home with me, tests can be so good at making sure that we dont repeat bugs and that laser focused things work, tests are generally small and focused, but this does not replace some sort of integration testing. These days very few things are written as a monolith, and hence there are a lot of interactions that really need to play well together accross various systems.

They call out Crowdstrike here, which took down the world blue screening critical windows systems everywhere in 2024. It was revealed that a small changed was rushed through and skipped critical rollout paths since it seemed like a small change. Crowdstrike also runs at a super low kernel level of access and a small memory bug can kill the system.

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💭 Recovering from Disaster with Seth Eliot

2025-05-04T17:48:54Z

Overview of redis.conf, the Redis configuration file

fafo.fm

This episode really got me thinking about the difference between HA and DR and my approach to each one. They talk about it from the perspective of a cach cow kind of app rather than a homelab or internal tooling, but think of HA as 9’s how many 9s are we willing to pay for, tink of DR as dollars how many dollars will we loose during the period of recovery. So much more in the episode, a lot of talk around cloud vendors and what they give you vs a purpose build platform with HA and DR in mind.

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💭 Louis Rossmann's Keynote Speech on Right to Repair - YouTube

2025-04-27T19:35:21Z

Great talk from Lous Rossman! TLDR you don’t own it, and stop pointing the finger calling everyone else an idiot for supporting the other brand, cause your’s probably also has different issues.

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💭 Let's Talk Open Source - Prime Reacts - YouTube

2025-04-15T13:21:53Z

This is an absolute banger of a review by prime and Dylan Beetle. I love the similar takes with different perspectives, would really like to see them podcast together, but this one way style interview does really well to cover a lot of issues in open source, rug pulls, version pinning, thankless maintainers, what its like to open source from a large company.

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💭 Redis configuration | Docs

2025-03-20T20:14:57Z

Redis configuration

Docs · redis.io

redis has all of their default self documented configs hosted here. You can pull the default redis.conf for any of the major releases.

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💭 The State of Secrets Sprawl 2025

2025-03-14T18:16:07Z

The State of Secrets Sprawl 2025

GitGuardian's 2025 report reveals 70% of leaked secrets remain active two years later. Discover the alarming state of secrets sprawl & protect your organization.

GitGuardian Blog - Take Control of Your Secrets Security · blog.gitguardian.com

Good report, make notes later

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💭 valkey-io/valkey: A flexible distributed key-value datastore t...

2025-02-17T02:27:34Z

GitHub - valkey-io/valkey: A flexible distributed key-value database that is optimized for caching and other realtime workloads.

A flexible distributed key-value database that is optimized for caching and other realtime workloads. - valkey-io/valkey

Staff Software Engineer at GitHub specializing in developer productivity, AI-assisted development, and accessibility. Creator of The Balanced Engineer newsletter and co-host of the Overcommitted po...

valkey appears to be the largest open source fork of redis that was forked just before their transition to the new source available licenses.

One notable thing missing from the readme is how to run with docker, which I saw in the valkey-py docs.

docker run -p 6379:6379 -it valkey/valkey:latest

You can install the python library with

python -m venv .venv
. ./.venv/bin/activate
pip install "valkey[libvalkey]"

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💭 Proompted Kiddies Learning The Hard Way - YouTube

2025-02-14T19:15:41Z

Damn prime makes an interesting point near then end of this video. He’s seen a bunch of people able to just throw down charts and shit at their company and end up being “the coding guy” cause they proompted something once. In a way I can relate, I got into software in a similar way, but at a time that it took a lot more hard work, understanding , and copy past from the right stack overflow. Based on some of the people around me at the time I can only imagine how some people must feel like they got pushed into it without wanting it, and now are building something they don’t know anything about with no care about it or care to build any expertise. Is the future proompted charts from enterprise chatgpt or do we only continue growing more need for software from here.

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💭 Developer Productivity, v2 with ThePrimeagen | Preview - YouTube

2025-02-08T15:29:52Z

Big fan of Primes setup. I was not far off of his setup before he really came on the scene, but I’ve picked up a ton of nuggets from him and how he operates. I took his first developer productivity course on Front End Masters as it came out.

It is interesting to see him roll back his ansible scripts for bash scripts here. I converted my setup to ansible after watching his first, but have also since rolled back to bash scripts for quite similar reasons. Ansible is great for remote tasks that need to be done on a fleet of machines, but like he says here overkill for this purpose and ends up something that you need to read the docs for every change to your dotfiles.

Unlike prime I’ve really leaned harder on installing everything in a docker image and developing out of a docker image. I’ve long built docker images of my dotfiles with the idea that its nice to be able to just use them on other machines, but it rarely happened.

In the past year I’ve moved bazzite, an immutable distro. It comes with podman and distrobox, so I install very little on it, a few flatpaks from the store for brave and signal, but most of what I really use day to day comes from my devtainer. It’s nice that I really have one install target for all of my scripts so they become quite stable. I don’t need to worry about arch vs ubuntu vs fedora, no matter where I am its the same base image.

I’ve also really started to lean on kubernetes, it is so useful to just be able to start a pod in k8s using the same exact develop setup as I would have locally. Nothing needs installed, I can just bring my dev setup to the cluster where the network and data I might need to debug is.

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💭 The Worst Thing You Can Do For Your Career - YouTube

2025-01-17T14:54:14Z

Don’t stop learning! Stop trying because you have a doomer outlook on ai, llms, industry and think they are taking over. If you have no hope for the future, if you stop now you are cementing in that you will be no good and the ai will be better. Many, maybe most of us in this industry go here by hard work, long nights of learning, trying to solve problems that our job had. If llms take over then the world is going to be a whole lot different, it will be a world you cannot predict or plan for. For now put your head down and succeed in the world we have today.

TEEJ has some great thoughts on this whole sentiment, put this on for you morning walk or whatever you do.

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💭 Availability

2025-01-13T02:20:16Z

Availability

Brittany Ellich · brittanyellich.com

nice overview of availability measurements and what they really mean. The crazy world we live in today depends on so many things runnig, its also so hard to measure your uptime, The uptime metrics can mean a lot of different things. The site is up and accepting traffic, but can users make changes or submit orders, there is a lot more to it than just up or down. I really appreciate Brittany’s story from Nike nested in there.

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💭 V2 suddenly getting client-not-enrolled today - X API - X Deve...

2025-01-10T02:56:15Z

Command Line Interface Guidelines

devcommunity.x.com

Just tried using my twitter api key for the first time in quite awhile. Apps now need to be tied to projects in order to work. It looks like projects are where pricing comes into play. Thankfully they still give a free tier for doing small time things for myself. You can really see the effect that llms have on these things though as it is 5x more expensive to read posts than to make posts currently. Data is the new gold for these kind of companies.

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💭 Cracking the Code | Open Sauce 2024 - YouTube

2025-01-08T21:08:08Z

Great panel of software folks at open sauce. It was interesting hearing from all these creators from the perspective of an open sauce panel.

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💭 Cursor + Windsurf Settings to 5x AI's Output Quality (Works wi...

2024-12-24T21:28:08Z

This was an eye opening video into agentic editing workflows.

setting rules #

Dfferent ai tools use different rules files, windsurf uses .windsurfrules.

testing out rules #

Test out your rules file by having it say something at the beginning of the output to verify that the rules are being applied correctly.

First line #

He suggests to use this key rule for debugging purposes, otherwise you are guessing to what rules if any it is following.

Every time you choose to apply a rule(s), explicitly state the rule(s) in the output.  You can abbreviate the rule description to a single word or phrase.

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💭 Talking with Typecraft - YouTube

2024-12-24T20:24:42Z

This is a pretty great episode talking shop with typecraft. They talk setups, cameras, content creation. I found them talking about their linux setups particularly interesting. Dax talked about his flow from building his own machines to using reliablesite.com.

tmux default leader #

Dax hates on c-a, both typecraft and dax use c-s, which normally freezes a terminal, we can all agree that is useless. I use the default c-b, it seems fine for me.

type crafts setup #

Ubuntu
Ghosty
Tmux
Nvim
Ruby

Selling coffee without a web front end #

Dax talks about terminal.shop and how they originally planned to have a web front end, but after they had so much success they stuck with it. now they are leaning harder into it and are building out integrations with a bunch of languages and an api, but no front end.

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💭 Command Line Interface Guidelines

2024-07-11T12:57:45Z

An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.

clig.dev

This is a pretty sick set of guidelines to help you write better cli programs, I’m definitely coming back to reading this one more in depth later.

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💭 PolyFill Vulnerability is WILD - YouTube

2024-06-28T19:48:03Z

Damn, supply chain vector attacks are wild. Random guy in Primes stream was getting $40k offers to buy their open source project while in university and they have never made anything from it. What a social engineering attack this is. It would be so easy to make it look like a good deal and that the package was going to a good new owner who has real resources to maintain it.

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💭 casey/just: 🤖 Just a command runner

2023-10-22T02:09:57Z

GitHub - casey/just: 🤖 Just a command runner

🤖 Just a command runner. Contribute to casey/just development by creating an account on GitHub.