Posts tagged: dev

Turning my Desktop into a Production Machine

2026-05-09T15:58:24Z

The crontab output details a scheduled task to navigate to the project directory and run the 'just' command hourly.

> I'm setting up production workloads on my desktop, perhaps against my better judgment, building my blog hourly without much fuss

💭 Microsoft Doesn't Have it in Them to Win - YouTube

2026-05-09T12:00:01Z

I havent used windows in years at this point, but I feel this on the products I am forced to use for work. Basic features are not right, kinda work most of the time. New features, ai integrations, new skin/design, but still teams can’t use my system mic appropriately yet every other app does.

Also feel this computers have not got significantly better since around getting ssds. Yes they are better, but not at the same rate of being obsolete every two years. I hope we hit local model land and it flips this a bit, not in quite the obsolete every two years range, but some new hardware actually lets you do meaningful more new things.

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💭 Cloudflare cuts 1100

2026-05-08T08:59:48Z

Building For The Future

This afternoon, we sent the following email to our global team. One of our core values at Cloudflare is transparency, and we believe it

The Cloudflare Blog · blog.cloudflare.com

Full salary for the rest of the year after being let go. As much as this sucks as much as the job market sucks. It’s good to see that these companies laying off huge numbers during good times are trying to take care of those they brought on.

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💭 Programming Sucks

2026-05-08T08:41:49Z

Programming Sucks

stilldrinking.org

Absolutely incredible, will fill some notes later

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💭 Programming Still Sucks. — Writing

2026-05-07T08:50:59Z

Programming Still Sucks. — Writing

Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And...

stvn.sh

Absolute banger of a post, this is the time we are living in. Explain “are you afraid AI is going to take your job” to a non tech blue collar worker. Broken over promises, greed, and projects mismanaged by leadership who has no idea what the day to day work actually does and how critical it is.

I’m not quite in Sara’s position, but I feel something shielded by half of this working deep inside of a non tech part of a non tech company leading a very small rag tag team with get shit done attitude.

But I feel it, I see colleagues hit by these blasts.b I get clipped with shrapnel from some of the largest blasts. But nothing as significant as I see many others hit with

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💭 Ghostty is leaving GitHub

2026-05-06T20:38:11Z

Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub

Mitchell Hashimoto · mitchellh.com

Found on HN: discussion

The GitHub tears post. I feel it, maybe not as much as @mitchelh, but I feel it.

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💭 Red Squares — the GitHub outage graph

2026-05-06T20:36:00Z

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

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. 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.

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💭 Desktop Crash 2026

2026-05-02T10:30:05Z

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

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 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.

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image compare in markata go

2026-05-01T07:40:44Z

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
![d628ffba-de18-4fff-91a8-700f037df119.webp](https://dropper.wayl.one/file/d628ffba-de18-4fff-91a8-700f037df119.webp)
![](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/ca30665f-1a15-453e-aab8-221901c7df99.webp)
:::

Without markata-go’s web awesome integration, the above would look like:

<script type="module">
  import 'https://ka-f.webawesome.com/webawesome@3.6.0/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>

💭 Package Managers Need to Cool Down

2026-03-31T20:40:50Z

Package Managers Need to Cool Down

Today's LiteLLM supply chain attack inspired me to revisit the idea of dependency cooldowns, the practice of only installing updated dependencies once they've been out in the wild for a …

Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net

2026, finding the balance between fixed bugs and zero days. There is very unlikely ever a reason you need to be running bleeding edge packages in prod most package managers now support cool downs.

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💭 the cheng lou pretext tweet

2026-03-31T18:38:39Z

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webdev twitter is blowing up with implementations of pretext text calculations. The examples are absolutely fun and ridiculous.

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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.

blog.jim-nielsen.com

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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💭 jack cuts block in half

2026-02-27T11:29:10Z

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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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You Can Just Build Things

2026-02-25T11:10:51Z

I don’t know if you know this, but the web is a beautiful platform that allows you the freedom to create things and put them out there. Its not tied to four major platforms. You don’t have to post your thoughts, ideas, and apps to a platform, you can just make it. This is a beautiful thing that seems to have been forgotten. I was inspired this morning from @scotthanselman’s tinytooltown. Looking through all of the tiny tools that people have built for themself, as personal software, not answering to anyone but themself, it was inspiring.

Agents have gotten a lot better, like seriously better. The ai bros that were ai pilled too early that said SWE is over in six months called it too early. It wasn’t time. Now since Nov 2025 we have had agents that can do some damn work. Proving the point some of the greatest devs I’ve ever looked up to have not written a line of code since. Not hype bros or someone not good at the craft, but seriously good devs leaning on it full time.

AI hype over you don’t have to use ai, you can still just build things by hand, or if you don’t have the coding skills you can probably ask an agent to build something good enough for you to use on your own.

As I wrote in poc is not product building products is hard. You cant just vibe code out the next jira, medium, Pinterest, photos, but you can build a good enough task board, blog, and photos app that does what you need it to do without these. It may not get you off of some of these platforms, but there’s a good chance you can build out bespoke software that solves real problems you have

This is what makes the web interesting.

Why Make a Website in 2025

blogging in 2024

Blogging For Me

tinyapps

💭 FFmpeg video crop

2026-02-25T08:29:59Z

FFmpeg video crop

tools.simonwillison.net

This was the inspiration for the next update in dropper that became a full clip editor. The one that I’ve long wanted, but forgotten about. It’s going to include this cropper, resize, image extractor, and trimmer.

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💭 Tiny Tool Town 🏘️

2026-02-25T08:27:11Z

Tiny Tool Town 🏘️

A delightful showcase for free, fun & open source tiny tools. Stupid-delightful software made with love.

Tiny Tool Town · tinytooltown.com

Learned about this one from the @stipete interview @scotthanselman did on YouTube. This is proof that the internet is alive. It’s such web 1.0 nostalgia to see that people can just build things! Did you know that you can literally just build things and make them exist? You don’t need users, You don’t need a big platform, you can just make something into existance. It seems like something we have forgotten through web 2.0 where everything as become 4 major apps all linking to each other and trying to hoard all of the attention. Scroll through tehre are some really cool apps, probably nothing that has the polish you want, or is going to change your world. What these apps have more than anything you’ve probably used in the recent years, is inspiration. Its xyz, but the way I wanted, or with my little twist. And no one else has to like it but me because I’m the user.

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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.

Your browser does not support the video tag.

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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

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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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