Posts tagged: thought

- one minute in, I cannot believe Prime has never used a password manager. For all the shit they give Trash for his one password, He does not use a password manager! 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/

- Prime on Big A they make a really great mix. I really like primes perspective on the layoffs here. Adding in an ops perspecive a bit here. Maybe inspiring a full level post. infra, ops, sre roles are incentivised to keep uptime, that is your goal in these roles. Idk how it works on big products, its probably more greased, higher stakes, more well thoguht out, more well discussed. In my role for many small internal applications developers constantly use my platform different and find new edge cases that we never expected to hit. Depending on my week I’m either the team blocker and I’m fighting fires all week making sure new releases are getting out and stay running while everything is breaking, or I’m tending to the fire lanes, predicting the new edges, looking at previous outages and asking myself how do we never see this category of failure again. I think AI is really good a enabling both of these. I think you can probably run a leaner team with AI on the latter half. AI is really good at implementing things consitent (if you are careful) and fast. But when shit hits the fan, you still need the people who know the systems to get things back up quickly and prevent a cascade o...

- What a great way to start a Wednesday morning with a fresh brand new tiny desk concert with the Foo Fighters. The killed it, love the classics. 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/

- 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. 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/

How to Install Silksong mods on the Steam Deck Having a tough time with Hollow Knight: Silksong? These mods will help. Long Play Tech · longplaytech.com [1] Really good tutorial for how to mod silksong on the steam deck. We just did this on my son’s steam deck. I’d add a reccomendation to map ~ to a back button like L4. I think this guy was docked with a keyboard. 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://longplaytech.com/posts/how-to-install-silksong-mods-on-the-steam-deck/ [2]: /thoughts/

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 [1] 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. 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://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/ [2]: /thoughts/

Programming Sucks stilldrinking.org [1] Absolutely incredible, will fill some notes later 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://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks [2]: /thoughts/

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 [1] 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 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://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp [2]: /thoughts/

[1]Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub Mitchell Hashimoto · mitchellh.com [1]Found on HN: [1]discussion [2] The GitHub tears post. I feel it, maybe not as much as @mitchelh, but I feel it. 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://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579 [3]: /thoughts/

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 [1] 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 [2]. 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. 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://red-squares.cian.lol/ [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579 [3]: /thoughts/

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 [1] 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 [2] 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. 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://pype.dev/desktop-crash-2026/ [2]: /homelab/ [3]: /thoughts/

Artemis II Photo Timeline An interactive photo timeline of NASA artemistimeline.com [1] Hank Greed made a really cool site to explore the Artemis II mission with Claude Code. Now this is what agentic coding is for, such a cool app to scroll around on and visualize when the photos were taken. Listening to the video is sounded really hard to get all of the data to line up correctly, between devices and timezones it ws not straightforward even though all of the schedules and images were made public. [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://artemistimeline.com/#jeremy-hansen-suited-up-and-ready [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/72dbd361-091e-4e3e-b965-bca6dd11e33e.webp [3]: /thoughts/

Hacker News RSS hnrss.github.io [1] hacker news rss feeds, Nice list of feeds to consider adding to your feed reader. 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://hnrss.github.io/ [2]: /thoughts/

- Jaime’s title hooked me in here, what guitar riff from Linkin Park had the greatest riff of our generation. Theres something about Linkin Park unlike Killswitch Engage, Atreyu, Avenged Sevenfold, bands I would listen to at this time that I cant remember a single riff, I can think of Chesters vocals, or the unique scratching they did, but mostly the songs were a whole piece. What riff is he talking about. The very first note of “One Step Closer” plays and I’m immediately transported back to 2003 sitting in my garage watching HuevosIII [1] on repeat. I can still remember the timing that Wes Miller did on the edit. I can see the riders I looked up to for so long riding in formation. Turns out this riff is so recognizable it takes me exactly where I was when I listened to it hundreds of times. 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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoQ6fUTuYvg&list=PLoSp9yq_oDOdCOfCp_QTS017cjAi4Cv_0&index=2 [2]: /thoughts/

- The most iconic shots of a scrub ever caught on camera. 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/

- Casey had an interesting point here. I think demitri came back with some sense of sanity that its just not how corporations look at employee cost, but I still thought it was a head scratcher. Roughly translated not quoted If the sellers of ai are telling you that your developers are going to be 10x productive, why are they only spending half their salary in tokens? Why not 9x? 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/

- I hate how he called out terminal user interfaces as shit… then proved web interfaces to be superior. Damn him. I love working from my terminal, but having ai prove itself through html [1] reports including video, image, metrics, charts, and text is goated. Rethinking yourself has the bottleneck not the orchestrator feels real. Validating the work is hard, theres a shift right now and everyone is trying to figure it out. Lucas’s technique is a little bit of be lazy and tell it to prove itself to you, so as you juggle your 15 agents you have a nice report to read. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /html/ [2]: /thoughts/

- This is a really good guide, with quite a few good nuggets. I need to try deleting my AGENTS.md and rebuilding it from scratch more often. I liked how he talked about having agents prove their work and tell them up front how they will be judged. What I didn’t care for so much was the feeling that a lot of the rules go in markdown, thats not a rule, thats a suggestion. Rules should be deterministic. They should be tests and linters that ensure they are followed. Suggestions are good, but dont trust the agents to always follow them. And don’t trust that they wont change your rules, keep them honest. 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/

- Feeling this today, feels like everything continues to get worse. Trying to be more positive, and its hard. 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/

Write It First, Then Let AI Drive There's a thing that happens when you start using AI coding tools seriously. You assume the best workflow is obvious: let AI generate the first draft, then... Kenneth Reitz · kennethreitz.org [1] Interesting take by Kenneth Reitz. Not quite sure how I feel about it anymore. It kinda hurts, but I’m not sure if code aesthetics matter as much as the product anymore. I cared when I was the one editing, but at this point I’m not doing a lot of edits by hand. Do these aesthetics affect the final products that users use, Not sure. AI makes me sad. 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://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-04-12-write_it_first_then_let_ai_drive [2]: /thoughts/