Posts tagged: thought

💭 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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💭 How to Install Silksong mods on the Steam Deck | Long Play Tech

2026-05-09T09:46:52Z

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

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.

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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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💭 ARTEMIS II PHOTO TIMELINE

2026-05-02T09:38:05Z

Artemis II Photo Timeline

An interactive photo timeline of NASA

artemistimeline.com

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.

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💭 Hacker News RSS

2026-05-02T09:33:39Z

Hacker News RSS

hnrss.github.io

hacker news rss feeds, Nice list of feeds to consider adding to your feed reader.

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💭 Hybrid theory is the greatest album of our generation - YouTube

2026-04-28T21:31:51Z

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 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.

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💭 Super Slow-Moto: The

2026-04-27T20:04:35Z

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

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💭 "Am I Crazy?" [Wading Through AI - Episode 3]

2026-04-16T21:10:02Z

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?

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💭 A love letter to Pi | Lucas Meijer

2026-04-15T16:12:33Z

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 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.

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💭 How Claude Code’s Creator Starts EVERY Project - YouTube

2026-04-15T16:07:26Z

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.

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💭 POV: Growing up as a Millennial be like 🤣 AC:@mikemancusi #mil...

2026-04-15T16:02:46Z

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

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💭 Write It First, Then Let AI Drive - Kenneth Reitz

2026-04-14T20:05:11Z

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

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.

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💭 I am slowly coming around to AI assisted programming.

2026-04-14T15:17:09Z

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If agents make prime a bit faster, what does that mean for the rest of us mortals?

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💭 AIs aren’t good rule followers

2026-04-14T15:16:11Z

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I’ve gotta agree with bob on this one, the first thing I did to my biggest brownfield project I wanted to use agents on BEFORE they did work was a hardened pre-commit.yaml, ci, hardened type checking and linting. SECOND get rid of bad inconsistent patterns, let them replicate consistency, force them to pass checks. Agents will follow all of your markdown suggestions most of the time, enough for you to become complacent if you let it. They are goal seeking, if you put them to a task you thought was possible that is not given your constraints, they will try to find a way given enough tokens. I dont see this ever changing, its one thing that makes them great, it just needs to be kept in check.

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💭 A quote from Steve Yegge

2026-04-13T21:10:23Z

Steve Yegge

Steve Yegge: I was chatting with my buddy at Google, who's been a tech director there for about 20 years, about their AI adoption. Craziest convo I've had all year. …

Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net

behind, yet positioned to completely dominate this race by hitting it with some sense. Making trends in what looks like longevity in the race that is not subsidising to simply get users, but to get by until they figure out how to 100x reduce the cost to a reasonable level. They feel like the guy sitting in the back with nothing big or flashy to say that is going to drop the hammer on their competition that overstretched itself taking on too much debt because it was necessary to change the game. There might be something to having a mix of hipsters, boomers, and luddites all trying to balance each other out.

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