Posts tagged: thought

- What an amazing set of photos created by the Artemis II crew accompanying a fantastic breakdown by Hank Green. [1] I like this one, as its probably one of the ones not shred a ton Whole gallery is worth looking at https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/ References: [1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/0b53a4ed-924e-42b5-84f4-51c189f60801.webp

- A really interesting long form interview with @simonwillison [1]. If you follow him closely most of it is probably not new, but I found some interesting nuggets. Simon is writing most of his code from his phone these days using anthropic hosted platform. He mentioned that a lot of security risks go away when you don’t put secrets on the platform and you let them take the risk of running ai written code with ai chosen supply chain. He talked about the Pelican Riding a Bike benchmark for quite awhile. He was surprised at how well of a proxy it is for how capable a model is at just about everything. He also said that when he runs the benchmark he also runs half a dozen others that he’s never talked about so that He could see if they were to train a model specific to his benchmark he could catch them, but it seems they had caught on and if they were they seem that they would already be doing it on all of his others anyways. TDD is incredibly boring for humans, it strips so much creativity and joy from the process. Who cares if agents are bored they do better when doing TDD. References: [1]: https://simonwillison.net

- THIS is the future of homelab [1], excited to see someone who knows so much more about hardware than I do get excited about this. [2] References: [1]: /homelab/ [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/f69c86b9-ab79-46ad-9ef0-4d794544e943.webp

Laurie Voss (@seldo.com) Project Glasswing is a glimpse at an oncoming future in which agents do things humans could never have accomplished and the results are handled by other agents faster than humans could react and we... Bluesky Social · bsky.app [1] Is Glasswing the next inflection point [2] References: [1]: https://bsky.app/profile/seldo.com/post/3miybjol76p2r [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/00bc13be-32bd-4410-b0c4-2ecc0f2f6b95.webp

BumpMesh by CNC Kitchen Add displacement textures to STL, OBJ, and 3MF models directly in your browser. Preview, mask, bake, and export printable textured meshes locally. BumpMesh · bumpmesh.com [1] Absolutely sick texture app from cnc kitchen. Like him I’ve spent a bunch of time attempting and failing to learn blender, I’m so glad someone else vibe coded out such a good app that can just add texture to stls with basic masks and is the very basics of what you would want to add to 3d prints to make them interesting, I’m excited to use this for some real projects. [2] [3] References: [1]: https://bumpmesh.com/ [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/d959e3dc-3fde-410b-acaf-8f0574f68a1a.webp [3]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/e10dddf6-0f2e-498f-bef7-81901afced7b.webp

- Bush on tiny desk. Iconic band on an iconic platform. Will be re-listening to this several times. [1] References: [1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/3b67304c-41cc-4040-b6cd-7e0c16633e3d.webp

GitHub - kraanzu/smassh at terminaltrove Smassh your Keyboard, TUI Edition. Contribute to kraanzu/smassh development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com [1] smassh is the coolest monkeytype tui clone, its impressively accurate. Easy to install and run, all the same themes appear to be there and everything. maybe a good way to get a few reps in while agents are running these days. 35102587-dffe-48ec-920a-a037917e7776.mp4 [2] I need to go back and brush up on my skills I’m down a good 20wpm from what I should be doing. References: [1]: https://github.com/kraanzu/smassh?ref=terminaltrove [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/35102587-dffe-48ec-920a-a037917e7776.mp4

What Happens When AI Stops Being Artificially Cheap The subsidy era is ending. Here danielmiessler.com [1] I’ve been thinking about this for awhile and Daniel makes some great arguments here. Interestingly keeping inference cheap removes the incentives to make our tools better, help us choose the right model, lean on local models, open weight models. The frontier models are so affordable through subsidized subscription models why would you deal with anything less intelligent at this point. The tooling we use is not optimized for it, and why should it be. References: [1]: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/ai-stops-being-artificially-cheap

External Link baty.net [1] emacs config so bad he launch obsidian, YIKES! grantid I’m using obsidian currently on my phone, not for this post, but for journal entries while I’m away from my desk. Use this as a reminder that you can swim through murky waters with your dotfiles for awhile, but occasionally its good to do a clean up, pin it, put em in a docker image, have a good fallback to go to if shit really hits the fan. Iv’e been using https://github.com/waylonwalker/nvim-manager as part of my strategy for awhile now. References: [1]: https://baty.net/journal/31mar26/

[1] uv adds dependency cooldowns via #16814 [2]. Well needed feature in todays world, far from a guarantee, but its something. References: [1]: /static/https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/tag/0.9.17 [2]: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/16814

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 [1] 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. References: [1]: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/24/package-managers-need-to-cool-down/

ThePrimeagen (@ThePrimeagen) on X don't forget last time Anthropic, in their infinite PhD level wisdom, leaked their own source code (Feb 25) they DMCA'd all repos that had their code. Careful storing the code because Anthropic w… X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1] Everyone look away, nothing to see here. [2] References: [1]: https://x.com/ThePrimeagen/status/2038978962089492631 [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/090f03b2-e6f5-4ede-a814-bfbb4e237b54.webp

Mete Polat (@metedata) on X @Fried_rice @Scobleizer Anthropic is now officially more open than OpenAI X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1] Anthropic safewords are the talk of the town today. [2] References: [1]: https://x.com/metedata/status/2038924041453441422 [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/c097c6dc-4b10-4fab-a9f9-1d4181422285.webp

Cheng Lou (@_chenglou) on X My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important f… X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1] webdev twitter is blowing up with implementations of pretext text calculations. The examples are absolutely fun and ridiculous. [2] References: [1]: https://x.com/_chenglou/status/2037713766205608234 [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/350a368f-0e6b-4375-98d6-6303961c0d6c.webp

Josh Medeski (@joshmedeski) on X Did you know you can replace the spinning verbs in Claude Code. I'm having fun with it. X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1] The claude code source code leaked today and the tweets are great, maybe twitter is back. Did you know you can replace the spinning verbs in Claude Code. I’m having fun with it. [2] References: [1]: https://x.com/joshmedeski/status/2039010741039120417 [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/8cf5cf65-40e1-4f40-8d09-b596a97dd51d.webp

[1]@nicknisi [1]) — Y'all, I think I'm a convert to pi" loading="lazy"> Nick Nisi (@nicknisi [2]) Y'all, I think I'm a convert to pi Bluesky Social · bsky.app I’m about to be pi pilled. References: [1]: https://bsky.app/profile/nicknisi.com/post/3mhgcbpm4ds2p [2]: https://nicknisi.com

To Live In A World Without AI | Nic Payne I'm finding lately that I wish we could go back to pre-ChatGPT... A world without a code-gen easy button, where "easy" was LSP autocomplete, wher pype.dev [1] We f&#ing said @pype [2], well f&#ing said. I think a lot of us are feeling this, we’ve pitched our brain into a bucket and we are no longer stretching it in the same way. We still work in similar ways of old, with new ways of turning off and saying yes a bunch of times. the best thing I can hope for is that as things get better we have fewer yes loops, and more architectural design debates and deep thoughts. But I fear deep thoughts are gone to the way of “research the leading 10 frameworks and pick the best one for this project.” and letting the clankers do the deep thinking. Its signing us up for a weird distopia. I think a lot of us wish we could undo what has happened and go back to actually understanding what we are doing, but the world has changed, and if you are building average shit, like the average person, using models trained on average people doing average shit you cant keep up anymore. References: [1]: https://pype.dev/to-live-in-a-world-without-ai/ [2]: https://...

My Thoughts on Beads | Nic Payne [Steve Yegge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Yegge) is a pretty well-known individual in the tech field, having been around for a long time at some of the pype.dev [1] I’m in step with @pype [2] here, I really want beads to work for me, but my systems for infra/platform work are all over the place, not one repo. I’m considering trying the BEADS_DIR env var but idk if it fits my workflow. For now, similar to @pype [2], I am rocking my own home vibed solution that I’ve intentionally put little effort in and its working great and I expect it to be broken and not working with the latest harnesses and models within a few months anyways, cause there is no predicting this train. References: [1]: https://pype.dev/my-thoughts-on-beads/ [2]: https://pype.dev

paynepride dot com outage on vacation | Nic Payne The day after I leave for vacation I start getting SSL errors on every homelab service I host for myself and others. The culprit was my Cloudflare API token exp pype.dev [1] oof, outage on the homelab [2] during vacation, brutal. I can think of a couple of similar solutions to what @pype [3] has done to tailscale in, but I’m not sure that I could do this remotely. On one hand I’m so glad that cloudflared just takes care of certs on the other hand this really brings a gap in my understanding of what the heck I would do if it were broken. An untested DR plan is not a DR plan. An untested backup does not exist. References: [1]: https://pype.dev/paynepride-dot-com-outage-on-vacation/ [2]: /homelab/ [3]: https://pype.dev

- Vibe coding [1] is going so far into the news sphere now that Adam Savage even weighs in with perspectives from someone who has built a life around building things with his hands, keeping up with new making techniques, discovering old techniques as they combine with new. He talks about 3d printing reviving his love of the pantograph as one automation technique eases the most difficult part of another. References: [1]: /vibe-coding/