💭 Programming Sucks

Waylon Walker Author

May 8, 2026 1 min read

Programming Sucks

stilldrinking.org

Absolutely incredible, will fill some notes later

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

Latest Thoughts #

💭 Cloudflare cuts 1100

blog.cloudflare.com

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. 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/

💭 Programming Sucks

www.stilldrinking.org

Programming Sucks stilldrinking.org [1]

Absolutely incredible, will fill some notes later

Note

This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

References: [1]: https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

💭 Programming Still Sucks. — Writing

www.stvn.sh

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. 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

💭 Ghostty is leaving GitHub

news.ycombinator.com

Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub Mitchell Hashimoto · mitchellh.com Found on HN: discussion [1]

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

Note

This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

References: [1]: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github

💭 Red Squares — the GitHub outage graph

red-squares.cian.lol

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. 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

Recent Pings #

almost left tokens on the table #

Almost didn't get through those gippity tokens this week, woke up yesterday with 50% and a day to use them, cut full 5.4 loose on a big project that needs a lot of work an it gobbled em right up throughout the day ran out just before bed.

Can You Feel the Slop #

Do you ever vibe code out a POC, and you can just feel the shitty code underneath? Every change causes 3 things to break and wires get crossed all over the place. Sometimes I just want to write the code again. Maybe its time to slow down.

approve rm #

Hot take, if you are unwilling to approve rm you should rethink your workflow, git state, or backups.

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This is meant for normal project work with an agent working in the context of a single project, with directory level access to the project.

Ping 54 #

I'm regressing back to boomer ai for more plan mode style prompting at home... It does a decent job at ingesting a repo and coming up with plans before I start spending precious tokens.

Tokens Just don't go as far as they used to #

Not sure if this is simply the flavor of the month, or a shift in gpt5.4 being super subsidized on release and now that we have gpt5.4-mini-fast out they have shifted, but I'm burning through half of my $20 gippity sub in a day with hobby level use. Second week in a row its burning so fast.

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