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oof Mark, this does not feel like it is set to age well. These people in power feel so disconnected from regular people with a job trying to do work.
Thoughts
Link based "commentary" style posts, commenting on a web link
Publishing rhythm
The Website Specification
A platform-agnostic, full specification of the technical features a good website should have. Built in the open under an MIT licence.
The Website Specification · specification.website [1]
A solid checklist for agents to implement on most sites. Very few sites need 100% coverage, but most should probably check most of these boxes
References:
[1]: https://specification.website/
Revisiting the closed canon
A post I wrote in 2023, the closing of the canon, predicted that LLM answers would replace search results, dramatically lowering traffic to individual sites, thereby removing the incentives to eve...
Derek Kedziora · derekkedziora.com [1]
This is what makes rss so interesting to me. Its boring old tech that fell out of mainstream popularity years ago, yet many sites still support it. Not all, especially ones that come with a good dickover [2].
At the same time, it’s sad to see the human internet dying, even more quickly than before. Not only do we have rampant bots and sites seo maxxing to get to the top. We have ai search overview that answers mose simple questions pretty good, chat that does good, and agents at our fingertips. The need for tutorials is pretty much dead.
What we need now is human experiences shared and documented more than ever. I’ve been writing a whole lot less simply because this transition has been hard. Most of my pre 2024 posts were how to, notes for future me. Things so simple agents just spat out better versions in seconds these days with barely a question.
References:
[1]: https://derekkedziora.com/notes/revisiting-the...
On Rendering Diffs
A technical deep dive into how we built the @pierre/diffs package and CodeView component for zero-blanking diff rendering.
Pierre Computer Company · pierre.computer [1]
It’s incredible how some problems seem so simple until you load the browser with so much text it just bogs to nothing and how impossibly difficult it becomes after this point. Very cool implementation of a problem that…. who has this problem. If it takes me 2 mintues to scroll through a diff at mach speed like the video, is a diff going to solve my problem?
References:
[1]: https://pierre.computer/writing/on-rendering-diffs
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Remember this clip in 5 years, after the churn we just had with RTO and ai this is going to hit. Or AI will just figure is all out for us, who knows anymore. Not that they will figure out the human side, the what does this do, why is it here. A temporary fix is a clear signal to your other devs I didn’t have enough time to do it right, but this works. I think AI will squash a large number of these, especially in big coorporate internal tooling where you are trying to juggle as much as you can and just keep it a float at all times.
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How many people watching this sent their clankers out to make a uuid service for them as they were watching it. UUID as a service sounds great, heck @steipete just has to mention it and his claws are on it building out the service, no need to even type anything or directly form a thought, just mention it in the meeting and a new repo will be up by end of meeting.
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Incredibly well done satire on t3.gg, love the at one of the top comments is Prime asking to be done next.
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Lamb of God, a true classic, This album takes me back to high school. I don’t think I listened to the sacrament album as much, but “The Ashes of the Wake” was my jam for awhile, particularly hourglass.
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The 3 piece design for wheel s without a z-seam is absolutely genius. That is a sick trick. Love this guys style. Need a tool Make a tool.
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[1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/8b6f5e2d-f8f2-4ff8-9744-0812bff8879c.webp
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/34430a1b-cd5a-4762-89ca-d3428c70e20c.webp
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damn Johnathan Blow is not afraid to give you the cold hard opinions. If you want to be good you need to spend your early most formative years doing hard things, because you will not do it later, then goes on to say you should not do anything related to web development during that time as it will rot your brain.
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Thorsten is always a great listen with well thought out answers. I thought the advice “all you have to be is good” from his is so great, so many people focus too hard on credentials and certificates, they miss the time in the saddle and raw, just being good at what you do. They talk a lot about industry trends and that ai/llms have been here long enough to see that they are the new iphone. In some way you need to learn to work with them. Much of the minutia is churn, it will change and we will forget about it in six months. Working at amp right now is really trying to focus on releasing exactly the right thing and not everything. We’ve been given these great models that can churn out poc very quickly, it is our job to focus on what the right thing to adopt is.
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Thorsten is always a great listen with well thought out answers. I thought the advice “all you have to be is good” from his is so great, so many people focus too hard on credentials and certificates, they miss the time in the saddle and raw, just being good at what you do. They talk a lot about industry trends and that ai/llms have been here long enough to see that they are the new iphone. In some way you need to learn to work with them. Much of the minutia is churn, it will change and we will forget about it in six months. Working at amp right now is really trying to focus on releasing exactly the right thing and not everything. We’ve been given these great models that can churn out poc very quickly, it is our job to focus on what the right thing to adopt is.
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Hilarious ai episode of the office. all sort of flaws. nailed the personalities.
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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!
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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...
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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.
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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.
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.
References:
[1]: https://longplaytech.com/posts/how-to-install-silksong-mods-on-the-steam-deck/
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.
References:
[1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/
Programming Sucks
stilldrinking.org [1]
Absolutely incredible, will fill some notes later
References:
[1]: https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
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
References:
[1]: https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp
[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.
References:
[1]: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579
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.
References:
[1]: https://red-squares.cian.lol/
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579
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.
References:
[1]: https://pype.dev/desktop-crash-2026/
[2]: /homelab/
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.
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References:
[1]: https://artemistimeline.com/#jeremy-hansen-suited-up-and-ready
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/72dbd361-091e-4e3e-b965-bca6dd11e33e.webp
Hacker News RSS
hnrss.github.io [1]
hacker news rss feeds, Nice list of feeds to consider adding to your feed reader.
References:
[1]: https://hnrss.github.io/
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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.
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[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoQ6fUTuYvg&list=PLoSp9yq_oDOdCOfCp_QTS017cjAi4Cv_0&index=2
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The most iconic shots of a scrub ever caught on camera.
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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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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.
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[1]: /html/
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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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Feeling this today, feels like everything continues to get worse. Trying to be more positive, and its hard.
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.
References:
[1]: https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-04-12-write_it_first_then_let_ai_drive
ThePrimeagen (@ThePrimeagen) on X
I am slowly coming around to AI assisted programming.
I am genuinely trying to codify every rule about programming that I have and using that + several stages to build out small changes.
Not s…
X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
If agents make prime a bit faster, what does that mean for the rest of us mortals?
References:
[1]: https://x.com/ThePrimeagen/status/2043861800819761382
Uncle Bob Martin (@unclebobmartin) on X
@ThePrimeagen AIs aren’t good rule followers. The older the rule in the context window, the less priority it is given. So the best way to enforce the rules is with external tools that communicate...
X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
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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[1]: https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/2044065822067282396
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 [1]
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.
References:
[1]: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/13/steve-yegge/#atom-everything
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5 star video, if you are going to watch one video to understand how harnesses and agents work, this is it. This really had my gears spinning on what tools do for agents and how big of a difference they make in their ability to manage context efficiently and accurately create changes. It’s crazy how good bash works, and that gives the agents the ability to do just about everything, but it could be better.
Artemis II Lunar Flyby - NASA
The first flyby images of the Moon captured by NASA’s Artemis II astronauts during their historic test flight reveal regions of the Moon's far side, as well as an in-space solar eclipse. Released...
NASA · nasa.gov [1]
One of the biggest scientific achievement of our lifetime happened this week. I will forever remember sitting in a Culvers in between theater builds looking through these photos as they came live, looking at them in awe.
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One of the most famous images from the shoot “Setting Earth”
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[1]: https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/9987010a-a448-472d-9c60-2831b61a1d3a.webp
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What an amazing set of photos created by the Artemis II crew accompanying a fantastic breakdown by Hank Green.
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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/
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[1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/0b53a4ed-924e-42b5-84f4-51c189f60801.webp
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A really interesting long form interview with @simonwillison.net. 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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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Bush on tiny desk. Iconic band on an iconic platform. Will be re-listening to this several times.
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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/
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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.
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References:
[1]: https://x.com/ThePrimeagen/status/2038978962089492631
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/090f03b2-e6f5-4ede-a814-bfbb4e237b54.webp