Today I Learned

- 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/

I just learned that forgejo has a push to create repo feature and it is a gamechanger. Upon first try it didn’t work, with just a couple of environment variables I was up and running with push to create. notify.wayl.one on  main is 📦 v0.1.62  v3.14.4 NO PYTHON VENV SET  USING SYSTEM NVIM ❯ git remote add origin https://git.waylonwalker.com/waylon/notify.wayl.one notify.wayl.one on  main is 📦 v0.1.62  v3.14.4 NO PYTHON VENV SET  USING SYSTEM NVIM ❯ git push remote: Push to create is not enabled for users. fatal: unable to access 'https://git.waylonwalker.com/waylon/notify.wayl.one/': The requested URL returned error: 403 So I added the following environment variables. Author: Waylon S. Walker <[email protected]> Date: Wed May 6 21:56:53 2026 -0500 enable push to create diff --git a/k8s/forgejo/deployment.yaml b/k8s/forgejo/deployment.yaml index d77daab..9346763 100644 --- a/k8s/forgejo/deployment.yaml +++ b/k8s/forgejo/deployment.yaml @@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ spec: value: "0.0.0.0" - name: FORGEJO__server__HTTP_PORT value: "3000" + - name: FORGEJO__repository__ENABLE_PUSH_CREATE_USER + value: "true" + - name: FORGEJO__repository__ENABLE_PUSH_CREATE_ORG + value: "tru...

nless is a seriously sick tui for exploring streaming data. It makes it seriously simple to pivot (U), drill in (Enter), sort (s). It leave breadcrumbs as you go and you can press q to back out. Play with your kubernetes events. Ya, my homelab [1] is far from perfect, dont judge. kubectl get events -A -w | uvx --from nothing-less nless ceda8873-cb08-4436-a3ac-b5bf4a0b2379.mp4 [2] References: [1]: /homelab/ [2]: http://dropper.wayl.one/file/ceda8873-cb08-4436-a3ac-b5bf4a0b2379.mp4

[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/

markata-go now has web awesome integration for image compare. It renders a nice web component with a slider to compare two images. It’s done with a class wrapper around the image components. ::: wa-comparison   ::: Without markata-go’s web awesome integration, the above would look like: <script type="module"> import 'https://ka-f.webawesome.com/[email protected]/components/comparison/comparison.js'; </script> <wa-comparison> <img slot="before" src="https://dropper.wayl.one/file/d628ffba-de18-4fff-91a8-700f037df119.webp" alt="Grayscale version of kittens in a basket looking around." /> <img slot="after" src="https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/ca30665f-1a15-453e-aab8-221901c7df99.webp" alt="Color version of kittens in a basket looking around." /> </wa-comparison>

Today I found a way to test model syntax, cause the clankers always get the exact model name that copilot wants wrong. copilot --model claude-sonnet-4.5 -p "Reply with OK" --allow-all --no-ask-user -s copilot --model gpt-5.4 -p "Reply with OK" --allow-all --no-ask-user -s

- 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&amp;list=PLoSp9yq_oDOdCOfCp_QTS017cjAi4Cv_0&amp;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/

Stow comes with a local and global ignore list that you can use to ignore certain files or directories. If you put Perl regular expressions, one per line, in a .stow-local-ignore file within any top level package directory, in which case any file or directory within that package matching any of these regular expressions will be ignored. In the absence of this package-specific ignore list, Stow will instead use the contents of ~/.stow-global-ignore, if it exists. If neither the package-local or global ignore list exist, Stow will use its own built-in default ignore list, which serves as a useful example of the format of these ignore list files: Example given from the docs RCS .+,v CVS \.\#.+ # CVS conflict files / emacs lock files \.cvsignore \.svn _darcs \.hg \.git \.gitignore \.gitmodules .+~ # emacs backup files \#.*\# # emacs autosave files ^/README.* ^/LICENSE.* ^/COPYING Reference # [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/manual/html_node/Types-And-Syntax-Of-Ignore-Lists.html References: [1]: #reference

- 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/