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Vertical combos are dumb, this makes way more sense. · WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block@48c30d2 Contribute to WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com [1] This commit to my keymap gets rid of vertical combos, those were a bad idea to me. Maybe I didnt give it a shot, but hitting two keys at once on purpose with the same finger is a skill, one that I don’t have. This change maps those symbols so that they work as a combo or layer switch, so getting the layer key in first does it by layer, but pressing them at the same time gives me the combo, kinda feels genius. We will see how it goes. 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://github.com/WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block/commit/48c30d2ee4efcdd08266093b5ce79bba5730e6f0 [2]: /thoughts/

Let's Make Sure Github Doesn't Become the only Option - Edward Loveall blog.edwardloveall.com [1] This post is a masterclass in blogging, cross linking, backing up your ideas with posts from other great sources. I have a week of reading inside this post, and need to come back later when Im not sick. 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.edwardloveall.com/lets-make-sure-github-doesnt-become-the-only-option [2]: /thoughts/

- I’m playing through peak right now with Wyatt and it is a great game, a small wholesome indiegame that is legit hard, but fun with the simplest concept. You are a scout who has crashlanded on an island, your goal is to get to the peak with your friends. You must manage hunger, stamina, weight, health and energy. You have limited resources and must help everyone to the top, if someone is low on stamina, they are going to need a helping hand or a stonger climber to go up and set pitons and ropes. Its a fantastic collaborative play game PEAK - 2025-08-27 8-49-54 PM.mp4 [1] a short clip of me playing with wyatt, I did not have anything great to add, but this is just a random clip Ripped off # [2] It was insta-ripped off by roblox with microtransactions pay to win garbage. It looks one for one the same damn models and interface, they spared nothing at making it look exactly like the original. They let you buy a golden apple assuming it gives you crazy stamina to climb with ease, and it costs goddam robux. As Big A says here theres nothing they can really do, the roblox platform just lets this happen, and if they didn’t they would loose huge revenue because this is so prevelant....

Explore Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job. Forgejo · git.dbushell.com [1] damn david has been busy, this is sick seeing all of the repos, I’m ready to jump in! 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://git.dbushell.com/explore/repos [2]: /thoughts/

Eric (@[email protected]) This was pushed out with a rushed security review, a coerced and unwilling engineering team, and in full opposition to our supposed company values. If you don't want it, tell them. Social media … Mastodon · social.ericwbailey.website [1] damn, M$ really pushing hard on moving github into the ai org. 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://social.ericwbailey.website/@eric/115100947111974331 [2]: /thoughts/

- This man feels sad, he never had a chance to bloom. He was stuck behind the drudgery of jira tickets. This is what the consultant driven agile has got us. Its ripped out all the thinking and creativity, its left us with moving tickets across the board, not allowed time to run on an idea when we have one. Not allowed to do extra work or refactoring in a module that we are already in. pushed to move faster for less. I feel like this mans experience has been quite different from my own and I’m grateful to have some leeway to be creative and do some meaningful work outside the jira board. I’m grateful to be able to provide a good income for my family without taking on all the risk myself. 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/

Reflection - AI Work and ADHD | Nic Payne Reflection It's time to be more devoted to my work... AI has been a cool technology to watch and experience but one thing I'm allowing it to do to me pype.dev [1] Crazy that we wrote such similar posts on the same day independantly, I just wrote I'm Out On Agents [2] sitting offline in a doctor office. The two pull out’s are very good, “AI is not magic, it’s a headache”. By definition AI is magic to the vast majority of people, but funny how true this is. “When I finish tasks, I’m not fulfilled… if anything I’m relieved.” I just wrote something very similar, maybe this feeling can be used for guidance to when to use AI. When you complete this task will you feel relieved its over? Is it a chore? or creative work you want to accomplish. 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/reflection-ai-work-and-adhd/ [2]: /im-out-on-agents/ [3]: /thoughts/

I like ChrisBuilds’s [1] project terminaltexteffects [2]. TerminalTextEffects (TTE) is a terminal visual effects engine, application, and Python library. References: [1]: https://github.com/ChrisBuilds [2]: https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects

I recently discovered python-socketio [1] by miguelgrinberg [2], and it’s truly impressive. Python Socket.IO server and client References: [1]: https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/python-socketio [2]: https://github.com/miguelgrinberg

GitHub - cortesi/modd: A flexible developer tool that runs processes and responds to filesystem changes A flexible developer tool that runs processes and responds to filesystem changes - cortesi/modd GitHub · github.com [1] Gave modd a try today, and I like it, its something I am going to consider slotting right into my justfiles [2]. Gave it a try and it seems to work really well out of the box and easy to configure. 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://github.com/cortesi/modd [2]: https://github.com/casey/just [3]: /thoughts/

combos only on default layer · WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block@2398fc7 Contribute to WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com [1] Fighting some parens in hollow knight lead me to subtle little pauses when playing, I’m swapping combos to only work on the default layer, except for grave, I must have it for minecraft. 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://github.com/WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block/commit/2398fc73b247b9f491e14b605fef1c6910939298 [2]: /thoughts/

Today I gave modd [1] a try, and it seems like a good file watcher executor. I tried using libnotify to send desktop notifications, but all I got was modd, I might not have notifications setup right on the awesomewm machine. config goes in modd.conf **/*.py { # check formatting via ruff prep: ruff format --check . # check docstring formatting prep: pydocstyle . # # # check type hints via ty prep: ty check . # # # run linter via ruff prep: ruff check . } I installed it using installer from jpillora, pulling pre-built binaries right out of the github repo. curl https://i.jpillora.com/cortesi/modd | bash Then you can install it, and on file change it will run the commands you configured. modd References: [1]: https://github.com/cortesi/modd

THE_DEATH_OF_THE_USER_INTERFACE.md [1] markdown # The Death of the User Interface > **TL;DR:** We're witnessing the end of graphical user interfaces. AI agents like Claude Code are eliminating the need for windows, menus, and clicks, replacing them with natural language. The computer is finally learning to speak human, not the other way around. --- ## 🔮 A Personal Revelation Last week, I realized something profound: **I haven't opened Finder in months.** Not once. Where I once clicked through nested folders, dragged and dropped files, and navigated hierarchical menus, I now simply tell Claude Code exactly what I need: - _"Find all the test files modified in the last week"_ - _"Move the old backups to archive"_ The commands execute instantly, precisely, without me ever seeing a window, icon, or folder. > This isn't just about convenience. It's a fundamental shift in how humans interact with computers, and it signals the beginning of the end for user interfaces as we know them. --- ## 🚴 → 🚀 The Bicycle That Became a Teleporter In 1990, Steve Jobs famously described computers as "bicycles for the mind," drawing from a Scientific American study showing that humans on bi...

- Damn, social media is at an all time low. I’ve felt all of these issues and when I got a new phone I started fresh, I didn’t install one social media app. Luckily Youtube has remained solid for me. Yes shorts are a bit less what I came for and more addicting content they had to do in order to keep up. There are some legit good commedians, a bit of good knowledge and a bunch of trash that is hard to look away from on shorts. I still find myself able to find content I enjoy and signed up for on YouTube. I feel like I get a one way relationship with someone similar to a TV show or news anchor of old media. Social Media has morphed from follows likes and similar, to viral posts by creators I don’t recognize. posting and immediately getting like by two hot women with accounts created this week. The rest of the real creators left on there are stuck trying to keep up, echo viral trends, trying to keep up the content treadmill. A few come through, but most feel somewhat forced. A lot of it is ai generated, and whats not mostly doesn’t feel that human anyways. The people on here seem to really tie the internet to social media and are ready to quit the internet. I think there is more...

Today I needed to make a backup of some config. I wanted to add a timestamp so that I knew when the backup was made. This would make unique backups easy, and I could tell when they were made. cp configfile configfile.backup.$(date %s) If you want to decrypt the timestamp into something more human readable. You can list backup files, strip out the timestamp, and then convert it to a human readable date. /bin/ls | grep backup | sed 's/configfile.backup.//' | xargs -I {} date -d @{} or just throw it to the date command by hand. date -d @1755895402

Search Needs a Human Solution: A Manifesto When was the last time you felt genuine discovery on the internet? Not algorithmic recommendations. Not SEO-optimized listicles. I mean real, surprising, meaningful discovery. Search is brok… Candid and colorful thoughts on enterprise readiness · simplecto.com [1] The hype bro influencer culture is over, we are fucking burnt the fuck out. I’m done scrolling through ai slop [2] on social media, I like in a few times a week with hopes to see some friends at the top of my feed and jump out. The Doom and Gloom of politics, everyone has a side that will bring glory and the other side will start an apocalypse did me in, ai generated bs is just driving those platforms further into the ground, I’m tired and done. I’m starting to lean into RSS, I hope for projects like Sam [3] mentions here make this more possible for the average person. I hope that real people make awesomelists like he mentions. I hope that the internet becomes more human again. Note This post is a thought [4]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://simplecto.com/search-needs-a-human-solution-a-manifesto/ [2]: /...

You Should Be Hiring Mullets. (write that down) Not because it's cool (it is), but because it's what your company actually needs right now. "Business in the front, party in the back" isn't just some throwback style. It's the whole point. In ou… Candid and colorful thoughts on enterprise readiness · simplecto.com [1] We need more mullets (as sam describes them). Not so serious, but serious when it counts. Ready to back you up, get some shit shipped, roll up their sleeves and do the work, stand up in front of people and pitch ideas. We have too many hustle bros pitching shit they cant do, ai doomers who have been here 10 minutes think they can replace everything they don’t understand with a word calculator, framework Andys afraid to ship till its perfect [2]. Grow a Mullet. 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://simplecto.com/you-should-be-hiring-mullets-write-that-down/ [2]: /perfect/ [3]: /thoughts/

[1] The most under hyped, under engineered text editor overtype. Going to be popping this into some places like Thoughts [2], and maybe more, looks small and easy to use. Gives just a bit of nice features over a text editor. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /static/https://overtype.dev/?utm_source=waylonwalker.com [2]: /thoughts/

The work on overtype [1] by panphora [2]. The markdown editor that’s just a textarea https://overtype.dev References: [1]: https://github.com/panphora/overtype [2]: https://github.com/panphora

- Damn this VAnessa is hitting my feed with hard topics, I’m not sure whether to subscribe or to block. These top websites only feel worse every day, when I post on twitter and I get 4 likes by accounts that were created 5 minutes ago with racy profile pics it feels obvious. I wonder how larger accounts deal with it. Now that llms have made making these bots mimic humans easy It really makes you want out. I’ve really become a curmudgeon and leaning on rss over the past year, I dont like it, but idk what to do. 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/