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.
References:
[1]: https://social.ericwbailey.website/@eric/115100947111974331
Publishing rhythm
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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.
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.
References:
[1]: https://pype.dev/reflection-ai-work-and-adhd/
[2]: /im-out-on-agents/
I'm Out On Agents
Its the year 2025 and we are only a few years into having 6 months to live
before ai takes our jobs, and the big push right now is agents, managing
agents. I will fully concede to I’m not doing it right, or a future state gets
better than where we are right now, but right now they kinda suck.
Transparency
I’m sitting offline right now as I write this, These are my feels, no
research, no links, no ai, just vibes.
Chat # [1]
Chat is what really kicked off ai uses and goes back as old as computers, but
it always sucked. Then chatgpt rocked the world with the biggest launch day in
history and showed us that it could actually be pretty good. Unethically
trained on everything they could get their hands on, burning cities worth of
electricity to train, and keep training to stay ahead of the competition. It
does a damn good job. There are tells, and if you see enough of it there is a
lot that turns to slop, but if you had never seen it before, there is no way
you would assume that it wa...
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.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/cortesi/modd
[2]: https://github.com/casey/just
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.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker/zmk-config-42block/commit/2398fc73b247b9f491e14b605fef1c6910939298
Today I gave modd 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
2025-08-25 Notes
Gave modd a try and it seems pretty good, will likely be slotting it in next to my justfile usage.
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...
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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...
2025-08-23 Notes
Today, some great work on the knife sharpener re-design. I've been using the same one since I first got my ender 3 3d printer, and have wanted to make some...
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
2025-08-21 Notes
https://youtu.be/-EYRzF0zp3U?si=mKCPlMDecrqzvjuF
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.
References:
[1]: https://simplecto.com/search-needs-a-human-solution-a-manifesto/
[2]: /ai-slop/
[3]: https://simplecto.com/author/sam/
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.
References:
[1]: https://simplecto.com/you-should-be-hiring-mullets-write-that-down/
[2]: /perfect/
[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.
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
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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.
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This is a crazy theory I did not realize was out there, but damn power just keeps costing more and more. She does not mention it here, but there are many sources of power for the grid that cost vastly different amounts to produce, generally “clean energy” solutions are harder and more expensive to bring online and don’t just turn on and off at the flick of a switch. Anyways, how are the power companies divying this power out to users, do some get preferred rates or supply? My rates just went up for the summer period “temporarily”. Our infrastructure is aging hard to upgrade and needs something done to it. Who’s really going to pay for it, these AI companies are throwing big numbers but do they have any real money? Do they have any real revenue after building out massive data centers filling them with the most expensive hardware? These guys are burning cash like crazy.
Digitized Signatures
signature.cnrad.dev [1]
seriously cool dumb app that no one asked for but is really creative and unique.
[2]
References:
[1]: https://signature.cnrad.dev/
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/c87fdbe3-26f2-4f14-b4fb-7dc9b231e999.png
DHH (@dhh) on X
Rewiring your muscle memory for copy/paste when you go from Mac to Omarchy is an important rite of passage. Not friction to be whittled away. We need more rituals in society. More tokens of sacrifi...
X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
Today I learned that its spelled “Rite of Passage”, and is short for ritual. Mac has so many of these things that are just different, but do not let you reconfigure them and you are stuck with it. copy / paste I don’t get, the 3 times I’ve touched a mac since I was a kid its frustrated me. Is it lock in? or is it them actually thinking this is the right way and you all shall do as we say.
References:
[1]: https://x.com/dhh/status/1956645753255805151
2025-08-17 Notes
After a long time I begrudgingly setup window rules for hyprland. What I wanted was the ability to log out and jump back into work with a freshened work...
2025-08-16 Notes
[x] remove nextcloud - [x] pause photoprism - [x] pause syncthing - [x] move data to walkershare - [x] filepermissions 1000:1000 all of it - [x] organize how...
Performance Difference between RWX and RWO volumes · longhorn longhorn · Discussion #6964
Hey all, because of some internal testing I made a couple of experiments on our Cluster related to performance of RWX and RWO volumes. Because this might be of interest to some people I thought I s...
GitHub · github.com [1]
Interesting longhorn storage performance test, author does highlight right away that this is a simulation and not a REAL test. I did not fully understand the storage semantics before reading through this.
- RWO - Always presents a filesystem ext4 or xfs
- RWX/ROX - Always presents a network share nfs to the pod.
This is an important distinction for applications that use sqlite or a tool on top of sqlite such as diskcache. With sqlite it is not recomended to run over nfs due to missing required file locking mechanisms.
Longhorn storage still provides a lot of benefits to these applications as the storage is automatically replicated, if the node that your application is running on goes offline a new pod will start on an existing node. If you have planned downtime, you can cordon and drain a node. Since the data is available in another location you will be able to s...
2025-08-14 Notes
Huge progress on shots not to be confused with shots inspired by . I'm building out my own instagram grid design, right now its 4 wide, but I wonder if it...
If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on obsidian-livesync [1], created by vrtmrz [2].
No description available.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync
[2]: https://github.com/vrtmrz
I like syncthing’s [1] project syncthing [2].
Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
References:
[1]: https://github.com/syncthing
[2]: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing
2025-08-13 Notes
Inspired by Justin Searls Shots, I made started my own shots feed for self hosted Instagram style photos. The layout could use a lot of work, the feed seems...
2025-08-12 Notes
Sad day yesterday. We discovered that our freezer was left cracked over a day or so. Kids self serviced themselves to some sausage dogs at some point and...
trying forgejo
WIP
networks:
forgejo:
external: false
services:
server:
image: codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo:11
container_name: forgejo
environment:
- USER_UID=1000
- USER_GID=1000
restart: always
networks:
- forgejo
volumes:
- ./forgejo:/data
ports:
- '3000:3000'
- '2222:22'
docker-in-docker:
image: docker:dind
container_name: docker_dind
privileged: true
command: ["dockerd", "-H", "tcp://0.0.0.0:2375", "--tls=false"]
restart: unless-stopped
networks: [forgejo]
runner:
image: data.forgejo.org/forgejo/runner:4.0.0
container_name: forgejo-runner
user: "1001:1001"
depends_on:
- docker-in-docker
environment:
DOCKER_HOST: tcp://docker-in-docker:2375
volumes:
- ./runner-data:/data:Z,U # will hold .runner + cache
command: /bin/sh -c "while :; do sleep 1; done"
restart: unless-stopped
networks: [forgejo]
GitHub Ensloppification
The one where I say goodbye to GitHub
dbushell.com · dbushell.com [1]
David’s got me looking at Forgejo. I’ve seen a lot of GitHub jumpers just this week, and I’ve been tempted for a long time to self host one anyways, so it might be time. I don’t have hard issues with anything, I just like self hosting my own personal stuff.
On the flipside, I hope this does not turn yet another thing to shit. I lived through the download software from sourceforge and hope you get the right download now button and not the one from the virus ad. I’m not putting my really public/useful projects on a self hosted [2] platform… well not as the only source, I see how that comes off edgy. I like having some trust in the platform. Currently theres a lot of issues with M$ and GitHub using you for your data, but I don’t think injecting virus, malware, bitcoin miners is a worry I have coming from a GitHub release, unless it was put there by the author.
References:
[1]: https://dbushell.com/2025/08/11/github-ensloppification/
[2]: /self-host/
[1]
Great list of self hosted [2] markdown editors. Looking for a good one for my wife and family to use that does not look like editing code.
References:
[1]: /static/https://awesome-selfhosted.net/tags/note-taking--editors.html
[2]: /self-host/
Slops
AI-generated slop that I thought was worth sharing.
justin․searls․co · justin.searls.co [1]
Justin has such great feeds on his site, I love how the main feeds are so prominant just to the left of the article you are reading. slops in particular feels like a great category. Saving this chat for later, or found it particularly interesting, but don’t really want to make a post about it.
References:
[1]: https://justin.searls.co/slops/
noah (@noahsolomon) on X
this is about to be my go to on plane flights.
u don't need to pay for wifi since it's just a dns request which aren't gated behind a paywall
X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
kinda wild, you can chat with an ai bot over a dns request??
References:
[1]: https://x.com/noahgsolomon/status/1954035351510716670
Check out pythops [1] and their project impala [2].
🛜 TUI for managing wifi on Linux
References:
[1]: https://github.com/pythops
[2]: https://github.com/pythops/impala
iodine [1] by yarrick [2] is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves.
Official git [3] repo for iodine dns tunnel
References:
[1]: https://github.com/yarrick/iodine
[2]: https://github.com/yarrick
[3]: /glossary/git/