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Og-Sample

I’m making an effort to make my og images better yet again, I’m going for that next 10% better. I really like my og images, but there are some title sizes that overflow. This page is a page to help debug. How I make these og images is for another day. Script # I use my own static site generator markata. I can use it to generate a list of posts wrapped in their og image. I use itertools to do a groupby so that I can do roughly every 5 characters larger, and see a wide variety of sizes. OG-Sample # shots # I also do Posts tagged: shots posts that change the og template quite a bit by adding the image to the page. I’ll do the same script, but add a filter to the images.
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Broodmother Ending
Broodmother
There’s an Actual Reason You Can’t Recycle Plastic - YouTube www.youtube.com
In all of the documentaries I’ve seen on how hard it is to recycle plastic, how hard it is to separate all the small pieces from each other, how expensive it is, dirty it is, how just plain ineffective we are at doing it I’ve never seen this angle. In a nutshell the other side of the equation is that as we pull natural gas out of shale is that we pull ethylene out as a byproduct. We don’t even ask for it, it just comes with the methane gas that we are going for. So as we drill, Frack, and mine this out to heat our homes and create electricity we are stuck with all of this ethylene. It’s terrible for the environment, just like methane it’s a rough greenhouse gas. Companies are allowed to flare off a certain amount, they can push some down the pipe, but are still left with tons leftover that they practically give away. Turns out that this stuff is very cheap and very much wants to be turned into plastic. Very clean food grade plastic, very easily and cheaply compared to recycling. Excess is a big problem that needs solutions, but it has hard problems at both ends of the situation that don’t make it easy for anyone trying to take care of it.
Faydown Cloak
feat: add llms.txt endpoint for LLM-optimized documentation by… github.com
feat: add llms.txt endpoint for LLM-optimized documentation by quantizor · Pull Request #2388 · tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com Add /llms.txt endpoint that serves a concatenated, text-only version of all Tailwind CSS documentation pages optimized for Large Language Model consumption. Extract text from MDX files, removing J… GitHub · github.com Damn this one is getting some reach, I’ve seen it from Simon Willison and Justin Searls and t3.gg. I feel for Adam, He has built a fantastic product that the world is running with, something we all needed. Something that everyone laughs at turns their nose up “ppft I don’t need that” the first time they see it, but once they try people get it, and a lot of them like it and keep it. But its something that no one really wants to pay for, no matter how big of products get built on it. As we see more and more features coming to css, its not stopping, the work will always be there. I really hope to see something happen to tailwind to keep it afloat. massive growth and revenue down 80% does not help.

2026 Resolutions

It’s that time of year, Coming back to work out of a big break and thinking about big changes. Daily Notes # Keep up with daily notes, maybe not here, I tend to have more targeted notes here with full blog posts, but for work daily notes is POG and needs to be leaned on. LLM’s do really good at ingesting markdown and reminding me of things that I need to do, or did, or need to follow up on. Reader # Social media is changing, quickly becoming enshitified, I enjoy interacting with some of the people I’ve met online, reading their opinions, and learning from their experiences. I don’t need their hot takes, don’t care about their political takes. I like boring posts that typically fade out of whats picked up on the algorithm. I like a good 5-10 minute read or a long form podcast talk. I will be aggressively collecting more rss feeds to read and keep up with. (Neo)Vim # I’ve had these bad habits in my config for years, from day one of using vim. It’s time to kill these.. I killed them this…
Photoshop for text — Steph Ango stephango.com
Photoshop for text In the near future, transforming text over an entire document will become as commonplace as filtering images. Steph Ango · stephango.com While the non deterministic nature of llms scare the heck out of me in the sense of just cutting it loose on my writing. letting it go through all of my files and just edit them. I do like the idea of mundane tools like “desaturate”, “Gaussian blur”, evolving out of it for text. I don’t yet see this with the tools we have now, but it will be interesting to see them evolve.
File over app — Steph Ango stephango.com
File over app If you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you... Steph Ango · stephango.com file over app is a fantastic philosophy laid out well and concisely documented very well in this post. The idea is that tools will change, we will want to use different tools, different editors, different computers over time. What’s likely to outlast everything is plain text files that we can interact with a wide variety of tools. Not encrypted in dedicated formats that die with our tools, but in plain text where a computer from 2160 is likey as capable of reading the file as one from 1960 would be.
Hornet On A Bench
Hornet sitting on a bench. I 3d printed, painted, and assembled this set. I really like how the bronze bench with gold highlights turned out. The distressing on her nail and dress look great in person, and don't come through the best the way the image is lit.
⭐ tpope vim-speeddating
I recently discovered vim-speeddating by tpope, and it’s truly impressive. speeddating.vim: use CTRL-A/CTRL-X to increment dates, times, and more
Kickflip down the 3 set using my new hand made 5 ply fingerboard.
I’m Loving These Akko Creamy Yellow V3s
my latest porta john full mx build with Akko Creamy Yellow V3s installed on the right side and a hodge podge of Durock Lupine and kaihl browns on the left.
The most popular blogs of Hacker News in 2025 simonwillison.net
The most popular blogs of Hacker News in 2025 Michael Lynch maintains HN Popularity Contest, a site that tracks personal blogs on Hacker News and scores them based on how well they perform on that platform. The engine behind … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net Congrats Simon! Well deserved metric for the level of content that he produces, Its remarkable the amount of high quality posts that come out of Simon Willison. Also this looks like a really great resource to find other high quality blogs that I have not read before.

Today I discovered vim-speeddating by tpope. I’m sure I’ve seen years ago but it did not click for my workflow until today. I often go through pictures from my phone for the past few days and make Posts tagged: shots posts, but I want to date them to about when the image was taken most of the time. This allows me to quickly bump days up and down using c-a and c-x even around the new year.

Sound on, listen to those new switches.

A collection of custom mechanical keyboard keycaps, including several sets of purple, white, and other colored keycaps, are arranged on a wooden desk surface
A collection of custom mechanical keyboard keycaps, including several sets of purple, white, and other colored keycaps, are arranged on a wooden desk surface.

new keeb so good

New keeb feeling so good I don't want to leave it. I'm going to go from having my worse favorite at work, to having my new favorite at work. ![image](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/9cf75771-e3a5-428f-a3a9-0e32fda0e037.webp)
⭐ steveyegge gastown
I’m really excited about gastown, an amazing project by steveyegge. It’s worth exploring! Gas Town - multi-agent workspace manager

Yesterday I wrote about a way to do light mode screen recording to convert to light mode from dark mode with ffmpeg. I was wondering if it could be done entirely on the front end for web applications. Turns out you can. I’m sure there are limited wikis and site builders that don’t allow adding style like this, but it works if you can.

<video
    src="https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/1c53dbcb-4b84-4e94-9f04-a42986ab3fa1.mp4?width=800"
    controls
    style="filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) contrast(1.2) saturate(1.1);"
    >

<!--markata-attribution-->
</video>

0 deg hue rotate

90 deg hue rotate

180 deg hue rotate

270 deg hue rotate

⭐ ThePrimeagen 99
Check out 99 by ThePrimeagen. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential. Neovim AI agent done right
Portajohn3 Ironing Issues
I turned on ironing on the Portajohn3 print and it did not turn out good
Portajohn3 Keyboard Plate
A black keyboard plate with multiple switch sockets, awaiting switches and PCB.

I saw this tip from Cassidoo and had to try it out for myself. I kicked on a screen recording right from where my terminal was, converted it, and it actually looks pretty good.

ffmpeg \
   -i screenrecording-2026-01-01_10-10-49.mp4 \
   -vf "negate,hue=h=180,eq=contrast=1.2:saturation=1.1" \
   screenrecording-2026-01-01_10-10-49-light.mp4

Dark Mode

Light Mode

There are a few unsettling things about it, but overall I feel like it was a success.

Custom Keyboard Keycaps and 3D Printer
Portajohn3 on the printer
My First Hand Pressed Fingerboard Complete
My first hand pressed fingerboard with teak tuning trucks. It has a purple bottom layer. Sitting on the bottom of a 3-stair.
New Dart Board In The Basement
I got a new dart board in the basement for Christmas, It's been super fun to play with the kids. We are getting a pretty good setup down there.
First Fingerboard In The Press
5 layers of plywood pressed into a 3d printed fingerboard press.
Garmond And Zaza
RAM Prices Are Getting Worse - YouTube www.youtube.com
I actually like linus’s take here. My parents dropped $4k (~$8k in todays money) on a computer when I was a kid, (which turned into something too $$ to let me touch at that point). I played some educational games that no one else has heard of and I’ve long forgotten along with an early ciivilization game. It was e-waste in 2 years we maybe kept it 5, and it was barely working. Contrast this to my PC now I spent $2k on 3 years ago refurb from 2017, and it has no signs of age from me, does everything I need it to. Ram crisis sucks, the outright reason behind it sucks. But on the bright side you can still get a baller build for less than you could late 90s without inflation. The industry is not there for consumers right now, we had better times, but its still not bad times. Keep the hope alive that good times will come.
Smartphones are black holes kerkour.com
Smartphones are black holes They can bend spacetime without you even realizing it. People often get offended when I tell them that I don&#39;t have a phone, thinking that I&#39;m lying and I just Sylvain Kerkour · kerkour.com This sounds great…. I’m sick AF right now and dont want to do anything but watch YouTube, and let opencode do my work.
Simon Says Bell Ending
Simon Says Bell
Using stderr/stdout correctly - YouTube youtu.be
Yeah there’s some basics, you know things you might expect like using standard error and standard out correctly. One thing I’ll say on that because I think this is commonly misunderstood, standard error is not for errors, it’s for any information that isn’t part of the normal output. So you know often times that’s warnings and errors, but it might just be progress information. You know anytime that you just need to have something go to the user that’s what it’s there for." (6:15 - 6:42) I’ve definitely done this sin in my own tooling before, and it does make things harder to use. I think I still take err/out at face value. I really like the translation Jeff gave here, one is for normal output, i.e. what the user asked for and the other is extra information. So if I wanted to list something and pipe it into something else, stdout only captures the list, thats it. if you have a bunch of information about config warnings, showing environment, are you sure questions, none of that is captured.
Codeium Is Cooked
Codeium what are you doing? It's spamming I'm a little bit of a nerd in the completion.

I’ve found Gemini to be very useful lately, especially for finding information within long form content.

When writing thought-896, I wanted to use a direct quote from Jeff Dickey, Gemini popped it out very quickly.

give me a quote from jeff just before the timestamp I'm at the interviewer
asked what makes a good cli and he started talking about stdout/stderr

In another case, my wife and I are huge Good Eats fans. Alton Brown taught us how to cook during college and on. We watched every single good eats episode nearly 10 years after they aired. He is back with some updates to those those shows on his Youtube. Gemini gives very good detailed responses with timestamps.

Alton Brown had a recent YouTube video for cooking turkey. Can you get the
instructions from the video?

Ping 15

[mise](https://mise.jdx.dev/getting-started.html) looks like what I wanted nix to be for me.

Mise looks promising

I've been all in on just for a while now, but mise looks so good it might be my next move.
Phantom End
Phantom Fight
Phantom
⭐ Maxteabag sqlit
Maxteabag has done a fantastic job with sqlit. Highly recommend taking a look. A user friendly TUI for SQL databases. Written in python. Supports SQL server, Mysql, PostreSQL and SQLite, Turso and more.
⭐ webinstall webi-installers
webi-installers by webinstall is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves. Primary and community-submitted packages for webinstall.dev
Fixing The Marquee For Jolly Holiday
Waylon up at the Marquee of the theater fixing the fallen letters before the night show.
You Might Also Like: My Notes Blog - Jim Nielsen’s Blog blog.jim-nielsen.com
You Might Also Like: My Notes Blog If you subscribe to this blog, you must like it — right? I mean, you are subscribed to it. And if you like this blog, you might also like my notes blog. It’s… blog.jim-nielsen.com I really like a good link blog, it’s the old timers version of a reaction video. It gives me new posts to discover from other writers, and gives additional perspectives from ones I trust enough to add to my RSS. It’s nice to have a place where I can jot down a few notes, fire off my reaction, and nobody can respond to it lol. At least, not in any easy, friction-less way. You’d have to go out of your way to read my commentary, find my contact info, and fire off a message (critiquing or praising). That’s how I like it. Cuts through the noise. Ditto Jim. I’ve oddly found mine more useful to search than blog posts, zettlekaten, notes, whatever you want to call them. For me writing something down makes it more concrete in my brain that I’m less likely to need to go reference, but I often need to re read or references posts from others, this is where Thoughts comes in handy for me Like Jim I have a bunch of feeds you can subscribe to if you want some or all of my stuff, but I…

Gross phone

Is there a world that giving my phone to my kids does not result in it being covered in peanut butter and snot?