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thinking about headlines

2026-08-07T02:16:17Z

I updated plaindown to support cool heading formats, and I’m digging it, markata you are next. Time to make the web weird again and really start writing more again.

The code to make it easy ^fun^ to write #

Here’s the markdown that wrote it followed by the output here.

# Build **good places** for _interesting people_.

## Make room for ==the weird idea.==

Some normal paragraph text between headings.

## Build a `personal web` that feels ^**yours**^.

More ordinary prose.

## Follow the [~small~ web](https://waylonwalker.com), not the cr^owd^.

## Make a ~~perfect~~ memorable site.

## Leave space for ==**strange little ideas.**==

## Sometimes the ~~obvious answer~~ ==weird answer== is the interesting one.

## A **good theme** makes _quiet words_, `technical words`, and ==loud words== belong together.

## ==A highlighted phrase can be long enough to wrap onto another line and test the highlight background.==

## Make a [**~small~ corner of the web**](https://waylonwalker.com) that feels _like yours._

## Chemistry should still work: H~2~**O** and x^2^

## Keyboard syntax should still work: ++Ctrl+C++

Build good places for interesting people. #

Make room for the weird idea. #

Some normal paragraph text between headings.

Build a `personal web` that feels ^yours^. #

More ordinary prose.

Follow the small web, not the cr^owd^. #

Make a perfect memorable site. #

Leave space for strange little ideas. #

Sometimes the obvious answer weird answer is the interesting one. #

A good theme makes quiet words, `technical words`, and loud words belong together. #

A highlighted phrase can be long enough to wrap onto another line and test the highlight background. #

Make a small corner of the web that feels like yours. #

Chemistry should still work: H2O and x^2^ #

Keyboard syntax should still work: `Ctrl`+`C` #

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2026-07-31T21:54:11Z

Human say few word, machine make big wow

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2026-07-13T07:22:58Z

Usage Resets??

Apparently you can use a reset to completely reset your codex usage limits. I never knew these existed and apparently I have some expiring soon. Not sure if they auto apply and this is why I get the weirdest reset experience on the usage chart or what.

I have 3? they expire soon, how many have I missed out on.

One time only

hmmm.

2026-06-22T19:50:49Z

TIL, ?. is sometimes pronounced as a hmm dot

Does codex change throughout the token usage window?

2026-06-21T19:50:49Z

Is it me or can you feel the 5 hour and weekly limit of codex nearing. It feels like it slowly stops working tasks to completion and asking to continue. I nearly start yelling into the enter, “YES, DO WHAT WE AGREED ON, STOP ASKING” then I notice I’m in the single digits of remaining window left.

Mythos gone already

2026-06-13T08:32:03Z

Mythos released days ago, now its gone, before most of us were allowed to touch it.

just good enough

2026-06-10T21:00:55Z

I built shit on the web before AI, some of it was okay, some I put a lot of time into, but some was just really shitty. Done just well enough to get the job done. All of it had to be written by hand or copy pasted from stack overflow. It was a lot of fun. Now we have a new level of shitty, it looks fine. It looks like it should work good. None of it is just barely good enough, nearly browser default style anymore.

Flowing Thoughts Ai To Help Blast Radius

2026-05-29T17:41:35Z

Not sure how this matters to anyone else, but I’m sitting in the car and letting the thoughts flow.

I’m having really interesting conversations with ai recently. Like things I never thought I would care this deeply about. In part because it feels like the vulns are coming faster and harder, and in part because it is really enabling me to invest some time into the development that I would not otherwise have. I’m thinking about least privilege, reducing dependencies in containers, limiting pod access to the Internet and other pods. Reducing the blast radius.

Now I’ve always been hesitant to bring in new dependencies. I’ve always tried to strip to the lowest possible dependency set n my containers, but I would also re-use the main server container to run cron job workflows. I wasn’t giving much thought about what services they could access, or their internet access

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2026-05-23T20:28:48Z

“All you have to be is good”

source

Not sure if this is a quote from somewhere but thought it was some interesting advice that @thorstenball received when he was starting into web development. He asked a friend already in the industry if he thought he had a shot. He had no degree, no credentials, no experience at the time.

remember rule 4

2026-05-20T20:39:22Z

I almost for got Rules 4 today, rollout when smooth late in the day right before a vacation day (terrible time to deploy I admit not my clearest plan). Race conditions are a b****, all around on this one. The app I was concerned about won the race to deploy first and was fine by itself, then another app had a race condition inside itself that killed it

almost left tokens on the table

2026-05-05T07:33:20Z

Almost didn’t get through those gippity tokens this week, woke up yesterday with 50% and a day to use them, cut full 5.4 loose on a big project that needs a lot of work an it gobbled em right up throughout the day ran out just before bed.

Can You Feel the Slop

2026-04-26T12:38:58Z

Do you ever vibe code out a POC, and you can just feel the shitty code underneath? Every change causes 3 things to break and wires get crossed all over the place. Sometimes I just want to write the code again. Maybe its time to slow down.

approve rm

2026-04-21T12:17:22Z

Hot take, if you are unwilling to approve rm you should rethink your workflow, git state, or backups.

Note

This is meant for normal project work with an agent working in the context of a single project, with directory level access to the project.

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2026-04-19T09:54:48Z

I’m regressing back to boomer ai for more plan mode style prompting at home… It does a decent job at ingesting a repo and coming up with plans before I start spending precious tokens.

Tokens Just don't go as far as they used to

2026-04-18T12:17:22Z

Not sure if this is simply the flavor of the month, or a shift in gpt5.4 being super subsidized on release and now that we have gpt5.4-mini-fast out they have shifted, but I’m burning through half of my $20 gippity sub in a day with hobby level use. Second week in a row its burning so fast.

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2026-04-17T21:19:58Z

Is it just me or are the agents not behaving today?

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2026-04-15T21:11:58Z

I wrote code by hand today… I was out of tokens

Prove Yourself Agent

2026-04-14T16:12:04Z

Ask your agents to prove their work. Include it in the initial prompt, not later.

What happens when the 0 days are exposed?

2026-04-13T16:12:04Z

What’s going to happen to all of our software when Anthropic Mythos finds all of the 0 day vulnerabilities? Will everything depending on the bugs break? Will it be possible to fix them cleanly? Will we all get pwnd when the bad actors get access to them before everything is patched? Will LTS Operating Systems Die?

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2026-04-08T16:12:32Z