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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

- 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.

- 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

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...

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

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/