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I don’t run into windows file endings very often, so when I see little ^M’s all over your file, I think “shit I know what these are and cant remember” They represent the windows carriage return.

Linux vs Unix Line Endings #

The difference here is that Unix uses \n and Linux uses \r\n, going all the way back to the typewriter it represents the two keys that a typist would have to press to get a new line and return the carriage back to the beginning.

Vim/Neovim #

When I open up a file and see this garbage all over, its not cozy, I want them gone, I dont want them all over my editor. I’m not sure what this would look like on windows, I haven’t been able to afford a windows machine in years, but its gross on my machine.

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Remove them with a substitution command from normal mode.

:%s/\r//g

removing carriage returns with a substitution command

I ran into an issue where my pinentry was unable to connect, blocking me from doing commits. You can use this to continue signing commits.

export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
gpg-connect-agent updatestartuptty /bye

printf test | gpg \
  --local-user 9A47900E81415D65C32C630066E2BF2B4190EFE4 \
  --pinentry-mode loopback \
  --sign >/dev/nul
Sustainable Augmented Development • Kent Beck • YOW! 2025 youtube.com
Interesting thoughts from a real OG Kent Beck. He argues we are whitnissing the biggest advancement in computing in 40 years. For 40 years we have been almost exclusively writing in compiled languages. Languages that output to some sort of binary compiled assembly instructions for each processor type. Before that it was all hand written instructions directly to CPU. Now we are seeing the genie revolution. The genie is good a writing in many different programming languages given english prompts. It loves to complete problems and is not afraid to write lots of code very quickly. Its quite good at skirting around our best judgement in order to accomplish the goal we set. Some take aways from this talk is that NO ONE knows what the fuck is next. No one knows the best ways to use these things. Everyone has their own opinion wrapped around their experience that might be wildly different than yours. It seems clear this is changing every day and ways no one can measure, predict, or prepare for. So much sits in the hands of model labs and model providers. Without real access to any of it, its all magic.
got me my first set of akko rosewoods
got me my first set of akko rosewoods
The Internet I Grew Up With Doesn’t Exist Anymore - cleberg.net cleberg.net
I align a lot with this post. From growing up in a rural house where internet access was harder to get. It was slow and only had one line, if you were on the internet, no one in the house could recieve a phone call. Idk if what is now the smol webl, the indieweb, is seeing a resurgence, if I’m just noticing it more. It does feel like along there has been a very small number of users willing to get their own domain, their own server, and host their own shit. A few of these are starting to really break out occasionally, see things like wordle hitting mass adoptioun before being swooped up by a giant. I too miss the internet of old, heck I really dont even mind the middle era of fb, twitter, instagram dominance, but what we have now is dominated by political undertones on it all with everyone shouting “Fake News” at each other. These sites are the easiest place to stay in touch with those you have met online, yet they are riddled with so much toxicity its impossible to have a great experience on them. I’m about a year and a half of not having a single one on my phone, and at this point I barely log into them once a week. RSS is the way forward, as long as its not killed by paywalled s…

I’ve been running fedora coreos on my home servers for awhile. I really liked the stability I got from bazzite, and have since enjoyed the stability of fedora coreos. Since it’s an immutable system I’ve never quite known if I need to reboot or not, and was unsure how to check for updates. Today I learned you can use rpm-ostree status to see if your fedora coreos system is up to date.

rpm-ostree status

For me it listed security advisories with a count of each severity unknown, low, moderate, and important.

This morning I had a machine crash on me and came back to an error.

Error

zsh: corrupt history file /home/u_walkews/.zsh_history

Dammit I don’t want to redo my shell history, I checked with a clanker and they came up with this solution using strings that only prints printable characters.

cp ~/.zsh_history ~/.zsh_history.bak
mv ~/.zsh_history ~/.zsh_history.corrupt
touch ~/.zsh_history
chmod 600 ~/.zsh_history
strings ~/.zsh_history.corrupt > ~/.zsh_history
chmod 600 ~/.zsh_history
Fresh Marin
Marin refresh 2026 wen't so good, the bike now shifts through all of the gears super smooth and is an absolute joy to ride.
Into The Tunnel
Super cool tunnel on our bike ride feels like air conditioning even on the hottest days.
Entering The Tunnel
Some rich greenery surrounding a beautiful creek entering a long tunnel.
Fresh Marin In The Dark
Shot of the freshly rebuilt Marin Kentfield in the dark.
I Did One More Prompt To A Long Running Session A Day Later
I did one more prompt to a long running performance tuning session, that included many runs-reruns, and it took a chunk out of my 5 hour limit.

hmmm.

TIL, `?.` is sometimes pronounced as a `hmm dot`

Does codex change throughout the token usage window?

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.
T Handle Wire Puller In Action
T Handle Wire Puller in Action, sliding in to grab some fresh copper.
T Handle Wire Puller
T Handle Wire Puller, with just the right hook on the end, and filed down just thin enough to slip in and grab wire.

Keys.waylonwalker.com

Today I got sick of my go to online keyboard tester not supporting holds and fighting an issue with holds on one of my boards, I vibed out a replacement. I did a bit of work with it to get it how I wanted. gpt5.4 still likes to make lots of cards and build readable sites with a reasonable width for reading, not full page apps. keyboard tester A keyboard tester that works for me, how I like it keys.waylonwalker.com The main feature is to be able to see when alt+key or shift+key is pressed, the keyboard tester was not able to do this. I tend to use keyboard tester a lot as I build a lot of weird keyboards so I suspect this one to get a lot of use and may grow over time, but for now it works good enough for me. I can already think of a whole list of features like supporting keycodes for js, pygame, zmk, qmk. But for now I’m just building what I need and not overcomplicating it. test commit
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