{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "Thoughts", "home_page_url": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thoughts-feed/", "feed_url": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thoughts-feed/feed.json", "description": "Link based \"commentary\" style posts, commenting on a web link", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker" } ], "items": [ { "id": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1025/", "url": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1025/", "title": "Blogging and blog setups — baty.net", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\"\u003e\n \u003ca class=\"embed-card-link\" href=\"https://baty.net/notes/2026/08/blogging-and-blog-setups/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-image\"\u003e\n \u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://baty.net/img/opengraph.jpg\" alt=\"Blogging and blog setups — Jack Baty\u0026#39;s blog — posts, journal, notes.\" loading=\"lazy\"/ data-glightbox=\"description: Blogging and blog setups — Jack Baty\u0026#39;s blog — posts, journal, notes.\"\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eBlogging and blog setups\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-description\"\u003eJack Baty\u0026#39;s blog — posts, journal, notes.\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003ebaty.net · baty.net\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDamn this hits. I’m trying to change it up, but I’m far on the right. constantly greasing the pipeline and writing about it. or lately just not writing at all.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/43533900-fc9f-4dcb-842f-207d8154aa70.webp\" class=\"glightbox-link\" aria-label=\"image\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/43533900-fc9f-4dcb-842f-207d8154aa70.webp\" alt=\"image\"/ data-glightbox=\"description: image\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003cfigcaption\u003e\u003cp\u003eShots fired from \u003ca href=\"https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/\" style=\"--favicon-url: url(\u0026#39;/assets/markata/link-avatars/rakhim.org.png\u0026#39;);\" data-favicon=\"/assets/markata/link-avatars/rakhim.org.png\" class=\"has-avatar has-avatar-before\"\u003eRakhim\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\"\u003e\n \u003ca href=\"https://baty.net/notes/2026/08/blogging-and-blog-setups/\" class=\"embed-card-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-image\"\u003e\n \u003cimg src=\"https://baty.net/img/opengraph.jpg\" alt=\"Blogging and blog setups — Jack Baty\u0026#39;s blog — posts, journal, notes.\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eBlogging and blog setups\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-description\"\u003eJack Baty\u0026#39;s blog — posts, journal, notes.\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003ebaty.net \u0026middot; baty.net\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nDamn this hits. I'm trying to change it up, but I'm far on the right. constantly greasing the pipeline and writing about it. or lately just not writing at all.\n\n![image](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/43533900-fc9f-4dcb-842f-207d8154aa70.webp)\nShots fired from [Rakhim](https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/)\n", "summary": "!https://baty.net/notes/2026/08/blogging-and-blog-setups/", "date_published": "2026-08-08T23:03:05Z", "date_modified": "2026-08-08T23:03:05Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "blog", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1024/", "url": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1024/", "title": "Heart of Mycelium - Gameplay Trailer - YouTube", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"JBGhVcF3OJc\" title=\"Heart of Mycelium - Gameplay Trailer\" playlabel=\"Play: Heart of Mycelium - Gameplay Trailer\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI really like the art style of this game. Love that someone is making something Hollow Knight like in their own style. The bosses though… oddly a little close to hollow knight characters.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/e13a0d9a-a012-49a9-b7ab-e3fb9c4d3e84.webp\" class=\"glightbox-link\" aria-label=\"image\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/e13a0d9a-a012-49a9-b7ab-e3fb9c4d3e84.webp\" alt=\"image\"/ data-glightbox=\"description: image\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003cfigcaption\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose flowers\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/f3366447-2474-40e5-b1bb-ac136464f70d.webp\" class=\"glightbox-link\" aria-label=\"image\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/f3366447-2474-40e5-b1bb-ac136464f70d.webp\" alt=\"image\"/ data-glightbox=\"description: image\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003cfigcaption\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow is this not one of the city guards\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"JBGhVcF3OJc\" title=\"Heart of Mycelium - Gameplay Trailer\" playlabel=\"Play: Heart of Mycelium - Gameplay Trailer\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nI really like the art style of this game. Love that someone is making something Hollow Knight like in their own style. The bosses though... oddly a little close to hollow knight characters.\n\n![image](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/e13a0d9a-a012-49a9-b7ab-e3fb9c4d3e84.webp)\nThose flowers\n\n![image](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/f3366447-2474-40e5-b1bb-ac136464f70d.webp)\nHow is this not one of the city guards\n", "summary": "!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBGhVcF3OJc", "date_published": "2026-08-06T13:35:21Z", "date_modified": "2026-08-06T13:35:21Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "gaming", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1023/", "url": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1023/", "title": "The Truth About Turning Your Hobby Into a Job", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"oMnpatXgMzU\" title=\"The Truth About Turning Your Hobby Into a Job\" playlabel=\"Play: The Truth About Turning Your Hobby Into a Job\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInteresting tangent here on sleep, Adam talks about jet lag and his experience taking abien to shift his sleep schedule. In his experience it helped fix the sleep schedule, but did nothing to change how he actually felt during that time of re orienting in a new drastically different time zone. He was reminded of all of the sleep studies they did on mythbusters and how they found that it did not matter so much how much “sleep” you got that lying there still and quiet was nearly as effective as sleeping. Knowing this will, like others mentioned, will greatly relieve the sleep pressure I feel on nights of restlessness.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"oMnpatXgMzU\" title=\"The Truth About Turning Your Hobby Into a Job\" playlabel=\"Play: The Truth About Turning Your Hobby Into a Job\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nInteresting tangent here on sleep, Adam talks about jet lag and his experience taking abien to shift his sleep schedule. In his experience it helped fix the sleep schedule, but did nothing to change how he actually felt during that time of re orienting in a new drastically different time zone. He was reminded of all of the sleep studies they did on mythbusters and how they found that it did not matter so much how much \"sleep\" you got that lying there still and quiet was nearly as effective as sleeping. Knowing this will, like others mentioned, will greatly relieve the sleep pressure I feel on nights of restlessness.\n", "summary": "!https://youtube.com/watch?v=oMnpatXgMzU\u0026is=Hc3yGTgzP2WsRQBi", "date_published": "2026-08-04T15:31:00Z", "date_modified": "2026-08-04T15:31:00Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "life", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1022/", "url": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1022/", "title": "Pipes: Blocking Communication - YouTube", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"BG4tjLZ7G1Q\" title=\"Pipes: Blocking Communication\" playlabel=\"Play: Pipes: Blocking Communication\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI had no idea how these pipes work, I’ve accidentally spawned so many that have sat there and waited for something to come down the pipe, but did not know this is what was happening.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"BG4tjLZ7G1Q\" title=\"Pipes: Blocking Communication\" playlabel=\"Play: Pipes: Blocking Communication\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nI had no idea how these pipes work, I've accidentally spawned so many that have sat there and waited for something to come down the pipe, but did not know this is what was happening.\n", "summary": "!https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BG4tjLZ7G1Q", "date_published": "2026-07-21T12:37:12Z", "date_modified": "2026-07-21T12:37:12Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "dev", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1021/", "url": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1021/", "title": "What happens when your team 5x their token usage - YouTube", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"oDUBsE09n5c\" title=\"We got addicted to an AI model we can\u0026#39;t talk about\" playlabel=\"Play: We got addicted to an AI model we can\u0026#39;t talk about\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery Dax Raad interview is worth a listen, this one does not disappoint. They talk about running local dev setups in a vm in the cloud. Always connected, seemlessly upgrading hardware without you needing to buy sell or trade a thing. They talk about the one model that drove them into psycosis, I’m pretty sure it was 5.6 sol, but it could not be revealed at the time. Software engineering is still required alive and well even through the agentic era here.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"oDUBsE09n5c\" title=\"We got addicted to an AI model we can\u0026#39;t talk about\" playlabel=\"Play: We got addicted to an AI model we can\u0026#39;t talk about\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nEvery Dax Raad interview is worth a listen, this one does not disappoint. They talk about running local dev setups in a vm in the cloud. Always connected, seemlessly upgrading hardware without you needing to buy sell or trade a thing. They talk about the one model that drove them into psycosis, I'm pretty sure it was 5.6 sol, but it could not be revealed at the time. Software engineering is still required alive and well even through the agentic era here.\n", "summary": "!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDUBsE09n5c\u0026t=483s", "date_published": "2026-07-21T00:53:05Z", "date_modified": "2026-07-21T00:53:05Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "dev", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1020/", "url": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1020/", "title": "11 Laws of the Universe - YouTube", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"DRX5JpyX0B8\" title=\"11 Laws of the Universe\" playlabel=\"Play: 11 Laws of the Universe\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreat reference to 11 laws of the universe.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"DRX5JpyX0B8\" title=\"11 Laws of the Universe\" playlabel=\"Play: 11 Laws of the Universe\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nGreat reference to 11 laws of the universe.\n", "summary": "!https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DRX5JpyX0B8", "date_published": "2026-07-21T00:49:26Z", "date_modified": "2026-07-21T00:49:26Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1019/", "url": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1019/", "title": "Post by @thdxr.com — Bluesky", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\"\u003e\n \u003ca class=\"embed-card-link\" href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/thdxr.com/post/3mqsgohylgd2v\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-image\"\u003e\n \u003cimg src=\"https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rfqyqd6el63kkqckjrtq2xsi/bafkreif4i7mhs6nfzc4sz7ixpfmwu3wzvrkdfun5bb274wjxcy4qn5buhu\" alt=\"dax (@thdxr.com) — so obviously n=1 but anecdotes matter a lot here\n\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;i gave kimi k3 and sol the same task - simple issue with hovers in the tui being the wrong color\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;\n\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;sol found and fixed the issue with $0.30 of spend\nkimi got up to $1.00 and started reading my database before i interrupted it\u0026#34; loading=“lazy”\u0026gt;\n\u0026lt;/div\u0026gt;\n\u0026lt;div class=\" embed-card-content glightbox\"=\"\"/ data-glightbox=\"description: dax (@thdxr.com) — so obviously n=1 but anecdotes matter a lot here\n\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;i gave kimi k3 and sol the same task - simple issue with hovers in the tui being the wrong color\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;\n\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;sol found and fixed the issue with $0.30 of spend\nkimi got up to $1.00 and started reading my database before i interrupted it\u0026#34; loading=“lazy”\u0026gt;\n\u0026lt;/div\u0026gt;\n\u0026lt;div class=\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003edax (@thdxr.com)\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-description\"\u003eso obviously n=1 but anecdotes matter a lot here\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ei gave kimi k3 and sol the same task - simple issue with hovers in the tui being the wrong color\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003esol found and fixed the issue with $0.30 of spend…\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003eBluesky Social · bsky.app\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo much nuance in model selection its hard to keep up.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\"\u003e\n \u003ca href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/thdxr.com/post/3mqsgohylgd2v\" class=\"embed-card-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-image\"\u003e\n \u003cimg src=\"https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rfqyqd6el63kkqckjrtq2xsi/bafkreif4i7mhs6nfzc4sz7ixpfmwu3wzvrkdfun5bb274wjxcy4qn5buhu\" alt=\"dax (@thdxr.com) — so obviously n=1 but anecdotes matter a lot here\n\ni gave kimi k3 and sol the same task - simple issue with hovers in the tui being the wrong color\n\nsol found and fixed the issue with $0.30 of spend\nkimi got up to $1.00 and started reading my database before i interrupted it\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003edax (@thdxr.com)\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-description\"\u003eso obviously n=1 but anecdotes matter a lot here\n\ni gave kimi k3 and sol the same task - simple issue with hovers in the tui being the wrong color\n\nsol found and fixed the issue with $0.30 of spend...\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003eBluesky Social \u0026middot; bsky.app\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nSo much nuance in model selection its hard to keep up.\n", "summary": "!https://bsky.app/profile/thdxr.com/post/3mqsgohylgd2v", "date_published": "2026-07-17T00:12:23Z", "date_modified": "2026-07-17T00:12:23Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "agents", "ai", "llm", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1018/", "url": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1018/", "title": "XBOX DISC TO DIGITAL COMING SOON #shorts - YouTube", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"pdy00S2dxuI\" title=\"XBOX DISC TO DIGITAL COMING SOON #shorts\" playlabel=\"Play: XBOX DISC TO DIGITAL COMING SOON #shorts\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompletely missing the point of physical media. I don’t see why preserving physical media is a win for xbox right now. The game is not on disk. In 30 years when the game servers are gone, I wont be able to play the game. I wont be able to buy cheap used copies in 6 months as people beat the game. I wont be able to trade in games I’ve beat to get a different game at a low cost. own nothing and be happy.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"pdy00S2dxuI\" title=\"XBOX DISC TO DIGITAL COMING SOON #shorts\" playlabel=\"Play: XBOX DISC TO DIGITAL COMING SOON #shorts\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nCompletely missing the point of physical media. I don't see why preserving physical media is a win for xbox right now. The game is not on disk. In 30 years when the game servers are gone, I wont be able to play the game. I wont be able to buy cheap used copies in 6 months as people beat the game. I wont be able to trade in games I've beat to get a different game at a low cost. own nothing and be happy.\n", "summary": "!https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pdy00S2dxuI", "date_published": "2026-07-16T15:25:55Z", "date_modified": "2026-07-16T15:25:55Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "gaming", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1017/", "url": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1017/", "title": "Sustainable Augmented Development • Kent Beck • YOW! 2025", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"sMujMp4h_EY\" title=\"Sustainable Augmented Development • Kent Beck • YOW! 2025\" playlabel=\"Play: Sustainable Augmented Development • Kent Beck • YOW! 2025\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInteresting thoughts from a real \u003ca href=\"/og/\" class=\"glossary-term\" title=\"OG is short for open graph, a set of standard meta tags that are used for social media sharing. This is what tells other websites how to describe and display...\"\u003eOG\u003c/a\u003e 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.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome 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.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"sMujMp4h_EY\" title=\"Sustainable Augmented Development • Kent Beck • YOW! 2025\" playlabel=\"Play: Sustainable Augmented Development • Kent Beck • YOW! 2025\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nInteresting 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.\n\nSome 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.\n", "summary": "!https://youtube.com/watch?v=sMujMp4h_EY", "date_published": "2026-07-08T17:22:18Z", "date_modified": "2026-07-08T17:22:18Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "dev", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1016/", "url": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1016/", "title": "The Internet I Grew Up With Doesn’t Exist Anymore - cleberg.net", "content_html": "\u003cfigure\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"/static/https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html\" class=\"glightbox-link\" aria-label=\"https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"/static/https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html\" alt=\"https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html\"/ data-glightbox=\"description: https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI 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 \u003ca href=\"https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle\"\u003ewordle\u003c/a\u003e hitting mass adoptioun before being swooped up by a giant.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI 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 substack and medium.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n![https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html](/static/https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html)\n\nI 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](https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle) hitting mass adoptioun before being swooped up by a giant.\n\nI 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 substack and medium. \n", "summary": "!https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html", "date_published": "2026-07-05T17:27:54Z", "date_modified": "2026-07-05T17:27:54Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "dev", "indieweb", "thought", "webdev" ] }, { "id": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1015/", "url": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1015/", "title": "Nibelungenlied40 | Book Split Keyboard Design", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\"\u003e\n \u003ca class=\"embed-card-link has-avatar has-avatar-before\" href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/1u9awcz/nibelungenlied40_book_split_keyboard_design/?utm_source=cassidoo\u0026amp;utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_campaign=u1f6b8-you-can-make-anything-by-writing-cs-lewis\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"--favicon-url: url(\u0026#39;/assets/markata/link-avatars/www.reddit.com.ico\u0026#39;);\" data-favicon=\"/assets/markata/link-avatars/www.reddit.com.ico\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eReddit\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003ereddit.com\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbsolute whimsy achieved in this book themed \u003ca class=\"hashtag-tag\" data-count=\"40\" data-reading-time=\"52\" data-reading-time-text=\"52 minutes\" data-tag=\"keeb\" href=\"/tags/keeb/\"\u003e#keeb\u003c/a\u003e build!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/b3f7c96c-805b-4a6b-8ebc-efde8ba11816.webp\" class=\"glightbox-link\" aria-label=\"image\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/b3f7c96c-805b-4a6b-8ebc-efde8ba11816.webp\" alt=\"image\"/ data-glightbox=\"description: image\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\"\u003e\n \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/1u9awcz/nibelungenlied40_book_split_keyboard_design/?utm_source=cassidoo\u0026amp;utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_campaign=u1f6b8-you-can-make-anything-by-writing-cs-lewis\" class=\"embed-card-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eReddit\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003ereddit.com\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nAbsolute whimsy achieved in this book themed \u003ca href=\"/tags/keeb/\" class=\"hashtag-tag\" data-tag=\"keeb\" data-count=40 data-reading-time=52 data-reading-time-text=\"52 minutes\"\u003e#keeb\u003c/a\u003e build!\n\n![image](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/b3f7c96c-805b-4a6b-8ebc-efde8ba11816.webp)\n", "summary": "!https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/1u9awcz/nibelungenlied40_split_design/?utm_medium=email\u0026utm_campaign=u1f6b8-you-can-make-anything-by-w...", "date_published": "2026-06-24T18:53:11Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-24T18:53:11Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "keeb", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1014/", "url": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1014/", "title": "Dumb people lay off - YouTube", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"ss0brGFXVwE\" title=\"Dumb people lay off\" playlabel=\"Play: Dumb people lay off\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eoof Mark, this does not feel like it is set to age well. These people in power feel so disconnected from regular people with a job trying to do work.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"ss0brGFXVwE\" title=\"Dumb people lay off\" playlabel=\"Play: Dumb people lay off\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\noof Mark, this does not feel like it is set to age well. These people in power feel so disconnected from regular people with a job trying to do work.\n", "summary": "!https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ss0brGFXVwE", "date_published": "2026-06-14T19:12:27Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-14T19:12:27Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "ai", "dev", "llm", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1013/", "url": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1013/", "title": "The Website Specification", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\"\u003e\n \u003ca class=\"embed-card-link\" href=\"https://specification.website/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-image\"\u003e\n \u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://specification.website/og-default.png\" alt=\"The Website Specification — A platform-agnostic, full specification of the technical features a good website should have. Built in the open under an MIT licence.\" loading=\"lazy\"/ data-glightbox=\"description: The Website Specification — A platform-agnostic, full specification of the technical features a good website should have. Built in the open under an MIT licence.\"\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eThe Website Specification\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-description\"\u003eA platform-agnostic, full specification of the technical features a good website should have. Built in the open under an MIT licence.\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003eThe Website Specification · specification.website\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA solid checklist for agents to implement on most sites. Very few sites need 100% coverage, but most should probably check most of these boxes\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\"\u003e\n \u003ca href=\"https://specification.website/\" class=\"embed-card-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-image\"\u003e\n \u003cimg src=\"https://specification.website/og-default.png\" alt=\"The Website Specification — A platform-agnostic, full specification of the technical features a good website should have. Built in the open under an MIT licence.\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eThe Website Specification\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-description\"\u003eA platform-agnostic, full specification of the technical features a good website should have. Built in the open under an MIT licence.\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003eThe Website Specification \u0026middot; specification.website\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nA solid checklist for agents to implement on most sites. Very few sites need 100% coverage, but most should probably check most of these boxes \n", "summary": "!https://specification.website/", "date_published": "2026-06-01T16:15:24Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-01T16:15:24Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "dev", "thought", "webdev" ] }, { "id": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1012/", "url": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1012/", "title": "Revisiting the closed canon", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\"\u003e\n \u003ca class=\"embed-card-link has-avatar has-avatar-before\" href=\"https://derekkedziora.com/notes/revisiting-the-closed-canon-\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"--favicon-url: url(\u0026#39;/assets/markata/link-avatars/derekkedziora.com.png\u0026#39;);\" data-favicon=\"/assets/markata/link-avatars/derekkedziora.com.png\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eRevisiting the closed canon\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-description\"\u003eA post I wrote in 2023, the closing of the canon, predicted that LLM answers would replace search results, dramatically lowering traffic to individual sites, thereby removing the incentives to eve...\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003eDerek Kedziora · derekkedziora.com\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is what makes rss so interesting to me. Its boring old tech that fell out of mainstream popularity years ago, yet many sites still support it. Not all, especially ones that come with a good \u003ca class=\"wikilink\" data-date=\"2026-05-29\" data-description=\"dickover\\u2002_\\u2002:\\u2002a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or \u0026gt; app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an \u0026gt;...\" data-title=\"dickover\" href=\"/dickover/\" data-preview=\"dickover _ : a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or \u0026gt; app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an \u0026gt;...\"\u003edickover\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, it’s sad to see the human internet dying, even more quickly than before. Not only do we have rampant bots and sites seo maxxing to get to the top. We have ai search overview that answers mose simple questions pretty good, chat that does good, and agents at our fingertips. The need for tutorials is pretty much dead.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat we need now is human experiences shared and documented more than ever. I’ve been writing a whole lot less simply because this transition has been hard. Most of my pre 2024 posts were how to, notes for future me. Things so simple agents just spat out better versions in seconds these days with barely a question.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\"\u003e\n \u003ca href=\"https://derekkedziora.com/notes/revisiting-the-closed-canon-\" class=\"embed-card-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eRevisiting the closed canon\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-description\"\u003eA post I wrote in 2023, the closing of the canon, predicted that LLM answers would replace search results, dramatically lowering traffic to individual sites, thereby removing the incentives to eve...\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003eDerek Kedziora \u0026middot; derekkedziora.com\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nThis is what makes rss so interesting to me. Its boring old tech that fell out of mainstream popularity years ago, yet many sites still support it. Not all, especially ones that come with a good \u003ca href=\"/dickover/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"dickover\" data-description=\"dickover\\u2002_\\u2002:\\u2002a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or \u0026gt; app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an \u0026gt;...\" data-date=\"2026-05-29\"\u003edickover\u003c/a\u003e.\n\nAt the same time, it's sad to see the human internet dying, even more quickly than before. Not only do we have rampant bots and sites seo maxxing to get to the top. We have ai search overview that answers mose simple questions pretty good, chat that does good, and agents at our fingertips. The need for tutorials is pretty much dead.\n\nWhat we need now is human experiences shared and documented more than ever. I've been writing a whole lot less simply because this transition has been hard. Most of my pre 2024 posts were how to, notes for future me. Things so simple agents just spat out better versions in seconds these days with barely a question.\n", "summary": "!https://derekkedziora.com/notes/revisiting-the-closed-canon-", "date_published": "2026-05-31T16:15:38Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-31T16:15:38Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "Indieweb", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1011/", "url": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1011/", "title": "On Rendering Diffs :: Pierre Computer Company", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\"\u003e\n \u003ca class=\"embed-card-link\" href=\"https://pierre.computer/writing/on-rendering-diffs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-image\"\u003e\n \u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://pierre.computer/pierre-co-diffs-og.png\" alt=\"On Rendering Diffs — A technical deep dive into how we built the @pierre/diffs package and CodeView component for zero-blanking diff rendering.\" loading=\"lazy\"/ data-glightbox=\"description: On Rendering Diffs — A technical deep dive into how we built the @pierre/diffs package and CodeView component for zero-blanking diff rendering.\"\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eOn Rendering Diffs\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-description\"\u003eA technical deep dive into how we built the @pierre/diffs package and CodeView component for zero-blanking diff rendering.\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003ePierre Computer Company · pierre.computer\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s incredible how some problems seem so simple until you load the browser with so much text it just bogs to nothing and how impossibly difficult it becomes after this point. Very cool implementation of a problem that…. who has this problem. If it takes me 2 mintues to scroll through a diff at mach speed like the video, is a diff going to solve my problem?\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\"\u003e\n \u003ca href=\"https://pierre.computer/writing/on-rendering-diffs\" class=\"embed-card-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-image\"\u003e\n \u003cimg src=\"https://pierre.computer/pierre-co-diffs-og.png\" alt=\"On Rendering Diffs — A technical deep dive into how we built the @pierre/diffs package and CodeView component for zero-blanking diff rendering.\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eOn Rendering Diffs\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-description\"\u003eA technical deep dive into how we built the @pierre/diffs package and CodeView component for zero-blanking diff rendering.\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003ePierre Computer Company \u0026middot; pierre.computer\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nIt's incredible how some problems seem so simple until you load the browser with so much text it just bogs to nothing and how impossibly difficult it becomes after this point. Very cool implementation of a problem that.... who has this problem. If it takes me 2 mintues to scroll through a diff at mach speed like the video, is a diff going to solve my problem?\n", "summary": "!https://pierre.computer/writing/on-rendering-diffs", "date_published": "2026-05-30T01:50:35Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-30T01:50:35Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "dev", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1010/", "url": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1010/", "title": "His presence is still felt in the codebase to this day 😂 #codi...", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"sAFy__T8-7Q\" title=\"His presence is still felt in the codebase to this day 😂 #codingmemes #developermemes \u0026lt;a href=\" tags=\"\" tech=\"\" \"=\"\" class=\"hashtag-tag\" data-tag=\"tech\" data-count=\"9\" data-reading-time=\"15\" data-reading-time-text=\"15 minutes\"\u003e#tech #coding\u0026#34; playlabel=\u0026#34;Play: His presence is still felt in the codebase to this day 😂 #codingmemes #developermemes \u003ca class=\"hashtag-tag\" data-count=\"9\" data-reading-time=\"15\" data-reading-time-text=\"15 minutes\" data-tag=\"tech\" href=\"/tags/tech/\"\u003e#tech\u003c/a\u003e #coding\u0026#34;\u0026gt;\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRemember this clip in 5 years, after the churn we just had with RTO and ai this is going to hit. Or AI will just figure is all out for us, who knows anymore. Not that they will figure out the human side, the what does this do, why is it here. A temporary fix is a clear signal to your other devs I didn’t have enough time to do it right, but this works. I think AI will squash a large number of these, especially in big coorporate internal tooling where you are trying to juggle as much as you can and just keep it a float at all times.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"sAFy__T8-7Q\" title=\"His presence is still felt in the codebase to this day 😂 #codingmemes #developermemes \u003ca href=\"/tags/tech/\" class=\"hashtag-tag\" data-tag=\"tech\" data-count=9 data-reading-time=15 data-reading-time-text=\"15 minutes\"\u003e#tech\u003c/a\u003e #coding\" playlabel=\"Play: His presence is still felt in the codebase to this day 😂 #codingmemes #developermemes \u003ca href=\"/tags/tech/\" class=\"hashtag-tag\" data-tag=\"tech\" data-count=9 data-reading-time=15 data-reading-time-text=\"15 minutes\"\u003e#tech\u003c/a\u003e #coding\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nRemember this clip in 5 years, after the churn we just had with RTO and ai this is going to hit. Or AI will just figure is all out for us, who knows anymore. Not that they will figure out the human side, the what does this do, why is it here. A temporary fix is a clear signal to your other devs I didn't have enough time to do it right, but this works. I think AI will squash a large number of these, especially in big coorporate internal tooling where you are trying to juggle as much as you can and just keep it a float at all times.\n", "summary": "!https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sAFy__T8-7Q", "date_published": "2026-05-30T01:28:35Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-30T01:28:35Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "dev", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1009/", "url": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1009/", "title": "UUID as a service?!", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"DtWvu65LeTQ\" title=\"UUID as a service?!\" playlabel=\"Play: UUID as a service?!\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow many people watching this sent their clankers out to make a uuid service for them as they were watching it. UUID as a service sounds great, heck \u003ca class=\"mention has-avatar has-avatar-before\" data-avatar=\"https://steipete.me/peter-avatar.jpg\" data-bio=\"Peter Steinberger: AI-powered tools from Swift roots to web frontiers. Every commit lands on GitHub for you to fork \u0026amp;amp; remix.\" data-handle=\"@steipete\" data-name=\"Peter Steinberger\" href=\"https://steipete.me\" style=\"--favicon-url: url(\u0026#39;/assets/markata/link-avatars/steipete.me.ico\u0026#39;);\" data-favicon=\"/assets/markata/link-avatars/steipete.me.ico\"\u003e@steipete\u003c/a\u003e just has to mention it and his claws are on it building out the service, no need to even type anything or directly form a thought, just mention it in the meeting and a new repo will be up by end of meeting.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"DtWvu65LeTQ\" title=\"UUID as a service?!\" playlabel=\"Play: UUID as a service?!\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nHow many people watching this sent their clankers out to make a uuid service for them as they were watching it. UUID as a service sounds great, heck \u003ca href=\"https://steipete.me\" class=\"mention\" data-name=\"Peter Steinberger\" data-bio=\"Peter Steinberger: AI-powered tools from Swift roots to web frontiers. Every commit lands on GitHub for you to fork \u0026amp;amp; remix.\" data-avatar=\"https://steipete.me/peter-avatar.jpg\" data-handle=\"@steipete\"\u003e@steipete\u003c/a\u003e just has to mention it and his claws are on it building out the service, no need to even type anything or directly form a thought, just mention it in the meeting and a new repo will be up by end of meeting.\n", "summary": "!https://youtube.com/watch?v=DtWvu65LeTQ\u0026si=uMCjpzXJVj3ID7Oo", "date_published": "2026-05-28T21:42:54Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-28T21:42:54Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "dev", "satire", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1007/", "url": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1007/", "title": "Average Theo video be like - YouTube", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"h1p9zdUtUdo\" title=\"Average Theo video be like\" playlabel=\"Play: Average Theo video be like\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncredibly well done satire on t3.gg, love the at one of the top comments is Prime asking to be done next.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"h1p9zdUtUdo\" title=\"Average Theo video be like\" playlabel=\"Play: Average Theo video be like\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nIncredibly well done satire on t3.gg, love the at one of the top comments is Prime asking to be done next.\n", "summary": "!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1p9zdUtUdo", "date_published": "2026-05-25T19:27:48Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-25T19:27:48Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "dev", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1001/", "url": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1001/", "title": "My First Time Hearing Lamb Of God. What Took Me So Long? - You...", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"5-E9blpVDQ4\" title=\"My First Time Hearing Lamb Of God. What Took Me So Long?\" playlabel=\"Play: My First Time Hearing Lamb Of God. What Took Me So Long?\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLamb of God, a true classic, This album takes me back to high school. I don’t think I listened to the sacrament album as much, but “The Ashes of the Wake” was my jam for awhile, particularly hourglass.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"5-E9blpVDQ4\" title=\"My First Time Hearing Lamb Of God. What Took Me So Long?\" playlabel=\"Play: My First Time Hearing Lamb Of God. What Took Me So Long?\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nLamb of God, a true classic, This album takes me back to high school. I don't think I listened to the sacrament album as much, but \"The Ashes of the Wake\" was my jam for awhile, particularly hourglass.\n", "summary": "!https://youtube.com/watch?v=5-E9blpVDQ4\u0026si=OAzRl-xf5KfbswN9", "date_published": "2026-05-25T01:37:13Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-25T01:37:13Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "music", "thought" ] }, { "id": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1000/", "url": "https://new.waylonwalker.com/thought-1000/", "title": "The Point Of Making Things Is To Make Them - YouTube", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"DYPJcnnhvQE\" title=\"Build Your Own Things\" playlabel=\"Play: Build Your Own Things\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 3 piece design for wheel s without a z-seam is absolutely genius. That is a sick trick. Love this guys style. Need a tool Make a tool.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/8b6f5e2d-f8f2-4ff8-9744-0812bff8879c.webp\" class=\"glightbox-link\" aria-label=\"Open image\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/8b6f5e2d-f8f2-4ff8-9744-0812bff8879c.webp\" alt=\"\"/ data-glightbox=\"description: \"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/34430a1b-cd5a-4762-89ca-d3428c70e20c.webp\" class=\"glightbox-link\" aria-label=\"Open image\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/34430a1b-cd5a-4762-89ca-d3428c70e20c.webp\" alt=\"\"/ data-glightbox=\"description: \"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"DYPJcnnhvQE\" title=\"Build Your Own Things\" playlabel=\"Play: Build Your Own Things\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\nThe 3 piece design for wheel s without a z-seam is absolutely genius. That is a sick trick. Love this guys style. Need a tool Make a tool.\n\n![](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/8b6f5e2d-f8f2-4ff8-9744-0812bff8879c.webp)\n\n![](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/34430a1b-cd5a-4762-89ca-d3428c70e20c.webp)\n", "summary": "!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYPJcnnhvQE", "date_published": "2026-05-24T14:54:37Z", "date_modified": "2026-05-24T14:54:37Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "maker", "thought" ] } ] }