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.
Waylon Walker's Thoughts
You found my thought's a collection of short posts generally tied to a link on the web and written through a small chrome extension. See full posts on waylonwalker.com
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2025
RAM Prices Are Getting Worse - YouTube
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2025
Smartphones are black holes
https://kerkour.com/smartphones-blackholeThis sounds great.... I'm sick AF right now and dont want to do anything but watch YouTube, and let opencode do my work.
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@waylonwalker
2025
Using stderr/stdout correctly - YouTube
https://youtu.be/XDAfpzjBYJQ?t=353Yeah 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.
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@waylonwalker
2025
You Might Also Like: My Notes Blog - Jim Niel ...
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/you-might-also-like-my-notes-blog/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 aggregate everything to the same root site.
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@waylonwalker
2025
“You should never build a CMS” | Sanity
https://www.sanity.io/blog/you-should-never-build-a-cmsSuch a good breakdown of the leerob article, that is hitting everywhere right now. Feels like sanity was just a bit late to getting things right and it would have just worked for them how leerob was trying to use it, but MCP sucked so he jumped.
Reading their loose descriptions of a CMS, its an interesting realization to realize I'm rolling my own cms. I kinda feel like theres a few inspiration features to take from here, but I have no regrets. As a developer I like being able to build my own tools, I like being able to search and edit from nvim, and not have to write GROQ queries, and transforms. There were some really good points here that as I get more and more content on my personal site, I do kinda feel it. I'm surprised there is not more tooling that does some of these things for piles of markdown.
pinning this to re-read later, feels like a lot of good tidbits here.
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@waylonwalker
2025
(103) The Github Tax (I can't believe they ac ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTSar1SEmIUIt really feels like M$ is coming down hard on GH lately to make some unfavorable decisions for users. Maybe there is good reason for all of these changes from a business perspective, I can't judge that. But right now there are some really great alternatives out there. I'm so grateful for what forgejo and gittea offer, and at the same time seeing the community get split up from GH is sad.
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@waylonwalker
2025
Hollow Knight: Silksong - Sea of Sorrow Tease ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDFEeeLy6wsSilksong DLC announcement already, we waited 8 years for the game, and are getting DLC's months after launch. Dudes I haven't even finished the game get, maybe not even half way. It's amazing. Its amazing that these three make such a kick ass game with great art, story, voice, gameplay, and now drop a free dlc in 2026.
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@waylonwalker
2025
(97) AI, DevOps, and Kubernetes: Kelsey Hight ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdUbTyvrfKoKelsey has a really good lightbulb moment here about platform engineering.
"if you had to do all the deployments for the entire company what questions would you ask of the development team?"
That's your api, your platform, this is your product as a platform engineer. It's not images, docker, terraform, hcl, yaml, kubernetes, It's building out the right api for your company to deploy its products effectively.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdUbTyvrfKo&t=429s
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@waylonwalker
2025
Why is Everyone So Wrong About AI Water Use?? ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_c6MWk7PQcI did not realize all the places to be considered as AI water usage. Hank goes deep highlighting all of the sources he is aware of, most reports leave off a lot of these sources, some reports go maybe too far adding sources that may not make sense depending on the question you are asking.
As someone that runs computers with gpus in their house, and watching LTT make AIO installs on GPUs I've wondered what would AI use water for, now I understand that its a lot. No where near agriculture, but a lot.
Unlike running a gpu in your house, potentially with a closed loop AIO, data centers are filled with hardware making heat and it all must go somewhere. Current technology has this done with evaporative cooling, i.e. its not a closed loop, the water goes into the sky.
He goes on to point out that its not just the data center, using water, but also chip fab and power plants.
Something I hadn't put a lot of thought into is the type of water. While a lot of agriculture and power applications do not use municipal water, a lot of data centers do, putting excess strain on water treatment.
Something I find interesting is that Altman is doing the same thing here that he does on his financial numbers. Stating they use almost nothing on inference. Missing training, missing training for models that turned out to be a flop and never made it anywhere, but they learned how to make better models from it. Missing chip fab, construction, transportation, and power. The way report numbers bases on a small subset of their entire business feels wrong.
Anyways Hank does a great job at saying this is not a simple answer, its complicated. Things are moving so fast that its hard to be accurate, its hard for infrastructure to keep up. There's a lot more to think about than the water use on a single query.
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@waylonwalker
2025
Notes – 05:09 Tue 9 Dec 2025 – David Bushell ...
https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-12-09T05:09Z/Age verification hitting bluesky?? At least its not yet requiring your govt issued id or anything, but stepping that direction. I don't know how I feel about age checks, does it actually protect kids when parents aren't involved? I can't say anything there, but it really does feel like its about ready to hurt the rest of us, requiring us to whip out ids and personal data for anything done online. This is a real problem that is hard to solve, and reasons why it has not been solved yet.