Waylon Walker's Thoughts

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  /goal is a special command for OpenAI… | just ...

  https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-08-30-00h26m42s/

  LOL, interesting I just heard DHH talk about how we needed goal for a minute blip in history, it did it's job. Then new models come out trained on our use of it and the models just do it whether you ask for it or not it does not really matter much either way.

  /goal is a special command for OpenAI Codex in which it will keep working toward whatever goal you set until it gradually convinces itself that the stated goal is not what you wanted but rather some much easier objective was the real goal all along. @justin.searls.co

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  A Calendar View For My Blog - Jim Nielsen’s B ...

  https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/blog-calendar-view/

  Love the calendar view for Jim's posts. I'm on my way to do this, I've been using a view like this in plaindown and nvim for my daily notes for awhile, but yet to publish a version on the website. I like how jim has made a visual indication on the different days highlighting posts that have landed on hacker news.

  my daily note view in plaindown

  Jim's calendar view, love those orange box views indicating a critical moment.

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  3 days ago

  My Mechanical Keyboards

  https://www.ssp.sh/brain/my-mechanical-keyboards/

  These are absolutely lovely. They look like they are ready to really get some work done. The Ducky is a little heavy on the gamer side for me looks wise, too much flash, not enough gas.

  I'm interested to know is this a real qwertz layout or is he trollin us.

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  14 days ago

  (364) We BROKE the Golden Rule of Ergonomic K ...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG20ahnp49k

  If this existed before, I probably would not have gone down the path of building my own from scratch. A monoblock that can plop down on a laptop is goated, split is nice at a desk, but nothing beats the portability of a monoblock. I dont like how this one covers up the trackpad with its 4th set of thumb keys. Also theres no need to mae the sides so thin, the height in the middle goes up to the top of the caps. Doing this all the way around makes it so much easier to toss into a backpack wtihout touching any keys. almost there dygma, just a few nit picks.

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  17 days ago

  A quote from Florian Herrengt

  https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/12/florian-herrengt/#atom-everythin ...

  We are entering into dark times, dark times I tell ya. An era where we have all the greatest tools to build software by hand, with decades of experience to do it. Yet it's a time where none of it matters. Machines can spit out glorious amounts of slop in an instant. They can do weeks of the average mans work in minutes. Yet the core principles still apply now more than ever. Observability into our production systems matter more than ever. Things are changing fast, and big. Prs are not the same size they used to be. We have not yet developed the tools and intuition into this new world to manage it effectively. This will come with time, but for now, these are dark times filled with the glitter and glisten of promise, hope, and shiny new things cranked out upon first thought

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  21 days ago

  Blogging and blog setups — baty.net

  https://baty.net/notes/2026/08/blogging-and-blog-setups/

  Damn 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.

  Shots fired from Rakhim

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  23 days ago

  Heart of Mycelium - Gameplay Trailer - YouTub ...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBGhVcF3OJc

  I 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.

  Those flowers

  How is this not one of the city guards

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  25 days ago

  The Truth About Turning Your Hobby Into a Job

  https://youtube.com/watch?v=oMnpatXgMzU&is=Hc3yGTgzP2WsRQBi

  Interesting 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.

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  39 days ago

  Pipes: Blocking Communication - YouTube

  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BG4tjLZ7G1Q

  I 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.

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  40 days ago

  (342) What happens when your team 5x their to ...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDUBsE09n5c&t=483s

  Every 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.