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
Waylon Walker's Thoughts
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A quote from Florian Herrengt
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3 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.
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6 days ago
Heart of Mycelium - Gameplay Trailer - YouTub ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBGhVcF3OJcI 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.
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8 days ago
The Truth About Turning Your Hobby Into a Job
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oMnpatXgMzU&is=Hc3yGTgzP2WsRQBiInteresting 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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22 days ago
Pipes: Blocking Communication - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BG4tjLZ7G1QI 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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22 days ago
(342) What happens when your team 5x their to ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDUBsE09n5c&t=483sEvery 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.
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22 days ago
(342) 11 Laws of the Universe - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DRX5JpyX0B8Great reference to 11 laws of the universe.
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26 days ago
Post by @thdxr.com — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/thdxr.com/post/3mqsgohylgd2vSo much nuance in model selection its hard to keep up.
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27 days ago
XBOX DISC TO DIGITAL COMING SOON #shorts - Yo ...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pdy00S2dxuICompletely 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.
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34 days ago
Sustainable Augmented Development • Kent Beck ...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sMujMp4h_EYInteresting 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.