Great gusto here from someone looking to fill landfills less. Get more use from what they paid for. Dodge some tough times in the hardware industry. I'm going to argue that the 10 year computer is not one bit crazy right now. No idea what the future entails, if local llms get good enough to really get so useful they feel required this could easily change. One issue I had with the post as they are looking to get a machine for the next 10 years is they were so focused on themself that they missed the point. They were so focused on buying something that would work for them for 10 years that they bought something brand new rather than thinking about the bigger issue of how do we get hardware to last 10+ years. Some factor of this involves giving our devices a second life. Two things went wrong here. First it appears they they have a perfectly good imac with a broken screen. I know nothing about apple/imac, assuming that the screen is toast and unrepairable, I know you can ssh into a mac this feels like good potential for server hardware. Next they purchased a brand new mac mini. Hardware has been good for a long time, there is no need to buy new right now, especially now. I haven't bought a new machine in years and most of my hardware is second hand cobbled together stuff, and has no issues. I've got one machine thats 16 years old, 2 machines at 9 years, one at 8 years. To get here they need to be repairable, designed to last, and probably no run windows as they will release something that renders them too slow or require new hardware for security that wont work.
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2 days ago
ten year computer
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2 days ago
The future of Coding and Code Quality - YouTu ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baIHCeccbbwVery interesting takes from @thdxr in this interview. A lot has been hashed out by others all over the place, but a hot take here is that code quality is higher than ever right now. Codebases are becoming more consistent than ever. If you are not starting with a good consistent base from the start you are poising your context and doomed to fail and have all the common failures of ai written code. He still reads almost every PR, and will read all of the code eventually. There are a few cases where reading the PR is not worthwhile only when its low stakes, knows that good patterns have been established and followed. He argues that someone needs to be the expert of the code and of the product still and fears that too many people not looking at prs will fail companies.
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@waylonwalker
4 days ago
Do You Have Token anxiety? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJEnQOsMtsUKids are leaving the party early, not drinking, cant watch netflix without the laptop open. They are leaving the party early to check on their agents. I get it, that feeling that you need to eek out one more prompt, keep your agents running. if they arent running what are you even doing. If not you 6 others are ready to pass you up. The timeline to be first has shrunk to nothing but unachievable.
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@waylonwalker
10 days ago
No one under 18 installs Linux
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxVmrLKcNieh6FffrnSu2-iXD8SVFzSCzj?si=rV4k2 ...š Should I be concerned that My 12yo installed Arch BTW on his own?
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@waylonwalker
10 days ago
The web is bearable with RSS
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/07/reader-mode/It's wild how much of a hit Google took from killing reader, almost any time I hear about killedbygoogle, reader is the top of the list. Its the thing that we all remember being really good and the incumbants just did not match up. Somehow we are here 13 years later still bitching about it, despite it only having a 6 year run. You should probably get an rss reader, and follow some incredible people that make feeds. Most sites that produce content have the ability to subscribe over rss. Unlike @pluralistic.net, I dont read in my reader. My reader is just a list of links out to the web and I typically read it how the author intended on their site. I nod a long to Cory's enshitified internet just as much as the next guy, I love text based interfaces, I despise the bloat that js has brought on. But I don't believe all js is bad, I don't turn it off, even though he has me questioning this now. News sites kinda suck, we can agree there, but its rare that a small indie web creator has fully enshitified their site with js. I don't buy that. Sub to the feeds.
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@waylonwalker
10 days ago
I need a new blog to subscribe to. Knowā¦ | ju ...
https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-08-23h18m29s/Sent Justin my list https://go.waylonwalker.com/blogroll, will soon be on the main site, but right now its only on the go subdomain. I've long had reader.waylonwalker.com, but thats soon going to be wrapped into the main site as well at /reader.
I'm interested to see what good stuff Justin gets and if you have any good ones to share reply.
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@waylonwalker
20 days ago
jack cuts block in half
https://x.com/jack/status/2027129697092731343?s=20One of the well worded shitty messages I've seen, good severance, help, timeline to cut off coms.
we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools weāre creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.
Much better than the get rid of people cause AI can do the work. Honestly I feel this though. I was just talking with some colleages how do we divvy work in the age of agents without just constantly walking on each other. If each of us is now an architect who is managing teams of junior agents under us it feels MUCH different than before.
I'm far from working in a large software org like this and I'm feeling it. I only imagine that it gets worse the more people that have to orchestrate around each other.
Appreciate the honesty and transparance, but man this sucks for those impacted and the job market right now.
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@waylonwalker
22 days ago
FFmpeg video crop
https://tools.simonwillison.net/ffmpeg-cropThis was the inspiration for the next update in dropper that became a full clip editor. The one that I've long wanted, but forgotten about. It's going to include this cropper, resize, image extractor, and trimmer.
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@waylonwalker
22 days ago
Tiny Tool Town šļø
https://www.tinytooltown.com/Learned about this one from the @stipete interview @scotthanselman did on YouTube. This is proof that the internet is alive. It's such web 1.0 nostalgia to see that people can just build things! Did you know that you can literally just build things and make them exist? You don't need users, You don't need a big platform, you can just make something into existance. It seems like something we have forgotten through web 2.0 where everything as become 4 major apps all linking to each other and trying to hoard all of the attention. Scroll through tehre are some really cool apps, probably nothing that has the polish you want, or is going to change your world. What these apps have more than anything you've probably used in the recent years, is inspiration. Its xyz, but the way I wanted, or with my little twist. And no one else has to like it but me because I'm the user.
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@waylonwalker
22 days ago
FancyGist
https://fancygist.com/I saw this in @cassido's newsletter this week and had to give it a run. I despise that there is no dark mode and it insists on burning my retinas š¤. But really this is an absolute beate of a web based markdown editor, I love the command mode to press slash and it just pops out in this whimsical animation ready for me to pick what I want.