Thoughts

@waylonwalker

2 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.

(342) What happens when your team 5x their token usage - YouTube

@waylonwalker

2 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.

@waylonwalker

2 days ago

(342) 11 Laws of the Universe - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DRX5JpyX0B8

Great reference to 11 laws of the universe.

@waylonwalker

6 days ago

Post by @thdxr.com — Bluesky

https://bsky.app/profile/thdxr.com/post/3mqsgohylgd2v

So much nuance in model selection its hard to keep up.

XBOX DISC TO DIGITAL COMING SOON #shorts - YouTube

@waylonwalker

7 days ago

XBOX DISC TO DIGITAL COMING SOON #shorts - Yo ...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pdy00S2dxuI

Completely 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.

Sustainable Augmented Development • Kent Beck • YOW! 2025

@waylonwalker

15 days ago

Sustainable Augmented Development • Kent Beck ...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sMujMp4h_EY

Interesting 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.

The Internet I Grew Up With Doesn’t Exist Anymore - cleberg.net

@waylonwalker

18 days ago

The Internet I Grew Up With Doesn’t Exist Any ...

https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html

I 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 hitting mass adoptioun before being swooped up by a giant.

I 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.