What a goat, speedrunning silksong at a competitive pace, live, with live audience, while co hosting, and raising $2M for Prevent Cancer Foundation. CEEN moves in ways that do not compute with my brain, everything looks so simple, things that take me so long are done in a few swipes. Watching this it really make silkspear look OP, this thing does so much damage if you never take damage and can use it continuously without needing silk for healing.
Waylon Walker's Thoughts
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(137) Hollow Knight: Silksong by Ceen in 54:5 ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Li3gm4JCI -
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(137) "I shipped code I don't understand and ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIoohUmYpGIAbsolute banger of a conference talk, saving to come back with more notes later.
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Yesterday
Reflections on 13 years and 1,000 posts of wr ...
https://hamy.xyz/blog/2026-01_1000-blog-postsThe answer is I do it habitually. If there's a big enough idea I've had floating around in my head and I think others might find it useful / interesting then I usually think it's worth logging it somewhere. If I don't, I'll likely just keep thinking about it so might as well get it out of my head and on the internet where people can find it.
This is how you do it. If you want to do something, you need to make it a habit. Something you crave, something you need. I need to write my ideas down in this blog, it helps me index ideas for later, but more importantly it helps me flesh them out and think through real things.
Congrats on 1k, your site is awesome Hammy
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2 days ago
Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/11/dont-fall-into-the-anti-ai-hype/ ...Never believe in absolutes, see what I did there. The hype bros will take you to the extremes, ai will take your jobs in six months or be burned to the ground in six months. How about its useful now and will be more useful in six months. If you turned off the hype bro feed for six months you would probably be fine, in fact you would probably be better off for not capturing so much noise along the way. AI has gone the way of next js framework, it churns fast, hype bros are always an expert that know exactly whats best for everyone. It changes fast, what was the best last week might be dead next week. In fact getting to know what works well for you and knowing that tool really well for a longer period will take you farther.
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2 days ago
(137) Salesforces mistake - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tBWenRZIgdgSalesforce gets pwnd by the ai hype bros and killed its reputation with employees, letting them know where they truely stand with them. 4k people sounds like a lot, its probably a big chunk of savings, but was it worth the loss of reputation? There must be a better way to give this a trial run that lets them understand this before disrupting the lives of real people right???
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3 days ago
Diffs, from Pierre
https://diffs.com/This looks like a really nice and performant diffing library that supports vanilla and react, with a lot of options.
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4 days ago
Oxide and Friends 1/5/2026 -- Predictions 202 ...
https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxKSVMasWf0UpGaRVRqeBmn9C5Oh1syH2QI thought this was an interesting take from Simon. I've been hearing him consistently say there will be more demand for software engineering in the future. More companies will have the ability and need to deal with software applications, but fewer of us will be hand editing any code. I thought this was an interesting interaction in the clip.
Uh Simon, what do you got for us?
I've just got the one. I think the act
of the the the job of being paid money to type code into a computer Yeah.
will go the same way as punching punch cards.
Okay.
I do I think in
six years time I do not think it will anyone will be paid to 80:56 just do the thing where you type the code.
Just type the code. Okay.
I think software engineering will still be an enormous career. I just think the software engineers won't be spending multiple hours of their day in a text editor typing out syntax. 81:09
It will look like punching cards. I think so. Yeah.
Yeah. Interesting. In uh in six years. Um and but software engineering still very much exists.
I believe so. I I hope so. [laughter] I very much hope so because I think
the um the challenge of being a software 81:23 engineer is not remembering
how if what what if what for loops look like. It is understanding what computers can do and how to turn fuzzy human requirements into actual like working software. And that's that's what we're for. And I think we'll still be doing that just a lot more of it in a lot more ambitious scale.
And then Okay. Do you Does the software engineer though deals with code? I mean they I mean the code is being written.
I think they probably look at it occasionally.
Okay. Only occasionally a little bit. So I met 81:53
Who debugs it?
Um I I hate to say it, the agents debug it themselves.
Okay. Who debugs your device driver that either works or doesn't? I like
working on this programming language like I'm doing my own codegen and like
claude is happy to pull out GDB and just like
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6 days ago
There's an Actual Reason You Can't Recycle Pl ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=325HdQe4WM4In all of the documentaries I've seen on how hard it is to recycle plastic, how hard it is to separate all the small pieces from each other, how expensive it is, dirty it is, how just plain ineffective we are at doing it I've never seen this angle. In a nutshell the other side of the equation is that as we pull natural gas out of shale is that we pull ethylene out as a byproduct. We don't even ask for it, it just comes with the methane gas that we are going for. So as we drill, Frack, and mine this out to heat our homes and create electricity we are stuck with all of this ethylene. It's terrible for the environment, just like methane it's a rough greenhouse gas. Companies are allowed to flare off a certain amount, they can push some down the pipe, but are still left with tons leftover that they practically give away. Turns out that this stuff is very cheap and very much wants to be turned into plastic. Very clean food grade plastic, very easily and cheaply compared to recycling. Excess is a big problem that needs solutions, but it has hard problems at both ends of the situation that don't make it easy for anyone trying to take care of it.
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6 days ago
feat: add llms.txt endpoint for LLM-optimized ...
https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#issuecomment ...Damn this one is getting some reach, I've seen it from Simon Willison and Justin Searls and t3.gg. I feel for Adam, He has built a fantastic product that the world is running with, something we all needed. Something that everyone laughs at turns their nose up "ppft I don't need that" the first time they see it, but once they try people get it, and a lot of them like it and keep it. But its something that no one really wants to pay for, no matter how big of products get built on it. As we see more and more features coming to css, its not stopping, the work will always be there. I really hope to see something happen to tailwind to keep it afloat. massive growth and revenue down 80% does not help.
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8 days ago
Photoshop for text — Steph Ango
https://stephango.com/photoshop-for-textWhile the non deterministic nature of llms scare the heck out of me in the sense of just cutting it loose on my writing. letting it go through all of my files and just edit them. I do like the idea of mundane tools like "desaturate", "Gaussian blur", evolving out of it for text. I don't yet see this with the tools we have now, but it will be interesting to see them evolve.