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Waylon Walker's Thoughts
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@waylonwalker
Today
No one under 18 installs Linux
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxVmrLKcNieh6FffrnSu2-iXD8SVFzSCzj?si=rV4k2 ... -
@waylonwalker
Today
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
Today
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
10 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
12 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
12 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
12 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.
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@waylonwalker
14 days ago
Reply guy
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/23/reply-guy/#atom-everythingI had no idea there were such things as "reply guy" as a service. I can see this as a really genuine thing where brands want to genuinely engage with their communities, quickly being taken over by slop bros to ruin everything.
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@waylonwalker
14 days ago
Smaller and dumber - daverupert.com
https://daverupert.com/2026/02/smaller-and-dumber/Important things to remember in the age of cheap code. More code, not always more better. More code mean, more risk, more maintenance, harder to change.
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@waylonwalker
14 days ago
An attempt at a balanced perspective on AI - ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC7YGG0FzZ0THIS, THIS is how most people are feeling about AI right now. Theres lots of "oh ai bad", "but ai help", "but ai company sleezy". Cassidy did a fantastic job summarizing how most of us are feeling. Ending with well at the end of the day, I can't do anything about the bad, the best thing I can do is learn how to embrace the good cause it aint going away any time soon.