I'm taking this as a reminder to treat every machine like its about to catch fire, any machine with a user regularly using it already has the match lit. I need to go through and commit draft blog posts, dirty homelab POC's need to get out or get in, and not forever be in limbo. My efforts this year have been well intention ed to keep projects clean, on main, not dirty, but I think agents are making it worse before they make it better. I have some new ideas forming and old ideas for managing this have failed me.
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Desktop Crash 2026
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ARTEMIS II PHOTO TIMELINE
https://artemistimeline.com/#jeremy-hansen-suited-up-and-readyHank Greed made a really cool site to explore the Artemis II mission with Claude Code. Now this is what agentic coding is for, such a cool app to scroll around on and visualize when the photos were taken. Listening to the video is sounded really hard to get all of the data to line up correctly, between devices and timezones it ws not straightforward even though all of the schedules and images were made public.
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Hacker News RSS
https://hnrss.github.io/hacker news rss feeds, Nice list of feeds to consider adding to your feed reader.
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3 days ago
Hybrid theory is the greatest album of our ge ...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4BwsqMbruJAJaime's title hooked me in here, what guitar riff from Linkin Park had the greatest riff of our generation. Theres something about Linkin Park unlike Killswitch Engage, Atreyu, Avenged Sevenfold, bands I would listen to at this time that I cant remember a single riff, I can think of Chesters vocals, or the unique scratching they did, but mostly the songs were a whole piece. What riff is he talking about.
The very first note of "One Step Closer" plays and I'm immediately transported back to 2003 sitting in my garage watching HuevosIII on repeat. I can still remember the timing that Wes Miller did on the edit. I can see the riders I looked up to for so long riding in formation.
Turns out this riff is so recognizable it takes me exactly where I was when I listened to it hundreds of times.
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4 days ago
Super Slow-Moto: The
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhzDT37b158The most iconic shots of a scrub ever caught on camera.
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15 days ago
"Am I Crazy?" [Wading Through AI - Episode 3 ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp1EmFRDquACasey had an interesting point here. I think demitri came back with some sense of sanity that its just not how corporations look at employee cost, but I still thought it was a head scratcher.
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If the sellers of ai are telling you that your developers are going to be 10x productive, why are they only spending half their salary in tokens? Why not 9x?
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16 days ago
A love letter to Pi | Lucas Meijer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdbXNWkpPMYI hate how he called out terminal user interfaces as shit... then proved web interfaces to be superior. Damn him. I love working from my terminal, but having ai prove itself through html reports including video, image, metrics, charts, and text is goated. Rethinking yourself has the bottleneck not the orchestrator feels real. Validating the work is hard, theres a shift right now and everyone is trying to figure it out. Lucas's technique is a little bit of be lazy and tell it to prove itself to you, so as you juggle your 15 agents you have a nice report to read.
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16 days ago
How Claude Code’s Creator Starts EVERY Projec ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWrsLqnB6vAThis is a really good guide, with quite a few good nuggets. I need to try deleting my AGENTS.md and rebuilding it from scratch more often. I liked how he talked about having agents prove their work and tell them up front how they will be judged. What I didn't care for so much was the feeling that a lot of the rules go in markdown, thats not a rule, thats a suggestion. Rules should be deterministic. They should be tests and linters that ensure they are followed. Suggestions are good, but dont trust the agents to always follow them. And don't trust that they wont change your rules, keep them honest.
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16 days ago
POV: Growing up as a Millennial be like 🤣 AC: ...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qH3KH-q_tGEFeeling this today, feels like everything continues to get worse. Trying to be more positive, and its hard.
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17 days ago
Write It First, Then Let AI Drive - Kenneth R ...
https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-04-12-write_it_first_then_let_ai_ ...Interesting take by Kenneth Reitz. Not quite sure how I feel about it anymore. It kinda hurts, but I'm not sure if code aesthetics matter as much as the product anymore. I cared when I was the one editing, but at this point I'm not doing a lot of edits by hand. Do these aesthetics affect the final products that users use, Not sure. AI makes me sad.