Waylon Walker's Thoughts

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  Programming Still Sucks. — Writing

  https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

  Absolute banger of a post, this is the time we are living in. Explain "are you afraid AI is going to take your job" to a non tech blue collar worker. Broken over promises, greed, and projects mismanaged by leadership who has no idea what the day to day work actually does and how critical it is.

  I'm not quite in Sara's position, but I feel something shielded by half of this working deep inside of a non tech part of a non tech company leading a very small rag tag team with get shit done attitude.

  But I feel it, I see colleagues hit by these blasts.b I get clipped with shrapnel from some of the largest blasts. But nothing as significant as I see many others hit with

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  Yesterday

  Ghostty is leaving GitHub

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579

  The GitHub tears post. I feel it, maybe not as much as @mitchelh, but I feel it.

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  Yesterday

  Red Squares — the GitHub outage graph

  https://red-squares.cian.lol/

  yet another interesting visualization of github outages. These guys are getting raked over the coals. It really sucks to see. Not quite tears to my eyes mitchelh. But it feels like a core part of opensource has been dying for a few years now and is now getting ripped to shreds. The central location for open source is becoming more fragmented and I don't see a path to where it ever gets any better.

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  5 days ago

  Desktop Crash 2026

  https://pype.dev/desktop-crash-2026/

  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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  5 days ago

  ARTEMIS II PHOTO TIMELINE

  https://artemistimeline.com/#jeremy-hansen-suited-up-and-ready

  Hank 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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  5 days ago

  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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  9 days ago

  Hybrid theory is the greatest album of our ge ...

  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4BwsqMbruJA

  Jaime'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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  10 days ago

  Super Slow-Moto: The

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhzDT37b158

  The most iconic shots of a scrub ever caught on camera.

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  21 days ago

  "Am I Crazy?" [Wading Through AI - Episode 3 ...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp1EmFRDquA

  Casey 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.

  Roughly translated not quoted

  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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  22 days ago

  A love letter to Pi | Lucas Meijer

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdbXNWkpPMY

  I 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.