A solid checklist for agents to implement on most sites. Very few sites need 100% coverage, but most should probably check most of these boxes
Waylon Walker's Thoughts
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Revisiting the closed canon
https://derekkedziora.com/notes/revisiting-the-closed-canon-This is what makes rss so interesting to me. Its boring old tech that fell out of mainstream popularity years ago, yet many sites still support it. Not all, especially ones that come with a good dickover.
At the same time, it's sad to see the human internet dying, even more quickly than before. Not only do we have rampant bots and sites seo maxxing to get to the top. We have ai search overview that answers mose simple questions pretty good, chat that does good, and agents at our fingertips. The need for tutorials is pretty much dead.
What we need now is human experiences shared and documented more than ever. I've been writing a whole lot less simply because this transition has been hard. Most of my pre 2024 posts were how to, notes for future me. Things so simple agents just spat out better versions in seconds these days with barely a question.
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2 days ago
On Rendering Diffs :: Pierre Computer Company
https://pierre.computer/writing/on-rendering-diffsIt's incredible how some problems seem so simple until you load the browser with so much text it just bogs to nothing and how impossibly difficult it becomes after this point. Very cool implementation of a problem that.... who has this problem. If it takes me 2 mintues to scroll through a diff at mach speed like the video, is a diff going to solve my problem?
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2 days ago
His presence is still felt in the codebase to ...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sAFy__T8-7QRemember this clip in 5 years, after the churn we just had with RTO and ai this is going to hit. Or AI will just figure is all out for us, who knows anymore. Not that they will figure out the human side, the what does this do, why is it here. A temporary fix is a clear signal to your other devs I didn't have enough time to do it right, but this works. I think AI will squash a large number of these, especially in big coorporate internal tooling where you are trying to juggle as much as you can and just keep it a float at all times.
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4 days ago
UUID as a service?!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DtWvu65LeTQ&si=uMCjpzXJVj3ID7OoHow many people watching this sent their clankers out to make a uuid service for them as they were watching it. UUID as a service sounds great, heck @steipete just has to mention it and his claws are on it building out the service, no need to even type anything or directly form a thought, just mention it in the meeting and a new repo will be up by end of meeting.
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7 days ago
Average Theo video be like - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1p9zdUtUdoIncredibly well done satire on t3.gg, love the at one of the top comments is Prime asking to be done next.
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7 days ago
My First Time Hearing Lamb Of God. What Took ...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5-E9blpVDQ4&si=OAzRl-xf5KfbswN9Lamb of God, a true classic, This album takes me back to high school. I don't think I listened to the sacrament album as much, but "The Ashes of the Wake" was my jam for awhile, particularly hourglass.
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8 days ago
The Point Of Making Things Is To Make Them - ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYPJcnnhvQEThe 3 piece design for wheel s without a z-seam is absolutely genius. That is a sick trick. Love this guys style. Need a tool Make a tool.
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8 days ago
Jonathan Blow Made Me Quit My Job | Prime Rea ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znmZA_n485Idamn Johnathan Blow is not afraid to give you the cold hard opinions. If you want to be good you need to spend your early most formative years doing hard things, because you will not do it later, then goes on to say you should not do anything related to web development during that time as it will rot your brain.
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8 days ago
Why Agent Harness Layer is DYING - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thMFsqe8kbQThorsten is always a great listen with well thought out answers. I thought the advice "all you have to be is good" from his is so great, so many people focus too hard on credentials and certificates, they miss the time in the saddle and raw, just being good at what you do. They talk a lot about industry trends and that ai/llms have been here long enough to see that they are the new iphone. In some way you need to learn to work with them. Much of the minutia is churn, it will change and we will forget about it in six months. Working at amp right now is really trying to focus on releasing exactly the right thing and not everything. We've been given these great models that can churn out poc very quickly, it is our job to focus on what the right thing to adopt is.