File over app If you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you... Steph Ango · stephango.com file over app is a fantastic philosophy laid out well and concisely documented very well in this post. The idea is that tools will change, we will want to use different tools, different editors, different computers over time. What’s likely to outlast everything is plain text files that we can interact with a wide variety of tools. Not encrypted in dedicated formats that die with our tools, but in plain text where a computer from 2160 is likey as capable of reading the file as one from 1960 would be.
Publishing rhythm
I recently discovered vim-speeddating by tpope, and it’s truly impressive. speeddating.vim: use CTRL-A/CTRL-X to increment dates, times, and more
Check out JaKooLit and their project Wallpaper-Bank. Additional wallpapers which will be offered to users for my hyprland scripts
The most popular blogs of Hacker News in 2025 Michael Lynch maintains HN Popularity Contest, a site that tracks personal blogs on Hacker News and scores them based on how well they perform on that platform. The engine behind … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net Congrats Simon! Well deserved metric for the level of content that he produces, Its remarkable the amount of high quality posts that come out of Simon Willison. Also this looks like a really great resource to find other high quality blogs that I have not read before.
Today I discovered vim-speeddating
by tpope. I’m sure I’ve seen years ago but it did not click for my workflow
until today. I often go through pictures from my phone for the past few days
and make Posts tagged: shots posts, but I want to date them to about when the image was
taken most of the time. This allows me to quickly bump days up and down using
c-a and c-x even around the new year.
Sound on, listen to those new switches.
new keeb so good
New keeb feeling so good I don't want to leave it. I'm going to go from having
my worse favorite at work, to having my new favorite at work.
I’m really excited about gastown, an amazing project by steveyegge. It’s worth exploring! Gas Town - multi-agent workspace manager
Yesterday I wrote about a way to do light mode screen recording to convert to light mode from dark mode with ffmpeg. I was wondering if it could be done entirely on the front end for web applications. Turns out you can. I’m sure there are limited wikis and site builders that don’t allow adding style like this, but it works if you can.
<video
src="https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/1c53dbcb-4b84-4e94-9f04-a42986ab3fa1.mp4?width=800"
controls
style="filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) contrast(1.2) saturate(1.1);"
>
<!--markata-attribution-->
</video>
0 deg hue rotate
90 deg hue rotate
180 deg hue rotate
270 deg hue rotate
Check out 99 by ThePrimeagen. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential. Neovim AI agent done right
Convert a video from dark mode to light mode with FFmpeg! Here cassidoo.co Converting video from dark mode to light mode after the fact is a pretty great idea, I’m surprised at how well it does. Its definitely not perfect, but looks really good.
I saw this tip from Cassidoo and had to try it out for myself. I kicked on a screen recording right from where my terminal was, converted it, and it actually looks pretty good.
ffmpeg \
-i screenrecording-2026-01-01_10-10-49.mp4 \
-vf "negate,hue=h=180,eq=contrast=1.2:saturation=1.1" \
screenrecording-2026-01-01_10-10-49-light.mp4
Dark Mode
Light Mode
There are a few unsettling things about it, but overall I feel like it was a success.
