Posts tagged: dev

Package Managers Need to Cool Down Today's LiteLLM supply chain attack inspired me to revisit the idea of dependency cooldowns, the practice of only installing updated dependencies once they've been out in the wild for a … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1] 2026, finding the balance between fixed bugs and zero days. There is very unlikely ever a reason you need to be running bleeding edge packages in prod most package managers now support cool downs. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/24/package-managers-need-to-cool-down/ [2]: /thoughts/

[1]https://t.co/BKnwCDIp75" [1] loading=“lazy”> Cheng Lou (@_chenglou) on X My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important f… X (formerly Twitter) · x.com webdev twitter is blowing up with implementations of pretext text calculations. The examples are absolutely fun and ridiculous. [2] Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://x.com/_chenglou/status/2037713766205608234 [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/350a368f-0e6b-4375-98d6-6303961c0d6c.webp [3]: /thoughts/

More Details Than You Probably Wanted to Know About Recent Updates to My Notes Site Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web. blog.jim-nielsen.com [1] I love the level of thought that Jim has put into these changes and making sure that urls don’t change. I’ve got a big change in flight to my main site and this is one of the reasons that I’ve been sitting on it so long. I want to make sure urls arent broken, redirects work as they should, and there are no 404’s from existing urls. Currently the new version only exists on a separate deployement https://go.waylonwalker.com/ I also added the ability to “shuffle” between posts. This is mostly for myself. I like to randomly jump through notes I’ve published in the past for reoccurring inspiration Love this idea and have it on my new site already as well, and have really enjoyed using it by pressing it a dozen or so times over the course of a few sessions. It highlights that I have too many posts like stars and thoughts and I should do some weighting to main posts. mine is at https://go.waylonwalker.com/random/ Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone e...

today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are" loading=“lazy”> jack (@jack) on X we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. # [1] today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly ha… X (formerly Twitter) · x.com One 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 we’re 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...

FFmpeg video crop tools.simonwillison.net [1] This 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. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://tools.simonwillison.net/ffmpeg-crop [2]: /thoughts/

Tiny Tool Town 🏘️ A delightful showcase for free, fun & open source tiny tools. Stupid-delightful software made with love. Tiny Tool Town · tinytooltown.com [1] Learned about this one from the @stipete interview [2] @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. Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://www.tinytooltown...

FancyGist fancygist.com [1] 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 😤. 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. Your browser does not support the video tag. [2] Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://fancygist.com/ [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/74f0ac1e-ac50-4939-8bba-4698a8043b25.mp4 [3]: /thoughts/

Smaller and dumber If I can make it smaller, I should. daverupert.com · daverupert.com [1] 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. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://daverupert.com/2026/02/smaller-and-dumber/ [2]: /thoughts/

trash (@trashh_dev) on X loving the state of development right now https://t.co/4WyBPbio6V X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1] There are so many config files right now, glad to see some standards coming in around Agents.md, but so much is still specialized to a whole host of tools that have not been standardized on yet. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://x.com/trashh_dev/status/2024476878015468027 [2]: /thoughts/

I keep forgetting about the double gutter problem with nested containers. When you put padding on a parent and the child also has padding, you get twice the spacing you wanted. The Problem # [1] .container { padding: 2rem; } .child { padding: 2rem; } Now your content is 4rem from the edge. Not what I meant at all. The Fix # [2] Either remove padding from the parent or use box-sizing: border-box and plan for it. I usually just drop the parent padding when I realize what I have done. References: [1]: #the-problem [2]: #the-fix

[1]https://t.co/wIVGqlTbpQ" [1] loading=“lazy”> dax (@thdxr) on X finally got around to setting up an always on opencode server so i can run sessions on any device from anywhere takes a few minutes - showed it off here https://t.co/wIVGqlTbpQ X (formerly Twitter) · x.com I tried this flow [of running an opencode server on tailscale] on day one of getting opencode, I wanted to prompt from my phone while were were running lights at the theater. It kinda worked, but the ui was really bad on phone, hard to use and the experience overall–it felt buggy. Happy to see they are making improvements and it might now be ready for some real use. https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/9065fcb2-5e40-479c-967e-498bc9bb6a4f.mp4 Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://x.com/thdxr/status/2017691649384620057 [2]: /thoughts/

feat: add llms.txt endpoint for LLM-optimized documentation by quantizor · Pull Request #2388 · tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com Add /llms.txt endpoint that serves a concatenated, text-only version of all Tailwind CSS documentation pages optimized for Large Language Model consumption. Extract text from MDX files, removing J… GitHub · github.com [1] Damn this one is getting some reach, I’ve seen it from Simon Willison [2] and Justin Searls [3] and t3.gg [4]. I feel for Adam, He has built a fantastic product that the world is running with, something we all needed. Something that everyone laughs at turns their nose up “ppft I don’t need that” the first time they see it, but once they try people get it, and a lot of them like it and keep it. But its something that no one really wants to pay for, no matter how big of products get built on it. As we see more and more features coming to css, its not stopping, the work will always be there. I really hope to see something happen to tailwind to keep it afloat. massive growth and revenue down 80% does not help. Note This post is a thought [5]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: http...

Yesterday I wrote about a way to do light mode screen recording [1] 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 References: [1]: /light-mode-screen-recording/

Convert a video from dark mode to light mode with FFmpeg! Here cassidoo.co [1] 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. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://cassidoo.co/post/ffmpeg-dark-light/ [2]: /thoughts/

I saw this tip from Cassidoo [1] 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 Your browser does not support the video tag. [2] Dark Mode Your browser does not support the video tag. [3] Light Mode There are a few unsettling things about it, but overall I feel like it was a success. References: [1]: https://cassidoo.co/post/ffmpeg-dark-light/ [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/1c53dbcb-4b84-4e94-9f04-a42986ab3fa1.mp4 [3]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/de4e3378-6df2-45b1-84d5-0cc773ceb3c5.mp4

- Yeah there’s some basics, you know things you might expect like using standard error and standard out correctly. One thing I’ll say on that because I think this is commonly misunderstood, standard error is not for errors, it’s for any information that isn’t part of the normal output. So you know often times that’s warnings and errors, but it might just be progress information. You know anytime that you just need to have something go to the user that’s what it’s there for." (6:15 - 6:42) I’ve definitely done this sin in my own tooling before, and it does make things harder to use. I think I still take err/out at face value. I really like the translation Jeff gave here, one is for normal output, i.e. what the user asked for and the other is extra information. So if I wanted to list something and pipe it into something else, stdout only captures the list, thats it. if you have a bunch of information about config warnings, showing environment, are you sure questions, none of that is captured. Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

“You should never build a CMS” | Sanity Lee Robinson migrated cursor.com off Sanity. He made good points. Here's what he missed. Sanity.io · sanity.io [1] Such a good breakdown of the leerob article, that is hitting everywhere right now. Feels like sanity was just a bit late to getting things right and it would have just worked for them how leerob was trying to use it, but MCP sucked so he jumped. Reading their loose descriptions of a CMS, its an interesting realization to realize I’m rolling my own cms. I kinda feel like theres a few inspiration features to take from here, but I have no regrets. As a developer I like being able to build my own tools, I like being able to search and edit from nvim, and not have to write GROQ queries, and transforms. There were some really good points here that as I get more and more content on my personal site, I do kinda feel it. I’m surprised there is not more tooling that does some of these things for piles of markdown. pinning this to re-read later, feels like a lot of good tidbits here. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://www.sanity.io/...