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The compositor/bar is coming along! Happy I got the bar working with workspaces and the clock. Working on the other widgets here soon now too.

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 11h

Started using nix flakes more in everyday development, and now I can’t tell if it’s 5.5 models generally or it correlating using nix with it, but I’ve seen Claude wanting to fork open source things and fix underlying bugs way more often. Anybody else noticing this?

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 27/09/2026

Eyyyy! Got scootbg into a pretty solid place. Claude’s putting some finishing touches on it for the flake. Thinking I’ll eventually clean it up and make it an easy nix module to do a whole desktop experience. Probably gonna do a bar next, because why not. #scoot #scootbg #nixos #wayland

scoot, Wayland compositor running with scootbg, showing a terminal and a orange cat peeking on the right side of the terminal.

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 27/09/2026

Just found out that Ohio has some express BMV machines in drug stores. I will 100% go to a Drug Mart before having to sit in line at the BMV.

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 26/09/2026

Yesssss got scoot (my new Wayland compositor) to build in a Claude code cloud agent with devenv 🎉. Planning on expanding to build a bar, bg, and all too to fill out a shell.

Scoot running in Claude code on mobile, running in the cloud.

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 17/09/2026

Got my new compositor running enough to run noctalia with it. Definitely underestimated the things I’d have to implement to make that work smoothly. Been a good way to get things rounded out more quickly though. Prob gonna make a custom bar and stuff to go with it.

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 17/09/2026

Me: “I’m feeling very declarative” Angelina: “I can tell!” Me: “Just like I like my operating systems” A: “I don’t like the turn this is taking…” Me: “Can I talk to you about NixOS?” A: *turns away quickly*

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 16/09/2026

Me after giving up on a busted remote, trying to turn on cartoons: “We’ll just have to get a new remote” My 4yo: “Does that mean we’re selling our house?” 🤣🤣🤣

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 12/09/2026

Got my old M2 MacBook Air running NixOS yesterday too, and feels good to be baaaaaaack.

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 12/09/2026

This weekend’s fun — I’m building out a Wayland compositor that works well in NixOS based, webtop style containers as well as microVMs where you don’t have a GPU to allocate.

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 10/09/2026

Tonight’s experiment: NixOS running in a webtop-style container. Got it working with Niri already, seeing if I can get a couple other DEs working for fun.

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 09/09/2026

I love having good homelab o11y. I’m running Talos, and just realized why etcd is mad half the time (honeycomb canvas FTW). Accidentally put a slow microSD card in one of the Pi4s last time I redid it 🤦‍♂️ I’ll get around to adding SSDs eventually, but was awesome to find a quick root cause.

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 09/09/2026

Anybody running RMK? I’ve got two Ferris sweeps (one on ZMK, one on QMK), but thinking about getting my Miryoku based layout working on some good ol rust based firmware. The wireless one has nice!nanos in it, but the Bluetooth seems finicky and possibly like not mapped right #keyboards

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 07/09/2026

Juuuust about got my actions runner fork with otel support where I want it. Been running it for a while. Otel semconv for CI/VCS and all 🎉

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 07/09/2026

I wish GitHub supported some kind of ARC runners for user-wide repo support similar to org support. I know you can name which repos, but love the simplicity for orgs and ARC runners.

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 06/09/2026

Seems like every year around this time I get the urge to jump back into tiling WMs. Time to try out OmniWM on my Mac!

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 02/09/2026

Who all is going to #CloudNative #KubeCon NA this year? Finally able to make it this year 🎉 Planning to hit up o11y day too Any tips for first time attendance?

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 29/08/2026

It’s been a lot of fun slowly building freshstrings.app for guitar maintenance. Thinking mobile is next once I add a few more features.

freshstrings.app

FreshStrings

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 13/06/2026

Bought a fountain pen on a whim and think I’m hooked. I’d been going all in with AI note taking, assistants, etc. I was getting solid coaching notes too but feeling like I couldn’t keep anything in my head anymore. It’s refreshing going back to pen and paper for tasks and notes.

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 04/04/2026

Heck yeah. Think I got a diesel-libsql crate working with full native OTel support

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 17/03/2026

Building with AI has made me even more healthily detached from what I make for fun. Naming used to be hard and feel permanent. Now I just enjoy making up names that make me laugh. Did I release a crate this morning for ts client generation from Axum routes called axfetchum? Yeah. And I’m delighted.

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 15/03/2026

Finally moved the homelab to @honeycomb.io and the o11y 2.0 gains for agents hype is real. Game changer using it with an agent. Fixed a weird tracing issue with like 2 prompts with Claude (using the skill/MCP) to review, find and fix.

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 09/03/2026

It’s been a blast building more than ever with AI. Legit explored more ideas in the last 3 months than probably the last year or more. Didn’t see myself running out of private GHA minutes, but with the new move to paid self hosted, moved to Forgejo.

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Vite @vite.dev · 24/06/2025

⚡️ Vite 7.0 is out! - Browser Target Changed to Baseline Widely Available - Node 18 support dropped. Vite is now distributed as ESM only - And feats, fixes, and cleanups, while we prepare for rolldown!

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Vite 7.0 is out!

Vite 7 Release Announcement

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Nuxt @nuxt.com · 02/06/2025

we are delighted to announce that nuxt v4 alpha ships TODAY! 🎉 ... and we're aiming for a stable release of v4 by the end of the month. (nuxt v5 will come later this year once nitro v3 is ready) 👉 you can read the full article at nuxt.com/blog/roadma...

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Roadmap to v4 · Nuxt Blog

We have some exciting news about the roadmap to Nuxt 4, including a new timeline and what to expect in the next few weeks.

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Oneya Okuwobi @oneyaokuwobi.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

It’s Publication Day!

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Sébastien Chopin @atinux.com · 15/01/2025

Love seeing @danielroe.dev casually release a patch version of @nuxt.com with great startup performance improvements 😍 github.com/nuxt/nuxt/r...

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dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 28/11/2024

It’s near the end of the year and if you have L&D funds left here is my Eng leadership/platform must read list - Accelerate - The Manager’s Path - The Staff Engineer Path - Platform Engineering - Implementing SLOs

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 25/11/2024

Been having some fun testing out ChatGPT’s guitar pedal settings recommendations based on super specific gear. It’s needed some prompting to go look up exact control names, but had some surprisingly good results so far. Like most things in the AI realm, good for getting 60-70% there faster.

ChatGPT sharing how to tweak 3 overdrive pedals and specific settings

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 14/11/2024

This is amazing 😂 But can it run Doom?

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Quite a lot of discussion around @bsky.app here at #KubeCon, and consensus that it was @kelseyhightower.com 's clear exit from the other place that was the tipping point for the cloud native community coming over here en masse. Thank you Kelsey for your leadership in this and so many other ways.

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ahmet alp balkan @ahmet.dev · 04/11/2024

👋🏼 Good to see you on this side. Welcome to Bluesky. I’ve put together a short starter pack of community members who post technical topics about Kubernetes. Hope you enjoy. go.bsky.app/MHYb3B9

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 11/11/2024

Came across some footage from earlier this year playing with Eric B Turner. The second clip was probably the most fun part of the night — love getting to lock in with a great band and having new ideas come together organically live.

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nickeberts @nickeberts.dev · 09/11/2024

I made a starter pack that includes all the folks in the tech industry who are sometimes inclined to jam. The list also includes @questlove.bsky.social because he should be on ALL lists the include musicians for all time. I hope this list expands! go.bsky.app/3ZPr5q4

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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 24/10/2024

I made a #dotnet starter pack. Don’t see someone in there? Let me know. go.bsky.app/AQZrkaS

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 10/11/2024

If you’re looking for some tech starter packs, this has a good list to get started!

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 10/11/2024

Spent some time trying out #dotnet Aspire last night. Definitely impressed so far. I was surprised how easy it was to pull in non dotnet workloads too.

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 10/11/2024

Can’t wait till Tonex finally releases the new FX update this month. Thinking this might finally kick the cheap tremolo off my board.

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Autumn Nash 🎃👻💀🖤 @withenoughcoffee.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Diversity doesn't exist to give a warm and fuzzy feeling, it empowers teams to be more innovative, Its directly correlated to an increase in return on investment and is crucial for AI safety and to combat data bias.

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 29/10/2024

Just got @siderolabs.com Omni running in the homelab and it’s awesome! Already loved running Talos, and this makes it even better.

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Nathen Harvey @nathenharvey.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Weekend reading: the 2024 DORA Report. dora.dev/dora-report-... Dig into the impacts of AI, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience. Looking forward to your feedback, reactions, and questions. #DORA #AI #GBGB

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Alex K. @kafsofit.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

New to Bluesky? Come check this powerful starter pack @veni.dev created ❤️‍🔥🔥 @diversifytech.com’s energy at Bluesky is a joy to witness!!

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 23/10/2024

Seeing the influx of tech people coming over to Bluesky reminds me that we *all* made tech twitter what it was, not the other way around.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 23/10/2024

Love seeing my extended tech family join one by one.

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 06/08/2023

Starting to get the itch to blog again. Been feeling more excited about tech than I have in a while.

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 06/08/2023

Pup Cup Friday! Benji gets so stoked every Friday morning for this.

Benji the dog enjoying a whipped cream cup

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 03/08/2023

Glad to be on BlueSky and seeing so many familiar faces from Twitter/Mastodon on here

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