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Steve Yackey

@steveyackey.com

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Head of Tech at Patriot Software. Guitarist. Husband&dad.

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 · 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 · 26/09/2026

And in webtop form with selkies running a NixOS base.

Scoot Wayland compositor running in a browser

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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 · 12/09/2026

Progress! Next up the optional GPU backend (CPU-first for easier container use), then all the stuff that lets Waybar and stuff work. Not at all settled on the name, and it’s technically a compositor not a pure WM but yolo.

An early dev build of flexWM, running NixOS

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

Hmmm wonder which node it is…. 🤣 Most spikes weren’t that big, but having some of my logs pushed over too helped confirm.

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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 · 18/11/2024

Looks like the same decision we just made!

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

Part 2 from the end of the night

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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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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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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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