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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 · 13h

Was seeing this with a custom keyboard build with RMK earlier today, and some with some compositor work

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 13h

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

Opus 5.5 has been great at finding/solving weird edge case bugs. Found some in Smithay too that I want to review and share upstream. Glad most of the projects I’m using in this space don’t outright decline AI usage (though some definitely discourage it). Just want to leave things better, ya know?

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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

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 · 26/09/2026

I had moved to using a lot more Sonnet+Opus/Fable advisor, but it’s so good I’ve been finding myself using Opus for basically everything again. So cool to see them give a free reset too. Definitely flew through that fast 🤣

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 25/09/2026

It’s kinda wild. I’ve seen some people start moving to an external cron since the jobs will kick off fine, it’s just the cron trigger itself

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

On purpose? 😆 Earlier today I wondered why nix was taking its sweet time... Then was far enough that it felt silly to cancel it. Thought I just updated the flake for the package I had been working on 🤦‍♂️

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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

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 · 12/09/2026

Yeah webtop is pretty cool. Wayland stuff is new to me. I’ve been experimenting a lot lately with using Claude to push into areas above my head and as it works, slowly gaining some more understanding. Been a lot of fun!

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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 used to use “write config to enable docker on NixOS” as a fun test for early AI models. Till mid/late last year it seemed like most made up good sounding answers that were always wrong.

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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 · 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

I’ve been enjoying my Mac as the daily driver while ssh/tmux for development work to a kata container in my homelab cluster running Talos (and Fedora for the dev container)

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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 · 05/09/2026

100% agree! Talos is so good!

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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

Should software have always been this fun? Also, yeah. 🤷‍♂️

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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 · 16/03/2026

Haha perfect! Was just about to say too — create board is awesome. Haven’t had a chance to see, but when I asked for an edit, it made a full copy and new one. It’d be awesome to see it move toward edits too

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 16/03/2026

MCP creating boards is 🔥. Would it be possible to make it auto size panels a little larger? They’re all small enough to need to be scrolled vertically on desktop. That’d help it feel totally hands off when making via MCP

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

Will do! It’s been great so far. Looking forward to doing a bit of chaos engineering to see how it feels troubleshooting with it more. Worked great helping me shift to make the Postgres template board work with CNPG based clusters last night. Much easier than remapping by hand.

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

1000%. Prod + no silos is 🪄

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

@charity.wtf and @lizthegrey.com’s content has shaped a lot of my thoughts on o11y. Happy to have finally moved the lab. Know we haven’t all met yet, but wanted to say thanks for all the great work you and your teams do.

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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

I built a CLI to get around some of the forgejo limitations, but when using with remote agents, they all are super determined to find that endpoint that doesn’t exist.

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

Good so far except for the missing job logs endpoint. The community seems a bit fractured too without a fully officially CLI which has made AI usage of it more difficult. Gonna give GitLab a shot on some personal projects with them continuing free self hosted minutes.

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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!

vite.dev

Vite 7.0 is out!

Vite 7 Release Announcement

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 20/06/2025

You can get kinda close to the Cline Plan/Act stuff with Copilot by using Ask mode to plan what you’ll do asking it to break down the steps, then in the same chat switching to Agent and asking it to do it. The main thing I love about Roo is orchestrator. It’ll break it down and push out subtasks.

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Steve Yackey @steveyackey.com · 20/06/2025

If you want to give Cline or RooCode a try too, you can also use your Copilot license, it’ll just count in your monthly requests. In the model options it’s got experimental support for VS Code LM API. That said, your Claude Pro will give Claude Code access too, which is pretty great too!

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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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