Great timing - see the thread I shared earlier.
08.03.2026 19:25
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Great timing - see the thread I shared earlier.
β¦three nights in a row I hit "You've hit your limit Β· resets 12am (America/Los_Angeles)."
After the third night I upgraded from $20/month to $100/month without even thinking about it.
Maybe I am converted after all. Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
Cautiously impressed.
Not converted.
Not evangelical.
If you've been on the fence like I was: worth a week of your time to find out.
The upside: I'm actually enjoying *ahem* "writing code" again. Solving immediate problems, self-documenting everything, and building out a threat model for each element of my homelab as I go.
The downside: I'm dealing with an incredibly literal junior developer. Put up guardrails, keep them on the road, and the output is better and faster than I can build myself.
The most interesting use case:
I handed Claude a sizable codebase I didn't fully understand. Asked it to document what it found and build a first-pass threat model.
I still need to walk through the output manually. However, my initial review shows that the output is quite accurate.
β’ Revived an abandoned eInk family calendar β moved the heavy lifting off a struggling Pi Zero 2W into a Docker container on the Pi5
β’Β A Mac menubar app to temporarily disable AdGuard Home for the local host which solved a personal pain point.
That wasn't all I did this week. I also built:
β’Β A FIDO authenticator property collection tool to satisfy my curiosity.
First up: rebuilt my aging homelab on a Raspberry Pi5. AdGuard, Grafana, Uptime Kuma, Let's Encrypt β all containerized, built with Ansible, secrets pulled from my password vault. HA-ready; second Pi5 arrives later this week.
More efficient than going it alone. Imperfect, but shipped.
I've been an AI-coding luddite. Tried Cursor last summer and didn't enjoy the experience. Decided it wasn't for me.
Then @sarah-cecc.bsky.social gave a talk at BSides Seattle last week about Clawdrey Hepburn (clawdrey.com) and I decided to give Claude a real shot.
War is not some game. Our troops are not toy soldiers. Civilian casualties are not nothing.
NO BOOTS ON THE GROUND.
NO WAR WITH IRAN.
Iβve also been using it at home to rebuild my homelab on a RPi5. Again, much more efficient than I can be unassisted, but imperfect.
Iβve gone all in on Claude in the past week or so. The ability to take a code base and documentation to synthesize sequence diagrams, threat modeling artifacts, etc is impressive. I still need to validate the outputs, but it is way more efficient than I am at the first pass for all of these tasks.
The only chip you need. This one hits both on the quality of the chip (extra crunchy) and the flavor profile (salty/spicy). All of the Timβs chips are worth trying.
Timβs Cascade JalapeΓ±o chips.
www.utzsnacks.com/products/tim...
Image of a magic 8 ball with the question, βWill I attend a conference in Texas?β The Magic 8 ball says, βMy sources say no.β
Just learned that a conference Iβve spoken at yearly since 2020 is moving to Texas.
Hosting a conference in a state that doesnβt respect the rights of all people is a terrible idea for an identity-centric conference.
(Yes, Iβm also aware of Gartner IAM in DFW annuallyβ¦)
No, itβs an attempt to further marginalize immigrants in the US.
This is cruel and unnecessary.
From the thread I learned about tcpipeline.org. I immediately made a donation to help TCP assist queer folks to move to safer environments in Colorado and the US.
On our roadtrip last week, my eldest and I were discussing this exact topic. I think you're the first person to have turned me on to the details of the US interstate numbering system.
I love that you notice these things. IIRC you had a blog or wiki of road administrivia stuff at one point?
I really enjoy driving through that area.
Back on the bus. DTW βοΈ SEA. Headed home after a week of college tours. Four states, three different campus tours, a lot of thrift stores, great meals, time with the Identerati of Boston, and a short visit with my cousin and her partner in VT.
Back on the bus. BDL βοΈ DTW on our way to University of Michigan.
College tours continueβ¦
I may be a terrible potter but Shariβs a pro! You should visit @shabbazabba.bsky.social at her studio, Wheelhouse Clay Center, in Brattleboro, VT!
www.wheelhouseclaycenter.com
Dean grimaces while sitting at a pottery wheel with a completely fubared pot.
Pottery lessons with my cousin. Sheβs a pro and makes it look easy. But Iβm a terrible potter!
Day 2 of the college tour adventure with my eldest. We'll be all over Boston and Cambridge today before dinner with some of the Boston based Identerati.
Back on the bus. SEA βοΈ BOS in my favorite seat on an A321Neo, 1B.
IRC is where I met Katchoo years ago, which led me to alt.society.genx, which led me to meet you many years later...
It was a wicked bad time.
I really donβt enjoy football. But Iβm enjoying this game.