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My Bose QuietComfort headphones kept powering themselves off while I was using them. A full shutdown, so a button press and a reconnect every time. A few times an hour. I didn't work this out myself. I handed the symptom to Claude Code running Opus 5, let it
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I got tired of "✦ Antigravity" staring back at me every time I opened the CLI, so I wrote it a proper statusline. Antigravity pipes a JSON payload to stdin on every prompt: model name, context window usage, quota, workspace, edit mode. statusline.py reads that, builds a few
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I always wondered where "daemon" came from. Turns out the story goes back to 1963, and starts with a Victorian physicist. Project MAC (1963) The term comes from Fernando J. Corbató's team on MIT's Project MAC, working on the early time-sharing system CTSS.
Misc
I wanted Bookerly on my XTEink v3 instead of the stock fonts. Turns out getting a font onto an e-ink reader properly is fussier than just dropping a .ttf on it. Picking the right files A typical font family download comes with far more than you need. For a
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I picked up an XTEink v3 dev edition to play with CrossPoint firmware. Step one was getting crosspointreader.com/debug to actually see the device over Web Serial. That took longer than it should have, mostly because I chased the wrong causes first. Quick summary: skip the browser flasher entirely
Coding
OK so that's a bait headline but using Sonnet 4.6 for a simple test driven React application revealed some odd decisions. For example, attempting to scaffold code outside the current directory into /tmp: This is concerning. Although the command would fail due to insufficient privileges, operations should
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I prefer rsync over cp or scp: 1. Delta-transferDelta-transfer algorithm only sends the bytes that have changed.2. Resilient and repeatableThe --partial flag picks up where transfer fails.3. Metadata preservationPreserves permissions and ownership, symbolic links, and timestamps (critical for audit trails and incremental backup logic).4. Dry
Thoughts, stories and ideas.
If you run services in production, you already know that hope is not a strategy. Systems fail, networks hiccup, and containers crash. The difference between a minor blip and a catastrophic outage usually comes down to two things: Monitoring and Observability. While these terms are often used interchangeably, they serve
Automating your deployments using GitHub Actions and the GitHub Container Registry (GHCR) is one of the most effective ways to stabilize your infrastructure. By building your Docker images on GitHub's runners and pushing them to GHCR, you completely offload the CPU-intensive build process from your VPS. It
Step-by-step instructions for setting up a multi-container Docker hosting environment on an VPS (Ubuntu 24.04.4) with Nginx Proxy Manager reverse proxy. Server specifications: 6 cores, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD. Architecture Overview Before deploying, it is helpful to understand how traffic flows through this
As a Solution Architect working in Scotland’s financial sector, I spend a lot of time thinking about complexity. Usually, it’s enterprise data flow or legacy banking systems. But sometimes, the complexity is closer to home, like trying to calculate your actual take-home pay when you live in
I've an HP Pavilion Laptop (14-dv2500sa) - the touch screen doesn't work with Linux, due to a UEFI issue. After updating UEFI, I noticed Fedora reporting the battery as empty when it clearly wasn't (because it was still on). There's a setting
I like list expansion: # Create mutiple directories mkdir -p {src,data,app/{mobile,web}} The p switch creates any "missing" parent directories and is idempotent (so if app exists it doesn't complain and if not creates it). # Create multiple files touch file_{1..5}.txt Heck
Ionos has changed how they manage SSL certificates, cut a long story short you need to create a PEM file. From Ionos Control Panel, go to Domains and SSL > Certificates. If it isn't already then under Advanced Settings > Change Usage. Once the private key is downloaded,
Fastest method is using uv and claude mcp add: uv tool install linux-mcp-server claude mcp add linux-mcp --scope user --transport stdio -- linux-mcp-server * linux-mcp is the server name used in Claude Code. * --scope user makes the server available globally for your user account. * --transport stdio
Retro handhelds like the Anbernic RG35XX H are fantastic but if you've recently upgraded to a new version of the Knulli custom firmware and ran into Wi-Fi connectivity issues, so did I. After some head-scratching, I remembered an experimental setting I enabled for Firefly: 1. Navigate
Following on from this post, I thought it might be good to think about JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). Despite its name, JSON has evolved to be agnostic and is arguably the standard for exchanging information because its human readable and easy for computers to parse. JSON is two things: a
Overview of REST Representational State Transfer (REST) is a client server communication pattern, which defines some constraints: * Stateless * Decouple server from client * Should be cacheable. * Uniform interface * Layered (access directly or indirectly via proxy or load balancer). Any service that adhere to this is known as a REST web service
I've Co-pilot enabled while following a book, The Rust Programming Language (Klabnick and Nichols, 2023). Can't help but notice that I get code recommendations that are identical to the book. I assume this is because not only is the book's code on GitHub