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Headphones that switch themselves off

Headphones that switch themselves off

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

Configure an antigravity-cli statusline

Configure an antigravity-cli statusline

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

Is Claude making more mistakes?

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

Opus 4.6: building a finance tool in one shot

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