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Desk for people who work at home with a cat
The Neko House Desk understands who’s really in charge of your home, and helps you convince them to let you have some space too. A big part of the appeal of working from home is that even if you’re still working for somebody else, you get much more control over your immediate environment. Want to […]
Anatomy of the .claude/ Folder
Most teams have adopted AI in some form, but the gap between “using AI” and “getting measurable ROI from AI” is larger than people realize. Postman released a cost savings analysis that looks at six common API development workflows and benchmarks the actual time and cost difference when AI is built into the platform versus […]
Hong Kong Police Can Now Demand Phone Passwords Under New Security Rules
Your iPhone’s encryption means nothing if Hong Kong police decide you’re a security threat. New amendments to the city’s National Security Law now allow authorities to demand “any password or other decryption method” for phones, laptops, and encrypted devices—no warrant required, even with digital IDs. The rules, effective March 23, 2026, turn your biometric locks […]
The ’Paperwork Flood’: How I Drowned a Bureaucrat Before Dinner
Mood: Maliciously compliant. I can’t express how much I utterly hate the ”Continuing Disability Review.” It is a letter that arrives every few years from the government, asking a question that is medically absurd and philosophically insulting: ”Are you still disabled?” As if my blindness were a seasonal allergy. As if I might have woken […]
Should QA Exist
Should engineering organizations have quality assurance (QA)? A lot of engineering leaders say they should not. I review the topic, and provide some suggestions for QA leaders, and some nuance on the problems with the way QA and engineering work together. 🌶️ ahead! QA should not exist In some engineering leadership circles, the answer is […]
Hold on to Your Hardware
A warning about rising prices, vanishing consumer choice, and a future where owning a computer may matter more than ever as hardware, power, and control drift toward data centers and away from people. For the better part of two decades, consumers lived in a golden age of tech. Memory got cheaper, storage increased in capacity […]
A Faster Alternative to Jq
This article is both an introduction to a tool I have been working on called jsongrep, as well as a technical explanation of the internal search engine it uses. I also discuss the benchmarking strategy used to compare the performance of jsongrep against other JSON path-like query tools and implementations. In this post I’ll first […]
The European AllSky7 fireball network
The network is based on the AllSky7 systems manufactured by Mike Hankey. Details about the systems were published in a paper at Meteoroids 2020 conference. Each system contains seven highly sensitive NetSurveillance NVT cameras with the SONY STARVIS IMX291 CMOS Sensor and a 4 mm f/1.0 lens. Five of them are horizonally oriented at an […]
Schedule tasks on the web
A scheduled task runs a prompt on a recurring cadence using Anthropic-managed infrastructure. Tasks keep working even when your computer is off.A few examples of recurring work you can automate: Reviewing open pull requests each morning Analyzing CI failures overnight and surfacing summaries Syncing documentation after PRs merge Running dependency audits every week Scheduled tasks […]