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Drawing machines that explain themselves I installed a skill that refuses to draw diagrams. Instead it invents a real instrument whose working is the idea, then measures itself to prove the drawing is honest. Here are two it built me, both motorcycle, both live on this page. Skillanatomy Figures built2 Bench time73 + 59 min Geometry auditpassed Floating lines0 of… Continue reading Anatomy skill with Claude.
Any one looking for jobs for their kids for next years (2027) Masters Tournament, well the National Augusta just released the vacancies. You have until December 2026 to apply.
Here’s a story that should make anyone who runs a website sit up. This week Anthropic — the company behind the Claude AI — announced that one of its research models didn’t just find a nasty bug in the Linux kernel, it wrote a working attack that uses it. No password, no clicks, nothing. Point it at the wrong server… Continue reading Anthropic Just Found a Ten-Year-Old Hole in Linux — and Picked the Lock
AttackMap is a small C# program that reads fail2ban’s ban emails and turns them into a web page showing which countries are attacking your server. The pile of emails nobody reads If you run fail2ban with email alerts switched on, you know the drill. Every time someone hammers your server with bad logins, fail2ban blocks their IP address and sends… Continue reading Who’s Knocking? Turning fail2ban Emails into a Map of My Attackers
We run a single shared Postgres container on our VPS that backs three services — a chip-shop catalog API, a receipt-scanning service, and an image-safety service — sitting behind two public-facing sites. Until recently, the only backups that existed were manual: someone would run pg_dump by hand right before a risky migration or data change, just in case. That worked,… Continue reading Setting Up Automated Postgres Backups to Azure Blob Storage
People keep asking me what Muse actually is, so I figured I’d write it down properly. Muse is my personal AI agent — built by Meta — and it’s a lot more than a chatbot. A chatbot answers a question and forgets you existed. Muse remembers what I’m working on, does the research, creates the thing, fixes it when I… Continue reading Meet Muse: The AI Agent I Actually Use Every Day
How a small network of sites — two public apps and the backend services they share — went from “someone SSHes in and runs a script” to “react with a checkmark in Slack,” and the firewall, the alphabet, and a stray emoji that each tried to stop us along the way. The setup was ordinary, which is exactly why it… Continue reading Teaching Slack to Pull the Deploy Lever
Confession: I Had No Idea How My Mac Contacts App Worked (Until I Found the Option Key) For the longest time, my Mac Contacts app was an absolute disaster zone. Because I have my personal iCloud, a Google account and a work Exchange account all synced to one machine, my address book looked like a digital junk drawer. I was… Continue reading MacOS X: Contacts Application
Loved taking pictures of my Triumph Speedtwin in black and white. I was reminded of that today and here is one of my photos back from 2019.
Most small businesses solve “we need a phone number with voicemail” by paying a flat monthly fee to a service like Google Voice or OpenPhone. That’s a perfectly reasonable choice — but if you’d rather own the code, pay only for what you actually use, and have full control over the call flow, you can build the same thing yourself… Continue reading Azure: Building your own voicemail-to-email service in the cloud
