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My global CLAUDE.md

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:37:44 +0000

Here is my global CLAUDE.md, it has only three purposes: When using fable, it has proven itself to be excellent at slashing costs using the sub-agents routing. # Global rules (apply to every session)## Command timeouts & fast diagnostics- ALWAYS wrap a command that can hang or block in a timeout guard, and **start at […]

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Two React and React Router design flaws and solutions

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 19:20:43 +0000

If you’ve used React for any serious development, you already know that it’s a few burritos short of a full Mexican fiesta. Both its tree-based prop and state management, and the complete lack of support for routing, have been pretty big gaps that have challenged a generation of developers. Here are my notes to self […]

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Elevating my game with the Brave browser

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 18:04:02 +0000

When I have some downtime, I tend to “reassess my life” lol. And my primary pain point in my nerd dev life has been my abusive requirements of my ever-failing browsers. So far my best solution was terrible: use firefox for everything i can possibly use it for to support FOSS and get privacy, use […]

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Google drops domain registrations, hello Cloudflare

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:43:07 +0000

I was happy with Google Domains, but like everything good that they do, they killed it. Without asking for confirmation, they pushed the entirety of their DNS registrations to SquareSpace. World class, Google. It forced me to search a bit and discover that even the little guys can get Cloudflare protection, wholesale. Damn I love […]

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Get certified as a commercial drone pilot (Part 107)

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 20:14:19 +0000

I bought a sweet DJI FPV drone and I’m getting certified for commercial operation. It was more work than I expected – until you consider that you are basically the pilot of an aircraft. Better know the rules of our National airspace – now with 1000 acronyms! Don’t worry, got you covered on my wiki. […]

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CORS for devs in 5 minutes

Tue, 30 May 2023 22:59:28 +0000

CORS is dumb. CORS is here to stay. CORS has a bit of usefulness. As my daughter opined recently, cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it. After spending days on it, I now have a five minute fix for CORS in a dev environment where the frontend is split from the […]

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2023 D3 Reactive Responsive skeleton

Sat, 04 Mar 2023 18:11:58 +0000

A better Trader has been a work-in-progress project of mine for a very long time. The web UI was done in vanilla javascript, with old school imports, and PHP-style server-generated html, then added jQuery, then bootstrap, then started removing jQuery, then moved towards more-static html with JSON payloads for the data, then pined for better […]

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Create an iPhone app with login to backend

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 03:59:37 +0000

My little iPhone app is simple as I can manage (but no less, ha). SwiftUI is the new way, UIKit is the old way but huge, full of history – can I avoid it? It seems I can. I have login and logout, environment state across pages, tab views, REST API calls with JSON decoding, […]

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Kicking off a mobile app in mid-2022

Tue, 05 Jul 2022 15:45:15 +0000

I went swimming in the Atlantic for a couple hours. With my Samsung phone in my pocket. So when I got an updated Android phone, I got an iPhone too. Time for some mobile app development. Here’s what I got through on the long weekend… I briefly considered Flutter, Xamarin, and React Native to give […]

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C++20 is go

Sun, 26 Sep 2021 18:04:57 +0000

Boost 1.77 is working well with it, and I’ve fully migrated to boost::json, which is working out great. The straw that broke the camel’s back was map.contains(), lolz. I was ready! I feel like I’ve had a hot bath. Nice.

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systemd-resolved hates your LAN’s single-label hosts

Wed, 14 Apr 2021 15:24:16 +0000

TL;DR add this config to dnsmasq.conf to expand your LAN single-label hosts into FQDNs that systemd won’t hate: For decades, DNS resolution was fine, and then systemd arrived and it was not. For the past couple years, for me and many others, systemd-resolved has been quite a headache, failing basic DNS resolution on any fresh […]

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“Free” domain email (just costs your soul)

Fri, 29 May 2020 18:52:32 +0000

From zero to new-domain-with-gmail-backed-email: Congratulations! Now you’ve guaranteed that the biggest big brother the human race will ever know, outside of the US government, can read your every thought, in realtime. And don’t worry, they’ll pass it all on, proactively, to the government, for free. UPDATE: do this too:

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Wayback SO

Mon, 16 Dec 2019 14:44:26 +0000

C++11 thread_local set us up the bomb

Sat, 07 Dec 2019 22:08:57 +0000

The thread_local scope tells the compiler to create one unique version of a variable per thread. Then you can access it without worrying at all about in what thread you are. (Grammar Nazis, help me out here. I think I got that right…) It is absolutely genius for making multi threaded programming that much easier. […]

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Postgres JSONB field type conversion

Sun, 17 Feb 2019 20:10:01 +0000

Example to convert a field from real type to integer type: All that just remove the $*(@ decimals… how particular…

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