(un)PTO Hiking: Tilden Again, Gerbode Valley

My photos from two more hikes with the unemployed workers. I went on several hikes in April/May, organized by Basem Istanbouli after seeing an article in SFGate about the hikes he was organizing. Since then the unpto hiking group has grown significantly and we now have so many people on each hike that we have to divide up into several groups with staggered start times.

Read more

Claude Code as spotter for a live production migration

Diagram showing process for the pattern described in this post

During the bill.wards.net migration, I had Claude helping me run commands (e.g. ansible, docker compose, wp-cli) on the production webhost, but I didn’t want to give Claude direct access to it. Claude would give me commands to run as a privileged user, I would review the command and copy/paste it into the shell if it looked appropriate, then copy/paste the output back to Claude for review. The process of selecting, copying, and pasting the output was onerous and I came up with this pattern to make it easier by giving Claude read-only access to my privileged shell session.

Read more