I was doomscrolling the news on my phone a few weeks ago, and came across this article on SFGate: “The Bay Area hiking club for the unemployed and recently laid off.” I saw that their next hike was going to be near me, so I had to give it a go!
Claude Code as spotter for a live production migration
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.
Blog, relaunched
As part of my deep dive into Claude Code, I’ve relaunched this website, revitalized my LEGO blog, started a new gardening site, and more is coming soon!
Sierra Hull at The Independent, San Francisco
Rosa and I went to see the incomparable Sierra Hull at The Independent with opening act Stephanie Lambring … What an amazing performance! Bluegrass is alive and well
Volcanoes are thrilling!
Especially since this one used to look like Fujiyama until 45 years ago.
New grillz and lights
Gizmo says: Check me out! Looking fierce, huh? Roof rack made for a Toyota but fits me great!
Ruined body panel!
Gizmo says: This small miscalculation has completely ruined one of my body panels.
Rules Applied!
Gizmo says: After the Element Meetup on Alameda, we went to this cool used furniture store Poor Honey’s in Oakland and when we arrived there was this beautiful blue cousin so of course we parked behind it!
Neighborhood succulents in bloom
Went for a neighborhood walk and saw so many happy blooming succulents
I lost interest in Inktober after only two days
is there such a thing as bagtober or sewtober? Bagsewber?
I sewed a thing all by myself!
It’s 8″ by 6″ with a zipper and a lining and I think it turned out quite nice. Pattern: https://youtu.be/n_Tp5wpBoLQ (but I adjusted the dimensions) sewing