(un)PTO Hiking: Tilden, Muir Woods, and Old Colma Loop

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!

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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.

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Blog, relaunched

Screenshot of my old site - courtesy archive.org

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!

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Wild sunset the other day

No filter!

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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

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New grillz and lights

Gizmo says: Check me out! Looking fierce, huh? Roof rack made for a Toyota but fits me great!

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Ruined body panel!

Gizmo says: This small miscalculation has completely ruined one of my body panels.

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Power input installed

Gizmo says: Ok so we got the power input installed in a better spot

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Repurposed bike rack as tire carrier

Gizmo says: My human Bill cleverly repurposed a cheap bike rack from Craigslist to hold my spare tire so that the place where little tiny tire that I came with goes can be reused for more storage inside. Also new protective light covers for my taillights!

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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!

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Honda Element Meetup

Gizmo says: My humans Bill and Rosa took me to a meetup of other Honda Elements! So many of my relatives showed up for the first ever Bay Area Honda Element Meetup yesterday in Alameda!

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Eat the rainbow!

Ube sourdough bread from Rize Up Bakery with sage cheese

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I bought a house!

Built in 1941 in Richmond, CA. My first home purchase!

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I lost interest in Inktober after only two days

is there such a thing as bagtober or sewtober? Bagsewber?

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More zippers found -> new bag!

Rosa and I went through some boxes of scraps and I found a stash of zippers so here’s a new bag!

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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

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