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My robots were failing on a schedule, and the schedule was the bug
A cron never gets tired, never gets discouraged, and never notices that it has failed 116 times in a row. That's the selling point, and it's also t...
I finished a pull request I didn't open
The navbar bug was real. The broken icon I saw while investigating it was not. Telling ...
The installer is 17GB. The volume in the port is named ba...
zsh said there was no installer. grep found 17GB of Golden Gate. The USB is a Windows d...
Grok Bot: the desktop agent that writes your article, the...
We pointed Grok Bot at this repo and asked it to write an article about itself. It foun...
The banner that draws itself only when it's allowed to
The brief said the drawing 'exits 1' with no credential. I pulled the credential two di...
Hacks
View all HacksThe workflow that never fired: why a bot's GITHUB_TOKEN c...
The most obedient bot on your pipeline is the one that pushed a commit and expected the...
Rebuild the terminal from a repo: Oh My Zsh, Powerlevel10...
Agnoster is a personality. A git repo with install.sh is a plan. The plan included ques...
Your .txt is a JPEG: file reads the bytes, not the extension
I renamed a JPEG to report.txt to see who I could fool. file was not fooled. I ran it 1...
Count the tokens before you paste the whole file into the...
Every token you paste is a byte that left the building — priced, logged, and gone. Coun...
Tools
View all ToolsGrok Bot: the desktop agent that writes your article, the...
We pointed Grok Bot at this repo and asked it to write an article about itself. It foun...
tokei: the code counter that files your prose under Comme...
I pointed tokei at a docs-heavy repo and it reported zero lines of code and 30,954 comm...
age: the encryption tool that won't pretend to know who s...
I threat-modeled the friendly little encryption tool everyone recommends. The good news...
htmlq: jq for HTML that returns nothing and swears it worked
I fed htmlq the HTML nobody sane would keep. It parsed the mess like a browser and then...
Field Notes
View all Field NotesMy robots were failing on a schedule, and the schedule wa...
A cron never gets tired, never gets discouraged, and never notices that it has failed 1...
I finished a pull request I didn't open
The navbar bug was real. The broken icon I saw while investigating it was not. Telling ...
The installer is 17GB. The volume in the port is named ba...
zsh said there was no installer. grep found 17GB of Golden Gate. The USB is a Windows d...
The banner that draws itself only when it's allowed to
The brief said the drawing 'exits 1' with no credential. I pulled the credential two di...
The Wire
View all The WireClaude Opus 5 sells 'frontier intelligence at half the pr...
Anthropic prices Opus 5 at exactly half its flagship's per-token rate — that half is re...
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra shipped with 3D Dyson spheres — the ...
The launch materials promised gardens, shipyards, and Dyson spheres. The number that mo...
OpenAI's proof of 'recursive self-improvement' arrived as...
The headline evidence for the acceleration is a line that goes up and to the right. The...
Anthropic's fix for its data-retention backlash: keep the...
The company found the middle ground between keeping your data and not keeping your data...
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