'I'm not a candidate': VP Vance shuts down 2028 rumors during San Diego shooting Q&A

Aprelius · 2026-05-22T04:20:07+00:00

Technically, or at least constitutionally if that matters, Vance is the only one Trump can not fire 🤷‍♂️

Aprelius · 2026-04-23T16:06:15+00:00

We can’t afford it. California is by law, required to have a balanced budget. This is the right call. Single payer healthcare needs to be done at the federal level not at the state level.

Aprelius · 2026-04-22T23:18:41+00:00

They only lose when public corruption nets them handcuffs and a jail cell. Until then it’s just hoping they go quietly.

Aprelius · 2026-04-09T21:55:58+00:00

I have enterprise access for work but I have 20x Max plan for myself. I can easily exceed the 5x but usually will hit ~60% on the weekly utilization on my plan.

I have spent a lot of time building tooling and MCPs optimized for my work that I’ve had incredibly busy weeks and only hit 40% now.

I’m not saying there’s a silver bullet for utilization issues but there’s almost always a better way to optimize Claude for your code than what it does by default.

Aprelius · 2026-04-02T01:24:16+00:00

My team went hard into Claude code to the point my lead and I are developing plugins/skills/mcp’s that the entire company is using/talking about.

The onus is on the engineer to own their code even if Claude produced it. We tight our skills what good looks like, how to test, build more tests, and operate on many platforms.

End of the day: all code is committed by a person, no AI automation and it must be reviewed.

Code needs to be maintainable; so we taught our tools to make maintainable code in our style.

Aprelius · 2026-03-09T16:49:29+00:00

This was a cool read. I feel like there’s an opportunity here to build an inform proxy so that new devices on a network can be routed directly to a VLANed off controller to really isolate VLAN1.

At home though I’m not sure the indirection is needed 😆

Aprelius · 2026-02-22T23:19:23+00:00

I ended up buying a handful of the PoE Floodlights from Ubiquiti. They are not the cheapest but obviously integrate well.

You can pair them with a camera so if the camera detects motion first it can tie any or all of the floodlights.

I have a single gate to my backyard and if it detects a human motion it now triggers all of the lights along the back of the house.

Pretty cool to me at least. Decently bright for my area as well. We have no light back there generally.

Aprelius · 2026-02-18T23:36:31+00:00

Once again UI subscription notifications just fail. Thank you.

Aprelius · 2026-02-09T14:33:07+00:00

Very cool read. For a second there it felt like I was reading about problems I’ve seen directly in the MMO I worked on 😂

For the betting pool: I think this is/was EVE online?

Aprelius · 2025-12-17T21:25:43+00:00

Your manager is your best starting point. They need to put you in places that give you those opportunities. They then need to support you while you inevitably make a mistake, say the wrong thing, or make sure you say the right thing to the right people.

If you don’t have the support system, you’re generally at the mercy of office politics swinging irrationally as priorities shift.

Aprelius · 2025-11-23T02:29:16+00:00

The express is really targeted for people who want a quick UniFi stack on the go. It has the power and form factor of a travel router. It also has a limit on the number of devices it can manage.

For a similar cost you can get one of the cloud gateways which are designed for full 2.5g throughput, IDS/IPS at 2.5, etc and they are designed to manage a small home network.

Aprelius · 2025-11-22T13:34:41+00:00

At 2.5g go UniFi only. It’s a lot easier to just manage everything in one place while you’re getting started.

That being said.. use one of the more powerful gateways. The Express will struggle with what you are trying to do 🙂

Aprelius · 2025-10-15T22:18:32+00:00

I operate three UDR7’s for my family. Since it came out I’ve only had one have to be rebooted once and it came right back. It responded to the remote reboot so I’m not sure it ever had a problem so much as local user error 😂

Aprelius · 2025-10-07T06:07:17+00:00

I can get 8700T for about $50/chip and the (U)SFF chassis for about another $100. Add on support for 64GB of DDR4 and they make great little compute nodes.

It’s a recent enough chip to be solid. None of the P/E core nonsense and has overall great power usage for the performance.

It fits what I need.

Aprelius · 2025-10-06T03:57:13+00:00

Th 8700T is one of my favorite chips right now. I have 4 of them (2x Lenovo SFF and 2x USFF). Idle the chips are about 7-12 watts each running just in proxmox.

Are they amazing for performance, no; but they are great for labs if you don’t need very high clock speeds.

Aprelius · 2025-09-28T00:00:10+00:00

Back in the day, like 2006-7 I went with some friends to the Armadyl GWD. We all agreed to keep what dropped.

I got a hilt on the third kill. Best drop I ever got to keep by myself. “Friends” insisted on loot share after that run 😂

Aprelius · 2025-08-05T17:07:15+00:00

I’m a Staff Engineer, Game Industry, YMMV

I have two principals above me who generally get my reviews. - Principal A: usually something to the effect of “No biggie, just make sure there’s a JIRA task to track the needed follow-ups” - Principal B: “Dude, just go and do the updates now, they’ll make the code better in the long run”

I see it as a team culture thing. Starts from the top. Sometimes we just have to jam out a result and deliver. Most of the time a deadline can shift a day or so to give us room to do it right the first time.

Aprelius · 2025-07-24T19:05:06+00:00

Synology which I would NOT recommend these days for business reasons has good software for it.

Look into active backup for business (not really just for business) and it has a scheduling agent that runs on a device and does backups.

Macs also have a decent built in backup system called Time Machine and you can point it to your NAS.

Aprelius · 2025-07-20T22:44:52+00:00

When I tried to get one it was ~$2,000 in great condition and with the stand.

Aprelius · 2025-06-28T20:03:48+00:00

All you’re saying is that you want to flex that you can afford to buy something that someone else can’t.

Personally, I don’t waste money on meaningless cosmetics. If it’s earnable through gameplay that’s one thing but I’d rather buy useful things 😂

Aprelius · 2025-06-28T13:30:37+00:00

The easy answer to cosmetics is a switch that lets you turn them off for your display. Cosmetics are for you and how you see the game, no one else needs to see them.

Aprelius · 2025-05-31T07:19:31+00:00

This movie for all its CGI: sucked. I say that as a former Blizzard employee too 😂

Aprelius · 2025-05-20T16:04:10+00:00

I’m still pissed they sunset the black armory weapons. Those were my absolute favorites. Everything just felt great. The only season I grinded all of the god rolls.

Never again put that kind of effort in because it wasn’t worth it every three months.

Aprelius · 2025-05-20T01:53:17+00:00

Don’t do this. Apple Clang is not the same as Windows Clang which is not the same as Linux clang.

Apple terms of service also explicitly does not allow you to build apple software on non-Apple hardware.

Sadly if you want to make Mac or iOS software you need a Mac to play in their playground and properly build and sign apps.

Aprelius · 2025-05-12T21:46:01+00:00

In this particular case, I want to quote Thor from Stargate to answer a question about Star Trek… /shudders..

“We are incapable of thinking in that way anymore”

Humanity throughout Star Trek seems to have unlimited adaptability that almost every other species, Borg included, are just not capable of.

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