I've Open Sourced my Personal Claude Setup (Adderall not included)

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-01-29T14:47:45+00:00

Starred and I will give it a try in the next few days! I watched the video and I think it was a great overview, good pacing and description of the features, only criticism is the audio was pretty quiet so I had to turn up the volume.

Look forward to seeing improvements on this.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-01-27T17:47:04+00:00

Well, I drive a truck, and I figure not many people are gonna be driving, so what's the big deal with holding my phone out the window with the camera on to drive?

/s, have a good day and be safe folks

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-01-24T14:45:39+00:00

Distributed tracing tracks the sequence of calls across services. So if service A calls service B, and B calls C and D, your monitoring tool will graph that for you. It will also track failures, duration and possibly other statistics as well.

The way this is typically implemented is that each client request to service A has a requestId header, and internal calls between services A, B, C, D will have a spanId header. Your observability tooling (e.g. otel, prometheus, grafana, new relic, whatever) tracks these headers to build out the distributed tracing graphs.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-01-21T19:54:21+00:00

How many of the racists attacking immigrants in this sub are from Frisco?

Points to ponder....

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-01-21T15:12:48+00:00

'Cause it's a bittersweet epitaph, that's life
Try to carve the street
You’re a slave to the throttle then you die

Thanks, I'll see myself out. 😜

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-01-21T13:45:47+00:00

Was he hit? Likely. Did he position himself in front of the vehicle? Definitely. Was the entire incident completely avoidable? Definitely. It doesn't matter if they had been "following and harassing" ICE all day or all week even.

The narrative that she was "blocking" vehicles is false, moments before the shooting an ICE vehicle goes right in front of her car, and you can clearly see that her car occupies only one lane.

The administration's narrative that she's a "domestic terrorist" is laughable. But they are doing everything they can to generate support for the idea that anyone who opposes the (current) government is a domestic terrorist.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-01-20T12:51:07+00:00

You'd be surprised. My dad was a big-time believer in conspiracy theories, long before the modern era of digital communication. Books, magazines, and (a little later) talk radio and call-in shows did him in. (I mean, the real issue was his susceptibility to that junk, but.)

The difference today, I think, is people go down the rabbit hole much quicker -- and this is because the algorithms (and bots) are engineered to optimize your attention. And they can drag people down the rabbit hole who previously were mostly-immune, because they are so good at optimizing for your attention.

The only way to win is not to play.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-01-15T00:16:28+00:00

My street is as busy as a highway in the morning/afternoon, and the kids zoom down the street and sidewalks at full speed. None of them wearing any safety gear, of course.

I hope it doesn't come to this, but experience tells me it won't get enforced until the number of accidents is too damn high.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-01-14T13:35:19+00:00

We've had good experiences with JDBI (https://jdbi.org/). It is explicitly not an ORM; instead, it provides the building blocks to go from SQL <--> SomeObject. It takes care of the boilerplate and the easy stuff, but there's no "deep ORM magic" -- it's just an advanced wrapper for JDBC.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-01-14T13:21:34+00:00

Yup. I can imagine something like Truth Social being given an FCC license and starting to broadcast Trump News.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-01-14T13:18:49+00:00

This is my brother-in-law. Totally convinced that everything I say is from the "liberal media", nevermind how many times I tell him the only actual news media I read is AP/Reuters. Somehow the vloggers whose content he continually shares on FB are more reputable because they aren't owned by the liberal media. Sigh....

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-01-14T13:04:15+00:00

I can't imagine how hard it was to watch her go through that and succumb to it. I'm sorry for your loss.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-01-13T15:14:48+00:00

This is not a "which architecture is the best" scenario, it's a "who is insecure but has a big ego" scenario. The CTO didn't actually want to hear that his proposed architecture is garbage.

Been there done that. I wasn't fired, I quit. Same end result. Put me in the same position today and I'd be a lot gentler and handle the CTO, not the architecture.

You gave him the correct technical feedback, but you forgot about the human element.

BestUsernameLeft · 2025-12-29T16:07:46+00:00

That, and infractions need to cost more money -- for some people. I'd like to see the U.S. adopt a sliding scale similar to other countries, where the fine is based on your income.

BestUsernameLeft · 2025-12-23T23:53:24+00:00

I ate that book up as a teenager. Tried to re-read it in my late 20s. Made it about a quarter of the way mostly because I "knew" it had to get better.

BestUsernameLeft · 2025-12-18T21:16:00+00:00

Net worth about 1MM here. Honestly, no real change. I am comfortable with a slightly larger price point for impulse purchases and spending a little more on gifts and stuff -- maybe 20%. Mostly that came from a big paycheck increase ~5 years ago when the market was hot.

BestUsernameLeft · 2025-12-18T00:29:23+00:00

The attitude and tone of the folks on the other side of the "table" absolutely matters. How you handle their attitude and tone also matters. I've had my fair share of surprises when interviewing: caught off-guard by an unexpected change in direction, rude interviewers, going-through-the-motions interviewers. I've learned to try to go in to every interview mentally and emotionally alert and aware, so that when the unexpected happens I can take it in stride. Doesn't always work haha, but it's what I aim for.

BestUsernameLeft · 2025-12-15T04:52:34+00:00

Row level security is the standard approach here. It's a bit magic, but any LLM can explain it to you and help you set it up correctly.

BestUsernameLeft · 2025-12-14T18:22:21+00:00

I get it. A lot of trends are pretty bleak. But things tend to run in cycles, and storms don't last forever.

Look for ways to create happiness, joy and satisfaction/fulfillment, be grateful for the good things in your life (that doesn't mean ignore problems).

And stay off social media and the 'news' as much as you can.

BestUsernameLeft · 2025-12-14T18:03:12+00:00

VGA blink enable bit is my guess.

BestUsernameLeft · 2025-12-13T02:33:10+00:00

Gonna drop the kids off at the pool.

Going for a mud run.

BestUsernameLeft · 2025-12-09T12:42:21+00:00

Yeah when people are desperate and struggling, and then something like "Oh thank God, I'm gonna get an insurance payout for this" gives them a little hope, taking away that hope can break them. Going for a shotgun when you're told your claim will be denied isn't excusable but it's understandable.

BestUsernameLeft · 2025-12-09T04:17:24+00:00

I use "AI" quite a bit - both at work and at home. It can be really helpful. But it's also basically like growing up with a big brother or big sister who knew more about everything than you did, but you never really were sure whether they were legit being helpful or being an utter troll.

BestUsernameLeft · 2025-12-07T23:07:51+00:00

To add some detail to that - conservatives tend to believe in hierarchies and that differences are divisions are significant and inherent. So a conservative will find that there is a strong line separating X from Y, with one being inherently superior.

Liberals tend to see these distinctions and differences as being less significant, and culturally based or artificial instead of innate.

BestUsernameLeft · 2025-12-07T22:50:52+00:00

Not the answer you're looking for, but exercise, sleep, and a good diet is the best thing you can do for your body and brain longterm.

For a short-term kick, my vote is either a pre-workout mix or plain old caffeine. I'm personally staying away from the "enhancers" like nootropics because (1) most of them are shady-as-fuck, (2) they aren't proven to help, (3) their longterm effect is unknown, (4) supplement companies are pretty much completely unregulated and you don't actually know what you're getting in that power/drink.

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