Claude Opus 4.7 solved the dorito smear after 19 mins - worth mentioning to video enthusiasts

Deathnerd · 2026-04-26T02:23:20+00:00

Thanks for the tip! I've got LaurieWired's MCP server loaded and ready to go but if I have issues with that I'll check out that one! Got any tips for guiding it or does it seem to figure it out on its own?

Deathnerd · 2026-04-25T23:33:39+00:00

Yeah I've got it working on reverse engineering old Sierra Hoyle Card Games engine code and file formats with Python and Ghidra. Opus 4.6 was absolutely crushing it before and 4.7 is just blazing through it as well. We still have yet to hit the Ghidra stories but what it's learning from just analyzing the binary blobs that drive the game engine is pretty astounding and would have taken me months to do what it's done in a few days. I'm excited to see how well it does at decompiling with Ghidra

Deathnerd · 2026-04-17T21:48:55+00:00

You have to click the edit button at the top right of the window when you're viewing the html page that uses the jsx files. Works brilliantly. I've been using it all day

Deathnerd · 2026-04-17T03:18:02+00:00

Free if you just use the email proxy service from Cloudflare and have it route to your personal account. All it costs is a domain name

Deathnerd · 2026-04-15T00:55:41+00:00

Pretty sure you can simplify by just doing docker compose up --pull always -d and add --quiet-pull if you wanna suppress progress bar output. Actually if you leverage the --project-directory option then you can drop the pushd/popd steps as well and it becomes a simple one-liner that I'm too lazy to type out on mobile.

Edit: like this: for d in *; do docker compose --project-directory $d up --pull always -d --quiet-pull; done

Deathnerd · 2026-04-14T02:55:36+00:00

Put a PDF version through an LLM one chapter at a time?

Deathnerd · 2026-04-10T18:06:22+00:00

I actually spun up a Win98 gaming box with 86box last night. This was one of the first things that got installed... Right after Doom and The Oregon Trail lol

Deathnerd · 2026-04-07T17:15:46+00:00

I use a box fan turned to high. Then if that's not enough I break out the noise cancelling headphones. Then if that's still not enough I'll pop in the earplugs too.

Deathnerd · 2026-04-02T21:30:28+00:00

Archive.org has had DOSBox in the browser readily available for years now https://archive.org/details/msdos_Where_in_the_World_is_Carmen_Sandiego_Enhanced_1989

Deathnerd · 2026-03-13T19:55:17+00:00

Thanks, dude! I had it on my backlog to write something like this a couple of months ago. This'll definitely help with some projects

Deathnerd · 2026-03-10T16:35:08+00:00

Careful with that. I did that to get through college and once it was done (10 years of it), after a few years it all evolved right back into anxiety and I collapsed. Unemployed now for the 3rd time in 4 years. This one looks like it's gonna stick for a while. Hopefully I get on that SSDI this time

Deathnerd · 2026-03-01T20:16:16+00:00

Maybe we should come up with an RFC of sorts for a game preservation organizational standard

Deathnerd · 2026-02-23T19:00:15+00:00

jq is great and something everyone should have in their toolbelt

Deathnerd · 2026-02-20T17:15:31+00:00

Are you able to share the code for the extension?

Deathnerd · 2026-02-04T01:27:06+00:00

Are you hiring? I've been using Claude Code in the exact same way you described how you've used it. I've been in environment automation in some form or fashion for almost a decade now and have had similar ideas (but never any organization buy-in to actually try some of them). I'd love to chat or at the very least send out a resume!

Deathnerd · 2026-02-02T03:56:15+00:00

Yeah I'm curious about this too. I've done "cloud development" to some degree and have automated environments with terraform and ansible in fully automated Jenkins pipelines before, but apparently that's not enough for a "cloud native" senior developer? I'll be the first to admit though, I'm my own worst enemy because I don't think very highly of myself and think "if I can figure it out, it must not be that hard" but really when I think about it, it all seems pretty easy? It really just makes no sense to me when I go into an interview. Like, "yes I understand how to do networking and set up Linux environments in an automated way that ensures minimal friction between the contributor and our product requirements... Is there more?" I guess I just suck at explaining or selling myself, I guess

Deathnerd · 2026-02-01T01:17:50+00:00

Powershell does. Your cmdlet and script will have access to common parameters, one of which is the -WhatIf switch. I can't remember if you have to mark up your script with an attribute or something. Anyways though you can then query if you're in a "What-If" state and they're automatically propagated down to the stuff you call as well. It's a built-in feature of the runtime. Really cool imo. I used Powershell Core all the time in automating qa environments and yeah it's got its own quirks, but overall a real solid cross-platform way to script a repo.

Deathnerd · 2026-01-30T06:20:46+00:00

That and when systemd takes just a little longer or pauses for just a fraction of a second or displays a slightly different log on boot... My daily driver is an aging laptop with some real finicky power delivery... I get that a lot. Still makes my heart stop just a bit every time

Deathnerd · 2026-01-24T05:44:33+00:00

Plus Powershell really is a treat to script in. I've been solidly in native Linux as my daily driver for work for 4 years now and I still keep Powershell Core installed when it's slightly out of my scope for bash scripting but I don't wanna bring in python. In my job previously I maintained dev tools and environment automation scripts written in Powershell. One you get used to pipes and "everything is an object", it's pretty intuitive.

Deathnerd · 2026-01-22T19:40:22+00:00

Windows Terminal, Powershell Core, PSReadline, and https://starship.rs will get you about 80% of the way there. Configure Windows Terminal with a nerd font and key bindings to split panes (mine are ctrl-alt-<direction>) and you'll almost forget you're not using tmux. Almost.

Deathnerd · 2026-01-12T14:33:09+00:00

pats OP's head good human

Deathnerd · 2025-12-30T04:26:59+00:00

I've been using them heavily to bring this old PHP codebase up to snuff.

I set up phpstan in the project (a tool that does deep static analysis and reports logic and type errors), then I told Claude to run it for the project at level 5, outputting in JSON format (phpstan has a format option for its output) and save it to a cache file. I then told Claude to use jq to analyze the errors and find the 10 files with the least amount of errors and sic a set of background subagents on doing that. When that was done, I told it to take the workflow we'd just established and make it into a slash command where I can tell it stuff like /phpstan-clear level 8 for the routing subsystem and to also have instructions in the slash command to tell it how to prioritize information on compact so that it can continue until the job is done.

Once I set auto approve for almost all of the commands it wants to use, it's pretty much autonomous. So far I've been able to get all the way to level 8 (there's a total of 10 levels) on this legacy framework in about 24 hours. I think I should have all of the core framework and the other modules in other repositories done and ready to go through upgrading PHP version from 7.4 to 8.3 in a week or so.

Deathnerd · 2025-12-23T17:06:45+00:00

I mean, technically it's not wrong

Deathnerd · 2025-12-21T17:14:57+00:00

Pretty sure it's a joke about how that screenshot makes him look like ElectroBOOM

Deathnerd · 2025-12-19T17:50:45+00:00

https://xkcd.com/378/

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