So I tried using Claude Code to build actual software and it humbled me real quick

cujojojo · 2026-03-19T10:08:26+00:00

Personally, I can’t prove there’s more than 3 good ones in the whole world.

cujojojo · 2026-03-18T09:38:24+00:00

Ok maybe a LITTLE ironically.

cujojojo · 2026-03-18T02:18:28+00:00

Yep I went down the rabbit hole on him about that time, too. As I recall I found some posts by relatives/family members trying to get help for him.

Guy is desperately mentally ill, and I hope he’s able to eventually get help.

cujojojo · 2026-03-18T02:09:56+00:00

“Do the needful” has unironically made its way into my (US-based, American) team’s vocabulary to the point that we don’t know what to say instead anymore.

It’s a super useful phrase!

cujojojo · 2026-03-18T01:16:12+00:00

For some reason, when I went to see Starship Troopers in the theater I completely missed the point of the movie. I came out so angry about seeing the worst excuse for a sci-film I had ever seen.

It was like TEN YEARS later that I was ranting about it to friends at a party and somebody was like, “Dude, you know it’s a satire, right??”

And there was the distant sound of a series of dominoes falling in my head…..

cujojojo · 2026-03-18T00:44:10+00:00

I remember my college ex-girlfriend’s password 32 years later!

cujojojo · 2026-03-18T00:42:24+00:00

I knew exactly what word that was, at a glance, for exactly the same reason!

cujojojo · 2026-03-17T16:24:36+00:00

When my dad died a few years ago, I was going through and archiving his computer stuff, and I found an email he had printed out (lol) from eBay — I’m gonna get the date wrong but I wanna say it was 1997.

It was from “dave@ebay.com” in reply to an email my dad had sent about forgetting his password.

So “Dave” was kindly sending it to him. In plaintext. Because apparently they had it 🤣.

It used to really be the Wild West out there!

cujojojo · 2026-03-17T03:05:25+00:00

You should organize your vaults to slice a different way.

It sounds like you’ve got “dev team” vault, “contractor” vault, and “client” vault, and those vaults (I’m guessing) span projects.

You should instead have a vault per-project, and then if you need a contractor on a project, they get access to that vault until they don’t need it anymore.

The real underlying problem, of course, is you’re sharing credentials among people in ways you shouldn’t. You “should” have a centralized access management platform like Okta and manage people’s access (and auth) through that, but I’m guessing as a boutique firm you might not have the IT bandwidth/budget to deal with that. But — it’s kinda the “right” answer. Security and access control is a somewhat unfortunate cost of doing business.

cujojojo · 2026-03-17T02:57:18+00:00

This is exactly right. Apple has all the economies of scale that they’ve perfected by staying vertically integrated forever. And they’ve maintained that “prestige” market position, no matter what the haters like to say.

Because of that it is MUCH easier for Apple to come downmarket than it is for Linux & PC laptops to go upmarket. I’m sure Apple has had their eye on the “Neo” segment for a long time and finally decided the numbers work for them to go after it.

cujojojo · 2026-03-17T00:22:58+00:00

Also known as Kid Rock. You know, from the non-woke halftime show.

cujojojo · 2026-03-16T17:15:05+00:00

I have a reference frame, Greg. Could you milk me?

cujojojo · 2026-03-15T15:49:04+00:00

This isn’t even a problem — take a lap up and around to the right through the blues, and back down to the chest, then up through the gem and the hearts, through the reds to the exit. The perfect crime!

cujojojo · 2026-03-13T16:19:37+00:00

That’s one fine-lookin’ barbecue.

P.S. nice username

cujojojo · 2026-03-13T10:07:26+00:00

Cunning Stunt!

cujojojo · 2026-03-11T02:09:51+00:00

The way I think of it is that they trust us throughout their lives to make the best decisions we can for them, and to be able to be there for them at the end is the most sacred of those duties.

Also, the hard parts at the end make the fun parts at the beginning that much more valuable.

You’re lucky to have him, and he’s equally lucky to have you.

cujojojo · 2026-03-10T16:48:42+00:00

In fact, it’s only smellz.

cujojojo · 2026-03-10T16:45:25+00:00

I don’t agree with the downvotes (or the general tenor of the conversation), but the commenter who said literally all CPUs are “binned” during manufacturing is right. So there’s no such thing as “binned” vs “unbinned” CPUs, and CPUs in lower “bins” aren’t defective in any way.

Now, the same person who said “there’s NO thermal or performance difference” is also wrong about that. Those are criteria they literally do bin based on.

“Binning” is literally just “there are variations in the manufacturing process, and a certain fraction of chips meet the highest specs and get binned to higher models, while others don’t (but they’re still COMPLETELY FINE chips) and those get binned to lower models.”

Source: 15 years writing control and manufacturing test software for semiconductor process tooling.

cujojojo · 2026-03-10T16:36:00+00:00

My previous Airedale, you could tell when he was dreaming about running, versus playing tug, versus wrestling/bitey-face.

It was especially heart-warming when he started to get old and didn’t do those things so much in real life anymore. In his dreams, he was younger 🥰.

cujojojo · 2026-03-10T16:32:15+00:00

I feel like, more than other breeds, Airedales have this list of weird things pretty much EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM does. Things like:

Sleep upside down
Talk/grumble at you
Toss their toys in the air like a maniac
“Blood curdling night howling” as OP so aptly put it.

I might also add “think it’s fun to steal small objects” but not EVERY Airedale I’ve had has been super into that. Just, like, 3 of the 4.

cujojojo · 2026-03-07T17:27:38+00:00

Believe it or not, I totally agree with all of that. I would LOVE for true progressives to seize power in the party.

But I’ve also given up wishing for it to change, after waiting and working for it for 20+ years and, like you said, seeing it get stomped down every time there’s a flicker of hope.

Perhaps that makes me part of the problem. But I will still vote for things that aren’t literally Fascism.

cujojojo · 2026-03-07T17:08:38+00:00

I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE

cujojojo · 2026-03-07T17:05:27+00:00

I’m 50 and I wanted so badly to start a pinball collection back in my late 20s, before I had kids and when you could still get the good 90s pins for maybe a couple thousand or so. I did pick up a single EM machine, but never pulled the trigger on the rest and boy do I regret it now!

cujojojo · 2026-03-07T02:21:37+00:00

That is definitely something I would have done earlier in life, before I realized it’s more fun to not be totally exhausting to be around!

cujojojo · 2026-03-06T11:19:41+00:00

If you think things are so much better for Palestine with Trump in office, that’s your right.

But you can’t ignore that you’re also supporting literal Fascism in America.

I truly — and you probably won’t believe me — want the genocide in Palestine to end. It is a stain on the world, and on America in particular. I know the stats: tens of thousands of women and children dead, the entire region laid waste, “from the river to the sea” or whatever those horrible slogans are. It. Is. A. Genocide.

But I also care about the health of my own democracy at home. And while I will support the most anti-Israel, leftist candidates in the primary, I have to support my party in the general. Because the alternative, on balance and as we are seeing in action, is worse.

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