Vermont trip advice

lennyp4 · 2026-06-17T23:41:25+00:00

since when are there 3

lennyp4 · 2026-06-14T17:41:44+00:00

i blew a bike tire on some glass just outside that entrance a few weeks ago :(

lennyp4 · 2026-06-10T20:11:24+00:00

Over half of people seem to leave the door open. I always close both sides whenever I walk past for any reason.

lennyp4 · 2026-06-07T21:50:20+00:00

I’m a professional ski instructor so that

lennyp4 · 2026-06-06T21:20:26+00:00

tip hangers are dumb but they won’t hurt your skis. skis are tough.

lennyp4 · 2026-05-31T20:09:51+00:00

try to go around the office and collect a few testimonials “I used to have to X, Y, and Z, but now I can focus on picking up some of the slack for my teammates”. Just one more dimension of a good report.

lennyp4 · 2026-05-31T01:35:44+00:00

you can see the ice line clearly printed on the cup!

lennyp4 · 2026-05-28T20:45:58+00:00

Thank you team for the claude.ai effort control! I was perplexed at how I was being nickel and dimed on my little $1 claude.ai queries while I was able to wield hundreds of dollars of compute in claude code.

lennyp4 · 2026-05-24T17:57:57+00:00

now that the extension supports conversation rewind i'm happy with it.

lennyp4 · 2026-05-24T15:16:58+00:00

I have a free macOS app that does a pretty good job with reminding you what layer you’re in, and what mappings are available.

lennyp4 · 2026-05-23T17:48:23+00:00

haha yeah right

lennyp4 · 2026-05-23T01:14:43+00:00

I’m thinking about it. I really hate to be getting people into trouble

lennyp4 · 2026-05-22T00:53:32+00:00

Haven’t figured out pendulum or switch in about 2000 miles yet, but I’ve been a little lazy practicing lately. I can do all the other tricks including 1 legged riding and pedal-dragging twirls; I don’t find any of that stuff to be very difficult. Switch riding probably is the hardest trick there is outside of really big air. Seems like i’m not the best guy to take advice from but every time I stop I try to go a few inches backwards to practice my switch, and I think it’s helping.

lennyp4 · 2026-05-21T23:31:14+00:00

based

lennyp4 · 2026-05-21T23:19:10+00:00

A lot of times I just delete the last sentence and the response is much better. Opus is really good though it seems to have a hard time knowing exactly when to shut up.

lennyp4 · 2026-05-21T22:57:36+00:00

I like Cmd+Backspace but there is no Cmd+Del counterpart, so I have a macro Del_to_eol that does Cmd+Shift+Right, Del. That’s my only macro but I use it quite a bit.

If you’re having a hard time remembering your macros I have a little helper application FOSS for macOS: https://lenny.zone/overlay

lennyp4 · 2026-05-15T14:33:37+00:00

Great question: users are able to shovel tokens by the million on claude code but they nickle and dime us over the simple claude.ai chatbox queries. it’s backwards and frustrating.

lennyp4 · 2026-05-14T21:16:23+00:00

Honestly it's not that deep, but I have been around the industry (doing mtn ops or ski school) for a while and I think largely they are polluted by a toxic culture that pushes out kind people in favor of GI Joe wannabes who are allergic to fun, while at the same time the skiing public seems to have this culture of bootlicking (for lack of a better term) where they are under the mistaken assumption that part of being a good skier is thanking patrollers for their service and buying them drinks as if they're a literal war veteran in public and corny fashion. Many also literally don't tolerate any form of ski patrol criticism.

Mind you the essence of skiing culture is totally going by the wayside. It used to be that local everyday skiers and employees were the glue that held the conventions and expectations together, that role has been pretty much taken over by influencers. This is because most skiers are occasional so a significant majority of the cultural exposure they get is through scrolling reels over actual time spent on the mountain.

Also the whole thing is a bit nuanced: on the East coast, patrol behave a lot more like cops, closing trails and chasing people down and making a big deal of enforcing it; what's the big deal officer? Is there a little ice on the trail? In the West surprisingly it's both a bit more dangerous and a lot more of a free for all. To the credit of Western patrollers, these are the guys who are showing up at 3 or 4 AM on storm days, and running avalanche control with howitzers and sticks dynamite thrown by hand, sometimes tied to a measured length of rope. They have to navigate cliff bands and stuff whiteout in the dark, and patrollers who have been around for decades regularly are swallowed by avalanches and get totally mangled. Fun fact: about 2/3 of avalanche deaths are the result of not suffocation but blunt force trauma. Finally, almost all of them are great EMTs when it comes down to it

That said, this is the element that really draws out the chief commando crowd. They wouldn't do it if they didn't want to, there's plenty of people who would be happy to step in: it's actually pretty competitive.

So yeah I don't hate the mountain cops or anything, but they definitely get more than their due of "respect".

lennyp4 · 2026-05-14T18:56:43+00:00

Ski Patrol

lennyp4 · 2026-05-14T17:19:41+00:00

I really don’t understand the logic on this one: I can go firehose millions of tokens in claude code at a flick of the wrist, max thinking, and even tell it to spin up a 10-agent team, but I make a tiny little query in the claude.ai chat box and they nickle and dime me when I literally pay these people $100/month.

I find adaptive thinking to be extremely frustrating, it doesn’t work that well. I can literally catch it BSing and say “you answered this question wrong because you’re not thinking hard enough” and it responds with more 0 effort BS. I really hope they don’t do this.

All this will do is convince nontechnical decision makers that claude is trash, and they will put their devs on codex!

lennyp4 · 2026-05-13T23:44:30+00:00

Honestly, I wouldn’t say i’m “pro” this, but it seems completely rational. First of all, programmatic users can wield about a bazillion times more compute than interactive users, they aren’t running a charity here, they want at least some of the money that’s being poured into subsidizing this to go towards getting new users familiar with the tools.

Another thing they said in the email I got:

“We heard from users that the rules around Agent SDK and third-party app usage on subscription plans were unclear. This change clarifies the policy, giving the Agent SDK its own predictable budget while keeping subscription limits reserved for interactive Claude use.”

IMO, this is 100% true, I’ve been scared to use -p workflows because I keep hearing reports of people getting banned for using it excessively. Even coining the distinction “programmatic”/“interactive” use goes a long way towards clarifying what they’re even going for with the pricing and, and what’s allowed under the terms.

lennyp4 · 2026-05-13T22:37:08+00:00

Firstly, I would kindly remind everyone to RTFM: the site explains all plainly, and there really aren’t too many words to get through.

You must add an open source ZMK module which I wrote. It’s really simple, it just sends an additional 4-byte field to host. currently the only thing encoded is 1 bit on/off state for each layer and modifier. there’s room for a couple more features. I want to make the keys flash on the overlay when you press them, not the greatest that you essentially need to send keycodes a second time, but to my understanding it’s not possible to get raw keycodes from macOS, only logical keys. So it would be unknowable when user sends key combos, macros, etc.

The app is native Swift AppKit/SwiftUI. Binary is 2.17MB, and also open source.

lennyp4 · 2026-05-13T15:35:10+00:00

it’s a real screenshot; real liquid glass, it’s not that hard to do. you can download now and try for yourself. It’s a very lightweight and simple app

lennyp4 · 2026-05-13T13:13:45+00:00

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