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CLAUDE.md, except it’s meaningful and it actually works
When I ask you to do something, prefer any of these responses below to doing stuff blind-enthusiastically. Stop being such a labdradoodle.
Announcing PCBEval
Me:
Doing Okay-ish with AI at the AI-proof competition
I just took part as a team of 1 (or 0, really) at the ICFP Programming Contest of 2026. TLDR - I used nothing but AI, mostly Fable, and did okay-ishly well, finishing in the top ~25 (final results will be revealed in about a month) out of ~200 teams participating.
LLM Networking with MikroTik
I’ve been refraining from saying ‘vibe networking’ or ‘vibkrotik’ or some other abomination, but it is true - I have been using LLMs to setup a few networks these last few months, and things have generally gone over swimmingly.
Self-hosting High Availability is just Backups
Everyone needs backups, we all know it in our bones, but you can also live your life without any backups.
Map Clustering is Not My Favorite
Friends, this post has been in the making for maybe, 20 years.
It’s probably not AI psychosis probably
This will be a confused post, because I am confused.
If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all
Supabase: Industrial vision cameras SDKs: Solarwinds: Spectrum and/or Optimum: Wifi boosters/extenders: The lack of an e-stop on a $10k robot: Raspberry Pi scalpers on eBay: (this list may grow in the future xx)
GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month
Listen to me.