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This week, I noticed a tweet announcing OpenTelemetry (OTel) support in Claude Code - Anthropic’s AI-powered coding assistant that lets you delegate tasks directly from your terminal. This new OTel integration allows you to stream token, session, and command metrics to any backend that speaks the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP). Curiously, this feature hasn’t landed in the official…
Back in January 2020 I shared a tweet demonstrating a Twilio integration with my Meural Canvas digital picture frame. Used #twilio to add SMS to my @MeetMeural Canvas today! pic.twitter.com/IRRH9HYV3o — Martin Amps (@MartinAmps) January 12, 2020 In the months since, guests have had a lot of fun with it and it’s been awesome seeing occasional surprise memories from friends pop up. That…
Despite generally resisting the hype train, in the past year I’ve jumped onto two relatively new Facebook projects. ReactJS and HHVM. I’m a huge proponent of both and enjoy working with them immensely. Except when I don’t. Around 3 months ago I chose HHVM for a new project and was initially very excited by the static analysis tools, built in profiling and great performance.…
Recently when working to migrate an e-commerce website to the aspiring Shopify Cloud Platform , generating coupon codes through the API was dismissed as being a obvious, simple , and apparently one of the most requested features back in March, 2011. Unfortunately, I was wrong. So I contacted their support team to see what’s up! Thanks for the help, Brian. /s
The duplication of items has been a huge issue in a variety of games, ruining the economy in both official and in particular, private servers. A select few have figured out solutions to this, however the majority of which are offline solutions usually within stored procedures which hasn’t proven too reliable since the database is only amended every 5 minutes by default in Knight Online. As…
I was continuously asked how to apply security patches which were being released, instead of including instructions in each patch that I released I decided to put together a quick general guide. While this guide primarily focuses on Knight Online private server files, it serves as a good example and all terminology and methods will apply. To begin, we’ll start with the screen you’ll be…
Recently a new vulnerability has been exposed (and patched) which targets specific platforms as a result of certain assumptions made within the zend core (specifically zend_strtod.c) when handling floating-point arithmetic. The issue was only being manifested by gcc builds with -O2 so a recompile could fix it, reportedly -O0 fixes it but I would recommend using -mfpmath=sse which will favour a…