I trust Claude the way I trust a good console, because I set the rules it works under. This short post covers how I direct it, a few places it earned its spot, what it still gets wrong, and a brief you can paste into ...
A canary built to catch one bad state passed exactly that state, because grep -c prints 0 and also exits non-zero. The post ends with copyable self-tests that run a known-bad and a known-good input through a check in ...
Since June I have been running a game show on a radio network where one message tops out at 200 bytes, takes up to about two and a half seconds to send, and may never arrive. My trivia bot asks a question every hour on ...
In Meshtastic, the map report has its own position precision setting. Set it to 32, the number that means full precision on a channel, and your node shows up on the public map less precisely than if you had picked 15. ...
I spent a day ranking a large university's buildings as places to put a Meshtastic router, using public lidar and public terrain data. The best sites on the university's property list were not buildings at all. They ...
My Meshtastic station could still hear the mesh as well as it ever had, and nobody outside my house could hear it. Receive stayed flat. Transmit went to zero. That one comparison cleared the antenna, the cable and every ...
This site ran on an off-the-shelf HubSpot theme for years. Dark, competent, generic. Roboto and Lato, a coral accent I never chose, and a layout that looked like a hundred other sites built from the same marketplace ...
In August 2026 I sketched what it would take to run my AI work at home. The plan had two tiers: a fast GPU for the high-volume background jobs, and a big-memory machine for the long conversation. Over 37 days, 96.6% of ...
In August I wanted a weather node on the mesh whose name was the weather: something like WX Station - 110°, with a little sky emoji as its short name. Renaming a node puts a packet on the air, so before I built it I did ...
The radio in my new Meshtastic base station was dead for ten days, and the service manager recorded every one of its fourteen restart attempts as a clean, successful exit. Read at face value, that pointed at the ...
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