If you use Anthropic’s Claude Code CLI, you know the struggle: you run a complex prompt or a long refactoring task, switch to another task, and forget to check back for five minutes. I recently came across Andrea Grandi’s post on how to solve this on macOS using terminal-notifier. Linux has a native equivalent that works perfectly. So… here’s how to set up desktop notifications for Claude Code on Linux....
“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” This quote, spoken by the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass (1871), became one of the most influential metaphors in evolutionary biology—and increasingly, in technology. Origins: From Victorian Nonsense to Scientific Theory Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) was a mathematics lecturer at Oxford when he wrote Through the Looking-Glass....
Running local LLMs is kinda addictive. New model drops? Gotta try it. But here’s the thing—you need a quick way to check if a model’s actually thinking or just spitting out vibes. The Prompt Here’s my go-to sanity check: What is the number that rhymes with the word we use to describe a tall plant? That’s it. Dead simple. Why This Works It’s not about being hard. It’s about being consistent....
How Survivorship Bias Is Costing You Money (And You Don’t Even Know It) Discover how survivorship bias—a cognitive trap born from WWII bomber analysis—distorts investment strategies, startup success rates, and trading decisions. Learn to see what’s missing. The Bullet Holes That Saved Thousands of Lives It’s 1943, and Allied bombers are getting shredded over Europe. Planes limp back to base riddled with bullet holes, and the top brass has a problem....
Some games you finish. Some games finish you. And some games you play over and over, convinced that this time you’ll figure it out—only to end up in the exact same place, wondering if the problem is the game or the player. Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos (1993) was that game for me. The Setup Westwood Studios (yes, the Command & Conquer people) created Lands of Lore as their take on the first-person dungeon crawler genre that Eye of the Beholder had popularized....
Welcome to Monthstalgia, a new monthly series where I dig into geeky things I remember fondly from the past. Books, games, software, obscure tech—anything that left a mark on my younger self. The catch? These are memories, not reviews. Some of these things I haven’t touched in decades. And sometimes, I’m keeping it that way on purpose. Wyrm (1998) by Mark Fabi There’s a specific category of books from your formative years: the ones you loved so intensely that you’re now terrified to reread them....
Introduction: Shielding Critical Infrastructure Running 24/7 operations from a home base – whether it’s autonomous trading algorithms or personal management applications – demands more than consumer-grade network hygiene. We’ll cover segmenting your network to contain threats, hardening the perimeter (your router), and securing the endpoints (your servers – be they Raspberry Pis, standard PCs running Ubuntu, or even renterprise gear like Dell or IBM servers you might have… acquired). The goal is maximizing uptime and integrity while minimizing exposure (and money expenditure)....
Choosing Your Data Engine: More Than Just Code When your algorithms depend on processing high-frequency data streams, or when you’re building ML models that need fast access to vast historical context, the time series database isn’t just a component – it’s the bedrock of your operation. A bottleneck here means missed opportunities, flawed analysis, or outright system failure. I’ve spent time evaluating the options because getting this wrong has consequences, especially when real capital or critical infrastructure is on the line....
Optimizing Internal Throughput: An Analysis of Journaling Protocols Your internal operating system requires debugging just like any complex code base. Inefficiencies, bugs (bad habits), suboptimal resource allocation – it’s all there. Journaling is essentially running diagnostics, creating log files to analyze performance and identify areas for refactoring. Different methods act like different logging levels or diagnostic tools, each with trade-offs in terms of overhead (time) and output (insight). The goal isn’t just passive observation; it’s active optimization....
Large Language Models are superuseful right, but they have a well-known weakness: hallucinations. These are confident-sounding responses that are factually incorrect or completely fabricated. While no technique eliminates hallucinations entirely, these three strategies significantly reduce their occurrence in production systems. 1. Provide an Escape Hatch One of the most effective ways to reduce hallucinations is giving the model permission to admit uncertainty. LLMs are trained to be helpful, which sometimes leads them to generate plausible-sounding answers even when they lack sufficient information....