Vermyndax's Lair

I mostly got Claude working the way I envisioned.

Claude needs to do some serious design work on their UI and documentation.

I don’t really understand why the Claude app requires almost two gigabytes of RAM just to run.

Trying to set things up to work remotely on the Mac Mini has been pretty painful.

Ok, running another test to see if this works.

Just making a test post for the blog from my phone.

Surprise!

I’ve been trying to use AI apps, mostly Claude and ChatGPT, to experiment with doing various things like everyone else.

This guy is on to something with regards to AI, but I doubt it’s a silver bullet.

It’s another new year and I didn’t write a single post in 2025.

What’s a man to do with the last few hours of 2024?

Hilariously enough I forgot to mention one of the things that has really plagued me this year.

apple.news/A1JRhv3dUTsWcvJiSppcIow Leave it to the banks to create a shitshow like this.

2024 is at and end and I thought I would sit and write, stream of consciousness-style, about things that I remember.

Why does this work: private_ipv4_google_access = "true" …but this doesn’t: private_ipv6_google_access = "true" This anomaly comes to you courtesy of Google’s “google_compute_subnetwork” Terraform resource.

I want to feast But I’m not hungry.

I’ve thought about writing a blog entry about this for quite some time.

Warning: rambling and useless post.

resource "google_api_gateway_api" "api_gw" { provider = google-beta api_id = "my-api" } resource "google_api_gateway_gateway" "api_gw" { provider = google-beta api_config = google_api_gateway_api_config.api_gw.id gateway_id = "my-gateway" } Am I the

So you can find me here.

I tend to use Facebook on a web browser so I can use ad blockers to control the experience.

https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/195octe/youtube_started_slowing_video_buffer_with_adblock/ At some point, Google and YouTube deserve some consequences.

If you’re just coming back to work today to find your data filters in Terraform (or Pulumi, or whatever) are broken while trying to run a deployment, check this out: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/update-on-amazon-linux-ami-end-of-life Amazon has pulled…

A long time ago I decided to stop making New Year’s resolutions.

I’m predicting this to be a real shitshow. https://developersalliance.org/open-source-liability-is-coming/ Link to external blog entry I did a lot of time in the US federal government space.

Welcome to the first entry in a new series… er… category… maybe tag… hell I dunno… where I sit back and spill the beans on some of the true tales of my life being an IT guy.

It’s the day after Christmas 2023 and I’m trying to wind down for the year.

Hello again.

I was telling my youngest daughter, “When something like this happens, I can’t rest until I figure it out.”

Apple provides a long list of privacy-focused features to help you maintain your modern-day sanity.

I was one of the lucky few to snag an iPhone 14 Pro Max on launch day.

Apple seems to have all kinds of slick tricks up their sleeves.

It’s time for my version of the WWDC wishlist.

Many years ago, I embarked on a home automation hobby that has drained my budget.

I desperately want to love Safari.

Electron owns way too much of my disk.

In one of those “duh” moments for today… I’ve been wrestling with an oddity in my git repositories with vscode.

I have always wanted to use Firebase and Google Cloud for more and more projects.

Pro Tip: Don’t use iCloud’s “Hide My Email” feature to create email addresses to use with Amazon accounts.

I’ve noticed that my M1 Max Macbook Pro battery has been getting hammered lately, and I wasn’t entirely sure why.

Spotted this morning on reddit: Could the “Followable Web” feature be a substitute for Collections?

I find that one of the primary reasons I never finish any of my little one-off projects is because I have a complete inability to break things down into smaller chunks.

We’re using Gitlab at work and it’s frankly more tuned for doing what you need in an enterprise setting.

This thing is flat-out amazing, and I’m sorry I waited so long to get one.

Apple has a knack for building things under our noses over the course of years… actually, even decades.

I don’t really understand how people stay in this industry their whole lives.

Many years ago, I embarked on a home automation hobby that has drained my budget.

It’s interesting to me to see who’s doing the actual tracking.

I do not understand how there are 50 million people in this country who look at the hatred, corruption, lies, narcissism, blatant ineptitude and moral bankruptcy and think… “We need 4 more years of this.”

Apple never announces hardware updates at WWDC.