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I figured out that I can file some inconveniences off the experience of writing Hugo sites in VS Code, and the result is a new VS Code extension called Hugo Habitat: mrled/vscode-extension-hugo-habitat.

I found some contagious metadata corruption in exiv2, such that reading a file with corrupt XML namespace values in XMP data poisons all subsequent metadata writes with the same corrupt namespace — even to other files.

I realized you can use containers to run Claude Code in yolo mode with Internet access relatively safely, without needing to maintain a dedicated VM.

In Google Docs, Confluence, and other heavy document editors, you can just paste a URL and it’ll fetch the page title and make a nice link out of it, at the cost of some tick, tick, tick while it fetches the title from the other page.

As of today, if I include links in unpublished drafts, I have linked to 2,256 unique offsite URLs in page content.1 I know this because I made an automatic index of every URL on this site, instantly searchable by its anchor text, which page linked to them,

I guess it’s time to update the Uses page.

With Ghostty, all I need to do to get a realistic transcript of a shell session is select and copy, extract the HTML source with pbpaste-htmlsrc, and reference it on this site with a Hugo shortcode.

Two weeks ago, I threw my forty-first birthday party.

This week I was working on a Kubernetes cluster from my Mac.

I have a demonstrated interest in symmetrical DNS names.

By default, using the same tmux session from multiple ssh sessions breaks agent forwarding.

Superhuman, née Grammarly, is getting sued (paywall) for putting the names of living professionals on output from an AI system which they called “Expert Review”.

I bring my own entertainment on airplanes: I download movies, copy them to my phone, and test that audio and subtitles work correctly the day before a flight.

A lot of people are complaining about bot traffic.

Anthropic.

I was recently looking for some stories from the Arabian Nights, and found beautiful editions on the Internet Archive of The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night translated by Richard Burton, which Wikipedia notes is the only complete English translati…

I keep hearing about the privacy concerns for AI training on personal data, and I think this concern is unfounded and basically nonsense.

I’ve started a new Links section: just a link, with just enough description for you to decide if you want to click.

Notifications serve the interests of whoever controls them.

I’ve made a few changes to this site.

bibliographer has grown support for importing https://raindrop.io highlights.

What are your favorite redactions?

In 2014 Brad Heath at USA Today received documents from the FBI in response to a FOIA request.

One of my very favorite parts about Christmas is the wrapping.

I’m not a professional web designer or frontend developer at all, but I really enjoy working with CSS.