Nelson's log

Claude just surprised me by offering to rewrite a whole epub so the references worked better.

I’m running into a complicated snarl of things in my server management.

I tried to sync a bunch of big data last night and only got 5MBytes/s despite 30MBytes/s being expected.

I learned something from Claude Code today. rsync --append isn’t very safe.

Claude Code figured out it could use my Desktop ssh agent and did some surprising things on remote systems.

After some 35 years of ad hoc carrying files around from place to place, I finally have all my important digital files in one well built storage system I’m calling “Vault”.

I’m setting up a new server at home with Claude and NixOS.

I’m genuinely flummoxed by how good Opus is at some sysadmin tasks.

For nearly 20 years I’ve hand-maintained an Ubuntu Linux server for somebits.com.

I just got a Kobo Clara BW ereader.

Just finished a big AI coding project, my travel postcards.

I’ve got a shiny new dashboard and consistent access to all my home services!

I’ve been working on a complex project where I am the agent following instructions and running commands while Claude is the planner giving high order instructions.

I’ve been installing Linux on whatever hardware I happen to have.

I bought a cheap-but-nice wireless keyboard for occasional use.

I use my Linux box with a long cable to play games on my TV.

/tmp filled on my desktop Linux box running Nobara (Fedora 44).

I’m deep in the weeds of tinkering with how Steam launches games.

I got curious about what HTTP headers Chrome is requesting so I stood up a trivial HTTP server and this is what is on the wire. $ while true; do echo -e "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\nContent-Length: 3\n\nOK\n" | nc -l -p 8081; done GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:8081…