Tales from Prod

Google workspace threatening to block firefox At the time of writing (2026-06-18), Google Workspace appears to be starting to warn users from Firefox that they must use Chrome.

Snyk issues in linear At the time of writing (2025-04-01) Snyk doesn’t support syncing found issues into Linear, , only Jira so I decided to make a cli to do this automatically.

Minimal cloudflared permissions, for a ngrok alternative Cloudflare have a product (sometimes) called cloudflared which can be used as an ngrok alternative.

Charge a Mi Band 4 by hand You’re on holiday, and forgot to charge your smartwatch before you left.

Get Snyk Code to accept PRs Sometimes you need to merge a PR that uses an HTTP server for a test, and Snyk code is configured to block you.

Github commit signing with Devin If you’re using Github, and want to use Devin with a repo that requires (signed commits)[https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/managing-commit-signature-verification/signing-commits] then this guide is for you.

Judgement from Gmail Say you’re writing an email, and want to make sure it’s not too spicy/unprofessional - in this world of LLMs you can get judgement whenever you want.

Have Claude yell at you with MCP and bash There’s a lot of excitement currently with Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol MCP and “servers” to allow language models to do more stuff.

Using Playwright with Github Actions and Auth You’ve got a webapp now and want to make sure it works.

Reverse Engineering Github Copilot APIs Github Copilot claims to support extensions but doesn’t actually document the APIs anywhere - they just provide example code using those APIs.