Antisimplistic

My X timeline has been overrun by posts about OpenAI’s recently released GPT-6 model, Astra.

This is the companion to Astra’s First 48 Hours: 82 demonstrations, experiments, and evaluations, grouped by category.

I kept rebuilding the same little secret resolver.

The Problem I recently spent a few minutes trying to figure out whether Codex was reading a global AGENTS.md instruction.

A follow-up to TIL: uv Settings I Changed after LiteLLM.

This article was updated on 3/29/26 to correct an error in the second recommendation and to cross-link it to another article elaborating on my justification for the same.

The Problem You’re running something in tmux — a build, a test suite, an agent CLI.

The Problem I had a file called r2vars in a project root with plaintext Cloudflare R2 credentials: export R2_ACCOUNT_ID=abc123 export R2_ACCESS_KEY_ID=def456 export R2_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=ghi789 export STORAGE_BACKEND=r2 Plaintext secrets, BAD!

I’ve had “configure Claude Code permissions properly” on my list for a while.

The Problem When Claude Code needs Python for ad-hoc tasks (e.g., parsing Excel files, reading PDFs, quick data analysis) it uses whatever Python is available.

The Problem I had a growing markdown style guide in my CLAUDE.md that was bloating my main config.

The Problem I needed an ADMIN_TOKEN available in my terminal for production monitoring commands.

The Problem I leverage LLMs like Claude and Cursor when generating lecture materials.

Context I regularly use Quarto and pandoc for converting markdown to PDF, but just got a new Mac.

The Problem I needed PDF versions of my Reveal.js slide decks - for student handouts and accessibility.

Why Antisimplistic I’ve been using this handle for almost 30 years.