J.D. Hodges

Summary: Open WebUI ships web search off, and there are two separate ways to turn it on.

Q: My son and daughter both start cross country practice at their high school this week, and I want a running watch for each of them.

Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026.

Summary: I generate image-to-video (i2v) clips for a software project on a small consumer level GPU fleet: a flagship RTX 5090 and a cheap, always on RTX 4060.

Summary: My Remote Desktop session into an old ThinkPad got progressively laggier.

Summary: Apple raised prices across almost the whole Mac line on June 25, 2026.

Summary: Claude Code’s desktop app can SSH into a remote machine and run sessions there against your repo, MCP servers, and ~/.claude config.

Q.

Have you ever been working in a VM, everything’s fine, then dialog pops up like this: VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (mks) ISBRendererComm: Lost connection to mksSandbox (3796) After that your VM is crashed and is powered off.

TL;DR: There are a few ways to check your ChatGPT Codex usage, including: the web analytics page (covered in yesterday’s post) and the Codex CLI’s own status line, which can put live 5-hour and weekly percentages right at the bottom of your terminal sessi…

Summary: ChatGPT’s Codex has its own usage analytics page at https://chatgpt.com/codex/cloud/settings/analytics, separate from the main ChatGPT settings.

The MacBook Neo is Apple’s $599 fanless entry Mac, built around the binned 5-core-GPU variant of the A18 Pro.

Note: this post is published but still in progress.

Summary: Codex’s new /goal mode lets you hand it a long-running task and walk away.

Late 2000.

TL;DR: I went to claude.ai/settings/usage this morning to check my Claude Max (5x) plan limits and got a red error box: “Unable to load usage limits.

A Reddit post called “The Mother-In-Law Method” is making the rounds in r/ClaudeAI right now.

Feel free to comment (at the bottom) if you have any questions!

My favorite simple way to cook corn on the cob: simmer shucked ears in water, a cup of milk, and half a stick of butter for 7 to 8 minutes.

Published April 25, 2026.

Update 2026-04-26 Small 4/26 update before you run the commands below: Codex CLI 0.125.0 added GPT-5.5 to codex exec -m gpt-5.5 and the Codex MCP server.

TL;DR: To remove McAfee WebAdvisor, uninstall “WebAdvisor by McAfee” from Settings > Apps & features.

TL;DR: Codex sandbox errors on Ubuntu 24.04 almost always trace back to one thing on freshly installed boxes: AppArmor blocking bwrap.

TL;DR: If you’re chasing WD19TBS mouse lag, try the Dell Dock Firmware Update Utility before anything else.

TL;DR: This is one real WordPress website maintenance task, run once against each model.

Opus 4.7 launched on April 16, 2026.

If you are getting “Rate exceeded.” when trying to re-authorize your Claude Code instance, it is probably because Anthropic’s servers are having API/login issues: Specifically, if you haven’t been heavily using Claude and you get kicked out of Claude Code…

Disclosure: I purchased this Chuwi MiniBook X with my own money (~$399 from Amazon).

TL;DR: On a Synology NAS, enabling Wake-on-LAN takes two steps in two different DSM screens.

Meta just released Muse Spark, the first model from their new Superintelligence Labs.