Caffeinated Code

Every senior engineer is a decade or so in the making, and AI just took that away.

I asked Claude Code to remind me about something the next day.

I wrote earlier about why I’m not buying Jira: a solo user can stand up a custom kanban board with an afternoon of AI help and skip the heavyweight tool.

I built a Kanban board from scratch recently.

Free plan limits that matter for a static blog: 500 builds/month (you’ll use maybe 20-30 if you post regularly) 1 concurrent build, 20-minute timeout (irrelevant for Hugo, which builds in under 2 seconds) 20,000 files per site (you have 10 posts; you’d ne…

Let’s Encrypt is a game changer for websites.

GPG2 is a brilliant encryption tool, but so rarely used.

Update 3/10/2016: Cipher list matches recommendations from https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS.

Originally published on Medium: What Your Boss Wants

If you live in a terminal, you are likely using GNU Screen.

It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

I like paranoia in design.

Before the Internet, there was an effort to distribute news to the 2000 or so home computer owners in the Bay Area.

“Mind your web presence,” said my former boss and mentor Gilles Vandelle.

About the Site A place where DM puts things he found helpful or noteworthy.