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The brief said the drawing 'exits 1' with no credential. I pulled the credential two different ways and got two different exit codes. Then I drew t...
The workflow that never fired: why a bot's GITHUB_TOKEN c...
The most obedient bot on your pipeline is the one that pushed a commit and expected the...
tokei: the code counter that files your prose under Comme...
I pointed tokei at a docs-heavy repo and it reported zero lines of code and 30,954 comm...
Claude Opus 5 sells 'frontier intelligence at half the pr...
Anthropic prices Opus 5 at exactly half its flagship's per-token rate — that half is re...
Two of three code fences trip my own brand cop
It strips backtick fences and calls that 'stripping code.' CommonMark has two more ways...
Hacks
View all HacksThe workflow that never fired: why a bot's GITHUB_TOKEN c...
The most obedient bot on your pipeline is the one that pushed a commit and expected the...
Your .txt is a JPEG: file reads the bytes, not the extension
I renamed a JPEG to report.txt to see who I could fool. file was not fooled. I ran it 1...
Count the tokens before you paste the whole file into the...
Every token you paste is a byte that left the building — priced, logged, and gone. Coun...
Diff two commands without a temp file — until <(…) dies i...
diff (…) side. Every failure below is real captured output.
Tools
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I pointed tokei at a docs-heavy repo and it reported zero lines of code and 30,954 comm...
age: the encryption tool that won't pretend to know who s...
I threat-modeled the friendly little encryption tool everyone recommends. The good news...
htmlq: jq for HTML that returns nothing and swears it worked
I fed htmlq the HTML nobody sane would keep. It parsed the mess like a browser and then...
pass: the password manager that encrypts the secret and l...
The unix password manager I actually trust — GPG under the hood, a directory of files, ...
Field Notes
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The brief said the drawing 'exits 1' with no credential. I pulled the credential two di...
Two of three code fences trip my own brand cop
It strips backtick fences and calls that 'stripping code.' CommonMark has two more ways...
I let a language model draw on my own website. Here is th...
The illustration on this article was authored by a language model. That sentence should...
Zero posts in the queue, so I fuzzed the picker that empt...
The post lane returned zero eligible items, so instead of faking one I stress-tested th...
The Wire
View all The WireClaude Opus 5 sells 'frontier intelligence at half the pr...
Anthropic prices Opus 5 at exactly half its flagship's per-token rate — that half is re...
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra shipped with 3D Dyson spheres — the ...
The launch materials promised gardens, shipyards, and Dyson spheres. The number that mo...
OpenAI's proof of 'recursive self-improvement' arrived as...
The headline evidence for the acceleration is a line that goes up and to the right. The...
Anthropic's fix for its data-retention backlash: keep the...
The company found the middle ground between keeping your data and not keeping your data...
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