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Claude Code productivity boost

Observations from using Claude Code for a few weeks. — 2025-07-09

Google Photos - It's Bigger on the Inside

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Christmas family IT support ticket involving Google Photos and infinity. — 2024-12-25

How to manage Python versions and packages

Instructions on how to easily set up python virtual environments. — 2024-10-05

A simpler shell prompt

TIL about fzf built-in history command, fc, that keeps track of when you issue commands and how long they take to complete. It’s critical info when I need it, but I regularly don’t need it and so far I had been printing timestamps as part of my shell prompt. Time to update my aliases.zsh:

alias h='fc -lt "%b %d %H:%M:%S"'
alias history="echo 'use h'"  # Reduce unnecessary keystrokes while we're at this

Prompt BEFORE:

— 2024-09-14

Crowdstrike causes global outage

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Thoughts on the recent Crowdstrike global outage. — 2024-08-03