Rambling on Tech
Thoughts and rambles on AI tools, LLMs, and automation for people who use love tech but don't have CS degrees.
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2026 · 10
- A CVE Email Turned Into a Server Cleanup Day DigitalOcean flagged a Node.js Brotli RCE on my droplet. I pointed Claude Code at the box, asked for a report before any fixes, and ended the day patched, locked down and 13 GB lighter.
- Co-Intelligence, in Practice Five rounds, twelve images and one share card: what building a brand with an agent actually looks like.
2026 · 07
- chatbox: Hermes/OpenClaw Based Voice Assistant A Pi Zero W, a 3D printer display board, and a microphone in a printed wedge: press the knob, ask out loud, and the answer streams onto a 128×64 LCD or to an Amazon Echo. Keep it it local.
- Building pi in a World of Slop Refreshing video from Mario Zechner (Pi creator) on building deterministic code generation tools in a market flooded with unreliable AI-generated "slop".
- Claude Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are back July 2nd Anthropic has received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
- Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests A security researcher claims to have found hidden Unicode markers in Claude Code that subtly alter the date string in its system prompt based on the API base URL's hostname and system timezone—apparently to flag custom gateways, proxies, or resellers (especially Chinese AI-related domains)—raising privacy and transparency concerns about undisclosed steganographic fingerprinting in a widely-trusted developer tool.