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One evening, too drugged on antihistamines to debug my own SSH, I handed the problem to Claude and went to lie down. It fixed it. I pay twenty dollars a month for that, which makes it paid tech support, and the genuinely unsettling part is how good it is.
IPv6 does not have design flaws so much as it has people bringing DHCP-shaped, firewall-shaped, and subnet-shaped complaints to a protocol that already gave everyone a public address and moved on.
I had a painless way off Microsoft Copilot — same autocomplete, same price, a different company. Then SpaceX bought said company.
Oracle quietly halved the Always Free Ampere A1 tier: 4 OCPU / 24GB down to 2 / 12. Free-tier VMs over the limit get stopped. PAYG VMs over the limit get billed. Resize before they resize you.
I was somewhat wrong about ATProto. The protocol decoupling mostly holds. I still do not trust it 100%, and the asterisks are where I live now.
In 2019, a Discord bot crashed on Java 12. The crash was in the JDK itself. I was 18.
In software, the generalist is your best engineer. The one who hedges in public, asks dumb questions, and somehow ships everything by Friday.
Twelve years on Nano because Vim fails my 3am-flu test. Micro is what I should have been using the whole time, and Ctrl+Q quits it.
SQL survived every replacement attempt not because it won, but because its challengers attacked the wrong layer.
I learned about Hamachi because I was ten and wanted to play Minecraft with someone. In 2026, I went down a rabbit hole and found out it was more interesting than it had any right to be.