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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 02/07/2026

Excited about soccer for the first time in like 20 years. 🫠

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/06/2026

thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/8205152...

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 09/06/2026

A beautiful day at the docks.

A boat marina under a partially cloudy blue sky. The colors are reflected in the deep blue of the water.

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 26/05/2026

Throwback to the days when 1Password didn't require 5 separate clicks to sign-in to a website. Unlock -> Touch ID -> Unlock -> Passkey? -> Unlock -> Cry

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 18/05/2026

Low tide so low some boats are sitting on their hulls.

Picture of Shilshole marina in Seattle with a boat tied up to the dock that is actually resting on its hill. Exposed dirt and rock are just a few feet to the right of the boat.

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 14/05/2026

Morning team. Slack issues, how you doin?

Tall statue of Leif Erikson with a dramatic blue cloudy sky background.

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 12/05/2026

Briefly signed into Xitter today. 🫠

Enshittified X screen that's simultaneously trying to upsell me and also agree to new ToS.

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 11/05/2026

Looks like crabbing season opens today. 🦀

A bunch of boats at a dock loaded with crab traps.

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 07/05/2026

"34 skill descriptions dropped · /doctor for details" Can I just go back to MCPs?

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 28/04/2026

On a related note, if you’d like to listen to the Seattle contingent of sea lions, check out www.sealionradio.org

sealionradio.org

SeaLionRadio.org

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 20/04/2026

At some point, somebody (probably Anthropic already has this) is going to be build a tool that doesn't require Claude Code to shell out to `python -c` constantly.

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 20/04/2026

Fired up aperture by Tailscale...instantly alerted to the fact that my starting prompt is 40k tokens. Not terrible and I think it's par for the course as most of it is system prompt type stuff, but the insight is so nice.

Screenshot of "Metrics by Model" from the aperture dashboard showing claude-opus-4-6 model with 3 requests and 43,605 tokens estimated at $0.27.

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 15/04/2026

Olympic mountains but from a sliiiiightly different perspective than usual.

A view of the Olympic mountains from Victoria, BC. A small Canadian flag waves in the distance.

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 03/04/2026

f you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using with no explanation.

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Home Assistant @home-assistant.io · 01/04/2026

You asked and we listened! For years, the community has been asking for a new design in Home Assistant. Something modern and timeless, something to match the power of the platform. We’re pleased to announce that an improved UI trial is now available. 👇

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 28/03/2026

Big fan of moving every few years…if only to avoid watching everyone else age while I somehow stay the same. 🫠

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 27/03/2026

I've spent the whole day being excited that my Claude weekly limit got unexpectedly reset before it was supposed to get reset Thursday night. I just realized it's Friday. 🫠

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 26/03/2026

My Claude just spit this out into a PR. 🙊 > it was a half-way-house HTML view that added confusion without adding value

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 24/03/2026

Are runbooks dead yet? Asking for a friend...

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 21/03/2026

Meanwhile, ChatGPT is over here pitching me a DuckDB-backed RRDTool. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

💡 Bonus idea (this is actually interesting)

You could build:

“rrd-lite” backed by DuckDB

fixed retention policies
automatic rollups

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 15/03/2026

Attempting to do a remote upgrade of Talos completely through a homegrown autonomous Claude environment...what could possibly go wrong?!

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 13/03/2026

Ever try to buy your kid a kindle and get books onto it from the Libby app? GOOD LUCK

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 10/03/2026

Really hate lying awake in the middle of the night trying to decide if those loud noises I heard were gunshots or fireworks. 😞

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 10/03/2026

I already had to create an Eggo budget for my son and he’s not even a teenager yet. Wrecked. No cap.

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 10/03/2026

The flow of heated air through a ventilation shaft. The squeaking brakes of a car as it approaches the end of an alley. Garage doors churning up as the hum of exhaust idles by. Sound is so tied into our daily lives. Our routines. Which is why I made this shitty thing: github.com/dacort/ai-ra...

github.com

GitHub - dacort/ai-radio: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Contribute to dacort/ai-radio development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 10/03/2026

Turns out AI still hasn't learned to deal with daylight savings...

A status update from status.claude.com indicating that "Users with scheduled tasks in Claude Cowork or Claude Code who are in a timezone that observed daylight saving time last night were affected by an infinite loop."

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

December 2025 through February 2026 was the 2nd warmest winter on record for the Contiguous U.S. according to Prism climate data. The widespread record to near record warmth in the west easily outweighed the cool temps in the east. 🔥🔥🔥

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 02/03/2026

Claude over here roasting me on my HA/Tailscale/K8s setup. To be fair...it's warranted.

A screenshot of the text:

Ha, yeah. The "I just want to run Home Assistant" starter pack:

- 5 control plane pods (the price of admission)
- 4 Fleet pods (so you can GitOps the 1 app)
- 1 local-path-provisioner (so HA can save files)
- 1 Tailscale operator + 1 proxy pod (so you can reach it)
- 1 ExternalDNS pod (so it has a nice name)
- 1 Home Assistant pod (the actual thing you wanted)

13 pods of infrastructure, 1 pod of value. That's the k8s tax.

The good news is the overhead is basically flat — adding the next 10 apps costs ~1 pod each (plus a TS proxy if you expose them). The bad
news is you could've done this with docker run and a Tailscale sidecar in about 5 minutes.

But hey, now you have GitOps.

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 25/02/2026

I wonder if Laser Tag could make a comeback…

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 22/02/2026

Went skiing today…last time I did this skis had pointy tips and nobody wore helmets. #old Also #ouch

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 21/02/2026

Burn tokens or watch Predator … pretty tough Friday night.

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 20/02/2026

Me: Spends months setting up an ansible project I can use to keep multiple home labs in sync and up-to-date. Also me: Only runs Home Assistant. (And Tailscale, of course)

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 19/02/2026

Debating up'ing my Claude subscription this weekend and going full on high school hackathon. (yes, I was a nerd...am...)

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 18/02/2026

Definitely not me waiting for my limit to reset.

A screenshot of a Claude Code status line showing the 5 hour limit at 97% usage with 14 minutes left until it resets.

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 17/02/2026

TIL that skunk spray can often smell like burning rubber or electrical fire. Cue me freaking out about anything and everything around the house. 🤦‍♂️

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 17/02/2026

Every time I think I want to build on somebody else's platform, I'm reminded it's somebody else's platform. > Starting today, self-service access to Reddit’s public data API will be closed. ( as of 3 mo ago www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/... )

reddit.com

From the redditdev community on Reddit: Introducing the Responsible Builder Policy + new approval process for API access

Explore this post and more from the redditdev community

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 15/02/2026

Send help. I'm about to setup a kubernetes homelab. 😱

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 13/02/2026

I wonder when the first "60 minutes" with an AI agent will be?

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Damon Cortesi @dacort.velocipig.com · 13/02/2026

Localstack, MinIO, what's next? Open source is changing, y'all. Welcome to AI source.

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