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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 22/05/2026

That's pretty amazing. I'm still working my way up to that point -- so far most of my work is done in interactive sessions with me driving =D

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 22/05/2026

LMK what you think! <3 This was a bit of an experiment, and to date, has been the most successful I've been with long-running agent work. Usually agents get stuck after a couple hours at most, but I was pretty impressed with `/goal`. Used Claude's docs to refine the goal before running.

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 22/05/2026

Set up Claude Code using their new `/goal` skill last weekend, walked away. ~18hrs later: working OSS Go CLI. redline crawls a site, embeds pages, audits content vs canonical messaging + GEO prompts, outputs an agent-actionable edit plan. MIT, local Ollama default. github.com/rdegges/redline

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GitHub - rdegges/redline: Audit your website content against canonical brand messaging and GEO target prompts. Emits an agent-actionable edit plan.

Audit your website content against canonical brand messaging and GEO target prompts. Emits an agent-actionable edit plan. - rdegges/redline

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 26/08/2025

This is the best article I’ve read to date on the state of the USA in 2025. Sad, but critical read: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

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America Tips Into Fascism

Today is different than before.

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 03/08/2025

Best stress-reduction purchase of 2025 so far: a Steam Deck. This thing is amazing. It’s so relaxing playing Stardew Valley when waiting around for things, in a Lyft, etc. A++++ can’t recommend it enough.

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 02/08/2025

Just got a new work laptop. Feels like I just started a brand new job. =)

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 25/07/2025

I find this terrifying: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/p...

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A D.O.J. Whistleblower Speaks Out

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 23/06/2025

Anyone here use @synthesia.io ? I've heard so much about it, but after creating an account it's nearly impossible to generate a video. The onboarding is busted in a lot of ways. Is there any simple way to just try it out BEFORE paying? oO

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 05/06/2025

Finally trying out Claude Code for the first time. Let's see if it can make some test fixes for a massive codebase. >:D

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 02/06/2025

Using AI to write unit/integration/performance tests is so clutch. I've been experimenting with it for test generation on a massive project with lots of complexities and it's working absolutely fantastic with Claude 4. A+++.

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 07/05/2025

Am I being phished by North Korea?

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onion person @junlper.beer · 14/04/2025

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The refusal to provide people due process before shipping them off to foreign prisons is criminal and intolerable. It must not be normalized. Everyone who believes in justice and America needs to speak up now.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Senator Chris Van Hollen has requested an urgent meeting with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador to address the situation involving Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was “mistakenly”deported from the United States to a prison in El Salvador.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 15/04/2025

The constitutional crisis is here. The President is disobeying lawful court orders. His advisors and allies are cheering him on. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains trapped in a jail in El Salvador. youtu.be/HGTIELDTHOo?...

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This Is a Constitutional Crisis

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The biggest Nazi concentration camp wasn't in Germany itself. Trump and Bukele aren't special and new, they're shitty and old.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

There are three key facts in the Holocaust Encyclopedia produced by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. This is the second key fact:

What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 14/04/2025

As a US citizen, this news makes me absolutely sick to my stomach: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd5G... Not only is Trump and his entire administration directly defying a conservative Supreme Court's orders, they're blatantly lying about it to all of us. If this isn't fixed, democracy is 100% dead.

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Trump makes BOMBSHELL news in Oval Office, grabs GLOBAL headlines

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

It is essential for the rule of law that everyone involved in this end up in prison. Nothing else is a sufficient deterrent against the intentional, repeated abuse of government power to systematically deny fundamental rights.

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Nicki Washington, Ph.D. @drnickiw.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Reminder for NC residents: There are likely only ~ 9-10 days left to check if your name is one of the 60K being challenged and confirm your identity. Check your family's names too. Link to check in the article. abc11.com/post/jeffers...

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Appeals court judges rule in favor of tossing thousands of ballots in close NC supreme court race

In a 2-1 decision, a panel of the intermediate-level Court of Appeals ruled that ballots were wrongly allowed.

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5 Calls @5calls.org · 10/04/2025

🚨 By a vote of 220-208, the House has PASSED HR 22 the SAVE Act that will strip voting rights away for millions of Americans. All Republicans voted YES as well as 4 Democrats: Jared Golden (D-ME) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) Henry Cuellar (D-TX) Ed Case (D-HI) The bill now moves to the Senate.

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 04/04/2025

Fell a bit behind on email this week. Went from inbox 0 to inbox 110 >.>

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 01/04/2025

For this year's April Fools' at Snyk, I built and released a thing! If you've ever found yourself thinking that security tools were "boring", check out our new Snyk Greybeard tool: bit.ly/42pk70R It's a wrapper for our Snyk CLI tool that adds sarcastic commentary to your security scan results!

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 28/03/2025

I'm officially addicted to these cotton candy grapes. Save me.

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 28/03/2025

So tired of being sick. Had the flu for the past ~2 weeks and still coughing a lung. Ugh.

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 26/03/2025

Great article everyone should read: www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SellYour...

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Sell Yourself Sell Your Work

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 24/03/2025

This is a friendly reminder for everyone: you don't have to compromise your morals, and you certainly don't have to engage with others if you don't feel like it. Final note: you know what they call someone who's in the same bar as a Nazi? A Nazi.

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 24/03/2025

I voluntarily removed myself from the group and shared a message saying, "Thanks for sharing. 0 tolerance for fascism." (or something along those lines). Within minutes the Trump-promoting individual was attempting to connect with me on LinkedIn and trying to debate what fascism is.

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 24/03/2025

Storytime: I've been a member of a non-profit group that's attempting to build various personal AI solutions. Today, someone shared some disturbing posts from one of the organization's leaders who was promoting Trump.

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 06/03/2025

Fantastic event so far. Great speakers and a ton of interesting thoughts on building personal AI tools that have trust from the ground up.

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 06/03/2025

Anddd, the one and only Bruce Schneier is giving a keynote. He’s legit one of my all-time tech idols. Read his Practical Cryptography book cover to cover at least three times.

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 06/03/2025

The founder of Atari, creator of Pong, and Chuck E. Cheese founder Nolan Bushnell, is here giving a talk :D Epic!!

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 06/03/2025

The AI summit has started!

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 06/03/2025

Today I’m hanging out at the Kwaai AI summit in Pasadena. Will be sharing some fun tweets about the event as it is ongoing.

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 27/02/2025

Claude-3.7-thinking is my homie now. I FEEL THE POWER FLOWING THROUGH ME.

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 22/02/2025

Pleasantly surprised to see Apple's product feedback page today. It's so well done: simple list of products, easy feedback form, tells you they'll read every piece of feedback, etc. It's perfect. Every company should have this exact thing.

Screenshot of the Apple product feedback main page. It shows a list of various Apple products (hardware + software), along with their icons. Users can then click the icon they want to be directed to that product's specific feedback page.

A screenshot of the feedback page on the Apple website for the Numbers app for iOS and iPadOS. It's a simple form that allows users to directly fill in any product feedback they have. What's nice about it is that it lets users know every single piece of feedback will be read.

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 21/02/2025

For all my US-based tech friends, I'm submitting some talks to KCDC this year (the Kansas City Developer Conference). If you haven't been, it's a spectacular community-run event that has some great content and friends around. Their CFP deadline is tonight: www.kcdc.info

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KCDC 2025

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 21/02/2025

I'm looking for some sort of AI application (web, mobile, desktop, or otherwise) that I can point to a ton of photos/videos, and have it build a nice video out of them by selecting the good ones, maybe adding some music, etc. Any suggestions? I've tried a few over the last weeks and none work.

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 20/02/2025

Went well! Pressure is now off! 😅

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 20/02/2025

About to give a brand-new live-coding presentation for the first time. No matter how many presentations you give, it never feels less stressful =D

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Randall Degges @rdegges.com · 13/02/2025

It's funny to me that RescueTime continuously tells me "I'm distracted!" when I'm chatting with AI about work topics. It's not a distraction! AI is a core work tool!

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