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Cake day: March 3rd, 2026

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  • I tried to help.

    I built mobile mesh network and 2 layers of encryption for a vault to secure digital evidence of ICE terrorism. Chacha quantum resistant with aes-256 fallback.

    It was open source and free… but I asked for $5/month for the optional upgrade to route traffic through an encrypted vpn tunnel.

    VPN was firewalled so all connected blocked most trackers, data brokers - at both DNS and DoH level. We blocked 50+ stalkerware apps for good measure as well.

    I tried to present this to my community. Apparently this made me a “security risk” because I asked for $5/month for the vpn access.

    Fuck me for not sleeping for a week and killing myself to put this together only to be publicly condemned over 5 fucking dollars.





  • Let me help you:

    AI does create a lot of slop - but at the same time, a lot of people don’t know what capabilities exist and what’s just marketing/hyperbole.

    They read “AI will replace software engineers” and think that they can just talk to an AI and spit out working production level code.

    Not saying that’s you. I don’t know your work.

    1. It doesn’t know your machine unless it has local access. How will it know where you’re installing if it doesn’t know your directory tree?
    2. it doesn’t know that it needs to import other modules or how separate functions need to interact. Not until you build it out and track what you’re doing and how the functions interact. It’s just documenting the work you do.
    3. It defaults to basic framework from which to build - just like we would.

    You don’t sit down and write 8,000 lines of code just one line after another. Shit - it could take me 3 days to figure WHERE to put 2 lines of code.

    1. Claude web and Claude code can be split into dedicated projects or containers.

    This allows specific contextual awareness. The more work you do in a project the more you can build off of it.

    Organizing into context aware containers allows you to massively improve your code base because it actually accesses the code itself. Less guess - less slop. Not “no slop” just less.

    It doesn’t replace everything, but recently I had Claude code evaluate ~43,000 lines of code. I verified its audits manually, and let it do its thing. I still had to make corrections on some assumptions it made but I fixed 110 critical bugs in an afternoon because of this system I’ve described.

    If you’re expecting to say “build me x” it isn’t going to be successful.

    Treat it like it’s a tool in the toolbox, not a replacement for good practices.

    To your other note - the first time I tested Claude code I was blown away. Then the 2nd or 3rd time it took over… I felt like I lost my purpose. I need to be involved, not replaced.



  • Me working at Jimmy Johns - slicing meat like a boss

    Ms Thunder-Thighs Crack McPipe skips the line and goes straight to bathroom.

    Boss comes out an hour later “Hey meat slicer. I need you to clean the bathroom.”

    SHIT EVERYWHERE. On the floor, on the toilet, on the walls, ON THE 15 foot ceiling.

    I quit in the spot.