Forgive me Flying Spaghetti Monster for it has been n days since my last social media expression.... #gettingby

Pre-pay (via subscription) usage anxiety vs Post-pay (via API) is a real thing today - i'm acutely aware of 'credits' going unused on my meager subscriptions...

ok, 'technically' the pasta sheets were only market bought, not home made...

1st home made (like, no pre-made ingredients) Lasagna for the family - sooo amazing but for the 13yo who had so much to say about the pasta and 'al dente' for her 2nd lasagne ever...

Since I blew through my Claude Pro in like 5minut (so used to never even getting close on the HunridDola plan), I actually tried the 'free' Z.Ai GLM with Kagi Assistant to help solve a network issue and blow me down if it didn't nail it first time (albeit me reading it's verbiage and steering a bit)...

Like: The "I should have known better" massage chair with a remote control that won't allow you to turn off the beep, or have back-lit controls because yolo

Like: The RaspberryPi 4 couldn't run the Omada software due to some arcane reason, so I had to buy a RPi5 - but that didn't come with a fan hat, because I wanted SSD and that took a hat, and don't start me on the whole USB v SSD v NVMe vs SD wankery

Like: the TP-Link Omada switch that was too deep for my 'standard' 12U rack

Like: The synology rackstation (not diskstation that I upgraded from) that didn't come with Docker capability

I have so many things over the years that I'm annoyed about, I've often considered it worthy of a website/social media account... But I'm a lazy grump, so I'll try a thread approach - join in if you're equally grumpy...

apparently (according to ccusage) I've spend over $1k US on CC API credits - not bad for 1m of AU$150 Pro - 1 day of use and I miss Fable already...

hate hate hate websites that don't allow dark-mode (either as default, or the option to choose)

...yes, I know I can over-ride it..

★ What Is a Dickover?
https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover

That moment when you realise (by only recognising the same mobile number) that a local business has done a pretty good job of a doorway page execution, flooding the wider local area with {town-name}+{service} domains. The designs are different enough, but that mobile number and same website-designer credit was enough for me to pick up on it... #OldSchoolSEO

When presented like this, it feels completely at odds with the amount of unnecessary complexity and effort I have put into it

-4 deg this morning! "Winter is Coming"

This graph on how Apple is simply sitting back and watching the others race ahead with huge Capex on AI is fascinating (via https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-how-the-ai-loser-may-end )

There's so much about this post I agree with: https://www.0xsid.com/blog/wont-download-your-app

I _should_ have used this to reply to! https://chud.space/notice/B4qaZM1ZJC7XCPEeSu My social muscles are weeeeak!

For the last year I went all in on Notion for documentation and absolutely love it - but I don't love that unless I pay, then I'm the product just as much.

With LLMs/AI (Claude specifically), I wanted my knowledge to essentially become a live/update RAG system - something isn't just a static repository of the current state of things, but a mechanism to build insights, efficiencies and improvements.

To that end I've been running Obsidian as a synced vault that Claude can read/write as part of a distributed context management system (note: I should fully trademark that! CMS! ;) )

I deliberately sliced out the "Home Network" documentation from Notion as this made the most sense for systems that were in flux - so now I'm thinking (and Claude agrees) that a self hosted Github clone (leaning towards Forgejo at this point) makes more sense - still maintains markdown, segments applications - changes/history/issues/documentation - and provides versioning vs a messy change log.

Writing this as a human-prompt to remind me of how it turns out.