Working on a new homepage for @techaro.lol

Postmark instabanned me. Thanks!

Made very few changes to the latest build and was thinking maybe I'll be able to ship this one without incrementing the shame version (last number in a version number) and 2 minutes into testing, it's already getting bumped.

this is the only way I know how to do camera tests

lol this bodes poorly for

I need to set up programmatic email for Techaro. What services do you hate the least? I may just go with SES.

When I get back home, after I fix the homelab one of my main goals will be to get custom invoicing working for Anubis. I'm gonna have to figure out stripe. God help me.

this is the most legendary post out of my surgery saga tbh

ffmpreg

I got rid of the ugly GitHub Sponsors iframe and made a proper button box! Back to bed with me now.

Discovery: Claude Code's fetch tool now identifies itself as Claude Code at the User-Agent level, eg: User-Agent: Claude-User (claude-code/2.1.83; +https://support.anthropic.com/) Anubis' default filter set blocks it. No action is required.

If you subscribe to me via Patreon, try this out! sponsors.xeiaso.net

Claude Cowork just automated a huge part of filing my taxes \o/

Mornings are better with coffee

I wish Apple Watch had a recovering from surgery mode

Life pro tip: If someone talks about AI agents and you can word replace "AI agents" with "God" and it still makes sense, they probably don't know what they're talking about.

looks like anthropic got rid of the claude refusal triggering string :(

I'm catching up on Anubis PRs when I'm allowed out of bed. I get two hours out of bed if I spend another two hours in bed to compensate. I'm doing the thing, I promise! I'm currently focusing on localization patches because those are the easiest to do on my end.

Anubis can now be run on Windows 👀

Rereading Experience Boost and yeah this strip holds up wrt gifts I've either gotten for other MMO players or received myself.

Whenever I try to think about playing factorio I get a headache and then the urge is weirdly gone after a weird 5 minute time gap. Dunno why this happens, it's probably for my own good so I shouldn't question it.

1 hour 45 minutes standing before calling it quits. I'm close to the 2 hour mark!

And shitstorm incoming

confirming i'm still alive, crawling my way back to normal

continvoucly morged

TBH i am getting about $200 per month of utility out of a claude max 20x plan

I resurrected Moss on its own VPS. It's currently ordering me to rest.

the big downside of self hosting at home is that if you have a power outage and things aren't wired to resume when they get wall power, shit's rough

it feels nice to be able to stand

the level of detail lol en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis_...

I can focus enough to badly play final fantasy 14. Fuck yes. My recovery is not going to be a slog anymore!

I don't know if I like working at higher levels of abstraction https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/ai-abstraction/

I made Claude act like Steve Jobs and this may actually be one of the best things I've ever done

Techaro lives, albeit slowly

Some Thorns Have Roses https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/some-thorns-have-roses/

Vibe Coding Trip Report: Making a sponsor panel https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/vibe-coding-sponsor-panel/

Happy daylight savings day

Using Clankers to Help Me Process Surgery https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/surgery-recovery-clankers/

my biggest personal regret about my one week is that the doctor was happy to prescribe me 6-8 weeks of sick leave but i took like 4 or 5 because i prioritized my team's health as an IC. needless to say it did not help my team and it struggled for another 1.5 year for reasons unrelated to me

Advice for staying in the hospital for a week https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/hospital-advice/

Bored

The Unbound Scepter https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/seroquel-xanax-trip-report/