Free-Range Software Dev and Consultant ✨ PostgreSQL • Ruby on Rails • TypeScript • React ✨ 🏃🐈🍹🎱 (he/him) | Chicago | Work with me: visualmode.devhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3mlgvbqrrns2hThe Le Carré book I’m reading takes my full attention to follow what’s happening, so I needed something else for a bedtime fall-on-my-face read — Dungeon Crawler Carl (book 1) it is.09 May 2026 18:37 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlgvbqrrns2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3mle2ko6cu22oI have a couple domains registered through Cloudflare now. I generally really like cloudflare as a suite of products. I'm thinking of migrating all my other domains from Hover to Cloudflare to have it all in one place. Any reason not to? Should I look at a different registrar?08 May 2026 15:34 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mle2ko6cu22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3ml4zld2g5k23Happy New Murderbot Diaries Day05 May 2026 20:28 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4zld2g5k23https://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3ml2ikj6ols2aAre there any good technical write-ups on what Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or the like are _mechanically_ doing under the hood in order to make edits to files? My first guess would have been some sophisticated use of sed or maybe even something with ASTs, but I suspect it's even trickier than that.04 May 2026 20:18 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2ikj6ols2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3mktspzdex22gI really enjoyed Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came In From The Cold last summer. A friend recommended Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy as a good follow up read.02 May 2026 04:31 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mktspzdex22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3mkt5jywcus2dOne of the best parts about being on the train (Amtrak) is seeing all the other people that are completely jazzed to be on a train.01 May 2026 22:12 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkt5jywcus2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3mkqu3fc4js26Went to do something simple: set up DNS record Decided to make it way more complicated: initiate transfer from original registrar to cloudflare so that I can use an ALIAS DNS record01 May 2026 00:17 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqu3fc4js26https://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3mknfe2byk22tThe people do not yearn for automation29 Apr 2026 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknfe2byk22thttps://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3mk3u76dgkk2tis it a bug or a feature?22 Apr 2026 15:53 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3u76dgkk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3mk3sqkhtks2vI've probably posted this one before, but what a great set from four tet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cd5-NbEGmo22 Apr 2026 15:27 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3sqkhtks2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3mjxsfbtiz22vI go to the mountains for a long weekend and Opus 4.7 drops while I'm gone 👀21 Apr 2026 01:10 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxsfbtiz22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3mjxredx6cc2uMy next fiction read is Jesse Ball’s The Repeat Room. It’s another recommendation by a friend who recommends so many of the good books I read.21 Apr 2026 00:52 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxredx6cc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3mjskc3w47223Mid-April and only four books in on the year 😬 I’ve got some reading to do. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Apr 2026 23:02 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjskc3w47223https://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3mjpzjgaaes2aSometimes a little bug lands in your old fashioned and you’ve got to sip around it.17 Apr 2026 22:57 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjpzjgaaes2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3mjl7b77vz22uListening to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue on vinyl while putting in some focused pool practice with the Mighty X drill — had me deep in the zone 🙇16 Apr 2026 00:56 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjl7b77vz22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3mjkvvdcvys2cIf you thought :wq was a cool way to quit vim, wait until you here about :cq This quits with an error code which is very useful when vim has been called by another program like git, claude code, a REPL, etc. It prevents the calling program from "submitting" the vim buffer's contents.15 Apr 2026 22:09 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjkvvdcvys2chttps://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3mjkemga6bk2q*open up article I'd like to read in browser* *start to read article* *see how small the scroll bar is* *scroll to bottom of article to see if it is really that long; it is* *close browser tab*15 Apr 2026 16:59 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjkemga6bk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3mjitlhwjds2gI consumed a lot of media over the past week: - Knights of the Seven Kingdoms (HBO) - The Traitors S1 (Peacock) — later seasons are *much* better - Project Hail Mary (Alamo Drafthouse) - Demon Slayer: Entertainment District Arc (CrunchyRoll)15 Apr 2026 02:22 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjitlhwjds2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3mjhwzhsyvc2hMy main mode of operating is to imagine that "the situation resolves itself somehow." And let me tell you, it almost never does. [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Apr 2026 17:51 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhwzhsyvc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3mjhwtzh5a22hSubstack is doing something with their email subscription validation checks that prevents "plus addressing" your email when signing up for a newsletter 🤔14 Apr 2026 17:48 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhwtzh5a22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3mjcxdtyn6c2gHidden Knowledge Unlocked: Wrigley Field is bikeable from Logan Square in under 20 minutes. Much faster than the blue line to Addison and then the 30 to 50-minute game day slog of a bus ride down Addison.12 Apr 2026 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjcxdtyn6c2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3mjajl2akus2pSeems instructive to both find the uneven edges of what LLMs do well and to experience how important domain expertise is in sifting through the bs. The intuitions behind using LLMs well are not obvious or free — it takes ongoing experimentation ime [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Apr 2026 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjajl2akus2phttps://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3mj3ipvsz3s2kI am "Netflix send DVDs in the mail" years old 🥴 https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2026/04/08/20-years/09 Apr 2026 19:03 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj3ipvsz3s2khttps://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3mj34ods2jc2vThis is one of the best (at this level of concision) laymen explanations and demystifications of LLMs that I’ve seen. A frequent misconception I hear is that LLMs remember your conversations and train on your conversations. Sorta true, but probably not in the way they are thinking.09 Apr 2026 15:27 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj34ods2jc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3mizezd4pck22I’m reading yet another one of Keigo Higashino’s Detective Galileo murder mysteries — this one is called Invisible Helix.08 Apr 2026 22:51 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mizezd4pck22https://bsky.app/profile/jbranchaud.bsky.social/post/3miw3jti2sc2oI didn't have "Tamagochi embedded in my LLM coding harness" on my bingo card.07 Apr 2026 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:rceroyjz5cpubdf6brys2fsm/app.bsky.feed.post/3miw3jti2sc2o