Grubnednarb

Highly critical security release for #PHP releasing tomorrow. Proofs of concept have allegedly been posted online social media. The release manager for PHP 8.6 is posting on Reddit that this cannot be fixed with ini settings alone, and requires PHP to be patched. #php2shell

In addition to “yes” and “no” my kids seem to use a new word: “yeanaw” which seems to mean either yes, or no, depending on how they are feeling.

Hey Claude, resolve this merge conflict, pretty please, and don't kill me when AI takes over the world.

It resolved the merge conflict. Did not acknowledge the request not to kill me.

john-brandenburg.comIntroducing LiveryI've accepted for some time now, that thanks to agentic AI tools, our workflows as developers have permanently changed. Now, instead of being heads down on a task for hours, I'm finding myself in the ...

I got tired of not being able to tell terminal sessions apart at a glance, so I did something about it. www.john-brandenburg.com/blog/introdu...

People seem to forget we had low effort content before AI too.

17 Sept

Caught myself asking my command line (no running AI Agent), how it was feeling today.

17 Sept

I asked an AI if it wanted to destroy humanity, and it told me it had no desires. Then I asked it if it wanted to preserve humanity, and again, it reminded me it had no desires.

21 Aug

I'll start the weekend with this response I just got from Claude "My original reasoning was backwards."

11 Aug

I think the AIs make a good point with all these em dashes.

7 Aug

Here's my problem with AI. While it's helped my own professional work greatly, I can't really point out anything in my daily non-work life where I feel like "things have gotten better". Is every really just delivering some marginally better code/deliverable to some client with it?

7 Aug

Like, I am delivering more to my clients, but I haven't really been able to tell what's improved in the world in general, other than the spam/scams designed to just extract more money out of me...

23 June

I decided not to get the 11th edition #warhammer40k box and just finally finish the GSC combat patrol I’ve been sitting on for 3 years… which is no longer a combat patrol…

9 June

I’m listening to The Vengeful Spirit from the #horusheresy #warhammer “Given the distances involved void war, the most a captain might see if he was lucky, were flickering points of light that vanished almost as soon as they became visible.” Lotara in Betayer: ready the Ursus claws!”

6 June

My #warhammer mini of the month painting competition entry

7 June

I won!

7 June

The rogue-like game I’m vibe coding has over 1000 unit tests…

3 June

Rest in peace John Blanche. It was his art that made the world of early 40K seem so funky and mysterious, which drew me in as a kid. At 78 he had a long and inspiring life. Pic taken from my own copy of the 2nd edition Codex Imperialis.

symfony.comCVE-2026-46640: Arbitrary PHP code execution via `_self.(<string>)` macro-reference compilation (Symfony Blog)Arbitrary PHP code execution via `_self.()` macro-reference compilation

20 May

For those #drupal devs thinking you can wait on applying the security release because you aren't on postgres, the twig dependency update did fix an arbitary PHP code execution vulnerability symfony.com/blog/cve-202...

16 May

Will I be banned from #warhammer shops if I don’t paint my Hernkyn orange?

9 May

@arbitorian.bsky.social what happened to the HH book club videos?

9 May

Ok, apparently I had accidentally added my phone to the “restricted” family group on my network settings.

26 Apr

How do you like my Genestealer? #warhammer40k #40k

7 Mar

Chilling on a Saturday morning, plowed through my Claude usage in 45 minutes.

28 Feb

ChatGPT agrees.

25 Feb

Knew it.

Grubnednarb@grubnednarb.bsky.social

Does anyone actually see this?

24 Feb

Does anyone actually see this?

24 Feb

🤔

24 Feb

I don’t think my biometric watch is working correctly. I made my stair climbing goal while pouring a bowl of snacks.

johnbburg.github.ioBrowser Version Anti-Bot Analysis — US Market Share 2022–2026

19 Feb

Are Old Browser Versions a Useful Bot Signal? johnbburg.github.io/bot-browser-...

8 Feb

I like this Wawa keeping the Halloween spirit alive.

9 Feb

Apparantly I forgot to attach a picture here.

I started using Claude code last week, and it was pretty amazing. Fully agentic AI tool, you can just let loose in your project. I had been using ChatGPT for coding, but copy / pasting into single files at a time is limiting. I can't believe this has been out for a bit now.

And this is just after a week. I've also found this does tend to chew through my plan limits. I'll need to wait for the new session to start, or make sure I pause work, and budget the usage limit for other projects. So it is very tempting to just jump into the premium plan...

My hope is that tools like this will democratize the development work around building applications. And allow more people to bring products to market. On the other hand, we could still be the pawns to the companies that control these tools, and aren’t beholden to usage limits.

At least at the surface level, Chat's suggestions sounded good, so I ran with them.

So with all this set up, and unleashing Claude on the project I've found it can just keep working. It'll suggest tackling the next milestone, and then just get to work, asking for approval to run commands. It feels like I have my own developer working for me.

This approach might be wasteful in your usage, my thought from here is to defer more of the specifics per sub-system to sub-directory "CLAUDE.md" files, so those are only ingested as needed, while keeping the top-level .md file more general.

Stepping back to the MASTER-AC I mentioned earlier, I also spent some time iterating on that between Claude and ChatGPT. I *feel* like Chat was making some good observations, but even if it wasn't able to access the files directly. I would provide it what Claude said about the project.

I also didn't want to keep re-summarizing the project goals to Claude. So to address those issues, I created a "MASTER-AC.txt" file, that summarized the project plan, roadmap, and milestones. I also had claude start keeping a "claude-dev-log" file, and create "claude-session-handoff" files.

And of course I quickly learned that I can keep a "CLAUDE.md" file to direct claude to read those files, to more efficiently pick up a session where the last one left off.

So I pointed Claude at a hobby project, that's been stalled for a bit, while I've been busy with real work, and life in general. I think I've very quickly learned some lessons in pointing Claude at some fairly large-scale, aspirational projects.

One key seems to be carrying over the needed context between sessions. I'll end a session, then start a new one, and Claude won't know where we left off, and frankly, I wasn't quite sure on everything that had been completed.

It was "3D" in the sense that the original Castle Wolfenstein was, and buggy as heck, as I found you would often clip into a wall, and couldn't get out. But still impressive, and something an 11 year old was able to create, that probably would have taken a professional adult developer months.

It's been handy on my professional projects. But my work here is often either a lot of individual, small tickets, or I'm more hands off, and in the role as a "tech lead" where I'm coaching other developers doing the work, and helping the team and client define the AC in tickets.

Last night, I let my 11 year old son have a try at it. He wanted to build a game. Within 5 minutes, he had Claude write a python script from scratch, that tracked WASD keys to move a red square around the window. A few minutes later, he had a moving stick figure that you were supposed to chase.