Random Projects

A few tinkering projects. The rest are at github.

Random Thoughts

Short thoughts posted whenever I want. Some will go to and , most won't.

April 17th, 2026
Cowork, Swift, and AppleScript

Trying to use Claude Cowork for coding instead of Claude Code as it has a nice interface to handle parallel sessions at once. I really like the feel of the terminal though. Also, Swift apps are fun. I built a toolbar button that easily toggles between light/dark mode themes. Today I discovered AppleScript, that was recently announced in... 1993. It's hilarious.

tell application "System Events"
    tell appearance preferences to set dark mode to not dark mode
end tell

Oh and I've abandoned OpenClaw for now. Way too much configuration and pain just to have a worse interface for building stuff. I think the sweet spot there is calendar management, trello cards, web search, etc.

April 8th, 2026
OpenClaw first reaction

Today I wanted to see what all the hype was about with OpenClaw. I have not connected a bunch of stuff to it, and I don't really want to given all the security flaws, so the "wow" factor isn't there, and the user experience is way behind claude code and codex, but talking to agents over discord is kind of nice. I'll try expanding the surface area a little bit next to see what it can do.

April 7th, 2026
Cloudflare MCP

Used CODEX alongside Cloudflare's MCP server to go through all my domains and their subdomains highlighting which ones return an HTTP response (200, 404, etc.). Cleaned up old subdomains pointing to dead stuff. Then I created a staging site for chad.cm just to test things and codex automatically wired up a new github branch to Cloudflare pages and added a dns entry to make it all work. One step closer to the dream of never thinking about infra.

Latest X Posts

2026-04-17

GitHub is "experiencing an issue that impacts approximately 10% of traffic". Except... my gh auth works 0% of the time. Ah. The art of status page updates.

2026-04-17

@YashasGunderia @bcherny i think you need to toggle "allow auto permissions mode" in settings...

2026-04-17

@alexellisuk @bcherny i think you need to allow auto permissions mode in settings...

2026-04-15

Every time I get a 500 error from Claude, but the status page is all green, I think back to all the https://t.co/ObcRvQcYVF days when users would email us the second their workers were queuing but we hadn't updated our status page.

2026-04-10

I guess I'm getting somewhere..... https://t.co/aNF5kCF8RZ