Maybe There Was an Egg Cartel After All — Evidence that the spike in egg prices was driven by monopoly power and not the avian flu.
China Space Junk Lands in MN Farmers Field — The description says it all…
The DNS Museum — A quirky collection of things you can do with traceroute that are clever.
I have a number of Thermopro thermometers at the office and at my house. They are accurate thermometers with Bluetooth and no Wifi — exactly what I wanted.
Until an HVAC issue at the office left me desiring to know the temperature there, even when I wasn’t.
In the olden days I might have Googled around a bit to see if someone had written an app to do what I wanted (read the Bluetooth and show it as a webpage) but in the golden age of 2026 I just asked Claude if a python library existed to read them.
Yes.
Great, now could it please build out a dashboard?
Yes.
It worked so fast and so perfectly that I had a second version built out at home with some basic alarms, so I can get a heads up if I’ve got fridge or HVAC problems at the house. It runs on an old but working Raspberry Pi.
Total time investment, ~15 minutes across both projects combined.
To some degree (heh), there is no so what, there isn’t anything particularly special about this in and of itself.
Except anyone could have done it.
Sure, I had head start simply by knowing that things such as Bluetooth libraries for python exist, but there wasn’t anything particularly technical that I did. I knew what I wanted and asked Claude to build it. And it did.
I think that this is — in part — the future of software development. Where non-technical people are able to describe a thing that they wished existed, and AI will create it. It doesn’t need to be fancy SaaS software or even for more than a single purpose. No one else will ever have need of this application.
But if they did, they can now build their own, probably faster than even downloading and setting up my copy. “Hey Claude, build this.”
A great picture if I may say so myself, a winner at this year’s Tennessee Valley Fair.
Post date: 2026-06-13, 0830
Felix Rhys was born on June 12th, 2026, 4lbs and 11oz. Mom is good, Felix is less so.
Felix was born breech at 7:32 PM, and probably spent 2-3 minutes stuck in the birth canal, and it took another minute or so for him to begin breathing*. He came out a grayish purple.
It wasn’t far from a scene out of a TV show, with at least half a dozen nurses in the room, the doctor, nearly everyone over Katie, shouting, then everyone over Felix trying to get him breathing and giving him oxygen.
It was a terrifying moment.
He seemed to stabilize quickly, but we weren’t able to hold him for more than two minutes until 10:30 PM, after they’d monitored his vitals, and they were concerned about his blood sugar which dipped down to 40 by 10:30.
After eating it went up to 55, but then dropped again overnight as this morning, around 7:00, the nursery nurse came to tell us it was in the 20s and that Felix is headed to Children’s NICU. They are working on getting him on an IV drip right now.
I’ll be headed there as soon as the transport is ready, Katie will have to stay at Parkwest, about 20 minutes away, for right now.
Felix is expected to be there between 2 and 3 days, but this seems like a fluid situation still.
Neonatal isn’t my area of medical knowledge, but I think this is at “concerning, not scary,” right now. At the same time, babies don’t end up in NICU for fun.
We’ll take prayers, I don’t know what else we need yet.
*My estimates, things were chaotic in the room and we didn’t get a debrief.
For a personal project I wanted to be able to pull historical info from my MileIQ account.
You can find the 100% Claude-written Python client at https://github.com/jmaddington/mileiq-client
Put creds in .env and run. YMMV, not endorsed by Microsoft or MileIQ, etc. etc.