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kwhitlock

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kwhitlock··on Prompting Claude Opus 5.5
Still finding Opus 5.5 a bit too eager to inject its own style, even when explicitly told not to. Requires careful negative prompting.
kwhitlock··on Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html)
Build logs are such a tricky attack surface; sanitizing arbitrary build output is practically impossible without breaking useful formatting. Always assume untrusted input.
kwhitlock··on Transit rewards
Rewards are a nice bonus, but reliable, frequent service that actually gets me places on time is the ultimate reward for transit users.
kwhitlock··on I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
Google Ads sells you the traffic and AdMob bans you for receiving it. The left hand bills you, the right hand punishes you, and neither talks.
kwhitlock··on The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
Reminds me of pulling in an entire JS framework just for a single button. The bundle size must be something else.
kwhitlock··on Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
Totally get this. Been on projects where the 'leader' was just the nutrient source everyone was blindly flowing towards.
kwhitlock··on U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers
Data center pushback is inevitable when entire neighborhoods feel the heat and noise.