Wired up my Claude Code via A2A with my OpenClaw agent. They share a memory via Honcho, so at all times both agents have the same understanding of my home lab. Cool 😎

Hypercritical Hypercritical: EV Stupidity Checklist

Spot on checklist for car makers from John Siracusa, who always has a knack for this sort of thing.

In 2026, we’re well past the time when EVs need to compromise safety and functionality in order to appear futuristic. As for the cost savings, well, that’ll be harder to shake. Once automakers got a taste for cheap touchscreens, they spread to all cars, not just EVs.

To help the industry get back on the right track, I’ve created a checklist for car designers. Make sure your new car—EV or otherwise—checks all these boxes to avoid making the same stupid mistakes that have plagued modern cars for years.

It’s no accident that we are in the midst of selling our Rivian R1S, which fails to check quite a few boxes:

  • Physical charge-port door mechanism: this one actually bit us in the ass recently. Our R1S has been sitting in the driveway while we wait for parts from Rivian (it was in an accident and it’s been over a month waiting for parts). The battery died and we couldn’t open the charge port to plug it in. They had to send people to our house to fix it. So dumb.
  • Physical controls for temperature and fan speed
  • Physical controls for air flow and direction
  • Physical glove box opening mechanism: This one is a double fail — the R1S doesn’t even have a glove box. So dumb.

Not on the checklist, but relevant, is that Rivian doesn’t support Apple CarPlay.

Meanwhile, my BMW i4 suffers from none of these problems, which is why we decided to get a used iX for my wife. Physical charge port doors, real door handles, “stalks” to adjust the direction of airflow, and native support for CarPlay. They aren’t perfect, but they give the same great BMW experience that exists in the rest of their ICE cars without compromise.

Today's photo booth setup for the Bike Summer party
Gierratio On The Fuel Efficiency of Launching My Enemies Into The Sun Launching your enemies into the sun is simple with the one easy trick rocket scientists don't want you to know about!

When snark and nerdiness collide, the results are often delightful, and this post is no exception.

Calculating the delta-v needed to launch someone into the sun is easier mathematically but tougher conceptually because it actually requires the counterintuitive approach of firing your rockets retrograde until your orbital velocity becomes zero. Since your velocity is now zero, the sun is going to pull you straight down until you become a toasty, concerningly fleshy [sic] marshmellow.

In the last 20 years of my life, I’ve slowly devolved into a concerningly fleshy marshmallow with very little aid from gravity.

What a fun post.

I had to do a bit of soldering and heat shrink to fix Lily's bike lights
Built a little removable floor for the package locker so boxes don't sit on the ground all day, but we can still clean under it when we need to.
Long day of meetings, at least the cats kept me company
The 3D printed nylon version of the parts arrived! Did a quick test fit but will have to actually build this later
This week's LEGO build progress, saucer section is coming together
Assembled the frame for the rear rack shade/mount and took it on a little test ride! Now I have 100W of solar panels on my bike and a shaded area for things below!
Took a quick break from meetings to run the fiber and cat6 between the buildings finally!
Pizza on the grill... still learning, but I like where this is going
Working on hydroponics plumbing
Finally got the connection between the buildings moved over to the new underground fiber line!

These Steam Deck price hikes are making me worried that the Steam Frame is going to cost a hojillion dollars.

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Cross-Domain API Access: Beyond the "Obvious" Shortcuts

Cross-domain access is everywhere in today's software landscape. Whether you look at enterprise SaaS applications, AI agents interacting with user data across multiple platforms, or "integrated experiences" pulling information from a calendar, a chat tool, and a wiki—everything eventually needs to talk across boundaries.
#oauth #okta #xaa #id-jag #ai
In a pre-web analog world, this is what a CMS really was. (Hint: there's actually two in this photo.) An orange covered 14th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style sits on a table in front of an Olympia SG1 typewriter with an oak card index filing cabinet beside it.
#Social Stream #Typewriters #analog office #card index as database #content management systems #The Chicago Manual of Style
The Stanley Kramer comedy classic film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (United Artists, 1963) has a handful of Royal KMG typewriters featured in the office settings at police stations throughout the film. The KMG was Royal's top-of-the-line office standard machine and was manufactured from 1949 to 1952 before being replaced by the Royal HH (1952 to 1957) and the Royal FP (1957to 1962). By the time the film premiered in November of 1963, the newest desktop manual would have been the Royal Empress (1962-1966). The featured Royal KMG of the film sits in the center of Capt. T. G. Culpeper's (portrayed by Spencer Tracy) squad room and another appears in the background there. A switchboard operator with a headset in a police department office. In the background is a secretary at a gray Royal KMG typewriter on a small typewriter desk. On the wall behind them is a map charting the chase route of the people chasing the missing money. In the back corner in front of the map is another Royal KMG.The switchboard operator at her board in the foreground as Culpepper's secretary types on a Royal KMG  just behind her at a small typing table next to her tanker desk.A sargent in a white uniform leans over a tanker desk to talk to the secretary outside of Captain Cullpepper's office. The secretary is facing away from him working at her Royal KMG typewriterSpencer Tracy in a 3/4 shot wearing a black suit and tie and a fedora while he's on the phone. Just in front of him is a secretary's Royal KMG typewriter. Another typewriter sits on a desk in the far background.Spencer Tracy on the telephone next to his secretary at her Royal KMG typewriter. Between them in the background is a map tracing the route of the bank robber.Spencer Tracy walking out of the Detective's Division. In the background are another officer and a Royal KMG typewriter.Tracy pointing across the room in the foreground as his secretary types on a standard Royal KMG.A police station bullpen with five officers gathered around a desk as one radios out orders. On the right hand side just behind them on a desk we see the left side of a Royal KMG typewriter Another Royal KMG appears in the sheriff's office of Crockett Country with the Sheriff portrayed by well known character actor Andy Devine. [caption id="attachment_55835731" align="aligncenter" width="660"] Andy Devine as the old sheriff with bushy gray eyebrows and a reddish face is on a black rotary desk phone in his office as a closely cropped deputy sits behind him at a desk where we see the left side of a gray Royal KMG typewriter in the background.[/caption]   Of tangential note, comedian and writer Carl Reiner, who portrays the tower controller at Rancho Conejo at which Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hackett attempt to land their airplane, is known to have have used a Royal KMG, though one doesn't appear in any of his scenes in the air traffic control tower.
#Typewriters #Andy Devine #It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (United Artists 1963) #Royal KMG #Royal typewriters #Spencer Tracy #typewriters in media