Given the recent interest in using Claude AI’s Project Knowledge section for coding to save context I thought it would be a good time to post about my tool Clod. As you may know Anthropic makes it difficult to manage Project Knowledge files programmatically. There is no API access, no MCP access, Claude cannot update them–they must be updated via the UI.

Paul Graham wrote an essay recently about immigration and the tech industry. Matt Mullenweg wrote a response mentioning distributed teams as a solution and there was a thread on Hacker News with additional discussion about colocated versus distributed teams. Steven Sinofsky wrote a response to all of those.

“DynamoDB is a fast, fully managed NoSQL database service that makes it simple and cost-effective to store and retrieve any amount of data, and serve any level of request traffic. All data items are stored on Solid State Drives (SSDs), and are replicated across 3 Availability Zones for high availability and durability.”

A number of Ruby and Rails security vulnerabilities have come to light recently. This is an excellent article about the situation and what you should do about it. If you do not have hardened servers you should follow the given advice to the letter. If you do need to rebuild this would be a good opportunity to migrate your infrastructure to chef, puppet or another tool that will allow you to easily rebuild again in the future.

I am a big fan of buying local. I am big fan of shopping on the Internet. I am a big fan of living a car-free lifestyle. We walked to the hospital to have our first child, and we walked him home. Our last child was born at home and, as far as I know, has never ridden in an automobile, though he does ride public transportation from time to time.