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The more I use Claude Code to generate large swaths of systems, the more I feel like we are missing a lot of practices and tools. The first bit that really annoyed me was the lack …

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I think these system prompts reveal a couple of things about Claude Code and agentic tools in genereral. 1. Adding MCP/plugins creates a lot of overhead in the context window. For …

"Any application that could be done on a blockchain could be better done on a centralized database. Except crime." What if the actual crime is committed by those that control our m…

Keep in mind that I have no control on the client. No manufacturer has implemented TLS let alone sFTP. If I had any influence on the protocol it would be HTTPs. This is why I wasn'…

Exactly my reasoning. See my comment above for more info. I'm making the maintenance of this less painful by doing a hacking/debugging session with manufacturers once a month where…

I had considered this, but decided against this for a couple of reasons: - Scaling requirements are relatively low. Even though we're dealing with 10 thousands of devices, the amou…

The main reason for using Node.js is because the rest of our stack is Node.js: https://bedrock.io We use MongoDB as persistence and have existing wrappers for dealing with Google C…

Yep VPN. The devices don't support TLS. (We have Cloudflare in front of other services)

Amazing. I never thought I would say this, but I actually implemented an FTP server in 2020. This was needed to support firmware updates to specific hardware (Electric Vehicle char…