TIL - there's heaters on ice makers
Our ice maker was not behaving so I reached in to see if I could see anything. When reaching, I got a nasty burn. So yeah, be careful.
For those curious, the model is: GNE27JYMNFFS
Wilson Pancake
I'm kinda proud of this pancake!
Discharge Burns
The other day I was working on a blocked discharge... it was hot. real hot. 200+ PSI will generate a lotta heat quick. If you're curious what the discharge hose looked like...
RTK saved me 1.1M tokens (86.4%)
RTK — a token-optimized CLI proxy that wraps common dev commands and strips noise before it ever hits Claude. Across 1,360 commands, here's where the savings landed:
# Command Count Saved Avg% Time
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1 rtk read 51 549.1K 22.6% 0ms
2 rtk:toml ps aux 4 252.7K 98.6% 166ms
3 rtk:toml ps -ef 2 99.5K 98.7% 134ms
4 rtk grep 194 83.3K 35.5% 4ms
5 rtk curl …nordvest… 1 20.0K 99.3% 47ms
6 rtk find 75 19.9K 68.9% 5ms
7 rtk curl … 1 14.7K 99.1% 335ms
8 rtk curl …127… 2 12.7K 98.0% 112ms
9 rtk curl … 2 10.6K 97.6% 130ms
10 rtk git diff resources… 1 10.0K 85.2% 17ms
The big surprise: ps aux and ps -ef cost ~99% of their tokens in noise — a couple of process listings would have eaten 350K tokens uncompressed.
10,000+ Episodes Summarized
I know I'm the main power user of my own app Audio Brevity but this is kinda impressive...
447 ppm with 4 people in the room
I was super impressed with the airflow in my wife's hospital room (she's fine - routine stuff) as there were four people in the room and it stayed under 500 ppm. All through the hospital that day I didn't see it more than 500 ppm even in the crowded waiting room. Nice.
Unhealthy air all around
Working on a machine I didn't realize how fast I was in dangerous air. It's about knowing your air to make smart decisions.
