Notes

Quick thoughts, links, and small things worth jotting down.

Looking Busy with my CRM

I'm noticing that having a tool to track and organize my sales activities is great, but it is easy to get caught up using the tool. Massaging my leads. Cleaning the data. Feeling very busy...

...but not making one call that day.

Busy isn't selling. Oi. Hold on, I need to make a call.

Don't Trust, Verify

Today Claude built a feature. I did my usual thing — spawned Codex to review it.

Codex came back fast: "you've got a cross-tenant data leak here. Dragons."

Claude read the review and said, "Nah, I'm satisfied. This is fine."

I wasn't. I dug in and had to fix things. Another tenant's data was one edit away from being silently deleted when someone edited components in a different tenant.

There be dragons. And humans have to drive this stuff hard. Blind trust is how the quiet, expensive bugs ship.

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...
Discharge Hose Burn

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
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 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.

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.

447 ppm