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Android turns 18 this year, so I went back to meet it as a baby

I reviewed the first Android phone in 2008. Eighteen years later, I booted its OS on my laptop to see what it promised and what it quietly dropped

Android turns 18 this year, so I went back to meet it as a baby

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Two Clocks, Neither Lying

The night of August 14th, Claude Code was planning me a trip. An eight-day itinerary — not code, just travel planning — running in the VS Code extension against the remote box where my sessions live.

  • Two clocks displayed different information about session status
  • Session was both finished and unfinished due to rendering delay
  • Issue caused over an hour delay in showing approval notification

I built a security scanner that checks if you are a dog

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Dog Days Edition What I Built I went looking for a dog in the GPU family tree. I found fish, dead physicists, and a bridge in Florence.

  • "Dog or Not" scanner identifies if object is a dog
  • Scanner uses live video feeds and voice commands
  • Barks when object is confirmed as a canine

Coalescing the Stream

Claude Code, on my box, doesn't talk to a model provider directly. It goes through claude-code-router (ccr) — a self-hosted proxy that lets the same CLI point at the official Anthropic API or at…

  • Claude Code uses claude-code-router to switch between Anthropic API and third-party providers.
  • Middleware merges streaming events into chunks without altering stream meaning.
  • Middleware maintains content-length header and avoids compression on merged bodies.

The Twenty-Hour Fuse

Two nights of debugging, one incident left to write about. The night of August 14th, a Claude Code session hung for an hour inside the VS Code extension, and I traced it to a per-token streaming stall…

  • Claude Code session froze for an hour on August 14th
  • Server instability caused by high load average of 38.7
  • Llama.cpp process consumed excessive memory and triggered IO storm

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