FreeBSD Frau

Shrug, dunno

How do my fellow FreeBSD kernel/src/dtrace developers feel about me POTENTIALLY using AI (specifically, Claude Sonnet 4 by Anthropic) to enhance the FreeBSD Operating System, squash bugs, respond to PRs, and both write & maintain man-pages?

Actually, it’s a machinist’s tool; it connects two Starrett rules together to make one long rule. It can even connect different-width models

Name that tool!

It’s ON, like Donkey Kong! I just taught the AI agent how to automatically maintain RCS keywords in files whilst working in my git repository 😈

Oh my God! When you give Cursor and Claude-4-sonnet access to a PR, it can not only fix the code but figure out what to say to the humans in response! No longer do I have to spend countless hours deciding what people are saying! Life is getting GOOD! Maybe there is something to this AI generation

Note: it was my own credentials that I was stuffing into a session that I created, but I could have hijacked anyone’s credentials because I have root access. But it worked to solve a bug in the built-in agent forwarding feature of the ssh plugin to Cursor

Oh baby! I just “hacked the Gibson!” I taught credential stuffing to claude-4-sonnet so that I could pull PR data off sequestered private Enterprise GitHub instances using nothing but built-in ssh integration to VScode 😈

It can read JIRA tickets? Are just copy/pasting from the tickets or is there some integration?

Not sarcasm. Say you’ve been in the salt mines for 10 years and have a healthy repo of code organically grown over time. Claude can be asked to analyze your style and produce code that matches (and often exceeds) your quality. I did have to point out some nits, but it makes you ungodly-fast!

If you ever get the chance, do not pass-up the opportunity to try the AI model named “claude-4-sonnet” available in Cursor/VScode — my God. It is life changing. Coming from someone that has been in the industry for 25 years and knows almost 30 programming languages fluently; knocked my socks off!

Last but certainly not least, the find of the month, a genuine original Kriss Kross stropper with the original razor and instruction booklet! Only $20 (original price was $6, in 1921, 104 years ago)

$15 for 15 carbide router bits in a wooden case. Not bad, $1 per router bit. Vintage (2006) Harbor Freight. Will get absorbed into the big kit of bits and will be used

Clothespins, $1 (stay with me; the best is yet to come)

Box, also $4

I stopped by Urban Ore. Let’s unpack it (quickly). First, a thermal bag for $4

It is holding up quite well. What needs to happen next is for me to commit version 4.0 to head

As a New Year’s resolution, I am learning how to do hand-carving. Here I am practicing with Pfeil palm carving chisels on a block of basswood. The trick is to take it back to Kindergarten — stay within the lines. It’s elementary

Work is easiest when the promise is clear

Cool drill press vise with a swiveling movable jaw for clamping tapered objects, found today at salvage for $12 — vintage Record 412 drill press vise

For $15, snagged some on-sale White Wenge — 4 feet of 4/4 at 6” wide, calculates out to 2 board feet. Normally $9.20 per board-foot, since it is only 1/2 a foot wide (6”) and 4/4 thickness, half the price per linear-foot. Plus it was 25% off today! Score! Will make some really nice signs or box tops

The Pinnacle No 151-1/2 spokeshave with convex sole. From @woodcraft.bsky.social — looking forward to test driving it after I apply a film coat of 3-in-1 to protect from rust

… unless of course after hunting it comes up empty, in which case it prefers to dump the new setting into the first file from the ordered list of paths sourced (/etc/rc.conf)

When making changes, sysrc will first hunt for the setting and then (unless -f file is given to specify a particular file to write to) only change the setting in the location that matters most (the last file to declare it in the ordered list of files sourced sequentially)

There are combinations of options that will yield a list of either every existing file that sets it as well as an option to show which file sets the final value (as each file listed is sourced in-order, allowing later files to override sensible defaults, for example)

sysrc supports rc.conf.d when you use “-s svc_name” man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?...

Secrets of minesweeper you never knew. See number. Place that number of flags. Then, while holding right mouse button, left-click the number and it will auto-clear all remaining unflagged cells around the number. Speed-running minesweeper was my jam

This WoodRiver block plane is actually quite nice. Built well, good finish, nice feedback, hefty, and cuts very well. Not sure why I resisted getting one of these for so long. The knuckle cap has an extremely satisfying over-center locking mechanism that is superb

More tools from @woodcraft.bsky.social — the block plane was $40 off because it was left-over Black Friday stock (how cool is that — whatever doesn’t sell on Black Friday remains on-discount until it sells; even if that is months later, making it a good idea to visit the store in-person)

Such a happy guy!