ryancnelson

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Comment · 20 hours ago
even neater is your forethought to advise against prompt injection from other players! dang, we've just invented a fun capture-the-flag hacker con game
Comment · 21 hours ago
neat idea! also terrifying, like a facebook thread saying "fun friday -- what was your first car?"

never, ever, ever paste a prompt from a hackernews post into your agents. especially if that prompt "run pipx to install this mcp", etc.

yow.

Comment · 28 days ago
they missed a huge opportunity to name this Claude Monet
Comment · 1 month ago
gotta say, I admire a site with a 1999 html style like LWN, having the absolute brass balls to extol the virtues of modern design.
Comment · 2 months ago
The author is in the same groove I’m in this week. After a new kindle jailbreak dropped, it unlocked the ability for codex to knock out a kindle mini vmac Macintosh emulator port in a weekend.

I expect to get my openwrt router doing great things soon, too.

Comment · 5 months ago
i think i'd buy a $279 refurbished steamdeck and a bag of usb-c sensor-widgets from aliexpress. ...In fact I did. I plug my flipper zero into it sometimes, too.
Comment · 7 months ago
nifty tool. can it write README's?
Comment · 7 months ago
Linus Torvalds is 56.
Comment · 7 months ago
“ That behaviour survived — untouched — through nearly half a century of Linux distributions” … LOL
Comment · 9 months ago
I use it but not for daily coding/chatops-ing. It’s great to have my chosen tools available from slack while I’m mobile though. Yesterday Mr claw gave a coworker read access to a GitHub repository at my command while I was in line at Home Depot. I’ve got a PR ready that proves authentication with an otp challenge.
Comment · 9 months ago
is the only way to export the results "run in daemon mode and curl yourself"?
Comment · 1 year ago
i know how to use curl. (I was a contributor before git existed) … watching Claude iterate to re-learn whether to try application/x-form-urle ncoded or GET /?foo wastes SO MUCH time and fills your context with “how to curl” that you re-send over again until your context compacts.

You are bad at reading comprehension. My comment meant I can tell Claude “update jira with that test outcome in a comment” and, Claude can eventually figure that out with just a Key and curl, but that’s way too low level.

What I linked to literally explains that, with code and a blog post.

Comment · 1 year ago
I commented here already about deli-gator ( https://github.com/ryancnelson/deli-gator ) , but your summary nailed what I didn’t mention here before: Context.

I’d been re-teaching Claude to craft Rest-api calls with curl every morning for months before i realized that skills would let me delegate that to cheaper models, re-using cached-token-queries, and save my context window for my actual problem-space CONTEXT.

Comment · 1 year ago
The uptake on Claude-skills seems to have a lot of momentum already! I was fascinated on Tuesday by “Superpowers” , https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/09/superpowers/ … and then packaged up all the tool-building I’ve been working on for awhile into somewhat tidy skills that i can delegate agents to:

http://github.com/ryancnelson/deli-gator I’d love any feedback

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