Long live the Yankee Empire. The world will learn to lick its boots.

This but unironically

Hope your favorite dictator is next, comrade.

I've successfully spec-coded a functional iOS terminal app for proxying Claude Code (and family) from an owned system. It was easy - even the icon and slick splash screen.

An Apple Developer Account would be required to deploy it. A free account permits sideloading of a private app.

With this one, small tweak it is perfect:

osascript << 'EOF' use framework "Foundation" use framework "AppKit"

set ghosttyIconPath to "/Applications/Ghostty.app/Contents/Resources/Ghostty.icns" set cmuxAppPath to "/Applications/cmux.app"

-- Read the icon file set iconImage to current application's NSImage's alloc()'s initWithContentsOfFile:ghosttyIconPath

-- Set it as the custom icon for cmux.app current application's NSWorkspace's sharedWorkspace()'s setIcon:iconImage forFile:cmuxAppPath options:0 EOF

((The ghost pairs well with Kiro, what can I say?))

:ghost:

If every person is now a captain, with their own ship, the harbor may become rather crowded.

As predicted in The Diamond Age.

When was the last time you passed a Voight-Kampff test, friend?

Shit... Flagged for low empathy

Yet most organizations in existence pay the people “who hasn’t touched a computer in 30 years” quite a large amount of money to continue to solve problems, for some inscrutable reason… =)

There is a track now for people to stay in engineering and get paid more then their manager

That "track" gets increasingly illusory the farther you walk it.

It isn’t, but it’s not possible to get paid like that if your work isn’t a necessary component in the work that earns the company a lucrative payday.

Managers being overpaid and overvalued is a well known phenomenon, yes.

It’s as old as the issue of narrowly-focused ICs having no appreciation for or interest in anything outside their narrow (but deep) expertise.

They generously offer you a free SIM card when going through passport control in Dubai. I can’t think of any other reason to do that, besides pure benevolence.

Very Zen of you to say

I've done professional ghostreading for published nonfiction authors. Many such titles are literally a synthesis of x-number of published papers and books. It is all an industry of sorts.