(Michael Chinen)

Author: mchinen

I Let an AI Agent Migrate My Entire Server While I Ate Dinner (Unsupervised)

For 15 years, I hopped AWS accounts annually to keep my websites on EC2’s free tier. When Amazon finally closed that loophole last year, I decided to let Claude Code handle the migration, unsupervised. The EC2 micro free tier where I kept some personal websites and git repos were free for one year, ‘renewable’, as […]

Fleeting timeless moment

Physical high entropy processes like paint splatter, shotgun blasts, rain, snow, etc have fine grained randomness and second order or higher fine grained randomness and second order or higher uniformity. There is much art that reinterprets this. Programs that generate this with lines or dots resemble it but often lack the physical complexity that creates […]

30 years coding and still running into unsigned int bugs

I came across another unsigned int issue a year or so ago and for some reason I didn’t post it.  Maybe I was embarrassed?  Anyway that Mike is dead now, mostly replaced by new cells, so I’m posting it. It’s not a totally surprising either but I’ll post it anyway. If you have an unsigned […]

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