(Michael Chinen)

Author: mchinen

Brokerage Bonuses are extremely undervalued sources of income

Brokerage Bonuses are extremely undervalued and can make 5k to 30k/yr for middle class households and cut off multiple years of work, with very little risk and with a very small time commitment. This figure from the Richmond Federal Reserve shows the average (mean?) households’ assets in 2023. Note that the amount of cash+stocks ranges […]

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 […]

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