codex windows uses past few days: * Turned LG rolling TV into remote workstation: connected to monitor to setup Homebrew, Moonlight, and on the PC Sunshine so I can use my desktop anywhere in the house. * Built OBSBot camera plugin, logging in to UniFi dashboard to find camera, downloading SDK from Gmail, and vision to fine-tune camera API perf. * Put NAS on Tailscale, setup Plex Media Server, diagnosed slow transfers from NAS admin & UniFi network topology. Got my father-in-law remote access to his favorite media -- oh, and it used Chrome to go find out how to buy him an iPad remotely in Maine and deliver it. * Built a safer webOS dev token refresh flow, the Homebrew channel option sends tokens to a remote server, so after a security audit decided to make its own. * Made my Mac bootstrap repo cross-platform & setup entire PC in Windows native way: PowerShell native dev env (wrapped w/ Socket Firewall of course), PowerToys config, keyboard mapping, taskbar cleanup, path normalization, WSL w/ dotfiles installed, and common apps like VLC, OBS, Tailscale (full setup via admin on browser). * Built a "record every window" automation for OBS screen recording: automatically notices new windows, adds to OBS as a window capture source, tiles them into a scene, and records for easy demo compilation. now to go wheel ’dex out to my new metal fabricator!

configuring my windows box based on my mac from the hot tub ty codex mobile

in hindsight it makes sense that "barebones" pc meant it also wouldn't include an OS installer 🤦‍♂️

fun AND useful

codex for home repair: replaced a broken AC unit, new one makes this annoying noise. HVAC proposed invasive work to add new return supplies. asked codex about the issue while talking to him; it found the invoice in my email & looked up unit… variable fan speed simply set wrong

great for those last 10 mins of the flight when wifi still works but you're forced to put your laptop away

Codex’s “hatch-pets” skill for creating Pets is useful for way more than you think! It builds an 8x9 sprite atlas with transparent (!) unused cells, individual animation frames, row-by-row prompts, metadata, validation, and QA assets. Basically, you can give it a concept, and it literally will build you a full usable sprite sheet that you can repurpose for whatever you want. Beyond Codex Pets, you can use it to create game sprites, tiny mascots, retro UI companions, stream overlays, chat stickers, loading animations, website easter eggs, or pixel-art-ish character prototypes. Really useful!

just in time for pool season!

i’m back to new york after five months in sf. as i sit here (along with my little buddy zoe, who i missed deeply), i'm struck by this all-encompassing gratitude for everyone in my life. this weekend has already been chock-full of love as i catch up with my mom, dad, and my best friends, whose families have become my own as well. later today we'll all be together again to celebrate their beautiful daughter kate, who is turning THREE in spite of my feeble attempts at slowing time -- but i should know better, watching kate grow up has made it clear that nothing in life will stand in her path. in THREE WEEKS, my brother, sister-in law, and my eleven-year-old nephew kamden are leaving missouri after a lifetime there, moving only twenty minutes away! seeing kate grow up has made me really reflect on how much i missed of kamden growing up -- he's such a deeply caring, creative, and appropriately chaotic soul, and i haven't yet wrapped my head around how incredible it is i'll get to see them so much in mere weeks. and this year, i'll be marrying the love of my life zac. he's still in los angeles filming for another week, and while i miss him the silver lining is his absence speaks just as much as his presence: life is fuller with him in ways i never thought possible, in ways i'm still discovering, and in ways i can't wait to learn as we have babies of our own and figure out how to show them life. i am awash with gratitude