Running Claude Code locally is annoying since you have to deal with permissions and agents interfering with each other (and you have to be at your computer), but running Claude Code on the web is annoying because the cloud environment is so limited.

What if we could run Claude Code for the web but on our machines? Through the magic of Claude Code writing Claude Code code, I made a local app for this.

Announcing Clawed Abode: A web app you can run on your own home computer which runs Claude Code without permission prompts in ephemeral containers, and with the ability to install packages, run containers, use caches, and access the GPU.

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I was thinking about an approval-style voting system that could end with a large number of ties, and ran into the problem of how to break ties in a provably-fair way that doesn’t depend on candidates trusting each other and won’t make voters’ eyes glaze over.

I think I found a solution which is provably-fair, but it might still cross over into eye-glazing territory. I don’t know if this is practical (or novel), but I’m writing it up in case anyone else finds it interesting.

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Today, I found an interesting article about password timing attacks. The basic point is that if you check a password one character at a time, the amount of time it takes to receive a “bad password” response tells you how many characters you got right.

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I’ve been subscribed to Interview Cake for years, and today they had a really interesting question: Given a list of n + 1 integers in the range 1...n, find one of the duplicates (there is guaranteed to be at least one) in O(n) time and O(1) additional space. The answer is really interesting, and I recommend trying it, but I don’t think it makes sense to care about additional space rather than total space, and I still think using a set to keep track of numbers (the most obvious solution) is the best solution in practice.

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As incomes have risen, it’s important for Americans to find new ways to spend ever-increasing amounts of money. I propose that we spend some of it traveling to pick and eat fresh fruit that doesn’t travel well.

Content Warning: Knowing how delicious fresh fruit can be is an infohazard for your wallet.

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