Wrote this (mattpolicastro.com/2026/03/11/c...) on my old blog framework and was carrying it over to the new WIP framework, to which Claude responded with the following. Strange times.

Claudin' Around Pt. 2

Well that was fast.

Claudin' Around

The website rebuilds will continue until writing improves.

These people are profoundly, send-me-back-to-mass evil.

Lindsey Graham: "If we get in a fight, I want to win it quick. I'm in Miami. You see this hat? 'Free Cuba.' Stay tuned. The liberation of Cuba is upon us. We're marching through the world. We're clearing out the bad guys. Cuba is next."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Setting aside current events: good lord that Piastri crash was BRUTAL

Scales and surprises

Taking stock after a few long years.

Walked half an hour to the PO to ask them what’s up with mail being held without explanation Wait half an hour in line and for them to check the mailroom Clerk comes back up and says “yeah it just got marked as delivered five minutes ago” Walk half an hour back muttering about the public trust

I’m usually pretty skeeved out by LinkedIn but this is a masterpiece, no notes

Accidentally took the devil’s nap (asleep on the couch after dinner) and just caught myself googling “gift guide for cat”

@albertburneko.bsky.social so the Dave McKenna ham story tickled something in my brain, but it wasn’t until I was with my family over the holidays that I followed up on it: I grew up in Belgium and we 100% had a ham truck that would travel into France fairly often www.thechickenman.be/en/home

Choosing to descend into mid-winter madness by attempting to generalize my half-dozen turkey roasting practice reps into other poultry

An aggressively normal Saturday of politely disagreeing with my mechanic, wandering along the channel trail taking pictures of ducks, and baking for neighbors before being social and calling it at a reasonable hour? Few said it could be done, and yet

Lost Whamageddon during pre-call music at work today and just burned the bejesus out of my finger pulling a pizza out of the oven, AMA

Made @willsmith.fun’s nog recipe last night and levain-style cookies today, and am bordering on catatonic on the couch with the cat

Tweaked something in my neck a week ago and it’s still killing me, send help

Finally getting around to long-overdue updates to my NAS and wow they really enshittified the heck out of Plex, didn’t they

Just realized that I’ve been playing The Blue Prince so much I have been hesitating to open quote posts the way I do when drafting rooms Video games are wild

Thanksgiving can be cool

2 for 2 on deciding the perfect time to mud drywall is the night before hosting family for a holiday!!

Ok, but seriously, why do they keep casting Jared Leto as the lead

Inadvertently tumbling into a bar absolutely glued to the Cubs in the playoffs, you can’t beat it

The new Apple OS updates seem pretty rough, but I am absolutely tickled that they added dedicated buttons for various flavors of unremarkable ambient to the control center options

I am a caricature, but I am a white guy who thinks He Might Be Onto Something With This Whole Pizza Dough Thing because I have been making some dope pizzas lately

Was feeling unusually flushed after a bike ride so I finally looked up how much water I should be drinking based on my size, and I’m sorry: a gallon? A whole-ass gallon?? Every day???

Resurfacing

SoundBlasterBlaster

Well I left the team at Clearhead, so I made a silly toy.

Bad things, good things, all things

Working out my feelings in a difficult period.

Observations on Data Science

Fleshing out some ideas around data, organizations, and roles.

Preferred Super Glue & Other News

Definitely not burying the lede.

The Latest & Greatest

Marginalia VII

Trying to show some signs of life.

Marginalia VI

More updates. Site tweaks (again).

Pikachu Shops at Whole Foods

Trying to write an essay to a less-than-satisfying result.

Snippets

Microblogging rears its handsome head.

Marginalia V

I'm in grad school. Time passes.

Marginalia IV

Errata, etc.

Twitter in 2016

Attempting to eulogize something still very much alive.

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol over Transport Layer Security

I finally got on the HTTPS bandwagon, thanks to Let's Encrypt.

GA-frame

Screwing around in virtual worlds.

Skilful Grammar I

Experiments in iOS and Swift.

Marginalia III

More errata and effluvia, but I smuggled in an announcement.

On Writing

An apology. (Sorry again.)

Expertise

Excerpting Ursula M. Franklin.

Fitness Data: Kicking & Screaming

Poorly-considered experiments in the quantified self.

Marginalia II

Cool Dad Syndrome and acquisitions.

If this, then...

Kludges and digital super glue.

Second Thoughts III

An attempt at microblogging.

Second Thoughts II

Completing my second thoughts.

Second Thoughts

Wrestling with the features of the modern web.

Marginalia I

The first of many.

Adventures in Pi

Blinded by science (and hacking in the real-er world).

Fun

Making the tool is oftentimes more fun than using the tool itself.

Oh.

It's been a while, hasn't it?

Ch-ch-changes

Making site updates and design changes.

Hello, world.

Humble beginnings.