Gemini said 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in 2025. Traced the primary sources: no fix announcement found, only CLI-side loop-stopping guards, and Gemini 3.1 Pro was still looping in 2026.
Traced Gemini's "Do NOT issue search queries to the google search tool" message to a leaked system prompt, plus fixes: new chat, forced search, Saved Info.
Dug a 2001 Aquaplus P/ECE out of a closet and got my own C game running on it: WinUSB/Zadig for the dead driver, a from-source S1C33 LLVM toolchain, and a 15GB-RAM OOM.
Claude Code sometimes emits a stray court token and raw <invoke> as plain text instead of running Read/Edit/Bash — a malformed tool call that never executes. How to tell it from a hung shell or a 'could not be parsed' error, on long Opus 4.8 sessions.
After a macOS update, tmux sessions started by cron lost access to the Keychain, causing Claude CLI batch jobs to silently fail. Diagnosing the issue, the fix, and why this is a structural macOS Keychain problem rather than a Claude CLI bug.
A thinking block corruption error crashed my Claude Code Web session and wiped uncommitted files. An investigation into the cause, workarounds, and whether the files can be recovered.
In January 2026, Logi Options+ and G HUB stopped working on macOS due to an expired certificate. Here's how to fix it and why this happened in the first place.
