Agentic coding using Claude Code - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...
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Agentic coding using Claude Code - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...
Who cares if albo meets trump ffs.
I’m sick of this rude cow running the 730 report.
So there was an EV rebate to get people to fork out and buy an EV, now they’re going to create a special tax for EV owners because they’re not buying petrol 😐 fuck I hate the Australian govt
Yes Vance and Thiel and Rubio and everyone else is awful and need to be destroyed, but don’t let that diminish your joy when the bigoted, self-aggrandising, white-supremacist , corrupt child-rapist dies.
Oh and a “risk assessment” for Okta configuration changes to a large number of apps already in production. 🙃
3 months since leaving triage and starting as a penetration tester. I’ve done, segmentation testing, a phishing campaign, mobile app testing, web app testing and API testing so far. It’s been a busy 3 months!
I’d like to see that
I wonder if there’s an online gambling site where you can bet if comrade trump had a mild heart attack, a stroke or if he has cancer?
It must be so much better now
The Australian newspaper now costs $4.50. I think the last time I bought it it cost $1
I wonder what Steve Jobs would be doing with AI these days.
Customizing Claude Code: What I Learned from Losing Everything https://cstu.io/d24cbe #it #automation #techie
Me either! I bought a Claude code subscription the other day just so I can experiment with it for CTF and possibly for pen testing. It looks like a force multiplier, but I’m not sure where/how best to utilise it.
Trump's presidency has produced many victims with many many more to come. But there has been no greater beneficiary...and it is not even close...than Xi Jinping.
lol the Chinese govt are such hypocrites
It hires a North Korean dev? 🤷♂️
Have we entered the phase of Peak Grift?
Fuck how many times am I going to have to see someone post a link to an article about how someone used Claude to write some ransomware or plan an attack strategy - yes, we’ve all seen it. It’s not surprising. You don’t have to link to it again.
If there is, there’s a 95% chance it’s been vibe coded. 😐
Counterpoint: Don't be mean but also don't be nice. Treat it like a machine. If you make an effort to "be nice" you humanise it and make it seem sentient and able to have feelings when it's just a machine.
Not sentient. Same as deleting a file, basically. 🙃
The dream: AI boosts productivity so much we all get 4-day workweeks. The reality: AI productivity gains are an excuse for companies to cut staff or ask why you need a hire at all. No one’s handing out Fridays off because your job got easier, just more pressure to justify your existence
I think AU has a real identity crisis. We are aligned with war criminals and a lunatic pedo. criminal. We claim to be multicultural but have a shitload of racist assholes here and we are dumping refugees on a remote island for a million bucks a pop upfront + 70 mill a year(forever?)
International student arrivals on U.S. visas in July dropped 28.5% year over year, India alone plunged 50%. That’s a brutal financial blow for colleges, many of which rely on international students paying 2–3× more than in-state kids to balance their budgets. Project 2025 continues as planned.
The US is toast
There is no longer any legitimate debate over whether Trump is trying to establish authoritarian rule. The remaining questions are: How far down the road are we? Why are so many institutions capitulating or cooperating? Can we effectively resist? Is it too late?
This is a brand new Claude Code session. 28% of the context is already taken by MCP tools (Sentry, CircleCI, Context7, Atlassian), without even asking any questions. Don't add MCP tools when a valid CLI alternative is available.
This post and the comments, + the comments on the original is an entertaining 5 mins. Confirmation bias abounds. People saying (without reading original research) how obvious it is, + the irony of the one line replies and implicitly claiming superiority of mind because they don’t use AI. Etc 😐
we are going to need to put the lot of them at the bottom of a dark hole or we will be doing this again in 2032
The warfighters in DC got the trash picked up, now time to mulch.
Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of the biggest scandal of the Obama administration.
I’m a big fan of @mizzwelch.bsky.social
Photo of the Day. If you had suggested anything like this before November’s election, you would have been accused of being hysterical. Taken on Tuesday in Washington D.C. by J. Scott Applewhite for Associated Press.
I’ve been eyeballing Claude Code (not used it yet), thinking that using your HTB write ups as a guide would be an interesting way to see if/how CC can hack and how it might be able to help on pen tests. 🤷♂️ Unlimited access to CC and working with its power users would be an incredible opportunity!
Wow. I was just telling a colleague yesterday how much I love your HTB write-ups. Sounds like a huge loss for HTB and a massive win for Anthropic. Congrats on the new role.
I’m curios why the rise, but not enough to go find out
"The Arabs Hate Us Because Of Our Religion" Is The New "They Hate Us For Our Freedom" In both cases the answer is no, dipshit, they hate you because of the horrific things to do to them. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-arabs-...
The “male loneliness epidemic” is really about women now matching or surpassing men in earnings and education. But many men still expect 1950s gender roles and grow resentful when reality doesn’t comply. That resentment fuels mainstream misogyny and pro-Trump politics. There’s no easy fix.
Not a chance. I wouldn’t even visit if it was free and first class flights.
When the choice is Medium or Substack I guess I’ll have to skip both 🤷♂️ I’m sure your content is good, but both of those platforms really suck when all you want to do is read and learn without the ball and chain attached.
Full story in the article below
A core paradox of this administration is that while they seek control of everything their record proves they are actually not capable of running anything.
My GOD, what a great photo. (No Peter Cushing?)
My first thought exactly
Australian govt announces Iranian ambassador to be expelled from Canberra within 7days. Australia recalls ambassadorial staff from Teheran. Ok Australia, now do Israeli ambassador for their government’s war crimes.
Apparently Travis doesn't have a tux that's suitable for the wedding. He better get to the tailor swift.
America gave itself over to the most stupid dictator in history. Such a dumb country getting what it deserves, tbh.
Michaelia Cash currently speaking against the rights of Australians to protest - she doesn’t want you to be able to express yourself and oppose unfair laws. Really shows what the Coalition thinks about the general public.
Let’s all give a slow clap for Linda Reynolds for successfully suing a rape victim - her employee no less - for hurt feelings. Well done Linda 😏
Linda Reynolds may have won in court but her narcisstic and vindictive defamation case has done more to damage her reputation than anything Brittany Higgins or David Sharaz ever tweeted
I hope karma and Linda Reynolds cross paths soon. She deserves to experience a lot of deep, intense misery.
FU Linda Reynolds
Pentesting requires constant learning but ego often gets in the way. Echo chambers can blind even smart hackers from their own blind spots. Here are 5 lessons on staying sharp and grounded👇
The camouflage fatigues combined with the high-visibility vests is just *chef's kiss*. It screams "wtf am I doing here"???
This is a lot more telling than we realize. This is showing us the national guards have nothing better to do. Whether DC is overloaded with National Guards or there’s no crime to fight or a bit of both, this shows the occupation of DC is complete and utter 🐂💩
These people have families, and normal jobs. They're being removed from their lives to pick up garbage?! This is NOT what these brave Americans have been trained to do. This is insulting to the entire military, and a gross disgrace of misguided leadership.
Taxpayers are paying the Guard over a million dollars a day to either stand around or pick up trash!? What happened to the waste, fraud and abuse minions?
National Gardeners.
It’s like they’re literally prisoners.
Our long national nightmare is over.
Labour Party requires all to say the same thing or be expelled. Saw that in action last year. Iran is right, and so is bibi the war criminal, albo is weak AF. Better than libs, but still weak in every way. Weak on US, weak on Israel, weak on action that matters and more worried about being popular
My uneducated and cynical guess is that this is nothing more than ass-kissing and lies for damage control after Israel called albo a pussy (which he is, so can’t really argue).
21 Questions About The Claim That Iran Orchestrated Antisemitic Attacks In Australia 6. Please explain how orchestrating antisemitic attacks in Australia would advance Iranian interests more than the interests of some other state, say, just for example, Israel? www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/21-questio...
Creator of Claude code: we built a CLI because the way things are progressing, it might not be long before you don’t really need an IDE anymore. 😯
Seeing the success that the crypto industry had spending millions to elect politicians who have since enacted pro-crypto policies, there is now a new $100M pro-AI PAC backed by A16Z, OpenAI and others that plans to do the same for AI. The joys of a coin operated presidency.
So, who is Volkis anyway? Volkis is a 100% Australian owned and operated, independent cyber security consultancy that works to provide unbiased services and advice. This is why we exist and why our clients trust us.
IDF: “We mistakenly bombed the hospital which mistakenly killed journalists & staff then mistakenly sent in a second, precision strike which mistakenly killed the paramedics & rescue workers.” Sanction Israel, boycott Israeli goods, expel its diplomats, seize its assets. OR you support all this.
Trump: "Our nation now is the most respected nation anywhere in the world by far. You saw that with the European leaders on Friday." (The European leaders were at the White House a week ago, last Monday.)
Trump: "We have a very pretty violent fish that has, uh, comes from China. China carp, Chinese carp. And uhhhhh you see them jumping out -- they jump into boats and they jump all over the place. They have a lot of energy."
lol dieticians just don’t like the fact that people don’t actually need them.
The funniest thing about this tweet is that he helped elect a president who is banning wind and solar power projects when the entire AI industry is in an electricity crunch. The leopards are really feasting on faces here.
Crypto bros turned AI prompt kings are shameless, embarrassing clowns. Regurgitating AI generated, thin on detail, get rich quick BS. Fucking cretins.
The US is done. The empire is failing, fast. Most are not willing to admit it, but it’s the reality. Like it or not, China is the world number 1 superpower.
China is the real world superpower. The US is a washed-up has-been.
Worth sharing again.. fortune.com/2025/08/14/d...
Not sure where i originally saw this… fortune.com/2025/08/14/d...
Looks like some who escaped from the old folks home wearing his “I’m special” hat.
Trump’s approval rating is 44.1% but it’s interesting when you dig into his approval on top issues. On inflation he’s at 24.5%, the economy 38.2%. His fans have basically elevated immigration above all else, showing how deeply racism runs in shaping U.S. politics.
US paid nothing for 10% of a company - sounds totally legit
Staff are required to use walky-talky radios and lock up their devices.
So not for profit out of school care has to cough up ~50k for 4 locations due to govt requirement that mobile phones are not allowed by staff. All because govt can’t keep pedos from getting jobs in childcare in the first place despite criminal and working with children checks. Useless.
No surprise here:
Err this looks like bro’s Bumble profile pic. 🤦♂️
Err this looks like bro’s Bumble profile pic. 🤦♂️
So the decision(?) to include a perplexity advert rather than a specific article related screenshot seems like a fucking stupid idea. Won’t be sharing any more of that nonsense.
www.perplexity.ai/page/commonw...
I’m expecting Apple’s AI offering to be total rubbish. www.perplexity.ai/page/apple-i...
My first thought was idiocene, but I just googled it and learnt that people started using that term waaay back in 2019, when shit was still relatively normal 🤷♂️
Also, I just de-googled my “smart tv” UX using projectivity or whatever it’s called because I couldn’t stand having ads delivered to me constantly by the advert overlords. Best move I’ve done since buying the tv 7+ years ago
I consider android sometimes, but then I use one for testing apps and see how shit it is and just laugh.
Conman CEO trying to be one of the “cool kids”
Hilarious
We live in a police state.
No no you don't understand, Israel is protecting western civilization. If we don't help Israel genocide the Palestinians and starve their children and burn their babies and bomb their hospitals and demolish their cities, one day we could wind up ruled by evil murderous savages.
Russia’s top diplomat said today the Kremlin is “not ready at all” for a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, pouring cold water on US President Donald Trump’s efforts to set up a summit.
James Zou used virtual AI ‘scientists’ to find novel covid-19 treatments. Now, he’s having AI review and present all of the research at a controversial new conference.