Sysadmining These Days

It may come as a shock to you, dear reader, that I have quite a lot of gadgets. Gadgets are often a bit wonky. This is just a blog post about how much has changed these days, because I just find it kinda… OK, “mind-blowing” might not be the right word, but it’s a pretty big shift. In the olden days (i.e., before spring 2026), when a gadget was slightly wonky, you either lived with it, spent hours and hours and hours to get it to work, or you ditched it. Much wonkiness is of the kind that it’s just occasionally annoying, so you just live with it for years… but that’s over now. It’s happened many times over the last month, confronted with some wonkiness, and I’ve gone “right, that’s a bit wonky… let’s fix it with Claude!” As an example — take this nice Turn Touch remote that I’ve used for more than a decade to control the stereo. It’s always been slightly wonky, and I’ve just lived with it. The wonkiness consists of it losing touch with the script on the server that executes commands…