Events

Welcome to stop #138 on the Brews and Choos project.

I asked my boss a question over Teams just after 2:30 this afternoon and he jumped on a quick call with me to answer. For context, he's outside Birmingham, so it was 8:30 pm for him. The topic? Getting Claude Code to work with Obsidian to build a personal wiki that your LLM can answer questions about. I know how I'll be spending some of my work hours this week: learning as much as I can about this stuff.

Welcome to stop #137 on the Brews and Choos project.

As long as the trains are running reasonably on-time today, the Brews & Choos Project will be spending some time up here: Unfortunately, Shotz Brewing does not have a taproom.

James Fallows has a can't-miss post (part 1 of 2) outlining the post-WWII history of US/Iran relations:

Happy Friday! Or not...

First, I'm pleased to see that Jeff Maurer came to the same conclusions about the 25th Amendment that I did: It's way harder than impeachment. But it's good that Democrats are talking about it.

Holy hell, did you see the size of that TACO yesterday? After publicly threatening massive war crimes against Iran, the OAFPOTUS backed down last night, instead offering a two-week cease-fire and conceding that Iran now controls the Strait of Hormuz. Of course, the OAFPOTUS claims this was a great victory, but so does Iran—the country that has its thumb on 20% of the global petroleum trade.