Events

Welp, there it goes. The sun just set after 8 pm here in Chicago for the last time until next May. It's at this point every summer that we start to realize how close we are to autumn. In just 20 days, the sun will set before 7:30; and just 18 days later, before 7.

Grant Park Music Festival program and Chorus

Instead of attending the Grant Park Music Festival's performance of Mozart's Requiem last night, I went to Rate Field to see the White Sox lose to the Cleveland Guardians, 8-2. Other than the humidity, it was a really good night to do either:

A friend got me a ticket to tonight's White Sox game, but a bunch of my other friends are going to the Grant Park Music Festival to hear the Levin completion of Mozart's Requiem. Possibly I'll go to that tomorrow, except...none of my friends can go tomorrow. Le sigh. Either way, I get to ride on the Red Line! Joy, rapture, etc.

I'm making a "hearty ragu" tomorrow, which will take all day in a slow cooker. I've made essentially the same recipe before, but this time I decided to figure out the nutritional value. Actually, that's not 100% accurate; I decided Claude should figure out the nutritional value, and spit it out as Markdown:

Previous season

I've just spent exactly one hour and six minutes with Claude Code on the next epic I'm building for this application. That's as long as it took a mix of two models and two effort levels to take an architecture document I wrote earlier today (time spent: 1 hour, 3 minutes), analyze it, read the codebase, figure out the architecture, identify the gotchas and things I missed, and generate seven full-fledged implementation specs adequate for Claude Sonnet to work from.

Two releases, and it's only Wednesday!

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