---
title: "Miscellanea for 2025-07-10"
date: 2025-07-10T23:59:00-07:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2025/07/10/miscellanea/
author: Les Orchard
tags: [miscellanea]
---

# Miscellanea for 2025-07-10

- Hello world!
- Trying to decide if this is a "[still alive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI)" or a "[beware, I live!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC2iqlvifSU)" kind of day?
- Either way, I've been down a hole of busy-ness for the past few weeks and been wanting to climb out to emit some reports here.
- Still trying to find a good balance while spinning plates across multiple projects. But, I've gotten a lot done without quite going entirely insane.
- Feel like I've suddenly become a cyborg over the past few weeks. Been working across multiple instances of Claude Code all day, every day.
- Also feels like I've picked a side in the war against Skynet in some folks' estimation. Except, to me, it feels like working with a concussed version of the main computer from the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)—which is still pretty advanced for the 21st century.
- I've gotten well acquainted with Anthropic's usage limits, having managed to reliably burn through my Max plan allowances every 5 hours or so.
- I'm considering implementing [usage monitoring](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/monitoring-usage) to better understand my consumption patterns with Claude.
- Both Claude and I could probably use a brief vacation. I guess the kids call that a "[micro-retirement](https://www.fastcompany.com/91357784/what-is-a-micro-retirement-inside-the-latest-gen-z-trend)" these days?