mecredis

2026-03-11 5:10

Submitted: "Code Canary: Realtime Reporting of Coding Agent Performance"

1 points0 commentsfredbenenson.com

If you’ve got any kind of engineering background, you’re probably spending most of your waking hours enmeshed in a slightly unhealthy relationship with a coding agent like Claude Code. …

2026-03-02 5:47

Submitted: "Repurposing Claude Code for Better Spotify Recommendations"

3 points0 commentsfredbenenson.com

I built a Claude Code skill that creates Spotify playlists from natural language. You describe what you want — “70s Ethiopian jazz fusion,” “ambient music that sounds like i…

2026-02-03 4:56

Submitted: "221 Cannon is Not For Sale"

319 points272 commentsfredbenenson.com

Like most people, I’ve had my identity stolen once or twice in my life. It’s annoying, but thankfully I’ve avoided some of the more catastrophic outcomes when criminals begin impe…

2026-01-09 7:02

Commented: "SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack"

Author here. I quickly thought of the title for the article and shipped it. I agree it's clickbait-y and apologize to SendGrid (and any confused readers) but yes, as you say it's _technically_ correct in a very narrow sense – SendGrid's infrastructure and users are sending these emails, it's just that they're fraudulently associated with SendGrid the company.

In any case, I revised the title to "SendGrid isn’t emailing you about ICE or BLM. It’s a phishing attack."

Maybe someone can edit the title of the submission on HN accordingly?

2026-01-09 4:36

Submitted: "SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack"

209 points142 commentsfredbenenson.com

For the past several months, I’ve been receiving and then ignoring a steady stream of concerning emails from Sendgrid, the popular email delivery service owned by Twilio that I use for sendin…

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Submitted: "Code Canary: Realtime Reporting of Coding Agent Performance"

Submitted: "Repurposing Claude Code for Better Spotify Recommendations"

Submitted: "221 Cannon is Not For Sale"

Commented: "SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack"

Submitted: "SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack"

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