Oren Teich

Forked @kneath awesome Tahoe trail watercolor for the North Bay. East side has 250 miles of trails across 336 trails in a 15 x 15 mile region. ❤️ trails.teich.net/#park=east

Running a small business (manufacturing and retail for asphaltanchors.com), AI is part of everything I do. I cackle with glee each day, it's so much fun what I get to build to solve real problems. Here's today's: Customers can get in touch with us lots of ways - webforms, phone (quo), email, etc. Build a custom email client that sits in our alias, plus gmail oauth. Lets me and my biz ops person have a shared queue without the overhead of a full ticket system. We can 'claim' a ticket, see each other's replies, the usual basics. Plus - call logging from quo - can see who and how long each call is inline. Notes. BI system integration - how much last order, lifetime order, direct deep link for more details. Spam filtering where each message is run through Clourflare Clef (seems way better than usual spam detection). Mark messages or domains as spam, and skip the trivial cost and straight ignore. Reply in app with gmail.send scope. Typical flow now - customer emails, maybe also calls. We go into support, see all that in one view, maybe see that they called 2x, then emailed us - that's clear sign they really want to get in touch. We usually call back (small business! Real humans!). Maybe talk to them for 5-20 min. Leave a small note so the other person knows what happened. Customer follows up with email, additional question, etc. All in one spot. So far I've spent 326 minutes (wall clock time) across 22 sessions and 136 prompts with Opus 5.5. e.g. a few spare minutes between getting other work done over a few days. Deployed for free to Cloudflare.

Considering reusing 1/3 acre plot for fruits and veggies. Had Claude whip up a 3d webgpu visualization. Loaded GIS LIDAR scans, building shapes, auto layout based on counter lines, all this AM. Also - 1/3 acre planted tightly is overwhelming work.

yesterday's adventures with AI: ChatGPT found a 15% tax mistake in my favor - discovered a reverse split on it's own that we never documented. Claude given the same prompt found nothing of interest.

Today's fun adventures with AI: setup some 10+ year old speakers I had in a closet, ChatGPT ran REW sweeps with a calibrated UMIK, and created some PEQ filters to tame a nasty 54hz hump and 110hz bump. Sounds great!

Love having a small business as an applied lab for AI. Getting better data to _actually_ do things with has been amazing. Here's my real dashboard with fake numbers.

❤️ Google MCP for Ads, wanted a more. Created GAMM - Google Ads MCP Manager. Allows write changes to Ads, but only with approval. Let's multiple agents read, approval queue for people on changes. github.com/asphaltanchors/ga…

I’ve been using this _terrible_ software on windows to export quickbooks desktop to CSV. I just realized today - why don’t I install chatgpt on windows and have it go at it. Chatgpt is busy writing C# code to export all the data with a nice CLI. Amazing.

Can't stop making videos with Claude Opus 5.5 now. work, personal, explaining my thoughts, playing.

My driveway is a longish dirt road. I've heard the amazon truck beeping it's way back for at least a few min now. I'm afraid to go check.

I may be getting a little overly familiar with my various AI agents. I just told codex 'Do it. enjoy. Live, laugh, love'. Codex in it's minimalist way just coded, no funny reply.

Few days in and I'm impressed with the MSI Prestige laptop from Costco running Omarchy. $1K less than some bigger names. Performs well, screen is great. 358H/32GB/1TB for $1800 and works perfectly.

Been using Omarchy as primary machine for ~36 hours. Already customized weather to use my Tempest station, 2 PR for a Proxmox plugin, got Fusion 360 running in WINE (thanks to great online instructions), and got real work done too.