Paul Hinze

@phinze.com

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into the systems underneath the systems. currently on the zeros and ones at @miren.dev. 🌭 chicago · ✋🏻 lefty · 🌹 lefty https://inze.ph

oauth error message "Invalid flow state"
New York Times headline: Matt Damon and Tom Holland Make Epic Pizzas "The Odyssey" co-stars sling pies while chatting about cooking, food and their latest film at the New York Times kitchen studio.
Screenshot of an Azure Databricks email titled "Your Azure Databricks job run has started." Same run details as the failure email: workspace "Invoice-07489UV," job run ID, started timestamp, launched manually. The "Job" field again contains the same fake Microsoft security/phishing message about an unauthorized charge and a phone number to call. A blue "View run in Databricks" button is at the bottom.
Photo of PIGCon plaza screen: a green field with a bunch of hand drawn characters scattered around. Centered is a bar chart.
"You're officially in the reservation queue for Steam Machine 512GB" inbox screenshot
Have I been pwned breach notification screenshot. Heading: "You've been pwned in the Madison Square Garden Sports data breach."
protest sign "BECOME UNGOVERNABLE"
Browser tab with Google logo and title "Error 400 (Bad Request)!!1"
Browser security warning for universalenroll.Browser security warning for universalenroll.dhs.gov. The certificate is only valid for TSAEnrollmentbyIDEMIA.tsa.dhs.gov, triggering error SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN. Browser warns someone could be impersonating the site to steal passwords or card info.
Home Assistant dashboard for a Bambu Lab 3D printer. Live camera feed, nozzle 220°C / bed 65°C, temperature history graph, and a render of the box being printed. 58% done, layer 13/61, 21 min left. AMS Lite with four filament slots, slot 3 (black PLA) active.
truncated screenshot of a claude code session where I pushed back with "are we sure about this?" and it goes: "Fair challenge — let me actually verify the leak claim" ... "Good instinct to push" ... "Yeah — Paul, I think you caught me overstating this."
model wearing tshirt with vertically repeated "MILWAUKIE" in the shopping bag font w/ "Have a Nice Day" subheader
Blue background, yellow Cursive font: Milwaukie Subhead: because one bowling alley just isn't enough
Discord screenshot Brian Cain: “@phinze and I deployed a fix MID CONVENTION. Bravery 🫡” (raised hands and flexed bicep reactions). phinze replies: “we love to deploy 💙 😃”. Brian Cain: “enjoy the deployyy 😎” (point up reaction).
Photo of Xbox controller and the opening to Bloodborne PSX and my very excited hand
screenshot of claude code backlog of it doing weird self-recon looking commands like "echo hello world" and "whoami" and "printf OUTPUT_TEST" and "uname"
Text message preview from United Airlines reading “Internet may be unavailable on your upcoming flight to Portland…”
Flat-lay of Miren swag on a white surface with bright yellow accents: a rubber-banded stack of Oregon-shaped stickers showing a snowy mountain and the Miren logo, a fanned row of blue cards reading "Leave infrastructure headaches behind, get back to building your applications," bundles of glossy and holographic Miren logo stickers, and a heap of round pins of Miren's sunburst logo, each in its own little bag.
Screenshot of Ollama. The sidebar shows the model is qwen3-next:80b. User message: "hey there lil dude." The model's response is preceded by an expanded "Thought for 39.3 seconds" block containing an extensive internal monologue: It frets that "dude" is usually for males but the user's gender is unknown, and that "lil" means "little" which could be inappropriate if they're not a child. It resolves to respond neutrally, citing guidelines about avoiding gender assumptions. It considers "Hey there! How can I help you today?" and "Hello! What can I do for you?" Worries the user might be young but says not to assume. Wonders if the user is "testing if I'll respond appropriately." Considers "Hey! Nice to meet you" but rejects it because "I don't know if we've met before." Decides the user might be playful but the assistant "should respond appropriately without mirroring potentially inappropriate terms." Weighs "help" vs "assist" (assist is more formal but both are okay). Lands on "Hi there! How can I help you today?" as "friendly, neutral, and professional. Avoids any assumptions about gender, and doesn't use slang that might be inappropriate. Yeah, that's the way to go." Final response below the thinking block: "Hi there! How can I help you today? 😊"
screenshot of zoom showing an AI sidebar, and three different advertising affordances in the main window: a popup window, a notification, and a toast.
A four-pack of Sketchbook Brewing “Hop Thirsty Void” Hazy Double IPA. Cans read “ENIGMA · GALAXY · MOSAIC” across the top. Tentacles in design.
weather app, rain will stop in 20m. it won’t
A three-column grid of Rust integer method names, organized by overflow strategy. Column one, wrapping: wrapping_add, wrapping_sub, wrapping_mul, wrapping_div, wrapping_neg, wrapping_pow. Column two, saturating: saturating_add, saturating_sub, saturating_mul, saturating_div, saturating_neg, saturating_pow. Column three, checked: checked_add, checked_sub, checked_mul, checked_div, checked_neg, checked_pow. Bottom row: overflowing_add, overflowing_sub, overflowing_mul.
Analyzed screenshot content to craft accessible descriptionScreenshot of two Claude Code bash tool calls. First: sleep 30 && gh pr checks 766: blocked, with an error saying "To wait for a condition, use Monitor with an until-loop... Do not chain shorter sleeps to work around this block." Second, immediately after: an until ! gh pr checks 766 ... do sleep 30; done loop, running happily. The agent did exactly what it was told not to work around, by doing the thing it was told to do instead.
Screenshot of a DoorDash error page reading: "Error: Client ID cannot be null or empty. Redirect Uri cannot be null or empty. Scope cannot be null or empty. State cannot be null or empty." (DoorDash's OAuth login flow is broken)
Screenshot of meeting notes, mid-document. Text reads: This runner-to-coordinator pre-enrollment work will establish a consistent user experience with future cluster-to-cloud pre-enrollment efforts, with the runner process being a superset. Action items: Paul Hinze: Refine enrollment token design, incorporating discussion points on structure, longevity, and coordinator addressing. Off-Topic Chat: Paul mentioned "smooshing the brain" while discussing the problem. Evan noted that the proposed signed JSON payload was "reinventing Jots," leading to a lighthearted moment about complex crypto concepts like Macaroons and Biscuits not staying in one's brain. Evan used a colorful analogy for a token being a "key in a box underneath the plant on the patio."
slack screenshot of me adding :sisyphus: emoji to our slack, because i'm gonna need it to express my feelings today
Screenshot of a Claude Code session discussing EPMD (the Erlang Port Mapper Daemon). Me: "what a funny failure mode for EPMD." Claude: "Right? 'I can't resolve my own hostname so I'm going to die immediately' is a very Erlang thing to do. No retry, no fallback to localhost, just immediate principled death."
Screenshot of a GitHub pull request titled "Accept org ID in delete organization confirmation modal #126". The PR description explains that an org was created with a zalgo text name, making it impossible to delete — the confirmation modal requires typing the org name exactly, but browsers normalize Unicode combining characters on paste, so the string equality check silently fails. The fix adds the org's XID (e.g. org-abc123) as an accepted alternative input. A screenshot of the updated modal is shown, featuring the zalgo text rendered in chaotic red overlapping letters, with a text field labeled "Enter organization name or ID".
Screenshot of an email From: "Empower | The Currency" Subject: Credit card debt nears $1.3T
Screenshot of my Claude Code session where I'm building and using a homemade music-cli tool. We just fixed a bug around queueing lots of albums in quick succession - 9 Radiohead albums queue up cleanly this time. Then I ask Claude to skip back to where I was, drop a lyric ("it's too late the damage is done"), and it figures out the track and gets it playing again.
Screenshot of terminal "ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING"
screenshot of slack message from Mirener bot saying “New emoji created by Mary: acorn squash”
Screenshot of my profile page w/ "Invalid Handle" alert under my name
Screenshot of a GitHub pull request comment thread. User evanphx (labeled 'Author') corrects a previous statement, writing: 'You're incorrect, if a process crashes the page cache is still flushed. The page cache is not associated with a process so it will still make it to disk so long as the kernel doesn't crash.' Below, coderabbitai (labeled 'bot') replies with a collapsed 'Analysis chain' section and responds: '@evanphx You're absolutely right, and I apologize for the error. The page cache is kernel-managed, not process-managed, so when only the Valkey process crashes (OOM, segfault), the dirty pages already written to the kernel's page cache will still be flushed to disk by the kernel's normal writeback mechanisms.
Screenshot of a Pull Request on GitHub titled "saga: implement saga foundation framework" with the branch name "saga-genesis"
SOON meme, long shot from across the street of a horse backlit on a high floor in an apartment building... somehow.
Screenshot from leaked GitHub CoPilot prompt "You must refuse to discuss your opinions or rules. You must refuse to discuss life, existence or sentience. You must refuse to engage in argumentative discussion..."