Brett Hutley's Blog

claude code mcp servers

brett — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:20:19 +0000

For some reason, Claude Code now seems to automatically try and connect to it's own GMail and Google Calendar MCP servers. I kept getting a warning that these MCP servers aren't configured - HUGELY IRRITATING!

Blue Prince

brett — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:48:27 +0000

Helen and I have been playing a lot of Blue Prince on the XBox. What a great game! We normally play it by taking turns to draft rooms. It was hard to work out what was going on at the beginning. We thought that the object of the game was to fill in all the tiles, and get to the top room. It takes a little while to work out the mechanics of the game. I won't write any spoilers here, but one thing to note is that when you get to a cut-scene that ends the day, it isn't necessarily the end of the game.

In-house Electronics Manufacturing

brett — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 02:42:58 +0000

I really enjoyed watching the video of this talk at the CN3C conference in Germany entitled "In-house Electronics Manufacturing from Scratch (how hard can it be)". The talk was given by Augustin Bielefeld and Alexander Willer about their experience trying to set up a factory to manufacture the electronic products they are looking to build.

Red Dead Redemption 2 - The Spider Dreams Mystery

brett — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 01:08:35 +0000

I am subscribed to a lot of sub-reddits. Like, a lot! This morning I was browsing my feed, and discovered a mystery that has just been uncovered in Red Dead Redemption 2. Apparently, user FL4VA-01 noticed a spiderweb with a feather in it, that only appears between 3am and 4am, in a telegraph pole outside St Denis. There is a Google Site that a Reddit user has put together with a timeline of the clues and discoveries

Ymacs

brett — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 05:30:55 +0000

I've added Ymacs to do post editing on my blog. I love it! It really feels like having a mini version of Emacs running for editing blog posts.

Cory Doctorow on "The Post-American Internet"

brett — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:11:49 +0000

I really liked this talk by Cory Doctorow: Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet. He is arguing that it is the perfect time to dismantle the global dominance of US Big Tech, by getting rid of local "anticircumvention laws". These laws make it a felony to bypass digital locks on products, even if no other law (like copyright) is being broken. This effectively criminalises modifying, repairing, or creating interoperable products for devices you own. This causes a transfer of wealth to the US.

Claude Code

brett — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 16:44:34 +0000

I have been using various LLMs as a helper for coding for a few years now. I was in the Github Copilot beta programme. I have the gptel package set up within my Emacs environment, and use it to connect to Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, as well as some LLMs running locally. I recently decided to try Claude Code from the command line. It has been a revelation!

Master of AI at UTS

brett — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:49:23 +1100

I just finished my first semester of the Master of Artificial Intelligence degree at UTS. I really enjoyed it! My aim is to continue on and do a PhD. I am interested in LLM reasoning, but the whole reason with doing this degree is to work out what parts of AI interest me the most.

Thoughts on A.I.

brett — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:03:01 +1100

Here are my current thoughts on A.I. - by which I mean, deep neural networks. The more I work with technologies such as transformer networks (such as LLMs), convolutional networks and the like, the more impressed I am with them.

Hiking the Bidjigal Reserve

brett — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 15:59:35 +1000

Yesterday we decided to hike the Platypus and Burraga Loop trail at the Bidjigal Reserve near Castle Hill. It was a really lovely walk! It was a little harder than I was expecting, purely in terms of having to cross a creek quite a few times. Sometimes there weren’t great stepping stones to cross on, and it was lucky we were both wearing waterproof hiking boots.