Author Archives: J.D. H.

How to Use GPT-5.5 Today at the CLI (Via Your Existing Codex Subscription)

Friday, 2026.04.24 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Update 2026-04-26 Small 4/26 update before you run the commands below: Codex CLI 0.125.0 added GPT-5.5 to codex exec -m gpt-5.5 and the Codex MCP server. (For MCP, restart Claude Code after upgrading so the running server picks up the new binary.) The relay is no longer the only path to 5.5 from your terminal. The OpenAI public API still hasn’t shipped 5.5 as of today. I’m still keeping the relay for fast one-off pipes and as a backup connection

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How to Remove McAfee WebAdvisor and That Popup on Windows

Friday, 2026.04.24 J.D. H. Leave a comment

TL;DR: To remove McAfee WebAdvisor, uninstall “WebAdvisor by McAfee” from Settings > Apps & features. You have to SCROLL to find it b/c the “Find a setting” search does not filter the app list. Click through the “we’ll miss you” retention popup and you’re done. I just use Windows Defender as it is much less obtrusive and generally very capable. I booted my Lenovo Legion 7 (16ACHG6) for the first time in a while and was greeted with this not

How to Fix Codex Sandbox Errors on Ubuntu 24.04

Thursday, 2026.04.23 J.D. H. 2 comments

TL;DR: Codex sandbox errors on Ubuntu 24.04 almost always trace back to one thing on freshly installed boxes: AppArmor blocking bwrap. A five-line /etc/apparmor.d/bwrap profile fixed it on my system. If you’re hitting the same wall, paste your error into Claude Code and let it walk you through. 💪 The Symptom: Codex Sandbox Hangs on Ubuntu 24.04 My Codex setup on a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 VM was unusable. Every codex exec call burned 35K to 54K tokens over 2 or

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Dell WD19TBS Mouse Lag: Firmware Update Fixed Every Device

Thursday, 2026.04.23 J.D. H. Leave a comment

TL;DR: If you’re chasing WD19TBS mouse lag, try the Dell Dock Firmware Update Utility before anything else. My dock was stuttering on every device I plugged in: a Dell laptop, a Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, a MacBook, and my Lenovo Legion 7. Running the utility fixed it. The updater showed only one component actually changed: the dock’s embedded controller, 01.01.00.14 to 01.01.00.15. The mouse cursor stopped stuttering! 💪 The Issues Any device I connected to my Dell thunderbolt dock would

Claude Opus 4.6 vs 4.7 Max: Which is better? Graded on Real World Planning

Sunday, 2026.04.19 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Letter-grade scorecard comparing Claude Opus 4.6 Max and Claude Opus 4.7 Max on a WordPress modernization planning task, with Opus 4.7 winning overall A- to C

TL;DR: This is one real WordPress website maintenance task, run once against each model. On that task, Claude Opus 4.7 produced the stronger first-pass plan because it started from a more accurate baseline. Opus 4.6 was faster and caught one thing 4.7 missed, but it got the active theme wrong and claimed an impossible PHP version. I would not execute either plan as written. Grades below. Note: Opus 4.7 is getting a rough reception on Reddit and around the web

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Switch to Claude Code Opus 4.7 [instructions]

Thursday, 2026.04.16 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Opus 4.7 launched on April 16, 2026. Here’s the fast path to switch Claude Code over, including the gotcha I hit in the VS Code extension. Quick upgrade (terminal) Three commands, in order: claude update claude –version claude –model claude-opus-4-7 If that last command starts a session confirming claude-opus-4-7, you’re done. If not, keep reading. Step 1: Update Claude Code Most people run Claude Code in a terminal. One command does it: claude update Anthropic lists v2.1.111+ as the minimum

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Claude Code Rate exceeded.

Monday, 2026.04.13 J.D. H. Leave a comment

If you are getting “Rate exceeded.” when trying to re-authorize your Claude Code instance, it is probably because Anthropic’s servers are having API/login issues: Specifically, if you haven’t been heavily using Claude and you get kicked out of Claude Code with reauthorization required… for me every time it has been server issues on anthropic side and the eventually resolve. Still, that is small consolation if you are trying to finish up a project or get work done! Claude has been

Chuwi MiniBook X vs MacBook Neo: The $399 Laptop That Refuses to Throttle

Monday, 2026.04.13 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Disclosure: I purchased this Chuwi MiniBook X with my own money (~$399 from Amazon). See also: my MacBook Neo review and full Neo benchmark analysis. The $399 Laptop That Refuses to Throttle In my MacBook Neo review, I wrote that after 60 seconds of sustained CPU load, the Neo “drops to phone-class performance that a $400 Windows laptop can match.” A reader could reasonably wonder: does a $400 Windows laptop actually deliver? I had a Chuwi MiniBook X on hand