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*that* Ross Rader
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Hi, I’m Ross Rader. I have been at Tucows since 1993 and serve as Chief Customer Experience Officer at Ting. I write about AI, internet services, and customer experience design, and how tech changes how you connect online.
If you have any doubt about the ability of future coding agents to revisit and refactor the work of today's coding agents, here's how Opus 4.6 looks at documentts written by Opus 4.5. Docs aren't code, but interesting nonetheless. And testable. Next up, doing the same on actual code.
February 8, 2026 at 8:01 PM
The idea of a career being a logical progression just doesn't exist. I'm looking at UX Designers becoming CTOs, consultants becoming founders, engineering managers becoming COOs. So fasctinating.
January 22, 2026 at 5:19 AM
2026:

- What are you doing with that 800GB of HBM3e and 20,000 H100s?

- Turning profile pics into anime waifus without user consent
January 16, 2026 at 1:37 AM
...and let the games begin!
January 10, 2026 at 4:39 PM
... in a completely new tab group. it correctly interpreted the context of the form which ran us right up against its safety guardrails.
January 10, 2026 at 4:34 PM
This would have defeated the automation I was looking for, so I figured out a work around by asking it to test the function before bothering me, which worked! (this isn't an actual Claude Chrome screenshot, I had to remove some confidential information, so a regular screenshot wasn't useful).
January 10, 2026 at 4:23 PM
I’m sure there are a million CLI domain lookup tools. Now there are a million and one. I wanted something simple, not whois, just a way to see what domain variations might be available. So Claude and I built this: github.com/rossrader/reno
December 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I'm at the "hmm... I should check out a new email client" part of my Christmas vacation. Came earlier than usual this year. Alpine feels like a solid choice...
December 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Hat's off to the thoughtful UX designer (team?) at Google that came up with this marvelous way of making long tables more readable in a Google Doc by using a sticky table header. Even though it breaks convention around "something we might print", it works beautifully! Chef's kiss!
December 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM