Laptop Rescue, Rig, and Decision Fatigue
Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller walk through TJ's laptop locking up past safe mode, how Claude helped him rescue his work over a shared disk, and the agent state he forgot to save. They also cover Chris's Rig beta at work, off-site backups, and dotfiles, sharing insights on what to protect when your tools keep state for you.
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References Mentioned
- LocalStack - how Rig runs one local DynamoDB instance with a table per service
- Novelhood - Chris's book club app, one of the side projects waiting on usage resets
- Halcyon - TJ's notes app, where Fable 5.1 as the Hive lead turned the sync build around
- OpenCode - TJ's idea for running GPT models with a rule file extension
- Pi - one of the harnesses Chris named as a base for a Rula engineering harness
- Purity Coffee Sacred Cups Star Coffee - the honey processed Starday bag Chris finished
- Bear - where TJ was writing therapy homework when the laptop froze
- Prism - one of the repos TJ rescued off the frozen disk
- Sonari - TJ's transcription app, rescued with its in-progress worktrees
- Dotbot - how TJ rebuilt his machine in 45 minutes and keeps work and personal setups in sync
- Homebrew - what Dotbot reinstalls on a fresh machine
- Setapp - part of TJ's rebuild script
- Backblaze - Chris's off-site backup instead of Time Machine
- Skate - Charm's encrypted key value store TJ uses to keep secrets out of his dotfiles
- PHP Tek - TJ's first 2027 talk submission
- Laracon US - TJ will be there and might submit
- Laracon AU - TJ's top speaking goal for the year
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Chris Gmyr
Husband, dad, & grilling aficionado. Loves Laravel & coffee. Staff Engineer @ Rula | TrianglePHP Co-Organizer
