Ai-Coding on Brian Carroll

Automated Coffee Roasting Analysis

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I roast coffee at home on a Hottop KN-8828B-2K+. This roaster can connect to Artisan for logging and roaster control. When I first bought the roaster I tried using it with Artisan but I fundamentally didn’t understand the roasting process. It was too confusing to know what to change. The software felt very overwhelming. I like to learn on my own and I couldn’t find any source of information that really helped me understand both the process and the software. I wound up defaulting to the automatic program on the Hottop.

Rabbit R1 Jailbreak

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Like many people I was excited when the Rabbit R1 was announced and quickly bought one. Within minutes I could see it was a fairly useless device as shipped. I put it on the shelf with a vague notion that I would do something with it later.

A year later, I tried jailbreaking it, only to brick it. Back on the shelf it would go.

As Claude Code became more proficient, I decided to try again. Claude’s eagerness was just the quality I needed to keep at it. I could try anything at all without any complaints from my companion.