Protip: select the items in the canvas you want in your SS and 'copy to clipboard as PNG' instead of a screen shot and you can get transparent PNGs of diagrams or of detailed subsets of a larger diagram easily.

we have an excalidraw MCP for claude, it can easily do both :) (Excalidraw is basically just fancy SVG)

oh wow, cool

Excalidraw has a 1 click 'sloppiness' change. We do drafts and ideation in 'full sloppy' mode, to indicate to the reader that this is not fully thought through, or a final documented decision. Once we've gotten through discussions and analysis, the final diagram is changed to be 'not sloppy', and the font changed from handwriting to a san serif font.

It's pretty effective to immediately communicate to folks that 'this is a concept' approach. Too many people instantly jump to conclusions about diagrams - if it's written down it must be done / fixed / formal.

Nah, they're still actively selling/implementing the backing service/tech for other orgs.

That’s kinda what I figured. At this point it seems like they all have the same general configuration of coolers and shelves and the same cameras all angled in the same setup everywhere so I assume it’s all down to one very strict CV model or something…

How do you sanitize hardware between workloads?

My clients (extremely large) AWS based infrastructure experienced no downtime this year. So, if it's based on some random person's clients, it's not clearly better at all.

I don't use cloud flare for anything, so no comment there.

> So, if it's based on some random person's clients, it's not clearly better at all.

Valid. I should have made it clear that I meant "clearly better from GP's perspective."

Clearly better than what though?

I have some reaallllly bad news for you on that front.

Same capability is now just a storage class in S3.

Having more money than free time but still wanting a thing to get done. Lots of folks pay good money for hobbies (video games, golf fees, bicycle purchases, etc.).

Can you deduct these expenditures fully in income tax?

You could deduct them if you have a corporation with some reasonable claim to the IP behind the projects, or a clear business reason for needing the features. There’s probably no clear settled tax law on the specific topic, but I’m sure it would pass an audit as long as there isn’t some egregiously obvious non-business related work being bountied.