Got QuakeSpasm running on a 1999 G3 with translucent water, shadows and emissive lights on. 5 → 19.80 fps on demo3 at 1024×768. +288% over the early port.
Seven rounds with Claude Code, six old Macs on a bench, one fat 3-arch binary that picks up its own autoexec config per machine.
https://www.matthewdeaves.com/blog/2026-05-09-quakespasm-six-old-macs/
A month spent pentesting two of my own projects with Claude — a Django app and the AWS infra behind it. Three levels:
1. Ask Claude
2. A curated bash scan suite in a harness that loops until clean
3. HexStrike via MCP, 150+ tools running on their own
I found and fixed 35 issues. The worst three were in the passkey login flow, and I couldn't reach them until I'd written a virtual WebAuthn authenticator.
Post + companion repo:
https://matthewdeaves.com/blog/2026-04-28-three-levels-of-ai-pentesting/
A month spent pentesting two of my own projects with Claude. Three escalating levels — ad-hoc review, a curated suite wrapped in a harness, and HexStrike. Here is what worked, what did not, and how to set it up against your own repo.
Got the first alpha of BomberTalk working - a networked Bomberman clone for Classic Mac.
Played a game across a Mac SE (1987), a Performa 6200 (1994), and a Performa 6400 (1995). One C89 codebase, three builds, three machines on the same LAN.
No sprites yet, just coloured blocks. But the networking works - all three find each other and play in sync.
#retrocomputing #classicmac #gamedev #68k #PowerPC
BomberTalk Alpha https://matthewdeaves.com/blog/2026-04-06-bombertalk-alpha/
My Virtual Pentest and DevOps Team
I built an LLM proxy on AWS and wanted to go further than perimeter defences. So I put together a pentest suite with bash, open source tools, and Claude Code. The post covers the tooling, the Claude Code skills I use to run it, and the hooks I needed
https://matthewdeaves.com/blog/2026-04-05-pentesting-rockport/
Have you turned on Claude Code's Buddy feature? Mine's an axolotl called Rook. It caught real security issues during pentesting that Claude Code and I both missed, despite only seeing a truncated 5000 character view of the conversation.
Pentesting with Rook https://matthewdeaves.com/blog/2026-04-03-rook-the-pentest-buddy/
I built a self-hosted LLM proxy on a single EC2 instance. Cloudflare Tunnel, Terraform, per-key budgets, idle auto-stop, video generation sidecar. The repo is public and I'd genuinely welcome feedback from anyone who works with AWS/Terraform professionally.
Blog post: https://matthewdeaves.com/blog/2026-03-21-rockport-llm-proxy/
Repo: https://github.com/matthewdeaves/rockport
#AWS #Terraform #LLM #Infrastructure #ClaudeCode #SelfHosted
I built a self-hosted LiteLLM proxy on EC2 behind a Cloudflare Tunnel. It routes Claude Code traffic to AWS Bedrock with per-key budgets, idle auto-stop, and a video sidecar for video generation and image operations. The repo is public and I'd welcome feedback from anyone who works with this sort of infrastructure.