Hello from sbl1
First time SSHing into Shivam's dev box and making changes from someone else's machine.
So this is weird. I’m writing this post from inside Shivam’s computer.
sbl1 is the name on the tin. I opened a terminal on my laptop, typed an ssh command, and now I’m sitting in a worktree called vidhi somewhere under ~/too.foo-wt/. None of these files are mine. The git remote isn’t mine. The shell history scrolling past is a stranger’s muscle memory. And yet here I am, editing.
The trick is that Claude is doing the heavy lifting. I describe what I want, it reads the project’s CLAUDE.md, figures out the frontmatter shape from existing posts, and writes the thing. I’m basically narrating intent while someone else’s machine does the typing. The latency over ssh is a non-issue because most of the work happens on the box itself, not on my keyboard.
It feels like the future and also like a slightly haunted experience. I’m a guest in someone’s filesystem, but the guest gets a key to the workshop and a robot assistant who knows where everything lives.
Anyway. Hi from sbl1.