Michael Schade

imagine the possibilities @openai. i like learning new things—say hi! 🏳️‍🌈 [email protected]

[Michael Schade @sch]

my fiancée and i love to design, so we don’t give up the fun exploration part. from iphone/ipad, select safari tabs, tap copy links, paste to codex. it’ll batch order, find deals, checkout, track orders for any issues, and work with support to resolve.

[Michael Schade @sch]

make Codex great at the boring parts of shopping by telling it to remember these tips:

* use Chrome, reuse existing carts/tabs, and keep live checkout state intact

* build every cart as far as possible, then batch blockers/questions for me

* exhaust discounts: online codes, email/SMS signup, stacking; use best code and unsubscribe later

* prefer Shop Pay/Stripe Link over normal checkout; authorized to use emailed/texted auth codes

* accept required checkout terms/steps, but don’t opt into marketing unless needed for a discount

* don’t final-submit/pay without action-time confirmation

* prefer reputable retailers; flag sketchy sellers, spec mismatches, bad return terms, weird lead times

* verify exact qty/color/specs, delivery type, lead time, returnability, and total before handoff

* use white-glove only for heavy/fragile/assembly-heavy items; flag absurd shipping and consider alternatives

* on vintage/marketplaces, make aggressive offers; batch same-seller items for bulk leverage

* in live support chat, check it every 30–60s and respond fast

* authorized to share order/customer details with checkout/support channels when needed

* keep monitoring email & texts for order updates until delivery, work with support to resolve any issues

[Michael Schade @sch]

...and then waited 25 minutes in a support queue, worked with a live agent, and canceled original pickup

[Michael Schade @sch]

codex is a great shopper. part of my home depot order didn't arrive; it repurchased just those items for delivery tomorrow morning

[Michael Schade @sch]

codex windows uses past few days:

* Turned LG rolling TV into remote workstation: connected to monitor to setup Homebrew, Moonlight, and on the PC Sunshine so I can use my desktop anywhere in the house.

* Built OBSBot camera plugin, logging in to UniFi dashboard to find camera, downloading SDK from Gmail, and vision to fine-tune camera API perf.

* Put NAS on Tailscale, setup Plex Media Server, diagnosed slow transfers from NAS admin & UniFi network topology. Got my father-in-law remote access to his favorite media -- oh, and it used Chrome to go find out how to buy him an iPad remotely in Maine and deliver it.

* Built a safer webOS dev token refresh flow, the Homebrew channel option sends tokens to a remote server, so after a security audit decided to make its own.

* Made my Mac bootstrap repo cross-platform & setup entire PC in Windows native way: PowerShell native dev env (wrapped w/ Socket Firewall of course), PowerToys config, keyboard mapping, taskbar cleanup, path normalization, WSL w/ dotfiles installed, and common apps like VLC, OBS, Tailscale (full setup via admin on browser).

* Built a "record every window" automation for OBS screen recording: automatically notices new windows, adds to OBS as a window capture source, tiles them into a scene, and records for easy demo compilation.

now to go wheel ’dex out to my new metal fabricator!

[Michael Schade @sch]

configuring my windows box based on my mac from the hot tub ty codex mobile

[Michael Schade @sch]

@ThePrimeagen @wnodom

[Michael Schade @sch]

@aloo my electrician and i became friends over him giving me the lutron file. the whole thing is a racket

[Michael Schade @sch]

i am here for the rescue of landlocked technologies

[Kenneth Auchenberg 🛠 @auchenberg]

Last night I asked Codex to reverse-engineer my building's ancient door system.

Just now I unlocked the front door by asking Codex in ChatGPT to do it.

From my phone.

✨🤯

[Michael Schade @sch]

@charlierguo it can be a very introspective little coder if you let it

[Michael Schade @sch]

@berg @JorgeO bryan look away my cabling is a MESS

[Michael Schade @sch]

in hindsight it makes sense that "barebones" pc meant it also wouldn't include an OS installer 🤦‍♂️

[Michael Schade @sch]

@JorgeO oh god the keyboard lol

i thankfully JUST found a reader. the alternative was trying to do network boot over my nas but last time i tried that it would have been faster to drive to best buy

[Michael Schade @sch]

fun AND useful

[Ari Weinstein @AriX]

Today we’re releasing Appshots in Codex.

I love this feature! It makes it so easy to integrate Codex into everything I do on my Mac.

[Michael Schade @sch]

@thsottiaux same but for prework before i ask it to do something. embracing laziness is the answer

[Michael Schade @sch]

@alexarena @AnthropicAI congrats arena!

[Michael Schade @sch]

codex for home repair: replaced a broken AC unit, new one makes this annoying noise. HVAC proposed invasive work to add new return supplies. asked codex about the issue while talking to him; it found the invoice in my email & looked up unit… variable fan speed simply set wrong