Damon Cortesi

@dacort.velocipig.com

Trapped in a Python container. Building Spark on K8s Infra. Founder and CTO expat. Seattle // In the woods https://dacort.xyz

Fired up aperture by Tailscale...instantly alerted to the fact that my starting prompt is 40k tokens. Not terrible and I think it's par for the course as most of it is system prompt type stuff, but the insight is so nice.

Screenshot of "Metrics by Model" from the aperture dashboard showing claude-opus-4-6 model with 3 requests and 43,605 tokens estimated at $0.27.

You asked and we listened! For years, the community has been asking for a new design in Home Assistant. Something modern and timeless, something to match the power of the platform. We’re pleased to announce that an improved UI trial is now available. 👇