Copasetic Flow

When Port 9 Ate My Transcript When Port 9 Ate My Transcript A small debugging story about proxies, Codex CLI, and why localhost isn’t always your friend. CopaseticFlow field notes WinError 10061 Codex CLI + Whisper Environment gremlins There’s a particular kind of bug that feels like someone's been messing with your network stack again. You run a script from cmd.exe . It works. You run the exact same script from Codex CLI. It stops with: [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it FFmpeg happily splits the audio. The Whisper API call dies immediately. No 401. No timeout. Just an instant refusal. Translation: that’s not an API error. That’s a socket being rejected. ...

 I had dreams of activating the US-1178 each of the three days I planned on being there. I didn't get it done. Oh, but the other stuff I did do! Strap in. I may have to split this into a few different posts because there's so much stuff!  I documented the updated transit route from furthest away San Francisco BART station to Pantoll Campground I tested Starlink—a system I worked on a few years ago—with regard to doing my new work while out camping (how meta ☺️) I hiked the Dipsea Trail for the first time in over a year. Ouch. I camped for two nights. I'd hoped to play radios from four different locations in three different parks. I wound up playing radios from two different locations in one park, the one I was camping in,  Mount Tamalpais State Park . Here's a view of the campsite and its very adjacent hiking trail. And here's how the radio was installed at the campsite It's in the TouCans and a Stick configuration with its carbon fiber mast vertical whip . No...