Programming & Automation
Vibe coding, personal apps, coding experiments, automation
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A Pre-Trip Checklist Built with AI: Out the Door
A pre-trip checklist might not be the most exciting part of a vacation, but it can make leaving home less stressful. To make the process easier, I used…
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AI Isn’t Free: Learning to Spend Intelligence Wisely
AI can make complicated work feel almost effortless—but the complexity and cost haven’t disappeared. Lessons from project management, coding, and AI Skills taught me to think more carefully…
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Vibe Coding with Claude: A low-purine meal planner
If you’ve ever had gout, you’ll know the line-up of suspects in that cartoon all too well: the throbbing big toe, the swollen ankle, the knuckle that won’t…
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Landscape design with Claude: My front-yard border looks great!
Claude and I make a great team: I constructed a prompt for a front-border planting scheme; Claude designed a layout and recommended a list of plants; I drove…
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Vibe-Coding with Claude: A personalized cocktail-recipe generator
A cocktail is a symphony of gustatory, olfactory, and visual pleasure, garnished with fun. As a newbie to the mixology world, keen to expand my cocktail repertoire, I…
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Vibe Coding with Claude: A camera lens-format converter
How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? Three: one to hold the ladder, one to change the bulb, and one to push the wheelbarrow…
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Cooking with Claude: Harissa-spiced fish and shrimp tagine
As the saying goes, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. In my case, it was a staple of Middle-Eastern cooking that was being eaten, in…
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Vibe Coding with Claude: A personalized recipe generator
Fed up with following the same old recipes? Me too. After stewing on the issue for a while, I decided to put together an appetizing prompt, and have…
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Vibe-coding with Claude: A Lunar Alignment Calculator
I recently built a Solar Alignment Calculator, with the (considerable) help of Claude. Could “we” pull off a similar trick, a Lunar Alignment Calculator, for predicting the alignment…
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Vibe coding with Claude: An effective-focal-length calculator
How long is yours? The focal length of your camera lens, that is. Of course, you know what it is when you take the photo. But if you…