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 bend. The usual advice is to cut back on high-purine foods — but “eat fewer purines” is a lot easier said than cooked. What do you actually make for dinner on a Tuesday? What I needed was a low-purine meal planner.
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Vibe coding, personal apps, coding experiments, automation
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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 to the garden centre, purchased them, and arranged for a landscaper to plant them. I can recommend landscape design with Claude!
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Vibe-Coding with Claude: A personalized cocktail-recipe generator
A cocktail is a symphony of gustatory, olfactory, and visual pleasures, garnished with fun. As a newbie to the mixology world, keen to expand my cocktail repertoire, I sought some help in devising a few new ones. So, I vibe-coded a personalized mixology app. Time to crack open the drinks cabinet!
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Vibe Coding with Claude: A camera lens-format converter
Just as guitarists collect guitars, photographers collect the instruments used to create their art: cameras and lenses. Owning a collection comprising different kinds of cameras and lenses can get complicated though.
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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 tagine, staple of Middle-Eastern cooking, rather than a pudding that was being eaten. And the proof in question was whether a Claude-generated recipe actually worked.
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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 Claude rustle up a personalized recipe generator app for me. In my mind’s eye, I could picture the tasty new dishes I would soon be preparing using my favorite techniques. So, Claude, let’s get cooking…
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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 of moonsets with terrestrial landmarks? And, would it take into account all those phases the moon passes through each month?
This one could be complicated!
Flushed with the success of my first vibe-coding experience — a personalized app for calculating when the sun would set behind a local point of interest — my thoughts turned to an obvious extension: an analogous app for determining when the moon would set at a specific point on the horizon.
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Vibe coding with Claude: An effective-focal-length calculator
Modern camera sensors deliver very high resolution images, often 40-60 megapixels, and sometimes even higher. So, digital zooming, that is cropping images to make the subject larger, is increasingly popular. The cropped image usually has plenty of pixels, so is still of high resolution.
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Designing a planting scheme for a front-yard border, using Claude
Large language models seem to be pretty good at a lot of things. But, do they have green fingers, and can they find their way around a garden center?
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Vibe Coding with Claude: A Solar Alignment Calculator
I recently used Claude, Anthropic’s large language model (LLM) to build a personalized app to help me plan future photographic projects. I was delighted with how it went.
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