AI
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My son has to know 1051 Latin words. They come from the vocabulary list in the back of his school book, spread over seven caputs and 35 sections, and they arrive at the rate of a section or two per …
In the previous post I showed you the wireless rocket launch controller I built for VRO — two ESP32-S3 units, an encrypted radio link, and a handful of relays between an operator’s thumb and a …
The last time I built launch electronics for a rocket, it was 2008 and the brain of the thing was a PIC16F88 running a four-channel flight timer. Eighteen years later I found myself building something …
A few weeks ago I vibecoded my first Fri3d Camp 2026 badge app — a hardware self-test screen. It was a great first project: it touched every part of the badge, and it was genuinely useful. But it was …
I have written code before. Once upon a time I was even trained as a software developer, though I never ended up using that skill professionally. I do still write code and firmware now and then. But …
Every Fri3d Camp hands out a badge, and the 2024 one is a serious little machine: an ESP32-S3 with a 2-inch colour LCD, five NeoPixels, a joystick, a buzzer, an IMU and a microSD slot — all in a …
I run my coding life across two AI plans — Claude Code on an Anthropic Pro subscription, and the z.ai GLM Coding Plan — and both of them enforce the same kind of rolling usage limits: a five-hour …
I use Claude Code daily on two machines — a desktop workstation in my home office and a ThinkPad laptop. It’s a fantastic CLI-based AI coding assistant, but it has a gap: no built-in way to keep …
My first real experience with AI was the same as everyone else’s: I typed something into ChatGPT and it gave me an answer that felt like magic. I used it for months — drafting emails, looking up …
I wanted a transcription tool that runs entirely on my own hardware — no audio leaves the machine, no cloud APIs, no subscriptions. Something that handles any language (including tricky ones like …
In my previous post about Claude Code , I described how it helped me migrate and revive this website after an eleven-year hiatus. That was the beginning. Since then, I have been using Claude Code …
There is something philosophically satisfying about running AI on your own hardware. No subscription, no rate limits, no terms-of-service clause about what you can ask. Your prompts stay on your …
If you look at the timestamps on this website, you will notice a long gap. The last post before this one dates from 2015. That is eleven years of silence — not because I stopped building things, but …