Weird Vibes
Software engineering, AI coding tools, and building things that probably shouldn't exist.
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- Shortwave on a $10 Facebook Portal
Meta opened up ADB on the old Portals, so I bought one and put a software-defined radio on it.
- HTTPS on MacOS 9? Certainly
Proxy-free internet on a 1998 PowerBook G3.
- tinybookshelf: A 544KB Qt5 Audiobookshelf Client for Low-End Linux
I built a lightweight audiobookshelf client in Qt5 so my son can listen to audiobooks and podcasts on his 1GB Aspire One.
- Big Thoughts for a Saturday Afternoon
I built my 7-year-old a password-protected diary app for his old Acer Aspire One in a couple hours with Claude Code.
- Porting MacPaint to Swift with Claude Code
I used Claude Code to port MacPaint from its original 1984 Pascal and 68k assembly to native macOS and iPad. I never opened a source file.
- Earthquake (2013): rebuilding a planetarium moment
A 2013 Three.js experiment inspired by Cal Academy's Earthquake exhibit—and a 2025 start to blogging more consistently.