Weird Vibes

Matt Baker writes about software engineering, AI coding tools, and building things that probably shouldn't exist.

Latest Posts

• tinybookshelf: A 544KB Qt5 Audiobookshelf Client for Low-End Linux

  Apr 6, 2026

  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

  Apr 4, 2026

  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

  Mar 7, 2026

  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

  Jan 4, 2025

  A 2013 Three.js experiment inspired by Cal Academy's Earthquake exhibit—and a 2025 start to blogging more consistently.