pr_merge: a tool I completely trust
I revived a 10-year-old project, let Claude rewrite it in Rails 8, deployed it, and started using it without really touching it. A tiny tool I fully understand beats a clever one I don't.
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pr_merge: a tool I completely trust
I revived a 10-year-old project, let Claude rewrite it in Rails 8, deployed it, and started using it without really touching it. A tiny tool I fully understand beats a clever one I don't.
Dark Mode in an Hour
We decided to add dark mode to our Flutter app. Claude Code handled it in about an hour - going through every widget, theming everything correctly. What would have taken days of hunting down hardcoded colors was basically one shot.
Automatr - AI-Powered Email Classification for Outlook
A local-first email assistant that uses multi-layer AI classification to automatically categorize, archive, and summarize Outlook emails.
Building a Self-Managing Obsidian Vault with Claude Code Automation
How I built a sophisticated automation system that runs every minute to manage my Obsidian vault using Claude Code, Ruby, and Keyboard Maestro - turning my knowledge base into a self-managing digital assistant.
Vibe Coding my way to Downloading my Instapaper Articles
Building an Instapaper export tool in an hour with Claude Code to transform 14,000 saved articles into a searchable knowledge base for Obsidian research.
DoomHUD an adventure in Agentic Coding
I created a heads up display for developers using LLMs to plan and execute.
How to Read Environment Variables in Python
Python's os module provides simple access to environment variables, essential for 12-factor app configuration and secrets management.
How to Parse JSON in C#
C# has built-in JSON support with System.Text.Json since .NET Core 3.0, making it simpler than Java but requiring more setup than JavaScript.
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A Quick Music Sketch (and a Service to Share It)
A quick music sketch I made the other day - which in turn made me build zoundbites.dk, a small service for sharing audio clips.
One of those "I just needed to deploy"-days
It all began when I had to deploy a change, that needs to go live today.
Corona Beats from Last Year
Last year I spent some time one afternoon making a short corona-beat - I never really shared it.
Know your assumptions, and test them
In my day to day I very often stumble upon yet another issue in one of our software systems that needs fixing.