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The Vibe Coding Chronicles

Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

POV: You’re a professional dev watching me talk about vibe coding:

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I’m not exactly a stranger to using AI code, parts of nipy-bridge like the part that handles posts based on size was written by Chat GPT via Duck.AI, and I regularly use a Mixtral-Dolphin written bash script to convert files with avifenc. Recently, however, I came across Bookstr by MK Fain, which is being vibe coded. It’s a site that takes books people are talking about on Nostr and combines them with OpenLibrary data to offer reading material recommendations and reviews. The site alone is a cool concept, and the fact it was vibe coded and working with a lot of moving parts made me think I need to check out how good AI code has gotten. So yeah, here I chronicle my vibe coding adventure.

Toying around with photo filters

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Like a lot of my posts, this kind of kept growing. Going over my photos I kept finding a bunch of favorites I wanted to share outside just using ones for effects, so now I’ve got a photos page if you want to check them out.

You might have played around with AI image generation, getting a little hit of dopamine whenever you get something that looks visually pleasing without actually putting in any effort. Using filters is kind of the same thing; you can get something that looks cool despite needing minimal effort and skill, but in this case, it’s really your art (assuming you’re using filters on your photos). It might be fun to toy around with, so I thought I would share some ways to do so.

Making a Fur Hat

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In my post about EDC I rambled on about hats for a bit, and a couple weeks ago I decided to try making one myself. I didn’t initially plan on writing a blog post explaining how I did it; however, after having trouble finding a printable pattern, I wound up just winging it, and I figured I’d put my process out there.¹ Fur hats are way warmer than just about anything else, and even though this was a trial run with a fake polyester fur pelt it’s still a warm hat on its own. I plan to re-do the process using a natural sheepskin pelt, but if you want to follow along the process works with a natural pelt, fake pelt, and even regular cloth.

EDC, Watches, & Tactical Sporks

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Dropdown: Random notes from drafting

Alright, it is April 2nd and I’m typing out the first couple of characters in this document which I can already guess is going to be another long post. I already have tons of posts that I expected to be medium length which ballooned out, so given I know ahead of time it’ll be long who knows how long it will be. Err, well, editing me and you the reader will know how long it is when I actually publish it. Anyway, regardless, you have been warned.

Making Pickles and Sauerkraut (the lazy way)

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve made three long posts about decentralized social media, followed by making a client that works on decentralized social media, so I’ll call all that good for now and talk about making some pickles and sourkraut. And not just canned cucumbers and cabbage, but the actual fermented stuff, which is surprisingly easy to make.

Quest to find a tablet, pt 2

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This is my second post about searching for a tablet, and a follow-up review of the device I mentioned purchasing in the last post (an MS Surface Go tablet). Aside from the fact I just find it relaxing to write about things that interest or affect me, I hope that this would be useful if you’re considering buying an MS Surface tablet (to run either Win/Linux), or if you’re purchasing a different tablet to run Linux and want to know how a potential configuration might look.

Defaults

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I ran across a neat trend of sharing your default apps, and a collection of posts doing so. It’s made some interesting reads and I thought I would join in and post my own favorites.

My Devices

I have three different devices: a PC running Debian, a tablet I just got setup running Debian and a Waydroid container, and a phone running the Graphene fork of Android.


	PC	Tablet	Phone
📨 Mail Client	Proton Web	Proton App	Proton App
📮 Mail Server	^	^	^
📝 Notes	Joplin	Joplin	Joplin
✅ To-Do	n/a	n/a	Tasks (F-Droid)
📷 Photo Shooting	n/a	n/a	AOSP Camera
🟦 Photo Management	File Manager	n/a	AOSP Gallery
📆 Calendar	n/a	n/a	Simple Calendar
📁 Cloud File Storage	IceDrive (web)	IceDrive (web)	IceDrive (PWA)
📖 RSS	Nextcloud (web)	Nextcloud (web)	Nextcloud News App
🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts	n/a	n/a	AOSP Contacts
🌐 Browser	LibreWolf	Brave	Fennec Firefox
💬 Chat	Matrix > Signal > Telegram > G Chat (Web)	Matrix > Signal > Telegram > G Chat (Web)	Matrix > Signal > Telegram > G Chat (Web)
🔖 Bookmarks	Unsynced	Unsynced	Unsynced
📑 Read It Later	PDFs w/ Syncthing	PDFs w/ Syncthing	PDFs w/ Syncthing
📜 Word Processing	LibreOffice	LibreOffice	n/a
📈 Spreadsheets	LibreOffice	n/a	n/a
📊 Presentations	LibreOffice	n/a	n/a
🛒 Shopping Lists	Joplin	Joplin	Joplin
🍴 Meal Planning	n/a	n/a	n/a
💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance	n/a	n/a	MoneyWallet
📰 News	Nextcloud (Web)	Nextcould (Web)	Nextcloud News App
🎵 Music	VLC	VLC	Innertune
🎤 Podcasts	VLC	VLC	VLC
🔐 Password Management	Keepass	Keepass	Keepass

Quest to find a tablet, pt 1

Sun, 05 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

TLDR, for those looking for less of a novel

I did a lot of looking and found a few different options if you’re looking for a tablet and have similar preferences as me. There are custom ROMs for some tablets, though they are somewhat limited in which devices are supported (as well as sometimes limits on features or time in which security updates come in). There’s also the ability to cut out junk with ADB bridge on Android tablets, of which some cheaper tablets are sketchy and lack long-term security updates, and some of the premium tablets can get pricey.