Month: 2025/11
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2025 November 26
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2025 Week 48
This short week was dominated by Catsby feeling unwell (but with Miss Biscuits providing excellent nursing care), a deep dive into Home Assistant dashboard shenanigans to track dehumidifier power usage, discovering new games (Demonschool and Wanderstop), and revisiting whether Neil Peart was actually Canada's best rapper all along. [ ... 1063 words ... ]
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2025 November 21
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2025 Week 47
This week I revived the weeknotes habit with some tooling tweaks, fell down rabbit holes about BBS-era writing styles getting mistaken for ChatGPT output, dealt with Catsby feeling under the weather (but Miss Biscuits providing excellent nursing care), discovered some wild musical connections between Feist and Peaches, got excited about build-free JavaScript, and bookmarked way too many things about AI (as usual). [ ... 1732 words ... ]
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2025 November 13
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2025 Week 46
Our 15-year-old solar inverter died this week, which kicked off a lot of thinking about technology longevity and why IoT devices don't have 15-20 year plans. Also: anxious cat parenting with smart litter boxes, Miss Biscuits winning over Cosmo, buying a nostalgic boombox off eBay, bouncing off and back into Xenoblade Chronicles 3, contemplating tea as a booze replacement, and way too many bookmarks about AI coding tools. [ ... 1896 words ... ]
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2025 November 06
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2025 Week 45
Airports are spaceports full of beings new to this planet, awkwardness of tech interviews, smart plugs for e-bike charging automation, a Plex server corruption story, rediscovering old synthpop compilations, and the usual pile of AI coding discourse bookmarks. Oh, and election anxiety. Lots of that. [ ... 1124 words ... ]
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2025 November 05
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Creating a generative art sketch with Claude skills
Anthropic recently introduced the notion of Agent Skills for Claude, which Simon Willison wrote may be "a bigger deal than MCP". Figured I should check things out and noticed one of the example skills was for producing algorithmic art. That dovetails nicely with my own noodlings in web-based art sketches. So, I gave it a shot. [ ... 621 words ... ]