Sunday, 8th November, 2026

The vibe coding continues, but it’s so good! Now got a friend signed up to Claude and he’s been making a chrome extension for syncing his radio with webSDRs and it all works well.

My latest is a trip planner but requires using external sites to work out details, then I just put all the data into my site. I’m debating if I want to try and build in those capabilities - like Google maps routing for driving and plotting tracks on maps - or just leave it. It requires no effort on my part to ask Claude but I feel like it’ll end up being a lot more than I think, so many edge cases to sort out. Maybe the car routing is okay as you always drive on roads! But walking tracks don’t always follow paths.

There are other things I want to do, so maybe I’ll leave it for now and can always come back to it.

The boys want me to play Minecraft with them, but since the laptop is now Linux we can’t used bedrock Minecraft - which lets us all share one Minecraft game across multiple Microsoft accounts. We have to use Java and that means everyone needs their own copy of the game. 🙄 However, the Java version has a lot more mods and customisation…I wonder if there’s a claude plug in 😅

Saturday, 7th November, 2026

Radio blog is done. Maybe some tweaks here and there as I see them but all the old content and every activation and photos etc. are all in. I like it. Which is good as I spent a while on it!

Tonight I should edit my last video, as I try to release one each Friday but I’ve missed that. Then I’m not sure what I’m going to have Claude work on next. Have to consult my list as I’ve forgotten half the things.

Been feeling like I want to put more effort into paper notebooks. Although that manifests itself as buying notebooks, which is also fine. Plus maybe a new pen… back looking at those lochby pouch things for mini notebooks and pens and the X3 and whatever.

I also want a Buffalo jacket or mountain shirt. But they’re expensive and I’m not quite sure what size to get. Think I measure between two sizes and supposedly with the shirt you want it close fitting as you’re meant to wear it on its own against your skin. Which seems crazy but that’s what it says and what the Internet agrees with. I suppose I could order both and then try each on. I did look at second hand ones as they’re pricy but the sizing thing again. Also do I want a secondhand one?

I’m thinking about a drummer remake and use it here, although I like just writing in a plain text file. Anyway maybe I’ll do it for fun. Probably want it entirely self contained, ie everything on github, github actions to rebuild it and hosted on github pages. Mostly so other people could use it with no effort of hosting, if they didn’t want to.

Oh actually, I have my streamlit apps to migrate to JavaScript and embed in my radio site. Although I’m sure that’ll only take 30 minutes to sort out.

I went out with Fraser this week and when I dropped him at home, I went in for a cup of tea. Normally go in his house but they’re having a new kitchen put in so we went in “the bothy” which is a little building next to their house which they’ve made into a living room. It’s very cosy, and it has their TV and Fraser’s computer and radio setup. In the house they only have the hifi, no other computers or screens. A hifi and a log burner. Their house is also a wee cottage so everything is cosy. I just really like the separation of screens into a literal other building. I like it a lot. Also he has a reel to reel. 📽️

Friday, 6th November, 2026

Had a nice day out yesterday. So it’s considerably disappointing to be going to work today.

Continue the migration to the new radio blog, got to import photos for old activations…it’s a bit slow to do, but I’ve done 2026 and working backwards.

Feel like I’ve got so many things I want to do on the computer, and I never get enough time to do them.

Wednesday, 4th November, 2026

I made a CW learning schedule but I think it’s too ambitious. Also feels like I’m never going to get there. I know it’s all about practice, it just seems hard right now. LCWO has an API, so it’s easy enough to get an icon on here each day to show if I did it or not.

I like notebooks but I never write in them. At work I’d rather write on my computer, so I can search and read them later. At home…I don’t write anything? Maybe a random list or a sketch here and there.

Tuesday, 3rd November, 2026

I’m know I’m late to this but wow is Claude good for coding stuff! I gave it a problem I wasn’t sure how to go about solving it and it came up with a great way to do it. I’m setting up my radio blog again and I think it’s coming along well. The “manager” tool is the best part. Makes it very easy for me to add posts and particularly radio activations. Even just dropping photos, gpx route, and a log will generate a post. Any write up is optional - and that’s great for keep up with activations and sometimes I just want a record of where and some photos. The writing can often be the same “climbed this and did that on the radio.” The interesting part are the photos and the log.

I think a few more tweaks then I’m ready to migrate my posts and do the missing activations. Downloading all my photos from iCloud via icloudpd script is very useful for this too as they’re all saved in dated folders. Some of my old posts were days out split over multiple posts and at once stage I did summarise about 6 months in one blog post. So I’ll have to think how I sort those out.

I’ve told Claude not to make the website look too like it was created with AI, and it’s changed some things but it still looks a little like ai. I think it’s all the tiny details that I would never bother with myself. Once I’ve got the content in then I’ll come back to tweaking the design.

After that I’m thinking of making something for this site, in an outliner style. Although I still want to retain the ability to add content via 1Writer. So not sure about that…perhaps I just ask Claude and see what it comes up with! Would be nice to add a few pictures to here though - perhaps a featured image each post. I also want some public habit tracker thing to guilt me into doing whatever I’m trying to do. So maybe a little icon next to each day showing it. Currently it’s CW/morse practice, which I’m pretending to do by reading a book on it - the book is interesting but it’s not learning. I could have something on my phone or piece of paper to track it but it’s only me holding me accountable and I’m very good to excusing myself. Whereas if it were you, imaginary reader, then I want to do it. Partially for me and partially to show off how good I am at keeping up with a habit 😅 but if it works, it works. In order to avoid doing it further, I could make it very elaborate with an apple shortcuts POST to a web server or something so I press a button on my phone. Or even rebuild a training website and when I …no never mind. Lcwo has a public profile and I do think I should do that and work my way through the lessons. Perhaps I can automate extracting the info from it. No end of ways to avoid actual practicing.

Anyway, it’s good fun.

Monday, 2nd November, 2026

Signed up to Claude pro for a month. Started tidying this site and then adding little features.

Made a big list of things I want to use it for, so I don’t forget.

Sunday, 1st November, 2026

I remembered to update 1Writer to have the front matter shortcut back in the Jekyll format.

I need to find a good method for my CW practice. I did all the letters and numbers on Morse mania but I haven’t found a good way to use it to practice. Probably I should just use lcwo.net but I keep avoiding it. I generally keep avoiding it anyway, so finding the best way to practice is not the actual issue.

Still trying to clear up stuff at home. Even throwing away old bits of paper from drawers is good.

I have lots of nice photos of hills and walks on my phone but I don’t remember where they are from. Some I can as it’s very obvious but a lot I don’t know. I have to look up my radio log to see where I was! I should organise folders or something with my photos. Or make a website of them…