Saturday, 14th November, 2026

My sister is visiting and she showed me her Hobonichi weeks (which she reminds me I bought her for Christmas last year) and I think I like the look of it more than the techno. Seems my level of content - space for a couple of lines each day. Tempted to get one for 2027.

I was improving my SOTA planner app by using gpx files from walks I’ve done and now I think I want to make a dashboard to look at my past walks and do some graphs and such. The best part is Garmin added a personal API to download stuff, so should be quite easy to get all the data. Anyway, I’ll add that to my list.

Thursday, 12th November, 2026

Used Claude to make a mechanics of maths question generator site for my wife (maths teacher). As always it looked pretty good out of the box. She’s not interrogated it yet but I said anything can be changed in any way. This used the most tokens out of everything I’ve done so far. Almost hit the 5 hour limit after about one hour. I see there’s some promo to use Fable but Opus does everything I’ve wanted so far, so I don’t know why I’d change. Perhaps I could switch to Fable and ask it to review the whole code base of projects and suggest improvements or something? Claude models peer reviewing each other? I’m sure there’s a “best” way to do these things. Also feel like I’m not making the most out of my subscription.

I’m still debating if my hill planner app should do more for me or not. I like researching routes and planning them out and if it did them for me what would I do? If you can’t go hill walking then it’s fun to read about hill walking. I did wonder if there’s some half way point where it does an estimate of everything and then I refine it. Maybe useful for screening options, eg I could go out next week, here are 6 hills and routes I downloaded, make a plan for them. Then I can pick one or two that maybe suit what I’m looking for and go from there. I wonder if it’s just my imagination that’s limiting the vibe coding experience!

Having done some projects, it makes me less critical of other people’s vibe coding. Although I’m wary that projects are fleeting, as it’s so easy to make something then move on. Of course, as long as they publish the code, then I could pick it up and continue if I so desired.

I’m off work tomorrow but if I wasn’t I might not be getting much done: https://status.cloud.microsoft

Monday, 9th November, 2026

I couldn’t get to sleep last night. Finished my CW book - which doesn’t mean I know CW it just reinforces that I need to practice daily (which I’ve already fallen off) - and then read the whole of The Art of Swedish Death Cleaning. Which isn’t very long but still. It’s a nice little book that is an old woman giving advice, and saying small opinions in between. It encourages giving the book to parents but understands it’s a difficult topic. I’ve thought about it. She recommends from ages 65+, although everyone benefits from tidying up and getting rid of unnecessary stuff. I love tidying up and getting rid.

5 minutes later: “maybe I should buy an intel iMac 5K and run Linux on it”. No okay. Even I know that’s dumb.

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.