Weeknote - 13 Oct.
A busy, but also not, week? Maybe I'll just classify it as mentally busy.
I think I've finally gotten a system for posting "tweets" directly from my phone while on the move. It's basically a combination of Shortcuts, iCloud Drive, & bash scripts. All put together with the help of Claude Desktop.
You can read the posts by going to Shorts
Speaking of Claude Desktop, I'm pretty much all in on using LLMs for development. I've been doing it at work and it's really made the process of developing fun again. Of course any time you tell someone you're using an LLM to help code they immediately think vibe coding which in my cause is not the case (most of the time 😉). I've started moding my LLM usage after this kind of pattern which was refined by Dexter Horthy. It takes a lot of setup and refinement but the results are so much better, specially in large legacy codebases.
I didn't spend any time working on my guitar building this week. Given our schedule over the next couple of weeks, it probably won't happen until early Nov. Oh well...
I've been watching The Reluctant Traveller with Eugene Levy and really loving it. There's a lot of unspoken lessons to take from the show. I'll leave it at that because there are deeper things I want to say but I don't really feel this is the place yet.
Had a great chat with a former coworker and good friend this week. We met up for lunch and had a great chat. There are many things that are weighing heavy on both of us but we were able to share and unburden a little bit. I'm not sure we solved anything, but that wasn't the point. Sometimes the point is to just share the load. To talk it out and feel like there is someone else there that will listen.