I’ve finally pulled the trigger on a 3D printer — a Bambu Lab A1 Mini. This is something I’ve wanted for a long time, years of watching other people’s prints show up online and thinking “I should really get one of those” before actually doing anything about it.

Went with the A1 Mini over the bigger models mainly for the price and the smaller footprint — it doesn’t take up much desk space, and it felt like a sensible way to dip a toe in without committing to a huge enclosed printer before I know how much I’ll actually use it.

Taking Antigravity for a spin

Been using Claude Code as my daily driver for a few days now, so when Google’s Antigravity CLI showed up I figured it was worth a proper look rather than just reading the launch blog post. Ran it side by side with Claude Code on the same kind of day-to-day work — repo exploration, small fixes, the usual — to see how the two actually compare in practice rather than on paper.

A Hugo repo hadn’t been looked at properly in a while

This blog is just Hugo content and a vendored theme — no app code, nothing exciting — which is exactly the kind of repo that quietly accumulates small rot nobody notices because nothing ever actually breaks the build. Spent a session pointing Claude Code at it to find and fix that rot.

Started with a straight status check: a couple of generated CSS cache files showing as deleted (build artifacts that shouldn’t have been tracked in the first place) and a stray uncommitted edit sitting inside the ananke theme submodule from as far back as November 2024. Both restored/reverted to get back to a clean tree before touching anything else.

Vibe coding a Mandelbrot renderer

Spent today “vibe coding” with Claude, just describing what I wanted and letting it drive, to see how far that gets you on a small self-contained project. The result is fractalPy, a small Numba-accelerated Mandelbrot set renderer.

It started as a single script — render the set to a PNG, colour it, done — using @njit(parallel=True, fastmath=True, cache=True) to JIT-compile the escape-time kernel so it’s fast enough to iterate on interactively:

Squid doodles.

Awesome TUIs

Stumbled across this list of good command line applications and utilities.

Awesome TUIs

Well worth a look.

N8N Self hosted Google Alerts Replacement

I’ve been using Google alerts to get emails of news about various topics for a while. As I’m reducing my Google footprint this was one of the things I had trouble replacing, until now.

Using Brave Search API node in N8N I can now search for news on a topic and format it into a email digest.

Saved Workflow in Jason format.

N8N Self hosted IFTTT replacement

Found N8N recently which is an open-source workflow automation tool that lets you connect various services and automate tasks.

Think IFTTT which you can host yourself locally.

I run it locally on my Debian Linux Server using this Docker compose file.

services:
  n8n:
    image: n8nio/n8n:latest
    container_name: n8n
    environment:
      - GENERIC_TIMEZONE=Europe/Amsterdam
      - NODE_ENV=production
      - N8N_SECURE_COOKIE=false
    ports:
      - "5678:5678"
    volumes:
      - n8n_data:/home/node/.n8n
    restart: unless-stopped

volumes:
  n8n_data:
    name: n8n_data
    external: true

You can use it do automate all sort of tasks, I am currently testing it posting RSS feed updated to a Discord Server.

Sidney feeling the heat today, he has melted.

Lately, I’ve been obsessed with this album—it’s been on repeat this morning. The melodies, the lyrics, the vibe… everything just clicks.

Here’s the album I’m talking about:

Larkin Poe, Bloom.

Let me know what you think! 🎧
Do you have any albums that you keep coming back to?