Scripting News: Saturday, December 28, 2024
Saturday, December 28, 2024 Idea: Pipe new posts from feeds in my blogroll list to Bluesky. # Peeve: A podcast uses a siren as a sound effect. It causes panic when driving. "Where's the siren!" the driver looks everywhere, only to realize it was just the podcast. This has happened a few times, this time I remembered to say something. # Using Claude to write software # I just had a fairly incredible experience using Claude.ai . Rather than write up the work we did, I asked Claude to do it. # Dave started by sharing a text outline of computing platforms (Mac, iOS, Windows, Unix and their variants) and asked if I could visualize it. I began with a simple mindmap diagram using Mermaid. Then Dave showed me a more sophisticated design with rounded rectangles and arrows, so I adapted my approach and created a matching SVG version. # The most interesting moment came when Dave casually asked if I could turn this into a Node.js package. T...