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📘 Devlog
Other Project Updates
A few updates of some other projects I worked on recently.
Webtools saw some love as I needed some tooling made to make the icon easy to include in the Well Read Flutter project itself. Android expects the logo of a specific size, so I "commissioned" an Android Icon Resizer, which will take one or more PNG files, resize them to what Android expects, and prepare them in a ZIP that could be extracted at the route of the
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📘 Devlog
gRPC Client - A Vibe-coded Client for Testing REST/gRPC Endpoints
My current craving of vibe-coding various tools I need to do my job continues, with an attempt to build a REST/gRPC test client.
This is motivated by my distaste with all the other clients I've tried. There've been a few, and I've been unhappy with each one. For one thing, they seem more heavyweight than my needs. I don't know if this is just how they're implemented, or it's because the realm of HTTP request testing is complicated (It's probably a bit of both).
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Weiro - Categories, Pages, and Upload Editing
Some more work on Weiro. Much of it is pretty mundane, mainly to get it to feature parity with other CMS's out there. Yes, I know the existence of those other CMS's make the entire project pointless. Doubly so when you consider that much of what I'm going to talk about was largely done by coding agents. It made me wonder whether it was worth writing this update at all. Well, it's drafted up already so I may as well finish it off. At least one thing will get finished.
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Replacing Ear Cups on my Sennheniser HD 280 Pro Headphones
After nearly a decade of daily use, new ear padding was successfully replaced on Sennheiser HD 280 Pro headphones, despite challenges during the process. Continue reading →
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TUIs Are Underrated
There’s still room in this world for UIs made of line characters. Continue reading →
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📘 Devlog
Well Read - One Week Later
It's been a week since I learnt about Inkwell's API and got an agent to start work on an RSS reader. Since then, Well Read has been in a state of flux, as I ask for agents to make changes to the interaction and layout. I think I've got it in a pretty good state now, certainly in a state that works well for me.
The earliest screenshots of Well Read, taken on 11 March 2026 The Today and Recent tabs still retain their original behaviour, although the idea of using 6:00 pm of the previous evening as the cutoff for "todays' posts" was a good one. Being where I'm located in the world, many people I follow publish posts while I'm asleep. I recently added a tab for bookmarks which uses Micro.blog's bookmarking feature. Any post can be added as a bookmark, and since there's no real way to get to a post once it drops out of the Recent tab (well, apart from opening it up in Inkwell proper), I have in mind this feature to act as a place to stash posts for later. So I tried making bookmarks as easy to add as possible. Sliding aside the item in the feed list will reveal a bookmark action, as will the overflow menu in the feed viewer.
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📘 Devlog
Well Read - An Inkwell Client for Android
When Manton mentioned that Inkwell has an API, I… um… may have vibe-coded an Android client.
It's called "Well Read", which is not a great name but better than "Inkwell Client" which was the working title. Much like Inkwell, it follows the river approach to RSS. There's a Today tab and Recent tab, each showing a portion of the entries in reverse chronological order. Today shows all the posts from today, plus the last 6 hours of yesterday. The motivation here is that this will be the tab you'll be spending your time, with posts aging out to recent over time. There's no Fading tab: all posts older than about half a week fall out of the app. And I'm not sure if i'm going to add one. There's only a few feeds that I want to catch up on if I miss their post, and since I'm using NetNewsWire and Inkwell, I'm pretty sure I'll catch them later.
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📘 Devlog
Weiro - Update 6th March 2026
A small update on Weiro. I've been working on it over the past week, trying to get it in a state that is pleasant to use. I'm been trying to get something halfway usable before doubt scuppers my motivation and this project appears on the growing list of aborted attempts at making a CMS. There've been one or two close calls, but it hasn't caused me to stop yet.
A large part of that was a feature I knew I wanted but was daunting to implement: uploads. The thought of writing the logic to manage large files, make sure EXIF data is stripped, and serve and manage them always seems like a pain. It's the reason why I've abandoned CMS projects in the past. And I want something that support uploads: I've tried CMSes that didn't have them and I never stayed long.
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📘 Devlog
CSVTool - A Vibe-coded CSV Editor
One of the fun aspects of these new code agents is seeing what they're capable of producing just form the prompt, so called "vibe-coding." There are some that are definitely all in on the concept: I'm thinking of Steve Yeggie and his Gas Town work. As for myself, I still prefer to be a bit more hands on. But it's still amusing to see what these agents are capable of just from the prompt.
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🖼️ Gallery
Newport Workshops Open Day
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PostgreSQL Docker and "No space left on device"
Dealing with PostgreSQL Docker complaining about “No space left on device” Continue reading →
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📘 Devlog
3rd March 2026
This is a crosspost from devlog.lmika.org. I’m going to try and write posts about what I’ve been working on over there, while crossposting them here. Original post was made using Weiro, another attempt at a blogging CMS I’ve been working on.
Oof! Everyone’s building blogging CMS’s now, apparently.
Since starting work on this project, I saw one other announce their own CMS that was vibe-coded with Claude. No shame in that: making something that works for you is part of the joy of participating in the Indie-web. I did take a brief look at it, and dismissed it because it was written in PHP. Yes, I am a snooty developer that looks down on those using PHP (it’s just so annoying to deploy; although credit to this person, they did prepare a Docker container).
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📘 Devlog
Hello
This is the inaugural post of Devlog, where I'm planning to write on what I'm working on. This post was created using Weiro, a new blogging CMS I've been working on. This post is little more than a test to see if the deployed version of Weiro is working. I'll post more about Weiro in later posts. For now, I just want to make sure this is being published correctly.
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The Colour of Production
On the colour-coding system used for different development environments. Continue reading →
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🦆 Dialogue
LLM Auto-complete Is…
Duck: You writing code?
Author: Documentation.
Duck: And you're using an…
Author: IDE? Yes, I am.
Duck: Do you have that…
Author: LLM-powered auto complete? I do, yes. And it's fine, although it does seem like the IDE's…
Duck: Always trying to finish your sentences?
Author: Yes. It can be quite…
Continue reading →What to Talk About When You're Talking About Your Side-Business
80% Done 80% Well
Yeah, this one’s about that “Something Big is Happening” blog post. Continue reading →
On Post Timestamps
Some thoughts of using dual timestamps for blog posts to differentiate between the publication date and the date of the event, considering the implications for chronological feeds and user experience. Continue reading →
📘 DevlogMicro apps - Some Score Cards
In the spirit of maintaining a document of what I’ve been working on, and being somewhat inspired by Matt Birchler’s posts about his micro apps, I’d thought I’d document on some of the small apps I’ve worked on recently.
The fact of the matter is that I’ve been building quite a few of these apps over the course of the summer, primarily in response to a specific need I have at the time. I haven’t written about them before, mainly because there didn’t feel like there was much to say. Some were vibe coded, and saying that I “made” them didn’t feel correct. Others were made by hand, but they were super simple and there was no real challenge in making them at all. In either case, being able to say “I made it” is difficult as the amount of effort spent in making it is quite low, and that doesn’t make for interesting blog posts. Would a post saying that “I went to work today” be worth reading if that’s what I do every weekday?
Continue reading →HV #old Submission
My submission for Hemispheric View’s request for fun and interesting computer peripherals. Continue reading →
📘 DevlogGame For Niece — More Art and Cropping Ebitengine Images
Drew some more artwork and started integrating it into the game. Replaced the previous bus image I got from an image search with one I created myself using Affinity Designer:
It’s orange, just like the busses round here, although this one has a plainer livery.
I’ve not integrated the car just yet: I’m hoping to finish off the animations for the bus first. But I’m so glad I embraced Affinity Designer for this. I’m surprise I haven’t considered it sooner. The whole image is designed as a whole, then I export each component — body, door, wheels — as a separate PNG and recompose it in the code, giving me the means of animating each component. I’d imagine this is a pretty typical workflow: and I’m surprise I haven’t considered this sooner too.
Continue reading →On Apple's Icons for Their Creator Studio Bundle
Apple’s new app icons fail to clearly convey their functions, leaving users confused about their purposes. Continue reading →
Some More Thoughts on Apple's Ability to Make Vision Pro Content
Apple may struggle to produce the innovative Vision Pro content desired due to its reliance on established production practices and the pressure to justify substantial investments in video production. Continue reading →
I Heart M Down
Too Much HTML
Components, reusability, and cues from existing code in an unfamiliar project. Continue reading →