So I just had Claude.ai iterate a few times over a custom extension for publishing to microblog directly from vscode, which is nice. This is the second bit of useful code that I’ve been able to generate from AI; the first was a dumb little ncurses app for displaying ‘live’ data from my weather station. I used ChatGPT for that, but had Claude add a few refinements. If you have an Ambient Weather Station and want to take a look at it, it’s in my github repo.

Pretty nice. I am, at best, a decent shell and perl scripter. I know enough python to hurt myself badly, and that’s about it. Either of these would have taken more time than I would have wanted to spend and I actually learned a little bit about vscode extensions in the process. Here’s the brave new world and all that.

In other news, the snow is looking more and more like a sure thing for this weekend. I’d be very surprised if they didn’t close schools in advance of Friday. Since we usually do our grocery shopping on the weekend, we got ahead of it and stocked up last night. Oh and I pulled the trigger on the Factorio expansion. Bring on the weather I say.

Edit: I also put the vscode extension into github. If you run into any problems and need help troubleshooting…uh…ask Claude!