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I built a PD tracker because AirTable was too slow

My first iOS app is live on the App Store: dialysisPal. It’s a peritoneal dialysis tracker. Open it, enter UF, weight, blood pressure, pulse, done. Twice a day, seconds each time. Charts show the long-term trends, and one tap exports a PDF for your nephrologist. I built it because Airtable was too slow. I started it in June last year with Claude Code. I’d never written a line of Swift;…

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And the URL has been updated on the dialysePal Website as well.

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Ladies and gentle-persons, dialysisPal is live on the AppStore ! 🥳

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Classis was planned with first class support for Codeberg and Forgejo projects. Due to their anti-AI stance said support has now been removed in favour of Gitea forges. Also I am moving my repositories away from Codeberg to my own self-hosted Gitea forge.

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Classis now has a logo.

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Fighting with low blood pressure episodes lately. Probably heat related. Definitely not fun.

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My new app has a name. Classis

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I recently canceled my Feedbin subscription. I love the service. It has been running flawlessly for years. But I recently realised that this „you need a RSS syncing service“ mentality makes zero sense for me. I read my RSS feeds purely on my iPhone. So what do I need sync for I wonder?

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I just had my Hermes Agent run a surprisingly fun space adventure session for me. Really helped distract me from my hospital „cell“.

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At the hospital for the sixth day now. While I felt bad on day one and day two, I’ve been fine since day three. Meaning I am now bored beyond belief and have two more days to go. WiFi won’t work and my data cap kicked in two days ago. Please somebody send help!

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I love Amish Seth Green from Road Trip so much. Friendly, helpful and 100% passive aggressive. All the while having this mischievous twinkle in his eyes.

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„This thing was created without the use of AI“ is put on stuff like a badge of honor. All I read is „This nail was put in without the use of a hammer.“

Slice Done

I know GPT is the favorite model family for a lot of people. I’ve tried to get there. I really have. I’m running GPT-5.6 Sol right now, and it’s still the same experience I’ve had with every GPT version I’ve touched. The model runs forever on simple issues. There’s hardly any reasoning output, so you can’t see whether it’s thinking in the right…

Don't Prompt, Loop

There’s a phrase making the rounds in AI-assisted development circles right now: “don’t prompt, loop.” The idea is elegant on its face—stop hand-holding your LLM with step-by-step instructions. Instead, give it a goal and let an agentic loop run until the work is done. The machine figures out the steps. You review the output. It sounds like progress. It feels like progress.…

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I spent the last week nailing down the specs of a new project. Nearly there. Maybe a day or two more to nail down the last few bits. Getting antsy to build.

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Holy crap! „Show, don’t tell!“ was never more absent then in the new Avatar live action series. It looks great. But boy oh boy is the story department lacking.

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Stop using Generative AI! youtube.com/watch

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Willow keeps animating. It warms my heart. #FlipaClip3WordChallenge

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Heute habe ich gelernt, dass man als eAuto Besitzer seinen CO2 Umsatz an Firmen verkaufen kann. Nennt sich THG-Prämie und liegt derzeit bei zirka €360 im Jahr. Ich habe unsere über Geld für eAuto beantragt.

The Landlord Changed the Locks

What happens when the most capable AI in the world becomes subject to one country’s export policy? June gave us two answers. The two Fridays Friday, June 12th, 5:21pm ET. A directive lands at Anthropic from the U.S. government . Citing national security authorities under export control rules, they order the company to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5—“by any foreign national,…

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New Website is up! I had to retire the old one, because we retired the company at the beginning of the year. Now it’s a personal business card. It came out well, I think.

I Automated Myself Out of My Own Blog

I killed my Daily News post today. Not the curation—I still get that by email each morning. Just the part where it automatically published to my blog. I built an n8n workflow, which fetched links, ran them through AI curation, formatted the result and published it to my site. Every single morning without fail. It felt clever at the time. A personal newsroom that ran while I slept. The problem…

Mittens and Orbs

I have built five dashboards for my AI agents since January. Five. All of them started the same way: a fresh project folder, a Next.js scaffold, the feeling that this time I’d build the interface that finally made sense of everything happening inside these models. None of them finished, or mattered. They’re all in a folder somewhere called things like mission-control-v3 and…

The Architect and the Builder

There’s a story making the rounds right now. You’ve probably seen it on YouTube, the headline promising that AI can now build entire applications while you watch. Or sleep. Or do whatever productive people do when their computer does all the work. The pitch goes like this: tell the AI what you want, hit go, and let it loop. It writes code, runs tests, checks its own work, fixes errors,…