12 posts · clusters, garages & everything between
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- Your utility bills are a datasetPortinhola is a self-hosted dashboard for Portuguese household utilities. It reads the bills, pulls the 15-minute meter data from E-Redes, and replays my real consumption against every tariff to find out what switching actually saves.Jul 31, 2026→
- Kubernetes clusters are beautiful thingsThe background of this site is a Kubernetes cluster that does not exist. Aurora points the same scene at a real one: hue is identity, size is memory, tumble is CPU, distance is pressure, and every lifecycle event gets its own animation.Jul 25, 2026→
- Control the bloatWhy this blog now has a bloat slider: on AI writing, homework voice, and what photography did to painting.Jul 21, 2026→
- Can a 48 GB MacBook replace Claude for my workshop manuals?The sucatisse manual pipeline runs on cloud Claude. I spent a day trying to do the whole extraction on-device on an M5 Pro instead, first with an ensemble of small models, then one big one, and measured both against the Claude output that already ships.Jun 28, 2026→
- Six hours of Opus, sixteen minutes of FableI built a wheel-fitment calculator and got stuck on one thing: the tire cross-section. Opus 4.8 couldn't draw it after six hours of trying. Fable 5 rewrote it from scratch in sixteen minutes and it came out better than my reference.Jun 10, 2026→
- Claude Pill: keeping an eye on Claude Code usage from the barA tiny Quickshell widget that surfaces Claude Code session and weekly usage right on the Hyprland bar, so I can stop typing /status all day.May 25, 2026→
- Building Interactive Workshop Manuals with ClaudeTurning decades-old car workshop PDFs into searchable, clickable, mobile-friendly manuals. Claude Code to design the extraction, the Anthropic batch API to run it at scale, and a custom annotation tool to keep a human in the loop.May 6, 2026→
- Building the Ultimate Home Kubernetes ClusterHow I built a K3s cluster at home with mixed amd64 and ARM nodes, GitOps with FluxCD, distributed storage with Longhorn, MetalLB for networking, and a full monitoring stack.Oct 21, 2025→
- CETsize: weekend hack into a whale-measuring appHow a weekend itch, Jan Hofman’s R script, and a bit of agent/Copilot magic turned into a privacy‑first whale measurement app.Sep 18, 2025→
- Bringing the GBA to the futureI upgrade my GBA with a new screen, shell, battery and an EZflash to make the ultimate portable gaming device.Oct 17, 2024→
- 6.5 Inch Speaker Adapter for Nissan 200sxA debrief on my progress to develop an adapter to correctly install 6.5 Inch Speakers on my Nissan 200SX from 1989.Jun 17, 2023→
- Welcome to my little spot on the internet!Introduction to the website.Apr 19, 2023→