Six hours of Opus, sixteen minutes of Fable 🛞

I’m a car guy. The kind who cares about offset and not just rim size, who has spent more evenings than I’d admit working out whether a 205 will rub on a +30 wheel on my old Corolla GTI (and yes, it still rubbed). There are a dozen wheel-fitment calculators online and most of them are fine. Fine is the problem. I had ideas for making one that’s actually nice to use, so I started building my own for sucatisse. It lives at fit.sucatisse.com. ...

June 10, 2026 Â· 5 min Â· Luis Goncalves

Building Interactive Workshop Manuals with Claude

A while back I bought a Nissan 200sx. Naturally, the only proper repair info that exists is a 500-page workshop manual scanned out of a 1990s binder, full of grainy diagrams and torque tables that you navigate with Cmd+F and a lot of patience. So I started building the thing I wanted: a real, clickable, searchable, mobile-friendly version of that manual. That side project grew an umbrella name, sucatisse (Portuguese-flavoured slang for “scrappy stuff”), and now hosts two manuals so far: ...

May 7, 2026 Â· 5 min Â· Luis Goncalves