What programming/technical projects have you been working on?

I don't know if working on my silly website counts as programming but yea that's what I have been doing.

Recently I finally made it whenever I push my github page it automatically updates it on nekoweb which is really really nice.

I also edited the sidebar to look like an old win xp or win98 window which I really like.
(Reminds me to make a resources webpage)

I also want to change the starting page to have more stuff and that it's not so empty but i am not entirely sure what to fill it with.

Also buttons and graphics stuff:
I need mooore.
I also am currently making a few buttons and have recently finished the banner which is on the sidebar. I generally would like to fill it more with more drawings / illustrations etc...
Today I just also finished a button but I haven't uploaded it yet.

Also in terms of more I have been thinking of creating my own webring and also joining a few. Simce I am really interested in photography I think it would be fun to create a webring for that!

Anyways I think that is all -- there is always so much to do and I think I should also more consistently write on my blog and make it like either a weekly or monthly recap thing. But we will see

If you have any feedback, criticism, questions or just anything I am always happy to talk about "shitty websites" (not in a bad way! --> indie web for the win !!!)

I have a pretty beefy GPU at home and host ollama locally, but I've only had bad experiences with coding agents. I guess my "beefy" isn't beefy enough.

So yesterday I got an openrouter account and am using opencode with qwen3. 6-preview in the cloud, and it's been an amazing experience!

I'm working on improving a gratitude journal I made that my partner and i use daily. It's amazingly fun.

I am spending the next few days at Disneyland and had Claude write me an iOS scriptables app script to pull the ride queue times from an api. I just asked the chat app interface to work on it while driving down. It took a lot of specific prompt massaging, but for this whole trip, I get a nice color coded list of the rides I am interested in and their wait times. It's been quite nice to use. Much easier to navigate than the main Disneyland app.

It actually has me thinking of a potential officially released app. I don't have any iOS programming experience, but I have wanted to get into it. The api I am using is free, so ongoing server costs could be quite cheap. I am thinking my potential value add could be things like push notifications. If you can set up notifications so you know when closed rides reopen, it could be quite helpful. My group managed to get a very short line for space mountain right when it reopened because of my script. For costs, I am thinking free (maybe with ads), and a week pass for stuff that needs server infrastructure (mostly notifications), like how flighty has week passes.

I made a small alternative to mergerfs because I have had traumatic experiences with FUSE in the past and just wanted something simpler: https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/nofs

I think the most interesting part is playing around with strict clippy settings for working with LLMs can be a mixed bag of usefulness. Some settings really do help and it is important to set "deny" so that the LLM doesn't make the temptation to write an #[allow(lint_name)], etc. But a lot of linting settings don't actually help much to guide LLMs to produce high quality code--it just forces them to make that low-quality code look nice :-)

Another thing that I learned is that the CLI parser clap can silently (no build errors) overwrite variables if the positional arg and optional flags have the same name [eg. --paths and <paths> ...].

• https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/nofs/blob/main/.clippy.toml

I'm doing a similar thing now in golang via golangci-lint (this golden config was really helpful as there are way too many knobs to turn) and similar observations... cognitive complexity linters help a lot if you can strictly enforce them. Unfortunately, go doesn't have a "deny" setting but I've noticed that Qwen Coder doesn't want to lean on //nolint nearly as much as #[allow...] for whatever reason. So thankfully it's not a big problem!

• https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/syncweb/blob/main/.golangci.yml

Watching a bunch of FreeCAD tutorials. I'm determined to become proficient in this software even if I never make a dime from 3D design/printing/etc. After watching a bunch of other CAD software with crappier licensing models I realized that I really do want to stick with the open-source tools and remain completely untethered to any license concerns or costs, and the workflow honestly isn't as bad as I thought, and it's actually similar to a lot of other CAD.

(Also, more on the creative side of things: bought a lot of filament to stock up, got a filament dryer, and am drying out my PETG right now and planning to print some stuff).

In the meantime, have also found that people have designed tons of accessories and add-ons for my 3D printer that are useful so planning on trying some of those.