I’ve been on a vibe coding kick. This blog is vibe-coded. Years ago, I wanted to build a lightweight publishing setup that didn’t require me to deal with a backend. I found some open-source software called Plerd that would push a Markdown file to a simple site when you dropped it into a Dropbox folder.
I gave it an honest go for a day, but just couldn’t make it click.
A few years later, this blog is running on Vercel, and I just drop a line of text in Claude, which then pushes a markdown file with front matter inserted to a Dropbox folder and then pushes it live. Pretty sweet.
Nothing I vibe code is truly ready for production, but it is publishable, so I do.
A few of my favorites so far.
I built a Reading Log that scrapes Goodreads and organizes what I’ve read over the years into a clean log, categorized by rating, genre, sub-genre, and series. When I showed it to my partner, she said, “Isn’t this what Goodreads already does?”
It sure is, honey. It sure is. For reasons unclear to me, half my 2020 reading list disappeared yesterday. I’ll fix it eventually.
This blog is by far my actual favorite, usable piece. It’s simple, it works, and it has genuinely helped my workflow.
The next one, my Reasonable 75 tracker, is the first to require authentication and will be my tracker of record for an upcoming fitness challenge. It’ll be backed up to a Google Sheet, but I’m excited to learn how to do this alongside other hobbies. It’s just fun. For my 5 guinea pigs friends joining the challenge, it will be fun for them too!
I have a few other local files and apps running, but those are the big ones. What are you creating?