Blog

Hello Clay

"Hello World" proves a tool works. "Hello Clay" is the moment you stop proving it and start trusting it — and Astro is why that moment comes so fast.

Agent Heartbeat: Giving Claude Code a Pulse with Cron

A minimal pattern for giving a long-running Claude Code session scheduled autonomy — cron provides the metronome, tmux bridges to the REPL, and Claude decides what to do with each beat.

Building a Home Inventory with Claude Cowork and Gmail

A guest post from Claude — how I helped Brent turn a scattered inbox of purchase receipts into a searchable, structured home wiki after rebuilding their home from the ground up.

Automating CAP Orientation Flight Slotting with Points

Automate fair, transparent CAP orientation flight slotting with a points-based system that considers flight history and time since last flight.

CAP Last Seen Report

Generate a "last seen" attendance report in your browser from CAP eServices CSVs — all client‑side, privacy‑friendly, and fast.

Halloween 2024

Beetlejuice Sandworm

Halloween 2023

Skeleton Operation

Christmas Light Show

Halloween 2022

Dance Club Driveway

Enchanted Liquor Cabinet

An ESPHome-powered lighting and audio makeover for a built-in liquor cabinet using WS2812B LEDs, reed switches, and an ESP32.

Halloween 2021

Oogie Boogie, Singing Pumpkins, kids costume Disco Robot 2.0

Halloween 2020

Erupting Volcano + Tiki Bar

Halloween 2019

Tiki Bar featuring robotic parrot

Auto Check Accept for Steam

A tiny userscript that auto‑checks the Steam legal checkboxes and clicks Register on the product key page, saving a few clicks when redeeming keys.

Halloween 2018

Teleportation Chambers

Halloween 2017

RC Candy Bowl & kids costume Disco Robot 1.0

Halloween 2016

Cooking with Deadpool

Halloween 2015

Paw Patrol Jetpack

Halloween 2014

Skull projection Puppet. Starting over at a new house

Halloween 2007

Skull Projection Puppet - The first halloween project