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2026
- Procedural music with Claude, from a Markov chain to a grooveA small generator that writes chord progressions, melodies and drum patterns and synthesises every sound from scratch. How each piece works, and what it sounds like.
- Announcing ToneTech, a terminal pedalboard with an AI guitar techReal-time guitar effects in your terminal, and a Claude agent in the side pane that turns "less fizz, more Gilmour" into actual knob moves. It listens before it tweaks, and every change can be undone.
- I wrote my own guitar effects with AI, and learned DSP by accidentWhat started as "can Claude build me an overdrive?" turned into a crash course in sample rates, filters and clipping. Code, the ideas behind it, and clips you can listen to.
- How I prompt coding agents, and the Claude skills I actually useI don't write much code by hand anymore. Most of my work is writing good instructions. Here's the prompting style that works for me, and the handful of skills that earn their place.
- I riced my Linux setup without writing a config by handOmarchy gave me a great starting point. Claude did the rest, from Hyprland keybinds to a matching theme across every app, one plain-English request at a time.
- Scaffolding apps with cheap modelsI rebuilt the same multi-step page-flow template twice, in Solid and React, and let a budget model do a surprising share of the work. Notes on where cheap models are enough and where they aren't.