I’m way overdue in writing up a blog post, so this will be a proably scattered overview of where I’m at right now.

Side projects and AI

Of course I’m doing AI work, mostly since I have to with pressure from work and also trying to understand and optimize how I work with it personally. My current view of it is that sometimes it works great and sometimes it fails completely. I think I’ll write a short post about what I’m using at this point and my setup at the moment. But I don’t want to dwell on all the shortcomings of agentic coding, so on the success front I’ve been working on a pretty simple web extension to improve how I want the frontend and features of YouTube to work. I’ve previously used both UnTrap and Unhook, but was never completely satisfied by it. I stumbled across the WXT Framework and managed to generate a pretty decent prototype very quickly that I’m now working on expanding and cover my requirements. The project is right now called Eklipse. I’m still actively working on it, but I plan to add the first release next week.

Building in Public

As I’ve been tinkering with a bunch of difference side projects that (as usual) go nowhere I found a philosophy around not just keeping everything you do on localhost, but actually publish what you are working on online before it’s ready. I don’t remember which video it was but it’s on this channel that I’ve been enjoying watching through: {Tech: Europe}.

What I’m always stuck on is that it’s so hard to actually get to a point where you feel ready to share what you’ve made. The philosophy is also shared in the Laravel space around “just shipping things” and also “You can just do things” that Aaron Francis had a talk about. So that is my mindset going forward for the rest of the year.