This is a weekly diary of my own AI use, mostly through Claude Code. The prompts and chat logs are automatically scraped from my devices but I edit and review before publishing.
These are not all of my weekly activities (I filter out any with client info or anything personal) but hopefully you'll get a sense of how I'm using the technology.
Prompts are lightly edited for clarity and security, and truncated if they're very long. Reflections are written by me at the end of each week and automatically pushed to this page.
Prompt:
familiarise yourself with the contents of this folder. the claude.md is from a claude code chat on the mini where we did the shopping and the prototyping. the other .md is today's chat with the claude web app while i was soldering and setting up. I've got the powerboost on battery (blue light, all good from the looks of it). I have an apple keyboard plugged into the USB-A with a standard old-style apple cable. I have the ESP32 via a microUSB into a mac adaptor to USB-C, ready to plug into this device (Macbook) when you give me the word.
What I was trying to achieve: I wanted to figure out how to power and connect peripherals to an ESP32 running on a Powerboost battery.
What happened: Worked through USB power architecture constraints — the Powerboost doesn't provide power on its USB port — and identified an OTG Y cable as the solution to split power and data.
Reflection: Most of the problems with this project came from my sloppy soldering. The code part was easy.
Prompt:
Are you registering the ESP32 I’ve plugged in?
What I was trying to achieve: I wanted to pair an ESP32 with a BLE keyboard.
What happened: Scanned BLE devices extensively, discovered the Magic Keyboard was incompatible, restored the writer firmware, and identified the key specs to look for in a compatible BLE keyboard for future purchases.
Reflection: Once again, code and Bluetooth easy, physical wiring wrong…
Prompt:
Found in a drawer
What I was trying to achieve: I wanted to understand the pHAT DAC hardware pinout and investigate an old Raspberry Pi OS SD card I found.
What happened: Confirmed the I²S pinout for a pHAT DAC audio card and began exploring an old Pi OS SD card that was mounted on a mini board.
Reflection: You can probably tell that I’m on holiday by the projects this week