https://wip.tf/posts/ A collection of things I tinker with during my free time. en-us no https://wip.tf/posts/this-blog-is-a-podcast/ Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:01:31 -0400 https://wip.tf/posts/this-blog-is-a-podcast/ Publishing this blog as a podcast feed. https://wip.tf/posts/building-a-trilingual-kid-alphabet/ Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:23:46 -0500 https://wip.tf/posts/building-a-trilingual-kid-alphabet/ Building a trilingual alphabet poster with consistent letter examples in English, French, and Portuguese. https://wip.tf/posts/tgif-claude-visualizing-claude-pro-usage-relative-to-the-week/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:11:11 -0500 https://wip.tf/posts/tgif-claude-visualizing-claude-pro-usage-relative-to-the-week/ A bookmarklet that visualizes Claude Pro usage against weekly limits to help plan usage around the reset cycle. https://wip.tf/posts/badging-gym-garmin-watch/ Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:45:47 -0500 https://wip.tf/posts/badging-gym-garmin-watch/ Storing a gym barcode on a Garmin watch to check in without carrying a key tag. https://wip.tf/posts/controlling-an-air-gapped-robot-vacuum-from-home-assistant-using-synthesized-speech/ Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:20:22 -0500 https://wip.tf/posts/controlling-an-air-gapped-robot-vacuum-from-home-assistant-using-synthesized-speech/ Running a Dreame L40 Ultra robot vacuum offline using Home Assistant and synthesized voice commands. https://wip.tf/posts/fixing-litter-robot-weight-tracking-multi-cat/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:02:07 -0500 https://wip.tf/posts/fixing-litter-robot-weight-tracking-multi-cat/ Fixing the Litter-Robot's SmartScale weight tracking with a Home Assistant custom integration that tracks (better) which cat used the litter box based on weight readings from the Litter-Robot 4's SmartScale https://wip.tf/posts/map-your-read-books-list-by-author-birthplace/ Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:40:19 -0500 https://wip.tf/posts/map-your-read-books-list-by-author-birthplace/ Visualizing a personal reading log on a world map, plotting each book by its author's birthplace. https://wip.tf/posts/telefonefix-building-babys-first-international-landline/ Tue, 23 Sep 2025 05:31:06 -0400 https://wip.tf/posts/telefonefix-building-babys-first-international-landline/ Téléfonefix is a kid-friendly telephone system allowing kids to safely call relatives, locally and abroad. https://wip.tf/posts/jira-claude-commit/ Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:47:26 -0400 https://wip.tf/posts/jira-claude-commit/ Bash functions that combine Jira context and Claude Code to auto-generate compliant commit messages. https://wip.tf/posts/vim-jira/ Wed, 25 Jun 2025 22:01:22 -0400 https://wip.tf/posts/vim-jira/ A Vim integration to fuzzy-search and insert Jira ticket IDs without leaving the editor. https://wip.tf/posts/listen-to-this-article/ Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:50:10 -0400 https://wip.tf/posts/listen-to-this-article/ Adding a text-to-speech audio player to Hugo blog posts using a shortcode and a self-hosted TTS API. https://wip.tf/posts/tts-setup/ Sun, 13 Apr 2025 20:33:45 -0400 https://wip.tf/posts/tts-setup/ My self-hosted text-to-speech pipeline for reading web content aloud on Linux. https://wip.tf/posts/rss-xsl/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 22:18:24 -0400 https://wip.tf/posts/rss-xsl/ Using XSLT to style my blog's RSS feed so it renders like the site's front page in browsers. https://wip.tf/posts/dockerrss/ Tue, 07 Mar 2023 21:16:44 -0500 https://wip.tf/posts/dockerrss/ Generating an RSS/Atom feed for DockerHub image pushes to trigger CI/CD deployments without Dependabot. https://wip.tf/posts/bistrobot-orchestrating-cat-foot-dispensing-raspberry-pi/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 22:52:55 -0500 https://wip.tf/posts/bistrobot-orchestrating-cat-foot-dispensing-raspberry-pi/ Building an automated cat food dispensing system with Raspberry Pis to synchronize my two cats' feedings.