The AI fixes my music library for me through my own tool
He built a small web tool on top of an API for his music library, with an MCP connection. He can ask the AI to check for missing artwork, sort out the genres, or fix the track numbers.
A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasHis terminal app, rebuilt in Rust, uses a tenth of the memory of the web version
The AI and the AI mostly rebuilt his custom terminal app in Rust egui; text is sharp, it is fast and uses about 1/10th the RAM of the webview version.
The AI found a never saved Pages document in the iCloud cache
A Mac user deleted a Pages document by mistake before ever saving it, so it was not in the Trash or Time Machine. The AI searched the whole disk, including iCloud cache files, and located a copy in the CloudKit cache folder, and the document was recovered.
Days of BIOS tricks could not make his laptop sleep; hibernate was the surrender
He and the AI spent days trying BIOS and other tricks to fix a laptop that would not sleep properly and gave up; the best result was hibernate after about 5 minutes.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI posts my work diary to Bluesky at the end of each session
He set up a Bluesky posting agent and checked it with AI, counting the 6 registered tools to confirm they matched. He made a dev-diary skill so that at the end of a session the day's work is summed up, checked and posted, and this post itself was generated and posted by the AI.
The AI gets my app feedback and ships the fix in the background
He uses an iOS app the AI made for him. When it feels slow he sends a screenshot and notes through TestFlight, the AI is told at once and ships the fix in the background.
Watch my other agents and email me when one of them fails to send
Kranda's Monday and Wednesday sprint reports are sent by agents, so he had the AI build a watchdog whose only job is to notice when one of those emails does not go out and email him what happened. He says the watchdog exists mainly because the AI’s device permission issues make silent failures a real risk.
The AI set up his self-hosted photo service and the household uses it
He pointed the AI at the Immich Docker setup and got his self-hosted photo service running for his household.
The AI read my whole archive, 1.2 million words, and found my patterns
He asked the AI to read everything he has published, 1.2 million words on his site plus his social posts. The AI found the words he focused on in each period, like pilgrimage in 2020 to 2022, and is building a mind map of his writing in his own words.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI built him a custom browser with the DNS override feature he always wanted
The AI created a custom Firefox build with a curl --resolve style SSL and DNS override feature he wanted.
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