A calm couple of weeks rolled into one post: some couch cinema, a bit of 3D printing that caught me off guard, and a few small tweaks to the tools I reach
for every day. Here’s the rundown.
- 🍿 This week I only watched Enola Holmes 3 on Netflix, sprawled on the couch and half asleep. And honestly, that’s exactly how you should watch it: a light little flick for teenagers, best taken lightly and without much conviction. Don’t walk in expecting a masterpiece and you’ll be fine.
- 🛠️ I needed a mini funnel to refill a perfume bottle. So I asked Fable 5 to generate an STL for me: a one-centimetre opening at the top, three millimetres at the bottom, three centimetres tall. Generated. Printed in PLA on the first try. Genuinely impressive. It reached for a few Python libraries I’d never heard of, and this is a path I want to dig into properly, both the direct generation through an LLM and the libraries and tools it pulls in under the hood.
- 🧑💻 I finally got Sidecar working across my Mac and iPad. Setup was simple, but I’ll be honest: it doesn’t always work, and rarely on the first attempt. Toggling location services off and back on seems to wake it up again. We’ll see how it holds up.
- 🧑💻 I have a script called ‘ccmenu’ that shows me a set of default folders and then launches a Claude Code session inside the one I pick. Since I’ve been hopping constantly between Claude 4.8 Opus and Fable 5, this week I tweaked it (with Claude Code, of course) so that on startup it also asks which model I want. I’ll write about this one properly soon.
- 📝 Published How I use Amazon Quick to complete my notes — a tool called Note Completer answers inline marked questions in markdown notes, finishing them in place.
- 📝 Published Kiro turns one. Here’s how to learn it in a single weekend — a weekend plan using free AWS resources to get
past Kiro’s easy start and explore its deeper features.