This week was split pretty evenly between tinkering with developer tooling and watching movies. Also gave the blog a facelift, which was long overdue.
Tv series/Movies
- Finished watching A Taxi Driver (2017), a Korean film based on the true story of a Seoul taxi driver who ends up driving a German journalist to Gwangju during the 1980 uprising against the military dictatorship. It’s heavy stuff, but the film handles it well — there’s real warmth in it, and even some humor, which I wasn’t expecting. One of those movies that teaches you a piece of history you knew nothing about and makes you want to read more.
- Watched the first episode of Scarpetta (2026), the new TV series with Nicole Kidman as forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta, based on Patricia Cornwell’s books. She untangles murder cases using forensic science. Only one episode in, so hard to say much, but the atmosphere is right and Kidman seems well cast. We’ll see.
- Watched Honey Don’t! (2025). Not much to say. Thin plot, and as a crime thriller it just doesn’t land. Skip it unless you’ve literally run out of things to watch.
- Saw Sinners (2025), directed by Ryan Coogler with Michael B. Jordan in a dual role. Set in the 1930s American South, it mixes racial tension and blues culture with — of all things — a vampire story. And somehow it works. The screenplay is genuinely good, someone who still knows how to write. I get why it picked up so many Oscar nominations.
Read(ing)
Human Acts by Han Kang — below schedule but still reading it.
Personal projects
- Did a big cleanup of my Claude Code skills, organizing them properly and creating dedicated GitHub repositories for each one. Overdue housekeeping, but it felt good to finally get it done.
- I created, still for Claude Code, a skill that uses wp-cli to automatically publish (as a draft) any output I want on this site. You can read it here: How I built a Claude Code skill to publish WordPress drafts from the terminal
- Built a zsh script called
g-git.shthat speeds up my GitHub workflow. It creates a new repo on GitHub with the name of the current directory, initializes git locally, and pushes. I also added a menu so I can pick between creating a repo, pushing, or cloning. - Put together a notification script for Claude Code using ntfy.sh. Now I get a ping whenever Claude needs input or finishes a task, so I can actually step away from the terminal without constantly checking back. You can read it here: Push Notifications for Claude Code: Never Miss a Prompt Again
- Created a script to sync my production blog with the dev version. Built the whole thing through vibecoding with Claude Code — described what I wanted and let it do the work.
- Gave the blog a visual refresh. New font, orange accents, and better styling for bold text. Looks way more consistent now.
Around the Web
- Just ntfy.sh mentioned above for quick notifications;
Lot of scripting this week, now that I look at it. And good movies for once. The blog redesign is probably my favorite bit though — I keep reopening the site just to look at it, which is either a good sign or a problem.