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https://g9n.com - a place for mini projects, apps and blog posts that don't fit into any 'work' category!

We had all those problems before vibe coding was a thing too.

The thing about Claude code, is that it's usually used in version controlled directories. If Claude f**s up badly, I can revert to a previous git commit. If it runs amock on my office documents, I'm going to have a harder time recovering those.

It's official, vibe coding is legit.

My product NumeroMoney (https://www.numeromoney.com) is the first I've built that makes over $500, and it's grown surprisingly quickly. I built it because I needed something simpler that the existing solutions I could find for understanding our families spending (YNAB etc were geared too much towards budgeting). It helps users to import and categorize bank statement transactions in a way that makes it really easy to make decisions about household spending.

I'm working on https://www.numeromoney.com/pricing I don't even have the home page put together yet so marketing is still on the starting blocks! It's web app for helping to understand how you spend your money. I'm keeping it as simple as possible while trying to surface clear information about a persons spending. It came out of personal need (young families are expensive, it turns out!), and the existing products out there - YNAB etc were just too focused on budgeting. I just wanted to know where my money goes so I can focus on where I'm not spending it well.

Or a video that moves forwards backwards depending on scroll position ...

That's an interesting idea. Like a flick book of AI generated images. I wonder what the best tool for that would be.

I'd been finding a lot of the existing calculator tools out there to be not quite what I needed, so I made this one. I think the options are the right ones for the most common contractor accounting setups in the UK.

I agree it needs more images. On desktop there is space to show some encouraging text changes as you go. The unfathomable amount of scrolling required is sort of the point.

They are Gemini generated images. The original idea was to get my kids to draw pictures for each change, but their enthusiasm was not quite what I envisaged! Wanted to get it out there so AI to the rescue on that one. I agree it does cheapen the experience a bit :)

Thank you. Yes the huge amount of time it takes to scroll is kind of a feature, not a bug (in my mind)! The huge numbers of ancestors needed to see a step change is the point I was hoping to make.

I made a tool to help us visualize how many generations of life on Earth it took to get to you. From the LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor) bubble to modern Human (some scrolling required!)

Senior Software Engineer & Solutions Architect

.NET Specialist / Full-Stack Web Apps / APIs / Databases / Cloud Infrastructure / Microservices

Based in the UK, looking to work in the South West, London or remote.

https://www.appsoftware.com/cv

Hopefully CV sells it a bit better than this post! :)

How to set up Google's new Antigravity (VS Code) fork coming from VS Code.

Demonstration of Svelte 5 Custom Elements to build reusable, interactive components (Custom Elements) that are host framework agnostic (once built), integrate seamlessly with any web application and do not require a module system (as demonstrated in this server-rendered ASP.NET MVC page). By compiling Svelte components as browser-native Custom Elements (part of the Web Components standard), we can achieve clean encapsulation of logic and state while maintaining standards compliance and framework independence.

I've been using Svelte's custom elements (web components) to make components that slot into pages on an existing .net / alpine.js site. It's been a great dev experience and results in really portable components. Each component is it's own bundle (achieved via separate vite configs - you can also organise to bundle groups of components work together). Each of the tools in the tools section is a svelte custom element https://www.appsoftware.com/tools/utilities/calculators

Agreed ownership of your notes is imperative. You do need some structure though. Try Logseq. I adopted Obsidian after Roam, but missed the low friction structure that Roam offered. But Roam was not secure and was proprietary. Logseq is the best of both worlds, is plain text based with minimal structure (markdown-ish) and is Git friendly. It's a work in progress, and needs a few files adding to .gitignore to minimise merge conflicts (pages-metadata.edn for one).

I/O Content is an API centric Content Management System (CMS) designed for use with any platform or device type. I/O Content makes managing and retrieving content and media simple, featuring custom content types, API queryable content fields, CDN and on the fly image manipulation.

Take a look at https://www.iocontent.com for more information.