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As an update to the start of 2025 blog on tech tools.

After a full year of using AI coding assistants inside traditional IDEs like Visual Studio Code, Windsurf, and Cursor the last few months have marked a turning of finally hanging out with the cool kids and using Claude Code.

I’ve been using Claude Code pretty heavily lately.

As an update to a start of 2023 blog on tech tools Recent Discoveries and New Daily Drivers Screen Studio I’ve made a few instructional videos with this.

While a transition to Arc browser didn’t stick last year.

Like many tech bros before me, I have bought an electric car.

I suspect I’m going to write a fair number of posts about N8N as I work through replacing a lot of my older script and SaaS tool based automations.

While I’ve loved IFTTT and Zapier, their pricing structures have swung towards enterprises that can look the other way for $100 SaaS charges in order to avoid maintaining the code behind a large number of small integrations.

I’ve tracked far more things in the past.

Code but not data for this experiment can be found here: github This is likely just the first of a series of weekend projects where I’ll dip my toe into the deep waters of AI and vector embeddings.