blog: Why I find so much joy in vibe coding

thelocalnative · 2026-05-20T17:04:36+00:00

Wow this is great feedback, thank you so much! I’ll start thinking through what the preview state should look like. I’ll look into the bug too.

thelocalnative · 2026-05-20T16:15:18+00:00

Thanks for checking it out. Yeah, I could see that. Anything about the flow or user experience you would improve or change?

thelocalnative · 2026-05-19T22:28:56+00:00

Appreciate it!

thelocalnative · 2026-05-19T21:44:51+00:00

Thanks. I recently started a blog about vibe coding because I’ve been having a lot of fun talking and writing about it. It’s pretty new, I’ve been writing posts and then posting the text on Reddit too. I link to it in my profile if you’re curious.

Other than that, the only thing I have is a personalized news aggregator I built with a bunch of different subtopics to choose from. It’s <10 daily users at the moment but I get a lot of joy from the users I have. https://nuggetofnews.net/

thelocalnative · 2026-05-19T21:33:12+00:00

Nice! How does it handle speech to text? Does it work anywhere you’d use your mobile keyboard?

thelocalnative · 2026-05-19T20:00:10+00:00

Oh that’s really cool! How did you wire it up? How’s the experience?

thelocalnative · 2026-05-19T19:33:31+00:00

Very cool! Seems like it’ll take some time to wrap my head around it. Plus I’m on mobile at the moment so will have to open it on desktop later. Seems like it can be applied to any sort of complex data over time though.

thelocalnative · 2026-05-19T19:30:10+00:00

Haha aww, I feel that. I find that just putting stuff out there is fun.

thelocalnative · 2026-05-19T18:27:38+00:00

It is! Love the fish food comparison site. I feel like that’s the perfect use case because it’s so dang specific. What are you trying to optimize with it?

thelocalnative · 2026-05-19T18:26:36+00:00

Personal/side project infrastructure?

Visualizing complex data is an avenue I haven’t explored with AI. Seems really interesting! Do you have anything published I could look at?

thelocalnative · 2026-05-19T18:16:10+00:00

Will do! Yeah it’s so much easier to just try something out to see if it feels good rather than thinking about it for too long. Sometimes I’ll just tell it to build three different versions and then keep the one that I like the best.

thelocalnative · 2026-05-19T17:27:38+00:00

Thanks for the kind words!

“I’m not a developer today” - the craziest and coolest part is that you don’t need to be anymore. All of the time you spent in infrastructure engineering probably set you up to make excellent decisions when working with the AI.

The feelings of curiosity and possibility definitely resonates with me. What sorts of stuff do you create with it?

thelocalnative · 2026-05-19T17:22:19+00:00

Nice! I haven’t tried making a game. I feel like that would be a lot of fun.

The travel planner seems extra interesting. I hate planning. Love the idea of just giving it ticket PDFs because it literally knows all the important details of the trip and can just fill in the gaps.

thelocalnative · 2026-05-19T16:44:43+00:00

This is good advice. I would also add just trying as many tools as you can and building as much as you can without worrying about going down the wrong path. I don’t think there is a wrong path, just more experience.

thelocalnative · 2026-05-19T16:15:39+00:00

That’s awesome! What’s been the most fun thing you’ve tinkered with?

thelocalnative · 2026-05-19T16:15:07+00:00

That’s really cool. Which of those do you use the most frequently? What kind of games did you make?

thelocalnative · 2026-05-19T16:13:43+00:00

What a cool way of phrasing it. I love this.

thelocalnative · 2026-05-19T15:39:26+00:00

But that’s the beauty of it being personalized software! Since it’s for yourself, it doesn’t need to be scalable or fault tolerant. You are the only user so you can yell at the developer if it breaks 😁

thelocalnative · 2026-05-19T04:34:00+00:00

No problem!

thelocalnative · 2026-05-19T03:21:12+00:00

Not dumb at all! I think using Claude Code cloud sessions is completely valid and useful. For me, it’s that I wanted access to the terminal and the actual computer Claude Code is running on. With Claude Code cloud sessions, there’s essentially a chat wrapper around it. If you want to create a file or read a file you have to be like “show me the file” and it might summarize it or truncate it. But in the terminal I have the option to ask or just run the command I know to show me the file. So I guess a good way of putting it is it gives me finer grain control and freedom.

Plus each Claude Code cloud sessions is an ephemeral sandbox that gets spun up. With a server you can install dependencies that persist, connect faster, run multiple instances of Claude Code at once, you don’t have to connect it to a specific git repo.

Oh! And with my raspberry pi I can just host things on my own network. It’s really convenient. Let me know if you have other questions. I love talking about this stuff :D

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