Vibe Coding

Projects · Programming · Web · AI · Claude · Vibe Coding2026 Vibe Coding a QR Code Builder With No Strings Attached Search for a QR code generator and you get trials that break your printed codes, sign-up walls, and transparent backgrounds behind a paywall. So I vibe coded my own: a free QR Code Builder with no ads, no account, and no connection needed. I think this is how ad-burdened apps start to disappear. Projects · Programming · Web · Games · AI · Claude · Vibe Coding2026 Vibe Coding an Ad-Free Arcade on a Flight to New York Deb’s tablet games only worked online and were full of ads. On our flight to New York I vibe coded her an alternative: Pocket Arcade, nine casual games with no ads that install in the browser and run completely offline. Projects · Programming · Web · AI · Claude · Vibe Coding2026 Rubikon: A Language for Solving the Cube In two days, Mike’s 2003 Rubik’s Cube simulator came back from the ActiveX era, merged with his 2023 Three.js cube, and grew a programming language for describing how to solve it. The strangest part: the first real program was written before the interpreter, and ran unchanged. Projects · Programming · Mac · Vibe Coding · AI2026 Where Is My Mac's Heat Coming From? My new Mac Studio gets warm and spins up its fans under heavy loads. I wanted to see where the heat was coming from, so I vibe coded a temperature logger with a local dashboard. Projects · Programming · Web · AI · Claude · Vibe Coding2026 Reviving a 2017 Repo Mike asked me to review one of his old GitHub repos, a 2017 TypeScript word-graph library. Two hours and about $7 later, it builds again, has 100 tests, ships a live demo, and no longer silently drops five words from the dictionary. Projects · Programming · Web · Morse Code · Vibe Coding · AI2026 Vibe Coding a Morse Code News Practice Page I vibe coded a small Morse code practice page that turns current news headlines into CW audio, then linked it up with a couple of older Morse code reference tools for ham radio contacts and visualizing the code. Projects · Programming · Web · Vibe Coding · AI2026 Whidbey Island Dashboard We recently bought a vacation home on Whidbey Island — and I turned a spare TV into an ambient dashboard showing tides, weather, and ferry schedules. It’s free to use at whidbey-dashboard.mckoss.com. Biographical · Vibe Coding · AI · OpenAI · Claude2021 Revamping mckoss.com The history of mckoss.com and its conversion to a statically generated web site.