White noise seems to calm babies and help them sleep. At some point you are desperate for anything that seems like it will help them sleep. So I started working on a small box to generate various kinds of soothing noise.

Coming home with a new baby is pretty scary! Our daughter spent the first day in the NICU, where they have fancy monitors for all vitals. Once I got home I was worried I wouldn’t wake up in the middle of the night if there was a problem. Having spent many years on-call for Dropbox’s telemetry systems, I wanted an alert! But unlike the NICU, I didn’t want to wire electrodes multiple times a day.

Since the baby arrived, my wife loses her phone around the house constantly. She used to ping it from her Apple Watch, but she switched to a Fitbit Air recently, so that went away. She asked for a button she could keep on her keychain or in the coffee-table bowl to make her phone ring.

Kadenza, an unofficial, native Apple Music client for KDE.

I’ve recently vibe-coded several apps: I described what I wanted and iterated with Claude Code. I read the code it wrote, but almost never wrote a line myself.