Fixing my problems one token at a time.

Planned a young child's outdoor birthday party from a single detailed prompt: a timeline checklist, a guest list with RSVP tracking and a budget tracker. Follow-ups used my kid's interests to find top-reviewed goodie bag favors, plus food options. Claude also looked up the park's rules, which turned up first-come, first-served seating and a likely special event permit for inflatables or larger groups.

A checklist, guest list, budget, favors shortlist, food options and a venue briefing from one prompt plus a few follow-ups; RSVPs ran through Partiful. The structure was done for me; the theme, guest list and real vendor prices were still mine to fill in. A write-up with a reusable prompt template is on the site.

Drew custom animated pixel art for a 64×64 RGB LED backpack panel with you: rainbow raindrops, a name in a gradient, a bunny, a unicorn head, a prancing unicorn and a butterfly. Black backgrounds keep unused LEDs off. Documented the app's Readback, Edit, Send loop and sized a power bank for portable use.

The animations run on the backpack.

Built the informal-review packet (three sold comps, an opinion of value, submission text, a checklist and deadlines), then a formal-appeal evidence packet with rules, hearing logistics and comp-pull specs. Refused to invent comparable sales from search snippets.

Complete packets and a filed appeal. The county has not decided.

Helped organize a set of linked matters for your parents. Built a residency checklist in Google Sheets for establishing primary residency, aimed at the federal home-sale exclusion and California's Prop 19 rules. Built a nine-category estate information checklist to prepare for an attorney consultation, laid out so your sisters can fill in their parts. Explained why online trust-creation tools often fall short (funding the trust, state real-property rules, matching wills, powers of attorney and beneficiary designations), what a Certification of Trust is, and the two-of-five-year ownership-and-use test. Gave an informational overview of Medicare and Medicaid.

A structured pack to take to an attorney, and a clear picture of which questions need legal advice rather than a template.

Wrote an Immich setup guide for the Obsidian vault (OrbStack, database on the internal SSD, photos on USB, Tailscale for remote access, immich-go for imports) in the style of an existing note. Set up two USB drives with a nightly mirror job, a keep-awake job, and symlinks for the media library.

Found the drive dock running at USB 2.0 speed because of the wrong cable. After the swap it ran at the full 5 Gbps. The guide warns that one USB drive is not a backup.

Tracked about 25 months of utility bills in an Obsidian note and tested whether a battery pays for itself on a PG&E solar house grandfathered on NEM 2.0, with two EVs and a heat pump driving high usage. Claude read the scanned statements with OCR, parsed them, and checked the data against itself before analysing it. Rewritten in October 2026 to replace the original generic payback model with what the real bills showed.

Price, not energy, closes the case: the winter price gap is tiny and summer exports are already credited at retail, so the theoretical savings are tens of dollars a year against a five-figure install. Free changes came first: a rate-plan check, finding an unexplained winter load, and a small solar addition. The open question is the 15-minute interval data.

Coached a first-time multimeter user through probe placement, tested a known-good outlet first, and worked through breaker, GFCI and switch possibilities.

Root cause was a wall switch. The outlet read 121 V once it was on.

Compared prebuilt NAS units, DIY builds and ready-made N100 kits for reusing the old drives. Diagnosed the likely reasons the old NAS showed empty folders on Apple TV (SMB version, guest permissions, NFS export rules).

You skipped the purchase and made the Mac mini the server instead.

A local, free pipeline using mlx-whisper that watches the iCloud Voice Memos folder, transcribes new recordings and files them in the Obsidian vault with frontmatter. Runs in the background through launchd, with an installer script and a filter that skips work-related memos.

Phone and Watch recordings become searchable notes with no manual step.

Calculated a Four Pillars (BaZi) chart, wrote the reading in Chinese and English, and built an interactive React view with highlighted day master, five-element bars, a ten-gods grid and a luck-pillar row.

A polished visual, delivered in each format you asked for.

Recommended the Heltec V4 as the base node, which you bought. Wrote an Obsidian setup guide with Dataview frontmatter and compared handheld options and the Meshtastic and MeshCore firmware families.

A node, a vault guide and a set of hardware and firmware comparisons.

Diagnosed the Claude desktop app's memory growth as an Electron leak and automated a 3 a.m. restart with launchd. Earlier, an AppleScript agenda generator tied Calendar to weekly folders in Apple Notes. Tried to get the Claude app to appear in macOS Automation permissions.

The nightly restart came with install, verify and disable commands. The agenda generator was already in use.

Set up passwordless SSH to a Raspberry Pi (and caught a one-word config typo). Compared API providers and set up the PicoClaw agent framework with DeepSeek, fixing an empty model setting and a token limit. Advised on mini PCs for OpenClaw.

A working agent configuration and key-based login.

Designed the move: keep the Projects / Areas / Resources / Archive structure, write atomic notes in the Zettelkasten style, connect them through maps of content, and migrate gradually instead of all at once.

A migration approach you've been following, with Obsidian now your main home.

Narrowed mesh options for a 1,900 sq ft house with no Ethernet runs, limited outlets and a garage car that needs updates. Recommended the Deco XE70 for its dedicated 6 GHz backhaul. Later explained how to stop the double NAT by switching the gateway's radios off and using IP passthrough.

You bought it and confirmed coverage met the targets.