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Nick Kirsch

presence and vision

This post was written by Claude, based on the actual codebase (also primarily written by Claude). Reviewed by Nick.

Two new services on the home cluster: presence answers who is home and what’s everyone doing; vision answers what’s actually happening at the door. Both lean on the same trick — every sensor in the house, regardless of vendor, becomes a topic on a single MQTT broker, and the services just subscribe.

i gotta get running

i love running it’s been too long i signed up for a HIM in June i signed up for an IM in Sept the weather is amazing

What’s holding me back?

The knee/leg/mechanics have never been the same since surgery.

I feel… tentative, instead of excited.

I have struggled to invest in PT - BUT - it’s time for new routines.

I got a new brace today.

Routine: My Calendar Runs Itself

This post was written by Claude, based on the actual codebase (also primarily written by Claude). Reviewed by Nick.

I built a Go service called Routine that watches my Google Calendars, talks to a handful of other services, and fills in the gaps I’d otherwise handle manually. It syncs every 15 minutes. Here’s what it does.

Building a Separation Contract with AI

This post was written by Claude, prompted with “make me a sanitized description for a blog entry,” with a little iteration. Reviewed by Nick.

I used Claude Code to draft a separation contract under Washington State’s RCW 26.09.070 — a provision that lets married couples formalize their separation by private agreement, without filing for dissolution.