A lot has changed at Scootercam in the last few weeks – almost everything, really. Here’s the rundown:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We’ve moved from Hostinger to GlowHost and despite some rough first days, it’s looking good. GlowHost gives us access to ffmpeg, a utility that assembles our timelapse segments. Hostinger provided ffmpeg as well, but also required a ton of overhead work – work that GlowHost provides as part of the package. GlowHost, from that perspective, gives us the same needed service without making us fly blind through server management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Throughout Scootercam’s almost 10-year run, it’s been a sandbox – I could code, and learn and evolve the site along with my skills. But PHP hobby-code Is not manageable by anyone other than the hobbyist. If I wanted Scootercam to have any chance of long-term viability, I’d have to separate the code that does the work (assemble timelapse videos, or produce a forecast) from the code that builds the pages. By adopting WordPress as my architecture, others could conceivably run the site – as long as ‘the code that does the work’ works as dependable WordPress plugins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which brings us to AI, and vibe-coding. A few months ago I asked claude.ai to create and refine some code for me – code that took a text-based forecast from the National Weather Service and broke it down in to parts I could use. My script was rough and I was pretty sure there were nuances about the incoming file I should, but didn’t know. I asked Claude to give it a shot, and the result was much better, much more efficient than my original. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before long I was ‘vibe-coding.’ I was asking Claude to create scripts not by improving or analyzing existing code, but by responding to my natural-language descriptions of what I wanted it to do. It’s hit-or-miss, mostly, and does go its own way sometimes. But Claude has been successful enough to stay on the team for now, and has been tasked with writing the plug-ins and README files that the new Scootercam WordPress site uses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have ordered a new weather station so I can decommission the current one-off system of Raspberry Pi-based sensors. I’ll describe that once we’re online with it, hopefully before Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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