What changed wasn't my skill or my free time. It was the cost of trying — it dropped by ~2 orders of magnitude.
There's a whole class of personal software that lives or dies on that cost. Tiny CLIs. Keyboard firmware. The tool you keep wishing existed. That gate just moved. A lot.
https://t.co/C5vwkXpU5O
I hand-soldered this keyboard in 2020 so I could make it exactly mine.
Then I ran the stock firmware on it for almost six years.
Last week I closed six years of "someday" in a single afternoon. 👇
https://t.co/bhn238yD7C
A custom OLED font I designed pixel by pixel. A from-scratch RGB Matrix effect — and a firmware workaround for three underglow LEDs that died years ago.
Each was a "is this worth a weekend?" project. None ever cleared the bar. For six years.
Claude Code is starting to look like AGI. The level of completeness, prediction capability and further suggestions for the next task is mind blowing. Coding started to feel like something irrelevant.