Comment by tombert

I've been keeping myself pretty busy lately.

Con Edison keeps getting so stupidly expensive that I decided to use my backyard for reasons other than generating weeds that I have to pay someone to remove, and instead decided to set up an off grid solar in my backyard. I bought an Aferiy P310, learned how to use a few tools to drill some holes in my bricks, and set up a bunch of Home Assistant automations, and now my basement and living room is powered by nuclear fusion with an eight minute delivery time.

Of course, now that I'm babysitting a Home Assistant instance, I felt like I should use it; Google is completely and totally incompetent with any of the "smart" devices, to a point where I swore an oath in blood that I will not buy anything Google Home or Nest related ever again. I've been replacing my awful Nest lock and awful Google thermostat with Matter-compatible stuff to work with Home Assistant.

I have been having Claude port an old game to WASM. I'm sadly not quite yet at liberty to discuss the intimate details on it (since it is not my game), though hopefully that will change soon.

Unlike a few other things I've automatically gotten ported to WASM [1] [2], this one has proven to be a lot more difficult and required a bit more active labor on my end. It was written using a strange combination of C++ and Java, with some JNI glue written in a way that neither I nor Claude are very familiar with.

It's been pretty fun figuring out how to get CheerpJ and Emscripten playing together, and it's been fun to actually write code and still be a little smarter than AI at it.

[1] https://showbo.at/3dmovie

[2] https://abuse-wasm.pages.dev/