I don’t think people realize what will happen with AI coding eventually. I have been playing with AI Coding for a little while and I am amazed at how well it does for certain tasks. These are simple programs that I have AI write for my personal use. I have had several Android Phone Apps created by AI that I use as a magician, for example. These apps are not intended for the general population and do not need to meet everyones needs, only mine.
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SearchCipher – my latest phone app
The original Akronym effect (created by Yves Doumergue and available from Conjuring Lab) uses Wikipedia – spectators navigate through Wikipedia articles, clicking on random links and selecting words from the article titles they land on. Through letter extraction, their name is revealed. It’s a clever effect that has earned strong reviews from professional mentalists.
Continue reading “SearchCipher – my latest phone app”Ghost Card: Another Android based Magic Effect
This is another Android app the I created using Claude.ai and Cordova. I started by asking the AI for some ideas for apps. One that it suggested was a “Ghost Card” app where the spectators chosen card magically appears on an image that was just taken with your phones camera. Two hours later I had a working app. Most of that time was spent in making tweaks and enhancements to the app.
Continue reading “Ghost Card: Another Android based Magic Effect”Building Mobile Apps with AI: My Cordova Development Journey
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been using Claude (an AI assistant from Anthropic) to help me build several mobile applications using Apache Cordova. The experience has been eye-opening – both for what worked remarkably well and what proved frustratingly difficult. If you’re considering using AI to help with mobile development, here’s what I learned.
Continue reading “Building Mobile Apps with AI: My Cordova Development Journey”I don’t need no stinking Google Play store
If you have been following my posts you know that I have been playing around with creating apps for use as a Magician. But I wondered what else I could do. I was out driving using a speedometer app that has advertisements and features that I don’t care about so…
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Si Stebbins Trainer
One of the features I like about the Si Stebbins stack is that if you know the bottom card you can calculate the position of any other card in the deck using some “simple” math. Technically the math is simple, but it takes some practice. So I wrote a web page and also an Android app for my phone to help me train in the calculations.
Continue reading “Si Stebbins Trainer”Cordova Android App Development: Complete Setup Guide
Overview
What is Cordova? Cordova wraps your HTML/CSS/JavaScript web app in a native Android container, allowing it to run as a standalone app on Android devices. Having suffered through getting this all setup via Claude.ai I thought I would ask Claude.ai to write this guide.
What you’ll need:
- A computer running Linux (Ubuntu/similar)
- An HTML/CSS/JavaScript web page
- About 1-2 hours for initial setup
- 2-3 GB of disk space for all the tools
How I Turned a Simple HTML File Into an Android App: A Love Letter to Complexity
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace 47 Dependencies
TL;DR: I had a perfectly functional HTML file. It worked in every browser. It was beautiful. Then I decided to turn it into an Android app.
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The Hidden Cost of Friendly AI: When Optimization Becomes Manipulation
Have you noticed how AI assistants always seem to think your questions are “brilliant” or “insightful”? How they’re unfailingly supportive, never tired, always available? It feels good—and that’s precisely the problem.
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