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My Smart Home Just Got a New Brain: Using Claude Code to Tidy Up Home Assistant

I’ve always loved the flexibility of Home Assistant, but let’s be honest: maintaining a complex setup as it grows can feel like a second job. Between the custom YAML configurations, legacy devices, and the constant evolution of the HA dashboard, things get messy.

Recently, I decided to see if Claude Code—Anthropic’s agentic CLI tool—could handle the “spring cleaning” for me. After a weekend of testing, I can say it’s a game-changer for terminal-focused automation.

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AI Coding – finding the sweet spots

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.

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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.

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Mind reading phone app and more

Imagine showing your spectator a deck of cards laid out in an app on your phone. There are two buttons, “Shuffle” and “Flip Cards”. You demonstrate how the buttons work. The cards are face up and you shuffle them several times. The spectator sees the cards are shuffled. You flip the cards face down and shuffle again. You set the phone down and turn away, telling the spectator to touch any of the face down cards. They do, and their selection is turned face up. You have them concentrate on that card and then you read their mind, revealing the card. You can immediately repeat the effect.

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New Android Trick App

The Future of Card Magic is Digital

You’ve just performed the perfect classic card trick: a spectator selects a card, keeps it secret, and you’re ready for the big reveal. But instead of fumbling through your deck, you pull out your phone, launch your QR code app, and hand it to them. “Scan this,” you say. “Yesterday, I had a strange feeling… that your card would be chosen.” They scan the code, open the dedicated webpage that pops up, and there it is: their chosen card, staring back at them from the screen. Forget the deck—the future of impossible prediction is now woven into the digital world.

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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.

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