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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AI Vs Real

Three of these are my photos, three are AI generated. It is getting hard to tell the difference. Bottom line, don’t trust any image you see on line.

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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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
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Maybe We Should Just Accept We’re Compromised

We perform security theater daily. We update passwords, enable two-factor authentication, install VPNs, use encrypted messaging apps. We do these things because we’ve been told they make us “secure.” But what if I told you that despite all of this, you’re almost certainly compromised already—and that accepting this might actually be the most rational security posture?

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