I spent the week using Claude Code (configured to access models through Amazon Bedrock). I managed to automate the code writing part (including running tests, deploying infrastructure, etc.) but also document creation.
Tv/Tv series/Movies
This week I didn’t watch any movies or TV series. I focused exclusively on the Olympics, and by the evening I was so tired that I went to bed early. I need to build myself a pipeline of things to watch. The project I started last week of rewatching “classic” films wasn’t a bad idea, and I should keep it going.
Read(ing)
How to know a person (David Brooks) – The “problems” with this book keep going: it’s very interesting but incredibly slow to read. I’m making progress at a rate of 15-20 pages at a time, and no more than that. I’m now three quarters of the way through — it would be great to finish it by the end of the week.
Study
As mentioned at the outset, mainly Claude Code, on two fronts:
- Software development: I’m using it heavily to build PoCs — brainstorming, writing code, tests, deployment scripts and documentation. I’m using
it with Amazon Bedrock because I’m working on a project for a client; - Task automation: primarily to generate documentation and ADRs (Architectural Decision Records) from meeting transcripts. I’ve done some
- interesting things here, most notably integrating it with draw.io for creating architectural diagrams.
Personal projects
Besides using Claude Code, which is borderline between work and personal use, I managed to print a couple of objects to organize coins for the Ikea Elloven. The idea is very simple: use Gridfinity to print some basic containers to hold 1€, 2€, 50 cent, 20 cent, 10 cent, and smaller coins. It works pretty well as an organizing solution, and I managed to get everything done using ready-made bins I found online.
I also wrote a blog post to remind myself how to automatically render .md files with mermaid charts into Word documents here: Your Mermaid diagrams don’t have to die at the command line
Around the Web
- Draw.io MCP server – an MCP server for creating architectures with draw.io. It’s not perfect, but the output already covers 75%–85% of the work (I tried a couple of examples starting from text and from images of existing diagrams).
- Anthropic skills – official Anthropic skills for Claude Code. I used the ones for manipulating office files (docx/pptx/xlsx) and PDFs, and I must say they work really well.
- Soviet political posters – if you’re a history buff like me, you’ll appreciate this collection of Soviet posters.