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A desk setup with VS Code and a Philips Hue lamp flashing as a status indicator for Codex.

Using Philips Hue as a Status Light for VS Code AI Tasks

I connected the Codex notify hook in VS Code to my Philips Hue desk lamps using a simple PowerShell script. Now, my lights flash whenever a long-running AI task is complete, giving me a subtle ambient signal to return to my terminal.
Illustration of PasiLunch fetching and displaying restaurant menus in Slack and on a web dashboard.

Rebuilding PasiLunch: Using Gemini AI to Normalize Messy Menu Data

Traditional web scraping is fragile and inconsistent. I rebuilt my lunch bot into a full web service that uses Gemini AI to translate and structure messy restaurant menus into a clean, unified JSON feed that works every time.