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luksext4: Reading LUKS-Encrypted ext4 Drives on macOS

I have a 2 TB backup drive that was written on Linux: LUKS2 encryption, ext4 inside. Plugging it into a Mac gets you the "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer" dialog, with...

Code and Life17d ago51 human-writing confidence

vdiread: Reading VirtualBox VDI Images Without VirtualBox

I got to do some data recovery work with an old HDD that used to be in the office machine of a small nonprofit. The PC was decommissioned, but the files needed going through.

Code and Life17d ago51 human-writing confidence

bunrun: A Simple Launcher with AI-Assisted Setup

Vibe coding has left me with quite a few small development apps. Starting any one of them is easy, but first I need to remember where it lives, whether it uses Bun, npm, uv or something else, and...

Code and Life10 Jul 202651 human-writing confidence

Introducing AI-Assisted Posts

I've been doing a lot of AI-assisted projects lately, and I've felt that many of them might be interesting to others as well and thus worth sharing.

Code and Life10 Jul 2026

Porting KittenTTS to the Browser with OpenAI Codex

KittenTTS is a neat open-source text-to-speech model that packs a surprising amount of punch in sizes as low as 25 MB.

Code and Life26 Feb 202651 human-writing confidence

Novation Launchpad Mk3 Test Suite and Games

tl;dr Wrote a HTML based debug tool and two mini games for Novation LaunchPad, try it out on Chrome if you have one: Longer version (templated with Claude Sonnet using the github commit): I've been...

Code and Life4 Jan 202651 human-writing confidence

JoonasPihlajamaa.com updated

Very small cross-advertisement: I finally got around to revamp my personal website, eliminating a lot of autobiographical jabber.

Code and Life29 Dec 2025

New Look for 2025

You might have noticed things look a bit different around here. I finally got around to refreshing the blog design with the aid of Claude Code. Thanks for drafting this post also go the same way.

Code and Life29 Dec 2025

New Additions to tools.codeandlife.com

I've been doing some housekeeping on my website, moving various small tools and experiments that were scattered in subfolders to a proper home at tools.codeandlife.com.

Code and Life29 Dec 2025

First Tools on tools.codeandlife.com: AI-Generated Zip Image Viewers

After setting up tools.codeandlife.com last week, I needed to actually create some tools for it. Simon Willison's detailed example of using LLMs for code inspired me — his...

Code and Life17 Dec 202551 human-writing confidence

JUnzip and JZipView Updated After Almost 10 Years

I released the JUnzip library back in 2014 as a minimalistic C library for reading ZIP files without heavy dependencies.

Code and Life16 Dec 202551 human-writing confidence

Building my own tools site (and the one dumb DNS gotcha)

Simon Willison is writing great coverage on LLM, and his little web toolbox at https://tools.simonwillison.net/ got me inspired — use Github Pages to make any file in a tools repository...

Code and Life13 Dec 2025

JGoBoard Gets a Modern Makeover: Version 4.0.3 Released with Vite, Bug Fixes, and AI Help!

After about 6 years in hiatus, AI vibe coding finally enabled me to update my JavaScript-based Go board rendering library, jGoBoard.

Code and Life11 Nov 202551 human-writing confidence

Turn Comments into Fish Shell Commands with OpenAI

***Update 2025: I've had more trouble with this fish binding than it is worth. I've crippled my fish shell irrecoverably a couple times and had numerous issues trying to adapt for bash and zsh.

Code and Life9 Dec 202451 human-writing confidence

How to upgrade ollama docker image without losing models

After a bit of AI hiatus, I noticed that llama 3.0 models were released and wanted to try the models. Sure enough, after a week the weights we re available at the official site.

Code and Life9 May 202451 human-writing confidence

Linux Shell AI made easy with ChatGPT automation

Continuing the awesome and not so unique stream of ideas on what to do with ChatGPT, here's a bit modified take to my previous post on self-running ChatGPT generated Python code.

Code and Life10 Feb 202451 human-writing confidence

Stop Writing Scripts: Create and automatically run ChatGPT generated Python code

I previously covered how to run your own ChatGPT script with Python and Golang. But what if you want to create a script that automatically runs the ChatGPT generated code?

Code and Life4 Apr 202351 human-writing confidence

Use ChatGPT with golang and SvelteKit GUI, including GPT4

OpenAI came out with ChatGPT, and wow, that is quite something. What is also remarkable is the load the ChatGPT client is under, and how often it is "experiencing high demand".

Code and Life25 Mar 202351 human-writing confidence

Recording 433 MHz Radio signals with Seeed XIAO RP2040

Having done 433 Mhz radio signal recording with PicoScope 2208B MSO and Raspberry Pi 4, Arduino Uno and regular USB soundcard, I figured, why not add one more to the mix: Let's try the RP2040!

Code and Life15 Feb 202351 human-writing confidence