The itenium Slack Meme Bot® : with Claude Code?
Three years ago I tried to get ChatGPT to rebuild the itenium Slack Meme Bot and gave up halfway through because the LLM just wasn’t up for the task.
This week I asked Claude Code. A brainstorm with a few clarifying questions, a quick spec, a few prompts to match my infrastructure, and the resulting code worked on my first test.
Meridian: A Scroll-Driven Memory Timeline
The day before her birthday, I was talking about the awesomeness that is Scout and she asked if I could set up a Scout/Atlas for her as well. And then she remarked that I’d better never give her an app as a gift.
Google I/O 2026: The Agentic Era
Google I/O 2026 has concluded. The central theme from Sundar Pichai was the transition into the “Agentic Era”. There was a significant number of announcements, ranging from Gemini 3.5 Flash to new OS integrations in Android 17.
It is always helpful to look past the initial promotional framing to see how these tools fit into production environments. The industry is moving beyond standard chatbots towards agents that handle multi-step tasks. To understand what this means for daily software engineering, we need to look at the practical implications of these announcements on our development workflows.
Scout: A Self-Hosted Deep-Research Agent on Claude Code
Every year the same problem… what to buy for her birthday. While standing in line at the bakery, I started a GitHub Issue. By the time I got back to my desk, a fancy html overview was published to my GitHub Pages with a fallback to the dry markdown research. In there was the gem “Hunt A Killer: a six-month serialized murder-mystery”!
A Decade of itenium Slides, Reborn in Slidev
For ten years our presentations have lived in PowerPoint. Decks for internal sessions, the architecture track, the frontend track – all in .pptx, all locked behind MS Office, all painful to diff, review, or evolve.
I’ve wanted to migrate them to “something” for years. But I never got around to it, because who has time for that? Claude got me past the activation barrier and I’m never looking back.
Vibe Coding the SkillForge
The skill matrix at itenium is currently an Excel file.
For an IT consultancy, this is obviously unacceptable. The cobbler’s children have no shoes, the mechanic drives a rust bucket, and the IT consultancy tracks skills in a spreadsheet.
Enter SkillForge: our custom app where we “forge our skills.”
Empower your team with continuous learning. Track progress, manage courses, and build skills together.
– CEO Steven Robijns, moments before authorizing $1200 in AI token spend
