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Over the last few weeks I’ve been experimenting with Claude Code and AI Code Generation.. More commonly derided as ‘vibe coding’, or more respectfully called ‘spec programming’. I’m preparing a big writeup on the subject, but I wanted to share some quick highlights on what I’ve done with it.
MeshMonitor
Over the last year I’ve really fallen in love with Meshtastic. Inexpensive portable LoRa powered communication nodes that you can pair with your mobile phone and chat for Miles, it’s very reminiscent of CB Radio but fully digital. There’s lots of flexibility, and the community in South Florida is really starting to thrive ( visit https://areyoumeshingwith.us/ to see more). But I really wanted a nice tool to give me maps and data, and maintain a clean Chat & Usability interface. And so was born MeshMonitor
I started it just assuming I would use wifi-enabled nodes for simplicity, but as the project gathered steam I had requests for BLE or Serial supported nodes. Along with that came two supporting projects…
With these packages, again totally AI build by Claude, you can proxy a BLE or Serial connected node to a TCP interface and use it with all of your favorite meshtastic tools!
EeroVista
I’ve run Eero networking equipment at my home for years, long before they were acquired by Amazon. i’ve loved the speed and reliability they offer, but always really hated that the only way to monitor, configure, or control your network was from their proprietary mobile application. An application that hid lots of relatively normal features behind monthly subscriptions or a confusing UI.
A few years ago I build the project, a simple collection of Python scripts to scrape my eero connected device list and build a DNS database I could use with dnsmasq to provide usable hostnames across my home network. It eventually grew a bit to provide some metrics I could integrate with Zabbix for even more monitoring, but I always wished it could do more.
eero_tools
Yeraze • Updated Nov 25, 2024
With the power of Claude, I build eeroVista: An interactive web application that shows you bandwidth utilizationn, node and device data, topology maps and more in near realtime. It also provides the same DNS features I was using before, but inside a nice simple docker container.
It’s a far simpler project than MeshMonitor, but still something dear to my heart that fills a need I’ve been wanting for years.
eeroVista
Yeraze • Updated Oct 28, 2025
Wrapup
In short, I’ve come around to really believe in the power of AI code. It’s far from perfect, and I’ll have another writeup soon with things i’ve learned along with advice and recommendations for anyone else wanting to get into it. In short, it’s not a replacement for traditional software engineering.. It’s a MASSIVE accelerator for those of us willing to learn.