Vibe Coding a small sharing utility for Micro.blog
I wanted a very specific way to post to my Micro.blog account. I have a preferred format, and I wanted to be able to share a quote, a source, and a comment directly from whatever I’m reading in a browser or RSS reader.
Since I couldn’t find a tool that did exactly that, I decided to build it myself using Gemini as a coding partner.
The hardest part wasn’t the code itself—it was figuring out what to actually write the code in and how to organize it. I took a bunch of wrong turns at the start because I didn’t know enough to do anything but follow instructions. I tried tools that didn’t fit before finally landing on the right setup.
The good news is that I’ve now spent the time figuring out which tools to use. I’ve got the setup done, and I can use these same tools in the future without going through the same struggle again.
Along the way, I kept some notes and reflections in Obsidian. I’m not entirely sure how they’ll help yet, but I figured having a record of the steps would be better than nothing. I also put the project on GitHub, which meant getting that side of things updated and ready for the next time I want to build something.
If you want to see the actual messy reality of how this came together, you can check out the PROCESS.md file in the GitHub repo for this project.