Kimmo Saari — Kirbo.DEV https://beta.kirbo.dev/blog Writing on TypeScript, React, DevOps, smart home projects, and lessons learned. en Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Where R You? https://beta.kirbo.dev/blog/coding/where-r-you https://beta.kirbo.dev/blog/coding/where-r-you Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A handful of Slack workspaces, all showing whatever status I last bothered to type. So I built a Tauri app that watches the network and the calendar and sets it for me, per workspace — with Claude writing the Rust resolver, and me finding out which of Switchboard's old scars were worth reopening. Albumize https://beta.kirbo.dev/blog/coding/albumize https://beta.kirbo.dev/blog/coding/albumize Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT I listen to albums, Spotify recommends tracks. Albumize expands playlists into full albums on a schedule — and taught me more than I expected about idempotency, ISO week numbers, and why unattended automation is where the real bugs live. Electrolux-to-MQTT https://beta.kirbo.dev/blog/smart-home/electrolux-to-mqtt https://beta.kirbo.dev/blog/smart-home/electrolux-to-mqtt Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The full story of my Electrolux → MQTT → Home Assistant bridge: a reverse-engineered login flow, an API that caches stale state and takes 15 seconds to fail, a climate entity stuck on "Unavailable", and the debugging sessions behind all of it. Switchboard https://beta.kirbo.dev/blog/coding/switchboard https://beta.kirbo.dev/blog/coding/switchboard Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT My old streaming app died because I invented ideas faster than I could build them. So I rebuilt it — with Claude writing the overwhelming majority of the code and me acting as product owner and architect. 837 commits and 97 releases later, this is what I learned. <Kirbo.DEV /> https://beta.kirbo.dev/blog/coding/kirbo-dev https://beta.kirbo.dev/blog/coding/kirbo-dev Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT This portfolio sat half-built since 2019 — Ant-Design frontend, no backend, no content. Here's what got it shipped: Next.js, Keystatic, and an AI-assisted QA pipeline covering 242 visual-review cells and 44 Lighthouse audits across viewports, themes and devices.