Weeknote #26 [W26.13] - Second housewarming party, Claude Code, cat-sitting

Published on Apr 1, 2026 • 7 min read

I hosted my second housewarming party this week

I had a much better grip on the menu this time.

I finally managed to get some leeks from Instamart, so I made the potato and leek soup I had planned last time. I also made lasagna for the first time, including the pasta from scratch. It was quite fun.

Alongside that, I made a beef ragu to go with spaghetti. Since one of my friends doesn’t eat beef, I needed an alternative. I had already prepared béchamel for the lasagna, so thought, “Well, if I have to make an alternative for the beef, why not do something with what I have already?”

Dessert was a chocolate brownie with orange zest.

Unlike last time, all the dishes went well together. I felt quite content. I also felt more in danger and had more time to sit and talk to people in between. Which is not something I got to do last time at all.

This was the menu, finally:

My kitchen feels too small for hosting

Now that I have hosted two dinners, I realize that the size of my kitchen is quite inadequate.

It was a mess, and there was barely any space to keep anything or any room left to actually work. All the counters were full of cutlery and dishes.

I either need to move some things outside the kitchen so there is more space to work, or install wall shelves and cabinets to make more room.

I really hate having a small kitchen because of how limiting it can be. The lack of space makes you want to cook less, which is the worst thing that you can hope for.

Work is shifting from Figma toward Claude Code

I’ve been using Claude Code a lot for work lately.

I think we are moving to build the workflow where It will be replacing what I used Figma for. Instead of building things in Figma and handing them off, I’m now generating prototypes directly in code.

This has been as frustrating as it has been fun. On one hand, it is exciting to give it a short prompt and get a clickable prototype in like ten minutes. On the other hand, it is frustrating to see small UI issues that would take a couple of seconds to fix in Figma or with actual CSS. You end up giving it a lot of prompts to fix them, and sometimes it still does not understand.

Finally started the design system work

Now that we have been given a Claude subscription, I can finally get started on the design system work I had mentioned months ago.

It had been at a standstill because nobody the bandwidth to work on it. I have picked that up now. Hopefully it reaches a stage where other projects can start consuming it, but I have not done anything like this before, so it remains to be seen how it goes.

One other benefit they offer is when you are dealing with really old, clunky interfaces, which are outdated, undocumented, and never prioritized because they technically still work. Redesigning those things from scratch is a pain, and often they never get picked up because who is going to rebuilding it from scratch?

LLM has changed that because you can describe what you want in a prompt and get something which is noticeably better within minutes.

I have unexpectedly and unwillingly become a cat-sitter.

The kids who live downstairs from me have bullied me into cat-sitting their six-month-old kitten.

They will be away for a month and a half at their grandma’s place, for summer vacation.

I am becoming an involuntary cat person now after having decided not to have pets for the last 30 years. First with Malcolm, and now soon with Amaira.

I hope the two of them don’t fight, for right now I don’t have the energy to deal with two angry and murderous cats simultaneously.

Cinema Next Door is becoming more sustainable

We have now our first monthly curation for Cinema Next Door planned for April that happened without my involvement.

That feels like a huge marker of success to me, because it gives me some hope that this thing can run without me. If this is going to be sustainable, it has to function without relying on any one person. This is a good step towards that direction.

Personally for me, while it has been extremely fun to be involved in starting and then running a film club for the last four months, it has also been mentally and physically draining. I do want to be able to take breaks so that I can recover and not always be so tired.

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