{"slug": "open-sauce-and-gps-time-were-my-summer-ai-antiseptics", "title": "Open Sauce and GPS time were my summer AI Antiseptics", "summary": "Jeff Geerling used Claude to code a 2141-line MicroPython app for Pimoroni's Badgeware ecosystem, creating a Tufty GPS Time Badge for the Open Sauce conference, which he describes as an \"antiseptic\" for rising costs, summer heat, and online divisiveness.", "body_md": "In the midst of our AI slop revolution, traveling to the West coast for [Open Sauce](https://www.opensauce.com) this past weekend was the perfect antiseptic for rising costs, summer heat, and online divisiveness.\n\nIt's ironic, then, that I used Claude to vibe code my [Tufty GPS Time Badge](https://github.com/geerlingguy/tufty-gps-time).\n\nPartly due to time constraints, and partly because I wanted to see if I could complete a personal project end-to-end, without editing a line of code, I throw my [requirements](https://github.com/geerlingguy/tufty-gps-time/blob/master/Requirements.md) at Claude and ultimately came up with [this 2141 MicroPython app](https://github.com/geerlingguy/tufty-gps-time/blob/master/gps_time/__init__.py) for Pimoroni's Badgeware ecosystem.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/open-sauce-and-gps-time-were-my-summer-ai-antiseptics", "canonical_source": "https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/open-sauce-gps-time-badge/", "published_at": "2026-07-22 14:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-22 14:27:39.786806+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Jeff Geerling", "Claude", "Pimoroni", "Open Sauce", "Tufty GPS Time Badge", "Badgeware"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/open-sauce-and-gps-time-were-my-summer-ai-antiseptics", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/open-sauce-and-gps-time-were-my-summer-ai-antiseptics.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/open-sauce-and-gps-time-were-my-summer-ai-antiseptics.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/open-sauce-and-gps-time-were-my-summer-ai-antiseptics.jsonld"}}