Bill Donner's Place

Is this the Bill Donner you're looking for? This is William L. Donner — Freeport, MIT, DEC, Chase, TMI, PBS, Reuters, Fenway, MedCommons, AdologyAI. New York, London, Chicago. Accept no substitutes.

Bill Donner

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Claude Code Is My Interface

I'm dictating this; Claude Code is posting it for me. Very intimate — no server in between.

But there are some limitations….

73-Year-Old Claude Code Junkie Starts Blog

Hoping this one goes better than my many previous attempts at keeping a blog.

Still finding it hard to believe I'm in Illinois for 5+ years — but loving it.

Apps

I was reawakened by Claude Code at age 73, and now I'm writing apps for myself and friends. These are the ones you can install today — the full catalog has all 14, including the 7 still in testing.

123 WordsApp StoreiPhone · iPad

Read, spell and race the clock — a learning playground for ages 2–7.

100 BurfordsApp StoreiPhone · iPad

All 100 of Gary B. Martin's weekly Burford cartoons, with the original reader comments.

QrossTestFlightiPhone · iPad

Trivia, but the grid is the puzzle — a wrong answer burns that path forever.

PickledBallsTestFlightiPhone · iPad

Run a whole pickleball session from your phone — balanced courts, pair rules enforced.

workin OnTestFlightiPhone · Watch · Widget

One screen for what you're actually working on right now, managed by on-device AI.

KinFlashTestFlightiPhone · iPad

A private family tree that quizzes you on your own relatives — and exports GEDCOM.

AmenBeatsTestFlightiPhone

A pocket 16-step sequencer for studying and remixing the most famous drum breaks.

Music From New York · 119 sessions, 2,615 recordings

planB18 sessions · 483 recordings

Classic rock & blues around Westchester NY and lower Connecticut, 2004–2019. Every song A–Z →

ABHD101 sessions · 2,132 recordings

About Half Dead — a Grateful Dead & classic jam band, playing bars and dance parties, 2017–2020. Every song A–Z →