Using Claude's Reflect Monthly Review to Tune a Solo Dev Rhythm
How to read Claude's new Reflect monthly review as a planning tool for the month ahead rather than a report card, grounded in the day-to-day rhythm of solo development.
Claude in Chrome Went GA and I Stopped Babysitting the Tab — Where Background Notifications and Handoff Actually Help
Claude in Chrome's general availability adds background notifications, draft handoff, and better failover. As someone who hands browser work to it daily in solo development, here's what to notify on, what to leave running, and the settings I actually changed.
I Handed Claude Design One Old Slide, and It Rebuilt Our Brand Automatically
What ate my time when remaking company and recruiting decks was never the content — it was reproducing the brand by hand every single time. Here is how feeding Claude Design one existing slide let me extract a design system and spin up on-brand decks from just a script, told from the perspective of a long-time indie developer and artist.
Parallel Development with Claude Code Across Multiple Repos — What Three Simultaneous Projects Taught Me
Claude Code gets messy with multiple repos. Here are the CLAUDE.md strategies, session habits, and cost tips from three months of real parallel development.
Build a Personal AI Automation Hub with Claude Code and MCP — Cross-Service Integration Guide
How to build a personal AI automation hub spanning GitHub, Notion, and Slack with Claude Code and MCP — covering cross-service context, error-handling code, production pitfalls, and a measured ~60% token reduction.
Your Design Doc Quality Sets Claude Code's Speed Limit: Spec-First AI Development
The story of compressing 16 person-days into 2 hours isn't about how good the AI was — it's about how well the design doc prevented AI from having to think. Learn how to build specs that unlock Claude Code's true speed.
Writing Effective Custom Instructions for Claude Projects
A practical guide to writing Claude Projects custom instructions that actually shape Claude's behavior — covering role definition, output constraints, and project-specific context sharing.
Recipes for a Useful Claude Code Status Line — Show Model, Remaining Context, and Git Branch in One Line
Concrete recipes for a Claude Code status line that displays the active model, remaining context, and git branch in a single line — written in both Bash and Node.js, with the failure modes you should plan for.
/clear vs /compact in Claude Code: Choosing the Right Reset for Long Sessions
When should you use /clear, and when should you reach for /compact in Claude Code? Three decision criteria from real long-session experience, with the pitfalls that hit me before I figured it out.
Two Personalities for Claude Code — A Morning and Afternoon Workflow That Separates Exploration from Implementation
Treating Claude Code as a different persona in the morning and afternoon stabilises design decisions. A solo developer's six-month run with two CLAUDE.md files, a switching script, and the failure modes I hit along the way.
Claude for Teachers: A Practical Workflow for Lesson Prep, Grading, and Personalized Feedback
A practical guide to using Claude in real classroom work, built around three pillars: lesson prep, grading, and personalized feedback — with concrete prompts and the privacy rules you need before you start.
Four Practical Techniques to Keep Claude Conversations Lean Before They Get Heavy
Noticing your Claude Pro limits creeping up during a long working session? Most of the cost comes from dragging one conversation on too long. Here are four techniques I use daily to keep chats light.