Test-Driven Development with Claude Code — A TDD Workflow for the Agent Era
Adding the constraint of 'write tests first' to Claude Code stops the agent's drift and dramatically changes the quality of generated code. Here's the TDD workflow I arrived at after six months of trial and error.
Editing Multiple Repositories at Once With Claude Code --add-dir
How to use Claude Code's --add-dir flag to edit multiple repositories in a single session. Practical patterns for cross-repo API changes, shared utility refactoring, and keeping docs in sync with code.
Claude Code's TodoList Quality Comes Down to Task Granularity — Patterns That Actually Worked
The TodoList tool in Claude Code can backfire when used carelessly. Three field-tested patterns — task granularity, verification steps, and update timing — that shift the output from 'looks organized' to 'actually delivered'.
Write the Repro Test Before Delegating Bug Fixes to Claude Code
After watching Claude Code spin its wheels on ambiguous bug reports, I started writing the failing test myself before delegating. This post walks through the design principles, a concrete repro test, and the three-stage workflow I run in production.
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.
Auto-Generating Conventional Commits with Claude Code — Letting it Infer Type and Scope from the Diff
Are your commit messages starting to look like a wall of update and fix? Here's a small, stable setup that lets Claude Code read your staged diff and turn it into proper Conventional Commits.
Stop Rewriting Code: Using Claude Code Plan Mode as a Real Design Phase
Claude Code's Plan Mode sounds unremarkable on paper, but treating it as a dedicated design phase dramatically reduces token spend and rework. Here's when to switch into it, the prompt template that produces useful plans, and the pitfalls I kept hitting.
The Claude Design to Claude Code Handoff — A Production-Ready Playbook
A detailed field guide to chaining Claude Design and Claude Code into one workflow — prompt templates, cleanup commands, and the 12-point checklist I run before shipping.
From Spec to Production: Spec-Driven Development with Claude Code
Driving tests, implementation, and docs from a YAML spec with Claude Code, plus measured bcrypt 72-byte results where a valid spec still yields broken code.
Claude Code Stopped Mid-Task? A Practical Recovery Guide to Resume Work Safely
When Claude Code stops responding mid-task, the worst thing you can do is immediately retry. This guide walks you through a 5-step recovery process using git to confirm what was completed before resuming safely.
Four Places My MCP Agent Broke — Measuring Aggregation Tools, Fake Parallelism, and Input Validation
The implementation holes I hit while running MCP servers and agent workflows as a solo developer, with numbers measured on my own machine: boundary values in aggregation tools, parallelism that quietly runs serially, brittle JSON parsing, and the limits of blocklist-style input validation.
The Complete Claude AI Content Creation Guide: Practical Workflows for Blogs, Videos, Social Media, and eBooks
A practical guide to content creation workflows using Claude AI. Learn how professionals use Claude to consistently produce high-quality blogs, YouTube scripts, social media posts, and eBooks at scale.