When I stumble upon an unsolved or undocumented problem and solve it, I like to document it here.
One of the best parts about Claude Code is that the "code" in the name is misnomer. The fact is that it can be used for a wide variety of things. I wanted to use it to help with some woodworking projects. But part of the problem was
Things move fast. I recently wrote about using the adversarial models with my feature-workflow plugin a few weeks ago — ripping out the internal self-review skill and replacing it with external reviewers. Different model, read-only, posting structured critiques on the PR. The core insight was that a different model catches things
Three months ago I wrote about a feature-workflow plugin that added structure to how I work with Claude Code. Capture ideas, plan them, implement them, ship them. The structure helped — I stopped losing track of what I was building mid-session and started actually finishing things. But the review step was
MixCraft started with static API keys—generate one from the web portal, paste it into your Claude Code config. The mx_ prefixed keys had no expiration, lived in shell history and dotfiles, and revoking one meant generating a new key and updating every client. Service tokens from third-party APIs expired
A friend runs a lab with custom software that handles sample tracking, inventory management, and reporting. It does nearly everything they need — except print labels. They have Zebra thermal printers on the network and a collection of ZPL templates, but the software has no integration with the printers, so printing
MixCraft connects Claude to Apple Music. The infrastructure post explains why the server is hosted remotely — Apple Music requires server-side JWT signing with a private key, so a local MCP server wasn't an option. This post covers the other side: the Apple Music integration itself, the adapter pattern
Several months ago, I was looking for some new music and decided to give Claude a crack at finding me some new music. i'm trying to make an album based playlist. It should consist of 3 (mostly) complete albums. Right now I have Hum - Downward is Heavenward
A friend had been building a web app with Claude Code — Express server, vanilla HTML/CSS/JS, in-memory data storage. The app worked and kept growing. But it was running on her laptop with no deployment, no database, and no auth. She needed to get it to AWS and had
I recently revisited cdk-websocket-server, a demo I published in 2023 for running a WebSocket server on ECS Fargate behind CloudFront. The original worked, but it carried unnecessary complexity — EC2 instances backing a Fargate cluster, a custom Lambda to patch CloudFront headers, and a single-stage Docker build running as root. Here&
I recently revisited a CDK project I published in late 2022 — cdk-private-rds-with-lambda — and ended up rewriting most of it. The original worked fine, but it carried complexity that didn't earn its keep: projen for project management, an EC2 bastion host for database access, password-based auth via Secrets Manager,