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I’m reading an article today about a long-term programmer coming to terms with using Claude Code. There’s a quote at the end that really stuck with me: “It’s easy to generate a program you don’t understand, but it’s much harder to fix a …
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for some reason i feel like step 4 was important
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Two Changes in Claude Code That Actually Matter
As of 2026-01-24, the stable release of Claude Code is 2.1.7, but if you’ve been following the bleeding edge, versions 2.1.15 and 2.1.16 bring some significant changes. Here’s what you need to know. The npm Deprecation Notice Version 2.1.15 …
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Weekend project lineup: I want to push forward on api2spec, plus there’s a new idea rattling around that needs to get out of my head and into code. Also have some volunteer dev work queued up. Always more to do than time even with all the …
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Claude Code’s built-in tasks are pretty solid—they work well for what they do. But I still find myself reaching for Beads. There’s something about having persistent issue tracking that lives with your code, syncs with git, and doesn’t …
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Sometimes it’s good to go back to basics. Do you actually know what a file system is? There are different standards for how data gets stored. Your operating system usually picks one for you, but on Linux you’ve got choices: ext4, XFS, …
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A Markov chain is a mathematical system that hops between states based on probability. It’s not trying to understand the past or predict the distant future, it only cares about what happens next. Given where you are right now, what’s the …
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Security and Reliability in AI-Assisted Development
You may not realize it, but AI code generation is fundamentally non-deterministic. It’s probabilistic at its core, it’s predicting code rather than computing it. And while there’s a lot of orchestration happening between the raw model …
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Learning to Program in 2026
If I had to start over as a programmer in 2026, what would I do differently? This question comes up more and more and with people actively building software using AI, it’s as relevant as ever. Some people will tell you to pick a project and …
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So, Zero Trust is this idea that you never trust and you always verify. Cloudflare Tunnels, TailScale, and Ngrok are three different approaches to Zero Trust networking. Cloudflare Tunnel is a reverse proxy. TailScale is more of a …