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Interactive NotificationBanner component - view on site I keep a lot of Claude Code sessions open at once. I realized that a big inefficiency right now is that oftentimes sessions can sit there for minutes waiting for me to provide input. If a session is

Datadog is a good product. I remember the first time I used it, it blew my mind having ALL OF THAT VISIBILITY into everything. All the little premade integrations as well, it slotted straight into our app and infrastructure and provided visibility I had n

A few days ago I published Hardcore PHPStan, a living reference for the strictest PHPStan config I could put together for Laravel. Same thesis applies on the frontend: AI writes the bulk of my TypeScript and React code now, and deterministic guardrails ar

I love static analysis. It catches bugs you didn't know could've been bugs, and it enforces conventions that would otherwise rely on human discipline and code review. For PHP, PHPStan has been the standard for years. It's incredibly good, like a combinati

There's a blog post making the rounds called "Anatomy of the .claude/ folder", and the Hacker News discussion is full of people sharing their elaborate .claude/ configurations, debating structures, and arguing about which MCP servers to wire up. A lot of

Jason Fried tweeted about why people are so excited about AI agents: Until now, very few people have known what it feels like to delegate to total competency... Delegating to competency lets you forget about it completely. That's real leverage. The intere

TIL xz and zstd are built into Ubuntu these days. In my head they're still "new" compression formats - I've used .gz plenty on servers over the years and never really ventured out. I've used zstd before on my Mac, but I had to brew install it. Never occur

macOS Screenshot Uploader I added a 1 second delay between copying the image to the clipboard and copying the uploaded URL, to give me a chance to paste the image content when that's what I took the screenshot for. I often take screenshots to paste them s

I've been playing with Claude Code skills this weekend and wow, this is cool. I started by creating separate agents for different tasks: one for bookmarking URLs, one for creating quick notes, and one for adding entries to my weekly devlog. They worked fi

Trying to use CloudFlare Image Transformations to resize images on the fly. The feature is cool, but the results are pretty weak. Given an optimized WebP source image, CloudFlare's transformations seem to just serve a bigger, lower-quality JPEG version of