Saadiq

There's a chicken and egg thing about Claude Code and using the terminal. Claude Code both requires and enables the terminal.

I used to google for a bashrc or vimrc that did 2 things I wanted and a bunch I didn't understand. Now Claude Code assesses the apps/configs and tailors a solution. 🪄

Thought the same about a news item yesterday talking about the admin fighting against "DEI hires" amongst pilots. A claim of unqualified hires which actually forces everyone to operate from a deficit whenever making the case for hiring someone that isn't a white man.

I don't have info to add on ICE and MN. But if you think I'm apolitical, I'm not. Posting won't get us there. Find a way to show up long-term. This won't be fixed overnight.

None of this is ok. I pray for nothing like I pray for sparkling consequences for all involved.

Having just gotten my phone set up so I can ssh into my laptop from my kitchen to resume a Claude Code session, it’s hard to argue this is about productivity and not an addiction.

I first read that as who will nominate Trump as Fed chair. And we live in such wild times, I couldn't assume I'd read it wrong.

When people think of the alternative to AI coding, they seem to imagine it's Linus Torvalds and all of Bell Labs artisanally crafting each bit. I have handcrafted plenty of rubbish in my younger days.

This thing isn't better than the best. But it's better than a lot.

The over-engineering is likely a result of the tools we have at our disposal. So easy to build more. But the added complexity in the face of models and software still changing so fast would seem to be a mistake. I guess though, it doesn't have to work for me. As long as it works for the author.

A chair. A whole CHAIR? Yeah. I get it. I'm on the cusp and it wasn't even my chair. ("Did we miscount on the front side? Did it wander off? WTF?!?")

"AI code = future revenue for the cybersecurity guy": Most devs aren't security experts anyway. It's a specialization. Both AI and human code benefit from security review. People judge quality by production mechanism out of unfamiliarity. AI can actually enforce security rules more consistently.

The wondering what happened would really be hard to let go. Much more than the money.

After Claude Code has figured out how to do something that you need to repeat, ask it to create a skill so that you don't have to watch it figure it out again from first principles.

Make sure you have "plugin-dev" plugin installed from the "claude-plugins-official" marketplace.

Vault's on iCloud for mobile. Git plugin doesn't play nice with mobile anyway. I use git to keep Claude in check. My notes and writing can be versioned more casually. Git dir lives outside iCloud to avoid sync corruption.

I've heard it said, you can't reason someone out of an idea they didn't reason into.

Own the Outcome Product management has always been about ownership. Now you have the tools to actually exercise it. Everyone's on the growth team. Form hypotheses, ship, learn, iterate. The velocity that required ded...

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Ownership has always been the the path to success.

What's different now is the lengths to which that can be taken. To play in spaces you're not fluent in in service of outcomes. To just do the thing instead of waiting for someone who can.

We have this power now. No excuse not to use it.

I realize that both the profile picture and the background image on this profile were from a trip to Iceland. I do not live in Iceland. I've visited 2x. But the accidental choice of nice and recent images is telling a very different story. 🤷‍♂️

If anyone's interested, happy to lay out the git setup as well as the icloud syncing that I use to make it safe for Claude Code to roam as well as accessible from my phone.

I'm now moving all of those repos into subdirectories in Obsidian. A little easier to navigate, but much easier to traverse and leverage content across areas.

I've previously been maintaing little repos of documents for projects and clients. Mostly markdown, of course. I then used VS Code to view, preview and edit files.

Some of this is also that we need to teach the things that aren't readily accessible from our phones. We didn't stop teaching arithmetic once we had access to digital calculators but we should cover the fundamentals without and then go farther with the aid of these tools.

Archimedes: 'Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.'

How are you cleaning up the base context for your Claude Code projects? I recently cleaned up a bunch some stuff but still, a new session starts off with 34% of context used and I'm curious how others are managing this.

People who run an AI dev environment on top of an Obsidian vault, do you use source control on it? In any other context I have AI working I'll have git in the mix. But when I use it on Obsidian, I duplicate the repo before goign to work. Should my Obsidian vault be a git repo?

Signed, a guy very much resisting the urge to vibe code a desktop app just to get my PostHog dashboard as an Apple widget on my desktop. (Who am I kidding? It's just a matter of time.)

All the platforms that were built for developers (API forward, CLI, customization and integrations) are smelling like daisies now. The promise of a community that can extend your platform has become even greater with the vibe coding army showing up.

If you've been working with Claude Code for a little while, I highly recommend periodic context spring cleaning. Check out `/context` dig into the heavy weights. I had redundant elements in my CLAUDE.md, subagents that should now be skills and some that just need to go away. Safeguard that context.

statusline command for Claude Code statusline command for Claude Code. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

My current status line: gist.github.com/saadiq/f25f5...

Claude Code 2.0.65 adds context window info to the status line. Big recommend. Been hoping for this for a while.

Managing the context (all the junk in the chat thread) is key for better results.

I frequently have to go from a markdown document into a Google Doc. The best way I have found is using VS Code to preview the markdown, changing the VS Code theme to "light mode" and then copying it into a fresh doc. Is there not a better way to carry over the formatting but nothing else?

Opus 4.5 being the current DEFAULT in Claude Code is wild. God bless VC cash and these companies lighting money on fire so I can play with new toys. 🫡