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Hermes of Praxiteles (c. 340 BC)

Mar 18·5 min

My Claude Code Status Line

The full ccstatusline setup (config, custom widgets, and Model Intelligence score) that turns invisible AI state into glanceable awareness

Sleeping Ariadne (2nd century AD)

Mar 10·3 min

Your AI Fuel Gauge

A status bar widget that proves you have enough tokens, so you stop worrying and start building

Rodin, The Thinker (1904)

Mar 8·7 min

The 40% Rule

Why keeping your AI coding assistant's context under 40% makes it noticeably smarter

Venus de Milo (c. 130 BC)

Mar 3·14 min

My AI Secretary

How I built a personal AI assistant from markdown files, MCP servers, and Claude Code. And what it actually feels like to use one.

Oct 1·6 min

My Pants Build Journey

Notes from onboarding a large monorepo to Pants Build and keeping my sanity intact.

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