Every time I open Claude, it starts with a blank slate. No memory of who I am. No idea what I’m working on. No knowledge of decisions I’ve already made, tools I use, or how I like to communicate. So I re-explain. It guesses. I correct it. By the time we’re actually working, five minutes…
// The API Key Problem Nobody Saw Coming For over a decade, Google told developers that API keys weren’t secrets. Embed them in your JavaScript. Paste them into your HTML. Ship them in your client-side code. Firebase’s own security checklist had a green checkmark next to “API keys for Firebase services are not secret.” Google…
I’ve sat in that chair. Not Dario Amodei’s specifically — mine had worse lumbar support and the coffee was from a Keurig — but the same chair. The one where you’re the security person trying to explain to a room full of excited stakeholders why we need to slow down. Why the thing they want…
Will Larson’s An Elegant Puzzle has a chapter on presenting to leadership that changed how I think about structured communication. A 7-step framework for making recommendations that actually land. Clear, repeatable, effective. Problem is, frameworks you don’t use are just bookmarks. So I did what any self-respecting terminal dweller would do: I turned it into…
Every morning at 9 AM, I get an email. It’s not from a paid newsletter service. It’s not curated by a human editor. It’s a polished, 4-section tech digest built entirely by an n8n workflow and Google’s Gemini AI — running on my own server, completely free. It pulls from 15 RSS feeds, filters out…
Complete Reference Guide The complete manual for presenting with authority, not permission 📖 Companion Guide This is the complete reference companion to “I Taught Claude How to Coach Me (And You Can Too)” Want the story, setup walkthrough, and downloadable skill files? Start there first: ← Read the Main Article Already read it? Great. This…