Forensic Refactoring
8 min readThere’s a new discipline coming to software engineering. I’m calling it forensic refactoring: the practice of reverse-engineering intent from code that never had any.
...Gifting Models Long-Term Memories
4 min readIn the few hours a day I’m not spending on building Collabchek I’ve been hacking on a personal AI chat client. I’ve used several and the one that’s come closest to what I want has been sigogden’s very cool aichat project which I encourage you to check out. I’ve liberally borrowed several good ideas from their code.
As I’ve explored I’ve come to realize my requirements are somewhat unique.
...Making Claude Code Efficient
2 min readtl;dr Install these tools
Here’s the priority order for maximum impact:
- ripgrep, fd, gh - These transform search and git workflows
- golangci-lint, goimports, gotests - Go development gets SO much smoother
- gofumpt, staticcheck - Polish that code to a shine
- jq, bat, fzf - Quality of life improvements you didn’t know you needed
Claude will use these if installed. Since most/all are much faster than the built-in tools they replace it’s a clear win.
...Things I've Learned About AI as an Indie Dev
5 min readBuilding AI prototypes as an indie developer taught me three non-obvious lessons that challenge what I thought I knew about working with LLMs.
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