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12 posts
Jul 2025 – Dec 2025

Streamlining my user-level CLAUDE.md

This post follows up on my post about getting good results from Claude Code. I've recently streamlined my ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md based on: * Informal observations about what Claude does and doesn't do well * A desire to avoid conflicting with principles that seem to be built into …

Getting Good Results from Claude Code: Writing Good Prompts

Key to getting good results from Claude Code (and similar LLM programming tools) is writing good prompts. This is one area where your own programming expertise comes into play; you need to use it to provide guidance to the LLM and nudge it in the right direction. Good prompts are …

LLM + MCP Use Case: GitHub Actions Workflow Updates

One use case for LLM coding tools (GitHub Copilot, in this case) I've found recently is updating the dependencies of GitHub Actions workflows. In a professional context this is done with manual review of the updates, of course, but given I have a huge number of personal repositories …

LLM Q&A Technique: Context Priming

Even the best LLMs, equipped with web search & research tools, can inevitably hallucinate when asked questions about obscure topics — in today's case, how to accomplish various tasks using the NATS CLI. I combat this by using a technique called "context priming." (I didn't …

Ask Claude Code to fix CI

I teased this yesterday, and this is actually going to be a pretty short post. One thing I've used Claude Code for recently in small personal projects is to fix GitHub Actions CI failures. Often these are linter issues, but sometimes the workflow itself needs to be fixed, …

Give your LLM Coding Tools Their Own Tools

Model Context Protocol (MCP) allows LLMs to call "tools" that can do anything: interact with your filesystem, search the Web, hit an external API, or even help guide the LLM through a structured problem-solving process. A single MCP server provides one or more tools; for example, a research …

Teaser for upcoming Claude Code posts

Getting Good Results from Claude Code

An updated version of my user-level CLAUDE.md is featured in this post from December 2, 2025. I've been experimenting with LLM programming agents over the past few months. Claude Code has become my favorite. It is not without issues, but it's allowed me to write …

Navigating and Rewriting Legacy Systems

As I'm navigating this job search process, I've been asked several variants of the questions, "how do you work with a legacy or poorly-documented codebase? how would you rewrite one?" I figure this answer might be useful for others.

A Lychee photo library tool for titling photos

One more Lychee tool announcement: GitHub - cdzombak/lychee-meta-tool: Quickly find & edit untitled photos in your Lychee photo libraryQuickly find & edit untitled photos in your Lychee photo library - cdzombak/lychee-meta-toolGitHubcdzombak lychee-meta-tool provides a streamlined, focused view of the photos in your Lychee library that are missing titles. …

I vibe-coded an AI photo organizer for Lychee

I mentioned recently my use of the Lychee program for hosting my photos/pictures website. I recently uploaded a backlog of a few hundred photos to the Unsorted section of that site, figuring I could organize them later. Then I realized: I could use AI to help organize them! So …

I've long been worried that Apple will drop support for AppleScript automation in macOS updates, or at least allow it to decay into a horrible broken state.

But the fact that Claude, ChatGPT, etc. are now relying on it for high-profile features gives me hope.