Adding LLM Polish to a Speech-to-Text App
How I added an optional LLM post-processing step to clean up voice transcriptions, with lessons on prompt engineering and graceful degradation.
Building an AI-Powered Changelog GitHub Action
How a 87-line inline script became a reusable GitHub Action for AI-generated changelog summaries posted to Slack.
CLAUDE.md: Building Persistent Memory for AI Coding Agents
How to use a curated CLAUDE.md file as institutional memory for Claude Code, so your AI agent stops repeating the same mistakes every session.
Debugging Random Reboots with Claude Code: A PSU Power Limit Story
How I used Claude Code to diagnose random system reboots caused by PSU power limits - and why AI assistants excel at systematic hardware debugging.
iTerm2 + tmux -CC: The Remote Development Setup Nobody Talks About
How iTerm2’s tmux control mode turns remote SSH sessions into native Mac tabs with persistent sessions, proper scrollback, and zero friction.
The Loop Changes Everything: Why Embodied AI Breaks Current Alignment Approaches
Chat models are stateless and safe by architecture. Embodied robots need persistent loops, memory, and self-models - and that’s where alignment gets genuinely hard.
Preserve macOS App Permissions Across Rebuilds with Self-Signed Certificates
Stop re-granting Accessibility permissions after every rebuild by creating a stable self-signed certificate.
Speed Up Syncthing File Sync Discovery (From 11 Seconds to 2)
Reduce Syncthing’s file detection delay from 10+ seconds to under 3 by tuning fsWatcherDelayS on the sending machine.