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Writing on Claude Code.

Practical workflows for getting more out of Claude Code. How I set it up, where it saves the most time, and the habits that make it feel like a real teammate instead of a demo.

• Sep 2026 Identity Resolution in a Shoebox A relative handed me 120 scanned files of family history. Census pages, ship manifests, naturalization cards, death certificates. No index, no shared key, and three pairs of relatives sharing a name. I've solved this problem before, just never on paper.
• Sep 2026 Four Projects, Four Stacks, One Process An iOS app, a browser game, a book club web app, and Salesforce demos built in an hour. Different technology every time. The only thing that carried over was how I worked, and it comes down to four modes and knowing which one I'm in.
• Aug 2026 Build Your Own Second Brain The last post explained the system. This one is the build: designing the schema, writing your first skill, wiring up the slash commands, and building the read path that makes the whole thing worth having. Budget two hours, then two weeks of tuning.
• Aug 2026 I Built a Second Brain That Writes Itself My notes used to be a graveyard. Now an agent files them, closes the loop on what I finished, and every Friday tells me what I've been avoiding. Here's the architecture, the one skill that changed how I work, and the discipline that keeps it from rotting.
• Jul 2026 Close Enough: The Calorie Log I'll Actually Keep My health database could see everything except what I ate. Nutrition was the one input I had to enter by hand, so it was the one I kept abandoning. Here's how I connected Lose It to my data warehouse by talking to it, and why logging something close beats logging nothing perfectly.
• Jul 2026 Building Reply All: A Workplace RPG on a Stack That Costs Nothing I wanted to find the edge of what I could build with Claude and the stack I already had. I never found it. I found a game instead.
• Jun 2026 Adding a coaching framework to my health database The dashboard was full. The question it couldn't answer: so what do I actually do? Here's how I added Peter Attia's Medicine 3.0 framework to my health data, and what my numbers revealed the moment I did.
• Jun 2026 My new site is live! I had writing scattered across a few different platforms for years. It existed. It just didn't have a home that felt like mine.
• Jun 2026 Getting More from Claude Code The best sessions aren't the longest ones. Efficiency in Claude Code isn't just a cost concern. It's a quality one.
• Apr 2026 Building the Health Dashboard No App Would Give Me Every health app shows you the same thing. I needed something different, something built around my specific data, my specific questions, and a diagnosis that changed what I was trying to measure.
• Feb 2026 Building a Second Brain That Understands How You Work Most of what happens in a workday disappears. Not dramatically. It just fades. I built a system to stop that, and six months in, it's showing me things I wouldn't have noticed on my own.