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Symptom Gone Isn't Done: A Diagnosis Gate for Claude Code
Asking an AI agent to 'find the root cause' is a preference. Requiring it to produce a falsifiable artifact — mechanism, origin,...
Naive implementation detected
Performance degrades at O(n²) under production load
measure-twice-code-once.cs:47
Missing index on FK column
Full table scan on 2.4M rows · bookmark lookup in plan
stored-procedure.sql:112
Circular dependency detected
ServiceA → ServiceB → ServiceA · boundary violation
architecture-review.md:3
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Token-Free VS Code Extension Publishing From CI (Work in Progress)
Publishing to npm from GitHub Actions with OIDC is a solved, five-minute problem. Doing the same for a VS Code extension is a minefield of retiring PATs, immutable OIDC subjects, app-registration dead ends, and one...
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Self-Hosted Claude Code Memory: Three Bugs in OpenMemory and How to Fix Them
Building persistent memory for Claude Code with OpenMemory, Qdrant, and a local Ollama embedding model. Three integration bugs...
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Prose Instructs, Tools Enforce: A Complexity Gate for Claude Code
Writing 'keep functions short' in your CLAUDE.md is a preference. A hook that runs lizard after every write and blocks if any...
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Tools Over Tokens: LSP and ast-grep for Smarter AI Code Navigation
AI agents that navigate code with grep and file reads are burning tokens and degrading their own context. LSP and ast-grep give...
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A Claude Code skill that maps unfamiliar codebases
Claude Code skills let you package a reusable prompt behind a slash command. I built one called /explore that clones related...
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Note to self: Setting up BIMI for a personal domain
BIMI puts your logo in the sender avatar slot in supporting email clients. Setup looks simple — one DNS record, one SVG — but the...
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Generative AI confusing term: 'domain aware generative AI'
What follows is a warning to people looking to buy a new system built with the same technology that powers ChatGPT from a startup...
Note to self: Management endpoint for Azure Gov Cloud
This is just a note for me and anyone else who may need this. The Azure Management APIs are all documented to use...
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