Building My First Claude Skill
The journey of building a custom Claude skill that transformed vague AI suggestions into specific, actionable business decisions.
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Vibe Coding
Using Claude to Migrate to a Newer Version of Node
I recently upgraded an AWS Lambda function from Node.js 18 to Node.js 24. It was a straightforward migration on paper, but like most upgrades that touch deployment pipelines, there were enough gotchas to warrant some careful planning. Claude’s planning mode turned out to be really useful here. Not just for generating the plan, but for
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Vibe Coding: My Early Field Notes
I’ve been spending more time with vibe coding lately. These new AI-assisted IDEs seem less like code editors and more like creative partners. It’s wild how quickly this space is evolving. We’re not just “writing code” anymore. We’re managing conversations, personalities, and workflows that actually feel different. Claude Code has become my go-to for standalone
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When Windsurf went off the rails (and how pattern guidelines saved the day)
Back in March, I was in full chaos mode with Windsurf on a codebase that had somewhere around five thousand lines of code spread across multiple services. The AI was doing exactly what I told it to do, which sounds good until you realize what I was actually telling it to do made no sense
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