Revisiting Autonomous Development with Opus 4.8
I handed Claude Opus 4.8 a build spec and got back a working, tested, published tool in one session. Here's the framework that made a long autonomous run reliable instead of reckless.
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Notes from building things: AI agents, dev tools, the web, self-hosting, and the occasional life update.
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A thought piece on losing satisfaction in the craft as AI changes how I work.
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Rebuilding This Site in One Claude Code Session
I rebuilt codywilliamson.com in one 15-hour Claude Code session: about 5,000 tool calls, 30 merged PRs, and 33 messages from me. What those messages did, and what went wrong on both sides.
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Porthole: A Phone Window Into My Claude Code Sessions
I run multiple Claude Code sessions across tmux windows and wanted to read them — and reply to them — from my phone. So I had Claude Fable 5 build the tool, orchestrating a fleet of Sonnet and Opus sub-agents, while friends watched the commits land in real time.
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Revisiting Autonomous Development with Opus 4.8
I handed Claude Opus 4.8 a build spec and got back a working, tested, published tool in one session. Here's the framework that made a long autonomous run reliable instead of reckless.
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Satisfaction is Futile
A thought piece on losing satisfaction in the craft as AI changes how I work.
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Autonomous VPS Monitoring with Claude Agent SDK
An AI agent that runs twice daily, performs VPS health checks, applies updates, improves its own tooling, and reports to Discord.
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I Didn't Want Copilot to Be the Odd One Out
How I adapted an existing Codex plugin pattern to bring GitHub Copilot into Claude Code as a first-class citizen — no context switching required.
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Why I Moved Everything Off Netlify
I migrated my personal site and all client projects from Netlify to Cloudflare Workers. Here's what the move actually looked like.
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The Race to Nowhere
AI anxiety is real, the craft still matters, and we're going to be fine.
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Self-Hosting Your Own Obsidian Note Sharing Server
Stop sharing your notes through someone else's server. Set up your own Obsidian note sharing instance with Docker, Caddy, and a cheap VPS in about 15 minutes.
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Rewording Pushed Commits After a Target Branch Merge
If you merged main into your branch and now want to fix commit messages, standard rebase is unusable. Use a worktree + cherry-pick.
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Git Worktrees: Managing Multiple Working Directories
Stop juggling branches and stashing changes. Git worktrees let you run multiple checkouts simultaneously for parallel development, hotfixes, testing, and more.
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From the Archive: The Monomyth in Classic Literature
An academic deep dive into Joseph Campbell's monomyth structure across The Odyssey, The Aeneid, and Gulliver's Travels. Written in 2015, still holds up.
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AI and the Problem of Responsibility Laundering
AI is a powerful tool that transforms how we work. But when engineers start citing ChatGPT as their authority, we have a problem. This is about intellectual ownership and why abdication erodes trust.
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When Your Dog Destroys Your Boot Loader: An NVMe Recovery Story
A sudden power loss corrupted my NVMe drive's boot configuration. Here's exactly how I fixed it using Windows recovery tools and manual UEFI repair.
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My Story
How I went from borrowed computers and retail work to building cloud systems for a living.
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Rebuilding My Portfolio with Astro 5
Notes on rebuilding this site with Astro 5 — content collections, server islands, Vue islands, and where it hurt.
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Building ImgSmash
A browser-based image compression tool that processes images locally using the Canvas API.
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Brindlee
A small tribute to our Brindlee.