I've been using Claude Code as my primary development tool for months now. I joke that my job is essentially managing Claude Codes, but it's not far from the truth. Understanding Code with Claude Claude Code helps me write code and acts as a reasonin...
[All opinions are my own] I've been using Claude Code a lot lately, and I continue to be both amused and impressed at how well its grep-based agentic search works. It seemed counterintuitive to me at first. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) is oft...
I applied to five jobs. Just five. Everyone told me I was doing it wrong. "You need to cast a wider net," they said. "It's a numbers game." But that approach has never worked for me. It's exhausting and inefficient. About six weeks into my new job, I...
As I was transitioning from being a startup founder back into the job market, I felt this weird mix of being overwhelmed with options yet somehow underwhelmed at the same time. Coming from founding a startup after working at both early-stage companie...
I’ve learnt some valuable lessons during my journey as a founder trying to find product-market fit (PMF). I'm sharing some key takeaways and documenting this so I can reference it as I keep building. Most, if not all, of this is relevant only to B2B ...
I’ve known for a while that reversing a string in Python is "text"[::-1]. However, it’s only now that I’ve truly understood how that works. Here’s what I learned today! Breaking Down the Syntax String slicing in Python uses the [start:stop:step] synt...
How Encouraging Comments Can Boost Confidence and Elevate Code Quality
When recently updating our project's requirements.txt file, which had dependencies locked to specific versions (like pydantic==2.6.0), I found myself wanting to allow minor version updates without opening the door to potentially disruptive major vers...
Custom GPTs allow you to create custom versions of ChatGPT that combine instructions, extra knowledge, and any combination of skills. They have quickly become one of my favorite ChatGPT features, saving me time and significantly boosting my productiv...
