Here are a few commands I have in my Claude Code deny-list to prevent bad things from happening. I wish Claude shipped with these by default! The following commands disallow Claude from force pushing and skipping pre-commit hooks. { "permissions": { "deny": [ "Bash(git push -f)"
After a week of experimenting with using git and jj to plan and build, I’ve landed on jj as the winner. Rebasing Kills the Git Workflow Automatic rebases are the winning feature here. When I tell Claude to update a change, it will automatically rebase all its descendants. This
When I shared my new JJ and Claude workflow last week, I wondered whether JJ was too much friction for developers. It requires learning a new version-control tool in addition to learning to use Claude. I had an idea in the back of my mind to use plain git for
I get this question often. Here’s how the story goes: * Someone complains that AI is bad because it just does a bunch of stuff for you really quickly and does it wrong. * I ask what tools they’re using, and they say they’re using Cursor because it’s
This week, I read about Steve Yegge’s Beads. I was skeptical. He writes like someone trying to prompt inject your LLM. But he’s always written that way. I tried beads, and it was pretty good. I wrote all of uplift using beads. But it was also pretty buggy.
I recently read Max Stoiber’s post on Gratitude Circles and was inspired to build an app for it! Why an app? First, you can’t see handwriting. I am super embarrassed by my clumsy handwriting. Typing though, thank gosh for auto-correct. 🎈 Try Uplift! Uplift is an app for running
In engineering culture, we sometimes refer to managers and Staff Engineers as “shit umbrellas” for their team. I’ve never liked this idea. It paints a picture that individual leaders create a peaceful oasis for their team while chaos reigns outside. Sounds nice to be one of those engineers! Not
I’ve spent most of my willow.camp work on finding a new backend language. But I’ve still updated the Rails app! Here’s what’s changed since my last update. * Moved HTML storage out of the post table and into ActionText. It was this deep dive that made
I have spent the past few weeks figuring out the future of willow.camp. It turns out I love making it, and I love that a handful of people are using it. I built willow.camp in Rails because I could prototype quickly without having to think about things like
Quiet on the updates this week. I could rename “Major Features” to “Major Worries” because I’ve spent more time worrying about how images should work than testing them with real users! I enabled image uploads on the marksmith text editor this week, and a few people tested it out
I recently enabled image uploads in the marksmith text editor on willow.camp. I’ve been hesitant to add media management to willow.camp for two reasons: it is hard to get the user experience right, media management adds extra cost. I am being cost-conscious on willow.camp because it
I just saw the Rails World announcement that flavorjones is working on ActiveRecord::Tenanted and all I can say is, “What a reasonable name!” When I started willow.camp I chose not to use apartment partially because the name and the metaphor were too confusing. I didn’t like tho
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It’s been a busy month! I took some time off for a much-needed vacation and forgot to post about willow.camp. I’ve worked on some fun features in the past few weeks. New Features 1. Favicons now use OpenMoji emojis! I think these are adorable icons. I have
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It felt like a quiet week on willow.camp but somehow I still got lots done. Aside from the release notes below, I’m focusing my energy on getting proper favicons for willow.camp blogs. My first version of this will use OpenMoji emojis for favicons. I like their simple
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willow.camp has a small system test suite that runs on CI. It used to use the out-of-the-box settings that come with Rails: Capybara, Selenium, etc. I noticed a flaky test on CI, which launched a journey to replace Selenium with Cuprite. Fixing the Flaky Test I worked through the
willow-camp
Really quiet week for willow.camp this week. I updated a few dependencies and upgraded the server it runs on. Everything’s been running smoothly! I’ve also been working with an LLM to learn Hanami and might eventually move the backend over to Hanami. I’d lose a lot
willow-camp
It was a quiet week for willow.camp. The biggest thing I did was to test out generating Open Graph images using a browser canvas. I also improved logging for Honeybadger Insights, which will help me find performance issues. Beta Features * Added a beta feature for auto-generating Open Graph images
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Normal Memory Usage In a typical application, memory consumption should increase when the application boots and then stabilize. This pattern will repeat every time the application is deployed. Memory ^ | | ███████████████████████ ████████████████████ | █████████████████████████████ ██████████████████████████ | █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ > Time Boot Stable Runtime Deploy Stable Runtime Gradual Leak In an appli
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When Harper Reed first published “My LLM codegen workflow atm”, I was hooked. I had been working with LLMs for a few months, and Harper’s post made it all click. “THIS! This is the workflow that has been taking shape for me!” I dove in headfirst, and now, for
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🏕️This post was written when enumerator.dev was hosted on willow.camp, my custom blogging platform. I don’t like competing for clicks. But I do like people reading my blog. If you landed here form LinkedIn, you probably saw a colorful image showing the title of this post. Where
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I can see really high-skill, high-taste shops like 37signals struggling to adopt [agentic coding] because their very good taste means they are repelled by the slop. Bigger companies and small startups/indies will have an easier time at it, out of necessity. – Nate Berkopec on LinkedIn With LLMs making leetcode
willow-camp
Here’s everything I did on willow.camp this week. It blows my mind how much I can get done when I’m having fun! I work on this app for about an hour every morning and evening. Major Features Added * Featured posts functionality with toggle UI * Tap/click to
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Reading Sean Goedecke’s post “Do not yell at the language model”, my first reaction was, “Don’t…what?” I don’t yell at people. Why would I yell at a non-sentient tool? That’s like yelling at the sledgehammer you dropped on your foot. There is a good bit
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I asked Claude to find the slowest test file again after my success earlier today and Claude found a call to BCrypt in my fixtures that was gobbling up time. I need user records all over the place in my test and each new user is a new call to