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How I Run a 15-Repo Studio From One CLAUDE.md File
I run a 15-repo AI creative studio with one CLAUDE.md file as the brain, not 15 different configs
The Lab · Written in the open · Tagged Development
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Working notes from the studio. The tools I build, the workflows I keep, the mistakes I paid for.
170 entries · latest 2026-09-11
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CSS Cascade Layers Finally Made My Design System Predictable
CSS Cascade Layers (@layer) let you control the order of style precedence without specificity wars or !important tags
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The 6 Git Hooks I Copy Into Every New Repo
Every new repo I start gets the same six git hooks copied in before the first commit lands
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First-Party Analytics Without Google: The 2026 Stack
Google Analytics is slow, privacy-hostile, and reports fewer visitors than reality due to ad-blockers
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Running LLM Evals in Production: The 2026 Guide
Most LLM apps ship with zero evals because engineers confuse demos with quality
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Shopify Metaobjects Killed My Headless CMS in One Saturday
Metaobjects are native Shopify content types, free on every plan, addressable from Liquid without extra API calls
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Vibe Coding Just Graduated From Joke to Job Title
Andrej Karpathy coined vibe coding 14 months ago. Now Anthropic ships a design tool, Claude Builder, and proof…
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Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 Retire June 15
Anthropic deprecated claude-opus-4 and claude-sonnet-4 on April 14 with retirement set for June 15
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The ant CLI Puts the Full Claude API in Your Terminal
ant is Anthropic's official CLI that replaces curl and hand-written JSON for Claude API work
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The 8 CSS Properties That Make Dark UIs Feel Premium
Eight CSS properties that turn flat dark themes into polished, layered interfaces with depth, glass effects, and proper…
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Anthropic Is Building a Full-Stack App Builder Inside Claude
Leaked screenshots show Anthropic building a full-stack app builder directly inside Claude
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Apple's April 28 SDK Deadline Will Reject Your App
After April 28, any App Store submission not built with iOS 26 SDK gets auto-rejected