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May 22, 2026
Claude Code Commands That Get Smarter Every Time You Use Them
I fell into an embarrassing pattern with Claude Code. I'd run a command, Claude would do something slightly off, I'd correct it, Claude would fix it, and we'd move on. Then, less than an hour later,...
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May 22, 2026
Wurstcon: The Musical
Last night after Wurstcon someone started singing a "hot dog related song" and somehow we got on the topic of how we need "Wurstcon: The Musical" I gave Claude the following prompt: Plan a five...
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May 21, 2026
Advanced SQL: The Features You've Been Ignoring (But Shouldn't) - PHP/JS Tek 2026
I presented my talk on Advanced SQL at PHP/JS Tek 2026. Advanced SQL: The Features You’ve Been Ignoring (But Shouldn’t) While your app sleeps, your database dreams... of being useful. This talk...
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May 20, 2026
Taming Time in PHP: Best Practices and Gotchas - PHP/JS Tek 2026
I presented my talk on Time in PHP at PHP/JS Tek 2026 Join.d T-Shirt Giveaway Podcast Support Community Corner UnleashedPodcasts LinkedIn LinkedIn Mastodon:...
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May 20, 2026
PHP Tek/JS 2026 - Day 2
These are my raw notes from PHP Tek/JS 2026 Day 2. "Sometimes it takes courage to eat breakfast" Framework to manage change? "You already know what to do. the gap isn't knowledge it's courage"...
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May 20, 2026
PHP Tek/JS 2026 - Day 3
These are my raw notes from PHP Tek/JS 2026 Day 3. AI works best as a fast collaborative implementation engine Now Describe intent Guide the agent Classic Workflow Ticket -> Analysis -> eng...
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May 19, 2026
PHP Tek/JS 2026 - PHP Tek/JS 2026
These are my raw notes from PHP Tek/JS 2026 Day 1 The Trust Protocol - "Trust is not a value. Trust is infrastructure" Need to be able to have trust but it's very easy to have trust failures The...
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May 15, 2026
The GitHub issues approach to AI agent orchestration
Last week, I lost an entire afternoon to my own AI workflow. Nothing broke. Nothing crashed. I'd just finished one PRD with Claude and was partway into the next one, except I had no idea where I'd...
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May 8, 2026
Claude Code won't exit? Kill it from the process tree!
One of my long-term goals using Claude Code is to create a truly "autonomous" development workflow while I'm building UnleashedPodcasts.com. I've been using a "Ralph Wiggins" loop as the basis, and...
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May 1, 2026
3 layers of guardrails every AI-assisted dev workflow needs
When I first started down the AI-assisted development path, I was watching an AI coding agent work through a refactoring I had asked it to run. It was doing great, moving through files confidently,...
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