Happy Monday all! Three posts this week covering podfade, AI-assisted development, and Git workflows.

Podfade Is a Systems Problem, Not a Motivation Problem

Most podcasters who quit tell themselves they lost their passion, but I think the real issue is friction, inconsistency, and a feedback loop that gives them nothing to hold onto. This one gets into the three actual causes of podfade and the systems that keep you publishing past the four-month wall.

Stop Letting Claude Search Your Codebase

Every Claude conversation I started burned thousands of tokens on discovery work before we got to anything useful. I write about how a .ai/docs/ directory with compact, structured summaries fixes that, and why signal density matters a lot more than readability when you're writing docs for an AI to consume (not a human).

Branching Workflows: Choosing the Right Git Strategy for Your Team

Over at php architect, I walk through Git Flow, trunk-based development, and a few other strategies with real examples of when each one actually makes sense, including what happens when your team has no branching strategy at all (spoiler: a two-hour production fire drill).

See you next week.