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The /journal skill from my breadcrumbs post is now a Claude Code plugin anyone can install. One glanceable callout per topic, colored by season with an icon for the weekday, three Notion calls per run. What it writes, how to set it up, and what a review found in a skill I had run daily for three months.

I read back six months of my own work journal and found three different note-taking systems, only one of which I remember deciding to build. This is what the volume of information actually did to my notes, what got better, what I lost, and how I capture things now.

A critical Active Storage vulnerability allows arbitrary file read and possible remote code execution through libvips variant processing. Here's what to check and how to patch.

PR volume went up, ticket quality didn't, and the gap got filled with LLMs on both sides of the review: bots reviewing, bots replying, bots occasionally arguing with bots about priorities that only existed in a teammate's head. Our CEO named the actual problem, and it's bigger than code review.

I wanted to get better at prompt engineering. Not the trick-the-robot kind, the boring-but-useful...

I have a TRMNL on my desk. If you haven't seen one, it's a little e-ink display from trmnl.com that...

The first morning of Blue Ridge Ruby, John Athayde stood at the front of the YMI Cultural Center and...

RubyGems.org published its first public roadmap this week. That's new, and it's worth noticing. I've...

A couple of years ago I wrote about copying text between tmux panes. At the time I was still figuring...

For the March WNB.rb meetup, I tried something different. Instead of our usual speaker format, I...

We recently migrated our Docker build workflows to use a shared reusable workflow. The migration...

I've written some critical things about Ruby Central. I've also written about choosing to contribute...

A few months ago, I wrote about a move that bypassed the maintainers who had built the RubyGems and...

By christine September 23, 2025, edited and updated September 25, 2025 And Why We Should...

I like the convenance of using Hot Corners to lock my screen. It just works for me. I know way, way...

Reading Time: 2 minutes WordPress.com announced the release of the ActivityPub plugin on their blogs...

My problem? I only want to copy text from one tmux pane, not across two. But I was finding that my...

Are you part of the twitter migration? Me too! I chose Mastodon as my social app of choice, and...

So about 4 years, I found myself in need of writing a biography for speaking at a conference. I...

aka How to Install vim-plug in Neovim Me and Vim have a love/hate relationship. I love...

Before, I’ve chatted about git, but I wanted to dive on today some learning that I did recently on...

I still feel new to the world of terminals, consoles, and yes, shells. Being a Java engineer for 12...

Serving up all the mimemagic tea

2FA (two factor authentication, multi-factor authentication) has been a subject I have been deeply...

This is what I learned in a month

As we are in full swing of conference season, how many conferences does your company let you...

So sorry this took a while to post, but let’s dive into the last chapter for The Pragmatic...

Notes on Chapter 7, Before the Project All about what to do before starting a...

And I survived! Right after Automating and before lunch I presented a talk on 2FA to Kernelcon in...

So my engineering bookclub is continuing on with Chapter 6 in The Pragmatic Programmer. We have had...