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Claude Reflect: I Audited How I Actually Use AI
Anthropic's new Reflect dashboard shows how you actually use Claude. I ran it on myself for a week,…
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Working notes from the studio. The tools I build, the workflows I keep, the mistakes I paid for.
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The Weekly Operating Rhythm That Keeps a Solo Studio Shipping
Monday is planning only, no building, protects the week's focus Tuesday through Thursday ship one thing each, nothing parallel Friday handles publishing, scheduling, and the 30-minute metrics review I refuse to schedule meetings, standups, and anything open-ended Running a studio...
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- Monday is planning only, no building, protects the week's focus
- Tuesday through Thursday ship one thing each, nothing parallel
- Friday handles publishing, scheduling, and the 30-minute metrics review
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ElevenLabs Studio Workflow: 4 Patterns for 12-Minute Solo Episodes
4 ElevenLabs Studio patterns for producing 12-minute solo episodes, with cost-per-episode and time-to-publish numbers.
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5 agent-browser Workflows That Replaced My Manual Daily Checks
5 agent-browser workflows that replaced manual daily checks and paid SaaS, with command snippets and weekly time saved.
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30 Days With the Magnific Image Pipeline: What Stuck and What Got Killed
Spaces replaced three separate tools in my image pipeline and cut context switching to near zero.
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The Claude Cowork Plugin Ecosystem: 6 Plugins I'd Install on Day One
Cowork plugins extend Anthropic's collab product with finance templates, ticket triage, Notion sync, Stripe dashboards, GitHub PR review,…
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Claude Code's /recap and 1-Hour Caching: April's Quiet Productivity Update
Claude Code's April update added /recap, 1-hour prompt caching, forced 5-minute caching, and 500K-character MCP tool output, none…
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Claude's 200+ Connectors Changed How I Use AI
Claude's connector directory crossed 200+ one-click integrations in April 2026, up from 50 in February
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Claude Code 2.1.118 Adds Vim Mode, /theme, And Hook MCP
Vim visual mode lands in Claude Code 2.1.118 with v and V selection, plus full operator support over…
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Why I Replaced Notion With 40 Markdown Files
After five years of paying for Notion, I moved my entire studio to 40 markdown files in git.…
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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
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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