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Things I Learned Building with AI — and More
A personal blog where I write about what I learn building and running web apps, code, and servers with AI — plus other things on my mind.
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Syncing dotfiles across 3 Macs with chezmoi (secrets encrypted with age)
Syncing shell config and ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md across 3 Macs — office, home, and laptop — with chezmoi, while encrypting API keys and SSH private keys with age. Setup commands, pitfalls like encryption not configured and the PATH chicken-and-egg, plus the source-of-truth model.
Read moreAutomating Magento Deployment — Why I Dropped GitHub Actions for a Direct Mac→SSH Setup
With a manual trigger and no main repo, GitHub Actions is over-engineering. Running the server's deploy.sh directly via ssh -t from Raycast, plus avoiding the maintenance-mode lockout with trap and the composer install pitfall.
Read moreDoing Claude Code Right on a Remote Server — Ditch the Local Clone, Use tmux + Screenshot Auto-Hand-off
A remote Ubuntu server + AI coding agent workflow. Why I ditched the local clone, tmux multi-sessions instead of the VS Code extension, and filling the image-input gap in a pure terminal with an ss sync + cc function.
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