Phlare March 22, 2026

When the Rules Stop Working 🦆

It’s funny how predictable this pattern has become. You start with a clean setup. A small CLAUDE.md. A handful of instructions that feel obvious. The model behaves. It follows the rules. It feels almost… cooperative. Then you hit your first edge case. So you add…

Phlare March 13, 2026

Tickets That Can Drive Themselves 🦆

I don’t have any big revelations today. This is more of a progress report on a workflow I’ve been slowly assembling. The goal is fairly simple on paper. For smaller issues, the really well-groomed kind, I want to be able to assign a Jira ticket…

Phlare March 7, 2026

The Bigfoot Incident  🫈

There was a product owner at a bank I worked with for a few years. We talked constantly. They were one of the primary admin users of the system we built for them, so whenever something weird happened in production, odds were good that I’d…

Phlare March 4, 2026

So considerate. 🌱

I didn’t ask for encouragement, but I’ll take it.

Phlare February 27, 2026

Teaching Claude to Remember Before It Forgets 🧠🦆

There is a moment in long Claude Code sessions where the conversation compresses. Context fills up, Claude quietly collapses the history into a summary, and when it resurfaces it is still working on your problem but with a slightly hazier sense of where you were.