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The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output
Claude Code records each session to disk. Those logs include “thinking blocks” — the model’s own reasoning as it works.
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This series covers prompt patterns for agents that run in a loop: the agent builds something, measures it, improves it, and repeats the cycle the next day without a person supervising. Across this series I cover:
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What changes when you turn a Linux box into a router
I think it is incredibly cool that we can change a Linux system into a networking device. But have you ever wondered:
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Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files
Last week I wrote a thing about how to run Claude Code when you don’t trust Claude Code. I proposed the creation of a dedicated user account & standard unix access controls. The objective was to stop Claude from dancing through your .env files, eating your secrets. There are some usability problems with that guide- I…
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Notes on gotchas while migrating 35kb preprompts from Opus to self-hosted Ollama
Maybe you’re a Claude code/codex user diligently avoiding uploading personal data to LLM providers. Is it possible that the most valuable information isn’t your data- but the metadata about your sessions? The intuitions you apply in coming up with ways to coax the ai into solving problems might actually be special…