Sending a prompt to a Claude Code cloud session from my terminal
I start a Claude Code cloud session with one terminal command, so the task keeps running when my laptop is closed. Here is the command and two gotchas.
Notebook
165 notes on how I build software. Lately that’s mostly AI agents; the older notes are kept as an archive.
Long Claude Code sessions pay for their whole history on every call
I audited my own Claude Code sessions after hitting usage limits. Context size was the cost, not the cache. Here is what I changed.
What happens to developers who don't adapt to AI
Why half-adopting AI is riskier than refusing it, which developer skills lose value and which gain it, and where to start if you feel left behind.
October 2026
- useState, useReducer and the mental model of state in React
- Software engineering in the age of AI
- Sharing state in React without Redux
- Running a REST API: caching, versioning, deprecation and release
- REST API security, authentication and rate limiting
- REST API response shape, pagination and errors
- REST API design rules for URLs, methods and fields
- Props, children and component composition in React
- Monitoring and alerting in Laravel
- Logging in Laravel
- Health checks in Laravel
- Harness engineering for coding agents
- Git branching strategies: Gitflow, trunk-based and GitHub Flow
- Architecture decision records: a practical guide and template
- Why I use the CLI with Herdr instead of desktop apps and orchestrators
- My VPS got throttled to 20% CPU, so I'm buying a mini PC for home
- I moved my coding agents to a VPS so I could close my laptop
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August 2026
June 2026
- Agents Are Cron Jobs and Markdown Files
- A Modern Quality Pipeline and Testing Strategy for Frontend Projects
- Measure Your Agent Skills or Delete Them
- What to Do If You're Not Detail Oriented
- How to Stay Resilient in a Difficult Engineering Job
- Software Factory: Build Factories, Not Features
- AI Code Review: Pre-Existing Bugs as a Side Quest
May 2026
- The Four Levels of Working with AI
- Small npm Packages Are Mostly Dead
- How I Build Software With Agent Loops
- How AI Agents Made Me CLI-First
- Higher-Order Components and Why Hooks Replaced Them
- Pure Components and Why Purity Matters in React
- React Fragments and When You Actually Need Them
- Refs and when useRef beats useState
- Default Props and Optional Props in React
April 2026
- Handling Form Submission in React
- Using Service Interfaces and Null Objects for Resilient TypeScript Scripts
- Type-Safe Adapter Registries with as const and satisfies
- Client-side validation before Server Actions in Next.js
- Validating Multi-Provider Credentials with Zod Discriminated Unions
- Magic Link Authentication in Next.js
- Building a URL Shortener with Next.js
- Type Annotations vs Type Inference: When to Write the Type
- Transactional Email with Resend and React Email
- API Key Management in Next.js
- The Render Prop Pattern in React
- The Compound Component Pattern in React
- Dynamic OG Images in Next.js with opengraph-image.tsx
- Conditional Rendering Patterns in React
- Why Dyslexia Made Me a Better Software Engineer
- Lists and Keys in React: Why They Actually Matter
- Git Commands for Reading New Codebases
- Event Handling in React
- The Virtual DOM and How React Reconciliation Works
- Extracting a Queries Layer from Next.js Server Components
- When to Use useMemo and useCallback
- useEffect Mistakes I Stopped Making
- The Next.js App Router Mental Model
- The Metadata API and SEO in Next.js
- Testing React Components with Vitest and Testing Library
- Structuring Large React Apps
- Streaming and Suspense in Next.js
- Server Actions in Next.js 15
- Route Handlers vs Server Actions
- React Suspense: loading fallbacks, boundaries and use()
- React Server Components vs Client Components
- React Error Boundaries in Practice
- Middleware Patterns in Next.js
- Incremental Static Regeneration Explained
- Image Optimisation in Next.js
- generateStaticParams and Static Export
- Fetching Data in Server Components
- Error and Not-Found Pages in the App Router
- Deploying Next.js to Cloudflare Pages
- Custom Hooks: Naming and Structure
- Controlled vs Uncontrolled Forms in React
- Avoiding Unnecessary Rerenders in React
March 2026
- Template Method Design Pattern
- Docker Compose Healthchecks
- Testing in Laravel
- LinkedIn Profile
- SaaS vs Open Source in the Age of AI Coding
- Everything Is Markdown Now
- AI Job Interviews
- Website Go Live Checklist
- Project Spec
- A Reusable PRD Framework for Standard SaaS Features
- Security Headers in Laravel
- Scheduled Tasks in Laravel
- Rector: Automated PHP Code Refactoring
- Laravel Pint: configuration, rules and CI checks
- GitHub Profile
- Contextual Attributes in Laravel
- AI Rules
- Adapter Design Pattern
- Claude Sub-Agents
- Agent Skills
- Rate Limiting in Laravel
- PHPStan: Static Analysis for PHP
- CLAUDE.md File
- Managing Cognitive Load in Code
- Containerisation
- CI/CD
- Builder Design Pattern
- Writing Good Commit Messages
- Working with Large Datasets in Laravel
- Versioning
- Value Objects
- Using Multiple SSH Keys
- Using .env in Laravel
- The Twelve-Factor App
- Tech Stack Document
- Strategy Design Pattern
- State Design Pattern
- Stacked Pull Requests
- Spec-Driven Development with AI
- SOLID Principles
- Secrets and Config Validation in Laravel
- Runbook Template
- Route Organisation and Naming in Laravel
- Reviewing Pull Requests
- Repository Pattern
- Read/Write Database Splitting in Laravel
- Queues in Laravel
- Pull Request Template
- PHP Coding Standards
- Permanent vs Contracting
- Performance Improvements in Laravel
- Mass Assignment Guarding in Laravel
- Laravel Coding Standards
- Interviewing
- Infrastructure as Code
- GitHub Copilot Instructions Template
- Git Hooks
- GCP VM Port Forwarding
- Freelancing
- Form Request Validation Patterns in Laravel
- Feature Toggles
- Environments
- End of Contract Checklist
- Eloquent Builder vs Scopes in Laravel
- Domain-Driven Design
- Data Transfer Objects (DTO)
- Custom Collections in Laravel
- Creating Pull Requests
- Creating a Software Developer CV
- Create a Brag Document
- Clean Up Docker
- Choosing the Right Company Size as a Software Engineer
- Changelog
- Change the Origin of a Git Repository
- CarbonImmutable in Laravel: prevent date mutation bugs
- Canary Deployment
- Caching in Laravel
- Cache Invalidation Strategies in Laravel
- Bridge Design Pattern
- Blue/Green Deployment
- Avoiding N+1 Queries in Laravel
- Architecture Documentation
- Actions Pattern in PHP
- A/B Testing Deployments