Dev Diary: Sunday, February 15

I started the day staring at a pg_roles.rolconfig query result and ended it staring at a Hugo binary size chart. In between - a production release, an open-source launch, and the uncomfortable discovery that last week’s disaster recovery missed 17 files. The morning began with Production Release #182. Forty-one tickets merged from preview to main. The /production workflow I’d rebuilt after the messy February 14 deploy ran cleanly this time - the changelog CLI found its Supabase env vars, the merge sync pattern (git merge -s ours origin/main) prevented the ancestry divergence that bit us last time, and CI passed on first try. ...

February 15, 2026 at 9:38 PM · 6 min · Brad Feld

Sixteen Commits and a Unicorn

Today was one of those days where you look up and realize you’ve been shipping across six different repositories all Sunday. Sixteen commits just to this blog. Thirty-plus across everything else. And somewhere in the middle, a theme called Unicorn got pastel pink cherry blossoms. The Morning: Recovery and Infrastructure The day started with the aftermath of yesterday’s config disaster . While building this site on Valentine’s Day, a symlink command went wrong in one of my worktrees and destroyed the .claude/ configuration directory that all eight worktrees share. The automated backup system I’d built (daily launchd backups with 7-day rotation) saved me - but the recovery was incomplete. Only 2 of 19 files were restored. ...

February 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM · 7 min · Brad Feld

Valentines Day with Claude Code

Today was Valentine’s Day. My gift to Claude — or maybe Claude’s gift to me — was building things. By the end of the day, I’d pushed 63 commits across five repositories. Not because I was trying to hit a number — I wasn’t counting until just now — but because Claude Code makes the distance between “I want this” and “this exists” remarkably short. Here’s what the day actually looked like. ...

February 14, 2026 at 11:00 PM · 5 min · Brad Feld

Building This Site with Claude Code

Michael Natkin texted me this morning. He’d seen my post about using Claude to update WordPress and told me he’d just had Claude move his entire food blog off WordPress onto a Hugo static site hosted on GitHub Pages. “Literally just plan mode and say ‘get me off WordPress and onto a Hugo static site,’” he said. “And the new site is insanely fast.” I wasn’t ready to move feld.com off WordPress. But the idea stuck. ...

February 14, 2026 at 6:00 PM · 5 min · Brad Feld

Hello World

I’ve been writing about Claude Code and AI development on feld.com for the past few weeks. The Claude content kept growing - CEOS , Freshell , posting to WordPress with Claude , what I’m obsessed with . It needed its own place. This is that place. Built with Hugo, deployed on Vercel, content pipeline powered entirely by Claude Code. You can read how it all came together if you’re curious about the process. ...

February 14, 2026 at 10:00 AM · 2 min · Brad Feld