Workflow

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...