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All issues →The Prompting Patterns That Cut My Debug Time by 10x
Five Claude Code prompt templates I run on every incident. Log triage, diff regression, slow query — all copy-paste ready.
The Developer Environment I Set Up in 30 Minutes
Managing dotfiles, shell configs, and dev tools across machines with Git and chezmoi — exact commands to clone and run anywhere.
Claude Code vs Cursor vs Windsurf: Honest Benchmarks
Ran the same five tasks across all three. Here's what actually differed — context window, speed, and cost.
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Where I've been
Twenty cities, two base countries, one long thread.
Home bases in Brisbane and China, chapters in Japan, the US, Hong Kong and Fiji. Each place left a mark on how I think, build, and work.
I keep a growing global footprint — lived in Brisbane and across China, and travelled through Japan, the US, Hong Kong, Macau and Fiji. I built a dedicated, full-screen 3D atlas where you can rotate the globe, zoom into each city, and read the short story behind how I ended up there.
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