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Klein Blue scores Lc -12 as text — here's the two-slot fix
Dev.to · J Now 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Klein Blue scores Lc -12 as text — here's the two-slot fix
I read Claude Code output for hours every day: tool results, reasoning traces, permission prompts,...
A terminal theme tuned for prose, not syntax highlighting
Dev.to · J Now ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
A terminal theme tuned for prose, not syntax highlighting
Claude Code is mostly paragraphs. Tool output, reasoning traces, permission prompts — I read dense...
You posted your OSS tool once, got silence, and never posted again
Dev.to · J Now 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
You posted your OSS tool once, got silence, and never posted again
That's not a marketing failure — it's a time and friction problem. Writing for Bluesky means staying...
Reading the web with half-understood words everywhere
Dev.to · J Now 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Reading the web with half-understood words everywhere
Every long article I read has the same problem: a word or concept I half-know that would make the...
Translating 'I missed you' so it doesn't land like a form letter
Dev.to · J Now 3w ago
Translating 'I missed you' so it doesn't land like a form letter
I was trying to tell someone something real in her first language — not "I missed you" from a...
Why I split a single color across two ANSI slots
Dev.to · J Now 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Why I split a single color across two ANSI slots
I spent several weeks reading Claude Code output for hours at a stretch and the default themes were...
rabbitholes: inline explanations with no server in the middle
Dev.to · J Now 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
rabbitholes: inline explanations with no server in the middle
Most browser extensions that call an external API route your data through their own server. That's...
When one translation isn't enough to say something real
Dev.to · J Now 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
When one translation isn't enough to say something real
I was drafting a message to my girlfriend in Farsi — something simple, 'I missed you today' — and...
The distribution problem OSS tools have that isn't about code quality
Dev.to · J Now 3w ago
The distribution problem OSS tools have that isn't about code quality
You posted your tool once. Three people starred it. You moved on. This is how most OSS developer...
Terminal themes optimize for syntax. This one optimizes for prose.
Dev.to · J Now 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Terminal themes optimize for syntax. This one optimizes for prose.
Spend a few hours in Claude Code and the screen is mostly English — tool output, reasoning traces,...
WCAG lies on dark ground — and it cost me a readable terminal
Dev.to · J Now 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
WCAG lies on dark ground — and it cost me a readable terminal
WCAG contrast ratios break on dark backgrounds. A 4.5:1 pair that passes on white can be functionally...
Four themes for a terminal you read more than you syntax-highlight
Dev.to · J Now ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Four themes for a terminal you read more than you syntax-highlight
After a few weeks of running Claude Code for most of my work, I noticed the thing that was actually...
Inline Wikipedia for every article you read
Dev.to · J Now 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Inline Wikipedia for every article you read
Reading about the Treaty of Westphalia and hit 'Augsburg Settlement'? You half-know it. Not enough to...
Terminal themes optimize for syntax highlighting; that's the wrong target
Dev.to · J Now ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Terminal themes optimize for syntax highlighting; that's the wrong target
Spend a few hours in Claude Code and count what you actually read: tool output, reasoning traces,...
Distribution Infrastructure for MCP Servers and Agent Tools That Have None
Dev.to · J Now ☁️ DevOps & Cloud ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Distribution Infrastructure for MCP Servers and Agent Tools That Have None
The MCP ecosystem moves fast. New servers, new Claude Code skills, new agent frameworks every week....
Klein Blue looked right in Figma. On a dark terminal, it vanished.
Dev.to · J Now 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Klein Blue looked right in Figma. On a dark terminal, it vanished.
Yves Klein's IKB — hex 002FA7 — has an APCA lightness contrast of Lc -12 on a dark background. That's...
rabbitholes: how I built a Chrome extension with no server to touch your data
Dev.to · J Now 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
rabbitholes: how I built a Chrome extension with no server to touch your data
Most browser extensions that call external APIs route your data through a developer-controlled server...
Designing email campaigns blind: building a design scorer into kopi
Dev.to · J Now 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Designing email campaigns blind: building a design scorer into kopi
Every email tool I'd used handed me a blank canvas or a dated template and called it a starting...
The growth quest picks what you avoid, not what you're already good at
Dev.to · J Now 📋 Product Management ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The growth quest picks what you avoid, not what you're already good at
Anthropics February 2026 study classified 11 observable collaboration behaviors across 9,830 Claude...
The MCP Registry, Smithery, and GitHub Topics don't index themselves
Dev.to · J Now 1mo ago
The MCP Registry, Smithery, and GitHub Topics don't index themselves
Shipping an MCP server means nothing if developers can't find it. The three places they actually look...