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⚡ AI Lessons

Dev.to · J Now
4d ago
Terminal themes built for prose reading, not syntax highlighting
Claude Code is mostly prose. Tool output, reasoning traces, permission prompts — I read paragraphs of...

Dev.to · J Now
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Terminal themes optimize for code. Claude Code is mostly prose.
Most of my time in Claude Code isn't spent reading syntax-highlighted code. It's spent reading tool...

Dev.to · J Now
1w ago
When one translation isn't enough: building a language coach as an MCP server
I wanted to tell my girlfriend 'I missed you today' in Farsi and have it sound like something a...

Dev.to · J Now
💻 AI-Assisted Coding
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
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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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...
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