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ISSUE #59 Jul 17, 2026

The Skill That Makes Claude Use Your Design System Without Being Told

You extracted a design system from a site you admire. Every color, every font weight, every spacing value — captured. You went further and pulled the full bundle: component blueprints,...

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ISSUE #58 Jul 10, 2026

I Extracted a Website’s Entire Design System Using This Skill

I ran the token extraction on a site I’d been eyeing using the “extract-design-md” skill. The colors landed perfectly — exact hex codes, correct font weights, spacing on point. I...

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ISSUE #57 Jul 3, 2026

I Taught Claude to Steal (Ethically) a Design System I Actually Like

You open Claude Code and ask for a landing page. You hit enter, feeling optimistic. A few seconds later you’re looking at a centered hero, a soft gradient, three rounded...

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ISSUE #56 Jun 26, 2026

Stop Losing Work When You Compact Claude Code (The Handoff-Doc Skill)

You know the moment. You’ve been working for over an hour. The status line says ctx:22% (that’s about 220k tokens in Opus). You know you should compact. You also know...

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ISSUE #55 Jun 19, 2026

Generate Images in Claude Code (using Codex plugin)

You’re three hours into a Claude Code session. The feature works. The tests pass. All that’s left is the picture at the top — a featured image, a hero illustration,...

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ISSUE #54 Jun 12, 2026

The Three Files That Made Codex /goal Reliable Enough to Walk Away From

The Hard Part Was Walking Away The first time I ran a codex goal command on something that mattered, I sat there for twenty-eight minutes pretending to check email while...

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ISSUE #53 Jun 5, 2026

I Gave Codex a Requirements Doc and Got a CodeCanyon-Grade Plugin Back

The first time I used Codex /goal, I sat at my desk for twenty-eight minutes pretending to do other work while an autologin plugin built itself from a one-paragraph spec....

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ISSUE #52 May 29, 2026

Your Codex Skills Should Evolve With Your Project (Ion Viper Part 2)

How I Used 8 Codex /goal Runs to Build a Browser Game From Scratch ended with a line I’d been sitting on for the whole post: “Part 2 is where...

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ISSUE #51 May 22, 2026

How I Used 8 Codex /goal Runs to Build a Browser Game From Scratch

One paragraph describing a game idea. Eight /goal commands. Seventy-eight minutes of autonomous Codex time. A playable vertical shooter in the browser. The WordPress plugin post was one goal, 28...

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ISSUE #50 May 15, 2026

How I Chained Two Codex /goal Runs to Build a Complete CLI Tool

One paragraph describing a CLI idea. Two /goal commands. Eighty minutes of letting the machine work. A complete CLI tool at the end — 35 tests passing across 6 files,...

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ISSUE #49 May 8, 2026

How to Use Codex /goal to Build WordPress Plugins (My Spec-to-Ship Workflow)

I typed /goal. Walked away from the keyboard. Half-expected to come back to a mess. Twenty-eight minutes later — no mess. A working WordPress plugin was sitting there instead. Acceptance...

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ISSUE #48 May 1, 2026

Never Let Claude Code Auto-Compact Again

Auto-compact fires when the context is full — not when your task is at a clean boundary. Here's how to stay in control with a status line, manual compact instructions, and a HANDOFF.md habit.

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