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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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ISSUE #47 Apr 24, 2026

How to Run Firecrawl for Free in the Cloud (No API Key Needed)

Run the full Firecrawl stack on a free GitHub Codespaces 16 GB cloud machine — no API keys, 5-minute setup, and wired into Claude Code via a single tunnel command.

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ISSUE #46 Apr 17, 2026

The “Real” Context Engineering with Claude Code, Explained

I’ve written 40+ posts about Claude Code. Sub-agents. CLAUDE.md files. Skills. Workflow engineering. Testing loops. Spec-driven development. Memory. Self-evolving rules. I was outlining a post last week — when I...

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ISSUE #45 Apr 10, 2026

Talk Like a Caveman, Save > 75% on Claude Code Usage (I Tested It)

A Reddit post hit r/ClaudeAI on April 3rd and absolutely exploded. The title: “Taught Claude to talk like a caveman to use 75% less tokens.” 10,000 upvotes. Hundreds of comments. Half the thread...

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ISSUE #44 Apr 3, 2026

Codex Reviews My Code Inside Claude Code — But I Don’t Trust It Blindly

I’ve been building something I can’t fully show you yet. It’s a Chrome extension called PinFlow. The idea: you browse a page, click on any element, attach an instruction to...

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ISSUE #43 Mar 27, 2026

Workflow Engineering in Action: Building a Reddit Summarizer From Scratch With Claude Code

Here’s a confession. I follow about a dozen subreddit threads. AI tooling, Claude Code tips, local LLM experiments, dev workflows. And every single morning, I open Reddit fully intending to...

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ISSUE #42 Mar 20, 2026

Workflow Engineering: Why Your AI Development Process Matters More Than Your Prompts

You open Claude Code. You’ve got a feature to build — a complex one. Payment integration, subscription handling, admin dashboard, the works. So you write the most detailed prompt you’ve...

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