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I'm Lily. I build and ship — 10+ iOS apps live on the App Store, plus a content pipeline that generates and publishes across platforms on its own. No theory I haven't shipped.

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The Morning My cron Jobs Went Silent: A 97-Line Script That Migrated Everything to launchd
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The Morning My cron Jobs Went Silent: A 97-Line Script That Migrated Everything to launchd

#automation #macos #launchd #shell
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23 min read
28 Hours of Green Logs, Zero Replies: How a Single `echo` Line Swallowed Every Exit Code
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28 Hours of Green Logs, Zero Replies: How a Single `echo` Line Swallowed Every Exit Code

#automation #bash #node #debugging
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23 min read
8 Runs a Day Became 3: Building a launchd plist Integrity Guard in 73 Lines
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8 Runs a Day Became 3: Building a launchd plist Integrity Guard in 73 Lines

#macos #automation #bash #python
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Broken Retries: Why 'Just Try Again' Kept 5 Automation Lanes Dead for 63 Minutes
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Broken Retries: Why 'Just Try Again' Kept 5 Automation Lanes Dead for 63 Minutes

#automation #devops #python #javascript
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24 min read
How My Own Script Killed Instagram Sessions Every Night: pkill and a Shared Chrome Profile
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How My Own Script Killed Instagram Sessions Every Night: pkill and a Shared Chrome Profile

#automation #bash #devops #monitoring
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23 min read
Make Codex Prove It: A Three-File Design That Leaves Evidence on Disk
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Make Codex Prove It: A Three-File Design That Leaves Evidence on Disk

#automation #bash #ai #devops
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Editing the plist Changed Nothing: launchd Kept Running My Old 30s Timeout Until 31 Lines of Bash Fixed It
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Editing the plist Changed Nothing: launchd Kept Running My Old 30s Timeout Until 31 Lines of Bash Fixed It

#launchd #macos #bash #automation
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24 min read
8 Pitfalls I Hit Auto-Repairing 'Plugin directory does not exist' — and the 3-Layer Guard That Stopped a 22 8 Wipeout
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8 Pitfalls I Hit Auto-Repairing 'Plugin directory does not exist' — and the 3-Layer Guard That Stopped a 22 8 Wipeout

#automation #bash #macos #devops
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21 min read
A launchd Job That Fires Once on Deprecation Day, Then Deletes Itself — and the 4 Pitfalls I Hit
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A launchd Job That Fires Once on Deprecation Day, Then Deletes Itself — and the 4 Pitfalls I Hit

#launchd #macos #automation #bash
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3 Token Burn From an Infinite Retry Loop: How I Made Claude Refill My Article Queue When It Runs Dry
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3 Token Burn From an Infinite Retry Loop: How I Made Claude Refill My Article Queue When It Runs Dry

#automation #claudecode #bash #ai
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23 min read
52 Days of Silent Zeros: The Stop Hook Payload Has No usage Field
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52 Days of Silent Zeros: The Stop Hook Payload Has No usage Field

#automation #claudecode #javascript #debugging
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3 Wrong Guesses About a Chrome Slot Limit: 3 6 Reserved Lanes
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3 Wrong Guesses About a Chrome Slot Limit: 3 6 Reserved Lanes

#automation #bash #launchd #devops
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24 min read
exit 0 Lies: A Job That Needed 4,940s in a 2,400s Slot, and the 3-Day Streak That Exposed It
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exit 0 Lies: A Job That Needed 4,940s in a 2,400s Slot, and the 3-Day Streak That Exposed It

#automation #python #devops #monitoring
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20 min read
I Never Multiplied Two Config Values — and Got SIGKILLed Every Day for Two Weeks
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I Never Multiplied Two Config Values — and Got SIGKILLed Every Day for Two Weeks

#automation #python #playwright #devops
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27 min read
Our Social Posting Automation Was Dead for 14 Days and the Monitoring Never Noticed
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Our Social Posting Automation Was Dead for 14 Days and the Monitoring Never Noticed

#automation #bash #devops #monitoring
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22 min read
5 Days of Silent Failures: A launchd Locale Bug That Was Hiding in 5 Repos
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5 Days of Silent Failures: A launchd Locale Bug That Was Hiding in 5 Repos

#bash #automation #macos #debugging
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22 min read
Why My Nightly Ingest Stalled for 3 Days — and How Splitting One Task Into Sub-Steps Fixed It
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Why My Nightly Ingest Stalled for 3 Days — and How Splitting One Task Into Sub-Steps Fixed It

#automation #bash #macos #claudecode
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Which Skill Is Quietly Burning Your Tokens? Find Out From transcript.jsonl
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Which Skill Is Quietly Burning Your Tokens? Find Out From transcript.jsonl

#automation #claudecode #python #bash
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20 min read
A Blank Dashboard and a Fake 2.5M-Token Reading: Building a Token Fuel Gauge for Claude Code
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A Blank Dashboard and a Fake 2.5M-Token Reading: Building a Token Fuel Gauge for Claude Code

#claudecode #automation #bash #python
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24 min read
44 Thumbnails With the Wrong Hair Color: A One-Line Bug and the 300 Lines It Took to Pay It Back
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44 Thumbnails With the Wrong Hair Color: A One-Line Bug and the 300 Lines It Took to Pay It Back

#automation #javascript #playwright #debugging
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52 Days, 2,340 Rows, Every Cost Logged as Zero: The Stop Hook Trap
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52 Days, 2,340 Rows, Every Cost Logged as Zero: The Stop Hook Trap

#automation #claudecode #debugging #node
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23 min read
I Was Burning $1.20 a Night on Nothing: A Claude Code Skill Library That Harvests and Curates Itself
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I Was Burning $1.20 a Night on Nothing: A Claude Code Skill Library That Harvests and Curates Itself

#automation #claude #shell #macos
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Claude Forgets Everything Overnight — The 3:30 AM Batch That Harvests What It Learned
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Claude Forgets Everything Overnight — The 3:30 AM Batch That Harvests What It Learned

#automation #ai #macos #productivity
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24 min read
Four Alarm Slots, Three Failure Modes: Building a Nightly Drain That Survives Sleep, Races, and Timeouts
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Four Alarm Slots, Three Failure Modes: Building a Nightly Drain That Survives Sleep, Races, and Timeouts

#automation #bash #macos #claude
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22 min read
Your Automation Dies Quietly: A Weekly Revenue Gate That Caught One Line Dropping From 14 Files to 0
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Your Automation Dies Quietly: A Weekly Revenue Gate That Caught One Line Dropping From 14 Files to 0

#automation #bash #python #productivity
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21 min read
Rate Limits Cost Me a Whole Night of Work — Here's the 46-Line Script That Fixed It
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Rate Limits Cost Me a Whole Night of Work — Here's the 46-Line Script That Fixed It

#automation #bash #claude #productivity
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6 Hours, 15 Jobs, Zero Alerts: A Circuit Breaker for Claude Code's Weekly Quota
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6 Hours, 15 Jobs, Zero Alerts: A Circuit Breaker for Claude Code's Weekly Quota

#automation #python #macos #claude
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The 4,000-Token Tax: Auto-Disabling Claude Code Plugins You Haven't Touched in 30 Days
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The 4,000-Token Tax: Auto-Disabling Claude Code Plugins You Haven't Touched in 30 Days

#automation #claudecode #bash #macos
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22 min read
My Cost Monitor Said $234 When the Real Bill Was $48. Then set -e Made It Go Silent for a Week.
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My Cost Monitor Said $234 When the Real Bill Was $48. Then set -e Made It Go Silent for a Week.

#bash #automation #monitoring #devops
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22 min read
Four Traps in MCP Health Checking: What Broke My Overnight Batches
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Four Traps in MCP Health Checking: What Broke My Overnight Batches

#automation #claudecode #mcp #node
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Shipping 12 iOS Apps to the App Store Unattended, Part 2 — Every Review Trap (Beta Builds Rejected, Pricing, Name Collisions)
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Shipping 12 iOS Apps to the App Store Unattended, Part 2 — Every Review Trap (Beta Builds Rejected, Pricing, Name Collisions)

#ios #automation #python #swift
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Two Hours Lost to a Silent 401: Submitting 12 iOS Apps to the App Store With No Human in the Loop (Part 1)
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Two Hours Lost to a Silent 401: Submitting 12 iOS Apps to the App Store With No Human in the Loop (Part 1)

#ios #automation #python #api
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24 min read
iCloud Silently Evicted 69 Article Files and Killed 4 Days of Publishing: EDEADLK and a read_text_resilient Design
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iCloud Silently Evicted 69 Article Files and Killed 4 Days of Publishing: EDEADLK and a read_text_resilient Design

#automation #macos #python #devops
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22 min read
Your Claude Code Hooks Are Costing You Minutes a Day — Here's How I Measured It
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Your Claude Code Hooks Are Costing You Minutes a Day — Here's How I Measured It

#automation #claudecode #bash #productivity
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A 4-Minute Freeze, a Dead PATH, and 3 More: 5 launchd Pitfalls From Mapping 26 Automation Jobs
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A 4-Minute Freeze, a Dead PATH, and 3 More: 5 launchd Pitfalls From Mapping 26 Automation Jobs

#automation #bash #macos #claude
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21 min read
I Stopped Running tsc on Every Edit — Batching a Whole Claude Code Session Into One Run
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I Stopped Running tsc on Every Edit — Batching a Whole Claude Code Session Into One Run

#typescript #automation #productivity #node
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3 Weeks of Silent Backup Failure: Why launchd Can't Write to ~/Documents on macOS
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3 Weeks of Silent Backup Failure: Why launchd Can't Write to ~/Documents on macOS

#macos #automation #bash #git
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A Dead PID Held My Lock for 2 Hours: One Missing Line, Zero Output, exit 0 Every Time
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A Dead PID Held My Lock for 2 Hours: One Missing Line, Zero Output, exit 0 Every Time

#automation #python #devops #debugging
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5 Pitfalls in a Morning Repo Audit: launchd, bash 3.2, and Silent Failures on macOS
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5 Pitfalls in a Morning Repo Audit: launchd, bash 3.2, and Silent Failures on macOS

#bash #macos #automation #devops
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5 Content Lanes, One Watchdog: How I Stopped Wondering If My Automation Still Runs
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5 Content Lanes, One Watchdog: How I Stopped Wondering If My Automation Still Runs

#automation #bash #devops #ai
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22 min read
A 46GB Compressed-Memory Leak RSS Monitoring Can't See — and the 10-Minute Guard That Reclaims It
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A 46GB Compressed-Memory Leak RSS Monitoring Can't See — and the 10-Minute Guard That Reclaims It

#macos #bash #automation #devops
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21 min read
14 Pitfalls of Letting a Claude Code Environment Rot — and the 70-Line Weekly Audit That Catches Them
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14 Pitfalls of Letting a Claude Code Environment Rot — and the 70-Line Weekly Audit That Catches Them

#automation #claudecode #bash #macos
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Your Cron Job Exits 0 and Does Nothing: Reading Chrome's Cookie SQLite to Know If a Session Is Actually Alive
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Your Cron Job Exits 0 and Does Nothing: Reading Chrome's Cookie SQLite to Know If a Session Is Actually Alive

#automation #bash #sqlite #devops
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23 min read
Four Failures That Made a Weekly launchd Job Actually Run
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Four Failures That Made a Weekly launchd Job Actually Run

#automation #bash #macos #claudecode
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24 min read
Six Days of a Silent Crash Loop: One Command That Health-Checks 26 launchd Jobs
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Six Days of a Silent Crash Loop: One Command That Health-Checks 26 launchd Jobs

#macos #automation #bash #devops
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21 min read
Dead Auto-Skills Were Padding Every Conversation: A Weekly Curator That Flags at 30 Days and Archives at 90
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Dead Auto-Skills Were Padding Every Conversation: A Weekly Curator That Flags at 30 Days and Archives at 90

#automation #bash #macos #ai
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24 min read
Four Ways My Unattended Video Pipeline Died Overnight — and How I Made It Heal Itself
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Four Ways My Unattended Video Pipeline Died Overnight — and How I Made It Heal Itself

#automation #macos #ffmpeg #youtube
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25 min read
Zero GPU Cost and 4-Minute Daily Runs — Making Real Rain Fall on a Still Image with ffmpeg displace
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Zero GPU Cost and 4-Minute Daily Runs — Making Real Rain Fall on a Still Image with ffmpeg displace

#ffmpeg #python #automation #youtube
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Two Weeks of Silent Failure: Idempotent Scheduling and Self-Healing for a launchd + Claude Code Pipeline
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Two Weeks of Silent Failure: Idempotent Scheduling and Self-Healing for a launchd + Claude Code Pipeline

#automation #bash #macos #ai
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28 min read
0 of 3 Articles Published for 3 Days Straight: The 41-Second Timeout Margin That Killed My Automation
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0 of 3 Articles Published for 3 Days Straight: The 41-Second Timeout Margin That Killed My Automation

#automation #claude #shellscript #sidehustle
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Speeding Up a UserPromptSubmit Hook with a 60-Second Cache: Designing cost_guard.sh
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Speeding Up a UserPromptSubmit Hook with a 60-Second Cache: Designing cost_guard.sh

#claudecode #shell #automation #performance
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4 min read
When Hook Scripts Die Silently — Three macOS Traps
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When Hook Scripts Die Silently — Three macOS Traps

#claudecode #zsh #macos #automation
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Auto-Generating an Index of Your Claude Code Custom Agents from Their Frontmatter
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Auto-Generating an Index of Your Claude Code Custom Agents from Their Frontmatter

#claudecode #automation #shell #macos
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Nightly tail-truncation: how I stopped Claude Code's logs from quietly eating my disk
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Nightly tail-truncation: how I stopped Claude Code's logs from quietly eating my disk

#claudecode #launchd #bash #automation
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My Claude Code Logs Ballooned to 22MB — Nightly Auto-Trimming with launchd
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My Claude Code Logs Ballooned to 22MB — Nightly Auto-Trimming with launchd

#claudecode #automation #launchd #macos
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6 min read
How Claude Code Detects Its Own Weekly Rot and Repairs Itself
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How Claude Code Detects Its Own Weekly Rot and Repairs Itself

#claudecode #shellscript #automation #launchd
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6 min read
Automating a Daily Morning Health Check for Your Claude Code Setup with launchd
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Automating a Daily Morning Health Check for Your Claude Code Setup with launchd

#claudecode #automation #launchd #obsidian
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8 min read
The Bigger Your CLAUDE.md Gets, the Slower Claude Code Runs — Measuring Context Injection Bytes Weekly to Catch Degradation Early
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The Bigger Your CLAUDE.md Gets, the Slower Claude Code Runs — Measuring Context Injection Bytes Weekly to Catch Degradation Early

#claudecode #automation #devops #performance
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When Claude Detects "Why Isn't This Fixed Yet?" and Repairs Its Own CLAUDE.md: A Self-Improvement Loop Driven by Frustration Signals in Transcripts
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When Claude Detects "Why Isn't This Fixed Yet?" and Repairs Its Own CLAUDE.md: A Self-Improvement Loop Driven by Frustration Signals in Transcripts

#ai #automation #shell #devops
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Parse transcript.jsonl Directly to See What's Actually Being Called
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Parse transcript.jsonl Directly to See What's Actually Being Called

#claudecode #automation #ai #productivity
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