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pip install: Check It Exists (Yes, Every Single Time)

pip install: Check It Exists (Yes, Every Single Time)

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Revised draft fixes the unreproducible mysterytool block by having the reader build the local demo package themselves, so 'Successfully installed mysterytool-0.0.1' followed by ModuleNotFoundError is now genuinely reproducible from the article's own steps.

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Claude Code Transcripts Expire in 30 Days - Write Ten Lines

Claude Code Transcripts Expire in 30 Days - Write Ten Lines

Your code survives the weekend; the conversation that remembers how to start it doesn’t. A hand-written NOTES.txt in the folder with your code — five headings, no git, no install — is what makes Tuesday cost four minutes instead of forty.

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The conversation you built your project in is weather, not documentation: on Claude Code 2.1.42 the transcripts are real files in ~/.claude/projects with a 30-day default retention swept on startup, and the setting people reach for to stop that — cleanupPeriodDays 0 — actually stops transcripts being written at all. The fix is a ten-line hand-written NOTES.txt in the folder with your code, five headings, which doubles as the opening paste for your next AI session.

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Your First Python Project: Pick a Chore, Not a Passion

Your First Python Project: Pick a Chore, Not a Passion

Three filters that turn an empty folder into a ten-line program you can finish tonight

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"Build something you're passionate about" turns a scoping problem into a verdict about your character. Chores come pre-scoped instead: you already do them by hand, you already know the rules, and they already have a moment where they are over. Three filters get you from an empty folder to one sentence about what finished means, and that sentence is also what stops an AI tool from handing you a Flask app you cannot read. Ends with a ten-line Python program that reads a notes file and prints every line marked TODO.

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localStorage Survives a Refresh (Not a Second Browser)

localStorage Survives a Refresh (Not a Second Browser)

Build one small page twice, run three tests on your own list, and find out which of the four promises “my app saves things” is actually making.

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A hands-on tour of the three places a value can live — page memory, localStorage, and somebody else's database — built by writing one small page twice and then breaking it three ways on purpose. The tests separate the two fences beginners collapse into one: the origin fence, which bites when you change ports, and the browser-profile fence, which is why the same file looks empty in Firefox.

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Python You Didn’t Write: Three Questions Before You Paste

Python You Didn’t Write: Three Questions Before You Paste

Four minutes with the assistant that just handed you a correct nine-line function, and the failure mode it prevents: a project you can extend but cannot repair

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Three questions to ask an AI assistant in the same thread that produced the code, before you paste it anywhere: why is this line here, what breaks if I change it, and what would you have written instead and why is it different. Worked end to end on a nine-line dedupe function that is already correct, with the timeit invocations and benchmark scripts a reader can run, and an honest account of which parts a 2026 skill-formation trial actually supports and which parts are mine.

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From Vibecoding to Engineering Team Ready

From Vibecoding to Engineering Team Ready

AI makes it easy to build fast. Teams need code that is readable, testable, and structured.

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When you build with AI, you naturally keep iterating inside one giant file. It works for prototypes, then collaboration slows down fast. This post covers the engineering principles that keep codebases easy to read and change, plus a reusable “Principles + Project Layout” markdown file and a Claude slash command you can use at the start of every session to keep your project clean as it grows.

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