Blog

I have no idea what I am doing, but this blog thing still interests me, so I guess I will do something.

• I put Claude Code in the browser

  2026-06-16

  A self-hosted web front end for Claude Code — one Docker container per user, sessions you can resume from a browser tab, and no cloud in the loop.

• Three layers I refused to build

  2026-06-16

  My Claude Code wrapper has no database, no Docker SDK, and no permission prompts — each absence was a decision made in the spec, and each one is why the server fits in seven files.

• I asked Claude what made its design look generated

  2026-06-10

  The redesign looked AI-generated and I couldn't say why — so I asked the model that designed it to critique it. It listed its own tells, and iteration 19 became a subtraction pass.

• Teal, because of the orange

  2026-06-08

  Reskinning my Claude Code plugin manager around teal and terracotta — a palette that stays related to Claude without looking like an Anthropic product, and a VSCode panel that does the same trick against the editor.

• The plugin scope I skipped was the repo's own stance

  2026-06-07

  Going from a two-tier local/global plugin model to three scopes — Local, Project, User — because the missing one lets a repo carry its own opinions to whoever works in it.

• The plugin manager I didn't write

  2026-06-04

  Every line of my Claude Code plugin manager was written by Claude Code. What I actually did all those days — specs, sequencing, and being the first user — and where the model out-debugged me.

• The Windows bug that came back three times

  2026-06-02

  I promised to write up the path problems once I understood them. It took three releases, a 29-line band-aid, and Claude Code finding the one character I couldn't see.

• Five plugins, five round trips

  2026-05-26

  Setting up yet another project with my usual Claude Code plugins, I got annoyed enough to build a toggler — a browser UI and a VSCode panel over one JSON file.

• New blog, new direction

  2026-05-18

  Resetting the blog. Expect short, occasional notes on building AI coding agents and the tooling around them.