Field Notes

Two ways to make 10MinuteMail's home page faster, one A/B test, and an LCP number that came out identical both ways.

Wiring ccmagic's auto-ticket into a self-hosted Cyrus container so a labeled Linear issue comes back as a merged PR. Three things broke along the way, and they're all in here.

A ccmagic skill that runs a ticket from branch to merge with no human in the loop. What it does, how it's kept from merging garbage, and the cases where I wouldn't use it.

Running Cyrus on a Linux box at home so Claude Code picks up my Linear tickets. Setup was easy. Billing and repo access took the real time.

A local-only dashboard for GitHub, calendar, Linear, Claude Code usage, and system stats on a second monitor. No build step, no database, no auth.

What I've learned about keeping Claude Code productive on real projects: clear the context often, keep state in markdown files, and match the model to the task.

Keep your personal and work GitHub identities separate with SSH config tricks that route keys automatically.

10MinuteMail is faster and mobile-friendly now - a complete overhaul to match modern web standards.

My first Maven Central library: Free Cloudflare Turnstile integration for Spring Boot with zero CAPTCHA friction.

AI-powered translation keeps your Java message bundles in sync across languages without manual translation work.

Working 50% on two projects rarely means 50% productivity each - the hidden costs of context-switching compound fast.

Stateful sessions on Cloudflare Workers beat JWT sprawl when your admin needs context and data persistence.

Cloudflare Workers beat Lambda on latency, cold starts, and pricing - I'm migrating production apps to the edge.

Spring User Framework gets a major upgrade two years later with new features and flexible architecture.

Explore AWS Bedrock API, a direct competitor to OpenAI with Generative AI LLMaaS, and the implications of its Signature v4 authentication method. This article delves into the complexities and potential developer challenges posed by AWS's security-focused approach, highlighting the importance of simplicity and documentation in developer adoption.

Build your own Wufoo with TypeScript and AWS - serverless forms that store data and send alerts automatically.

HTTPS breaks LiveReload in Spring Boot - here's the WebSocket fix to keep hot reloads working over secure connections.

Spring Boot DevTools auto-restarts your app and reloads the browser - speeds up dev cycles significantly.