Ultrathink and Build: Weekly Dev Log with AI Tools and Side Projects

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  [Article] " for personal productivity tools. Paused while I wait for Claude Desktop to get its MCP support properly sorted.
  
  

  
  
  
  What Changed This Week 🗞️
  

  
  
  

  Migrated the blog from dev.to-only to a self-hosted Next.js site. Launched this new weekly banter format. Still experimenting with how often I actually want to publish, reckon weekly is about right but we'll see.

  
  

  
  
  
  Developer Tips and Tricks 💡
  

  
  
  

  Quick git alias for better logs:
  
  

  
  
  
  
  

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  git config --global alias.lg "log --graph --oneline --all --decorate"
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  This creates a beautiful visual git history that's way more readable than the default log.

  
  
  

  Claude Desktop optimization tip:
  
  Keep conversations small and restart often. The message limit resets every 5 hours, but shorter conversations use fewer tokens per message. You can get 2-3x more usage by starting fresh chats instead of continuing long threads. (If you're weighing up Claude Code versus other terminal tools, I did a proper comparison of Claude Code vs Warp AI a while back.)

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