Digital Garden
17 Side Projects I Built With Claude Code in Two Months
A look at 17 side projects I built in about two months with Claude Code -- from TUI apps in Rust and Go to browser games and AI agent tooling.
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Writing
18 articles on engineering, tooling, and the craft of building software. Plus 12 AI guides and an ongoing short-story series.
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Hand-picked articles worth reading
Popular
Articles readers keep coming back to
Collection 01
Digital Garden
Engineering, opinions, deep-dives, and everything in between.
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Digital Garden
Common React Hooks Antipatterns and Gotchas
Learn about common React Hooks antipatterns and how to avoid them for better code quality.
Digital Garden
The Simplest CSS Grids
Learn the most common CSS Grid layouts with copy-pastable examples for two-column layouts, sidebar navigation, and more.
More from the Digital Garden
- Constants vs Enums in TypeScriptTypeScript tips and tricks
- Build React UI Library (notes)Notes on building a React UI library.
- Where did my blog go?A statement on where my extensive blog has gone.
- Throwback Thursday -- The Site Through TimeA look at the site through time, from its inception to now.
- The Anatomy Of My Ideal React ComponentA walkthrough of my very opinionated React Component.
- Using Postgres FOR loop to generate dataI don't know about you but I often need a 100 of something in my database to properly test a page. Here's how to use Postgres FOR loops to generate test data quickly.
- How to "grep" in PowerShellNew to PowerShell? Here's how to "grep" using built-in PowerShell utilities.
- How I Structure My JavaScript FileCheck out my practices and recommendations on writing JavaScript files that I've learned through writing JavaScript for years.
Collection 02
Demystifying Tools
Practical walkthroughs of common command-line tools and utilities.
Demystifying Tools
Demystifying awk
A practical introduction to awk for printing fields, filtering rows, formatting output, and writing useful one-liners.
Demystifying Tools
Demystifying Git Worktrees
Learn how to work with multiple Git branches simultaneously using worktrees - a powerful feature that lets you check out different branches as separate folders while sharing Git data.
Collection 03
Series
Multi-part reading, in order.
Index
Tags
Every topic, sized by how often it comes up.
- #ai 12
- #claude-code 12
- #demystifying 7
- #productivity 5
- #best-practices 2
- #local-first 2
- #side-projects 2
- #architecture 1
- #clean-code 1
- #code-organization 1
- #components 1
- #css 1
- #data-generation 1
- #database 1
- #file-structure 1
- #git 1
- #javascript 1
- #postgres 1
- #programming 1
- #react 1
- #reference 1
- #skills 1
- #sql 1
- #testing 1
- #typescript 1
- #ui 1