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  • Blog Jul 12, 2026

    Claude Code Skills for Obsidian Personal Knowledge Management

    A set of Claude Code skills and Obsidian conventions, CLAUDE.md, agent-context frontmatter, and session logging, that give an AI agent real continuity across sessions instead of starting from zero every time.

  • Blog Jul 11, 2026

    Save YouTube Video Learnings to Obsidian

    A Claude Code skill that downloads a YouTube video's audio, transcribes it locally, and files a summarized note into Obsidian so the learning actually sticks.

  • Blog Jul 10, 2026

    Agentic Coding Demands a Higher Code Quality Baseline

    Existing code quality shapes agentic output far more than AGENTS.md files, prompts, or skills. Refactor what's being perpetuated and quality follows.

  • Essay May 23, 2026

    Writing Is Worth the Extra Minute

    Today, we communicate through writing more than ever. Both remote and on-site employees collaborate in work chat, wikis, and project …

  • Work Mar 29, 2026

    deparam

    Paste a URL, see its query parameters in a readable split-pane table