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Running a job search with ADHD and four Claude skills
How I turned the most overwhelming project there is into one ranked list with checkboxes, and let Claude do the searching, tailoring and prep.
Keep your clients' private info out of your code
Five rules and a short script for freelancers who keep client work in git (version history for code), especially when an AI assistant can read it.
Claude Code starter kit
Three files I copy into every project, so the AI starts each session already knowing the project instead of relearning it. Copy, fill in, go.
Which Claude model for which job
Four questions for picking between Claude's quick, cheap models and its slower, smarter ones, plus how I split up my own work.
Working with Claude Code: what it costs, and what I got wrong
Five principles and a running log of lessons, including advice that turned out mostly wrong and a setup that filled up the AI's memory on the first message.
Never edit a .skill zip
Two of my Claude skills silently lost their corrections in one week. Here is why, and the three-part fix that keeps skills in git instead.
Coming next
- What are AI, machine learning and LLMs?Short, with a diagram of how they fit inside each other.
- A beginner's guide to using AIClaude and Claude Cowork, for people who have never touched a terminal.
- A beginner's guide to Claude CodeThe next step, when you want the AI working on files on your own computer.
- How I set up a Mac for developmentJust my setup: Homebrew, iTerm2, VS Code, Claude Code, Python.
- Let AI dig you out of your inboxRead the backlog, tell you what you missed, clear the rest, and keep it from piling up again.
- If you know the process, you can automate itEmail to spreadsheet to PDF: the worst parts of any job, and how to hand them off.
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