Productivity

01

10 min read

Claude Code as a back-office: wiring Drive, Gmail and Trello to actually run your company

Plugging Claude Code into Google Drive, Gmail and Trello to audit what's actually happening in a startup: 107 files reorganized, emails that never arrived, a Trello board reconciled with reality. Including the OAuth traps nobody documents.

02

11 min read

Claude Fable 5: what the official demos don't tell you

Fable 5 migrates 50 million lines of Ruby in a day. That's true. But while prepping a training module, I ran into the flip side the announcements skip: 500k to 1M tokens per session, 19 timeouts out of 33 tasks, and guardrails that trip at the faintest hint — to the point that Anthropic had to publicly apologize 48 hours after launch. The real manual for a model you commission instead of steer.

03

12 min read

chrome-devtools MCP from WSL: driving (and auto-launching) a Windows Chrome

Setting up the chrome-devtools MCP in WSL2 to drive a real Windows Chrome: the hostAddressLoopback networking prerequisite nobody documents, why --autoConnect doesn't work cross-OS, and a PreToolUse hook that launches Chrome on its own at the right moment.

04

9 min read

Claude Code Remote Control: resume your WSL sessions from your phone

How to drive Claude Code sessions stored in WSL from your phone using the remote-control command, and why DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1 silently blocks the feature even on Max plan.

05

14 min read

Local HTTPS in 2026: one Let's Encrypt cert for all my dev projects

Twenty-two Next.js and TanStack Start projects fighting for port 3000. Google OAuth refusing `.localhost`. `Secure` cookies broken over HTTP. In May 2026, the right answer is neither a 30xxx port plan nor `lvh.me`. It's a real Let's Encrypt wildcard cert on your own domain, served on 127.0.0.1, via Caddy and a DNS-01 challenge. Story of a full migration and what I wish I'd known before starting.

06

11 min read

Installing the Claude Code webapp-testing Skill Cleanly

Giving Claude Code control of a real browser via Anthropic's official webapp-testing skill. Step-by-step install with a dedicated venv inside the skill folder — the only method that holds up in 2026 without polluting the system.