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Videos, field notes, articles, project updates, and milestones. Follow along as we build tools and share knowledge for developers learning AI-assisted development.
Solo
Solo SEO via competitor pages
SEO for Solo: Building comparison pages that drive traffic. But still... honesty matters. See how I boosted clicks with competitor pages & structured...
Solo
Closing the feedback loop
Improve your app: Capture in-app feedback, automate bug fixes with LLMs, & close the development loop for better user experiences.
Solo
Solo E2E testing
Black box testing & end-to-end test harnesses! Learn how to build custom tests for any platform for max confidence in your application.
Solo: A lightweight desktop app for agentic development. Manage projects, auto-start processes, run agents, & streamline your dev stack.
faster.dev
Modal.com video infrastructure
Faster.dev's video pipeline evolved! See how Modal.com now handles encoding via FFmpeg, saving server resources and money.
Watch a dev revamp soloterm.com! Brainstorming illustrations with AI (Claude, Gemini, Midjourney) for a new agentic dev environment.
faster.dev
Planning out "Field Notes"
Building a new "Field Notes" section on faster.dev! See the process of creating a home for standalone tips, tricks, and insights.
Solo
Solo financials
Dev shares REAL Stripe dashboard numbers! $4k earned, lessons learned, & a sneak peek at the new agentic development environment.
Solo
Unified logging from the browser and server
Unified logging from browser & server in Solo app! See how front-end & Rust logs merge for easier debugging & performance analysis.
Solo
Major improvements to Solo
Solo: A blazing-fast AI terminal manager! See the latest updates with optimized speed, AI summaries, & hotkeys. Almost ready for beta!
faster.dev
Welcome to faster.dev
Welcome to faster.dev, the very site you're on right now!
Month
Shipped a bunch of UI fixes! A major feed and timeline polish pass. Playback speed is now local-storage only and actually works.I consolidated shared timeline layout/components, introduced a reusable Str::cleanRichText pipeline with architecture guardrails, removed a bunch of speculative, unused stuff.Aligned shared UI components with forwardRef + variant patterns for more consistent, maintainable frontend code.
counselors (npm package)
Update on counselors (npm package)
Let me show you the process of releasing an open-source library with a focus on automating tasks like updating the changelog and publishing releases.
counselors (npm package)
Update on counselors (npm package)
An overview of the Counselors package and how it works to allow developers to consult various AI models.
Loadout
Update on Loadout
See an overview of a new desktop app called Loadout and how it can be used to distribute your skill files to multiple AI agent providers.
Solo
Update on Solo
Walkthrough of the deployment and release workflow for Solo, including an overview of the admin panel.
Solo
Update on Solo
Behind-the-scenes update on the next iteration of Solo.
Claude Code from Scratch
Setting up permissions
Manage your permissions for Claude code to reduce daily friction in daily use.
Auditing Your Code
Handling errors
Audit your error handling! Find & fix empty catch blocks, lost exceptions, bad Promise handling, and improve UX.
Auditing Your Code
Cleaning up naming
Automate code cleanup! Discover how audit commands identify and fix naming inconsistencies in your codebase. Improve readability & future-proof!
Auditing Your Code
Trimming overgrown codebase
Clean your codebase! Audit boundaries, find fat components, & fix data violations after feature sprints. Improve maintainability & kill overgrowth.
Auditing Your Code
Removing dead code
Clean your codebase! Find & remove dead code, unused imports, & orphaned files. Keep your project lean & mean after big sprints.
Auditing Your Code
Finding and fixing code idioms
Audit idiomatic skill: Find and fix code inconsistencies! Review of Rest, React, & UI idioms to improve code quality.
Auditing Your Code
Using audit abstractions
Tame unruly code! Use "audit abstractions" to identify and eliminate bad patterns like God classes & prop drilling. Improve maintainability.
Auditing Your Code
Finding audit drift
Find and fix code drift! See a real-world example of using audit commands to improve state management & catch errors in a toolbox app.
Clean up your codebase! Learn how to use audit commands after big features or refactors to trim overgrowth and maintain code quality.
Claude Skills
Finalize skill
Keep your codebase clean! Learn to prune false starts and debug code before committing with the 'finalize' command. Simplify your workflow.
Claude Skills
Deep product skill
Explore AI-powered skills Deep Product & Deep Stack for research & ideation. See how they help define product UX, security, & features.
Claude Skills
Deepstack skill
Unlock Deep Stack: Craft perfect research prompts for complex code features, like multi-pane terminals in Tauri, and supercharge your AI agent.
Claude Skills
New tests skill
Improve code quality with "new tests"! Catch bugs in recent work by prioritizing new tests & git commits. Ensure expected results before finalizing.
Claude Skills
Interview me skill
See how AI clarifies product vision! Watch as Interview Me helps refine project scoping & technical details for the Loadout coding tool.
Claude Skills
Specific skills that you can use today
Level up your AI! Get ready-to-use skills you can copy & paste into Claude (or your bot).
Claude Skills
Skill marketplace
Find and install AI skills to boost productivity! Learn how to use skills.sh, safely add capabilities, and audit your site like a pro.
Claude Skills
Make your own skill
Code smarter, not harder! Create custom skills for your AI coding agent to automate tasks & boost productivity. Learn how to build your own!
Claude Skills
Where skill files are located
Discover where AI coding skills live on your machine, from project directories to global settings, and how to manage them.
Claude Skills
How to run a skill
Learn how to run a skill in your codebase and how Claude Code utilizes the skill files.
LLM Skills: Tune AI to your specific needs! Learn what skills are, how they work, and why custom skills are crucial. Be careful what you load!
Claude Code from Scratch
Modes within Claude Code
Learn how to use Claude Code's different modes based on what you're trying to accomplish.
Claude Code from Scratch
How Claude manages memory
Learn how to manage Claude's memory using claude.md files, which act as context for the LLM.
Claude Code from Scratch
Exploring the codebase
Watch how you can explore your codebase using Claude Code.
Claude Code from Scratch
Using Statusline
Customize your Claude Code instance using /statusline to enhance its functionality.
Start with some basic prompts to understand how Claude works and it's level of intelligence.
Get an introduction to Claude Code, a command-line interface (CLI) tool for coding assistance.
Init Commands: Guardrails from the Start
Manually invoke rules
Learn how you can manually invoke the rules, including outside of Claude Code.
Init Commands: Guardrails from the Start
Use Deep Research to create init file
Utilize Claude Deep Research on the web to create a first pass at best practices into an init file.
Init Commands: Guardrails from the Start
Research init from URL
Automate distilling best practices from a website into an init file.
Init Commands: Guardrails from the Start
Reconcile init
Merge local and global init files after deciding which version should take precedence.
Init Commands: Guardrails from the Start
How to update your init files
Learn how to update your init files so that the same issue doesn't repeat in the future.
Init Commands: Guardrails from the Start
Overview of init-all command
See how you can structure your init files and run init-all to implement your rules.
Learn how Claude Code uses rules and how to organize your rules in your directory.
More updates
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