EXPLORE THE NOTEBOOK
Notes from the command line, the workbench, and the vintage computer shelf.
A custom slash command is a saved prompt you run with a slash. How they work in Claude Code now that they've been folded into skills, and which of the ones in my notes actually have a job.
Building with Claude and MCP · Note 3 ↗The file naming standard I use for my game backups, with a four-letter genre code at the front so a folder sorts itself by type, plus the full code list, region and note codes, and examples.
Keeping a media library tidy · Note 4 ↗The Life OS prompt sets a model up as a chief of staff for work and life, and it's useful as long as you know what it can't see and what you shouldn't hand it.
Prompts for plans, apps and side hustles · Note 4 ↗Strip dump flags like [!] and [b1], turn (U) into (USA), tidy revision tags and optionally add release years from a CSV, with a before-and-after list of every rename.
Keeping a media library tidy · Note 3 ↗My notes on safe updates were written for a big team with canary releases and approval chains. Here's the same idea cut down for one person with a project that still has to work tomorrow.
Dev habits for a team of one · Note 2 ↗A small Python script that stitches Markdown chapters into a single clean HTML book with a title page, linked contents, chapter breaks, curly quotes and proper scene breaks.
Tools for the writing desk · Note 1 ↗Politely close your open apps (and, if you ask, tray apps and named services) to free up memory before a game or a long render, while Windows, your security software and the terminal you're typing in stay put.
Spring cleaning for Windows PCs · Note 10 ↗My old CLAUDE.md template tried to hold everything. The one that runs this blog is about twenty lines. Here's where the file lives, what earns a line in it, and what doesn't.
Building with Claude and MCP · Note 2 ↗Walk a folder once and get every subfolder's file count and total size in tree order, ready to sort, filter or save as a CSV.
File wrangling · Note 8 ↗The WordPress database is where sites actually break. Back it up first, clean it with WP-CLI instead of raw SQL, and never swap URLs with a plain REPLACE, because serialized data won't survive it.
The WordPress toolbox · Note 4 ↗Move CBZ and CBR files, or whole series folders, into genre or decade folders using a series list you keep in a spreadsheet, then list what didn't match and check nothing went missing.
Keeping a media library tidy · Note 2 ↗Two Roku tricks that often get lumped together: developer mode for sideloading your own channel, and Roku Media Player for watching files off a USB drive. How each one works, and which one you actually need.
