murphitup
@murphitup
· Jul 4
My previous post about Zanagrams.com made it sound like I’d built it. Sorry! I didn’t build it, just enjoyed it.
Category: Tips & Tricks
Bits of information that are useful, but too small to count as an article.
Watch out for Hades
According to Reddit, horrible people have made a nasty supply-chain attack called Hades: [Link] Looks like it’s marked at this time by: If you find…
prquicktest: Run Your PR’s Testing Instructions
We’ve been sneakily improving our manual verification process for server PRs over the past few weeks. Sneakily, because it hasn’t been planned, just experiments snuck…
Handling Increases in Test Code
Code written with AI agents gets substantially more robust when the agent has a feedback loop, like a good test suite. And agents like Claude…
Freeing Up Flow With Claude Code & Linear MCP
I’ve been experimenting with using Claude Code to create Linear issues instead of filling them out by hand, and it’s been a bigger workflow upgrade…
Claude Code Hooks for Fun and Focus
My attention wanders. A lot. I’ll kick off a Claude Code session, switch to check on something else, and 20 minutes later realize I’ve got…
Persuasive Resumes
Writing a resume after years of work can be tough, but don’t dismay! Get feedback, write convincingly, focus on specifics, and consider using AI to improve. Keep at it!
AI’s Not Trustworthy, But It Is Testworthy
Today as I hammered away on a code refactor with Cursor AI to migrate some Express endpoints to Next.js, I was met with the sad…
Debugging Flaky Tests
Oh no, the tests are failing. Wait, now they aren’t. Wait, only when I re-run the test it works. Wait, I just ran it from…
Are they the same object?
While debugging I needed to know if two references in two separate parts of my codebase were pointing to the same object in memory. According…
GitHub Projects “OR” in filter
GitHub sure doesn’t make it obvious, but you can filter issues in the the new Projects with an “or” operator in between conditions by joining…