Write-ups and Notes

A dialogue on why an AI assistant wanders across unrelated projects when you launch it from a shared parent directory, and the small, overlooked fix that solves it.

Running list of AI tools I’ve tried, with short notes and opinions.

A pre-commit and pre-push hook pair, shared per-project via core.hooksPath, that blocks any git client from touching main.

A Claude Code hook that blocks git commit/push on main, while leaving my own terminal untouched.

The habit I was trying to automate SQLcl updates break things sometimes. Not often, but often enough that I stopped overwriting the last version every time a new one shipped. For a while now my setup has looked like this: Every version I download lives in its own folder under ~/Applications, named after its build number. ~/Applications/sqlcl-latest is a symlink pointing at whichever version is active. ~/bin/sql is a symlink that goes through sqlcl-latest, not straight to a version folder. That last point is what makes rollback cheap. If a new release misbehaves, I repoint sqlcl-latest at an older folder and ~/bin/sql follows it automatically. No need to touch ~/bin/sql at all. ...

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Tim St. Hilaire.

Purpose The windows operating system has made some significant improvements for developers who live and work with Linux servers or Mac users. WSL levels the playing field and is an excellent option. The following is a collection of my own personal notes. These instructions have an Oracle slant. Your settings may need to be different. The focus here is some common problems, but not exhaustive. No warranty is assumed or implied. This is just transparent note taking. ...

DNS is a wide topic. Here are some of my notes and the services I like.

My notes, links, and reminders for the SSG HUGO.