Manage DigitalOcean Infrastructure With Ansible for Laravel and PHP Apps

How to structure an Ansible repo to manage two DigitalOcean droplets, six Laravel apps, and a Go microservices platform without replacing the existing Deployer workflow.

March 18, 2026 · 5 min · Russell

Wiring Spec Drift Detection Into Your Monorepo

How to turn a spec drift detector from a script nobody runs into a hard gate across your task runner, git hooks, and CI pipeline.

March 18, 2026 · 5 min · Russell

Building a temporal layer so your AI never lies about time

How Claudriel’s temporal subsystem pins time per request, resolves timezones from context, and detects clock drift before it corrupts AI reasoning.

March 17, 2026 · 8 min · Russell

Feeling Overwhelmed by Dev Tools? Start With HTML

Why HTML is the best starting point for anyone learning to build for the web, and how to get going without the overwhelm.

March 16, 2026 · 2 min · Russell

Generate Claude Code skills from any documentation URL

Use the skill-gen plugin to turn any library’s documentation into a reusable Claude Code skill in seconds.

March 16, 2026 · 3 min · Russell

Git hooks are your best defense against AI-generated mess

Git hooks have always enforced standards before code enters a repo. With AI agents writing commits autonomously, they’ve become essential.

March 16, 2026 · 4 min · Russell

The entity system at the heart of Waaseyaa

How waaseyaa’s EntityInterface, ContentEntityBase, and field system work — and how the entity-system specialist skill made cross-session development possible.

March 16, 2026 · 5 min · Russell

Three skills for governing multi-repo co-development with Claude Code

A skill set that governs framework-app co-development across three repos: enforcing patterns, auditing divergence, and extracting shared code.

March 15, 2026 · 7 min · Russell

Skills for applying codified context to your own codebase

Two Claude Code skills for applying and maintaining the three-tier codified context architecture — what they do, how they work, and how to get started.

March 14, 2026 · 8 min · Russell

Waaseyaa: building a Drupal-inspired PHP CMS with AI

What waaseyaa is, why it exists, and how planning with GitHub issues before coding changes the dynamic of building complex software with AI.

March 14, 2026 · 6 min · Russell