the first, and possibly last, writerbuilder advice column
Getting Started with Claude Code: A Researcher’s Setup Guide
Video 1 in a series on Claude Code
How I've been using Claude Code
I've been using Claude Code a lot recently, and having a pretty good time of it. This is my report on that, and what I've found does and doesn't work well.
Claude Code, Claude Cowork and Codex #5
It feels good to get back to some of the fun stuff.
Claude Code 27: Research and Publishing Are Now Two Different Things
Some Claude Code fan fiction about the economics of publishing with AI agents set in the very near future
Claude Code is a Conflict of Interest
Claude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #8
When I started this series, everyone was going crazy for coding agents.
Toward a durable writing stack – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider
I have benefited over the years from others who have documented their writing setups, and so I feel some obligation to pay the favor forward by doing so with my own. The stack I’ll describe here is one I’ve been iterating on for about twenty years, starting from when I began discovering the pleasures of plain-text writing. Every aspect of it has changed over that period, but the some basic goals and flows have been with me through the writing of my college thesis, five books, and hundreds of articles. I am quite happy with where I am, and others might benefit from what I’ve come up with.
The best writing advice I’ve ever read comes from Robert Frost.
I write prose, not poetry, but the most helpful piece of advice I’ve ever read was written by a poet: Robert Frost, who was born 147 years ago today. In the second, expanded edition of his Co…
Review of Claude Code-generated code for a bookshop, March 2026
Review of Claude Code-generated code for a bookshop, March 2026 · GitHub
Umberto Eco's Guide to Writing a Thesis
A funny and unpretentious guide by the illustrious novelist Umberto Eco, for his favorite audience: teachers and their students.
Very sad to see Rick get driven off of Bluesky by sharing a report of using Claude Code to do something cool and useful. The absolute vitriol towards software developers trying out LLMs—which are very good at writing code, mind you—is so tiresome.
Rick Brewster
I won't be posting here anymore. The toxicity is fucking ridiculous. I'm very disappointed.
Claude Code is blowing my mind—the 1st thing I’ve seen amid the AI hype that feels truly transformative One example—we’ve been doing genre classification work & I had the thought "it’d be nice to have a web application that lets users tag newspaper texts"—literal minutes later it exists & works
Dan Sinykin
among everything else this week dunno if you heard but coding is over. huge opp for humanities folks. should be megaphoning 'learning to think never goes out of style'
OSS Claude Code Alternatives
Hermes Agent — AI Agent Framework
OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant
LettaBot - Your personal AI that remembers
zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw
xenodium/agent-shell
goose
