







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…

hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code
A hand-picked collection of the finest of resources for the most awesome of agents, Claude Code, the undisputed champion of coding companions, from the unstoppable team at Anthropic PBC. A delectable showcase of top tier skills, ambidextrous agents, scintillating status lines, top notch developer tooling, and also we have plugins

Robert Hanks · On Putting Things Off
Job gone, I sat around trying to write, managing bits and pieces, but earning very little. And then my marriage drifted away too, leaving me, in Alan Partridge’s phrase, clinically fed-up boo-hoo. My wife, having said she would leave, took two and a half years to find a way of doing it – there is a small consolation in not being the only procrastinator in the relationship. While this was going on the LRB commissioned me to write about Richard Hughes, who wrote A High Wind in Jamaica. I like Hughes and it seemed like a job I could get on with. I cheerfully settled to the research, reading the novels I hadn’t read, rereading the ones I had. Then I started writing, or that’s what I told myself: some paragraphs, some sentences, a sketch of a plan, then some rewriting, rearranging, scrubbing, more rewriting, more scrubbing, pauses to reconsider. Then I did some more research: the short stories, the children’s stories, the poems and plays, the journalism, Richard Perceval Graves’s biography, then back to the rewriting …

Review of Claude Code-generated code for a bookshop, March 2026
Review of Claude Code-generated code for a bookshop, March 2026 · GitHub

Claude Code cheatsheet | Claude Help Center
This page collects the vocabulary, commands, and keyboard shortcuts that are worth committing to muscle memory. Keep it open in a browser tab (or printed beside your keyboard) during your first few weeks with Claude Code. Most of the friction new users hit comes from not knowing a command already exists for what they are trying to do, so a quick scan here before reaching for a workaround usually pays off.

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