What I’m Reading and Watching This Week ๐
- [Article] “Deep Work in the Age of AI” by Cal Newport. Proper interesting take on how AI coding tools change our relationship with focused work. Made me rethink a few things about how I structure my own deep work blocks.
- [Video] “The Art of Code Review” by ThePrimeagen. Some good bits on making code reviews actually useful instead of the usual rubber-stamping faff.
- [Book] Currently reading “Staff Engineer” by Will Larson. If you’re a senior dev wondering what comes next, this is the one.
Side Projects and AI Dev Tools I’m Building ๐ ๏ธ
stevengonsalvez.com ๐ข Active
Next.js 15 + MDX blog platform with the byte-sized banter section you’re reading right now. Foundation’s done, blog section coming together. Next up is deploying to Vercel and sorting the domain.
Personal MCP Server ๐ก On Hold
Custom MCP server for personal productivity tools. Paused while I wait for Claude Desktop to get its MCP support properly sorted.
What Changed This Week ๐๏ธ
Migrated the blog from dev.to-only to a self-hosted Next.js site. Launched this new weekly banter format. Still experimenting with how often I actually want to publish, reckon weekly is about right but we’ll see.
Developer Tips and Tricks ๐ก
Quick git alias for better logs:
git config --global alias.lg "log --graph --oneline --all --decorate"
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This creates a beautiful visual git history that’s way more readable than the default log.
Claude Desktop optimization tip:
Keep conversations small and restart often. The message limit resets every 5 hours, but shorter conversations use fewer tokens per message. You can get 2-3x more usage by starting fresh chats instead of continuing long threads. (If you’re weighing up Claude Code versus other terminal tools, I did a proper comparison of Claude Code vs Warp AI a while back.)
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