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The War Story: Exorcising the “Ghost in the Machine”
The Strategy: Letting Go of the “File-Level” Control My experience with EmDash wasn’t about learning a new dashboard—it was about testing a new hierarchy. Usually, my workflow involves sharing code blocks with a chat agent and manually stitching the results. For this integration, I decided to “let go.” Instead of micro-managing file edits, I treated…
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Operationalizing Intent: A System for Systems Thinkers
1. Reclaiming Foundational Knowledge: Overcoming Epistemic Dependency Less than six months ago, I had a collection of passion projects in varying phases of development. Each was a small mental challenge I posed to myself: Can this be created? The danger with this “wild-hair” process is that once the challenge is overcome, the project often loses…
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Dev Log: From Plugin to Platform – The Two-Stream Architecture
In my last post, I signed off with a simple plan: test the “Save to GitHub” feature and deploy. But as I started using the tool, I realized that saving Markdown files to a repo was only half the solution. If I truly want to build an “Engineering Intelligence” tool, I need more than just…
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Dev Log: Laying the Foundation for GitHub Integration
Following up on the previous post where I defined the vision for v0.2.0, integrating a “Save to GitHub” feature, today was all about building the necessary foundation, both in the plugin’s code and in my own development environment.
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Dev Log: Refining the Vision – Beyond Copy/Paste
The current version of the Daily Dev Habit plugin (v0.1.0, available on the live demo) successfully guides users through journaling prompts and generates a clean Markdown log. However, the final step relies on “Copy to Clipboard,” forcing the user to manually switch contexts and paste the log into its final destination.
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Dev Log: The Origin of a Habit
Before I left for WordCamp US in Portland, Oregon, my days were a blur of context-switching. I was juggling my day job, architecting OcalaRepair, and rebooting One Off Boss. Hopping between these complex projects was taxing; I’d return to one after a few days away, and the details would escape me.
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Daily Dev Habit Design System
The first post for Daily Dev Habit is the Design System. This can be used as a template for designing other sites. The Full Site Editor is used on this site, no custom templates or theme builders.