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30 tips and tricks with Claude Code CLI on WSL
Claude Code on WSL returns fewer search matches than exist when a repo sits on /mnt/c. A 2,000-file benchmark, plus 30 fixes for the WSL boundary.
Claude Code vs Codex Limits, Measured in the Same Unit
Claude Code vs Codex limits, measured across 28 days and 56.8 billion tokens. Why token counts cannot predict quota burn, and what to read on each side instead.
Open Source Has a Distribution Problem, Not a Building Problem
Open source distribution decides whether your project gets found. A one-week census of 106 launches, and the title that scored 154 in one sub and 1 in another.
Why expensive models make terrible execution subagents
Subagent model selection has one costly default. Reasoning models obey their own traces 15.6% of the time, so here is where to pin model and effort.
Token-Compression Skills Do Not Survive Measurement
Token compression skills report savings the invoice never shows. Cache reads carry 87 percent of an agent bill, and cutting tokens can push the cost up.
Vercel's scriptc Compiles TypeScript to Native Binaries Without a Runtime
scriptc compiles TypeScript to 200KB native binaries with no JavaScript engine. What works, what falls back to quickjs-ng, and what npm deps mean for you.
How claude skills were meant to be made (by hand)
Hand-written claude code skills outperform generated ones because they carry only the delta the model needs. Drop the bloat and survive every model upgrade.
Every Model Release Ages Your Skills
Claude Code ignoring CLAUDE.md is often an aged file, not a model bug. See which instructions a release expires, and which lines to delete on day one.
Perplexity Isn't Shutting Down. Its Citation Corpus Might Shrink
No, Perplexity is not down. The lawsuits threaten which sources it can read, so plan for a thinner citation set inside a healthy 200, and detect it in code.