Recent content on Arpan Patel
A deep dive into Claude Code for daily users. Covers the .claude directory, CLAUDE.md the way Boris writes it, CLAUDE.local.md, Skills with real examples, custom subagents, plugins, underused commands like /goal and /insights, MCPs, and the workflow patterns the Anthropic team actually uses.
Notes on Git internals, history cleanup, branching strategies, and recovery techniques I rely on past the basics.
How I took a critical query from 8 seconds down to 500ms (a 16× speedup) through indexing, execution plan analysis, and a few hard-earned lessons.
Why I picked Micronaut over Spring Boot for microservices, and what I learned along the way.
A year of running microservices on Kubernetes: what worked, what didn’t, and what I’d do differently.
This weekend, I did something slightly reckless: I decided to write my own programming language.
Exploring the engineering decisions behind Spotify’s skip functionality and its business implications.
Clarifying the confusion between data structure stacks and hardware stack concepts.
A Swift syntax technique for managing multiline strings without unwanted characters.
Python CLI customization for building welcome messages using PyFiglet.
A personal reflection on delivering my first remote presentation at Hack Quarantine.
A recap of a Mozilla community meetup gathering and discussions on Firefox Preview.
OS Fest is a celebration of Open Source Resources and technologies — a recap of the event at Babaria Institute of Technology.
Week one overview of the Flutter development bootcamp in Vadodara, covering Dart fundamentals and OOP concepts.
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