Essential Apps and Services I’m using in 2026
A roundup of essential software tech for 2026
Front2BackDev
The Full Stack tech explorations of Dave Erickson.
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Claude Code has Invaded my Life
How Claude Code replaced my IDE and changed how I think about software engineering
Managing Claude Code Skills Across Projects with SKM
I’ve been using Claude Code pretty heavily lately. If you haven’t tried it, it’s Anthropic’s CLI for running Claude as an AI coding assistant in your terminal — and it’s become the main way I write and debug code day-to-day.
Essential Apps and Services I’m using in 2025
A roundup of essential software tech
Terminal Wrappers and Ditching Docker Desktop
Start of the year tool transitions
Dashboard of EV Goals
Tracking electric vehicle savings
Fixing the N8N RSS Feed Trigger
Using a datastore to fix the N8N RSS Feed trigger
N8N Tempest Weather Dashboard with Looker
Home automation project using n8n and Looker
Unquantified Self 2023
Some diagrams from 2023
AI search on private data using Langchain and Elasticsearch
Langchain and vector embeddings with Elasticsearch and a LLM