Josh Nichols a.k.a technicalpickles on software, technology, gaming, and whatever his other hobbies are at the moment
A friend and coworker, Martin Emde , dropped an offhand observation that's been rattling around my head ever since: when Claude Code fetches an llms.txt file, the structure comes back squashed. Indentation gone, the careful nesting collapsed into mush. He figured a well-built HTML page might actually
Anthropic says Claude Code users approve 93% of permission prompts . That number cuts two ways. It's the whole motivation for auto mode (if you're going to rubber-stamp, let an AI rubber-stamp on your behalf). It's also a quiet admission that a lot
Two weeks of daily sandbox use, the config I landed on, and the friction I'm still sorting out
Awhile back, I shipped a big refactor last week. Weeks of effort, untangling legacy code, the kind of deep backend work that nobody sees unless you tell them about it. I posted in Slack: "Merged the BigRefactor™️!" Maybe a little too detailed about the how and
Testing Claude Code plugins without trashing your config
In which we debug a shell script that has been around forever, and dive into building gem
You know when you are running your code, and you see a bunch of messages, and you have no idea what they are? And then one day, you just get used to them... I'm reminded of this article : It was my first day at work. As I was
Obligatory first post! It only took 7 years and a pandemic to get an update up on my blog. I purchased pickles.dev back when it was released , but never got around to doing anything. So here it is, a new website! With a new design! And new content! Plus
I’m filing this one under “blog posts I wish existed when I was googling.” If you are dealing with data on the web, you are probably most familiar with JSON and XML. Less common nowadays is CSV, but if it’s all you have, and