Stories on Tips & tricks
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7 design skills for Claude Code: how to improve any design
Claude Code has seven built-in design skills, from accessibility-review to ux-copy. What they do, when to use them, and the sentence that turns each one on.
Anthropic put its best prompts in a library. Here's what I took from it.
Claude Code got a prompt library: copy-paste starters pulled from official workflows and internal teams. I didn't know it existed. Five patterns I picked up immediately.
Expert prompting with Claude Sonnet 5
The close of the series, for the heaviest users. The approach of the maker of Claude Code, parallel sessions, and the choice between Sonnet 5 and Opus 4.8.
Advanced prompting: getting more out of Sonnet 5
You know the basics. Time for the controls most people leave untouched: effort levels, steering the length, and making the model check its own work.
Beginner's guide: giving Claude Sonnet 5 good instructions
Never really prompted before? Sonnet 5 follows you more literally than earlier versions, and that actually makes it easier to learn. The anatomy of a good instruction.
Prompting with Claude Sonnet 5: what you need to know
Since Sonnet 5 arrived, prompting works a little differently. Three things have genuinely changed. Here is what to know before you read the rest of the series.
Not Allowed at Work? Start at Home.
More and more people aren’t allowed to use Claude at work. At home you can, for free, on your phone. And that’s where you actually learn it.
Verification is not your unit test. Can the agent run it itself?
Everyone thinks of tests and linters when they hear verification. The makers of Claude Code mean something else: can the agent run the thing itself and see that it works?
Tell the model less. It often knows a better way.
Giving an AI agent too much explanation looks careful, but it is a form of micromanaging. The makers of Claude Code call themselves context minimalists. Why saying less works better.
Getting started with Claude Cowork
A practical guide to get going with Claude Cowork in one evening. From your first task to projects and a custom skill that takes the dull work off your plate.
How to Make Them Yourself
A practical guide to making images locally with Bonsai. Install, one command, and the secret to holding a single style. Plus a gallery of what is possible.
Five Grower Champagnes Worth Discovering
No big houses. Five small producers I open often, and the ones I hand to anyone who asks where to start.