A few weeks ago, I ran out of Claude usage halfway through a change. The code was still sitting safely in the project, but much of the useful context was trapped inside the old conversation.
What was the agent trying to achieve? Which files mattered? What had it already ruled out? Starting again would mean repeating work I had already paid for.
That frustration eventually became one of the first workflows in jonbaldie/skills, my collection of practical skills for coding agents.
If you have not used agent skills before, the idea is simple. A skill is a reusable set of instructions that teaches a coding agent how to complete one particular job. It can include scripts and reference material as well as plain English guidance. Instead of explaining the same process in every new conversation, I can invoke a named skill and have the agent follow the whole workflow from beginning to end.
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Hi folks, just a quick post encouraging you to read my new guide on the Writing Advice blog, all about death stakes.
Read the post using this link: How do I increase the stakes for my protagonist?
I use the Writing Advice blog for specific guides on fiction and nonfiction writing, whereas I keep this blog more for quick, personal updates.
If you enjoy the post, please share it on social media!
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Last week I wrote about my master’s degree and that I took a break from the writing craft to complete it.
I thought people might like to read some notes about how I am returning to the writing craft, with some brief thoughts on K.M. Weiland’s book Writing Your Story’s Theme.
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This is a quick post to let you know I’ve re-released one of my writing craft books with major updates.
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I recently finished a master’s degree in mathematics at the Open University, a remote learning institution in the UK.
I thought it’d be interesting to talk about my experience on the degree, and perhaps share some lessons learned for others who want to study postgraduate mathematics or enrol on a remote learning course in general.
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I’m excited to show you Hearth, a writing and storytelling app that I’ve created for working on and managing book projects.
I created it mostly for myself, but it is 100% free for anyone to use. You can find it here: https://joinhearth.com.
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The last time I updated this blog was last October, and since a few things have happened since then, I thought it’d be a good idea to post another update for anyone who might be interested.
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Ever since I self-published The 24 Laws of Storytelling in 2018, I have published all of my subsequent books through Kindle Direct Publishing, better known as KDP.
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It’s been nearly one year since my last post on this blog, and a lot has happened in that time. So I thought it’d be a good opportunity to clean up this blog a little, and share some news with you.
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You can now read my two new writing craft books, Write Your Novel and, as of today, Beauty.
Write Your Novel is a general collection of tools and strategies for aspiring storytellers, but in a much more condensed form than my first book, The 24 Laws of Storytelling.
Beauty, which is now live, is a distilled look at awe, wonder, and the sublime in stories. My goal with this book is to show you that sublime fiction is both achievable and actionable, with examples from literature and cinema.
These two books are part of my Short Reads Collection, which I’m adding to in the coming months with further books.
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