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Writing about AI workshops, Claude Code workflows, and building software with AI.
June 2026
How a Bottle of Olive Oil Became a Shopping Agent
It started with 'is this olive oil too cheap to be real?' and ended with an agentic Lazada scraper that vets sellers, fills one basket, finds a shop for a whole grocery list — and knows when it's been blocked.
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June 2026
Take Your Claude Code Setup to a New Mac
Your skills, preferences, and the things Claude has learned about your work all live in ~/.claude. How to sync them across machines with git — and the one folder you must never commit.
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How I Use Spaceship
Why Spaceship is where I register domains and run DNS as an API: cheap domains, a clean dashboard, and a REST API that lets Claude Code add a CNAME or verify a domain in plain English.
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June 2026
Why I Train AI for People and Companies That Do Good
Scott Alexander gives a 20% chance of a future we'd actually want. Schrödinger's cat, an air hole, and a 2,500-year-old wager — why I'm putting my working life on that 20%.
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June 2026
Working the Floor at Indonesia Critical Minerals 2026
How to work a conference floor systematically — a method from my mentor Shanto — plus a masterclass in the global nickel market from the Nickel Institute's chairwoman.
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June 2026
A Pali PhD in My Pocket
How I shipped a book, an audiobook, a Chinese edition, and a mobile app in one week with AI — while traveling and running a fund. (App Store review took two.)
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June 2026
From Zero to a Sales Forecast in 2 Hours
What teams actually build in a single AImHuge AI workshop — a forecast in two hours, a dashboard from one prompt, a shipped landing page — in the words of the people who built them.
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June 2026
Build a Two-Row Status Line for Claude Code
What each row tells you, how to build it from scratch, and a one-step skill: a two-row Claude Code status line with model, context %, tokens, diff size, and how much 5-hour and weekly rate-limit budget is left before the next reset.
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May 2026
Zeph Report — Bangladesh through a Chinese investor's lens
A field briefing for Chinese capital looking at Bangladesh — politics, demographics, energy, BRI math, and the BNP government's first 78 days.
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April 2026
Twenty Years Ago
Twenty-five years after I first landed in Beijing, the fire came back — in Dhaka. A reflection on the trip that started Zeph, and why Bangladesh is where China was twenty years ago.
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March 2026
How to Write a /done Skill for Claude Code
A step-by-step guide to building a /done skill that wraps up your Claude Code sessions with architecture docs, lint fixes, commits, and productivity reports.
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September 2021
Meet Alex, our EiR — Accelerating Asia
A 2021 interview on travel, startups, focus, and advice for founders — from Alex's time as Entrepreneur in Residence for Accelerating Asia Cohort 5. Mirrored from Accelerating Asia.
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