Josh Nichols

@techpickles

Principal Whimsy Engineer for myself, Staff Software Engineer for @GustoHQ. Hobby hobbyist, husband, father, noun, pronoun.is/he . Opinions are my own.

Atlanta, GA

pickles.dev

Joined June 2007

Josh Nichols
@techpickles
Jul 7
PSA: if you need the exact text off a page in Claude Code, don't WebFetch it. curl it. WebFetch laundres the page through a small summarizer model. You get a paraphrase, not the bytes. Fine for the gist, wrong for exact docs/API signatures/llms.txt. bit.ly/3R3DPN0
Josh Nichols
@techpickles
Apr 24
Claude Code prompts for `python3 -c '# comment\nprint(42)'` even with auto-mode on. Not a bug. There's a Bash parser in there with opinions, one of 6 layers between your keystroke and execution. Mapped them all.
Claude Code's Permission Layers: A Map of the Territory
From pickles.dev
Josh Nichols
@techpickles
Apr 21
Repeat after me: CLAUDE.md, skills, and anything else in the context window is at best a suggestion. Hooks are the only way to enforce behavior
Josh Nichols
@techpickles
Apr 14
two weeks running Claude Code with /sandbox. here's the config that actually works, the stuff that broke, and the stuff that's still broken.
The Sandbox Config That Actually Works
From pickles.dev
Josh Nichols
@techpickles
Apr 8
"That's awesome, congrats" takes thirty seconds. "Great, now what about Y?" takes the same thirty seconds but leaves someone deflated. Wrote about the skipped acknowledgment and why we keep doing it to each other
Can We Just Sit with the Win?
From pickles.dev