Justin Sternberg jtsternberg

Stop Talking to a Stranger

Every time you open Claude Code, it has no idea who you are. It doesn't know your vibe, your humor, your GitHub handle, or that you exclusively communicate in movie quotes. It's like starting every conversation with "new phone, who dis?"

Let's fix that. Paste the prompt below into Claude Code and it'll interview you, write up a personalized profile, and save it to your global config. Every future session will know you from the jump — your name, your aliases, your energy. No more small talk.

I want you to add a personalized "Who You're Talking To" and "Tone & Style" section to my global Claude Code
user file at ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md (create it if it doesn't exist).

CMB2: Why It Qualifies for Claude for Open Source

The Short Version

CMB2 is a developer toolkit for WordPress custom fields, metaboxes, settings pages, and forms. What makes it unique in the WordPress ecosystem is that it was purpose-built to be safely bundled inside other plugins and themes. Hundreds of WordPress products ship CMB2 as an embedded dependency — and its WP Lib Loader pattern automatically resolves version conflicts so only the newest copy loads, even when multiple plugins include it.

CMB2 doesn't meet the 5K GitHub stars threshold because WordPress developers don't install via GitHub — they install via wordpress.org and Composer, or more often, they never install it directly at all. It arrives inside something else. Our real adoption numbers tell a different story.

Adoption Across Platforms

Migration Gotchas

Known pitfalls discovered during real migrations. Read this if any step fails unexpectedly.

`bd init --from-jsonl` is broken (v0.56.1)

Reports success but imports 0 issues. Filed as #2096. Use the bundled scripts/jsonl-to-dolt.py instead.

`bd init` refuses if `beads.db` exists

Git Worktree Guide

Work on multiple branches simultaneously without switching branches or duplicating dependencies.

Quick Start

# Create a worktree for an existing branch
/git-tree feature-branch

	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	"""
	Import beads issues from a JSONL file into a Dolt database via SQL.

	Usage:
	python3 scripts/jsonl-to-dolt.py <jsonl_path> <database_name> [--host HOST] [--port PORT] [--user USER]

	Requirements:
	- dolt CLI installed (brew install dolt)
	- Dolt server running on specified host:port

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	# =============================================================================
	# Merges CHILD repo into PARENT.
	# By Justin Sternberg <me@jtsternberg.com>
	#
	# Version 0.1.0
	#
	# Uses: https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo
	# References:
	# * https://peterbabic.dev/blog/merge-repos-using-git-filter-repo/

	var colors = ['#EC0089','#0C1127','#00cfed'];
	console.group('colors', {colors});
	colors.forEach(c => console.log(`%c `,
	`
	display: block;
	background: ${c};
	width: 5px;
	height: 5px;
	padding: 5px 5px;
	`


	<html>
	<head>
	<style>
	.placeholder {
	position: relative;
	display: inline-block;
	}
	.placeholder:not(.placeholder-hide):after {
	background: rgba(255,255,255,.8) url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/YouTube_play_button_icon_%282013%E2%80%932017%29.svg") no-repeat center center;

	document.addEventListener('om.Form.init', function(evt) {
	console.log('om.Form.init')
	var Form = evt.detail.Form;
	var getQueryParam = function( param ) {
	if (!getQueryParam.params) {
	getQueryParam.params = {};

	var query = window.location.search.substring(1);
	var parts = query ? query.split('&').map(s => s.split('=')) : []

	// To use YouVersion instead of BibleGateway, you can add this filter:
	add_filter( 'dsgnwrks_bible_service', 'dsgnwrks_use_youversion' );
	function dsgnwrks_use_youversion() {
	return 'youversion';
	}

	// To use English Standard Version instead of NIV
	apply_filters( 'dsgnwrks_bible_version', 'dsgnwrks_use_version_esv' )
	function dsgnwrks_use_version_esv() {
	return 'esv';