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Claude Code statusline - things that make yours lie to you

Everything I learned writing and rewriting a Claude Code status line: the full shape of the JSON you get on stdin, the seven bugs that quietly make a status line wrong, and a finished one you can install in a single line.

The bugs are the interesting part. Every one of these was in my own status line, shipped, for weeks. None of them are in the docs.

How it looks schematically:

✻ O5 H  ┃  📁 my-repo  🌿 main ●3 ↑1  ┃  💰 $0.42 · 4m  +1.2k/-340  ┃  🧠 36% 357k/1.0M  ⏱5h 63% ↻1h07m  ┃  ☕ 52m break
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Blocking Countries via Cloudflare WAF Custom Rules

Prerequisites

Cloudflare API Token with Zone:Rulesets:Edit permission
Zone IDs for each domain

1. Get Zone IDs

curl -s -X GET \

The Direct Response Copy Skill

Write copy that converts. Landing pages, emails, sales copy, headlines, CTAs, social posts — anything persuasive.

This is an AI skill file. It turns any AI into a direct response copywriter trained on the frameworks of Schwartz, Hopkins, Ogilvy, Halbert, Caples, Sugarman, and Collier. Instead of getting generic AI copy, you get internet-native writing that sounds like a smart friend explaining something — while quietly deploying every persuasion principle in the book.

How to use this

Standalone script

Install

Store it in .zshrc and source ~/.zshrc

Run

dclean service1 service2

What Hiring Should Look Like

This is definitely not the first time I've written about this topic, but I haven't written formally about it in quite awhile. So I want to revisit why I think technical-position interviewing is so poorly designed, and lay out what I think would be a better process.

I'm just one guy, with a bunch of strong opinions and a bunch of flaws. So take these suggestions with a grain of salt. I'm sure there's a lot of talented, passionate folks with other thoughts, and some are probably a lot more interesting and useful than my own.

But at the same time, I hope you'll set aside the assumptions and status quo of how interviewing is always done. Just because you were hired a certain way, and even if you liked it, doesn't mean that it's a good interview process to repeat.

If you're happy with the way technical interviewing currently works at your company, fine. Just stop, don't read any further. I'm not going to spend any effort trying to convince you otherwise.

While attempting to explain JavaScript's reduce method on arrays, conceptually, I came up with the following - hopefully it's helpful; happy to tweak it if anyone has suggestions.

Intro

JavaScript Arrays have lots of built in methods on their prototype. Some of them mutate - ie, they change the underlying array in-place. Luckily, most of them do not - they instead return an entirely distinct array. Since arrays are conceptually a contiguous list of items, it helps code clarity and maintainability a lot to be able to operate on them in a "functional" way. (I'll also insist on referring to an array as a "list" - although in some languages, List is a native data type, in JS and this post, I'm referring to the concept. Everywhere I use the word "list" you can assume I'm talking about a JS Array) This means, to perform a single operation on the list as a whole ("atomically"), and to return a new list - thus making it much simpler to think about both the old list and the new one, what they contain, and

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

	import os
	import subprocess
	import sys
	import tty
	import termios


	def main(args):
	# Input prompt
	sys.stdout.write('\033[1;34m╭─ Kitty AI Shell\033[0m\n')

	# archive of https://blog.wplauncher.com/convert-heic-to-jpg-on-mac/

	Step 1: Install Homebrew

	Open up your terminal by clicking on your spacebar and the command key at the same time, then type in terminal, and then click on Terminal.app to open it up.

	If you’re not used to using your Terminal, it may seem a little intimidating and may make you nervous, but don’t worry this is completely safe. Homebrew is a package manager for macOS, in other words, it installs the stuff you need that Apple didn’t install. You can learn more about Homebrew here.

	Once Terminal has opened, run the following command inside of it:

	/*

	In JavaScript, objects can be used to serve various purposes.

	To maximise our usage of the type system, we should assign different types to our objects depending
	on the desired purpose.

	In this blog post I will clarify two common purposes for objects known as records and dictionaries
	(aka maps), and how they can both be used with regards to the type system.