shane's blog

Cutting a 4-axis CNC chess pawn's machine time from five hours to about two on an entry-level rotary machine: right-sizing the finishing tool, scoping the toolpath, and why an even faster finish wasn't worth keeping.

Notes and photos from building Ben Eater's 6502 breadboard computer: the parts, the memory map, the wire colors, and the bus monitor and single-step clock that went in before any of the computer itself.

Mining ~700 of my own prompts from nine Claude Code sessions across four Rust projects to find the workflow I actually use: prime with context, plan twice, delegate in numbered batches, review with fresh eyes, and keep the hands-on testing for yourself.

Three threads pulled from onboarding a desktop CNC: chipquake (fracture mechanics through self-organized criticality), the substrate boundary (why community knowledge architecture depends on moderation), and the long bet (machining as cognitive grounding).

A taxonomy of prompt injection attack patterns derived from 30+ Gandalf Agent Breaker challenges, organized by attack surface rather than challenge name.

How to build a custom Claude skill that turns conversations into structured dev blog posts using an expanded STAR framework.