
We Spent an Hour Trying to Get Past a Claude Code Deny Rule
We denied reads of one file and calls to curl, then tried eight ways around it. Six were blocked, including cat, sed and a chained command. The two that were not still stopped and asked.
Never used AI
Start here if you have never used AI, or tried it once and gave up. Numbered, in order, and every lesson measures the AI way against the way you do it now.
Uses AI, wants better results
You use AI occasionally and the results are fine but not good. These compare approaches on the same task so you can see what actually changes the output.
Putting it to work
Getting AI into the work you actually do, including the parts where it is the wrong tool.
Developers
Claude Code, MCP, hooks and the things that break at the edges. We run them, break them, and report the numbers.
Never used the app
The desktop app for Mac and Windows, which does things the browser tab cannot. Numbered, in order, and tested on a real install rather than written from the release notes.
Tutorials
Step-by-step guides we wrote by actually building the thing, with real timings and a section on everything that broke along the way. No paraphrased documentation.