Richard Gill
@richardgill.org
Software Engineer / Builder. http://richardgill.org
Trying out pi as a replacement for claude code.
It has extensions, so you can really customize it.
Here's 'Reveal' by @mitsuhiko.at which finds files mentioned during the conversation and opens a custom ui to let you open files or add them to the prompt.
buildwithpi.ai
github.com/mitsuhiko/ag...
It has extensions, so you can really customize it.
Here's 'Reveal' by @mitsuhiko.at which finds files mentioned during the conversation and opens a custom ui to let you open files or add them to the prompt.
buildwithpi.ai
github.com/mitsuhiko/ag...
January 18, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Trying out pi as a replacement for claude code.
It has extensions, so you can really customize it.
Here's 'Reveal' by @mitsuhiko.at which finds files mentioned during the conversation and opens a custom ui to let you open files or add them to the prompt.
buildwithpi.ai
github.com/mitsuhiko/ag...
It has extensions, so you can really customize it.
Here's 'Reveal' by @mitsuhiko.at which finds files mentioned during the conversation and opens a custom ui to let you open files or add them to the prompt.
buildwithpi.ai
github.com/mitsuhiko/ag...
Making exam cheat sheets with Claude Code:
• Converts textbook PDFs → Markdown
• Suggests Typst for clean layouts
• Ingests textbooks + past papers
• Iterates in a feedback loop
• Exports a gist for voice Q&A in @ClaudeAI
It’s such an amazingly general tool!
• Converts textbook PDFs → Markdown
• Suggests Typst for clean layouts
• Ingests textbooks + past papers
• Iterates in a feedback loop
• Exports a gist for voice Q&A in @ClaudeAI
It’s such an amazingly general tool!
Claude
Talk with Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic
claude.ai
December 30, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Making exam cheat sheets with Claude Code:
• Converts textbook PDFs → Markdown
• Suggests Typst for clean layouts
• Ingests textbooks + past papers
• Iterates in a feedback loop
• Exports a gist for voice Q&A in @ClaudeAI
It’s such an amazingly general tool!
• Converts textbook PDFs → Markdown
• Suggests Typst for clean layouts
• Ingests textbooks + past papers
• Iterates in a feedback loop
• Exports a gist for voice Q&A in @ClaudeAI
It’s such an amazingly general tool!
Claude Code can solve Advent of Code 2025 in 2 hours - no human intervention required.
I wrote a post about why it's so good at 'LeetCode' (includes a 2 hour video of Claude solving it):
richardgill.org/blog/solving...
@anthropic.com
I wrote a post about why it's so good at 'LeetCode' (includes a 2 hour video of Claude solving it):
richardgill.org/blog/solving...
@anthropic.com
Solving Advent of Code with Claude Code
Richard Gill
richardgill.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Claude Code can solve Advent of Code 2025 in 2 hours - no human intervention required.
I wrote a post about why it's so good at 'LeetCode' (includes a 2 hour video of Claude solving it):
richardgill.org/blog/solving...
@anthropic.com
I wrote a post about why it's so good at 'LeetCode' (includes a 2 hour video of Claude solving it):
richardgill.org/blog/solving...
@anthropic.com
There aren't enough easter eggs / quirky things in software these days but @anthropic.com has some good ones:
Claude Code coloring in 'ultrathink' is fun!
/stickers lets you buy stickers, and discover the mascot is called 'Clawd' www.stickermule.com/claudecode
Claude Code coloring in 'ultrathink' is fun!
/stickers lets you buy stickers, and discover the mascot is called 'Clawd' www.stickermule.com/claudecode
December 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
There aren't enough easter eggs / quirky things in software these days but @anthropic.com has some good ones:
Claude Code coloring in 'ultrathink' is fun!
/stickers lets you buy stickers, and discover the mascot is called 'Clawd' www.stickermule.com/claudecode
Claude Code coloring in 'ultrathink' is fun!
/stickers lets you buy stickers, and discover the mascot is called 'Clawd' www.stickermule.com/claudecode
Was updating my Claude Code rules and remembered I'd written this guide for my junior engineers when I was running z-dev.
github.com/richardgill/...
It's been 8 years, but most of the advice is timeless.
github.com/richardgill/...
It's been 8 years, but most of the advice is timeless.
github.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Was updating my Claude Code rules and remembered I'd written this guide for my junior engineers when I was running z-dev.
github.com/richardgill/...
It's been 8 years, but most of the advice is timeless.
github.com/richardgill/...
It's been 8 years, but most of the advice is timeless.
Just released 0.0.1 of Patchy.
It's a CLI to help manage patches. I'm not a fan of long-running Github forks, I use Patchy to maintain my fork of Firefox.
github.com/richardgill/...
It's a CLI to help manage patches. I'm not a fan of long-running Github forks, I use Patchy to maintain my fork of Firefox.
github.com/richardgill/...
GitHub - richardgill/patchy: Command-line tool for managing git patch workflows
Command-line tool for managing git patch workflows - richardgill/patchy
github.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Just released 0.0.1 of Patchy.
It's a CLI to help manage patches. I'm not a fan of long-running Github forks, I use Patchy to maintain my fork of Firefox.
github.com/richardgill/...
It's a CLI to help manage patches. I'm not a fan of long-running Github forks, I use Patchy to maintain my fork of Firefox.
github.com/richardgill/...
claude "/stats" is the new GitHub commit heatmap
December 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
claude "/stats" is the new GitHub commit heatmap
Wrote up some tips for using Neovim with Claude Code.
Using Neovim with Claude Code?
Xata engineer @richardgill.org shares a practical setup to:
- See agent-written changes instantly
- Reload git diffs in real time
- Yank code with file locations so Claude gets proper context
📝 Tips for configuring Neovim for Claude Code
xata.io/blog/configu...
Xata engineer @richardgill.org shares a practical setup to:
- See agent-written changes instantly
- Reload git diffs in real time
- Yank code with file locations so Claude gets proper context
📝 Tips for configuring Neovim for Claude Code
xata.io/blog/configu...
December 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Wrote up some tips for using Neovim with Claude Code.
Took the plunge to learn Nix and configure a mini-pc with it.
github.com/richardgill/...
Definitely learned a thing or two about Linux along the way!
github.com/richardgill/...
Definitely learned a thing or two about Linux along the way!
October 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Took the plunge to learn Nix and configure a mini-pc with it.
github.com/richardgill/...
Definitely learned a thing or two about Linux along the way!
github.com/richardgill/...
Definitely learned a thing or two about Linux along the way!
LLMs are currently kind of slow.
OpenAI's new gpt-oss 120b is a pretty capable model in the benchmarks (maybe ~1 year behind the state of the art)
If you run it on Cerebras you can glimpse the speed improvements that are coming.
OpenAI's new gpt-oss 120b is a pretty capable model in the benchmarks (maybe ~1 year behind the state of the art)
If you run it on Cerebras you can glimpse the speed improvements that are coming.
August 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
LLMs are currently kind of slow.
OpenAI's new gpt-oss 120b is a pretty capable model in the benchmarks (maybe ~1 year behind the state of the art)
If you run it on Cerebras you can glimpse the speed improvements that are coming.
OpenAI's new gpt-oss 120b is a pretty capable model in the benchmarks (maybe ~1 year behind the state of the art)
If you run it on Cerebras you can glimpse the speed improvements that are coming.
Dev tooling often behaves differently if you set CI=true
We're going to need AI=true so that dev tools can behave differently when called by an AI agent:
- Non-interactive (like CI=true)
- Less logging to preserve context
- Tell the agent what commands it could run next based on what happened
We're going to need AI=true so that dev tools can behave differently when called by an AI agent:
- Non-interactive (like CI=true)
- Less logging to preserve context
- Tell the agent what commands it could run next based on what happened
August 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Dev tooling often behaves differently if you set CI=true
We're going to need AI=true so that dev tools can behave differently when called by an AI agent:
- Non-interactive (like CI=true)
- Less logging to preserve context
- Tell the agent what commands it could run next based on what happened
We're going to need AI=true so that dev tools can behave differently when called by an AI agent:
- Non-interactive (like CI=true)
- Less logging to preserve context
- Tell the agent what commands it could run next based on what happened
When you use claude code a lot, it feels obvious that coding with agents on mobile makes sense.
Seems likely >20% of 'coding' will happen on mobile within 5 years (presumably from ~0% today!)
Seems likely >20% of 'coding' will happen on mobile within 5 years (presumably from ~0% today!)
July 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
When you use claude code a lot, it feels obvious that coding with agents on mobile makes sense.
Seems likely >20% of 'coding' will happen on mobile within 5 years (presumably from ~0% today!)
Seems likely >20% of 'coding' will happen on mobile within 5 years (presumably from ~0% today!)
If you have a social media app where the DMs are important but you want to stop being exposed to the feed. e.g. LinkedIn or Twitter
You can use beeper.com which aggregates chats across multiple platforms.
Then block/uninstall the original app.
You can use beeper.com which aggregates chats across multiple platforms.
Then block/uninstall the original app.
July 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
If you have a social media app where the DMs are important but you want to stop being exposed to the feed. e.g. LinkedIn or Twitter
You can use beeper.com which aggregates chats across multiple platforms.
Then block/uninstall the original app.
You can use beeper.com which aggregates chats across multiple platforms.
Then block/uninstall the original app.
Was explaining agentic coding to my mum yesterday and found myself saying:
"My job used to be typey typey, and now it's chatty chatty"
Kind of sums it up nicely.
"My job used to be typey typey, and now it's chatty chatty"
Kind of sums it up nicely.
July 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Was explaining agentic coding to my mum yesterday and found myself saying:
"My job used to be typey typey, and now it's chatty chatty"
Kind of sums it up nicely.
"My job used to be typey typey, and now it's chatty chatty"
Kind of sums it up nicely.
With Claude Code you can bring it up to speed on a PR by doing this incantation:
git fetch origin refs/heads/main:refs/remotes/origin/main && git diff "$(git merge-base --fork-point origin/main HEAD)"
Which calculates the PR diff to main, like you'd see on Github.
git fetch origin refs/heads/main:refs/remotes/origin/main && git diff "$(git merge-base --fork-point origin/main HEAD)"
Which calculates the PR diff to main, like you'd see on Github.
July 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
With Claude Code you can bring it up to speed on a PR by doing this incantation:
git fetch origin refs/heads/main:refs/remotes/origin/main && git diff "$(git merge-base --fork-point origin/main HEAD)"
Which calculates the PR diff to main, like you'd see on Github.
git fetch origin refs/heads/main:refs/remotes/origin/main && git diff "$(git merge-base --fork-point origin/main HEAD)"
Which calculates the PR diff to main, like you'd see on Github.
Freshened up limitphone.com (again!)
✅ Visual refresh
✅ Landing pages for parents, gambling and porn
✅ New main video + videos for parents, gambling and porn.
✅ Positioning v5!
✅ Visual refresh
✅ Landing pages for parents, gambling and porn
✅ New main video + videos for parents, gambling and porn.
✅ Positioning v5!
June 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Freshened up limitphone.com (again!)
✅ Visual refresh
✅ Landing pages for parents, gambling and porn
✅ New main video + videos for parents, gambling and porn.
✅ Positioning v5!
✅ Visual refresh
✅ Landing pages for parents, gambling and porn
✅ New main video + videos for parents, gambling and porn.
✅ Positioning v5!
Using Claude Code on the Max plan feels a bit like fast-forwarding 2 years in the software engineering industry. It's equal parts exciting and scary.
June 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Using Claude Code on the Max plan feels a bit like fast-forwarding 2 years in the software engineering industry. It's equal parts exciting and scary.
LLMs do markdown code blocks way better if you ask them to put it in quadruple backticks.
June 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
LLMs do markdown code blocks way better if you ask them to put it in quadruple backticks.
Something I've learned about myself in the past few years is to trust my 'spidy senses' on complex problems.
They turn out to be right 95%+ of the time but come with 0 rational explanation I can pass on to others. Usually takes a couple days for my brain to catch up.
They turn out to be right 95%+ of the time but come with 0 rational explanation I can pass on to others. Usually takes a couple days for my brain to catch up.
June 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Something I've learned about myself in the past few years is to trust my 'spidy senses' on complex problems.
They turn out to be right 95%+ of the time but come with 0 rational explanation I can pass on to others. Usually takes a couple days for my brain to catch up.
They turn out to be right 95%+ of the time but come with 0 rational explanation I can pass on to others. Usually takes a couple days for my brain to catch up.
I'm internally conflicted about using AI tools to code.
I want it to be good! But I keep trying claude code in good faith but remain pretty unconvinced.
I'm slowly diverging from quite a few of my friends and colleagues who seem are all increasing vibing.
I want it to be good! But I keep trying claude code in good faith but remain pretty unconvinced.
I'm slowly diverging from quite a few of my friends and colleagues who seem are all increasing vibing.
June 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I'm internally conflicted about using AI tools to code.
I want it to be good! But I keep trying claude code in good faith but remain pretty unconvinced.
I'm slowly diverging from quite a few of my friends and colleagues who seem are all increasing vibing.
I want it to be good! But I keep trying claude code in good faith but remain pretty unconvinced.
I'm slowly diverging from quite a few of my friends and colleagues who seem are all increasing vibing.
I've recently been working on my computer ALOT and I've been pleasantly surprised how much better my body feels doing it with a split keyboard.
Still better to probably spend less hours on my computer though!
Still better to probably spend less hours on my computer though!
June 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I've recently been working on my computer ALOT and I've been pleasantly surprised how much better my body feels doing it with a split keyboard.
Still better to probably spend less hours on my computer though!
Still better to probably spend less hours on my computer though!
llm-ui.com hits 1k stars! No matter how you're counting.
June 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
llm-ui.com hits 1k stars! No matter how you're counting.
Limit now has a safe search option.
Forces safe search on in Google and other search engines.
Search engines without safe search are blocked.
Forces safe search on in Google and other search engines.
Search engines without safe search are blocked.
June 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Limit now has a safe search option.
Forces safe search on in Google and other search engines.
Search engines without safe search are blocked.
Forces safe search on in Google and other search engines.
Search engines without safe search are blocked.
llm-ui.com got picked up by daily.dev and doubled in stars in 2 days. Neat!
app.daily.dev/posts/react-...
app.daily.dev/posts/react-...
June 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
llm-ui.com got picked up by daily.dev and doubled in stars in 2 days. Neat!
app.daily.dev/posts/react-...
app.daily.dev/posts/react-...
Still a bit sad Slack has won 'company messaging' market.
I feel like it's designed for maximum engagement.
It requires a lot of disapline from me / the people I work with to be productive.
I feel like it's designed for maximum engagement.
It requires a lot of disapline from me / the people I work with to be productive.
May 31, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Still a bit sad Slack has won 'company messaging' market.
I feel like it's designed for maximum engagement.
It requires a lot of disapline from me / the people I work with to be productive.
I feel like it's designed for maximum engagement.
It requires a lot of disapline from me / the people I work with to be productive.