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## Use Your Tools Together I spent my free time this week upgrading a couple of old Laravel 10 applications. PHP versio...

## Keep a Brag Doc We wrapped up mid-cycle reviews at work last week. Not a full performance review. Just a check-in. N...

## Give Yourself Permission I have a lot of conversations with peers at different engineering levels. The theme is almo...

## Building Something for My Kids I've been quiet on other projects because I've been heads down on a new side project:...

## Back to the Grind The first week back after a long break is always a recalibration. You open Slack and remember how...

## Making Music with AI (and Kids) Last weekend I upgraded our Google One account to access Gemini's newer models. The...

## Your AI Tools Need Maintenance Too I updated my `/pr:review` custom command in Claude Code this week. It had been a...

## Standardizing Chaos Quick note: if you replied to a previous newsletter and it bounced, I'm sorry. I had some DNS is...

## Gratitude Mode No work this week. I took the whole week off, and it was a much needed break from all the project pla...

## A Quick Hello Welcome to the first issue of Dev Notes. I'm glad you're here. This is meant to be a conversation, no...

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