Akash's Notebook
Thinking in public — daily notes on building with Claude, development, and whatever's worth keeping.
Building with Claude Jun 19, 2026 · 4 min read
Building with Claude: Don't Delete Your Old Site — Redirect It
I had an old portfolio sitting on a github.io domain and wanted it gone. Claude talked me out of deleting it — and out of the duplicate-content trap I was about to walk into.
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Building with Claude: Fake Precision, and Why My Poems Only Show the Year
My imported poems had invented dates — some of them in the future. Fixing the ordering turned into a small lesson about not displaying data you don't actually have.
Read → Building with Claude Jun 19, 2026 · 3 min read
Building with Claude: It's Not Broken, You're Looking at the Wrong Thing
Twice in one session I was sure something was broken. Both times it was working fine — I was just measuring the wrong thing. A short post…
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Building with Claude: Open Code, Closed PDF — Sharing Research Without Getting Scooped
I wanted to put two research papers on my site — one published, one not. Each raised a different question about what you can share, and the answers weren't what I expected.
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