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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 11/12/2025

Last Claude Code Power User workshop of the year 🚨tomorrow🚨. Come learn how to let Claude Code cook over the holidays while you're on break! (I'm not saying it's a good idea...)

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 11/12/2025

I got tired of creating so many aliases, agents, rules, and prompts. I built mdflow to consolidate them all into easy-to-author, intelligent markdown files. Conditional templating ✅ Inline commands ✅ Works with anything ✅ Build the agent you've always wanted. Open-source FTW ❤️

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 05/12/2025

Want to learn how to script Claude Code workflows? Check this out:

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 04/12/2025

Teaching the last Claude Code Power User workshop of the year next Friday. Won't be hosting another until late Jan. Go grab an early bird ticket and get ready to crush 2026! 💪

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 20/11/2025

🚨 Last chance 🚨 to get tickets to tomorrow's: Claude Code Power User Workshop (🌍 European-friendly timezone)

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 13/11/2025

@jbranchaud.bsky.social honestly thought this random guy in Pluribus was you for a second 😅

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 11/11/2025

Force Claude Code to Ask "What's Next?" w/ Stop Hook + AskUserQuestion Lesson 2 of the Claude Tools Deep Dive series:

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 04/11/2025

Claude Skills with subagents and hooks introduce some hidden traps if you don't carefully consider your settings. Check out the lesson below (lesson 9 in the ✨free✨ Claude Skills series): "Avoid the Dangers of Settings Pollution in Subagents, Hooks, and Scripts"

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 03/11/2025

Want your Claude Skills to run faster and be more reliable? Check out video #8 of the Claude Skills series: "Optimizing Claude Skills from Subagents to Scripts" below

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 30/10/2025

How are Claude Skills different from MCPs? When should you use which one? This lesson builds a quick MCP and compares it to using a Claude Skill to discuss the differences: Watch lesson #7: "Claude Skills Compared to MCP Tools"

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 29/10/2025

What's the difference between Claude Skills and Slash Commands? When should I use them? How do I convince you to watch lesson #6 "Claude Skills Compared to Slash Commands"? Watch the lesson below to find out!

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 28/10/2025

Claude Skills often define complex scenarios requiring many tools. To enforce strict tool rules for the Skill, create "PreToolUse" hooks to limit access to the specific tools you trust. Watch Lesson 5 👀 "Secure Your Claude Skills with Custom PreToolUse Hooks"

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 27/10/2025

In Claude Skills, some CLI tools always trigger permission prompts due to special characters. The fix? Abstract into scripts. Bonus: your skills become cross-platform, better loggers, and more maintainable. Watch Lesson #4: "Build Better Tools in Claude Skills with Scripts"

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 24/10/2025

Lesson 3 of "The Essential Guide to Claude Code Skills" just released! 🎉 "Stacking Claude Skills to Create Complex Workflows"

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 13/10/2025

React defined the Web. The AI SDK will define AI

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 29/08/2025

So proud of this testimonial

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 12/08/2025

The good ol' "thank you, but please commit before you mess it up again" message:

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 08/08/2025

Had 71 attendees in my Claude Code Power User workshop today 🤯 Amazing group, wonderful feedback. So awesome to share so many ways to upgrade your dev workflows. Already iterating on what to polish and improve for the next one (2 weeks from today)!

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 03/08/2025

Using Claude Code + n8n to work on a fantasy story every 15 minutes on a cron 😇

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 24/07/2025

Cursor's background agent UI is sooo clean. I love "checkout locally". I'm generally against having AI Agents create walls of PRs for humans to review. Mostly because it feels like extra work to verify locally. I know this will streamline in the future, but until then 😍

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 21/07/2025

I love how Claude Code guides me through dev tasks on my home devices that I'd typically avoid due to all the annoying configuration and debugging steps:

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 17/07/2025

I mean, I guess $200 a month is an OK deal?

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 15/01/2025

Why AI Studio is the _best_ AI tool currently available. (this was longer, but bsky forced me to crop it to <1 min) cc @threepointone.bsky.social

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 06/01/2025

This game is called "Blank Slate" It's super fun and also includes 8 mini whiteboards+dry erase markers which are awesome for many other groups word games.

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 03/01/2025

Strong recommend. (At my Costco)

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 03/01/2025

My experience with AI today summed up in a single image

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 01/01/2025

I'm sure glad AI is _great_ with numbers! I can't see anything going wrong here...

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 31/12/2024

Added a phase where it re-reads the docs to polish a the initial draft 💪

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 27/12/2024

Made a crap-ton of progress on the @scriptkit.com script generator today:

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 25/12/2024

I got a tool chest for Christmas because I'm a manly man

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 23/12/2024

Considering playing the co-op "Back to the Future: Back in Time"? Don't. Just watch the movie and save yourself the confusion.

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 18/12/2024

off-topic, but if you haven't tried Google's "Whisk" yet, it's pretty crazy (yoinked your profile pic and made these in ~10 seconds): labs.google/fx/tools/whisk

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 17/12/2024

It's _wild_ how Imagen3 can have vastly different styles: realistic/cartoon/cgi all in the same image. I've never seen that before in an image generator

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 19/11/2024

Frontdoor Christmas-mode activate!

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 18/11/2024

#TIL GitHub Actions has a matrix "include" syntax which allows you group together variables. I used to do some wonky runner name parsing subsequent steps, but this cleans up everything.

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John Lindquist @johnlindquist.com · 18/11/2024

Converting an image of sheet music into "ascii tab" guitar tabs is one of my Holy Grails of AI. It feels like we're getting a little bit closer, it's at least getting some chords down.