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How do you all document your debugging process? Especially when you notice things are getting interesting after you're knee deep in fix explorations. I clearly need a system.

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The whole fix happened in a single Claude Code conversation though. It was mainly a CSS/print issue, so I asked it to recreate every broken variant on one page. Worked surprisingly well. Instant visual documentation without re-breaking anything.

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No notes, no intermediate commits (no point committing if it's broken, right?). By the time I realised it wasn't a quick fix I was on variant 4. Turned out it was worth writing about — but good luck reconstructing that from memory a day later.

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I almost lost an entire debugging story because I forgot to screenshot along the way. Again. 🧵

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Codex also did a lot of thinking and then gave me a bunch of broken designs. 🤦‍♀️ Moving to parsing images via a script, which is still not perfect, but the results are closer to workable.

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I store these as arrays with numbers mapped to colours, so thought that would have been easy to generate. But nooooo. On one attempt Claude choked after ~10 minutes of rambling about what are the best designs and what palette to use and redesigning the concept without producing any actual output.

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I've been working on making a mystery image activity tool. Suffice to say, I'm not impressed with AI's attempts at pixel art. Wanted to do a few quick mockups for the valentine's day activity set. Neither good nor on topic.

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The isolated context was annoying, as I don't want to continue the convo in the PR, at this point I would have preferred it in the terminal to preview and then continue.

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Even worse, couldn't find the session/conversation in any of the interfaces outside of github. The job output had "Now I'll wait for the commands to be approved." near the end of the output, as if it was waiting for an interactive response.

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Trying out a variety of workflows and run into a 'fun' issue today. Asked Claude Code to do some refactoring on a Codex created PR via `@claude` and it happily done the job, but never committed anything. 🤔

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Joanna @yi5h.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Yep. I wish it was a more natural integration though. Can be a bit clunky, and the terminals have hung on me a few times after not using them for a while.

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Obsidian + terminal plugin + claude code or any other cli agent is the secret sauce I've been missing. Finally can stop abusing Cursor when working on my MD notes 😂

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Joanna @yi5h.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Refactor went pretty smoothly with the new Codex.app Only run into one issue - it kept insisting on adding a type incorrectly to useForm() 🤷‍♀️

codex.app

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Joanna @yi5h.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Did some refactoring today and realised I was creeping towards reinventing form state management as some of the activity component were getting more complex... Well, happy to say I did not do that and setup Tanstack Form instead.

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Joanna @yi5h.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Made me pause while I was walking past a book store. Is the book any good? ;D Be More Bird by Candida Mayrick

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Joanna @yi5h.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Wasn't sure what to expect, as I've only listened to one of the songs before, but Hades Town was fantastic - entertaining performance, great voices, and the way they use the light to shape the scenes! 🤯

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Joanna @yi5h.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Not sure if it's just me but for some reason password protecting a pdf exported from InDesign with a password containing a - makes Acrobat claim the password is wrong, even if I just copied and pasted it 3 times for exporting, confirming and then opening. 🤔 Weird and annoying.

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Joanna @yi5h.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The form filling itself was a bit hit and miss. First convo didn't offer filling the fields. Second convo it offered filling, but then tried to paste everything into the first field 🤦‍♀️ So slightly helpful - it did read the things already on the page correctly - but not revolutionary.

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Joanna @yi5h.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Main thing that makes it an immediate NO GO for daily usage - no extensions! Come on. I'm not using the browser to manage my passwords... there's a reason I keep everything in Bitwarden.

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Joanna @yi5h.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Downloaded Atlas hoping it might help me fill out some forms quicker when a lot of SEO optimised, repetitive text is needed. Here's my gripes 🧵

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Joanna @yi5h.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

My son's favourite books had an animatic made (sadly the Kickstarter wasn't enough to make a full feature animation). It was a lot of fun watching the characters come to life :) They also handled the shortening of teo books into one movie quite nicely! youtu.be/JJMuJCLsYeQ?...

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Cradle: Unsouled - The Animatic Movie

YouTube video by Will Wight

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Joanna @yi5h.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

TIL: Starting a question with 'Explain...' in Antigravity, seems to make it act like the Ask mode in Cursor. Now I can finally get answers to my million questions of ' WHY did you do this AI?!'

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Joanna @yi5h.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I lost my phone yesterday. 😱 Thankfully got it back today, but it was pretty nerve recking. Just the thought of having to deal with a missing authenticator app and all the 2FA that goes on daily makes me shudder. Lesson learned: keep location on (my battery will 😭). Any other tips?

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It's not like I already have 2 other booklet configs in that same folder around the same concept of practicing days of the week spelling. Noooo. Come on Gemini, do better.

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Well I wasn't expecting 'FISH BIRD CAT DOG COW PIG HEN FOX' I can tell you that. 🤦‍♀️ It also did the same animals for each day of the week.

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I was about to praise Antigravity for doing better, but then it does something stupid... What words would you put in a word search when making a booklet called 'Days of the Week Word Searches', when specifically told to make one page for each day of the week with 3 different puzzles on each? 🧵

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The prompt: "Why use satisfies over explicitly bookConfig:BookConfig - pros/cons". Got back a neat analysis with examples. Quick response, no mess in the codebase. Most of the time I stick to my original solution, but occasionally you can get a nice TIL or a neat trick.

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I remembered there was a reason I went with 'satisfies' a week ago. But I still double guess myself, so wanted to check if it truly was the best solution. In Cursor I can highlight a few lines and switch to Ask mode.

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Like today, when working on the docs (in Antigravity), it gave me this example based on the files I already wrote: ```ts import type { BookConfig } from "@/components/book/types"; export const bookConfig = { "slug": "example-book", // ... } satisfies BookConfig; ```

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Why the lack of a Chat option is such a big deal in Antigravity... Maybe it's just me, but I like to understand what the code is doing. Sometimes you learn something new from what the AI spits out. 🧵

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There are things I like though. Like the Planning details, the Walkthrough, and how all the artefacts are easily accessible and structured.

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Maybe I'm to technical and deep in the code trenches, but I prefer useful assistance, often in small targeted conversations, over relying on the AI to over analyse the problem multiple times.

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3. Speed - Cursor really is damn fast... I can appreciate the longer times for a Plan -> Execute session in Antigravity for a large feature, but after the initial build, when refining and cleaning up the code I go straight back.

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2. No archive button for conversations in Antigravity - delete feels very permanent, but I do have a lot of threads. When you encourage parallel agents I wish there was more organisation (Cursor's is only a bit better at this)

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1. No easy way to question the 'why' behind decisions Cursor's Ask mode is something I use a lot for clarification, pros/cons suggestions and general rubber ducking.

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