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Ultrathink and Build: Weekly Dev Log with AI Tools and Side Projects

Developer Steven Gonsalvez is building a Next.js 15 + MDX blog platform with a weekly dev log format, while pausing work on a personal MCP server until Claude Desktop's MCP support stabilizes. He also shares a git alias for improved log visualization and a tip for optimizing Claude Desktop usage by restarting conversations frequently.

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Next.js 15 + MDX blog platform with the byte-sized banter section you're reading right now. Foundation's done, blog section coming together. Next up is deploying to Vercel and sorting the domain.

Personal MCP Server 🟡 On Hold

Custom MCP server for personal productivity tools. d while I wait for Claude Desktop to get its MCP support properly sorted.

Migrated the blog from dev.to-only to a self-hosted Next.js site. Launched this new weekly banter format. Still experimenting with how often I actually want to publish, reckon weekly is about right but we'll see.

Quick git alias for better logs:

git config --global alias.lg "log --graph --oneline --all --decorate"

This creates a beautiful visual git history that's way more readable than the default log.

Claude Desktop optimization tip:

Keep conversations small and restart often. The message limit resets every 5 hours, but shorter conversations use fewer tokens per message. You can get 2-3x more usage by starting fresh chats instead of continuing long threads. (If you're weighing up Claude Code versus other terminal tools, I did a proper comparison of Claude Code vs Warp AI a while back.)

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