{"slug": "ultrathink-and-build-weekly-dev-log-with-ai-tools-and-side-projects", "title": "Ultrathink and Build: Weekly Dev Log with AI Tools and Side Projects", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "**stevengonsalvez.com** 🟢 Active\n\nNext.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.\n\n**Personal MCP Server** 🟡 On Hold\n\nCustom [MCP server](https://dev.to/byte-sized-banter/week-28-mcp-context-kryptonite) for personal productivity tools. Paused while I wait for Claude Desktop to get its MCP support properly sorted.\n\nMigrated 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.\n\n**Quick git alias for better logs:**\n\n```\ngit config --global alias.lg \"log --graph --oneline --all --decorate\"\n```\n\nThis creates a beautiful visual git history that's way more readable than the default log.\n\n**Claude Desktop optimization tip:**\n\nKeep 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](https://dev.to/byte-sized-banter/week-27-claude-vs-warp) a while back.)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ultrathink-and-build-weekly-dev-log-with-ai-tools-and-side-projects", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/stevengonsalvez/ultrathink-and-build-weekly-dev-log-with-ai-tools-and-side-projects-56le", "published_at": "2026-07-10 15:44:18+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-10 16:14:05.259828+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-tools", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Steven Gonsalvez", "Next.js", "MDX", "Vercel", "Claude Desktop", "MCP", "Claude Code", "Warp AI"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ultrathink-and-build-weekly-dev-log-with-ai-tools-and-side-projects", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ultrathink-and-build-weekly-dev-log-with-ai-tools-and-side-projects.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ultrathink-and-build-weekly-dev-log-with-ai-tools-and-side-projects.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ultrathink-and-build-weekly-dev-log-with-ai-tools-and-side-projects.jsonld"}}