Beyond the Prompt: Claude Code

A deep dive into Claude Code for daily users. Covers the .claude directory, CLAUDE.md the way Boris writes it, CLAUDE.local.md, Skills with real examples, custom subagents, plugins, underused commands like /goal and /insights, MCPs, and the workflow patterns the Anthropic team actually uses.

May 26, 2026 · 27 min · Arpan Patel

Git Mastery: Intermediate and Professional Workflows

Notes on Git internals, history cleanup, branching strategies, and recovery techniques I rely on past the basics.

May 23, 2026 · 15 min · Arpan Patel

Optimizing Oracle SQL: From 8 Seconds to 500ms

How I took a critical query from 8 seconds down to 500ms (a 16× speedup) through indexing, execution plan analysis, and a few hard-earned lessons.

March 15, 2026 · 2 min · Arpan Patel

Building REST APIs with Micronaut: A Practical Introduction

Why I picked Micronaut over Spring Boot for microservices, and what I learned along the way.

February 10, 2026 · 2 min · Arpan Patel

Kubernetes for Microservices: Lessons Learned

A year of running microservices on Kubernetes: what worked, what didn’t, and what I’d do differently.

January 20, 2026 · 2 min · Arpan Patel

Andromex and Beyond

This weekend, I did something slightly reckless: I decided to write my own programming language.

September 28, 2025 · 8 min · Arpan Patel

From Buffer to Business Model: The Engineering of Spotify Skips

Exploring the engineering decisions behind Spotify’s skip functionality and its business implications.

September 26, 2025 · 4 min · Arpan Patel

Is Stack a Software or a Hardware?

Clarifying the confusion between data structure stacks and hardware stack concepts.

November 9, 2024 · 2 min · Arpan Patel

Swift Multiline Magic: Say Goodbye to Annoying Line Breaks!

A Swift syntax technique for managing multiline strings without unwanted characters.

May 25, 2023 · 1 min · Arpan Patel

Building Welcome Message in CLI

Python CLI customization for building welcome messages using PyFiglet.

December 6, 2022 · 1 min · Arpan Patel