Five levers in Claude Code: a practical guide to CLAUDE.md, skills, hooks, MCP, and sub-agents
Claude Code ships with a rich set of extensibility features, and most developers are using maybe one or two of them. Here is a practical mental model for when to reach for CLAUDE.md, skills, hooks, MCP, and sub-agents.
Claude Code – The terminal assistant that actually gets it
For a long time, I have been a bit of a skeptic when it came to AI coding assistants. While they provided a convenient mix of Google-searching and autocomplete, they also made frequent mistakes and required a lot of guidance. But lately, I have been using Claude Code, and it feels like a bit of a gamechanger for how we interact with our codebases.
Azure identity - managed identities and roles
For a while I have actually not had to do much configuration of app registrations, managed identities and so on, simply because I often join teams who have other people doing that part. So it has been fun and at time challenging to get back into it, as I have had to lately. So to...
Putting API Managemement in front of blob storage
A nice and simple way to expose static files is through Azure blob storage. If you are already using API Management you might want to have requests to through there, in order to ensure you can move it to somewhere else in the future. It requires a few steps to get it to work...
Updating API management from Azure Devops Pipeline
Recently I needed to update Azure Management API based on the swagger specifications when our services were deployed. It seems like a pretty standard thing that there would be a task for, but it turned out to require a bit of Powershell - it i still fairly simple though. A...