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I ran /context in Claude Code and found my memory files eating 49.5k tokens before I’d typed a single word. I’d assumed those files loaded only when relevant. They were loading in full, every session. After moving them to the managed memory directory and disabling one plugin I never use, startup context dropped from 82.1k to 37.2k.

Before

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My OpenClaw gateway went silent for three days after a usage spike, even though I could still chat to the same provider via its web inter...

TL;DR: During a migration across a few dozen repos, “looks done” failed me three different ways: stale code search, stale local clones, and an auto-merge that quietly reverted my changes. The checks I ended up trusting were greps on fetched file contents.

Motivation

TL;DR: I needed to repoint a batch of uv projects at a new package registry without changing a single resolved version. uv lock --no-upgrade re-resolves anyway when the index changes, so I rewrote the URLs in pyproject.toml and uv.lock with sed and verified with uv lock --locked.

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I moved object ownership in Postgres from a shared role to a dedicated role per service, one environment at a time, with the application serving throughout. REASSIGN OWNED does it in one statement and moves every object class. A FOR...