A workshop notebook from
ten years of running a small company
Notes on software I got stuck on, machines I have used for years, books and questions, and how I spend a day. AI is the tool I reach for most these days, not the whole story.
Cho Works
NOWWhat I'm on these daysRunning a 2011 Mac mini as a Linux serverReading books by asking firstWriting one post a day
New writing All posts
Why connecting GitHub comes with free credits
Claude offers prepaid cloud credits for connecting a GitHub account. Rather than take that at face value, I followed GitHub's own documentation on what the connect button actually grants, and what the credits are buying.
Which stage of AI fluency am I at? A 12-question check
Saying you use AI means different things to different people. Twelve yes-or-no questions place you on the five stages, with exactly one thing to do next at each stage. My own score is in here too.
How a non-developer owner reads code
Opening code the AI wrote for me showed nothing but characters. Reading it one file at a time by asking made two things visible, what to ask to be changed and what must never be inside the code.
What a Solo Business Should Automate First
A month of actually removing work, in the order it happened. There is a way to decide what to touch first, and starting wrong wastes the momentum.