Ashish Acharya | Developer Blog.https://ashishacharya.com/https://ashishacharya.com/posts/hobby-server-setup-hetzner-prefect-cloudflare/https://ashishacharya.com/posts/hobby-server-setup-hetzner-prefect-cloudflare/I spent Christmas Eve setting up a VPS to host my side projects. Here's the stack I landed on and what I learned along the way.Wed, 24 Dec 2025 22:00:00 GMThttps://ashishacharya.com/posts/ai-programming-tips-hn-roundup/https://ashishacharya.com/posts/ai-programming-tips-hn-roundup/A curated summary of practical tips from the developer community on improving AI-assisted programming workflows, with my own learnings woven in.Sat, 13 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://ashishacharya.com/posts/claude-mobile-blog-writing-workflow/https://ashishacharya.com/posts/claude-mobile-blog-writing-workflow/I used to lose my best blog ideas between the shower and my desk. Now I write entire drafts on my phone before I've dried off.Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:00:00 GMThttps://ashishacharya.com/posts/data-migrations-lessons-learned/https://ashishacharya.com/posts/data-migrations-lessons-learned/After migrating several bytes of production data, here are my battle-tested patterns that actually work. Spoiler: It's 90% preparation, 10% execution.Sun, 19 Oct 2025 10:00:00 GMThttps://ashishacharya.com/posts/ai-house-hunting-scoring-system/https://ashishacharya.com/posts/ai-house-hunting-scoring-system/I built the perfect 140-point house hunting scoring system.Tue, 02 Sep 2025 10:00:00 GMThttps://ashishacharya.com/posts/golden-context-claude-code-workflow/https://ashishacharya.com/posts/golden-context-claude-code-workflow/How I used to manage Claude Code sessions with UUIDs—and what replaced it. Updated with the new built-in features.Mon, 25 Aug 2025 08:00:00 GMThttps://ashishacharya.com/posts/write-better-tests-with-ai-parametrize-pattern/https://ashishacharya.com/posts/write-better-tests-with-ai-parametrize-pattern/When Claude generated 47 tests for my shopping list feature, I thought I'd struck gold. Then I realized it was testing its own mocks while my actual code remained broken. Here's how I learned to constrain AI test generation.Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:00:00 GMThttps://ashishacharya.com/posts/generate-c4-diagrams-from-codebase/https://ashishacharya.com/posts/generate-c4-diagrams-from-codebase/Have Claude read your codebase, generate C4 diagrams, and load them in Structurizr. From zero to full documentation in under 30 minutes.Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:00:00 GMThttps://ashishacharya.com/posts/makefiles-modern-development/https://ashishacharya.com/posts/makefiles-modern-development/Why Makefiles remain incredibly useful for modern development workflows, from simple task runners to complex build orchestration, and how they create perfect synergy with AI coding assistantsMon, 11 Aug 2025 08:00:00 GMThttps://ashishacharya.com/posts/claude-outdated-library-documentation-fix-context7-mcp/https://ashishacharya.com/posts/claude-outdated-library-documentation-fix-context7-mcp/When Claude Code gets stuck guessing library APIs and syntax, Context7 MCP server loads the actual docs. Here's how it saved my Structurizr debugging session.Thu, 07 Aug 2025 10:00:00 GMThttps://ashishacharya.com/posts/run-4-ai-agents-parallel-without-destroying-codebase/https://ashishacharya.com/posts/run-4-ai-agents-parallel-without-destroying-codebase/After watching Claude sessions step on each other's changes, I discovered git worktrees. Here's the system that lets me run 4 AI agents simultaneously without merge hell.Wed, 06 Aug 2025 14:00:00 GMThttps://ashishacharya.com/posts/restore-pycharm-scratch-files-after-upgrade/https://ashishacharya.com/posts/restore-pycharm-scratch-files-after-upgrade/Lost your PyCharm scratch files after upgrading? Here's the 2-minute fix to restore all your scratch files from the Application Support folder.Tue, 05 Aug 2025 23:00:00 GMThttps://ashishacharya.com/posts/django-nextjs-saas-starter-template-ai-agents/https://ashishacharya.com/posts/django-nextjs-saas-starter-template-ai-agents/Open source Django + Next.js boilerplate with AI coding agents, authentication structure, and Docker. Build your SaaS in days, not weeks. Perfect for 2025.Mon, 04 Aug 2025 10:00:00 GMThttps://ashishacharya.com/posts/ship-developer-blog-cloudflare-astro/https://ashishacharya.com/posts/ship-developer-blog-cloudflare-astro/The fastest path from zero to deployed developer blog using Cloudflare Workers, Astro, and AstroPaper theme.Sun, 03 Aug 2025 15:00:00 GMThttps://ashishacharya.com/posts/jq-claude-code-json-exploration/https://ashishacharya.com/posts/jq-claude-code-json-exploration/I spent 30 minutes writing a Python script to extract values from a 500MB JSON file. Then I discovered jq with Claude Code could do it in one line.Sun, 12 Jan 2025 10:00:00 GMT