Archive - AlexTong.me

👁️ I Built Y'all an App Because My Eyes Were Dying 👁️

Your eyes are probably taking a beating. Here's everything I did to fix mine, including a free app I built for you.

Apr 4 • alextong.me

March 2026

🗑️ Delete Your Claude Project Files

Claude can read your project files but can't update them. Here's the one-file architecture that fixes it, and why it beats editable files anyway.

Mar 30 • alextong.me

Two Prompts That Turn Notion into Your Claude Project's Brain

Copy one prompt, fill in your details, paste it into Claude, and your scattered project files become a single Notion hub that stays in sync.

Mar 30 • alextong.me

🔥 Claude Code Is (Seriously) Burning Me Out

I'm more productive than I've ever been. I'm also more burned out than I've ever been. Those two aren't a coincidence.

Mar 22 • alextong.me

🌻 You're Wasting Your Best Engineering Skill

You're incredible at writing code. But you've stopped doing the thing that actually matters, and you don't even realize it.

Mar 8 • alextong.me

🧛 Stop Reading Every Line of Code!

If you keep reviewing code like it's 2016 in 2026, your process is going to break.

Mar 1 • alextong.me

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