Erik Zaadi

The tales of a coding manager addicted to dad jokes

Recent Posts

Traffic is the Best Editor Stuck in traffic, I started drafting blog posts by voice. Turns out gridlock is a surprisingly good editor.
Traffic is the Best Editor
Seriousness Intended I've built a career on being the guy who lightens the room. Then one day I needed the room to take me seriously, and it had no idea how.
Seriousness Intended
The Coffee Bit People rarely quit because they hate the job. Somewhere along the way a single bit flips from 0 to 1, and suddenly they're open to coffee. Here's how to keep it at 0.
The Coffee Bit
Skill Issue: I Turned My Talks Into an Agent Skill How I packed my presentation style into nerdalicous-presentation-skill: an Agent Skill on top of Slidev, built around the stages of a talk, and what testing it on a real deck taught me.
Skill Issue: I Turned My Talks Into an Agent Skill
The AI DM Gets an Upgrade: What Happened After the First Session A lot happened to dnd-fam-ftw since the first post: car mode, terminal mode, tiered models, agentic narration, and a workflow where Codex checks the AI facts and Claude writes the code.
The AI DM Gets an Upgrade: What Happened After the First Session
Squeezing More Out of Claude on a Personal Account Practical optimizations I made while using Claude Code on a personal account to keep developing dnd-fam-ftw.
Squeezing More Out of Claude on a Personal Account
My Kid Didn't Want to DM, So I Built One Built an open source, self-hosted AI Dungeon Master for family D&D nights. POC in under an hour, first playtest was a blast.
My Kid Didn't Want to DM, So I Built One
The Rat That Byte Twice A rat ate my fiber optic cable. A technician came and fixed it. Ten minutes later, the rat ate it again.
The Rat That Byte Twice
ShelteryPie: A Missile Alert Led Lights How I wired up a Raspberry Pi and some LEDs to stop my family from doom-scrolling during missile alerts. No app required. Just a light.
ShelteryPie: A Missile Alert Led Lights
Auto Resume Claude Code Sessions

I’m a big user of Claude Code, their CLI is AMAZONG, you can even paste images of outputs and it’ll parse it.

Claude Van Terminal

Needless to say, I’m a heavy tmux user, and I usually have several sessions windows and pane open, with plentiful of Claude CLI sessions in place.