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nameischester — interactive personal site with 29 themed sectionsMy Claude Code Setup: Skills, Hooks, and Why I Cleaned House
4 min readA look at my current Claude Code configuration after stripping out everything that was burning tokens and starting fresh with what actually matters.
My Codex Setup: MCP Servers, Shared Memory, and a Different Approach
4 min readHow I've configured OpenAI's Codex CLI — including the MCP servers I'm running, shared memory with Claude, and what makes this setup different from my Claude Code config.
Switching from Claude Code to Codex
3 min readI tried Codex on April 22, GPT-5.5 landed on April 23, and by April 25 I had already moved my development workflow away from Claude Code.
From HTML Files to Next.js: Rebuilding My Portfolio
4 min readWhy I scrapped a working Netlify site and rebuilt everything from scratch with Next.js, TypeScript, and Framer Motion — and what the process taught me about how far I've come.
ERKADO: Building Tech for Farmers in Tagum City
2 min readHow a team of four CS students built a mobile app to improve crop trade fairness for farmers in Tagum City — and what happened when we took it to two research conferences.