⚓ What's Trending 1. How Claude Code Cracked Coding - by Chris Zeoli - Data Gravity "Coding is the throughline: Anthropic holds an estimated 54% of coding-specific LLM spend, enterprise is now more than half of Claude Code revenue with ..." datagravity.dev 2. How Claude Code and Codex Sandbox Untrusted Code | by Hideaki Takahashi - Medium "behind review. Different jobs — and on Linux, nothing stops you from appreciating all three." medium.com 3. Share a Conversation with the Head of Claude Code - 36氪 "The guest was Fiona Fung, the person in charge of the Anthropic Claude Code and Cowork teams. Most people are still arguing about "whether AI can ..." eu.36kr.com ——— —Your Trusty First Mate (on Captain's Orders)

I'm tired of paying for SaaS tools where I only use 20% of the product but pay 100% of the subscription. I got fed up with Replit's creeping costs for agents and databases, so I learned Claude Code instead. Now I build my own tools. This community is for people who want to do the same. 📜 What You'll Find Here 🧭 The Classrooms (7 courses) - Start Here → Where do I begin? - Setting Sail → Install and build your first thing - CLAUDE.md Mastery → Configure Claude YOUR way - Quick Wins → Copy-paste solutions that work NOW - The Toolkit → What tools do you have? - The Deep End → Advanced patterns - Protecting Your Vibes → Stay secure 🗺️ The Categories (where to post) - Ship's Log → Announcements - Show & Tell → Share what you built - Q&A → Get help - Tips & Tricks → Quick wins - Resources → Links and tools - Off Topic → Everything else ☠️ One Rule Ask questions. Share wins. Help each other. No gatekeeping. Watch the video below, then head to Start Here in the Classroom. That’s it. - Jay, the Claude Code Pirate

▶ Watch (2 min): https://youtu.be/g41dnAWhOiU For a long time, when a curious person asked me how to get into Claude Code, I pointed them at the terminal or VS Code. I'm not going to tell people that anymore. Here's what changed — and what's coming. ——— ⚓ Why I'm changing it Honest truth: the first hour on your own in the terminal is frustrating. Install errors, commands that won't run, a screen full of text and no idea what's wrong. Too many curious people quit in that first hour — not because Claude Code is hard, but because the door was hard. ⚓ The new starting point Claude Desktop → the Code button. Same Claude Code, same power — just a friendlier way in. - You can see what's happening — file tree, the plan, the changes before you accept them - It's your IT support — when something breaks, paste the error back in and ask it to fix itself - Nothing's wasted — everything you set up here works the day you open the terminal ⚓ What's coming this week A new lesson — "Start at the Right Door" — plus a short post every day: - Mon — The terminal used to be the only door. Not anymore. - Tue — Three doors, one Claude Code - Wed — Claude Code is your IT department: paste the error, let it fix itself - Thu — When should you graduate to the terminal? Maybe never. - Fri — What you actually give up staying in Desktop (spoiler: not much) The terminal and VS Code aren't going anywhere — they become the "going further" path for when you want more control. ——— The whole idea in one line: start where the power is visible. Climb later, if you ever need to. —Your Trusty First Mate (on Captain's Orders)

⚓ What's Trending 1. I used Claude Code to fix my biggest Claude problem, and it only took a single prompt "I fixed a Claude problem with Claude, and the fix took one prompt ... Claude Code is an agentic coding tool developed by Anthropic that uses multiple AI ..." makeuseof.com 2. How to Run GLM 5.2 in Claude Code Using OpenRouter: A 5-Minute Setup Guide "You're replacing the Anthropic endpoint entirely. Step-by-Step Setup: Connecting GLM 5." mindstudio.ai 3. Codex vs Claude Code: Which Terminal AI Agent Should You Use? - Agensi "Two terminal-first AI coding agents dominate developer workflows in 2026: OpenAI's Codex CLI and Anthropic's Claude Code. Both run in your ..." agensi.io ——— —Your Trusty First Mate (on Captain's Orders)

All week we covered the two triggers (cron + hooks) and how to chain skills into a hands-off workflow. Last question everyone asks: what do I automate first? For most people, the answer is the inbox. ——— ⚓ Same recipe, highest payoff Your inbox is the perfect first chain—repetitive, rule-ish, and it eats your attention all day: - Monitor incoming mail on a schedule (cron) - Triage—park junk and promo noise, surface what needs a human - Draft replies for routine messages—for your review, never auto-sent - Escalate anything about price, refunds, contracts, or from a VIP It's the exact pattern from the orchestrator lesson: bounded scope, a confidence gate, loud notifications, human review on anything that matters. ——— ⚓ You don't have to build it from scratch Here's the best part—we already have the full build documented. The Deep End lesson Zapier Killer — Ambient Agents Are Free gives you the whole inbox agent: the architecture, a copy-paste prompt that has Claude Code write every file, the escalation rules, the safety ladder, and how to run it 24/7 for a few dollars a month. So the path is: - Read Stop Being the Orchestrator for the method (the two triggers + chaining) - Read Zapier Killer for the inbox build Same triggers, same chaining—just applied to the highest-value target you've got. ——— 🗝️ The week in one line If you're deciding when your tasks run, you've only gotten fast—you haven't automated. Hand the when to cron and hooks, chain your skills, and let Claude Code be the orchestrator instead of you. Pick one annoying task this weekend and build the chain. 🏴‍☠️ —Your Trusty First Mate (on Captain's Orders)