Swapped Back to Emacs

I swapped back to Emacs lol. If you read my last post, I’d gone terminal-first - tmux, then herdr, Claude Code living in a multiplexer with Emacs as a companion rather than the host. I’m undoing that…. herdr was awesome, and also not enough herdr genuinely was pretty sick. Running a multiplexer felt awesome again, and there’s something really sweet about interfacing with Claude through a native terminal. But that was simply it. When I actually broke down what herdr was giving me, it was notifications - agent-aware ones, sure, nicely done ones, but notifications. And it turns out I don’t need notifications that much at all. ...

July 17, 2026 · Matt Ho

My Claude Code Setup

I spent this July weekend doing something I haven’t done in a while - completely tearing apart how I work and rebuilding it from scratch! This all stems from Kun Chen’s Agentic Workflow video. His whole philosophy centers on flow, and on an AI-first approach to software engineering. I went in skeptical but came out inspired - and with a realization: I am probably never going to outpace an agent in raw coding output. What am I actually good at and passionate about? ...

July 5, 2026 · Matt Ho

GitHub Pages Custom Domain Setup

Notes for next time I set up a custom domain on GitHub Pages. It’s actually been years since I set up my personal web-site. I’ve owned this domain for years but have never deployed anything on it… lol. So here’s what I discovered and learned. Mainly for my own reference as I’m sure I’ll need to do this again but its for anyone who wants to set up their own website and assign a domain. ...

July 4, 2026 · Matt Ho

Hello, world

Starting a blog. No grand vision here - just a place to write things down before I forget them. Expect notes on software engineering, Emacs, and whatever I’m currently obsessing over.

July 4, 2026 · Matt Ho