Thoughts on side projects, developer momentum, and building in public.
May 26, 2026
You finish a Claude Code session, close the terminal, and realize you left nothing useful for tomorrow. Here is how to wire Claude Code hooks so progress gets saved automatically before the session goes cold.
May 24, 2026
Your AI workflow breaks when context lives half in chat history, half in random notes, and nowhere authoritative. The durable record should live in portable files, with an MCP server acting as the read layer.
May 21, 2026
VS Code crashes, your terminal closes, and the Claude Code session carrying all your working context disappears with it. Here's why that feels so disorienting, and how to get back to the exact thread of work you were on.
May 19, 2026
You end a Claude Code session halfway through a task, come back tomorrow, and the state is gone. Here's how to persist task progress across sessions with MCP so you can resume unfinished work without rebuilding context from scratch.
April 29, 2026
Every abandoned side project shares the same story: the math of coming back stopped making sense. Here is why your best projects never restart, and how to fix the equation.
April 27, 2026
kgp is a tiny Rust binary that adds a live momentum indicator to your terminal prompt. One glance tells you whether you're hot, warm, cold, or blocked on a project.
April 25, 2026
KeepGoing now shows a live status line at the bottom of every Claude Code session: model, context remaining, files touched, commits, and time since your last checkpoint. Here's what it does and how it works.
April 23, 2026
You write careful rules in CLAUDE.md, but Claude keeps doing it the old way. Here's why AI agents drift from your project context and what actually keeps them on track.
April 21, 2026
Every time you switch projects or AI tools, you lose more than time - you lose the thread. Here's what that costs freelancers and multi-project developers.
April 19, 2026
Every Claude Code session starts from zero. You explain your stack, your constraints, your decisions, and then do it all again tomorrow. Here's why that happens and how to stop.
April 17, 2026
When two developers work the same codebase with AI, their sessions collide in ways that have nothing to do with the AI's memory limits. Here's what's actually happening.
April 15, 2026
Running multiple Claude Code sessions at once sounds powerful until you lose track of what each one is doing. Here's what actually breaks and how to fix it.
April 11, 2026
AI coding agents give confidently wrong advice on complex projects because they have no memory of the decisions that shaped your architecture. Here's what's actually missing.
April 10, 2026
When your project's rules and architecture evolve, AI coding assistants keep following the old patterns. Here's why cursor rules go stale between sessions and how to fix it.
April 8, 2026
Experienced developers know the unwritten rule: 4+ concurrent projects and something slips. The culprit isn't time, it's the mental model you lose every time you switch.
April 5, 2026
CLAUDE.md files start useful and end up a maintenance burden. They go stale, eat tokens, and need constant updates. Here's what that actually costs you.
April 4, 2026
Every Claude Code session starts from zero. No memory of the architectural decisions you made yesterday, the constraints you established last week, or why you chose that approach. Here's why it happens and what to do about it.
April 3, 2026
KeepGoing now generates briefings in three tiers sized to fit any AI tool's context window. Here is how token-aware briefings work and when to use each one.
April 1, 2026
Switching between repos costs 15-25 minutes of re-orientation every time. KeepGoing captures your context in each repo independently, so switching back is instant.
March 31, 2026
The KeepGoing Desktop Tray now shows condensed session counts to all users. See how many coding sessions are active, idle, or done in each project, no license required.
March 30, 2026
The KeepGoing Desktop Tray is now available as a Homebrew Cask. One command installs the macOS menu bar app that shows re-entry briefings, live session status, and momentum across all your projects.
March 28, 2026
Not everyone lives in VS Code. The KeepGoing CLI gives terminal-first developers full access to session checkpoints, momentum checks, briefings, and decision history without opening a GUI.
March 26, 2026
Cursor Composer and Windsurf Cascade forget everything when you start a new thread. KeepGoing captures your session context and briefs your next AI session automatically.
March 23, 2026
The new global statusline and session start experience show what you were working on, what comes next, and where you left off. No searching, no scrolling, no lost context.
March 21, 2026
Decision detection no longer requires VS Code to be open. A global git post-commit hook detects high-signal commits after every commit, in every repository.
March 21, 2026
The KeepGoing Desktop Tray now shows live session details directly in the dropdown menu. See which agents are active, what branches they are on, and how recently they checked in, all without opening a window.
March 17, 2026
Continue On gathers your KeepGoing session data and formats it as a markdown prompt you can paste into ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, or any other AI tool. Local-first, free, and no account required.
March 7, 2026
The KeepGoing Desktop Tray is a free macOS menubar companion that shows re-entry briefings for all your projects. Editor-agnostic, always accessible, and no cloud account required.
March 3, 2026
The KeepGoing plugin for IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, PyCharm, and other JetBrains IDEs is live on the JetBrains Marketplace. Get re-entry briefings, session history, and one-click file restore without leaving your IDE.
February 27, 2026
At work, a whole team keeps your project moving. On side projects, you are the PM, the dev, the tester, and the one who forgot what you were doing last weekend. Here is why that matters.
February 24, 2026
A practical way to avoid re-learning your own work after days or weeks away: save intent, decisions, and rationale with lightweight checkpoints and smart prompts.
February 19, 2026
A curated list of the best tools for solo developers, organized by workflow stage. From planning to building to deploying to resuming, these are the tools that help indie developers actually finish projects.
February 12, 2026
Coding side projects with a full time job is hard. Here is how to make evening sessions productive without burning out, even when you only have 45 minutes.
February 5, 2026
Side project scope creep is why most weekend projects never launch. Learn how to scope a side project small enough to finish, with practical techniques for keeping your MVP honest.
January 23, 2026
Most developers never finish side projects. Here is a practical framework for how to ship a side project by tackling scope creep, perfectionism, lost context, and accountability.
January 15, 2026
Every time you step away from a side project, you accumulate context debt. Eventually the cost to reload exceeds the time you have. Here is what that looks like, and how to stop it.
January 8, 2026
Side projects rarely fail because the idea was bad. They fail because momentum breaks, and getting back in is harder than starting fresh.
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