Isaac Bythewood's Blog
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A status line for Claude Code
A drop-in status line for Claude Code that shows your 5-hour usage quota, context window, working directory with git branch, and the time. One bash file, with a quick breakdown of how it works.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-06-13
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Minimal automated updates for Alpine Linux
Many Linux distros have a way to configure automated updates but somewhat surprisingly Alpine Linux does not.
Isaac Bythewood
2022-07-16
Capturing screenshots with Chromium using Python
Sometimes you need to take screenshots of the web and Chromium provides an easy way to do that.
Isaac Bythewood
2022-08-06
Cool URIs don't change, unless an AI rewrites your blog
A short post-mortem on letting an AI port my blog from Django to Flask, and the URL design mistake it cheerfully shipped along the way.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-04-29