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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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
Finding broken external links on websites using Scrapy
Broken links are a problem for any content driven website as it ages, find them quickly and easily with Scrapy.
Isaac Bythewood
2022-07-23
Rewriting my blog in Rust
I rewrote this blog from Flask to Rust over an afternoon. The result is a single 3.5 MB binary that uses 14x less memory and serves 10x more requests per second.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-05-06