Hi, I'm Amit on Amit Jotwani

I help developer-focused companies improve onboarding, documentation, and developer experience.

I’d been hearing a lot of good things about Pi as a coding harness and wanted to give it a whirl.

Got Claude Code working with Claude Opus 4.8 through DigitalOcean Inference.

I’d been wanting to try running Clawdbot on DigitalOcean but hadn’t gotten around to it.

I sometimes have a few projects going at the same time.

Lately, I’ve been building a lot of small things.

Most of the time, I’m in the terminal now.

I’ve been building up a collection of custom slash commands (skills) for Claude Code.

I’ve been wanting to write this down for a while, mostly so I don’t forget how my workflow has evolved and why it looks the way it does today.

I have a tab problem.

This is part of my Postbox workflow — when I’m writing and need to include a screenshot, I don’t want to leave the terminal.

At bedtime, our (soon-to-be) four-year-old usually wants to make up her own stories.

I started playing around with Zellij recently.

I’ve been building a lot of things recently.

One thing I wanted Postbox to do: let me capture ideas without leaving my terminal.

I wanted a simple way to publish to this blog.

Hover got too expensive.

Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile.

I’ve been building with LLMs a lot lately.

I miss when podcasts were just conversations.

Changelog What’s New Track all the latest features, improvements, and fixes to the website

I’ve been using Claude a lot to refine code, generate checklists, and just generally help me move faster.

Zipf’s Law says that in any language, a tiny set of words does most of the heavy lifting.

I have a little service set up for ajot.me that lets me publish posts just by sending an email.

It’s to get them up and running as quickly as possible.

A lot of friends and family have asked why we did this, how we did this, and what it’s been like.

Don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you’re writing a quick start guide, give people everything they need.

This blog post was published to my Hugo blog simply by sending an email.

Setting Up Environment Variables to store API Keys Safely in Python Virtual Environments Introduction Working with APIs often involves handling sensitive keys.

Quick Start guides are your first handshake with developers.

I’ve been using Hugo for my personal website, ajot.me, since migrating from Ghost, and I’ve really liked it thus far.

Chain of Thought (CoT) prompting is a technique that dramatically improves an AI’s ability to solve complex reasoning tasks by guiding it through a step-by-step thinking process.

The 2023 Cricket World Cup is in full swing, and like many fans, I wanted to keep track of the points table.

I recently moved my website from Ghost to Hugo.

I’ve been using this app called Rise Sleep for over a year now.

I build.

I love tinkering with new apps to see if they can make my workflow better or just make life a little easier.

DigitalOcean LaunchDarkly Retool Amazon DigitalOcean June 2025 Setting Up the DigitalOcean MCP Server in Claude Code How to set up Claude Code with the DigitalOcean MCP Server to deploy and manage apps using natural language.

This is a prompt I use when I need help with technical writing tasks.

While reviewing my week in Day One, I like to kick things off with a heading that reads something like “Week of Date 1 to Date 2.”

I wanted to cycle through and fix all spelling errors in a VS Code markdown file.

I recently built my very first app using ChatGPT’s API.

As someone who loves experimenting with Python libraries and APIs, starting new projects quickly is important.

I had a bunch of todos in the Things app that I wanted to move to my notes.

So, I wanted to customize the number of posts displayed per page on my Ghost CMS website using the Dawn theme.

So, I got tired of adding `.DS_Store` to every git repo on my Mac.

Woke up to a 504 error this morning.

I’ve been playing around with warp.dev, which is a new terminal app for Mac (Windows coming soon it looks like) with a focus on improving developer productivity.

This answer on Reddit helped troubleshoot.

Adding an alias to zshrc file Wanted to add an alias to quickly open Sublime Text editor from the command line.