explainers

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Short plain-English explainers for the tools and concepts the build guides lean on. For people who are technical-ish but have never shipped something live.

GitHub 101

Tools

Repos, commits, pushes — how your code lives online and why your live site depends on it.

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Vercel 101

Tools

The always-on computer serving your site — deploys, env variables, and the push-to-live loop.

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Domains 101

Tools

Registrars, DNS, and subdomains — the address book model that makes it all click.

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Databases 101

Concepts

Tables, rows, and why your app forgets without one — plus Row Level Security in plain English.

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Environment Variables

Security

How secrets like API keys reach your app without living in your code.

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Connectors 101

coming soon

How Claude gets permission to read your Gmail, Calendar, and more — approve once, no keys to copy, nothing to leak.

Scheduled Tasks

coming soon

Prompts that run themselves on a timer — morning briefs, weekly digests, and software with no code at all.

Prompting for Code

coming soon

How to describe what you want so Claude nails it — specificity, one change at a time, and describing what's off.

localhost & Previews

coming soon

Your private preview address, why nobody else can see it, and how it fits the build loop.

Claude Code 101

coming soon

The builder itself — projects, files, and working in plain English.