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Here you’ll find updates, notes, and technical explorations around my projects and ideas — evolving gradually over time.

Connecting Codex to your code

Codex is most useful when it can connect—to your repo, your tools, and your deployment pipeline. This post is a quick guide to wiring those connections so Codex can move from “nice assistant” to “useful teammate.”

First, two key points

This blog post was created with decisive help of Codex, and Codex can be connected to an existing repository — creating a new one is not obligatory.

Serving MkDocs in Codespaces: a simple workaround

If you are using MkDocs inside GitHub Codespaces, you may notice that the usual:

mkdocs serve

does not rebuild your site when Markdown files change. The internal watcher seems broken in Codespaces, and no amount of --dirtyreload or watchdog tricks reliably triggers a rebuild.

Here’s a simple, working workaround I use:

Step 1 — Add a Makefile

Create a Makefile in the root of your repo: