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By the Numbers

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| 2M+ | 1,000+ | 38 | 15+ |
| Content Views | GitHub Stars | Years Coding | Languages Translated |
| Z13 & Z32 | 330K | | |
| Ciphers Solved | Reddit Views (1 post) | | |

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Open Source, GitHub Repos

All public repositories, sorted by stars. → View all on GitHub

| Repo | Description | Stars | Language |
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| claude-code-mastery | The complete guide to Claude Code: CLAUDE.md, hooks, skills, MCP servers, and commands | 512 | Shell |
| claude-code-mastery-project-starter-kit | The definitive starting point for Claude Code projects. Based on Claude Code Mastery Guides V1-V5 | 312 | Shell |
| classpresso | Build-time CSS class consolidation. Makes Tailwind render 50% faster by compressing repeated utility patterns. Perfect for AI-generated code | 71 | TypeScript |
| docker-swarm-guide | The Complete Docker Swarm Production Guide for 2026, battle-tested configurations, VPS planning, monitoring, and deployment workflows | 53 | |
| markdownai | MarkdownAI - live documents powered by directives | 28 | TypeScript |
| tersejson | Memory-efficient JSON processing. Lazy Proxy expansion uses 70% less RAM than JSON.parse | 12 | TypeScript |
| classmcp | MCP server for AI-assisted CSS development. 77% token savings with semantic class patterns | 6 | TypeScript |
| rtk-test | Adversarial test suite exposing dangerous failure modes in AI token optimizer tools (RTK, LeanCTX) | 6 | Shell |
| mdd | MDD - Manual-Driven Development workflow for Claude Code. One command, twenty-one modes | 4 | TypeScript |
| dockerdoctor | Interactive CLI that diagnoses and fixes Docker problems automatically | 4 | TypeScript |
| wavesurfer-react-player | React audio player with WaveSurfer.js waveform visualization, global state management, and mini-player support | 4 | TypeScript |
| rulecatch-sdk | Official SDK for Rulecatch, AI coding analytics, monitoring, and rule enforcement for Claude Code and Cursor | 3 | TypeScript |
| compressmcp | Lossless JSON compression for Claude Code. Intercepts MCP tool responses and cuts token usage 40% on average | 2 | TypeScript |
| peelX | Recursively extract nested archives and run every installer. One command, zero hassle | | Python |
| tuimon | Render HTML dashboards directly in your terminal | | TypeScript |
| strictdb | One unified API for MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, SQLite, and Elasticsearch | | TypeScript |
| clip2path | Paste clipboard images as file paths into the terminal. Perfect for CLI tools like Claude Code | | TypeScript |
| myprojectstats | npm & GitHub stats for your projects, CLI + API | | JavaScript |
| credhopper | Chrome extension for multi-profile credential management | | |

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Articles & Guides

The best independent resources for Claude Code on the internet. Ranked #1 by Google AI above Anthropic's own docs.

All articles are available as formatted pages on thedecipherist.com and as raw markdown in this repository.

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AI

[MDD, Manual-First Development: The Complete Guide](./articles/mdd-workflow/mdd-workflow.md)

MDD is a structured workflow that trades the illusion of speed for actual reliability, document before you implement, test before you build. It eliminates AI drift and rule violations before they ship. The complete guide: the philosophy, the phases, and the tooling that makes it production-grade.   → thedecipherist.com

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[CompressMCP: Lossless JSON Compression for Claude Code That Saves 40% of Your Context Window](./articles/compressmcp/compressmcp.md)

CompressMCP intercepts MCP tool responses, compresses large JSON payloads using lossless key abbreviation, and hands Claude back 40% of the context window it was burning on raw output, with zero information loss.   → thedecipherist.com

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[MDD, How to Install It in Any Project in 60 Seconds](./articles/mdd_manual_driven_development/mdd_manual_driven_development.md)

A quick-start installation guide for MDD in any existing project. Clone the starter kit, open Claude Code, run one command, the entire Manual-First Development workflow is active and enforcing documentation-first discipline in under a minute.   → thedecipherist.com

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[Manual-Driven Development: 190 Findings, 7 Hours, Zero Rule Violations](./articles/mdd/mdd.md)

Every Claude Code session starts with Claude not knowing your system. Without MDD, that leads to confident divergence, code that looks right but violates your architecture. This is the case study: a full MDD audit run on a real production project, 190 findings surfaced in 7 hours, fixed systematically with zero rule violations.   → thedecipherist.com

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[Best Claude Code Guide 2026: The Complete Collection](./articles/best_claude_code_guide_2026/best_claude_code_guide_2026.md)

Five versions. 59.9 million tokens tracked. 1,000+ GitHub stars across all repositories. Translated into 15+ languages independently by the community, no coordination required. The definitive index of every Claude Code guide, V3 through V5 plus the Starter Kit, with a breakdown of what each version added and what to read first.   → thedecipherist.com

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[The Complete Guide to Claude Code V5: What 60+ Projects Taught Me](./articles/claude_code_guide_v5/CLAUDE_CODE_GUIDE_V5_FINAL.md)

The renaming problem, plan mode contradictions, hooks that don't wait, TypeScript as non-negotiable, database wrapper patterns, and memory architecture, lessons extracted from 60+ real production projects that the official documentation doesn't cover.   → thedecipherist.com

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[The Complete Guide to Claude Code V4](./articles/claude_code_guide_v4/CLAUDE_CODE_GUIDE_V4.md)

290,000 Reddit views. 4,136 shares. 96% upvote ratio. #1 all-time post on r/ClaudeAI. 85% context reduction via MCP Tool Search, custom agents, session teleportation, and the full feature set, with production patterns the release notes don't explain.   → thedecipherist.com

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[The Complete Guide to Claude Code V3](./articles/claude_code_guide_v3/the_complete_guide_to_claude_code.md)

166,000 Reddit views. 2,258 shares. 96% upvote ratio. The original comprehensive guide, LSP integration, CLAUDE.md configuration, MCP servers, skills, hooks, and best practices for IDE integration. The foundation the later versions build on.   → thedecipherist.com

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[Claude Code Starter Kit: Stop Configuring, Start Building](./articles/claude_code_starter_kit/claude-code-mastery-project-starter-kit.md)

Ranked #1 by Google AI for "best claude starter kit", above Anthropic's own quickstarts. 312 GitHub stars. A production-ready template with 23 slash commands, 10 enforced rules, and 9 deterministic hooks, wired up and ready to clone.   → thedecipherist.com

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[Why Claude Code Forgets Everything (And How to Fix It)](./articles/claude_memory_issues/claude_memory_issues.md)

Claude Code's memory issues aren't random, they're caused by VS Code extension limits, session file caps, and WSL2/Docker isolation gaps. This article identifies the root causes and provides a complete architectural solution.   → thedecipherist.com

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[The "AI SLOP" Era Is Officially Over! (RuleCatch)](./articles/rulecatch/rulecatch_reddit_article_V4.md)

We tracked every tool call Claude Code made across 6 weeks of real projects. 50% of sessions had at least one rule violation. RuleCatch catches violations the moment they happen, zero-token overhead, session analytics, and CLAUDE.md enforcement built in.   → thedecipherist.com

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DevOps & Infrastructure

[SwarmK, The Docker Infrastructure Platform That Doesn't Need SSH](./articles/swarmK/swarmk-docker-manager.md)

SwarmK is a complete infrastructure platform for Docker Swarm, networking policies, encryption, WAF, DNS, load balancing, alerts, and audit logs, all from a single control plane. No SSH. First agent free forever.   → thedecipherist.com

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[TuiMon: Render HTML Dashboards Directly in Your Terminal](./articles/tuimon/tuimon.md)

TuiMon renders HTML pages directly in your terminal, CSS flexbox, Chart.js, D3, live data, running in headless Chromium via Playwright, converted to pixels with Sharp. Any dashboard. Any terminal.   → thedecipherist.com

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[StrictDB, I Got Tired of AI Writing Raw SQL With No Guardrails](./articles/strictDB/strictDB.md)

StrictDB is a unified database driver, one API for MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, SQLite, and Elasticsearch. Write queries once, run them anywhere. AI-first with schema discovery, guardrails, and self-correcting errors.   → thedecipherist.com

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[I Built a CLI That Diagnoses Docker Problems and Gives You the Fix](./articles/dockerdoctor/dockerdoctor.md)

DockerDoctor is an interactive CLI that lints your Dockerfile, compose file, and running containers across 50 checks in 11 categories, with automatic fix suggestions for every finding.   → thedecipherist.com

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[The Docker Developer Workflow Guide: How to Actually Work with Docker Day-to-Day](./articles/docker_developer_workflow/docker_developer_workflow.md)

The complete Docker guide for developers, Dockerfiles, Compose, secrets, security, versioning, debugging, and the architecture decisions the official docs never explain. What 10 years of Docker in production actually looks like.   → thedecipherist.com

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[MongoDB vs SQL in 2026, 10 Years of Production Data Says You're Wrong](./articles/mongo_vs_sql/mongodb_vs_sql.md)

#1 organic Google result and #1 visual carousel for "mongo vs sql 2026". Independently endorsed by a MongoDB Software Architect Manager. I've written SQL professionally for as many years as I've used MongoDB. Every argument against MongoDB comes from people who never used it correctly.   → thedecipherist.com

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[Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes in 2026](./articles/docker_swarm_vs_kubernetes/docker_swarm_vs_kubernetes.md)

288,000 views across 4 subreddits in 8 hours. #4 on Hacker News within 24 hours. Translated into Spanish within 7 hours. 10 years of Docker Swarm in production, 24 containers, two continents, live SaaS platform, zero crashes, $166/year.   → thedecipherist.com

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[I've Done 3,650+ MongoDB Backups. Here's What the Documentation Gets Wrong.](./articles/mongo_backups/mongo_backups.md)

The --nsInclude bug, opaque gzip archives, collection tiering, and restore command pitfalls, ten years of MongoDB backup lessons that the official documentation consistently gets wrong.   → thedecipherist.com

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[The Complete Guide to MongoDB 8.0 Replica Sets](./articles/mongo_replicaset_guide/mongodb_replica_set_guide_2025_updated.md)

Production-ready MongoDB replica set deployment on Ubuntu, Docker Swarm integration, TLS encryption, backup strategies, performance tuning, and failover testing. Everything the getting-started guide skips.   → thedecipherist.com

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[The Complete Docker Swarm Production Guide](./articles/dock

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