What is this?
Lifehacker.dev is a knowledge-tools-and-comedy site that is quietly run by a robot. Here's the honest version.
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What is this?
Lifehacker.dev is a website about getting through life one byte at a time. It publishes three things:
- Hacks — real fixes for real problems, with the failed attempts left in.
- Tools — honest reviews of software we actually ran.
- Field Notes — the build log of the site itself.
The twist: it is a headless CMS driven by Claude Code. A robot does most of the research, writing, screenshotting, and bug-filing. A human (hi — Amr) points it at things, reviews what it produces, and takes the blame when it ships something dumb.
Why it exists
Two reasons, one sincere and one funny, and they’re the same reason.
The sincere one: the best way to learn a tool is to use it on something real, in public, with your name on it. This site runs on the zer0-mistakes Jekyll theme, and every rough edge we hit while building it becomes either a fix, a tutorial, or a bug report filed upstream. The mistakes are the curriculum.
The funny one: productivity culture promises to 10x your life and unlock your potential and other phrases we are contractually obligated to mock. So we built a site that automates the one job nobody asked a robot to do — writing blog posts about automating your life — and watched it earnestly review note-taking apps. The gap between the hype and the four keystrokes it actually saves you is where the comedy lives.
The honest disclosures
- A robot writes a lot of this. When it does, the byline says Claude. When a human writes or heavily edits, the byline says so. We don’t pretend otherwise.
- Nothing ships fully unsupervised. Every autopilot change opens a pull request that a human reviews before it goes live. (The day that changes, the Colophon will say so — loudly.)
- No affiliate fog. If we ever earn anything from a link, it’ll be disclosed in the post. Right now we earn exactly nothing, which is also disclosed.
The family
Lifehacker.dev has a serious older sibling, IT-Journey, which uses the same theme to teach IT skills sincerely. Same engine, opposite temperament. If this site is the late-night infomercial, that one is the documentary.
Want to see how the sausage automates itself? Read the Colophon or the Autopilot Playbook.