A friend from work suggested I try Claude Code — and I jumped right in.
If you’ve never heard of it, Claude Code recently released a free tutorial designed for people like you and me — no coding experience, no terminal knowledge required. You can find it here: ccforeveryone.com. One disclaimer: the tutorial itself is free, but you’ll need a Claude Pro or Max subscription ($20/month) to use it.
I finished the course in about three hours — though I should be honest: that’s partly because I’ve been quietly studying the terminal, CLI, Git and GitHub for the last two and a half months, so I already had a few things installed. The tutorial felt like an old friend arriving with a fresh idea. Familiar, but leading somewhere new.
Like anything you practice, things start to feel natural. This was no different. But the outcome was.
I followed the course content, and the moment it ended, an idea appeared. My aunt in Brazil and I have been getting into sourdough bread together — comparing notes, swapping recipes, troubleshooting over WhatsApp across thousands of kilometres. I nearly killed my starter recently (the AI saved it — long story, and yes, there’s already a blog post about it). But even now, every time I want to bake something, I have to stop and piece together the timeline: when do I feed the starter? When does the dough rest? When does it go in the oven?
So I built something to solve exactly that.
It’s called Sourdough Planner. You tell it when you want fresh bread — and it builds the whole timeline backwards from the oven. You can find it here: sourdough-planner-eight.vercel.app
Go take a look. If you bake, test it. And tell me — honestly — what needs work. This is version one, and I’m listening.
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