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Notes on building gitglimpse

Internals, philosophy, and workflow tips from the developer.

March 20, 2026 · 8 min read

Git history is not a reliable record of work. I tried to make it one.

Why git is a poor source of truth for what you actually did, how far you can push it with heuristics and LLMs, and what I learned building a context extraction layer on top of it.

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March 23, 2026 · 7 min read

How gitglimpse estimates effort from git history

A deep dive into the heuristic algorithm that turns commit timestamps and diff sizes into reasonable effort estimates.

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March 25, 2026 · 3 min read

Using gitglimpse with Claude Code

Set up the /standup slash command in three steps and let Claude Code write your daily updates.

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March 27, 2026 · 5 min read

Your AI writes the code. gitglimpse writes the standup.

How gitglimpse fits into AI-assisted development workflows with Claude Code, Cursor, and local LLMs.

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March 28, 2026 · 4 min read

Noise filtering and ticket detection in gitglimpse

How gitglimpse automatically strips noise commits and extracts ticket IDs from branch names.

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