Tutorials & Best Practices
End-to-end walkthroughs and the patterns distilled from them. Empty repo to working agent. Code that runs.
AboutA note from the desk
A magazine, on the internet.
Catalystic is for the people building with Claude and AI agents, not the people writing about them on stage. Editorial cadence, practitioner voice, no funnel.
What this is.
We publish six kinds of pieces. Tutorials that compile. Best practices distilled from real deployments. Tips you’d paste into a Slack thread. News with editorial judgment. Product updates that say what’s actually new. Opinion that argues a point.
The reader is one of three people, often overlapping: a management executive deciding where to bet on AI; a knowledge worker for whom this is the new substrate of the job; a technically-literate practitioner (PM, lead, power user inside an agent harness) who reads the docs and wants the patterns. None of them needs the 101.
We are not a wire service. If something is interesting, we say so. If it’s vapor, we say so. We have opinions; you’ll notice.
Tips & Tricks
Short and sharp. The thing you’d paste into a Slack thread when somebody asks how you usually do X.
News, Updates & Opinion
What changed, what shipped, and what we think about it. Confident, not cautious. Written to be read on a Tuesday morning.
How this works.
Cadence. Pieces appear when they’re ready. No schedule, no padding. Sometimes twice a week, sometimes weeks between.
Cost. Free. No paywall, no funnel, no ads. Pieces stay free in their permanent form; we don’t put the archive behind a wall later.
Source. Pieces are drawn from production work in flight, not retrospective summaries. If a pattern is here, it ran in something that mattered.
Voice. Practitioner-to-practitioner. Dry, warm, opinionated. Not corporate. Not bro-y. Subtly British, if you’re paying attention.