Dan Blanchard

Staff Software Engineer at Monarch. Coder / Father / Gamer.

Everything Claude Saw: A Transparent Account of the Chardet v7 Rewrite

Exactly what Claude accessed from the old chardet codebase during the v7 rewrite, with evidence from the raw conversation transcripts.

March 29, 2026 · 27 min · Dan Blanchard

Hello, World

Is this thing on?

March 15, 2026 · 1 min · Dan Blanchard