How Claude Code Saved My Application from a Catastrophic Deletion

Ideochrom is a free web tool I built for generating publication-ready chromosome karyotype ideograms. I don’t make money from it — if anything, I lose money. It pales in comparison to my surf fishing hobby, where lures, terminal tackle, and other gear I buy to “assure” I’ll catch something add up by the end of the season. But it’s a hobby project that genuinely helps my colleague and his lab, so I keep it running. ...

June 8, 2026 · 3 min · Mitchell Cohen