Tag: tools
Distracting Tools | Weekstarter 36-2026
Weekstarter is here. Come and get your weekly updates, links, recommendations, and how I can easily get distracted by pens or any other tool I use.
Issue #3: Seamless File Sharing Across All Devices with LocalSend
An open-source and ad-free alternative to AirDrop that respects your privacy.
Using Scoped Coverage to Prune an AI-Generated Go Test Suite
How I use Tobari, AI coding agents, and my own judgment to reduce a sprawling Go test suite without losing coverage.
Issues in the Repo
refs/bugs, refs/notes, refs/heads/ticgit, or a directory full of YAML.
croft.click
The AT Protocol tools directory — a free, browser-based hub linking Jasper, Malachite, Bismuth, Opal, and Tourmaline.
I Cut My AGENTS.md Files by 50% Using an Eval
How I evaluated one global and four project AGENTS.md files, removed about half the instructions, and checked what still changed agent behavior.
When a Notes App Is Just a Notes App
My thoughts on why Bear Notes is still worth paying for every year.
Technical Diagrams for Communication
How many ways are there to draw the same diagram? Lots! It turns out. Here are a few tools for drawing effective technical diagrams.
Halo: Campaign Evolved's Secret Difficulty Modifiers
Halo: Campaign Evolved hides most of its Difficulty Modifiers. Enable superspeed, low gravity and active camo by editing one config file.
Remote Development from Any Browser with blit.sh and moo
How to pair blit's browser-based terminal streaming with moo's local-first agent workbench for remote development, 11ty site work, and accessible document and transcript conversion.
Knowing which Claude is stuck
A zellij session switcher that shows how many Claude Code agents are running in each session, and which of them has stopped and is waiting on me.
Instantly Get Feature Specific Baseline Component Embed Code
Search the web-features catalog, preview the baseline-status component, and generate the CDN or bundler snippet, all from one small web app.
How Kamal Fits My Coding-Agent Workflow
Why I run small products on one Hetzner server with Kamal, and how Agent Control serializes deployments when coding agents are doing the work.
Why I Built an Orchestration Tool for My Coding Agents
Why I built Agent Control, my macOS app and CLI for coordinating coding-agent sessions, queues, callbacks, loops, and cross-project work.
Coding Agents Still Need Engineering Judgment
AI-built SaaS apps can work, but the expensive cleanup starts when nobody supervises the system design, data model, auth boundaries, and production workflows.
Cascade Chat has moved to an ADLC
Cascade Chat now runs on an Agentic Development Lifecycle. Agents write the code, Playwright verifies it, and the only human decisions left are ideation, architecture, and the release gate.
Scrutineer: scanning open source without flooding maintainers
Finding the vulnerabilities is the easy part
Cloudflare Tunnels Changed How I Test Local Integrations
Cloudflare Tunnel changed local integration testing for me because it gave local services stable HTTPS names that behave like the real app boundary.
CalVer is just better
Semantic versioning signals intent. Calendar versioning tells you when. The second one is more useful.
Apropos of power tools
Power tools are often more efficient than hand tools, but don't necessarily replace them. In the hands of skillful craftspeople, both are useful in building.
Are we (re-)approaching the year of applications on the desktop?
Desktop software is having a quiet revival. After years of SaaS monoculture, frameworks like Wails and Tauri are enabling a new generation of native-feeling apps built with familiar web technologies — at a fraction of Electron's resource cost. Wails v3's first-class in-app updates might be what finally tips the scale.
I dumped Cursor
As is tradition, my workflow continues to evolve at a rapid pace. I've since dumped Cursor in favor of a new stack.
Tourmaline
AT Protocol scrobble analyser for Teal.fm listening history — genre map, mood profile, personality archetype, and shareable recaps.
Disable Chrome AI, Optimization Guide On Device Model
Learn how to disable Chrome AI on your device model to optimize performance, keep your disk space, and reduce battery usage.
Tezos Systems: A Window Into the Tezos Network
One of the most common things people do in crypto is focus only on the things that grab headlines.
Coding Agent Skills vs Slash Commands, MCP, and CLI Tools
How I decide whether a coding-agent workflow belongs in a skill, slash command, MCP server, or plain CLI script.
Kamal vs Coolify for a Solo SaaS
My practical Kamal vs Coolify comparison for solo SaaS apps: when I prefer one-command deploys, when a dashboard helps, and why I use Kamal with Hetzner.
La veille de Wittouck - Fin mai 2026
You Can Publish Without Replit
Replit and browser app builders are fine for sketches. If the app matters, I want source code, a normal repo, terminal agents, and boring deployment.
Introducing writer-cli: a bash tool I built from scratch to blog in the terminal!
After finding the tildeverse and the Tilde.town feels engine, I decided to build my own simple command-line tool for blogging that handles the full lifecycle of a blog post (creation, editing, building, and git push). A walkthrough of the design decisions, the modular architecture, and the tradeoffs of writing 700 lines of plain bash.
Nix Configuration Updates
The Atmosphere needs a front door
The Atmosphere needs a distinct brand identify, better tools for builders, a new UX for users, and a small empowered group willing to build it all.
rsync on windows: C: isn't a drive, it's a directory name
rsync built on cygwin doesn't understand windows drive letters. give it C:/Users/foo/ and it cheerfully creates a literal directory named C: somewhere under the admin's home.
three nested fatal asserts in deep rock galactic
fixed the modded deep rock galactic crashes that have plagued the game for years - the ones where you can't rejoin a mission after dropping. ghidra + bitfix turned a 'known annoyance' into an evening fix, once we got past the first crash and found the second one waiting underneath.
CSS Color Picker Now Available As A Figma Plugin
You can now use my <color-input> as a Figma plugin : HDR Color Picker
proxy
A lightweight multi-ecosystem caching package proxy
Why AGENTS.md Gets So Long
The obvious complaint about AGENTS.md is that it gets too long. I get it. You open a repo, see a few hundred lines of instructions for the coding
Terminal Tooling
A curated collection of command-line tools that fundamentally changed how I work. With installation guides using Homebrew and practical usage examples for each tool.
My Cloudflare Tunnel Config Is My Local Dev Directory
I saw Greg Raiz's local.vibe post on Hacker News. The problem is familiar: once you have enough local projects, remembering localhost:5173 vs
Opal
Convert microblog posts from Twitter, Mastodon, Threads, and Nostr to AT Protocol Bluesky posts.
Devoxx France 2026 - Bilan
DevSnoop — Browser Access for Coding Agents
I use coding agents — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor — for most of my development. They're good at reading and writing code. They're not good at seeing
Writing Coding-Agent Skills for External Services
Most of my coding-agent skills so far have been for workflow automation — committing, deploying, reviewing. But I recently wrote two skills for
brief
A knowledge base of project conventions, exposed as a CLI.
Teaching Claude to Do Woodworking
One of the best parts about Claude Code is that the "code" in the name is misnomer. The fact is that it can be used for a wide variety of things. I wanted to use it to help with some woodworking projects. But part of the problem was that I didn't know where to start. I am very inexperienced at this which leads me to lean in to using Claude Code to help with research and planning. So that's where I got started can we work on creating some plugins/skills/agents and anything else that would be
Claude Code vs Cursor vs Codex: Which AI Agent Should You Use?
My Claude Code vs Cursor vs Codex comparison for agentic coding, including terminal workflows, AGENTS.md, skills, tmux, Droid, and daily tradeoffs.