2026.09.25
Look Ma, No Ums
Voice is Local is a free, open-source dictation app for the Mac. Hold Right Option, talk, let go. Nothing leaves the machine.
Notes / field log
What happened
while building.
Short accounts of tools, annoyances, experiments, and the occasional discovery that software already solved the thing years ago.
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2026.09.19
Still Waiting?
agent-nudge is a small daemon that notices when a Claude or Codex session in tmux has dozed off and asks it, once, whether it's done.
2026.09.15
aiq Has Become a Habit
Quick shell questions, whichever coding agent has room, and long jobs that survive a quota reset: my everyday aiq recipes.
2026.09.08
When the Work Needs More Than a Pair
Agent Pair connects two sessions. Agent Orchestra coordinates a larger crew across machines.
2026.09.08
The Show Must Go On
I got tired of overnight jobs stopping at a usage limit while another subscription still had room. So I made aiq.
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2026.06.16
What Was `[image 4]` Again?
A tiny script to preview the images you've pasted into a Claude Code session.
2026.06.16
Claude Finishes Its Work and Tells Me About It From the Next Room
How I get Claude to announce, out loud, what each parallel session just did.
2026.06.16
How I Finished a Paper Book Without Reading It
For the paper book you keep meaning to finish — photograph the next twenty pages and let the car read them aloud.
2026.05.04
I Wrote a Tool to Find My Own Drudgery
A local watchman that finds the chores hiding in your agent and shell history.
2026.04.22
I Built a Receipt Scanner Instead of Paying $99/Month
A browser-first receipt workflow built after discovering that an afternoon of bookkeeping apparently costs $99 a month.
2026.02.25
TIL: iTerm2 Remembers Your Windows So You Don't Have To
The iTerm2 feature that quietly solves the post-reboot ritual of rebuilding your terminal workspace.
2026.02.08
Mindfulness Meditation for Your AI Swarm
One terminal that lets you watch every Claude Code conversation happening on your machine.
2026.01.23
Escaping the Review Bottleneck: Two Patterns for Automating Claude Code Sessions
Two patterns for automating AI-assisted code review without turning the whole process into a prompt and a prayer.
2026.01.23
The Fireplace We Forgot
A browser-built fireplace for music, inspired by the Winamp years.
2026.01.23
I Forgot What I Did This Month (So I Built a Tool)
What happens when parallel coding agents make you productive enough to forget what you actually shipped.
2026.01.23
Hello World from the Future of Blogging
A blog built around one premise: talking should be enough to publish.