GitMenuBar: Your Git Commands, Right Where You Need Them
GitMenuBar: Your Git Commands, Right Where You Need Them I have a love-hate relationship with the macOS menu bar. I love that it is a quiet, ambient place where useful status lives.…
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This Free Tool Watches My Server Logs So I Don’t Have To
This Free Tool Watches My Server Logs So I Don’t Have To I have a small home lab: three Linux boxes, a NAS, a router running OpenWrt (an open-source router operating system),…
Docsify: Turn Markdown into Beautiful Documentation
Docsify: Turn Markdown into Beautiful Documentation Sites I have built documentation sites with six different tools over the years. Static site generators, server-rendered platforms, wiki engines, dedicated doc tools. Most of them…
This To-Do App Tracks Your Time, Handles Jira, and Collects Zero Data
I’ve been looking for a to-do app that does three things: tracks time on each task, syncs with the Jira board my team uses, and does not ship my data to a…
Google’s Android Lockdown Is Still Happening — Don’t Be Fooled by the PR
Google’s Android Lockdown Is Still Happening – Don’t Be Fooled by the PR Google told everyone they would back off on locking down Android. They didn’t. That was the message out of…
Guilt-Free Motivation in Open Source Communities
Guilt-Free Motivation in Open Source Communities I spent three years contributing to an open source project I had stopped enjoying. The guilt of walking away kept me there through two rewrites, a…
PicoClaw: Tiny, Fast, and Deployable Anywhere
PicoClaw: Tiny, Fast, and Deployable Anywhere PicoClaw is a 3MB command-line HTTP client (a tool for making web requests from your terminal) that I have been using for about two months, and…
ZeroClaw: The Rust-Powered AI Assistant That Packs a Punch
ZeroClaw: The Rust-Powered AI Assistant That Packs a Punch ZeroClaw is a new open-source AI coding assistant written in Rust, and after three weeks of using it as my daily driver I…
Challenges Facing Open Source in Developing Countries
I have spent a fair amount of time working with open source communities in countries that are usually described as “the Global South” (a term that groups Africa, Latin America, parts of…
Mengram: The AI Memory API That Remembers What Matters
The hardest part of building an AI agent is not the model. It is the memory. Every agent framework I have used in the last year has its own half-baked solution for…