Dev Tools
Tools built to solve real workflow problems. Markdown editors, monitoring scripts, automation utilities, and the dogfooding loops that produce them.
5 posts
- 8 min read
I Used WordPress for 20 Years and I Was Wrong
After two decades building sites on WordPress — from personal blogs to corporate platforms — I switched to Astro. Here's why the move to static site generation changed everything about how I build for the web.
- 10 min read
Local RAG for Claude Code: Semantic Search Over Your Own Project
Claude Code has session memory and governance documents, but on a project with five hundred markdown files, the gap between what the agent can read at startup and what the project actually knows gets wider every week. pmem is a local RAG memory system that gives Claude Code persistent, semantic search across your project's full history. No external APIs. Setup in two minutes.
- 5 min read
SideMark: A Free Markdown Editor for macOS (Open Source)
Local files only, no cloud, no subscription. Git-aware diff merging, live preview, and autosave. Built for developers who work with AI-assisted workflows.
- 6 min read
Auto-Compaction Is Costing You Sessions
Claude Code auto-compacts at ~83% context usage — and you lose control of what gets preserved. Here's a script that warns you before it happens so you can save your session state first.
- 5 min read
Your AI Builds the Code. Who Reviews It?
If the same AI agent that writes your code also reviews it, you have someone grading their own homework. I built an adversarial code review agent to fix that.