Plannotator gives Claude Code a browser UI for marking up plans, files, and pull requests. It ships as three separate things—a CLI, a Claude Code plugin, and a set of skills—and the obvious install path for each one drops it into your user-level environment, where it loads in every project forever. You can keep the whole thing inside one repo instead. Trying it out shouldn’t cost you a permanent resident in ~/.claude.
The Ulanzi TC002 Pixbar Smart Pixel Clock II is a clock with a 16×52 LED pixel canvas and a built-in battery. What makes it interesting to me is the HTTP API: I can send it GIFs and text, so I can decide what belongs on that little screen. I vibe coded ulanzi-tc002 to work with it. Two uses have become part of my day: animated pixel art from my Grok Bot, and a display that tells me whether my coding agents are still working.
I already forwarded mako notifications to Pushover on Linux. The hook is tiny: mako runs a command with the notification id, the script reads makoctl list -j, skips loops and Pushover itself, and POSTs to the Pushover API. Windows has no equivalent of on-notify=exec. I wanted one binary, dn-pushover, that does the same job on both desktops: titles become [DN][hostname] … so a notification that bounces back is easy to drop. Linux stayed simple. Windows did not.
AI agents write code fastest when the work is sliced small and a human stays on judgment. My workflow runs a four-step loop: plan the feature into units, hand the branch stack to the agent, review each PR myself, then let the agent address my comments.
Stacked pull requests let you review a feature in logical slices rather than one enormous diff. The challenge is managing the branches, synchronizing PRs, and surviving rebases without breaking the chain. gh-stack handles the scaffolding. It tracks your branch stack in a local JSON file, generates PRs that base each one to its parent, and works on any GitHub repo regardless of whether your organization has enabled native stacked PR support.
I wanted MCP clients to create Google Tasks for me. The Google Tasks API requires a Workspace-style setup I don’t have. IFTTT already bridges webhooks to Google Tasks—but a Maker webhook URL is itself the credential. Storing that key in local MCP config is a bad idea.
Claude Code runs tools and shell commands on your behalf. Launched from a terminal, the CLI inherits your shell environment and everything just works. But under Claude Desktop, Claude Code is spawned from a GUI/desktop session that never sourced your interactive shell config—so if you rely on version managers like mise, asdf, or nix, the tools they install may not be on Claude’s PATH. The fix is a single setting: CLAUDE_ENV_FILE.
When working with Git repositories, there are often files that need to be backed up but shouldn’t be committed to the main branch. These might include local development settings, IDE configuration files, personal notes, or development scripts that are specific to your workflow. The challenge is finding a way to back up these ignored files without polluting the main repository history.
This post explains how to set up a static site on Cloudflare R2. I recently migrated my blog to Cloudflare R2, and the process went smoothly until I encountered R2’s lack of native support for rewriting URLs to index.html files. This post explains how I resolved this issue.
I use file system to manage my knowledge base. The repository has a well defined directory structure. I have a bunch of scripts to help me creating these directories on the laptop. But in iOS, I have to create them manually. Recently, I have found out a way to work around it via Working Copy.