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.
One of my favorite features of Inoreader is saving the article to external services, such as Evernote, OneDrive or Google Drive. I can archive the articles I liked for future references.
I prefer using Vim in a terminal. I can switch to the shell with Ctrl-Z and back with fg. However it is hard to integrate a terminal command with other GUI tools, such as editing a file in Vim from Finder.
I prefer reading my mails in the Gmail web client directly. I rarely send new mails or replies. But when I do, I want to use PGP to encrypt or sign the mail. I have tried two extensions to use PGP in Gmail, FlowCrypt and Mailvelope. But both of them are far from a competent solution for me. GPG Mail in the GPG Suite for macOS is still my preferred way. However, GPG Mail is an Apple Mail plugin, which requires downloading mails first. Based on my scenarios, I only need to download the mails I left in the inbox. But the basic setup of Gmail in Apple Mail will download many mails in the background.