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Jan 14 • 👨‍💻 Software
HomeBar: Control Your Smart Home from the Mac Menu Bar

HomeBar: Control Your Smart Home from the Mac Menu Bar

HomeBar sits in your menu bar and lets you toggle lights, switches, and other HomeKit accessories with a single click. No need to open the Home app or pull out your phone.
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Jan 06 • 👨‍💻 Software
A Tool for Generating HTML Embeds for asciicinema

A Tool for Generating HTML Embeds for asciicinema

Today I wanted to share a screen capture of a terminal project that I’ve been working on, and I wanted something better than a blurry screen recording. I ended up building a tool to set the start/end times and generate the code injection snippets for Ghost.
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Jan 06 • 👨‍💻 Software
Learning Claude Code Plugins by Building Two

Learning Claude Code Plugins by Building Two

I wanted to learn how Claude Code plugins work, so I built a couple with plugin-dev: Worktree-Manager for easier git worktrees, and Chainer, which interprets what you want to build and picks + runs the right plugin(s).
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Jan 05 • 👨‍💻 Software
I built a VS Code / Cursor extension to open Agents in the Editor Area

I built a VS Code / Cursor extension to open Agents in the Editor Area

I wanted agent terminals to live next to my files, not in a pane. So I built a small extension using Codex that adds status bar buttons (one per agent) to open terminals directly in the editor area.
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Nov 25 • 🧘‍♂️ Meditating
What’s Inside a Buddha? More Than I Ever Imagined

What’s Inside a Buddha? More Than I Ever Imagined

Today I learned that Buddha statues—yes, even the giant ones—often have scriptures and sacred objects placed inside them.
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