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Notes on engineering, tooling, and building things that last.

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Turnbell: Stop Watching Your AI Agent's Terminal

turnbell turns the finish signal every AI coding agent already sends into a voice, notification, or phone alert. No daemon, no SDK required.

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Your New Tab Page Is Wasted Browser Real Estate

Why the average new-tab page is dead space, and how a local-only Chrome dashboard with pinned links and reminders fixed it with zero tracking.

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My Laptop Now Commits Its Own Config

A dotfiles setup that fixes itself, symlinked config, a launchd agent watching Homebrew, and identity routing that survives migrations.

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Stop Using cron on Your Mac: Use launchd Instead

cron polls on a schedule and misses jobs while your laptop sleeps. launchd reacts to filesystem events instead, and it never misses one.

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Git's Defaults Are Wasting Your Time

Eleven global git settings and twenty aliases that kill the daily annoyances git ships with turned off by default.

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The Development Workspace Architecture I Wish I'd Built Years Ago

A scalable workspace folder structure separating source code, infrastructure, and data, so machine migration stops being painful.

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Building a Modern LTI 1.3 Tool with Next.js and Node.js

A production-ready LTI 1.3 architecture, a Node.js/ltijs security layer and Next.js frontend with a stateless token flow, cookie-safe.