When Productivity Turns Against Its Purpose
The AI boom promises abundance, but without a fairer distribution of power it may deepen the poverty, dependency, and cultural depletion it claims to overcome.
Tag: productivity
Running Hermes on a Cloud Machine as a Daily Routine Assistant
How I wired Hermes Agent on a remote Linux box into Telegram, email, calendar, error monitoring, GitHub, and a daily morning briefing routine.
What Subagents Are Actually Good For in Codex
A field guide for AI-heavy early adopters on when subagents in Codex speed work up, when they slow it down, and how to use them without creating chaos.
Git Worktree for Parallel AI Development
How to use git worktree to run parallel AI coding sessions safely, with practical patterns for isolating gems, databases, ports, and runtime state.
Intelligent Applications and the Personal OS
The closing piece of a 12-part series on how software is shifting from apps you click through to intelligent systems and a personal OS that act for you.
I Let an AI Agent Write Code for a Week. Here's What Actually Worked.
A week of testing OpenHands, the autonomous AI coding agent, on real projects: what worked, what failed, and the setup that made it reliable.
AI's Impact on the Software Development Lifecycle
How AI is changing requirements, design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance, and which parts of the software lifecycle stay stubbornly human.
Faster Rails Docker Feedback Loop: Runtime Deps and HMR
How I reduced Docker development friction across three Rails apps by removing rebuild-heavy steps, adding runtime dependency sync, and enabling webpack HMR.
Stacked Git: a Patch-Stack Workflow on Top of Git
Stacked Git (StGit) separates the messy work of thinking through code from the clean history Git commits are for, using a patch-stack workflow.
Debugging Exceptions: Break on Throw, Not Catch-All
Catch-all exception handlers hide the real bug. Debuggers that pause on every thrown exception, caught or not, find it faster than logging ever will.
Code Review Anti-Patterns That Waste the Most Time
The code review anti-patterns that slow teams down most: giant PRs, style-war comments, and reviews that skip the business context entirely.
Zsh Command-Line Editing: Shortcuts Worth Learning
A practical rundown of Zsh command-line editing: ZLE widgets, history reuse, globbing, and the handful of plugins that actually save keystrokes.
Poetry vs uv: Choosing a Python Dependency Manager
Poetry and uv solve overlapping problems in Python dependency management; here is where each one wins, and how to use them together.
Extracting the Second Page From Multiple PDFs on macOS
How to batch-extract one page from many PDFs on macOS and merge the results into a single file, using Poppler's pdfseparate/pdfunite or pdftk.
Android build and debug tips: jenv, ADB, and wireless debugging
Practical notes on Android build and debug workflow: managing Java versions with jenv, wireless ADB debugging, release signing, and logcat filtering.
Kubectl aliases and functions that actually save time
A set of kubectl aliases and shell functions for pod access, JSONPath queries, and log searching that cut real typing out of day-to-day Kubernetes work.
Three-way merge in Neovim with Fugitive and Delta
Setting up Neovim, Fugitive, and Delta for three-way merges gives you a fast, keyboard-driven way to resolve Git conflicts without leaving the terminal.
A .irbrc Full of Ruby Debugging and Introspection Helpers
A collection of .irbrc helpers for tracing method calls, logging SQL queries, profiling code, and inspecting Ruby objects during Rails console debugging.