In my job, we use Atlassian Jira to manage and track our work. The main thing I interact with in Jira are "issues" ("tickets" in other services): I have a handful or two in flight at any given time. When I work on issues, I take extensive n…
Staying current in your expertise is challenging when technology evolves rapidly and covers so much more ground than any developer can use in their daily work. Lately, I've found an approach that works really well for me: I'm using Claude C…
OrbStack is a fast, lightweight Docker Desktop alternative for macOS, with a thoughtful UX that makes it a genuine pleasure to use. One feature that I particularly love is that it automatically assigns every container a local domain name: s…
In my job, I'm part of a team that writes, and operates software. The operating part, more so than the writing one, involves working with sets of related data that exist in a variety of places and in a variety of formats: there are SQL data…
I recently published acp2ollama, a command-line tool that wraps an ACP agent and exposes it as an Ollama-compatible HTTP server, so any tool that speaks the Ollama API can talk to the agent instead. This post shows what that looks like in p…
As I worked on my previous post about a Claude Code skill for interactive training sessions, I got introduced to a thought that stuck with me: the secret super power of large language models isn't generating content, it's consuming it. Writ…
Elfeed is an extensible web feed reader for Emacs, and it's great. I'm subscribed to a couple dozen feeds, and I use elfeed almost every day to check for news. For entries that don't work well in a text-based feed reader, elfeed provides a