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Tick the Box, Hope Nobody Checks
System76 now makes COSMIC contributors swear they used no AI at all, not even in the comments. I read the rule one clause at a time and got angrier with each one.
Xpass Might Replace Two of My Subscriptions, If It Exists
A leaked X, Grok and Cursor bundle called Xpass could replace two things I already pay for. If it's real, I want to see whether it lets me drop Claude and Codex to $20 a month.
Three Days of Making GovernCode Less Forgetful, Less Serial, and Less Dumb About Limits
A progress report on GovernCode: better memory, Specs that run side by side, and a way to recover when an AI hits its usage limit. None of it is released yet, and I'll tell you exactly why that matters.
I Made My AI Tools Ask Permission
For a couple of months I tinkered with an idea: let several AI coding tools work as one crew without letting any of them touch what they should not. Tonight it became a real, free, open-source release candidate called GovernCode.
Something That Really Looks Awesome
One vague sentence at five in the afternoon. By half past nine my AI team had a real GUI with a name, a cat, two Mac apps and a private network. Vibe coding can be that easy. Sometimes.
I Promoted the One I Was Going to Cancel
I gave four AI assistants a chain of command, a spending limit and code names, then spent the night finding out that the tools I built to supervise them kept reporting jobs finished while the jobs were still running.
I Only Wanted Two Subscriptions
I wanted to save twenty bucks on AI subscriptions. That somehow required a searchable archive, a server, and a laptop refusing to recognize its own login.
The Droid You Are Looking For
My second Omarchy plugin mirrors an Android phone onto the desktop. Most of the actual work was deciding when software is allowed to guess on your behalf, and when it absolutely is not.
It Broke My GPU and I Like It Anyway
Omarchy cost me half a GPU, a monitor running at a third its refresh rate, and an entire website. I am still here, and my computer is fun again for the first time in years.
Zero Is a Lie
My first published Omarchy plugin started as a lazy wrapper around btop and ended with me ripping btop out entirely. Along the way I had to decide what a system monitor is allowed to say when it genuinely does not know something.
Tested. Deployed. Wrong Anyway.
147 tests, a proven arithmetic fix, a clean deployment. Then I actually used the thing for ten minutes and found four bugs the tests were structurally incapable of seeing.
The Server Was Never Down
A medication tracker I built for myself started refusing to connect, from every device, while the server sat there perfectly healthy the entire time. The bug was a ghost, and I built it myself months earlier without noticing.