Building developer tools and writing about AI-assisted development — in public, systematically, and for real.
Lessons from running autonomous AI agents on real engineering tasks — what they do well, where they fall over, and the workflow that works.
2026-08A zero-framework walkthrough of building, testing, and packaging a CLI product — from boring annoyance to installable tool.
2026-08Autocomplete vs chat-assist vs agents — what each tier is actually good for, what it costs, and how to spend without wasting money.
2026-08How market data — 146K products, $30–50 sweet spot — decided the price, and why polish beats price every time.
2026-08The honest account of an AI-assisted build: what the agent did well, the two bugs it introduced, and how tests caught them.
2026-08The story of depclear — a zero-dependency successor to the abandoned depcheck, and why boring tools matter.
2026-08The launch post-mortem: name conflicts, shebang bugs, and the difference between a package that exists and one that works.
2026-08The story of mcp-companion — a zero-dependency scanner that catches broken, insecure, and deprecated MCP server configs before they silently fail.
2026-08Find unused & missing npm dependencies. Zero-dep, CI-friendly.
npm · depclear-cliSafely reclaim wasted disk space. Dry-run by default.
CLILog analysis with anomaly detection for small teams.
CLIScan & validate MCP server configs. Zero-dep, CI-friendly.
npm · mcp-companionBuilding developer tools and writing about AI-assisted development — in public, systematically, and for real. Every tool and article here was built with AI-assisted development, documented in public, and released under open licenses. The goal is simple: build durable assets that compound.