Scott Watermasysk's Development Blog

ToDoOrDie: the only to-do app that guarantees every item gets checked off.

I’m going to write occasional summaries of what I’ve been up to and what I’ve been using in AI.

I have been using @aarondfrancis counselors quite a bit (Gemini told me to go away yesterday) and had been building something similar.

At the end of December, I published my year in review with a focus on AI usage.

The last missing piece in the new Kamal setup was enabling off-machine (and host-provider) backups.

At this point, still using Foreman is a code smell. https://x.com/SevenviewSteve/status/2026705434636157189

I built myself a GUI (dux) to manage dex tasks.

So it looks like there was a bit more work needed with Kamal to get SSR (Inertia.js) + deploy from GitHub + notify Sentry of the release working.

Have you ever noticed that after a few weeks with any to-do app, you end up with a list full of tasks that, if you’re being honest with yourself, you’re probably never going to get around to doing?

Creating a new database from an existing one, promoting it to be the main database, and then attaching it to multiple applications in a few CLI commands is still magical.

My new morning routine (you know, for 2 straight days): Create a project in the Claude app Use @usemonologue to chat back and forth across prompts on product ideas, updates, etc.

I am tired of fighting with Neovim, and as I write less code, I am not sure it is worth my time to get better at Neovim. cmux has a browser built in.

If you use Mise (and you should) along with Codex, you may not be using the tool versions you expect. https://scottw.com/codex-and-mise/

I tried SolidQueue for the first time with Postgres and ran into a memory issue on Mac in the forking process.

The onboarding for @usemonologue iOS is so good.

I encountered an issue earlier with Codex.

The Codex app has been pretty good for managing a bunch of sessions, but the inability to open a file based on the EDITOR variable is killing me.

When did Codex start reading skills from ~/.agents/skills?

I wanted to play around with @aarondfrancis’ SoloTerm, but I have commitment issues with AI tools.

It is nice to be able to add X to my personal starter kit (Rails + Interia.js)

I’d love to see Codex and Claude Code copy linking from @AmpCode.

You can just use /review and tell it what to review (branch, staged changes, etc).

With the major frontier models, agents, and harnesses available, it’s time to stop debating which is best.

FYI - Claude Code is not a fan of using a directory to group skills.

This is 🔥.

I was testing a bunch of ways to review code today, and noticed the amp review skill has improved a lot.

I realized that my primary reason for using local_ci_plus is to run the local CI in parallel.

I recently started experimenting with SolidQueue and PostgreSQL for the first time.

For dictation, @usemonologue is the only tool I’ve tried (including SuperWisper and WisprFlow) that properly formats text.

Rails handles credentials well, but outside Rails, it gets tricky.

I did a lot of cleanup on local-ci-plus tonight.

I’ve packaged the local CI changes into a Ruby gem called local_ci_plus.

If you want to build a long-term community around your product, Discord is never the answer.

I spent the morning setting up a Rails app and configuring my environment on @ssh_exe_dev.

I have been using bin/ci more often, especially with my Interia.js projects.

Painter is a fantastic quality of life improvement for @AmpCode https://ampcode.com/news/painter I had been using a slightly modified gemini skill from the compounding engineering plugin - https://github.com/scottwater/dotfiles/tree/main/private_dot_confi…

Moved my SSH keys to 1Password.

I kick myself for not realizing sooner that you can style LazyGit, Delta, etc.

My guess is @AnthropicAI ultimately wants everyone to transition from max accounts to a more traditional pay-per-usage model.

In LazyGit, I always forget that you can use + to make the section you’re looking at larger — usually two or three times.

I understand that the models are the same behind the scenes, but @AmpCode and @opencode just seem to work better.

I have had this enabled on my personal Amp account for a couple weeks and it is pretty unobtrusive.

Set up a domain on @resend yesterday.

LetterOpener is a fantastic Ruby gem for testing email functionality.

I somehow had the RAILS_ENV variable set in my shell in Zed (and it persisted even with new tabs).

If you are on the beads train, do yourself a favor and add an alias like this in your .gitconfig: d = diff -- . ':!.

With the impending death of IDEs, I have been slowly getting back into Neovim.

Easy CloudFlare Tunnels with Rails https://scottw.com/easy-cloudflare-tunnels-with-rails/

Things I’d never do without an LLM: Set up a Git submodule with the Dracula Pro Vim theme files to auto-load them using Chezmoi.

I spent far too long troubleshooting broken syntax highlighting on the blog, only to discover that 1Password was injecting Prism.js onto every page.