Scott Watermasysk's Development Blog

I had an idea last night to clean up the Muv activities screen a bit more.

PSA: hey dads.

Cleaned up the UI a bit.

Claude Design is far from perfect, but it does the best job of any tool I have tried to visualize a wide variety of design choices.

Muv is an app that I always wished existed, but pre-AI coding, I could never justify the time to make it happen.

I typically try to will a .com domain, but I am quite happy with the .ing

CloudFlare’s email forwarding is magical.

Almost had a regression in the move from Heroku Redis to DragonFly with a Lua script.

TIL - DragonFly (Redis alternative) caps keys returned in a query to 8192.

As I hinted at in the last AI & Me, the biggest, newest model should not run every step of an agent workflow.

People of @badlogicgames Pi and disciples of @aarondfrancis SoloTerm I put together a set of tools to work with Solo’s MCP Server - https://github.com/scottwater/pi-soloterm-tools I also did a port of the SuperPower skills which leverage Solo’s ‘orchestra…

@OpenAIDevs - Connecting my phone to Codex on my Mac is fantastic, but if the thread size crosses a size threshold, it just times out.

Claude Design feels like a vibe slop mess, but the results are great.

I’ve spent a lot of time over the last twenty years minimizing my use of a mouse.

The Apple Watch has never lived up to consuming content the way I had hoped it would.

The feedback loop to build anything for an Apple Watch is rough.

The Apple Watch integration makes Yap 10 times better.

Being able to use the ChatGPT app to connect to codex sessions on my computer is a great way to keep making progress on projects.

There is an update to Yap in TestFlight.

I have set up a background agents system to allow quick tasks, prototyping, etc., to be done by anyone.

Working to bring the Superpowers skills to the people of http://pi.dev/ (@badlogicgames) and SoloTerm (@aarondfrancis ) There is a small chance I am the only person on this island, but the view is spectacular.

Improved the @modal images build time from 30 minutes to about 5 minutes for an implementation of BackgroundAgents.

If you’ve ever wished for a way to quickly get ideas out of your head, I have an interesting tool for you: Yap!

If you use @aarondfrancis SoloTerm and miss having cmd+K clear your terminal, use control+L instead.

My goal for a rainy Memorial Day weekend was to build my first small iOS app.

I spent some time getting @_colemurray’s background agents running.

I had issues for the while with codex and executing Ruby that wasn’t the default version I had installed.

I added setup and teardown to http://stooges.dev/ - Next up is teach @aarondfrancis’s Solo how to use it.

The global dictation in Codex would be much more useful if you could control which model it used.

AI and Me - Issue 2006.2 - A follow-up on how Pi became my daily AI agent harness, why simpler workflows are winning, and what I am trying next. https://scottw.com/ai-and-me-issue-2026-2/

I’ve done a poor job of promoting Stooges, but it’s had some significant updates recently.

If you are trying to grep for something in LazyVim and want to filter by file by: @filter -- -t erb Hopefully, this helps me remember it.

At the end of my last issue, I mentioned, “I am hoping to spend some time with Pi”.

It is a shame, this could have actually been useful if it had been “copy the error as a prompt”, but instead they want you to go through their over-engineered MCP server.

Drag and drop file sharing on TailScale is a nice quality of life improvement.

My next AI & Me post will be all about http://pi.dev/.

Most people don’t know their options, and “big CLI” has started pushing worktrees because having your AI manage is another box on feature bingo. until they get confused and you get stuck.

Why call it Stooges?

The AI tools update daily.

I use this every time I publish a new site or write a blog post, just to be sure the og images are correct - https://ogvalidator.com/

I built an alternative to git worktrees called Stooges.

OpenUsage is a great way to visualize your LLM coding limits. https://www.openusage.ai/

I take half of this back.

Every time I needed a new VM, I’d quickly add @ssh_exe_dev and run my chezmoi install.

Local CI Plus - the improved Rails local CI, got a nice enhancement, parallel_steps - now instead of running all tasks in parallel, you can add specific steps to a block and then have everything execute synchronously.

I wrote up a little about some details about ToDoOrDie https://scottw.com/introducing-todoordie/

Ruby on Rails 8.1 shipped with a local CI runner.

If you use dex to manage tasks, I built a git driver to make viewing the diffs a bit more pleasant (assuming you still actually view git diffs). https://github.com/scottwater/dex-git-diff

Every time I try to add a static site to Cloudflare, I click Create Application instead of Add and spend 20 minutes trying to figure out where I went wrong.

I’ve been using dex for all of my personal projects and even some of my work projects.