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  1. Customizing mattorb.com to my taste with AI

    The Astro migration left me with a generic blog. With AI, I could try more ideas and keep cutting until the site felt like mine.

  2. 9 agent wins with tmux and cmux

    Agentic coding finally made tmux worth the trouble. Here's how I use tmux and cmux to keep agents running, visible, and within reach.

  3. Adventures in TUIs

    TUIs are fun again. Here's what AI agents, modern terminals, and new frameworks are making possible.

  4. Judging what to carry in your AI toolkit

    Every new agentic AI improvement promises a win — but does yours pay off? I ran 18 experiments across three frontier models, using two popular tools, and only one beat its control.

  5. Leveraging DESIGN.md and Agentic web design skills

    Can a markdown persisted designed system stay aligned while iterating on changes with an AI? I shipped four design changes and a drift detector, with the markdown spec as the contract.

  6. MacBook Neo: A carry everywhere laptop for remote AI steering

    Apple shipped an entry level laptop for students and light tasks, but in the age of AI agents that can do work and be managed remotely, the MacBook Neo might be the perfect AI remote control.

  7. Keyjam

    What streak can you achieve using a keyboard for everything without resorting to the mouse?

  8. The Many Faces of FZF

    FZF is a tool that useful and easy to weave in to your needs. Shell history, files, git stash, branch checkout, repo clone, Docker entry — all faster with fzf in the mix.