Category: Tools & Reviews

I Cut My AI Coding Token Bill With a CLI Proxy Six weeks ago I added up what I was spending on Claude API tokens during a typical dev session. git status alone was costing me around 340 tokens per call. I ran it probably 40 times a day. That’s 13,600 tokens — for a

Running Background Daemons in WSL2 — Three Ways, One Real Comparison I run several long-lived background processes in WSL2: a Redis queue daemon, a file watcher, a Telegram bridge, and a few task-processing agents. Getting them to start reliably, stay running, and survive across WSL restarts took longer than it should have because the advice

Claude Code vs Cursor: AI Agent or AI Editor — Which Model of Assistance Actually Fits How You Work? One-line verdict: Claude Code is an AI agent that executes tasks autonomously — reading your entire codebase, running commands, editing files, iterating on failures without you. Cursor is an AI-enhanced editor that makes writing code faster

I Built an MCP Server in an Afternoon — Now Claude Talks Directly to My Tools I’ve been running a local automation stack for a while — SQLite databases, a handful of REST APIs, some cron jobs — and every time I wanted Claude to interact with any of it, I’d spend half an hour

Qdrant + Embeddings + LLM + Orchestration: The RAG Stack That Keeps Your AI Grounded One-line verdict: This four-layer stack — index documents in Qdrant, encode meaning with an embedding model, retrieve by semantic similarity, generate with an LLM — solves hallucination at the source: your AI answers from documents you control, not from a

Obsidian + LLM + Git + Quartz: The Pipeline That Turns Your Private Notes Into Public Knowledge One-line verdict: This four-stage pipeline — capture in Obsidian, compile with an LLM, preserve in Git, publish with Quartz — solves a different problem than personal AI memory: it gets your accumulated knowledge out of a private folder

Create Slides with Marp: Finish Your Presentation in Markdown, No PowerPoint Needed One-line verdict: Marp turns a single Markdown file into a presentation and exports it to PDF, PPTX, or HTML. Instead of fighting a design tool, you stay focused on the words — and because it’s a plain text file, your slides are version-controlled

Obsidian Web Clipper: Turn Any Webpage Into a Searchable Knowledge Asset You’re browsing the web and you find something worth keeping — a GitHub doc, a research paper, a tutorial, a YouTube breakdown. So you bookmark it. And then you never look at it again. Most bookmarks die in a folder. You forget what you

Obsidian + Claude Code + Markdown + Git: The Stack That Gives Your AI a Persistent Memory of Your Work One-line verdict: This four-tool combination solves the biggest unsolved problem in personal AI productivity — the fact that LLMs forget everything the moment a session ends — by turning your private notes into a self-updating,

npm vs mise: Which Task Runner Should Power Your Dev Workflow? One-line verdict: npm scripts are the safe default for JavaScript projects where portability and zero-setup matter, but mise tasks win if you want a proper task runner with dependency graphs, parallel execution, and cross-language support built in — without reaching for extra packages. Overview