Posts in "tools"

A technical analysis comparing how five different AI coding CLIs manage token usage and context windows when using the same language model to solve an identical debugging task.

Great breakdown of the hidden costs behind AI coding assistants. The differences in tool definition overhead alone are wild — Claude Code sends 62,600 characters of tool definitions per turn while Aider sends zero. Worth reading if you’re thinking about which CLI tools you’re reaching for and what you’re actually paying for under the hood.

A code style linter for Elixir, powered by shame.

Wins the “best tag-line for a linter” award.

Blazing fast, zero configuration web application bundler

I was just talking with some folks at a meetup last night about the pain of webpack configuration. In previous jobs, spinning up a new app was a regular thing so I got pretty adept at doing the webpack dance, but at the current gig, I’m working on a large React app that was setup before I got here so I havent had to dive into webpack for over a year! This is going on the short list of things to check out with my next pide project.

Solidarity is a command-line tool that lets you check your machine’s environment against a project’s expected environment, and warns you if you’re missing something.

An open-source screen recorder built with web technology

A nice simple utility for screen recording