§ Markdown is the new Open Source
Here is how I see things going for solo operators or small businesses, soon.
§ Interview Me
Good idea from Danny Postma for an “interview me” skill using the AskUserQuestion (both Claude Code and Cursor have this).
§ Towards more security - I turned on sha signing for git
I randomly read How we got hit by Shai-Hulud which is kind of scary. The problem in a nutshell is that if you as a developer run any kind of malware locally, it can exfiltrate all your locally-stored credentials. It’s a hard problem to solve. They discuss this and a bunch of related problems (like how to not get infected by malware while installing libraries), so I took the first steps: Use 1Password agent for ssh keys, and sign git commits using this agent.
§ The New Code
Another interesting talk about specs, by Sean Grove.
§ Advanced Context Engineering for Agents
Great talk on YT about “Spec-First Development”
§ PR Review Helper
This post is interesting: How I keep up with AI-generated PRs
§ the first token problem
Ruminations from a year ago…
§ cursor skills
Erik Zakariasson posted about some Cursor “commands” - which seem similar to Claude “skills”.
§ Spoken Word Programming
Gergey in his Pragmatic Engineer newletter wrote about companies using voice input. He visited Wispr Flow which makes dictation software that can fix up what you say automatically e.g. turning “let’s start a server on localhost 3000… no, sorry, localhost 8000” into “let’s start a server on localhost:8000” (notice that the software is url-aware). People are apparently fond of the BOYA microphone which is directionally sensitive so that one can speak very quietly into it even in an open office, get picked up, and not include surrounding noises.
§ Git worktree for agents
I discovered git worktree a few days ago; this lets you create a second work directory with its own branches but connected to the same local git repo.