Scott Watermasysk

No screen options except 13 or 15 inch.

I went M5 Air. It is the best form factor by far.

Ice Cubes seems dead. Bartender is flaky. What else do we have to manage the onslaught of menu bar icons?

Update all the tools Update all the tools. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Grab it here: gist.github.com/scottwater/...

A Bash script for managing software updates, tracking success or failure for multiple tools, with error handling.

The AI tools update daily. Time to automate.

OG Image Validator Free tool to validate and test your Open Graph meta tags. Ensure your website looks perfect when shared on social media.

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

Stooges — Git Workspaces, the Smart Way Multiple independent copies of your repository — with near-zero disk overhead. No stashing. No conflicts. No nonsense.

The website is a bit over the top, but why use LLMs if you don't want to push some boundaries: stooges.dev

If you ❤️ worktrees, this is probably not for you. But if you want multiple instances of your code that are easy to manage as additional directories, this might be a good option.

I built an alternative to git worktrees called Stooges.

Stooges uses copy-on-write to efficiently maintain multiple copies of your application, and includes helpful commands to track and manage everything.

User interface showing session and usage limits for a tool called Claude, with various progress bars and reset times displayed.

OpenUsage is a great way to visualize your LLM coding limits.

www.openusage.ai/

One quick question for Shelly and we have:

ssh exe.dev cp my-base new-instance

Now new instances are just seconds away.

Every time I needed a new VM, I’d quickly add @ssh_exe_dev and run my chezmoi install. A new VM, fully configured for development in under 5 minutes.

Then it hit me: why not see if there’s a way to make this my base?

GitHub - scottwater/local_ci_plus: Adds parallel execution, fail-fast, resume, and plain output to Rails' local CI runner. Adds parallel execution, fail-fast, resume, and plain output to Rails' local CI runner. - scottwater/local_ci_plus

Gem details: github.com/scottwater/...

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.

Introducing ToDoOrDie Every task gets done or GETS IT!

I wrote up a little about some details about ToDoOrDie

scottw.com/introducing...

GitHub - scottwater/local_ci_plus: Adds parallel execution, fail-fast, resume, and plain output to Rails' local CI runner. Adds parallel execution, fail-fast, resume, and plain output to Rails' local CI runner. - scottwater/local_ci_plus

I added this as an option to local_ci_plus - github.com/scottwater/l...

GitHub - scottwater/dex-git-diff: Custom Git diff driver for dex Custom Git diff driver for dex. Contribute to scottwater/dex-git-diff development by creating an account on GitHub.

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).

github.com/scottwater/...

The interface displays "Workers & Pages" with an arrow pointing to the "Add" button and a crossed-out "Create Application" button.

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.

ToDoOrDie — Every task gets done or gets it. The only to-do app that cleans itself up. Stop letting your backlog haunt you.

There is no business plan here. It is just an app I wanted to see exist. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

todoordie.com

ToDoOrDie is an app I’ve wanted to build for a while, and it felt like a great way to kick the tires with Rails and Inertia.js.

It’s relatively simple—but without LLM-powered development, I probably never would have had the time to make it happen.

ToDoOrDie: the only to-do app that guarantees every item gets checked off. Either you do it, or the app removes it.

AI and Me - Issue 2026.1 A snapshot of how I'm using AI tools in late February 2026, from my shift to Codex as a daily driver to new workflow tools like cmux and Counselors.

AI and Me - Issue 2026.1 - scottw.com/ai-and-me-i...

I’m going to write occasional summaries of what I’ve been up to and what I’ve been using in AI.

Key items: codex, cmux, counselors, dex, claws, compound engineering, and monologue.

I noticed several times yesterday that Codex, while trying to fix a bug, would run individual spec files in a sub-agent on its own.

I have been using @aarondfrancis counselors quite a bit (Gemini told me to go away yesterday) and had been building something similar.

But subagents in Codex have gotten so good I am wondering if it might make sense to just do everything in the skill.

I am betting we will see plugins in the Pi extension (and now AMP) style in every coding tool by the end of March.

Hopefully, we can have a unified API/experience, but I am not holding my breath.

After a little back-and-forth with Codex, we had it working as expected.

However, what I found most interesting was that at some point, Codex decided to add a runbook.

This is one of those really helpful things that often gets overlooked in personal projects.

The last missing piece in the new Kamal setup was enabling off-machine (and host-provider) backups.

I have had a similar setup before: run SQLite's backup command, encrypt the backups, and push them to S3 (now R2), but this was always a semi-manual setup via cron.

A dark-themed GUI displays a task management interface with projects listed and various task instructions and features outlined.

I built myself a GUI (dux) to manage dex tasks. It was a nice way to play with Electrobun.

So it looks like there was a bit more work needed with Kamal to get SSR (Inertia.js) + deploy from GitHub + notify Sentry of the release working.

But now it should be trivial to add to future projects (personal starter kits). Agents love to learn from existing projects. 😄