Tools on Pocket Dev

Stop Winging It: How I Use OpenSpec to Keep AI Changes Structured and Costs Sane

Sun, 03 May 2026 10:00:00 -0400

I’ve been burned enough times by AI-generated code that “solved” the wrong problem to know that the issue usually isn’t the model — it’s the absence of any agreement on what we’re building before the first file gets touched. The AI goes, I approve changes that look reasonable, and somewhere around the third follow-up session I realize we drifted from the original intent two sessions ago.

From Template to Custom in Under 20 Minutes: Claude Code, Plan Mode, and the Impeccable Skill

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0400

I rebuilt the entire frontend of this site in a single short session. New design system, new build pipeline, new color tokens, new typography, no theme dependency. The old Hugo template, the 36 Go modules, the 800-line custom SCSS — all gone. Replaced with Tailwind v4, ten hand-picked SVG icons, and a single main.css I actually own.

From 69 Repos to 19 Keeps: Auditing a Decade of GitHub Sprawl with an AI Agent

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0400

I’ve been on GitHub since 2013. By April this year my personal account had 69 repos. Some were real projects. Some were tutorials I cloned and forgot. Some were the same idea I’d attempted three times in three different frameworks. Some were 0 bytes. I had no idea which was which without opening each one and reading it.

From Next.js to Hugo: Why I Ditched the CMS for Markdown Bliss

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:00:00 -0400

The Problem: When Your CMS Becomes Your Biggest Frustration

I started my blog with Next.js and Sanity CMS because I thought I’d be using the CMS extensively. The promise was simple: write content in a user-friendly interface, and let the system handle the rest. But reality hit hard.