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A lightweight macOS app/window/tab switcher and launcher triggered by Control+Tab (configurable from the menu bar). Press the hotkey to open a Spotlight-style popup, type to filter, navigate with the keyboard, and press Enter to go there — switching to the window or tab, or, for an app that isn't running, launching it. Press Control+Tab again to dismiss it. The list is sorted most-recently-used first.


A year of LLM assisted development. Every piece of machinery I built to work with the model eventually became its own distraction. What helped was smaller.


Change is inevitable. Users will demand features and then you need to keep supporting them. I think GitHub's recent issues ishttps://www.birkey.co/2026-08-17-githubs-recent-crisis-has-a... more of a symptom of current AI slop than thier eng culture or structure. I put some of my thoughts here:



Just doing my part


If there one thing you take it away from this post, it is: You need to write a coding agent to if you care about your craft.


Oneness is what makes simple easy.


Our profession and craft needs this more than ever.


Zero dependency Clojure/ClojureScript CSV reader that puts you in complete control.


Got one TODO done from here: https://github.com/oneness/ts-mcp-client-server

Hope it helps someone as it surely helped me to learn what MCP is all about.


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