Coding

Pragmatic notes on developer tools, languages, and workflows. Shortcuts, tricks, and lessons from actually shipping code.

Workbench where a terminal cabinet feeds a session tape into a browser window pane, with a track switch splitting the tape and an open lock in front

Pi Web drops your terminal coding agent in a browser

Pi Web is a web UI for pi coding agent work: it reads local session files, forks any message, and switches worktrees. Its password is off by default.

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Chat2DB stopped being open source at version 5.3.0

The Chat2DB license change makes version 5.3.0 source-available. Personal and company use stay free, but hosting it for other people is now barred.

An Android phone with a green terminal screen sending an encrypted beam across a night landscape to a locked home server rack

Android SSH clients compared, Termius beats the rest

Android SSH client picks for 2026: Termius, ConnectBot, and Termux compared on price, Mosh, SFTP, and keys, after Google Play dropped JuiceSSH.

An orange shipping crate holding only a paper note, a press building fresh crates on a conveyor, and dark counterfeit crates whose fishing hooks lift brass keys away.

Wand Enhancer refuses to ship a file scammers can fake

There is no Wand Enhancer download. Releases carry notes only, and you build from your own fork, because YouTube fakes hide password stealers.

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Best AI coding tools 2026

Best AI coding tools 2026 compared on free tiers: autocomplete, agentic editors, and notebooks. Which ones finish a real task before credits run out.

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jcode's tiny memory number comes with a feature turned off

jcode RAM usage is quoted at 27.8 MB, but that figure needs local embedding switched off. With defaults on, jcode uses 167 MB, more than Codex CLI.