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a local terminal dashboard for tracing, replaying, comparing, and exporting ai agent sessions.

a local mcp server that lets an ai agent use selected mac tools without handing it an unrestricted shell.

a free terminal game about pricing risk, winning the right work, and having enough cash left to make payroll.

since the last post: a bid command center went pilot-ready, plan markup grew into three apps, and the free engine got a real installer.

contractor-bid 0.2.0 lets you talk to an agent and get a source-backed bid package instead of a chat window full of guesses.

i pointed forgecad and codex at a real panic gate submittal and watched them redraw it, callouts and all, in an afternoon.

i packaged 58 modern cli tools into one homebrew install, because your terminal should be dialed in before the AI shows up.

how i built a claude code skill that catches 44 AI writing tells before they ever hit this blog.

bluebeam wanted windows, parallels, and $600 a year. i built the 10% i actually use in two days.

a practical guide to configuring claude code for solo builders and small businesses, from someone who figured it out the hard way.

a build-mode orchestrator that takes a plan and executes it — one task at a time, no scope creep.

an ai-guided planning tool that asks the right questions so you don't have to figure out where to start.

how i built this site with astro, deployed to cloudflare pages, and moved on from jekyll.

built a python tool that scrapes company websites directly for job openings — not indeed, not ziprecruiter.

I'm ContractorKeith — a general contractor learning to write code, with help.