Last Tuesday I lost about three hours to a regression in our checkout service. The cart total was off by a cent on certain promo combinations, and the only signal was a Slack ping from finance with a screenshot. No stack trace. No exception. Just wrong numbers. I did what I always do first. I opened the diff for the last deploy, scrolled, squinted, and tried to feel my way to the bug. Forty minute
Claude + Mobile via MCP: Giving the Model Hands on a Real Phone I plugged in a Pixel two months ago, ran one command in Claude Desktop, and watched it open Maps and start navigation to my home address from a single sentence prompt. It was the first time I'd ever seen a language model physically operate a phone. Latency was about two seconds per action; the part that surprised me was the third st
AI-Native Mobile Testing: What It Actually Means in 2026 The phrase "AI-native" has been thrown around in the testing space since 2019. Almost every tool calling itself that just bolts a language model on top of Appium and ships the same brittle XPath selectors with a new label. That's not AI-native testing. That's Appium with a chatbot. This post is about what AI-native actually has to mean to
The Missing Control Plane for Local AI Agents I sat with my Pixel for 20 minutes trying to get Claude Desktop to dictate a Slack message via accessibility. It was miserable. The model was capable. The transport wasn't. That gap — between an AI that can reason and an AI that can actually do — is what I've been working on with Drengr. This post is the version of the argument I'd give to anyone bui
I Built a VS Code Extension to Bring IntelliJ’s “Show History for Selection” Experience If you come from IntelliJ, you probably miss one super useful feature in VS Code: Show history for selected lines. I built a new extension to solve exactly that. Show History for Selected Code This extension helps you inspect Git history for a specific code selection, not just the whole file. Shows commit h
Microsoft's 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' Tag: Unpacking the Strategic Play for AI Dominance in VS Code The persistent insertion of 'Co-Authored-by: Copilot' into commit messages within VS Code—often irrespective of GitHub Copilot's active contribution to specific changes—is far from a benign engineering detail. It represents a calculated, multi-faceted strategic maneuver by Microsoft, signaling a pr
I have a bad habit of jumping between projects. It's not a big deal. But it happens every single day. So I built rewind. rewind That's it. No setup, no IDE, no agent loop burning through tokens. Just one binary, one command, one LLM call. cargo install git-rewind GitHub: https://github.com/Chronos778/git-rewind Would love feedback — on the idea, the UX, anything. Still early days.
If you use GitHub's merge queue and had a rough week around April 23rd, 2026, you were not imagining things. Your code actually disappeared. Not because of a bad commit, not because of a rogue team member, but because GitHub itself quietly deleted it. This is the story of what happened, why it was way worse than the official numbers suggest, and what it means for the way we all trust the tools we