I got laid off at the end of April and have been building my own personal dream tool since, it's a skeuomorphic carpentry simulator with an agent MCP. You start with real wood specs and a shop full of miter saws, router tables, table saws and the like. Think of it like Sketchup but no extruding rectangles. It's been really fun to build with. Agents can create parametric procedures so e.g. stick framing becomes a simp…
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#333It also contains tools for scouting casinos, logging sessions, calculating effective profit-per-hour based on table rules, and other things a professional would need.
I'm in the process of polishing it up, and am aiming to launch Fall 2026. Current pricing plan is to be ~$10-15 per month for the pro tools, but provide the offline capabilities, lesson plan, and learning tools completely free without ads or weird gimmicks like a limited number of lessons or practice per day.
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#334For us MacOS users that use Spaces and want to CMD+Tab only inside that Space, the only alternative was AltTab (that I could find) but it has so many more features and goals, plus I had performance issues with it remotely over HPSS which I use heavily so I've generated the simplest utility that only shrinks the CMD+Tab list per Space and nothing else.
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#336* Native and small. * Private by default. * Terminal-safe. * Agent-ready. A built-in MCP server exposes read-only tools (browser_open, browser_read, browser_list_links). * Configurable.
[0] [code] https://github.com/meerita/puma-browser
I am still far away of 1.0, but I've been using it every day since. It's open source, you can compile it and use it as you want.
Every week I try to finish more features.
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#337smol, a smol agent harness in 9 lines python https://smolenv.com also has minimal implementations in clojure, go, php: https://github.com/smol-env/smol cheaper, faster, less peak RAM per task than OpenCode, Hermes, Codex, pi: https://smolenv.com/t/nested-template-includes-60636/ https://smolenv.com/t/duckdb-sessionization-23811/ exploring what the minimal setup is for an agent to work well
> smol is so smol you can understand it in an afternoon
> smol is easy to adapt
I would argue that golfed code is not great for these. Asking a LLM to expand out the code and comment it results in very concise, easy to understand code - nice job on that front, it's very simple. The blurb just isn't readable as-is.
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#340Still on plex, next step is Jellyfin.