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A launchd Job That Fires Once on Deprecation Day, Then Deletes Itself — and the 4 Pitfalls I Hit
This is a follow-up to my earlier post, " Automating a config migration with a one-shot launchd job ." This time the trigger is an external event wi…
Why Sweating the Details Matter: Flask, port 5000, localhost, Safari and macOS
Pop quiz : Suppose you are developing a Flask app. Flask uses port 5000 as its default port. Now suppose that you have your Flask app running on mac…
Your agent didn't fail. You closed the lid
SleepSwitch is a macOS menu bar toggle that stops your Mac from sleeping — lid closed included. One click, no password prompts, and a battery guard…
12 бесплатных утилит для управления парком Mac
Вокруг macOS сложилась, пожалуй, уникальная для корпоративного мира экосистема бесплатных админских инструментов. Сообщество MacAdmins (Slack на дес…
Local LLM vs Cloud API: My Mac Mini Cost Crossover
The Problem I run an automated content pipeline (blog + YouTube Shorts) on a Mac mini with 48GB of unified memory. For months, my cloud LLM API (GLM…
Why My Nightly Ingest Stalled for 3 Days — and How Splitting One Task Into Sub-Steps Fixed It
I went from ¥100k/month as a university student, to ¥600k/month juggling multiple gigs, to exactly zero when my employer pulled the plug. Six months…
A LaunchAgent gets `Operation not permitted` for `~/Documents` while Terminal works
The same zsh script could list ~/Documents when I ran it in Terminal. Started as a LaunchAgent, it failed with: ls: /Users/administrator/Documents:…
I Was Burning $1.20 a Night on Nothing: A Claude Code Skill Library That Harvests and Curates Itself
Going from ¥100k/month as a student to ¥1.2M/month wasn't a matter of working harder. It was a matter of building an environment that keeps running…
Claude Forgets Everything Overnight — The 3:30 AM Batch That Harvests What It Learned
My conversation logs are gone by morning. My environment, meanwhile, wakes up smarter than it went to bed. Why This Setup Works When I started freel…
Four Alarm Slots, Three Failure Modes: Building a Nightly Drain That Survives Sleep, Races, and Timeouts
Every night my Mac quietly rewrites my long-term memory. Not metaphorically — a shell script drains that day's Claude Code conversation logs into an…
The 4,000-Token Tax: Auto-Disabling Claude Code Plugins You Haven't Touched in 30 Days
Hitting ¥1.2M/month taught me something I didn't expect: keeping the environment healthy has to come before doing the work. Why this system pays off…
Shipping a Python desktop app to real users: everything that breaks after PyInstaller succeeds
I built a desktop app in Python (PySide6 + MediaPipe + ONNX, ~33k lines) and shipped it to real beta users on macOS and Windows. Building the app to…
macOS: Open Files and Folders in VS Code from Finder
You probably already know that you can open the current directory in Visual Studio Code from Terminal with: code . That works well when you're alrea…
iCloud Silently Evicted 69 Article Files and Killed 4 Days of Publishing: EDEADLK and a read_text_resilient Design
Every one of my publishing lanes went dark for four days, and every script involved exited with status 0. Nothing had crashed. The files themselves…
A 4-Minute Freeze, a Dead PATH, and 3 More: 5 launchd Pitfalls From Mapping 26 Automation Jobs
Automation doesn't fail loudly. It accumulates until nobody — including the person who wrote it — can say which jobs are still alive. I started with…
I fixed one silent failure and stopped looking. A review found three more
I had a scheduled script that ran fine by hand and produced nothing on a schedule. Exit code 0, no error in the log, an output file created and empt…
I gave my coding agent its own computer
I run coding agents with shell access all day, and for a long time there was a low-grade dread underneath it. The permission prompts get annoying en…
Four Failures That Made a Weekly launchd Job Actually Run
Every skill my AI setup learns lives in one folder on my laptop — and none of it reaches the repo I created yesterday. That gap is why I built a wee…
Dead Auto-Skills Were Padding Every Conversation: A Weekly Curator That Flags at 30 Days and Archives at 90
"Claude Code gets smarter the more you use it" is only half the story. The other half is that it gets heavier. Six months ago I was a university stu…
11 things that actually broke when a non-developer self-hosted an agent gateway
I help run a small agent organization whose entire success condition is one sentence: it keeps running when nobody is watching. Last week its operat…
Four Ways My Unattended Video Pipeline Died Overnight — and How I Made It Heal Itself
The morning after I lost my job, my Mac finished and filed an ASMR video. Nobody asked it to. It just ran. In the first post, I walked through the s…
Two Weeks of Silent Failure: Idempotent Scheduling and Self-Healing for a launchd + Claude Code Pipeline
Every morning at 5, launchd wakes up, and by the time I do, articles I never wrote are already live. In Part 1, I covered the basic design of a Clau…
Apple quietly shipped everything you need to build a real-time translator — so I built one
I work at a German company. Meetings are in German, sometimes English — and even though I speak both, there are moments in fast meetings where I zon…
How I record system audio on macOS without a virtual driver
Recording your own microphone on a Mac is a solved problem. Recording the other person — the voice coming out of your speakers — is where macOS quie…
Installing uBlock Origin in Google Chrome: workarounds and limitations (macOS)
Google Chrome version 151 was released, and support for extensions using Manifest V2 has been completely removed in this version. I’ve come up with…
Collect the first DEV Education Track badge!
As I sat in my RV, sipping coffee and staring at lines of code, I realized that learning never stops - even for a solo developer like myself. Recent…
I measured what a single Cmd+V costs your AI agent's context window
Short version: I measured what a single paste costs an AI agent. A 2,348-line source file is 40,324 tokens, one fifth of a 200,000 token window, gon…
Tips for Running Stable Background ML Inference on macOS
📝 Originally published (in Japanese) at forge.workstyle.tech . Running an inference service as a background process on macOS, with a Linux server mi…
Архитектурные войны: ARM против полувекового наследия Intel и AMD
Первая часть этой статьи рассказала о том, почему архитектура x86 на протяжении почти полувека оставалась безальтернативным стандартом для серверов,…