Responsible tooling
Small, reversible tools and operating paths that preserve permissions, evidence, billing clarity, and manual recovery.
5 currently maintained articlesThe small tools that save me hours every week
A growing toolbox of simple automations, browser utilities, and scripts for independent developers.
What Breaks a Planning Calculator? A Boundary-Test Study of Three Engines
A reproducible test of compound-growth, emergency-fund, and LLM-cost calculators using zero returns, impossible goals, fee math, contribution timing, caching, and exhausted budgets.
AWS Agent Toolkit in the CLI: A Practical Guide to Skills, MCP, IAM, and Safe Rollout
AWS CLI 2.35 adds a guided Agent Toolkit setup for coding agents. This guide explains what it installs, where the security boundary really sits, and how to evaluate it without granting excessive cloud access.
Google’s New AI Tools for Ads and Analytics: Useful Assistant or Another Layer of Noise?
Google is adding AI summaries, prompt-built dashboards, and benchmarking to Ads and Analytics. Here is how to use the features without outsourcing measurement judgment to an agent.
How to Subscribe to ChatGPT on iPhone for Codex: A Safe, Region-Aware Guide
A practical guide to checking Codex eligibility, using Apple Account balance, subscribing in the ChatGPT iOS app, and avoiding region, gift-card, and duplicate-charge problems.