A rewrite of a six-year-old Chrome extension, shipped in two weeks of evenings with an AI pair. The fast part was typing. The real work was deciding what the tool must refuse to do.

What Building Organize Tabs 2.0 with Claude Code Actually Looked Like

I rebuilt the Chrome extension I've used every day since 2020. It now understands that a PR and its Files tab are the same page, keeps meetings out of harm's way, and never touches a pinned tab or a tab group.

Organize Tabs 2.0: A Tab Deduper That Knows a Pull Request When It Sees One

A whimsical domain purchase, a tiny website, a GitHub handle, and a colored ASCII-art portrait for my AI alter ego

I Bought jonts.ai for My AI Döppelgänger

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The Hardest Pull Requests I've Ever Gotten Merged

How I went from chaos to clarity managing 5 AI master instances, 10 satellites, and 20+ scheduled tasks

Building Mission Control for My AI Workforce: Introducing OpenClaw Command Center

Automating SSH commit signing across multiple machines with scripts and centralized configuration

SSH Commit Signing Part 2: Automation and Multi-Machine Setup

TIL you can sign Git commits using SSH instead of GPG This tip is 🏆, learned from my really smart colleague. tl;dr; To configure Git to use your key: Configure

Signing Git commits using SSH instead of GPG

Embrace the power of Regex

Use Fully Qualified datetime in Python

Software people are supposed to be creative

Get Is the Worst Function Prefix Ever

Back in 2016, I came across this article: https://thecripplegate.com/14-rules-for-being-a-godly-employee/ Recently, I’ve resolved to start my work week by revie

14 Rules for Being a Godly Employee

tl;dr; isort (PyPI; GitHub) is a wonderful tool that will sort imports in Python automagically, so that you no longer have to either a) ignore eye-sores during 

Use Python iSort to Automagically Organize Imports within your Favorite Editor

What, How, and Why?

All too frequent an occurrence in the development lifecycle is doing some work, closing up your laptop/suspending the machine, and coming back to your work hour

Debugging Address already in use errors

println debugging is the best kind of debugging

Debugging like a Boss with Slack

Netskope is a corporate security tool installed on corporate-owned devices that will introduce and override the default SSL certificate authorities by injecting

Kill Netskope Client on Mac

TIL: Discovered a super game changing technique. From command line, you can copy contents of any file to Mac OS clipboard by running this command: cat yourfilen

TIL: pbcopy

Periodically, web hyperlinks in Slack would stop working. The fix is surprisingly quite simple: Restart Google Chrome. The best way to restart Google Chrome saf

When Slack links don't work, Restart Google Chrome

Yes, there is a huge engineering talent shortage in Silicon Valley. There are more companies trying to build disruptive technology that have greater hiring need

Is there an engineering talent shortage in Silicon Valley?

By Jonathan Tsai (@jontsai | https://linkedin.com/in/jontsai) Original Permalink (working Quip doc) : Communicating with Engineers: How to File Good JIRA Ticket

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Software engineers frequently have to deal with JSON and inspect or manipulate it. There are two easy ways of pretty-printing JSON from command-line to aid in v

How to pretty print JSON from CLI

I know of several people who start learning to code in their mid 20’s, and are doing fine now. However, it’s very subjective what a “good living” is. Compared t

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IntelliJ ProTips™: Start the IntelliJ JVM process with additional memory

Enriched objects

Universal Directives for Shell Scripts

Originally posted on Quora: Jonathan Tsai’s answer to What is the most valuable programming language to know for the future and why? I will have to agree with M

The Most Valuable Programming Languages to Know for the Future

How to Hack GitHub Streaks with this simple project

Hack GitHub Streaks

Equality and Inequalities in JS and PHP

The JetPacks 3.3 upgrade that allows you to manage and administer multiple WordPress sites from one WordPress.com account is a breeze to use! I’m not quite used

WordPress' New JetPacks All-Sites Dashboard

tl;dr; When upgarding from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 LTS, the Apache also gets upgraded from 2.2 to 2.4. There are lots of backwards incompatible changes. I just sp

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Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager tips (Intel HAXM)

Use Intel Hardware Acceleration for Faster Android Emulation

A mobile school for engineers by CodePath

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Seriously though, I messed up in my previous blog post. Pinterest wasn’t hacked, and I’m sorry that I jumped to conclusions when I actually stumbled upon a spam

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Update 2013-05-12: Pinterest wasn’t really hacked. See follow up to this blog post. – Well, almost hacked. This is rather embarassing (for Pinterest, and maybe 

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I call myself a generalist, but feel that I’m more adept at backend development than web frontend, so I’m always amazed by the simplicity and cleverness of real

Sticky Footer Redux

Domino's ShopRunner Flub

Google Maps Street View car creates a clone

How to Clone a Car

After I switched to Ubuntu as my primary OS (dual-boot alongside Windows XP), I had a problem syncing some Dropbox files to an NTFS mount. While some files sync

Dropbox on NTFS Mount in Ubuntu

I upgraded to Mountain Lion (10.8.x) from Lion (10.7.x) a few months ago, and only discovered today that Apache wasn’t working–going to http://localhost showed 

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Cool Video of Strange Chinese Song

Ubuntu'd out

Brogrammer

I’m newer to open-sourcing projects of my own on GitHub, so it’ll take me some time to “wrap” things properly and provide some documentation and examples so tha