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OpenUsage: Real-Time AI Usage in the Mac Menu Bar
Use OpenUsage to bring Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, and other AI coding tools' weekly limits, session limits, and reset times into the macOS menu bar, so I can check the state before starting a long task and decide whether to run, wait, or switch tools.
How I Manage Multiple Claude and Codex Accounts: My Local Switching Setup
How I manage multiple Claude Code and Codex accounts on my local machine: Claude rotates through claude-swap, Codex uses codex-auth auto-switch, and account switching stays separate from client boundaries.
How I Use AI for Personal Knowledge Management: My LLM Wiki Workflow
How I use Obsidian, Memo, GitHub, a web reading layer, and Codex to turn sources, thoughts, and AI conversations into an LLM Wiki I can search and maintain.
My Input Efficiency Stack: AI Dictation, Chinese Input Methods, and Raycast Clipboard
How I split input into three layers: AI dictation for rough thinking, vChewing for precise Chinese typing, and Raycast Clipboard plus Snippets for reusable text
What to Install on a Mac for Screenshots and Recording: Shottr, Bob, and Recordly to Make Captures Beautiful and Powerful
My Mac toolkit for screenshots and screen recording: Shottr replaces the built-in capture with sharper, more powerful features, Bob fills in the OCR and translation gaps, and Recordly produces polished tutorial videos — three tools that cover the full daily capture-and-record workflow.
Multi-Account Bookkeeping: How I Track Credit Cards, Loans, Reimbursements, and Stocks in Qianji
Why does expense tracking fall apart over time? My multi-account bookkeeping workflow for credit cards, loans, reimbursements, and stocks, built around Qianji.
OrbStack: The Apple Silicon-Native Docker Desktop Alternative
Docker Desktop on Mac is slow, hot, and drains your battery — switch to OrbStack, rewritten on Virtualization.framework and Rosetta, and your full-stack containers finally run like native apps
Velja: A URL Router for macOS — Every Link Has Its Own Destination
macOS's default browser is a dumb one-to-one mapping, but links have many identities — using Velja's Picker, Rules, and Apps mechanisms to route every link to the right browser, the right profile, or even the right desktop app
A Better Inbox: Managing Email with Gmail Filters, Spark, and Account Splitting
Treat your inbox like an information pipeline: use multiple Gmail accounts to route by type, Filters to auto-archive, Spark for layered reading, and Mailtrack to close the loop on sent mail
Arc Browser: The Best Browser UX I've Ever Used
Looking back at Arc's Peek, Spaces, Command Bar, and vertical sidebar from a digital productivity perspective — why these details combine into the ceiling of browser UX
Switching from Arc to Zen Browser: Three Months In
Three months of notes on migrating after Arc stopped development — documenting how much of Arc's workflow Zen's workspaces, Command Bar, and Split View manage to replicate, and the reasons I still haven't fully closed Arc
It Took Three Rewrites to Figure It Out: A Complete Personal Website Workflow from Stack to Bilingual Publishing
From hand-coded Bootstrap to Python templates to Astro — sharing the complete workflow I landed on after rebuilding my personal site three times: stack choices, automated deployment, domains, Claude Code for styling, the bilingual content pipeline, and how I codified my voice rules into BRAND_VOICE and custom skills
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