The notebook

Geek

A place for thoughts, tools, half-formed ideas, and things worth keeping. Always a work in progress.

Thoughts

Notes on things I’m learning, questioning, or figuring out.

Tools

Useful finds, everyday favourites, and things to try.

AI agent skills

Skills and plugins that make coding agents noticeably better, ranked.

1. Autoresearch by Andrej Karpathy: agents that run their own research experiments on single-GPU training.
2. Impeccable and Taste: a design language and a taste check that keep AI-built interfaces from looking generic.
3. HyperFrames: write HTML, render video. Built for agents.
4. Matt Pocock’s Skills: skills for real engineers, straight from his .agents directory.
5. Ponytail: makes the agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
6. No AI Slop: strips 20+ tell-tale AI patterns out of any piece of writing.
7. Vibe Security: audits vibe-coded apps for the security holes AI assistants tend to leave behind.
8. Poteto Mode (pstack): Cursor’s plugin pack of workflow skills and automations.
9. Caveman: why use many token when few token do trick. Cuts output tokens by talking like a caveman.

Honourable mentions

• Unlazy: an anti-laziness skill that splits a task into layers so effort multiplies with depth.
• AI Job Search: a local job-hunt framework on Claude Code for evaluating postings, tailoring CVs and prepping interviews.
• Agent Reach: one CLI that lets an agent read and search Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub and more.
• Open Design: an open-source, local-first design app that turns your coding agent into the design engine.

Ideas

Things to build, experiments to run, and questions to come back to.