· Travis Rodgers · Tools
Top 10 Terminal Tools I Actually Use Daily (2026)
Ten terminal tools pulled straight from my actual Brewfile, with the one workflow that earns each its slot. Real commands, real use cases, and how to install every one.
Tag: tools
· Travis Rodgers · AIHow to Safely Use AI Coding Agents in a Real Codebase
AI coding agents are fast, but an unsupervised one can delete files, leak secrets, or push junk to main. Here are the practical guardrails I use to let agents run hard without wrecking the repo.
· Travis Rodgers · AIVotelli: Free Local Voice-to-Text for Mac (Works Offline)
Votelli is a free, local voice-to-text app for Mac. Push and hold a key, talk, release. It runs a small AI model on your machine and works fully offline.
· Travis Rodgers · AIMake CLAUDE.md Follow AGENTS.md (Without a Symlink)
Stop keeping CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md in sync by hand. One line inside CLAUDE.md imports AGENTS.md so both agents read the same instructions.
· Travis Rodgers · AIWhy Claude Code Keeps Creating Git Worktrees (and Why That's a Good Thing)
If your AI coding agent keeps spinning up git worktrees and leaving your work somewhere that isn't main, here's what a worktree actually is, why agents love them, and how to stop fighting it.
· Travis Rodgers · AIWhy Your OpenClaw Bot Forgets Everything (And How QMD Helps Fix It)
Your OpenClaw bot keeps forgetting things between sessions. Here's how to fix it with QMD, a free, fully local memory search engine that adds semantic search without API keys or cloud services.