· 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.
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· Travis Rodgers · AIMost Agent Skills Are Junk. Here's How to Write a Good One
There are millions of public agent skills now, and a benchmark of 47,150 of them found most barely move the needle. Here is how to spot the junk and write a SKILL.md that measurably improves your agent.
· 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.