Personal site of Wickes — a developer in the AI era. Small tools, MCP servers, agents, and writing.https://wickend.dev/enhttps://wickend.dev/writing/engineering-as-procrastination/https://wickend.dev/writing/engineering-as-procrastination/I spent ~30 days building a runtime to schedule my Claude Code work overnight, while never actually running it on a real task. The pattern is its own diagnosis.Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTagentsprocessclaude codehttps://wickend.dev/writing/orient-before-you-dispatch/https://wickend.dev/writing/orient-before-you-dispatch/every "AI runs a CTF" write-up skips the same step — the one where you put the LLM down and solve a few flags by hand. I keep arguing for it. Here's why it's worse to skip in an LLM loop, not better.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTclaude codectfagentshttps://wickend.dev/writing/the-12-claude-md-rules-i-actually-keep/https://wickend.dev/writing/the-12-claude-md-rules-i-actually-keep/Mnilax reported a 12-rule CLAUDE.md cut Claude's mistake rate from 41% to 3% across 30 codebases. Here's the file, and the case for keeping all twelve — then tuning.Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTclaude codeagentsprocesshttps://wickend.dev/writing/why-i-run-my-own-matrix-server/https://wickend.dev/writing/why-i-run-my-own-matrix-server/notes from three months of running a Conduit-fork on a homelab box, with WhatsApp / Telegram / Discord / LinkedIn bridges and one shared identity.Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTmatrixhomelabself-hostinghttps://wickend.dev/writing/skills-are-the-new-dotfiles/https://wickend.dev/writing/skills-are-the-new-dotfiles/how I stopped trying to make Claude memorize my preferences and started installing them as bare-name skills instead.Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTclaude codeskillsinfrastructurehttps://wickend.dev/projects/chromium-bookmarks-mcp/https://wickend.dev/projects/chromium-bookmarks-mcp/an MCP server + browser extension pair that gives Claude, Cursor, Windsurf — any MCP client — real-time read/write access to bookmarks across Chrome, Brave, Edge, Arc, and Chromium.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTTypeScriptMCPNative Messaginghttps://wickend.dev/writing/joplin-mcp-notes-for-ai-agents/https://wickend.dev/writing/joplin-mcp-notes-for-ai-agents/the design choices behind a small Go server that exposes my Joplin vault to Claude, Cursor, and any other MCP-aware agent.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTmcpgojoplinhttps://wickend.dev/projects/joplin-mcp/https://wickend.dev/projects/joplin-mcp/a Go MCP server that lets AI assistants read, search, and write into a Joplin notes vault — without touching the wrong note.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTGoMCPJoplinhttps://wickend.dev/projects/komet/https://wickend.dev/projects/komet/a minimal, lightning-fast app launcher for macOS — what Spotlight would be if it had a single job and did it in 8 ms.Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTSwiftAppKitmacOShttps://wickend.dev/projects/yarn-playground/https://wickend.dev/projects/yarn-playground/a browser sandbox for Yarn Spinner — write, parse, and visualize branching dialogue with the official Yarn Spinner 3 C# compiler running in your tab via .NET 10 WebAssembly.Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTTypeScriptYarn Spinner.NET WASMhttps://wickend.dev/projects/claude-monitor-lite/https://wickend.dev/projects/claude-monitor-lite/a tiny macOS menu-bar app that watches your Claude account's real-time rate limits and tells you when the next session window opens.Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTGomacOSMenu Barhttps://wickend.dev/projects/ink-playground/https://wickend.dev/projects/ink-playground/a no-setup browser sandbox for Ink — inkle's narrative scripting language — with a Monaco editor, a live story graph, and the same inkjs runtime inkle ships in production games.Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTTypeScriptInkinkjshttps://wickend.dev/projects/youtube-transcript-ts/https://wickend.dev/projects/youtube-transcript-ts/a TypeScript package that fetches YouTube video transcripts via the same internal endpoint the web player uses — no API key, no scraping, runs in Node and the browser.Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTTypeScriptnpmYouTube