tmsdnl

Notes

2026
April

  • Forget TDD.

    Real engineering methodologies:
    VDD - Vibe Driven Development
    WDD - Workaround Driven Development
    SDD - Stress Driven Development
    FDD - Fear Driven Development

  •

    The temptation to buy new hardware before I actually need it is hard to control.

    I keep reminding myself - working use case first! Real limits, real inconveniences. Or when I need tighter control over what the machine can actually do and access. That’s the green light. Not before.

    Been going back and forth on an M4 mini for automation. For now, the macbook runs 24/7 (along with Proxmox. And k3s cluster. Hm… Wait. …anyway.)

  •

    Two things I noticed about Codex vs Claude:

    1. Codex usage is metered separately - it does not come out of your normal ChatGPT bucket.
    2. Hitting the Codex limit does not kill active jobs. In-flight work finishes; new work gets blocked.

    I had two sessions running side by side. One finished, and when I tried to run another prompt, I hit a usage limit. The other kept going for another 5 minutes until it finished.

  •

    Built a VS Code extension to capture code review comments and feed it back to coding agents. Built with @OpenAI’s Codex. Shipped the same day.

    Annotate code inline and export structured Markdown - file paths, excerpts, Git metadata included.

    • Group notes into named reviews
    • Drag and drop between groups
    • Export individual groups
    • Resolve, dismiss, reopen, delete

    The Markdown format still needs work. That is next.

    Issues → https://github.com/tmsdnl/vscode-local-review-md
    Install → https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tmsdnl.local-review-md