Russ McKendrick

A local-first dashboard for tracking AI coding tool spend across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, and Gemini CLI - with a TUI, a desktop app, and zero API keys required.

Running russ.cloud through isitagentready.com and wiring up the checks that actually make sense for a static blog - Link headers, Content Signals, agent-skills discovery, llms.txt, and a tiny Cloudflare Worker to serve markdown on demand.

A Rust CLI I built to stop writing terrible commit messages - aic generates AI-powered commit messages, PR drafts, diff reviews, and repo visualisations from your staged changes.

A terminal-based hosts file manager built in Rust that I wrote to stop manually editing /etc/hosts with a text editor and hoping I didn't break anything.

Copilot Cowork just landed in Microsoft's Frontier preview programme, and one of its most useful features is the ability to extend it with your own custom skills stored in OneDrive. Here's how to create one.

A comprehensive SSL/TLS diagnostic tool built in Rust that I created to replace my ever-growing document of random certificate checking notes.

A quick guide to installing OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent framework that gives LLMs persistence, tools, and messaging - turning a chatbot into an actual assistant.

The 2025 edition of my day-to-day tools: Ghostty, Claude Code, Google's Antigravity IDE, and the AI services that have become central to how I work.

Learn how to automatically pause Microsoft Fabric capacities outside of working hours using Azure Logic Apps. This step-by-step guide shows you how to deploy a cost-saving automation that can significantly reduce your Fabric spend.

A practical guide to recovering accidentally deleted Azure resources that support soft delete, covering API Management, Key Vault, Storage Accounts, and more. Plus, how to use delete locks to prevent these situations in the first place.

How a sophisticated npm supply chain attack via a trojanized kill-port package compromised my development environment, exposing API keys to attacker-controlled repositories - and what I'm doing differently now.

Using Nano Banana Pro for generating stunning AI-powered album cover collages with intelligent image selection and content policy handling