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my laptop codes, my mac studio thinks: running a 27B model with MLX on one mac, reaching it privately over Tailscale, and handing it coding tasks from Claude Code through a small MCP worker.

workspaces, persistent panes, and agent attention in a terminal, with a released macos and linux build you can install.

crm is released, job scheduling and bookkeeping are being built, and estimating is planned: where the local contractor suite stands.

the released desktop workspace now has tabs and reusable agent personas, while the newer task surface is still ahead of the installer.

the mac maintainer work grew into job-costing and payroll fixes, with reproduced failures and upstream changes you can inspect.

a rust wagon journey became a browser game with illustrated scenes, sound, and the same simulation underneath.

the current workflow behind the projects: bounded tasks, reusable skills, independent review, and evidence before calling something finished.

how Trent rebuilt the bookkeeping program he lost, what SlowBooks Pro does now, and how i gave it a signed and notarized Apple Silicon release.

the business software i'd evaluate for a home services shop, what each program does, where open source helps, and where i'd still pay.

ködade's first public macos release is out under apache 2.0, with the supported workspace today and the bigger roadmap still under construction.

the original ködade development roadmap, with an august update pointing to the open-source public release and its supported feature boundary.

conmcp gives any agent the tools to read a plan set like an estimator: find the sheets, see the drawings, pull the quantities, flag the RFIs.

a local terminal dashboard for tracing, replaying, comparing, and exporting ai agent sessions.

a local mcp server that lets an ai agent use selected mac tools without handing it an unrestricted shell.

a free terminal game about pricing risk, winning the right work, and having enough cash left to make payroll.

since the last post: a bid command center went pilot-ready, plan markup grew into three apps, and the free engine got a real installer.

contractor-bid 0.2.0 lets you talk to an agent and get a source-backed bid package instead of a chat window full of guesses.

i pointed forgecad and codex at a real panic gate submittal and watched them redraw it, callouts and all, in an afternoon.

i packaged 58 modern cli tools into one homebrew install, because your terminal should be dialed in before the AI shows up.

how i built a claude code skill that catches 44 AI writing tells before they ever hit this blog.

bluebeam wanted windows, parallels, and $600 a year. i built the 10% i actually use in two days.

a practical guide to configuring claude code for solo builders and small businesses, from someone who figured it out the hard way.

a build-mode orchestrator that takes a plan and executes it — one task at a time, no scope creep.

an ai-guided planning tool that asks the right questions so you don't have to figure out where to start.

how i built this site with astro, deployed to cloudflare pages, and moved on from jekyll.

built a python tool that scrapes company websites directly for job openings — not indeed, not ziprecruiter.

I'm ContractorKeith — a general contractor learning to write code, with help.