Construction veteran. Agentic engineer. Building in public.https://contractorkeith.com/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/call-local-models-with-mlx-using-tailscale/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/call-local-models-with-mlx-using-tailscale/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.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:05:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/everything-im-building-into-kodade/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/everything-im-building-into-kodade/the original ködade development roadmap, with an august update pointing to the open-source public release and its supported feature boundary.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:25:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/i-became-slowbooks-pros-mac-maintainer/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/i-became-slowbooks-pros-mac-maintainer/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.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:25:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/i-built-a-subcontractor-game-for-bid-day/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/i-built-a-subcontractor-game-for-bid-day/a free terminal game about pricing risk, winning the right work, and having enough cash left to make payroll.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:25:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/claude-code-config-guide/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/claude-code-config-guide/a practical guide to configuring claude code for solo builders and small businesses, from someone who figured it out the hard way.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:25:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/kodade-is-open-source-now/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/kodade-is-open-source-now/ködade's first public macos release is out under apache 2.0, with the supported workspace today and the bigger roadmap still under construction.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:25:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/open-source-home-services-stack/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/open-source-home-services-stack/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.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:25:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/the-takeoff-suite-two-weeks-in/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/the-takeoff-suite-two-weeks-in/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.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:25:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/kodade-cli-a-home-for-terminal-agents/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/kodade-cli-a-home-for-terminal-agents/workspaces, persistent panes, and agent attention in a terminal, with a released macos and linux build you can install.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:20:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/opencontractoros-the-office-on-your-own-machine/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/opencontractoros-the-office-on-your-own-machine/crm is released, job scheduling and bookkeeping are being built, and estimating is planned: where the local contractor suite stands.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:19:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/kodade-two-gives-the-work-some-room/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/kodade-two-gives-the-work-some-room/the released desktop workspace now has tabs and reusable agent personas, while the newer task surface is still ahead of the installer.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:18:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/slowbooks-after-the-first-mac-release/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/slowbooks-after-the-first-mac-release/the mac maintainer work grew into job-costing and payroll fixes, with reproduced failures and upstream changes you can inspect.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:17:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/pioneer-trail-from-terminal-to-browser/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/pioneer-trail-from-terminal-to-browser/a rust wagon journey became a browser game with illustrated scenes, sound, and the same simulation underneath.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:16:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/how-i-run-the-ai-crew/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/how-i-run-the-ai-crew/the current workflow behind the projects: bounded tasks, reusable skills, independent review, and evidence before calling something finished.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:15:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/an-mcp-server-that-reads-plans-like-an-estimator/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/an-mcp-server-that-reads-plans-like-an-estimator/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.Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:35:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/i-needed-a-better-window-into-my-ai-agents/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/i-needed-a-better-window-into-my-ai-agents/a local terminal dashboard for tracing, replaying, comparing, and exporting ai agent sessions.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:10:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/a-safer-mcp-toolbox-for-my-mac/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/a-safer-mcp-toolbox-for-my-mac/a local mcp server that lets an ai agent use selected mac tools without handing it an unrestricted shell.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:05:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/from-bid-invite-to-a-package-you-can-check/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/from-bid-invite-to-a-package-you-can-check/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.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 10:54:54 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/testing-ForgeCAD-to-draw-my-construction-submittals/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/testing-ForgeCAD-to-draw-my-construction-submittals/i pointed forgecad and codex at a real panic gate submittal and watched them redraw it, callouts and all, in an afternoon.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/the-toolbelt-under-the-ai-tools/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/the-toolbelt-under-the-ai-tools/i packaged 58 modern cli tools into one homebrew install, because your terminal should be dialed in before the AI shows up.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/teaching-claude-to-stop-writing-like-claude/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/teaching-claude-to-stop-writing-like-claude/how i built a claude code skill that catches 44 AI writing tells before they ever hit this blog.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/building-my-own-bluebeam/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/building-my-own-bluebeam/bluebeam wanted windows, parallels, and $600 a year. i built the 10% i actually use in two days.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/mvp-builder/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/mvp-builder/a build-mode orchestrator that takes a plan and executes it — one task at a time, no scope creep.Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:00:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/project-planner/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/project-planner/an ai-guided planning tool that asks the right questions so you don't have to figure out where to start.Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/building-contractorkeith-com/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/building-contractorkeith-com/how i built this site with astro, deployed to cloudflare pages, and moved on from jekyll.Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/local-job-scraper/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/local-job-scraper/built a python tool that scrapes company websites directly for job openings — not indeed, not ziprecruiter.Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://contractorkeith.com/posts/welcome-to-my-site/https://contractorkeith.com/posts/welcome-to-my-site/I'm ContractorKeith — a general contractor learning to write code, with help.Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT