Repo Roundup #5

As is pretty usual for me, this week I was looking into several things on GitHub of completely different categories. Typically some AI-related things but also just some things that inspired me.

sniffly

This is a cool little dashboard for analyzing how you use Claude Code. It works by analyzing all of the JSON files that Claude Code leaves in its directory and attempting to pull interesting statistics out of it, such as how many commands the user runs, how many tools they’re using, how many tokens are used, and the cost of those tokens per project.

It’s pretty interesting data to look at, especially since Anthropic has recently implemented new usage limits on Claude Code: it’s nice to have a way of analyzing your usage to see how you might improve it. For example, you can look at the types of errors Claude ran into and determine if you could adjust your workflow, code base, or prompts (i.e. CLAUDE.md) to mitigate those errors before they happen. In theory, that could save you some tokens and possibly time.

crush

This is a new contender in the CLI-based agentic coding realm. It looks nice, which is what you would expect from Charm. However, it’s difficult for me to use or recommend it because I know the backstory about how Charm and opencode unfolded. This knowledge makes me conflicted due to social and ethical dynamics, which may be unfair to the product. I did previously use some Charm go libraries while using Go at Google Checks a few years ago and they were very helpful and well-done.

audioteejs

This tool is pretty limited at the moment, but it seems like it would be very useful for some ideas I’ve had and worked on in the past. Notably, it lets you capture bits of your Mac’s system audio and emit them as PCM encoded chunks that you can then stream to something like a speech-to-text model to do real-time transcription of speech.

I have been using transcription more and more in my daily workflow to save time and possibly prevent strain on my wrists. I haven’t had many signs of RSI or carpal tunnel, like many other tech workers my age, but I figure it’s only a matter of time so I’m attempting to not type things that I could just dictate.

astro-seo

This library made it pretty convenient to manage the <meta> tags, Open Graph, and things like that for my website’s SEO and fits very well into Astro, which this website is built with.

atrament

I don’t really have a use for this right now, but it seems so well done that it was inspiring to me. I will definitely keep it in mind for future things. A lot of times, I encounter libraries like this that aren’t immediately useful for me, but you can just tell when something is done very well. It makes you want to use it just to appreciate the care that was put into it.