https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/ Software worth finding. Independent reviews with visible evidence. en-gb Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Matthew Watkins (https://github.com/matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber) https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/articles/when-ai-work-needs-a-place-to-live/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/articles/when-ai-work-needs-a-place-to-live/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT An agent can make a plan in seconds. The harder question is what happens to that promise when a worker stalls, a lease expires, or the outside world gives an uncertain answer. Resolve01 is building the durable coordination layer for that middle ground. Matthew Watkins ESSAY https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/articles/the-anvil-ai-native-computer/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/articles/the-anvil-ai-native-computer/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Anvil is a one-kilobyte experimental machine with no shell, files or escape hatch. The aim is to discover whether an AI can work more reliably when the machine exposes exact capabilities, executes transactionally and returns measured evidence instead of human-oriented computer folklore. Matthew Watkins FEATURE https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/articles/joe-armstrong-the-man-who-put-failure-to-work/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/articles/joe-armstrong-the-man-who-put-failure-to-work/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Joe Armstrong helped create Erlang, but his curiosity kept moving: from physics and satellite software to fault tolerance, live music, hypertext and forgotten ideas in computer science. This essay follows the questions he carried between them. Matthew Watkins ESSAY https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/articles/the-bat-needs-a-collar/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/articles/the-bat-needs-a-collar/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT An encounter with an automated safety warning raises a bigger architectural question: as AI testing tools grow autonomous and adversarial, how should each run carry the scope of its authority—and prove the bounds were enforced? Matthew Watkins ESSAY https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/reviews/gitdesktop/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/reviews/gitdesktop/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT A broad Git client brings forge activity and optional agent tools into one desktop. The claims are interesting; Toolglass has not tested them. Evidence: DISCOVERED. Matthew Watkins Development workflow https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/articles/please-stop-making-ai-sound-so-uncool/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/articles/please-stop-making-ai-sound-so-uncool/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Artificial intelligence may be the strangest technology in public life. Its vocabulary increasingly sounds like it was approved by a committee at an airport hotel. Vibe coding, agentic AI, digital coworkers and the rest are not harmless cringe: bad language flattens useful distinctions and makes new ideas harder to think about. Matthew Watkins COLUMN https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/patternflow/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/patternflow/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:11:00 GMT Patternflow is an open-source 8,192-pixel LED synthesizer whose four knobs alter code-generated images in real time. The clever bit is not the LEDs; it is treating visual algorithms as playable, shareable patches. Radar status: DESK REVIEW. Matthew Watkins Radar https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/public-browser/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/public-browser/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:11:00 GMT Public Browser drives a real Chrome profile directly over CDP, but its more interesting claim is architectural: fewer agent-tool round trips can matter more than shaving bytes from each browser snapshot. Radar status: DESK REVIEW. Matthew Watkins Radar https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/s1-rs/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/s1-rs/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:11:00 GMT s1-rs is a tiny, very new experiment in turning model decisions into typed Rust values with confidence gates. It is barely born, but the design points toward a useful boundary between probabilistic judgement and deterministic software. Radar status: SPOTTED. Matthew Watkins Radar https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/articles/the-prize-is-the-cheapest-part-of-a-hackathon/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/articles/the-prize-is-the-cheapest-part-of-a-hackathon/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Hackathons do more than produce winners. They produce a field of experiments, ideas, pain points and prototypes. AI makes that field cheaper to analyse, while some competition rules explicitly permit internal research, AI training or commercial reuse. That does not prove theft. It does mean entrants should know exactly what they are giving away. Matthew Watkins FEATURE https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/tuffy/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/tuffy/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:37:00 GMT Tuffy paired an AI-written compiler with declarative optimisations and Lean-checked proofs, reached the point of compiling Rust standard-library tests, then paused when model behaviour, design compromise and cost became part of the result. Radar status: DESK REVIEW. Matthew Watkins Radar https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/hash-shell/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/hash-shell/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:36:00 GMT Hash is a POSIX shell that puts agent invocation into the grammar itself: type ?? and hand work to Claude Code, Cursor CLI, Gemini CLI or Ollama over ACP, without changing terminal emulators. Radar status: DESK REVIEW. Matthew Watkins Radar https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/vera/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/vera/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:35:00 GMT Vera reverses a familiar assumption: instead of teaching coding agents to cope with languages made for humans, it is experimenting with a language whose contracts, effects and verification model are meant to make machine-written code easier to check. Radar status: DESK REVIEW. Matthew Watkins Radar https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/excise/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/excise/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:13:00 GMT Excise is a young Diskonaut successor built around honest storage accounting, bounded scans and unusually explicit safeguards around permanent deletion. Radar status: DESK REVIEW. Matthew Watkins Radar https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/rdmatop/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/rdmatop/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:12:00 GMT rdmatop is a small Rust TUI that turns Linux RDMA counters, queue pairs and process information into live throughput views and Perfetto traces. Radar status: DESK REVIEW. Matthew Watkins Radar https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/emeraldian/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/emeraldian/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:11:00 GMT A Rust TUI reads an ordinary Obsidian vault directly, renders live Markdown, backlinks, images and graphs, then lets an optional agent work through the same visible commands as the user. Radar status: DESK REVIEW. Matthew Watkins Radar https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/copperhead/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/copperhead/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:18:00 GMT Copperhead is an open-source hardware agent for existing KiCad repositories, making surgical schematic and PCB changes, carrying decisions through design documents and using KiCad's ERC/DRC as deterministic gates. Radar status: DESK REVIEW. Matthew Watkins Radar https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/gpty/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/gpty/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:18:00 GMT gPTY combines a Rust PTY engine with a Godot interface, then exposes panes through JSON-RPC, a CLI and MCP so automation can read and drive terminals without scraping their rendered TUI. Radar status: DESK REVIEW. Matthew Watkins Radar https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/promptsign/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/promptsign/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:18:00 GMT PromptSign applies Sigstore-style signing and offline verification to CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, skills, agent definitions and their script payloads, treating prompt supply chains rather more like software supply chains. Radar status: DESK REVIEW. Matthew Watkins Radar https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/articles/the-thinking-surface/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/articles/the-thinking-surface/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Generative AI proved that machines can produce. The more interesting problem now is how to build systems that remove dead cognitive labour without removing the human thinking, judgement and creative struggle that give work meaning. Matthew Watkins ESSAY https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/archprint/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/archprint/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:25:00 GMT Archprint mines a TypeScript repository's import graph, keeps only patterns with statistical support, then emits enforceable rules for tools such as ESLint and dependency-cruiser. Radar status: DESK REVIEW. Matthew Watkins Radar https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/opentrailpaper/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/opentrailpaper/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:25:00 GMT OpenTrailPaper turns an off-the-shelf ESP32-S3 e-paper board into a standalone cycling head unit with offline maps, GPX navigation, FIT recording and Bluetooth sensors. Radar status: DESK REVIEW. Matthew Watkins Radar https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/termy/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/termy/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:25:00 GMT TERMy maps ordinary-language terminal requests to commands using a compact dataset format and deterministic matching rather than embeddings, machine learning or an LLM. Radar status: DESK REVIEW. Matthew Watkins Radar https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/mmux/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/mmux/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:05:00 GMT mmux wraps persistent tmux sessions in a project-aware TUI for agents, terminals, dev servers, worktrees and Git. Radar status: DESK REVIEW. Matthew Watkins Radar https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/rift/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/rift/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:05:00 GMT Rift is a Rust terminal coding agent built around small binaries, local inference, explicit context control and failure recovery. Radar status: DESK REVIEW. Matthew Watkins Radar https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/voltius/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/voltius/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:05:00 GMT Voltius combines SSH, SFTP, serial, encrypted sync, containers, plugins and a local MCP server in a Rust/Tauri desktop app. Radar status: DESK REVIEW. Matthew Watkins Radar https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/tracelet/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/tracelet/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Tracelet turns an OpenTelemetry stream into a local view of prompts, tools, pauses and errors. Radar status: DESK REVIEW. Matthew Watkins Radar https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/reviews/spaghetti/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/reviews/spaghetti/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Spaghetti builds a local search index from coding-agent history. We fed it three bounded real Codex sessions and discovered both a much better way to browse the past and a good reason not to uninstall `rg` just yet. Evidence: TESTED. Matthew Watkins History & retrieval https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/reviews/atlas/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/reviews/atlas/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Atlas is trying to turn “please don't quietly move the goalposts” from an instruction into software. Its Goal Contracts and evidence gates are only partly wired today, but the idea is interesting enough to deserve attention before the product is finished. Evidence: INSPECTED + FOCUSED TESTS. Matthew Watkins Agent reliability https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/reviews/termai/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/reviews/termai/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT TermAI promises a terminal-native assistant with local sessions, branching, Git helpers and several provider paths. We never reached any of that. On our Windows bench, the current source build stopped at the compiler. Evidence: INSPECTED / BUILD BLOCKED. Matthew Watkins Terminal assistants https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/chrondb/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/chrondb/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT ChronDB puts Git-style history at the centre of a key/value store. Compatibility is the harder half of the idea. Radar status: SPOTTED. Matthew Watkins Radar https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/pad-local/ https://matthewjameswatkins1978-cyber.github.io/Toolglass/radar/pad-local/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Editors, terminals and browser panels share an infinite local canvas. The map may be the point, or the problem. Radar status: SPOTTED. Matthew Watkins Radar