A Mac app to keep track of every git repository, a terminal view of the pull requests waiting on me, an on-device translation service, a calibre plugin and a VS Code extension — all built with Claude Opus 5, some of them in a few minutes.
Every working day has its small frictions, the kind you stop noticing because fixing them never seemed worth the effort. Between June and November 2026 I fixed five of mine, with Claude Opus 5 doing most of the writing. A calibre plugin or a VS Code extension used to mean learning an API I would never touch again, for a gain of a few seconds a day; now a small program or a configuration tweak costs about as much as describing what bothers me.
git-roster is the one that grew into a real application. I work across a lot of repositories, personal and professional, and kept discovering too late that one of them was behind its remote or had changes I had forgotten about. GitRoster is a single macOS window listing all of them, with the branch and its state on each row, a click away from opening any of them in my git client, a terminal, the editor or the browser. It pulls and pushes when the