October 10, 2026
Git Commit Message Best Practices (With a Generator That Does It for You)
Git commit message best practices: the seven rules, conventional commit types, real examples, and how to automate consistent messages with gitcommitgen.
Journal
Dev Journal
Notes, learnings, and stories from the garden. Growing in public, one post at a time.
October 10, 2026
JavaScript Developer Tools: A Comparative Guide to Essential Tooling
A comparative guide to essential JavaScript developer tools — linters, formatters, bundlers, test runners, and CLI utilities — with when to use each.
October 10, 2026
Open Source CLI Tools on npm: A Curated List for Developers
A curated list of open source CLI tools on npm — commit helpers, secret scanners, JSON query utilities, and more, with install commands.
October 8, 2026
Building gitprgen: An AI Pull Request Description Generator CLI
Build story of gitprgen, an AI pull request description generator CLI: parsing git diffs, prompting LLMs, and writing PR descriptions worth keeping.
October 8, 2026
Building secretsweep: Zero-Config Secret Scanning for Your Pre-Commit Hook
Build story of secretsweep, a zero-config secret scanning CLI that catches staged API keys and tokens with pattern matching and entropy detection.
October 7, 2026
Building Tutupen: A Janitor for My 90 Open Tabs
I built a Chrome/Edge extension that silently closes tabs I forgot about - and verified it live by letting it close 46 of my own tabs. The full build story, including the naming saga.
October 5, 2026
Devlog: A Stuck Week, Logged Anyway
First weekly devlog for my 3D car montage project — an honest update on a stuck week, distraction, and why showing up to log it still counts.
July 12, 2026
DomainForge: Crawl Websites Directly into RAG-Ready Datasets
Most web scrapers dump noisy HTML. DomainForge crawls, cleans, dedupes, and chunks web pages on the fly, delivering RAG-ready datasets directly.
July 6, 2026
Getting Started with OpenOPC: Build an AI-Native One-Person Company
OpenOPC is an open-source Python framework that assembles a self-organizing team of AI agents around your goal. Covers install, Task Mode, Company Mode, and the Office UI.
June 17, 2026
Reproduce Before You Fix
How I learned the hard way that reproducing a bug is half the solution. A debugging story about restraint, process, and the discipline of sitting still before acting.
June 17, 2026
Building an Unobtrusive Tutorial UI in Godot 4 for a Game Jam Puzzle
How we used dynamic Godot tweens and signals to teach players Solstice Cipher's optical mechanics without breaking immersion.
June 6, 2026
How I Built a Native macOS System Monitor with SwiftUI
A deep dive into building SysMonitor, an open-source macOS system monitor. Learn how to implement menu bar tracking, custom glassmorphism, and background battery throttling in Swift.
May 14, 2026
Building Field-Ready Engineering Tools with Flutter: The Gas Flow Calculator Story
How we refined the Gas Flow Calculator for production, focusing on field-first UX, precision input steppers, and sleek floating navigation.
May 10, 2026
Building PocketBudget: From Idea to Play Store in One Sprint
The full story of building a local-first Android budget tracker — ideation, PRD, engineering sprint, Firebase removal, and Play Store submission. What worked, what didn't, and what we learned.
April 11, 2026
Getting Started with Kilo CLI
A practical guide to using Kilo CLI for agentic engineering—code, plan, and debug directly from your terminal.
April 8, 2026
Introducing BenihKode Dev Tools
A collection of CLI utilities built to make everyday development less tedious — from commit messages to secret scanning.
May 21, 2025
From Script to Tool: Building My Second CLI with Bun
How a simple automation script evolved into a proper CLI tool, and what I learned about tool-building, error handling, and the joy of shipping.
March 10, 2025
Finally, Async/Await Without Fear
Understanding async patterns in TypeScript changed how I think about concurrency.
February 28, 2025
CSS Grid Finally Clicked
After years of flexbox-only layouts, grid opened up a whole new dimension of design.
February 15, 2025
The Bug That Took 3 Days
A story about a sneaky timezone bug that taught me about debugging methodology.
January 20, 2025
Shipped My First NPM Package
How gitcommitgen went from a shell alias to a published npm package — and what I learned about open source along the way.
January 1, 2025
Planting BenihKode
Why I started this dev journal and what I hope to grow from it. The story of building a developer's garden from scratch.