Gareth Hughes

I build software and lead the people who build software. Sydney, Australia.

OCT 26

Squirrel Notes 2.0

A few months back I decided to build myself a notes tool: Squirrel Notes. It had three main requirements:

Squirrel Notes delivered on all three. Using GitHub Copilot's (at the time) very generous per-request AI offering, I built a well-featured notes tool. In fact, I'm writing the draft of this post in Squirrel Notes, in my Blog collection.

It's been part of my workflow ever since. Adding STDIO MCP was a game changer, as I covered in Using Claude as a First-Class Interface for Squirrel Notes. I use one note as a shared AI brain between my work and personal Claude accounts. I also use a collection as an inbox, which helps me keep on top of tasks that a Claude routine pulls out of my email, Slack and Jira.

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AUG 26

How Fragile Survived First Deployment

When I set out to build Fragile, it was more of a fun side project. I connected it to our work Jira as the data source, but I wasn't sure it would ever be more than something to write about here.

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