Web Excursions for March 5th, 2026

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julienXX/terminal-notifier Send User Notifications on macOS from the command-line. A great shell script companion that doesn’t require making your own calls to osascript. giladdarshan/gdialog: Display macOS dialogs from terminal and scripts Another handy scripting tool to display macOS dialogs from terminal and scripts. There was a more involved version of this that I used to use years ago, but this fits the bill nicely for my current needs. steveyegge/beads

Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent.

I haven’t quite gotten the hang of this yet, but I think it has a lot of potential. A persistent, structured memory for coding agents, replacing markdown plans with a dependency-aware graph to handle long-horizon tasks without losing context.

Get Sh*t Done

A light-weight and powerful meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system for Claude Code and OpenCode.

I’m not a Claude Code user, but for non-masochistic developers, this looks like an excellent tool.

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