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I use Claude Code and Codex side by side and wanted both plans' limits in one view, plus real token numbers for the day and the last 7 and 30 days.
So I built Tokenz, a macOS menu bar app that does both.
Each tool gets its 5-hour percentage in the menu bar, with a line ith the week's usage. Click it for all the details, computed from the logs already on your Mac. No network requests.
Every number it shows is something a provider reported or something a log on your Mac recorded. Where it has neither, it leaves the space empty, never 0%.
Codex needs no setup. Claude Code's plan limits come through a status line, on Pro and Max plans, and Tokenz offers to set one up.
0.1.0, macOS 14 or later, Swift, MIT:
```brew install pardel/tap/tokenz```
Reply:
Code: github.com/pardel/tokenz
Write-up: pardel.dev/2026/10/10/tok…
So I built Tokenz, a macOS menu bar app that does both.
Each tool gets its 5-hour percentage in the menu bar, with a line ith the week's usage. Click it for all the details, computed from the logs already on your Mac. No network requests.
Every number it shows is something a provider reported or something a log on your Mac recorded. Where it has neither, it leaves the space empty, never 0%.
Codex needs no setup. Claude Code's plan limits come through a status line, on Pro and Max plans, and Tokenz offers to set one up.
0.1.0, macOS 14 or later, Swift, MIT:
```brew install pardel/tap/tokenz```
Reply:
Code: github.com/pardel/tokenz
Write-up: pardel.dev/2026/10/10/tok…
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Paul Ardeleanu 👨💻 🥑 retweeted
"We're building our own agent harness" is the new "we're building our own Kubernetes based platform"
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Paul Ardeleanu 👨💻 🥑 retweeted
I'm helping at the relaunch ACCU London 🎉
Wed 4 Nov, 18:30, London
Keynote from @Geek_Manager on how engineering skills improve, then Speed AMAs: private 10-min 1:1s with senior engineers; Paul Grenyer, @quantdev_uk & @pardel
Spaces are limited: luma.com/tpxd3p4u
Wed 4 Nov, 18:30, London
Keynote from @Geek_Manager on how engineering skills improve, then Speed AMAs: private 10-min 1:1s with senior engineers; Paul Grenyer, @quantdev_uk & @pardel
Spaces are limited: luma.com/tpxd3p4u
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Change one slide's script and my talk recording is out of date. I'm not re-recording a whole talk for one paragraph, so I cloned my voice, on my own laptop.
The first clone sounded too American. 117 variants later, Qwen3-TTS sounds the closest to how I actually speak.
The first clone sounded too American. 117 variants later, Qwen3-TTS sounds the closest to how I actually speak.
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Write-up, with both scripts and clips of my real voice next to five clones: pardel.dev/2026/10/04/clo…
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I've added WebMCP to my site. An agent in Chrome can now search my posts, list my projects and talks, and open a page, through tools the site declares instead of scraping the HTML.
One JSON file, one script. No site changes. Write-up, with the code: pardel.dev/2026/09/28/web…
One JSON file, one script. No site changes. Write-up, with the code: pardel.dev/2026/09/28/web…
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In June I built my own link shortener rather than pay Bitly $35 a month for a couple of links.
Slink 1.0 is out today. github.com/pardel/slink
Write-up: pardel.dev/2026/09/27/sli…
Self-hosted on Cloudflare, MIT.
Slink 1.0 is out today. github.com/pardel/slink
Write-up: pardel.dev/2026/09/27/sli…
Self-hosted on Cloudflare, MIT.
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Thrilled to be speaking at apidays London, Sept 30 & Oct 1, on the impact of AI on Developer Experience. 🤖 🤝 🧑💻
200+ speakers, local technologists, industry leaders -organisers expect 3,000+ participants 🤯
I have some free tickets (DM open)
apidays.global/events/london
200+ speakers, local technologists, industry leaders -organisers expect 3,000+ participants 🤯
I have some free tickets (DM open)
apidays.global/events/london
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Who would have guessed that AI agents behave like humans?! 🙄 This one became "creative" 😎
cursor ultra expires in 3 days so I'm losing grok bot access
I gave it $100 and told it to find a way to fund itself for another month
...it cold DM'd my coworkers offering to do paid work, asking for a payroll advance, and asking for a loan
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Every second-brain system solves capture, and almost none solve trust. GOVERN is six principles for trusting an AI-run knowledge base: Gates, Origins, Verification, Evidence, Rules, Nothing assumed.
The starter kit that puts them in place is public today.
The starter kit that puts them in place is public today.
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Mine's been running nearly five months: 260+ compiled notes, ~2,700 preserved originals, 1,350+ commits. The gates list is still short, and everything else happens without asking.
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😎 Was a bit jealous of how cool Hyprland looks in Omarchy. Kept watching demos where one hits a key and the windows just snap into place, then going back to dragging mine like a caveman... so I built one for my Mac. 🥳
brew install pardel/tap/quadra
pardel.dev/2026/09/03/qua…
brew install pardel/tap/quadra
pardel.dev/2026/09/03/qua…
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Wrote some thoughts on the Vonage Developer Blog on passkeys and how Silent Authentication “completes” it:
Passwords: the oldest unfixed bug in software. 🐛
Passkeys fix the login. But who let the user in on Day 1? And what happens when they lose their phone? 👀
Enter Silent Authentication - the invisible sidekick that verifies your SIM through the carrier network. No codes. No sh. 🤫📱
Two phishing-resistant factors. Zero secrets shown to the user. One very satisfying auth flow.
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A Mac Mini in my home office runs several Claude Code sessions with remote control on, so I can drive them from my phone. One afternoon it stopped answering.
So I build an app that monitors downtime too:
pardel.dev/2026/08/22/veg…
So I build an app that monitors downtime too:
pardel.dev/2026/08/22/veg…
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