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Herdr lets you add native panels to its window with a little JavaScript. I added two, a Tasks panel that starts work from my GitHub project board and a strip showing my Claude and Codex plan usage, and here is how they work and what tripped me up.

A developer Mac fills up with caches, build output, old tools and sound libraries you never open. What took the space on mine, the command that cleared each one, what I kept, and how I let an AI agent help without losing anything.

My best trading strategy made ₹8.9 lakh on paper. A few honest checks turned it into a loss. Here are the checks, and the data problems I had to fix before any result meant anything.

I tested day trading, swing trading, futures and options on five years of real NSE data, with every charge included. The strategies that looked great on old data stopped working on new data. A simple monthly SIP did as well as anything.

I tested Bodhan's indic-ocr and Sarvam Vision against Claude Opus 5.5 on 27 pages of Bhatkhande notation. Both read Gurmukhi well and still lost by 35 points, because the music lives in marks that aren't letters.

I had been saying "roughly 90% accurate" for months without measuring it. The eval showed that effort and model choice both move the result more than I expected, and that one config scored 59.4%, 59.4% and 90.6% on the same page.