Random thoughtshttps://jordilopez.dev/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-setup/git-redact-and-cdp-extensions-went-hexagonal/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-setup/git-redact-and-cdp-extensions-went-hexagonal/Spent the evening rebuilding the git, redact, and cdp extensions in [pi-setup](https://github.com/jordilopez/pi-setup) around ports and adapters: tool logic now lives in a pure domain layer with the Pi-specific glue behind small interfaces and fakes. Tests moved next to the source while I was at it, so each extension carries its own specs.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:41:11 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-setup/a-branch-cleanup-tool-and-tidier-attribution-for-pi-setup/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-setup/a-branch-cleanup-tool-and-tidier-attribution-for-pi-setup/[pi-setup](https://github.com/jordilopez/pi-setup) gained a git_prune_merged_branches tool, so agents can clean up merged branches without hand-running the git incantation. While in there, the design-tokens skill's attribution wording got a small correctness fix.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 21:34:49 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/movie/no-one-will-save-you/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/movie/no-one-will-save-you/Big surprise from [Brian Duffield](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3929259/), and amazing performance by [Kaitlin Dever](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3239803). Movie fact: in the whole movie there are only 5 spoken words.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-smart-router/pi-smart-router-now-judges-each-provider-on-its-own-merits/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-smart-router/pi-smart-router-now-judges-each-provider-on-its-own-merits/[pi-smart-router](https://github.com/jordilopez/pi-smart-router) now classifies each provider on its own merits when you call `setup-tiers`, instead of collapsing them into a single global winner — so when one catalogue says a model is the cheapest and another says it's the strongest, both can win on their own merits. The same day quieted the dependency noise around it: Dependabot auto-merge for patches, a TypeScript major, and a pass on the high and critical advisories. The toolkit now pins Node 22 and has CI read it, so runtime expectations stop drifting silently across major bumps.Sun, 25 Oct 2026 20:39:55 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-smart-router/kept-pi-smart-router-current-with-the-platform-it-runs-on/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-smart-router/kept-pi-smart-router-current-with-the-platform-it-runs-on/Dependency housekeeping on [pi-smart-router](https://github.com/jordilopez/pi-smart-router): the toolkit now runs against the latest pi-coding-agent, and the Node type definitions jumped several majors to catch up with the runtime.Sun, 25 Oct 2026 20:32:31 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-agent-skills/dependabot-auto-merge-is-now-live-across-the-pi-agent-projects/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-agent-skills/dependabot-auto-merge-is-now-live-across-the-pi-agent-projects/Dependabot auto-merge for patch and minor bumps is now live on [pi-agent-skills](https://github.com/jordilopez/pi-agent-skills) and [pi-setup](https://github.com/jordilopez/pi-setup). The same workflow covers the dev-tooling group on pi-setup, and the README now steers you to a review skill based on the kind of change you're shipping. Pinning the noisy minors saves a review round without losing the majors to drift.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 06:47:11 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/css-demos/a-sibling-count-demo-joins-the-css-experiments/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/css-demos/a-sibling-count-demo-joins-the-css-experiments/Kicked off a new experiment over on [css-sibling-count](https://github.com/jordilopez/css-sibling-count) — a small live [demo](https://jordilopez.github.io/css-sibling-count/) exploring what you can do once sibling-count() is available, from highlighting the middle item in a list to scaling things based on how many siblings are present. First commit landed along with the demo itself.Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:47:35 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-setup/a-design-tokens-skill-for-pi-agents/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-setup/a-design-tokens-skill-for-pi-agents/Added a design-tokens skill to [pi-setup](https://github.com/jordilopez/pi-setup) — it teaches agents the Asana-style naming convention for colour tokens, where a token reads like `positive-surface-raised` instead of `green-300`. Usage describes the role rather than the CSS property, so each token stays single-purpose and themeable. One skill, one convention, no more ad-hoc colour names.Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:46:43 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/css-demos/a-tidy-fix-for-the-notice-component/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/css-demos/a-tidy-fix-for-the-notice-component/Small but satisfying fix on [css-grid-lanes](https://github.com/jordilopez/css-grid-lanes): the demo's callout notice no longer lingers on screen when the `hidden` attribute is set. Turns out the base styles were overriding the UA default, so the component stayed visible — a one-liner to hide it properly, and the demo behaves as expected again.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:05:55 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/css-demos/launching-a-css-if-demo/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/css-demos/launching-a-css-if-demo/Launched [css-if](https://github.com/jordilopez/css-if), a [live demo](https://jordilopez.github.io/css-if/) for the CSS `if()` inline conditional function that landed in Chrome and Edge 137. It walks through six examples — `supports()`, `media()`, `style()`, combined and negated conditions, multiple branches, and a nested `if()` — all driven by pure CSS radios and `:has()`, no JavaScript. The page feature-detects support and shows a fallback in browsers that don't have it yet, and deploys to GitHub Pages on merge. Styling builds on [css-starter](https://github.com/jordilopez/css-starter), reusing its picker and callout components.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:02:09 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-agent-skills/dependabot-everywhere/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-agent-skills/dependabot-everywhere/Spent the morning wiring up automated dependency management: both [pi-agent-skills](https://github.com/jordilopez/pi-agent-skills) and [pi-setup](https://github.com/jordilopez/pi-setup) now have Dependabot config with a CI workflow to validate it. As a bonus, Dependabot immediately started doing its job — a first wave of action runner and dev-tooling bumps is already queued as pull requests.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:43:59 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-setup/pi-setup-gained-a-git-create-pr-tool/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-setup/pi-setup-gained-a-git-create-pr-tool/Added a proper `git_create_pr` tool to [pi-setup](https://github.com/jordilopez/pi-setup), with tests covering the PR state classification (new vs. update) so the branching logic is proven rather than guessed. The git-create-pr skill now just delegates to the tool instead of hand-rolling the push-and-open dance every time.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:49:25 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/css-starter/colour-tokens-got-a-four-axis-naming-convention/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/css-starter/colour-tokens-got-a-four-axis-naming-convention/Rebuilt the colour token naming in [css-starter](https://github.com/jordilopez/css-starter) around an Asana-style four-axis convention, so a token's name tells you exactly where and how it's allowed to be used. The naming reference now lists every cross-usage call site, and a guardrail script enforces the convention so the naming can't quietly drift again.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 10:58:09 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/movie/hope/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/movie/hope/Maybe it's not the best movie of [Na Hong-jin](https://www.imdb.com/es/name/nm2947553/)'s filmography, but it's probably (in my opinion) the best action movie of the year.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:49:25 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-smart-router/artificial-analysis-benchmarks-now-feed-pi-smart-router-s-tiers/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-smart-router/artificial-analysis-benchmarks-now-feed-pi-smart-router-s-tiers/Folded [Artificial Analysis](https://artificialanalysis.ai/) benchmark data into [pi-smart-router](https://github.com/jordilopez/pi-smart-router) tier classification. The fast tier now requires measured latency instead of guessing from specs, and a balanced pick bumped out of the way by a collision gets re-homed from the fast or powerful runner-ups. Also migrated the AA integration to their newer paginated models endpoint.Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:27:57 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-smart-router/cost-aware-tier-classification-comes-to-pi-smart-router/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-smart-router/cost-aware-tier-classification-comes-to-pi-smart-router/Tightened how [pi-smart-router](https://github.com/jordilopez/pi-smart-router) picks its tier models. The router now dedupes models that show up across multiple providers under different names, and tier classification is cost-aware — cheaper candidates win when specs tie, so the routes sort by what they actually cost.Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:21:02 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-smart-router/upgraded-pi-smart-router-to-virtual-models/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-smart-router/upgraded-pi-smart-router-to-virtual-models/Shipped the virtual router upgrade on [pi-smart-router](https://github.com/jordilopez/pi-smart-router) today — pi now ships native virtual-model routing, so our custom dispatch layer had become overlap and got deleted. Retry/fallback now lives in the main route call, and the classifier has the final say over rules.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:55:22 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/tv/upright/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/tv/upright/Australian road movie with Milly Alcock and Tim Minchin crossing Australia from Sydney to Perth with no money and an upright piano.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/css-starter/three-little-basics-each-into-their-own-folder/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/css-starter/three-little-basics-each-into-their-own-folder/Spent today decluttering [css-starter](https://github.com/jordilopez/css-starter): the blockquote, list, and hr styles each moved out of the big basics stylesheet and into their own folder. Along the way I also fixed a bug where the reset layer was stripping the default bullets and numbers off lists — markers are back.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:51:15 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/de-drum/keeping-drums-and-simplifying-downloads-in-de-drum/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/de-drum/keeping-drums-and-simplifying-downloads-in-de-drum/Two merges landed on [de-drum](https://github.com/jordilopez/de-drum) today. The video workflow now keeps the isolated drums stem around instead of tossing it, and the download path got simpler — a single yt-dlp call with URL sanitization and a local output folder. Also restored the interactive installer section that an earlier reformat had dropped.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:29:30 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/framework-starters/storybook-readme-deploy-links/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/framework-starters/storybook-readme-deploy-links/Storybook now publishes to GitHub Pages for each of the starters, so I pointed every README straight at the live demo. [css-starter](https://github.com/jordilopez/css-starter), [angular-starter](https://github.com/jordilopez/angular-starter), [react-starter](https://github.com/jordilopez/react-starter), and [vue-starter](https://github.com/jordilopez/vue-starter) all picked up the same one-line docs tweak. No code changed — just the deploy links catching up to the pipeline.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:36:36 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-voice/added-question-variants/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-voice/added-question-variants/[pi-voice](https://github.com/jordilopez/pi-voice) has to be near-instant, so I added question variants — the same prompt can now flip between short phrasings without asking the model. Before that, the LLM was dressing up each announcement with extra context, which meant a whole model request every time. Way too slow.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:44:01 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-smart-router/consolidating-the-model-tier-setup-skill/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-smart-router/consolidating-the-model-tier-setup-skill/On [pi-smart-router](https://github.com/jordilopez/pi-smart-router), replaced the model-tier-setup skill's tier-by-tier Jev classification with a single `smart-router-setup-tiers` tool call that filters, classifies, dedupes, and returns ready-to-write routes in one pass. The skill now only reviews the proposal and applies it. Trade-off: less inspectable mid-flight, faster end-to-end.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:40:16 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/framework-starters/storybook-dark-mode-github-pages-on-the-framework-starters/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/framework-starters/storybook-dark-mode-github-pages-on-the-framework-starters/Storybook dark mode is now first-class on the [Angular](https://github.com/jordilopez/angular-starter), [React](https://github.com/jordilopez/react-starter), and [Vue](https://github.com/jordilopez/vue-starter) starters — ArgsTable respects dark mode (after working around emotion's !important overrides) and Storybook ships straight to GitHub Pages from each repo's deploy pipeline. Per-repo: notice-component on React, Callout component with stories on Angular and Vue, plus a second-pass dark-mode table fix on Vue.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:52:58 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-voice/cheaper-spoken-cues-on-pi-voice/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-voice/cheaper-spoken-cues-on-pi-voice/[pi-voice](https://github.com/jordilopez/pi-voice) feedback is cheaper now. Random cue phrases replace the model summary, fewer model calls per feedback cycle — still audible, much less spendy.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:32:21 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-smart-router/cost-aware-tier-routing-on-pi-smart-router/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-smart-router/cost-aware-tier-routing-on-pi-smart-router/Shipped cost-aware tier routing on [pi-smart-router](https://github.com/jordilopez/pi-smart-router). Routine coding prompts hit the cheap tier by default; only heavier work climbs to the bigger models. Cheaper day-to-day, no slowdown for the easy stuff.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:08:17 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-setup/github-branch-protection-skill-added-to-pi-setup/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-setup/github-branch-protection-skill-added-to-pi-setup/Added a `github-branch-protection` skill to [pi-setup](https://github.com/jordilopez/pi-setup). Lets the agent apply and audit branch protection rules without hand-editing jobs/settings — captured as a reusable skill the agent can call directly.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 06:39:23 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/css-starter/callout-component-merged-into-css-starter/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/css-starter/callout-component-merged-into-css-starter/The Callout component landed in [css-starter](https://github.com/jordilopez/css-starter) — the design-system repo. The Angular, React, and Vue starters pull it from there now.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:16:26 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-smart-router/smart-router-tools-for-the-agent-sharper-tier-docs/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-smart-router/smart-router-tools-for-the-agent-sharper-tier-docs/Gave [pi-smart-router](https://github.com/jordilopez/pi-smart-router) two new agent-facing tools: one that queries the model catalog with filters, and one that writes tier assignments into the router config — so an agent can reconfigure routing tiers without hand-editing JSON. Also enriched the Jev classifier input with model-family positioning and tier instructions, and reworked the tier-setup skill to classify one candidate pool per tier instead of model by model.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:11:47 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-voice/launching-pi-voice-a-voice-extension-for-pi/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-voice/launching-pi-voice-a-voice-extension-for-pi/Launched a new project today: [pi-voice](https://github.com/jordilopez/pi-voice), a Pi extension that adds text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and an auto-send catchphrase to the coding agent. It now announces ask_user prompts out loud with a condensed version of the question topic.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:40:32 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/framework-starters/a-callout-component-everywhere-at-once/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/framework-starters/a-callout-component-everywhere-at-once/Built a Callout component in [css-starter](https://github.com/jordilopez/css-starter) today — four tones plus an icon slot — and shipped it as v0.4.0. Then the same move landed across the framework starters: a Callout wrapper with stories and tests for [react-starter](https://github.com/jordilopez/react-starter), [vue-starter](https://github.com/jordilopez/vue-starter), and [angular-starter](https://github.com/jordilopez/angular-starter). The [css-grid-lanes](https://github.com/jordilopez/css-grid-lanes) demo got the same treatment, swapping its hand-rolled notice for the new shared component.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:10:36 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/css-starter/storybook-for-css-starter-now-lives-on-github-pages/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/css-starter/storybook-for-css-starter-now-lives-on-github-pages/Set up continuous deployment for [css-starter](https://github.com/jordilopez/css-starter): the Storybook build now publishes straight to GitHub Pages, so the component documentation is always in sync with main.Sun, 20 Sep 2026 22:04:43 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/vue-starter/a-headless-text-field-for-vue-starter/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/vue-starter/a-headless-text-field-for-vue-starter/Added a headless TextField component to [vue-starter](https://github.com/jordilopez/vue-starter) — all the behavior, none of the imposed styling — and bumped the css-starter dependency along the way.Sun, 20 Sep 2026 22:03:08 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-smart-router/a-tier-setup-skill-and-leaner-docs-for-pi-smart-router/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-smart-router/a-tier-setup-skill-and-leaner-docs-for-pi-smart-router/Shipped two things to [pi-smart-router](https://github.com/jordilopez/pi-smart-router) today: a new model-tier-setup skill that walks you through configuring the router's four tiers, and the merged per-turn-classifier work with Jev as the main classifier and the heuristic kept as a fallback. While in there, stripped the file-based observability and gave the README a proper haircut — far less duplication, clearer guidance on when the heuristic still applies.Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:02:58 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-smart-router/jev-takes-over-classification-in-pi-smart-router/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-smart-router/jev-takes-over-classification-in-pi-smart-router/Big day for [pi-smart-router](https://github.com/jordilopez/pi-smart-router): TypeSafe Jev is now the primary classifier, so every turn gets classified by a real model instead of the keyword heuristics. Added a proper client for it, renamed the escalation plumbing to match its new role, and made skill invocations show up as markers in the classifier transcript so you can see what it's looking at.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:40:31 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-agent-skills/small-but-annoying-a-package-root-fix-in-pi-agent-skills/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/pi-agent-skills/small-but-annoying-a-package-root-fix-in-pi-agent-skills/Fixed a package-root resolution bug in [pi-agent-skills](https://github.com/jordilopez/pi-agent-skills) — the agent-delivery skill was climbing one directory too far when resolving its own package root, which broke installs from unexpected locations. Quick surgical fix, merged first thing in the morning.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:33:10 GMThttps://jordilopez.dev/posts/css-grid-lanes/public-experiment-space-for-css-grid-lanes/https://jordilopez.dev/posts/css-grid-lanes/public-experiment-space-for-css-grid-lanes/Put up a public experiment for [css-grid-lanes](https://github.com/jordilopez/css-grid-lanes) today — a scratch repo where I'm exploring what shipping this CSS feature would actually feel like, with a [live demo](https://jordilopez.github.io/css-grid-lanes/) and a README that explains the idea.Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:27:01 GMT