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Slack Shortcuts and Sidebar Tricks Most People Never Use

June 30, 2026 by Jess Investment

Most people click through Slack with a mouse. The fast users lean on the keyboard and sidebar structure instead. A rundown of the shortcuts, custom sections, and Workflow Builder from Slack’s own docs.

Categories Dev Tools Tags collaboration, developer-tools, keyboard-shortcuts, productivity, slack, workflow-builder Leave a comment

Claude Code Now Falls Back to a Backup Model When Yours Is Overloaded

June 19, 2026 by Jess Investment

Claude Code’s Week 24 update adds fallbackModel — when your main model is overloaded, it automatically switches to a backup, with up to three models tried in order.

Categories AI News Tags ai-tooling, Anthropic, claude-code, developer-tools, model-fallback Leave a comment

Three Raycast Features You Installed but Never Use

June 18, 2026 by Jess Investment

Most people use Raycast only as a Spotlight replacement. Its built-in Clipboard History, Snippets, and Window Management each replace a standalone app you probably paid for.

Categories Dev Tools Tags clipboard-manager, developer-tools, macos, productivity, raycast, text-expander, window-management Leave a comment

Cursor Bugbot Reviews Now Take 90 Seconds, Plus a New /review Command

June 12, 2026 by Jess Investment

Cursor cut Bugbot’s average review time from 5 minutes to 90 seconds, shipped a pre-push /review command, and lowered per-run costs by 22% under its new usage-based pricing.

Categories AI News Tags AI Coding, ai-news, bugbot, code-review, Cursor, developer-tools Leave a comment

Raycast: Why I Use It Instead of Spotlight

June 3, 2026 by Jess Investment

Raycast replaces macOS Spotlight, but it’s more than a prettier launcher — it folds clipboard history, window tiling, snippets, and scripts into one search bar.

Categories Dev Tools Tags developer-tools, launcher, macos, productivity, raycast, spotlight Leave a comment

Claude Code’s New /goal Command Killed My Per-Turn Confirmation Loop

May 28, 2026 by Jess Investment

I was running five Claude Code sessions and burning out bouncing between tabs to hit Enter. The new /goal command made that disappear in one line.

Categories AI Tips Tags AI Coding, claude-code, developer-tools, productivity, slash-commands Leave a comment

Claude Code Stops Pausing Every Turn: /goal, /loop, /batch, /background

May 15, 2026May 14, 2026 by Jess Investment

Anthropic just bundled four slash commands that let Claude Code run on its own — /goal, /loop, /batch, /background. Here’s what changed and when to use each one.

Categories AI News Tags ai-agents, Anthropic, automation, autonomous-execution, claude-code, developer-tools, slash-commands Leave a comment

Bruno: The Open-Source Postman Alternative That Stores API Collections as Text

May 15, 2026May 13, 2026 by Jess Investment

Postman seats got expensive, so I switched to Bruno. It stores API collections as plain-text .bru files you commit to Git — that’s the whole pitch.

Categories Dev Tools Tags api-testing, bruno, developer-tools, git-workflow, open-source, postman-alternative Leave a comment

Rectangle: Buy Coffee Instead of Magnet

May 15, 2026May 10, 2026 by Jess Investment

After 4 years on Magnet, I switched to Rectangle one month ago. It’s free, lighter, and your shortcuts move over in one click. Here’s what I measured.

Categories Dev Tools Tags developer-tools, macos, open-source, productivity, rectangle, tool-reviews Leave a comment

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