Micro-blog where I jot down short random thoughts.
September 24, 2026
Storybook now publishes to GitHub Pages for each of the starters, so I pointed every README straight at the live demo. css-starter, angular-starter, react-starter, and vue-starter all picked up the same one-line docs tweak. No code changed — just the deploy links catching up to the pipeline.
September 23, 2026
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.
September 23, 2026
On 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.
September 22, 2026
Storybook dark mode is now first-class on the Angular, React, and Vue 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.
September 22, 2026
pi-voice feedback is cheaper now. Random cue phrases replace the model summary, fewer model calls per feedback cycle — still audible, much less spendy.
September 22, 2026
Shipped cost-aware tier routing on 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.
September 22, 2026
Added a github-branch-protection skill to 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.
September 22, 2026
The Callout component landed in css-starter — the design-system repo. The Angular, React, and Vue starters pull it from there now.
September 21, 2026
Gave 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.
September 21, 2026
Launched a new project today: 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.