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The AI Developer Workflow Survey: 19 Questions for Assessing a Dev Toolchain

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I wrote this survey for work. The goal wasn’t to win a tool-bake-off or prove a pet stack was superior — it was to answer one honest question: how do the people I build with actually spend their days with AI?

Every section maps to a layer of the modern dev toolchain. If you’re assessing a team’s workflow, onboarding new people, or just want to see where you sit relative to your peers, steal it. It’s licensed by the human copyright office of “you can just use this.”

TickTick MCP: Turn Your AI Into a Task Manager

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Your AI can write code, summarize meetings, and research anything. But can it manage your to-do list? With TickTick MCP, it can — your AI assistant becomes a task manager you talk to instead of a UI you click.

The problem

Every task manager has a UI, and every AI has a chat box. The friction is the gap between them: you think of something, you have to switch to the app, click through to create a task, set the date, pick the list, tag it. That’s exactly the kind of repetitive friction that AI should be eating.

Taming YouTube on Firefox: Unhook, SponsorBlock, UnTrap, and Search Fixer

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

YouTube on the desktop has become a firehose of shorts, recommendations, comments, ads, and sponsor segments. Four Firefox add-ons aim to tame different slices of it, and they overlap more than the store pages suggest. Live AMO stats as of August 11, 2026:

Unhook – Remove YouTube Recommended Videos: 156,751 users, 4.64★, v1.6.9
SponsorBlock: 734,705 users, 4.81★, v6.1.7
UnTrap for YouTube: 21,743 users, 4.31★, v11.0
YouTube Search Fixer: 33,147 users, 4.36★, v10.1.3

The distraction-killers: Unhook vs UnTrap

These two fight the same battle — hiding the stuff that keeps you scrolling instead of watching.