278. Great Skill Appears Clumsy 中
The cover photo was taken during a weekend CityWalk in Shanghai. I spotted a sign outside a shop called “Buzhuo,” meaning “not clumsy.” It reminded me of the saying “great skill appears clumsy”: someone may work in a plain way and avoid shortcuts, while carrying a lot of wisdom underneath. I hope my products feel the same.
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A Few Words
After Mole got a Mac version, its users taught me how to build products
https://tw93.fun/2026-08-16/mole-mac.html
I hadn’t written a long piece in ages. I finally wrote one, gathering some recent thoughts from independently developing Mole. I hope it helps if you’re building a product too.
Trending Tools
AgentsView: browse and analyze how you use agents
https://www.agentsview.io/
A local-first app for browsing, searching, and analyzing your past AI coding sessions. It shows where your agents spend their time and money, with separate views by project, model, and tool.
Discover startup product launch videos from X
https://whatships.com/
Ding built a tool that collects product launch videos currently being shared on X. Quite a few are very well made and worth learning from. Next time you have a product to launch, take a look and see if any of them spark a new idea.
Give your AI a brain.md
https://projectbrain.md/
The idea is interesting. The author says AI forgets everything unless you give it a brain, and brain.md is that brain.
nowdex: quickly check your agent usage
https://apps.apple.com/cn/app/nowdex/id6791450777
A free iOS app that lets you quickly check your agent usage, including from a Home Screen widget.
How to remove the annoying Claude Code URL Handler.app
I finally got rid of the Claude Code URL Handler.app that Claude Code registers on macOS. It has no icon and looks ugly, which had been driving the neat freak in me crazy, and uninstalling it directly didn’t help. Add "disableDeepLinkRegistration": "disable" to ~/.claude/settings.json and it will stop coming back.
Just Looking Around
Report notes: Who gets the productivity gains from AI, and why do employees feel more tired?
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/GFx3FfRfheX0Tp7V-pGOww
I have a feeling that the more advanced technology gets, the more tired working people become. Before AI, everyone seemed to have it a little easier, though that may also have had something to do with the economy at the time.
A conversation about agent evaluation, from the basics to the details
https://tech.meituan.com/2026/08/07/Agent-Evaluation.html
This Meituan article on agent evaluation is worth reading. It goes into plenty of detail and can be compared with evaluation methods used inside companies, though quite a bit of it also draws on material from elsewhere.
A complete guide to AGENTS.md
https://www.aihero.dev/a-complete-guide-to-agents-md
This article is worth reading if you want to improve your own AGENTS.md. Many of the details match how agents are being used today, and you can have your agent read it directly.
I highly recommend Once Upon a Time in the Middle East
https://movie.douban.com/subject/35811064/
I saw it over the weekend, and it’s the best Chinese film I’ve seen in recent years. Wen Muye is a very capable director. The film moved me a lot, and I also loved Jiang Qiming’s style.
