some call me a lemonaut.

i embody these core principles:

• 🔥 aliveness-maxxer: aliveness >>> numbness
• ☯︎ incentive-aligner: "show me the incentive, and I'll show you the outcome" — Charlie Munger
• 🌐 open-sourced human: information wants to be free. it also wants to be integrated. become part of the great collaborative experiment we call 'human civilization in the time of the internet' by open-sourcing yourself.
• building for ourselves is building for others

humans are augmenting themselves with bespoke software, to massive effect. there has never been a better time to learn how to do augment yourself, nor more to gain. here I'm sharing some of the tools I'm using to augment myself.

• cody's skills: sharing my cognitive heuristics. these are the ways I talk to my computer.

• cody's stack: sharing my software stack; awesome software i think more people should be aware of.

here are some tools I've built to solve some of my own problems. I'm sharing them below:

YouTube Playlist Search: need to add videos to the right playlists

chrome extension that adds a filter bar making 'save to playlist' actually usable for lots of playlists. also bypasses YT's 200-playlist cap, letting you search all your playlists, not just your most recent 200. Also visit playlist.codyh.xyz for a useful save-to-playlist experience on mobile.

demo1-with-splash.mp4

Webpage Summarizer: need to quickly summarize only a chunk of the page's text

chrome extension for right-click > summarize highlighted text in your browser. built before browsers like Dia and extensions like Claude in Chrome began to normalize AI sidebars.

Spotify Notes: need to take notes on music for DJ library curation

take notes as you listen to songs on Spotify. live at songnotes.codyh.xyz.

Manic Spending Buddy: need to stop making frivolous Amazon purchases

Capitalism is missing an agent incentivized to help you not spend money. Consumers need more deflationary forces showing them how to make use of cheap of free alternatives than the new, shiny thing. Meet MSB.

Flur: need an affordable open-source are.na for curating my design taste

a place for images, because are.na is too expensive. Curate like are.na, organize like mymind.com. Open-source.

Cody's New Tab: need my tabs organized against ADHD

I've built pipelines that build pipelines. Here I'm sharing some tools I've built to remove frustrating obstacles I've encountered to building (& sharing) things:

• create-claude-plugin: Nifty end-to-end scaffold for building & publishing Claude Code plugins.
• create-chrome-extension: Nifty end-to-end scaffold for building & publishing Chrome extensions.
• (in development) create: Nifty end-to-end scaffold to build, well, anything really, in a self-consistent manner across projects.

• 🔌 claude plugins: plugins are abstractions for cognitive heuristics. I'm enjoying open-sourcing the way I think. It's nice being prompted to explictly codify my heuristics, and evaluate their usefulness.
• 🧠 augmenting my cognition: jump to projects ↓
• 🌱 open-sourcing myself: currently in the process of making myself legible to the world. See my Twitter, GitHub (you're here!), and Substack for more.

• bespoke software eats app stores; custom software development becomes a basic human need like access to reliable internet: [1]
• soon: hyper-entrepreneurial explosion!: [1]
• open-sourcing yourself is a necessary act of digital self-actualization: what does it mean to live an examined life in the age of the internet? [1]
• don't waste time on implementation details: spend a disproportionate amount of time elucidating WHAT you want, not HOW you want the LLM to achieve those goals.
• one-shot or bust: if at first you don't succeed, delete it all and prompt again (with more specificity this time). Don't waste time getting the LLM to fix the bug, rewind before you created it in the first place and try something else.
• Do Not Trust the Em-dash Machine: LLMs are next-token prediction machines who have fundamentally clichéd writing voice and fundamentally invalid logic. I am not absolutely right; it is a sycophant, and it has no idea what it's talking about. Ask it to defend one side of an argument and it will do so. Ask it to defend another side and it will do so as well: [1]
• plan before doing: separate planning from doing, both for ADHD focus and for AI output quality. spend outsized time crafting the plan.
• organize what you create, but do it fast: you can't outsource your understanding to AI. you can, however, delegate the gruntwork of manual organization. this is how i add content to my notion in 2026.
• ai's role in writing: can help you understand the structure of your writing, and learn grammar rules. ai should never touch voice. use the cognitive scaffolding to think bigger thoughts, not to avoid thinking entirely.
• generative UI as a paradigm takes off

• 🐦 twitter: @lemonautzest
• 🌐 site: codyh.xyz

_{"i create because i envision that there are people out there who need the lemon zest."}