Links for April 2026

Curated links and thoughts for April 2026.

Apr 19, 2026

Tools

How to use /skills I was stumped on when to use /skills in Codex, I was overthinking them. /skills are simply repeatable tasks you need to solve. I see more and more people praising skills so I am going to make it a goal of mine to build skills on a few of my most repeatable tasks this month.
lazygit. I have recently moved a lot of my personal projects to Linux and have been working more and more from the terminal first. lazygit is awesome for a quick, light terminal UI for git. Don’t sleep on learning even the basics of git if you are approaching agents or specifically coding assistants from a non-technical background. Otherwise you are playing a videogame without a save game option.

Inside Notion. A profile on Notion, a note-taking/productivity app and how it evolved to AI-native.
SQL murder mystery. This is a more interesting way to practice SQL than textbook or video tutorials. SQL isn’t going away anytime soon.
Deep dive on the humble spreadsheet. Accountants already know you can do everything from Excel, great history of the spreadsheet though.
MapTap is really fun. In the vein of Wordle but geography.

On evolving etiquette of AI use. I found this funny more than anything.
Mythos deep dive. I think the limited release of Mythos is mainly because of compute crunch at Anthropic. That doesn’t mean (a) it’s not coming and (b) it’s not significant.