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My last post covered day one of wiring up a multi-agent coding workflow with GitHub Projects and Orca — that day it merely ran. This is the five-days-later sequel: it has grown into a complete system. Numbers first: 122 commits, 111 merged PRs, 127 issues filed. The six work packages of V0.1 MVP for my side project (panta-log, a local-first voice journaling tool) are all shipped. No chronological diary here — this post breaks down the system’s full feature set, layer by layer. Every layer was forced into existence by a real, stepped-in pit, and the pits are included. ...

Notes on wiring GitHub Projects and Orca into a working AI coding pipeline, pitfalls included. macOS as the example. Background: I have a side project (panta-log, a local-first voice review tool) whose issue/PR conventions had been sitting in another repo, unused. This time the goal was concrete: a kanban board for tasks, Orca running the agents, and the whole chain of “pick a task → develop → test → merge → status transitions itself” working end to end within one day. ...

It has been more than two years since my previous post Mac Dev Software List. I dug it up, and some things on it are gone now, some got replaced by better options, and a few I still use exactly the same way. This post is not about “I heard this is good.” It is only about what is actually running on my machine right now. Along the way I update the outdated parts of the old list. ...