Dependency Reviews

Working notes on every tool and library in use across the workspace. Updated whenever a dependency is discussed or used in a novel way.

Job applications

• job-ops — in progress — self-hosted job tracker with LLM scoring and resume tailoring; import pipeline works, RxResume integration incomplete (v4/v5 mode mismatch)

Orchestration & durable execution

• Hatchet — not adopted — correct durability model, wrong shape for single-machine workloads (needs Postgres + server)
• Icepick — not adopted — elegant agent/tool API on top of Hatchet, but 9 months stale and inherits full Hatchet infrastructure requirement

LLM infrastructure

• axe — recommended — local LLM agent runner; TOML agents, Ollama backend, sub-agent composition
• Ollama — recommended — local inference server; qwen3.5:27b for all agents; sequential-only on single GPU
• Claude — recommended — cloud LLM for agent work; strong at code; weak at fixing the class not the instance
• Agents — patterns for multi-agent orchestration

Podcast pipeline

• Docker — recommended — bespoke container per project; multi-stage build
• KittenTTS + espeak-ng + phonemizer — adequate — local TTS; functional but fragile path plumbing
• Cloudflare Pages + R2 — recommended — static hosting + object storage; zero-ops once configured
• Raindrop.io — recommended — bookmarking as podcast source queue; tag-before-publish is a bug waiting to happen

Runtime & tooling

• Bun — recommended — TypeScript runtime + package manager; replaces Node/npm/tsc/jest
• Zod — recommended — LLM output validation; schema must be kept in sync with agent TOML constraints manually
• OpenTelemetry — recommended — tracing; only reliable record of what happened in pipeline failures
• NanoClaw — agent platform running this workspace

Content extraction

• Defuddle — recommended — article extractor + Markdown output, Node/Bun compatible
• html-to-markdown — HTML→Markdown converter (Go); needs a separate extractor upstream
• Pydoll — headless Chromium automation (Python); for JS-gated paywalls only

Site generation

• mdsite — static site generator used for reviews site

After-action reports

• Podcast pipeline — 2026-04-04/05 — 6 incidents across 3 container launches