Mastodawn

Every week — another Cursor vs Claude Code vs Copilot comparison. Doesn't matter which you pick. The thing that decides whether your team succeeds with AI isn't visible in any tool comparison.

Full breakdown: https://retran.me/articles/which-ai-tool-wins-wrong-question/

Which AI Tool Wins? Wrong Question. — retran.me

Every week the internet produces another Cursor vs Claude Code vs Copilot comparison. It doesn't matter which one you pick. The thing that decides whether your engineering org succeeds with AI isn't visible in any tool comparison.

Andrew Vasilyev May 18

Updated my guide on screening tech employers in the Netherlands (v2.0, May 2026).

Available in English and Russian:
🔗 EN: https://retran.me/articles/recruiter-guide-en/
🔗 RU: https://retran.me/articles/recruiter-guide-ru/

Questions for the Recruiter (Netherlands Edition) — retran.me

A checklist for expats and professionals seeking employment in the Netherlands. Helps distinguish employers who actually follow European standards from those who merely claim to.

Andrew Vasilyev May 11

A colleague wrote about using Meowary — my OSS tool for knowledge-driven dev. Ingest OneNote, Confluence, codebases → generate ADRs, system designs, plans. Cool to see independent adoption.

https://medium.com/@mr.sean.ryan/your-2nd-brain-via-meowary-oss-use-ai-to-consume-one-note-confluence-adrs-source-code-f94758e66e79

#opensource #ai #devtools #meowary #adr #knowledgegraph

Andrew Vasilyev Apr 22

Leave typed code review annotations inside Neovim. Export them as structured Markdown — file, line, symbol context, snippet, comment — and feed the whole thing to your AI agent.

https://github.com/retran/meow.review.nvim

#Neovim #Vim #Lua #OpenSource #DeveloperTools #AITools #CodeReview #Plugin

Andrew Vasilyev Apr 12

meow.yarn.nvim v0.1.2 is out 🧶

New: navigation breadcrumbs in the tree window title + a custom node renderer API.

https://github.com/retran/meow.yarn.nvim

GitHub - retran/meow.yarn.nvim: A purr-fectly simple way to visualize LSP hierarchies in Neovim.

A purr-fectly simple way to visualize LSP hierarchies in Neovim. - retran/meow.yarn.nvim

GitHub

Andrew Vasilyev Oct 17, 2025

Announcing meow ask for my CLI meowg1k — talk to your codebase from the terminal.

Privacy-first: supports local models, so your code never leaves your machine.

Release 0.1.0 is on the way.

#DevTools #CLI #RAG #AI #DevEx #OpenSource

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Andrew Vasilyev Oct 4, 2025

If you're interested in the philosophy and the "why" behind this project, I've written down the core principles that guide its development:

https://github.com/retran/meowg1k/blob/dev/docs/06-PRINCIPLES.md

meowg1k/docs/06-PRINCIPLES.md at dev · retran/meowg1k

Your purr-sonal AI sidekick for coding, writing, and automating anything — right from your terminal. - retran/meowg1k

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Andrew Vasilyev Oct 4, 2025

Update on my open-source project, meowg1k! 🚀

It's an AI assistant for your terminal, built automation & scripting, not for chat.

The documentation is now live, along with a new demo GIF showing it in action.

https://github.com/retran/meowg1k

#DeveloperTools #DevEx #AI #CLI #OpenSource

Andrew Vasilyev Sep 16, 2025

I've been building my perfect development setup and made a small plugin to scratch an itch! meow.yarn.nvim helps you visualize LSP type & call hierarchies in a simple, interactive tree.

Hope you find it useful.

https://github.com/retran/meow.yarn.nvim

#vim #opensource #DeveloperTools

Andrew Vasilyev Apr 29, 2025

Well, all the paperwork is signed. So...

#uber