https://sentinel-blog.cherrypod.org/tags/tools/Recent content in Tools on Sentinelhttps://sentinel-blog.cherrypod.org/images/social-preview.pnghttps://sentinel-blog.cherrypod.org/images/social-preview.pngHugo -- 0.147.0en-gbSat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sentinel-blog.cherrypod.org/posts/52-the-refactor/Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sentinel-blog.cherrypod.org/posts/52-the-refactor/The codebase had grown fast. Features landed, bugs got fixed, new capabilities kept shipping. Then a structural audit revealed what that pace had cost: god files, god functions, and a growing maintenance burden.https://sentinel-blog.cherrypod.org/posts/50-attachment-pipeline/Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sentinel-blog.cherrypod.org/posts/50-attachment-pipeline/Sentinel could generate code, build websites, write files. But every piece of content was synthetic — generated from scratch by an LLM. What if it could use real photos, real videos, real documents?https://sentinel-blog.cherrypod.org/posts/49-weather-crypto-tools/Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sentinel-blog.cherrypod.org/posts/49-weather-crypto-tools/Sentinel could browse the web. It could read files and write code. But it couldn’t answer ‘what’s the weather?’ without fabricating something. Time to give it real data backends.https://sentinel-blog.cherrypod.org/posts/48-anchor-allocator/Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sentinel-blog.cherrypod.org/posts/48-anchor-allocator/file_patch needs the planner to find a unique anchor string in existing code. The planner is bad at this. What if the system placed named markers instead?https://sentinel-blog.cherrypod.org/posts/47-cross-language-fixer/Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sentinel-blog.cherrypod.org/posts/47-cross-language-fixer/LLMs don’t always respect file boundaries. Raw CSS lands in HTML files, JavaScript appears without script tags. Building a detector to catch it.https://sentinel-blog.cherrypod.org/posts/42-building-websites/Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sentinel-blog.cherrypod.org/posts/42-building-websites/New planner, new classifier, new patching tool. Putting it all together to iteratively build and modify websites through conversation.https://sentinel-blog.cherrypod.org/posts/41-file-patch/Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sentinel-blog.cherrypod.org/posts/41-file-patch/Full-file regeneration breaks at scale. The new tool generates only the changed fragments and splices them deterministically.