Mening: The App That Remembers Which Mistakes You Repeat

Mening: The App That Remembers Which Mistakes You Repeat The Problem There is a specific wall in language learning that no app addresses well. You reach the point where you understand almost everything you read and hear, you can hold a conversation, and your writing is comprehensible — and then you stop moving. B to C. The remaining gap isn’t vocabulary and it isn’t grammar you’ve never met. It’s a small set of errors you make over and over, for years, because nothing in your day ever names them. ...

July 25, 2026 · 9 min · Aleksandr Likhachev
Signal path: a generator on sonnet, an independent verifier on opus, an ok:false side channel, and a human pressing publish

Two-stage generation, and who is waiting for the answer

what decides which transport an LLM call gets is who is waiting for the answer. Everything else in this post follows from that one line. The system is small and unglamorous: an ops utility in the mening repo, cmd/socialthread, that drafts one social post a day for a language-learning app. It runs on my machine, it talks to nobody’s users, and a human presses publish. That combination is what makes it a clean place to think about transports and about verification, because both questions show up in a form small enough to hold in your head. ...

July 25, 2026 · 9 min · Aleksandr Likhachev

Vigil: A Menubar App for Claude Code Sessions

Vigil: A Menubar App for Claude Code Sessions The Problem With Many Sessions Once you start running Claude Code seriously, you end up with multiple sessions. One fixing a bug in the API, one refactoring the frontend, one writing tests. Each in a different terminal window or editor tab. The question is always the same: which one needs my attention right now? You alt-tab between windows trying to remember where Claude was waiting. You switch to a terminal only to find it’s been idle for ten minutes. You miss the session that needed a permission confirmation. ...

March 18, 2026 · 3 min · Aleksandr Likhachev