I was decoding a JWT at 11 PM and hit three ad-infested tool sites in a row. So I built Swiss Army Dev — 37 developer tools, zero tracking, sub-50ms globally on Cloudflare Workers.
Your IDE already knows your SDK, dependencies, terminals, and project structure. All that data is locked inside the process. I built two JetBrains plugins to fix that — and I think it's a pattern every local tool should follow.
Eighty lines of TypeScript and an MCP server turn Terminal Bridge into a full AI terminal integration. Here's the code, the patterns, and the hard lesson about terminal naming I learned at 2 AM.
I shipped Run Configuration Bridge, then ripped out 430 lines of terminal polling code and replaced them with three API calls. Exit codes beat regex. Here's what happened when I ate my own dogfood.
Terminal Bridge started as survival code at 2 AM. Now it's a freemium IntelliJ plugin on the JetBrains Marketplace — built on new APIs, solving a real problem. Here's how it got there.
Terminal Bridge exposes your IntelliJ terminal tabs through a local REST API. I built it because AI coding assistants are blind to your terminal layout — and that needed to change.