Dev tools, Erik Smith

Tools I build for myself. Scratching itches, shipping things.

NitrousToken

Real-time token quota gauges for every AI tool you run. When you're running 5 to 10 AI services daily, quota limits are invisible until you slam into them mid-task. I needed one place in the menu bar instead of 10 browser tabs.

10 service integrations, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, Gemini, Mistral, xAI, Perplexity, Meta, Cohere, and Copilot
6 themes from Asphalt to Burnout, each verified at WCAG 2.1 AA contrast ratios
Burn rate forecasting shows days remaining and projected exhaust date per service
Cursor auth is zero-config, reads local SQLite without an API key

Ignus

A menu-bar control plane for local AI image & 3D generation. Ignus started as a one-button launcher for local AI backends. It's now a full generation control plane, with the heavy image→3D work pushed to a second CUDA machine.

The Forge (menu-bar): Pick a preset, write positive and negative prompts, run the Style Wizard, set size / steps / cfg, and fire it at ComfyUI.
The Toolbox (network cockpit): Sees every machine on the LAN, which backend is up, what models and LoRAs are installed, and links the Mac to the PC Forge.
The Worker (PC dashboard): The CUDA machine's lean surface: GPU / VRAM at a glance, backend status, the current image→3D job, and recent GLB / STL outputs.

Kallisti

A menu-bar job radar that scores every role against where you're actually headed. I was job hunting while working full-time, and good roles kept going stale before I got to them. Kallisti watches in the background and scores each new role against my actual profile.

AI briefing built in. One click opens a role briefing session with the full job context already loaded
Drift scoring surfaces roles that match your trajectory, not just your keywords
Menu bar only, no dock icon. Present when you need it, gone when you don't
File-watcher architecture so the radar runs in background and the UI updates live when new roles land

Erik Smith, Design Engineer & UX Designer