One thing AI has genuinely made better for developers: tiny side projects actually get finished now.

I'm talking about all those little tools, MVPs, and random ideas that used to go straight into the "maybe someday" pile. You want to build them, sure, but spending three evenings on yet another tiny utility is a pretty hard sell.

Last week, for example, I vibe-coded an Obsidian plugin for keeping note properties tidy. The idea is simple: for each folder, you can define which properties notes are supposed to have and what order they should appear in. The plugin adds missing ones, removes unwanted ones, and puts everything back where it belongs — instead of preserving whatever mess I hastily threw together months ago and never bothered to fix.

There's a more detailed explanation in the GitHub repo if you're curious.

It's a tiny thing, obviously. Mostly just me feeding my inner perfectionist. But I do like things neat, and apparently I'm not alone: seventy people downloaded the plugin in its first three days.

Greetings, fellow people who derive unreasonable satisfaction from tidy metadata :)