Dawn or Eclipse — a code-breaking ode to Turing you can't outsource to the machine
As I sat in my RV, sipping coffee and staring at lines of code, I couldn't help but think of Alan Turing. The father of computer science, Turing's wor…
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Is Your 24/7 Automation Actually Alive? Checking It With a Single Command
In my previous autopilot article , I walked through a setup that runs Claude unattended via launchd. This time I want to talk about what happens behin…
Planting a Future Breaking Change Today: A launchd Timer Job That Deletes Itself When Done
This is a follow-up to my earlier post, " Automating a config migration with a one-shot launchd job ." Some breaking changes come with a known expirat…
Snapshot your terminal state, restore it after a crash — Claude Code sessions included
The problem Last time I built claude-sessions : one picker to resume any Claude Code session across projects. But a machine crash takes more than Clau…
I ran 29 real docker-compose projects on Apple's container runtime. Here's what broke
Docker Desktop keeps a ~7.8 GB Linux VM provisioned the entire time it's running — even when zero containers are up. Apple's new container runtime idl…
Stop Rebuilding the Same SwiftUI Components: A Guide to DesignFoundation
"I'll just write a quick button style... and a text field with validation... and a card component..." Two weeks later you have a bespoke design system…
I gave my agent a skill so it stops asking where my files are
Claude Code skills are easy to write. The hard part nobody documents: how does the skill know where your app's files live on someone else's machine? I…
Stop Rebuilding Auth, Onboarding, and Dashboards: DesignFoundationPro
Part 2 of 2. This tutorial builds on Part 1 — DesignFoundation core . If you haven't added the base package and theme yet, start there. The core packa…
I built sshpic because local screenshots stop at the SSH boundary
I often run coding agents inside a remote SSH session from iTerm2 on my Mac. The annoying part was not text input. It was screenshots. The screenshot …
Building on-device Video Notes in a macOS app
Building on-device Video Notes: SpeechAnalyzer, Foundation Models, and libmpv in a shipping macOS app My macOS video player, Reel , has a feature call…
Shipping a libmpv-based video player on the Mac App Store
Shipping a libmpv-based video player on the Mac App Store Most well-known mpv-based Mac players, including IINA, distribute outside the Mac App Store.…
Apple shipped an official Safari MCP. I read all 17 tools — here's why I'm keeping mine.
Yesterday Apple did something I've been half-expecting since I open-sourced safari-mcp : they shipped their own Safari MCP server. It landed in Safari…
Share a shell over your LAN in one command — no SSH setup
I kept hitting the same wall: I'm on my laptop, I need a shell on my desktop across the room for one quick thing, and standing between me and that she…
How to add license keys to a SwiftUI macOS app (in under an hour)
You built a Mac app, you want to sell it outside the App Store, and now you need licensing: a key the customer enters, an activation that sticks, and …
I compared the licensing tools for my indie Mac app — the honest breakdown
I needed to license a macOS app I sell outside the App Store. I went down the rabbit hole so you don't have to. Here's the honest breakdown — what eac…
How offline license activation actually works
If you ship a desktop app outside an app store, you eventually hit the same wall: how do you check a license when the user is on a plane, behind a cor…
Share .ssh/config with your devcontainer
How to share your ~/.ssh/config with devcontainers The purpose is to enable using git with your provider directly from the devcontainer. The problem i…
Building an Apple Mail Channel Plugin for OpenClaw
Building an Apple Mail Channel Plugin for OpenClaw I recently built and published a plugin that integrates Apple Mail with OpenClaw (an AI automation …
Running a local coding agent on a Mac Mini — the actual setup
Running a local coding agent on a Mac Mini Running a local coding agent on a Mac Mini — the actual setup By Vilius Vystartas I have an agent that does…
I built a macOS security tool that locks your secrets when you walk away
CHIMERA is an open-source macOS security "organism" — one local process orchestrating 8 native organs (C / C++ / ARM64 asm) that react to threats toge…
I built a macOS security tool that locks your secrets when you walk away
CHIMERA is an open-source macOS security "organism" — one local process orchestrating 8 native organs (C / C++ / ARM64 asm) that react to threats toge…
How to Fetch Apple Calendar Events and Reminders in Flutter (macOS)
Building a macOS app with Flutter and need access to Apple Calendar events and Reminders? Flutter cannot directly access EventKit (Apple's framework f…
macOS Still Has No Volume Mixer, So I Built One
macOS has never had a proper per-app volume mixer. On Windows, this is basic. You can lower Spotify, mute a browser, keep a meeting app loud, and leav…
I built a macOS notch workspace for local AI coding agents
I have been running more local AI coding agents lately: Codex, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor Agent, and a few terminal-heavy workflows. The useful p…
AppQuickSwitch: Keyboard-Driven App Launcher for macOS and Linux
I've built AppQuickSwitch, a utility for macOS and Linux that lets you launch or switch to applications using your keyboard. On Linux, it can also run…
I built a terminal SSH manager because I was tired of scrolling bash history
I manage a handful of servers across client environments. Some use key auth, some use passwords, and most of the time I need root access once I'm in. …
I Built a Feature That Automatically Switches Android from USB to Wi-Fi — Here's How It Works
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. All results from shipping 7 Mac apps as a solo developer. No sponsored opinion. You plug in your Android d…
Building a Native macOS Menu Bar Widget with SwiftUI and Glassmorphism
I recently open-sourced SysMonitor, a native macOS menu bar app for tracking system resources like CPU, RAM, Disk I/O, and Network speeds. I built it …
I built a self-hosted AI workspace for macOS — meet Odysee
I've been running Odysseus as my daily-driver AI interface — local LLMs, document RAG, email triage, calendar sync. It's a web-based FastAPI app that …
I had a focus guard. macOS Tahoe walked through it three times.
You're typing a message in Slack. An AI agent is doing something in the background — reading a page, taking a screenshot, navigating a tab. Mid-senten…