Building Vexil Search: A Privacy-First, Blazing Fast Desktop Search App
The Problem: Why I Built Vexil Search As an indie hacker, I realized I was spending way too much time looking for files spread across my hard drive,…
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Rust Git Client UI Rewrite: Switching from Tauri/React to Iced for Improved Performance and Linux Support
Introduction The journey to rewrite the UI of a Rust-based git client from Tauri+React to Iced began with a confluence of technical frustrations and…
Как зарабатывать на Open Source без смены лицензии: разбор Cap (22.8k звёзд) и схема с платными бинарниками
Большинство попыток заработать на открытом коде упираются в две крайности: сбор донатов, где за десятки тысяч звёзд на GitHub автор получает пару со…
Introducing Tagryn: an offline metadata workbench built with Tauri and Rust
Two copies of a photo can look identical while telling different stories in their metadata. A timestamp differs. An author appears in one metadata g…
5 Weird Bugs I Hit Capturing System Audio Cross-Platform (Rust + Tauri)
Full disclosure up front: I'm building SyntaxCue , a desktop app that listens to a live call and helps you think through the answer in real time. No…
Tauri Apps without Rust? Write Your Backend in Javascript
TL;DR I wrote Tauri-specific rust bindings for BareKit as a Tauri plugin so you can write your backend in javascript without touching rust at all (o…
I set out to build the app that would save the world. Embedding YouTube turned out to be the easy 10%.
I set out to build the app that would save the world. Reader, it does not save the world. What it actually does is sit in a small always-on-top wind…
Building a desktop client for an AI coding agent
Lessons from wrapping grok-build — the architecture, the traps, and why we picked Tauri over Electron. TL;DR grok-build is xAI's open-source Rust co…
Reverse-engineering an MMO Aion 2's network protocol to build a real-time DPS meter (Rust + Tauri)
Disclosure: this is a write-up about my own side project — a combat analytics tool for AION 2. No affiliation with the game's publisher. Links at th…
Open Science Desktop: A Local-First Experimental Tool for AI Research
The launch of Open Science Desktop marks a notable entry into the AI research tool space, positioning itself as a local-first, model-agnostic workbe…
Sprint 9 closed: Desktop MVP
Sprint 9 is closed . The goal was to ship the first desktop shell over Meronq's existing packages — a native window that connects a project, shows i…
Bundling a CLI Binary as a Tauri v2 Sidecar: Lessons from Building a Desktop App
When you build a desktop app with Tauri v2 , sooner or later you'll hit a question: how do I bundle and manage an external CLI binary inside my app?…
Why I Built my Own Suite of Android Tools for macOS in Rust
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air (Intel). Every tool in my suite has to earn its place on this machine—if it can't run lean here, it doesn…
lopdf vs pdfium in Rust — What I Learned Building a PDF App
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. All results from shipping 7 Mac apps as a solo developer. No sponsored opinion. I built Hiyoko PDF Vault…
The Dev Tools I Actually Use as a Solo Rust + Tauri Developer in 2026
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. All results from shipping 7 Mac apps as a solo developer. No sponsored opinion. Not a listicle of everyt…
I was wrong about Electron
When I started building Paseo, I picked Tauri. The reasoning felt obvious at the time. I was building a desktop app with a web UI, and I cared about…
Building a Universal Binary with Tauri v2 — It's Easier Than You Think
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. All results from shipping 7 Mac apps as a solo developer. No sponsored opinion. Intel Mac users still ex…
PDF Redaction in Rust — Why "Delete the Text" Isn't Enough
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. All results from shipping 7 Mac apps as a solo developer. No sponsored opinion. Real PDF redaction is ha…
Gemini API vs Local LLM for Developer Tools — When to Use Which
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. I've built tools with both Gemini API and local LLMs (via Ollama). They're solving different problems. H…