Tauri v2 vs Electron After 6 Months of Real Development — My Honest Take
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. I've shipped multiple Mac apps with Tauri v2. I evaluated Electron seriously before choosing Tauri. Here's…
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Why I Built a Native Mac App Instead of a Web App — and What I'd Do Differently
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. When I decided to build a PDF tool, the obvious choice was a web app. I built a native Mac app instead. He…
Building PDF Stamp Placement Without a Framework — Click to Place, Drag to Move
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. Sign & Fill lets users click anywhere on a PDF page to place a stamp or signature image — then drag it…
Repairing a Broken PDF in Rust — Rebuilding the XREF Table From Scratch
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. Some PDFs won't open. Not because the content is gone — because the index that tells readers where to find…
Pixel Diff vs Structural Diff for PDFs — Two Very Different Problems
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. "Compare these two PDFs" sounds like one problem. It's actually two completely different problems dependin…
Implementing Bates Numbering in Rust — Stamping Every Page of a Legal Document
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. Bates numbering is a sequential stamp applied to every page of a legal document — "EXHIBIT-0001", "EXHIBIT…
Most PDF Redaction Is Broken. Here's What "Real" Redaction Actually Requires.
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. Drawing a black rectangle over text is not redaction. The text is still there. Select all, copy, paste int…
The Tauri Sandbox Permissions That Blocked Me for Two Days
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. My Swift CLI binary worked perfectly from the terminal. Inside Tauri, it silently failed. No error. No out…
I Built a Security Scanner That Audits PDFs Before You Send Them. Here's How. [Devlog #10]
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. You're about to email a contract. It looks clean. But it still has your name, your machine's hostname, the…
The Page Order Math Behind Saddle-Stitch Booklets Is Weirder Than You Think. So I Automated It. [Devlog #8]
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. Print pages 1, 2, 3, 4 in order, fold the paper — and the result is wrong. Booklet printing requires a com…
Adding AI Error Analysis to a macOS Menu Bar App with Gemini API
When a monitored script fails, most tools just show you a red icon. HiyokoBar does something better: it automatically sends the error output to Gemini…
I Built and Shipped a $39 macOS App in One Day (Here's How)
Yesterday I had an idea. Today it's on Gumroad making money. Here's exactly how I shipped HiyokoBar — a menu bar HUD for engineers — in a single day. …
Building a Windows yt-dlp GUI with Tauri, React, and Rust
I built HalalDL because I wanted a Windows-first desktop workflow for yt-dlp that did not hide what yt-dlp was doing. yt-dlp is already powerful. The …
32 Days, One Dev, One App to Replace Them All
Imagine walking into your garage, locking the door, and telling yourself: I am going to build a Formula 1 car. Alone. From scratch. No factory. No eng…
From Vue to Rust: Why a Frontend Developer Started Writing Systems Tools
Hook After spending several years working primarily with Vue and TypeScript, I started paying closer attention to the tools that power the developer e…