My wife convinced me to finally ship the app we’ve been using for years
My wife and I have been using a shopping list app I built for ourselves for a few years now. Not because I'm a genius product designer. Not because I …
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Fantasty Football feedback
I would like to say first off; I have never played Fantasy football or been on a Fantasy football website. When I designed this application, I did it …
How I Built an AI Document Ingestion Pipeline
Symport is an AI document ingestion pipeline that turns a phone photo of any paper document — receipt, EOB, prescription, utility bill — into structur…
Real-Time Anomaly Detection Engine for a Cloud Storage Platform
I built a Python daemon that watches incoming HTTP traffic in real time, learns what "normal" looks like, and automatically blocks attackers using Lin…
I wanted jq with memory, time ranges, and filters. So I built logdive
Your app is in production. Something broke at 2am. Your options are: grep through a rotated log file, squinting at terminal output. Chain together hal…
How we quantified SaaS Lock-In and LLM Costs
The "Contact Sales" button is a technical debt indicator. Every time a vendor hides their pricing behind a form, they are adding friction to your stac…
Introducing Citai: the RAG engine I built across 6 articles — now free to try
Over the last 6 articles I shared how I built every piece of a production RAG engine: hybrid search, cross-encoder reranking, SSE streaming, multi-ten…
The payments inversion — building a Lightning revenue-share loop where the app pays the user
In the last post I argued that Stripe — and the card network underneath it — can’t serve certain payment shapes, no matter how good the developer expe…
Our Attention Span Is Now Shorter Than a Goldfish's. So I Built a Chrome Extension
Every Site Blocker Uses a Static List. So I Built One That Doesn't. Every site blocker on the Chrome Web Store works the same way: you create a blockl…
I Built a macOS App to Detect Fake Lossless Audio
A WAV file is not always what it claims to be. If you download a track labeled .wav from a music store, you assume it's lossless — uncompressed PCM au…
How I'm running an autonomous Claude Code loop on a real shipped product
type.win is a Balatro-styled typing arcade I built — two games, a leaderboard, live on Cloudflare Workers. The interesting part isn't really the game,…
Show DEV: I refused to pay $40 for a clunky PC sensor panel, so I built my own with React & Electron.
If you’ve built a custom PC recently, you’ve probably looked into putting a 5-inch or 8.8-inch ultra-wide "sensor panel" inside your case. It looks in…
I built 14,000 lines of code before talking to a single user. Here's what I learned.
10 weeks ago I was convinced I was building something nobody else had. The idea: a GitHub App that reads every changed Python function in a PR, infers…
I built a small tool that generates a resume from a public URL.
Making resumes from scratch felt so boring. For making it easy i built EasyResume Maker . This is how it works: You paste: GitHub / portfolio / Public…
How I built a self‑healing package manager
How I Built a Self-Healing Package Manager from Scratch (Rust + AI) The first tool that automatically resolves dependency conflicts by generating adap…
Catching Hackers with Math: How I Built a Self-Healing Server
If you’ve never worked in cybersecurity before, the word "DevSecOps" sounds intimidating. It sounds like you need to be in a dark room wearing a hoodi…
I Built Windows Desktop Apps to Fix My Own Annoying Workflows
I didn’t plan to build an app catalog. I just wanted to fix one annoying problem: my C: drive kept filling up at the worst possible time (usually duri…
Stop merging vulnerable API code — automate PR security gates with Semgrep + Claude AI
Stop merging vulnerable API code — automate PR security gates with Semgrep + Claude AI Every team says "we'll fix it after the merge." They rarely do.…
Building a real SSH workspace for iPhone and iPad
SSH from a phone has always felt useful, but rarely comfortable. Most server work happens from a laptop. But sometimes you are away and still need to …
I Built a QR Code Scanner That Doesn't Phone Home — No Ads, No Account, No Internet Permission
QR codes are everywhere — restaurant menus, Wi-Fi labels, package tracking, payment kiosks, business cards. So is the temptation to install whatever Q…
Aximo - offline-first STT API
Finally got Aximo running publicly on Hugging Face Spaces — local CPU speech-to-text API with Swagger microphone recording, powered by Parakeet v3. De…
code-shot: the code-screenshot API that I wish existed
For seven years Carbon has been the canonical "make a code screenshot" tool. Same with Ray.so since 2020. Both are fantastic — and both are design sur…
I Built Three Platforms for Dental Professionals — Here's What the Data Taught Me
I'm a software engineer who noticed that discovery in dentistry is completely broken. Dental professionals at small practices never see product reps. …
skill-tree: finding the Claude behaviors you systematically avoid
After months of daily Claude Code use, I ran my session history through Anthropic's AI Fluency Index taxonomy and found I'd triggered 8 of the 11 obse…
I Built CrabPDF: a Privacy-First PDF Editor That Runs Locally in the Browser
PDF tools are everywhere, yes. This is what I believed. But every time I needed to edit quickly a PDF from another computer, I found always the same p…
Why iPhone Videos Silently Fail as Telegram Video Avatars
The Silent Failure Nobody Explains I was setting up a Telegram video avatar and uploaded a recent iPhone clip. No error, no feedback, just the upload …
🚀 Introducing Laravel Shortcodes – Bring WordPress-like Shortcodes to Laravel
I’ve built a Laravel package that introduces shortcode functionality, allowing developers to handle dynamic content in a more flexible and reusable wa…
archery-cli: Connect AI Tools to Your SQL Audit Platform
At my company, we use Archery for SQL audit and read-only queries against our databases. Archery has a nice web UI, but our AI tools (Claude Code, Cur…
I Built an AI Brand Name Generator — Here's What I Learned
I Built an AI Brand Name Generator in 48 Hours — And Got My First Paying Customer One months ago, I had an idea for a brand name. I spent three hours …
Election Educaiton and Assistant app
Building ElectAssist: Revolutionizing Democracy with AI-Driven Election Intelligence In an era of information overload and increasing election complex…