#developer-tools
16 posts
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Labelarium: I kept losing one sheet of paper, so I built an app
X My Brother P-touch has 649 symbols indexed on one paper sheet I kept losing. Labelarium is the offline, open-source companion app I built instead, now on Product Hunt and Peerlist.
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From Vocalinux to the Voca family: a Mac port, a phone app and three app stores X Porting Vocalinux to macOS, moving it all into one Voca org, and pushing VocaPhone through Google Play, the App Store and F-Droid in a single autumn.
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My desks, 2018 to 2026: Cherry MX Blues, an ultrawide and an Airbnb table X Eight years of desk tweets: a 4K Dell and MX Blues, a 34-inch ultrawide over a walking pad, a vertical monitor, a dog crate desk and a G502 with weights.
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Coding on the Go: My Full-Stack Dev Environment Lives in My Phone Now
Medium I used to think I needed a laptop. Then I dropped a phone into a lapdock, and now I ship code from hotel TVs.
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I filed my Indian taxes as an NRI with AI agents X My first time self-filing an ITR, done end to end with Grok 4.5 in the grok build CLI. I built a neo-brutalist dashboard and a 158-page audit packet, and still overpaid by ₹5,550.
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Building cross-distro offline voice dictation for Linux (and why it took more than a model)
DEV The story behind Vocalinux, from the missing Linux dictation gap to whisper.cpp, remote HTTP STT, Wayland text injection, and a tray app you can use every day.
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pmptr: a dead simple teleprompter, with no ads and nothing to pay for X I built pmptr for my wife: a transparent, always-on-top, click-through teleprompter for macOS, Linux and Windows. Open source, one npm install.
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Locked out of GitHub for three days over a compromised CLI token X In May 2026 GitHub suspended my account over a compromised gh CLI token. Their explanation pointed back to the stealer that hit my Mac in 2025.
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localcaption: video transcripts on your own machine, no API keys X A small CLI that glues yt-dlp, ffmpeg and whisper.cpp together. Paste a video URL and get a transcript as text, SRT, VTT and timed JSON, fully local.
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OpenCode Go + oh-my-openagent: The Complete Guide to SOTA Model Routing Without Hitting Limits! [Updated: September 2026] Medium A tiered guide to routing OpenCode Go models across oh-my-openagent agents, with fallback chains and budgeting to avoid hitting rate and monthly limits.
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How I Built a Privacy-First Offline Speech-to-Text Tool That I Use Every Single Day Medium Introducing Vocalinux, an open-source, 100% offline voice dictation tool for Linux using Whisper or VOSK, with its architecture, features and install guide.
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LLMFeeder: the browser extension I built to feed web pages to LLMs X A Wes Bos post, a quick prototype, a friend's Firefox PR, 100 GitHub stars in about two weeks, and the first people trying to sell me installs.
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Picking a note-taking app (again): Obsidian, git and a PARA second brain
Obsidian After years of notes lost to notebooks, job changes and apps that never stuck, I picked Obsidian over TiddlyWiki and built a PARA vault synced with git.
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Transform Notepad++ to A Powerful Multi Language IDE
BitSnapper Discover how you can use your favourite editor, Notepad++, as a powerful IDE to compile C, C++, Java, C# and Python code. A must know-how for Developers!
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iOS 101: Day 0 | Setting up the garage BitSnapper Welcome to your first tutorial for iOS 101! Learn how to setup development environment on your Mac before you start shipping out kickass iOS apps. Dive in!
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Android 101: Day 0 | Development Environment BitSnapper Learn how to setup Development Environment for Android App development and discover how you can start developing apps for Android OS in no time!
