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Seriously, what are you supposed to believe when a company has this range of reviews? Admittedly the sample size on Yelp is miniscule... but boy, are those reviews damning 😅

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I've just open sourced AudioTee: a macOS CLI tool which lets you capture system audio output (i.e. the sound coming out of your speakers) from any / all running processes: github.com/makeusabrew/... Notes here: stronglytyped.uk/audiotee Sharing, feedback, contributions all very much appreciated 🙌

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Semi-serious founder tip: stop using your products for a few weeks, then revisit them. All the quirks you knew like the back of your hand will suddenly seem less familiar, and you'll get a perspective closer to that of new users. Immediately fix the stuff which confuses you now which didn't then.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I tried AssemblyAI's realtime speech-to-text (STT) API a bit ago - was very impressed. Then I tried Speechmatics' version - was blown away (accuracy + latency were both amazing). Now AssemblyAI are back with 'Universal Streaming'. Weird name, but looks amazing: www.assemblyai.com/blog/introdu...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

DeskVault 0.2.0 for macOS is out now! 🥳 Don't let the minor point release fool you - a TON of effort went into this one. It's closer to v1.x than v0.1.x. Abbreviated release notes here: github.com/makeusabrew/... Buy it here: deskvault.app - now only $29 during pre-release for a lifetime license.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

🟥🟧🟪 New 🟩🟦🟨 on 🟫⬜️⬛️ gitbox The 2025 edition is here! Check mine at gitbox.app/makeusabrew for an example. Existing users still have their 2024 page preserved in all its glory, e.g. gitbox.app/makeusabrew/2024. Almost half way through the year already - keep on coding! 👊

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

The next release of DeskVault is so close. Just a few snags (big ones - numbers not adding up correctly in some cases) and then it is ready. You can grab a license pre-emptively at deskvault.app - you'll get v0.1.9, and v0.2.0 is just around the corner.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

TIL about React's createPortal: react.dev/reference/re... Lets you render children into a different part of the DOM. In my case, a modal which needed rendering before </body> instead of within the `position: fixed` container it inhabited. Definitely other ways to achieve the same goal. But cool.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Dangerously close to dusting off gitbox.app for a 2025 edition. It received very mixed feedback last time around - mostly positive except a post on Reddit where the internet destroyed me

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Cursor 1.0 is out! www.cursor.com/changelog/1-0 - BugBot - Background agents in beta (very excited to try this) - Memories (not so excited about this) - Usage dashboard

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Posting about it made me go back and use bsky inbox for the first time in a while. I've got to say (and I know I bigged myself up recently about another thing I made - I'm a maniac), I think visually it's the best thing I've ever done, and some of the interactions are absolute :chefs-kiss:

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

When I built www.blueskyinbox.com I actively tweet - er, skeeted - about it quite a lot, both during and after launch. Amazingly, I got a trickle of sales. Then I stopped (a) being active on bsky (because life) and consequently (b) stopped posting about it, and would you believe it? $0 sales since.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

The most important revenue figure nobody's talking about: $/commit. ... I dread to think what mine is. Can it go negative? I think mine's negative.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

I think I'm becoming a bad influence on Claude; it's coding more and more like me every day

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

I'd like DeskVault (built ~September '24) to learn a lot from Bluesky Inbox (blueskyinbox.com - built ~February '25). I think the latter is by far the best looking thing I've made. I had a lot of help from v0.dev, but I am slowly but surely improving my once non-existent design eye.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I haven't worked on DeskVault in ages. Way too long. I'm dusting it off this afternoon briefly to go after this rather nuts gross revenue viz I made under the influence of far too much coffee and exuberance. Left: current. Right: WIP changes. #buildinpublic

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

My fellow indies: * Have you ever bought a 'premium' domain? * How much did you spend? (doesn't have to be exact) * Was it worth it? #buildinpublic

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

react.email + resend.com + Claude 4 Sonnet = cheat code So, so good 👌

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Super cool: Claude Squad lets you run multiple Claude code instances (or other local agents) on separate workspaces. This lets you work on multiple tasks on the same codebase simultaneously: github.com/smtg-ai/clau...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Electron + Vercel SDK + Cursor + 30 mins of vibing = 🎆

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Boooooo

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not sure how much if ever I've tooted my own horn about DeskVault (deskvault.app) on bsky, but I must say - I installed it on my new mac today and despite some rough edges (it's still alpha), it really is awesome and I am super proud of it. If you process payments with Stripe - check it out.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Where has this (free, open source) mac utility been all my life (or at least the last 10/15 years of it)? alt-tab-macos.netlify.app ALT+TAB for macOS. Kicks the pants off cmd+tab by fixing its biggest flaw: only showing applications, not windows. So good.

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

One of the nicest D&B liquid mixes I've heard in a long time www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JyZ... (It's 4 years old, so you might have already heard it too...)

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Very cool: inngest now lets you filter function invocations based on payload values. Your handlers should include sensible tracing info in logs already, but easy access to inngest's perspective is incredibly useful

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

WHOOP’s recent launch of their 5.0 wearable hasn’t been without the odd controversy, but I’m really excited to get this on, see some new metrics, and see if the sensor accuracy has improved (particularly on the wrist while cycling). Not to mention what it means for API consumers like fitIQ 👀

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments