A native macOS world clock I built with Claude Code: a small card in the screen corner with my time, my next meeting in the client's time, and a click away from 4 time zones. 14 MB of memory.

A CSV editor for the Mac that I used from 2023. Tablee, my own SQLite and CSV viewer, replaced it in October 2026.

A native image viewer with presets built in. It replaced Preview for images and ImageOptim: it opens a photo up to 4x faster than Preview and shrinks 100 images in 1 s instead of 98 s.

A native menu bar app and CLI I built with Claude Code for my Elgato Key Lights, my Hue lights and Night Shift. Presets in 1 file, a light change in about 55 ms. It replaces Elgato Control Center and Shifty.

Advanced Night Shift Control for macOS

A native macOS text expander that replaced Espanso: Markdown snippet files, a search panel, 30 MB of memory instead of 350 MB. Built and switched over in 1 day.

A native macOS viewer and light editor for SQLite and CSV that replaced TablePlus and Easy CSV Editor: a 624,000-row table on screen in 352 ms, in a 2.6 MB app.

The native database client I've used every day since 2020 for my SQLite databases: fast, clean, safe edits with code review, and it speaks 15 database engines.

YC-backed people search and enrichment built for agents: 2 billion profiles, natural-language search, contact details and person research through API, CLI and MCP. What it does, what it costs, and the GDPR question.

Open-source macOS app that sits in place of the default browser and sends each link to the browser you choose, with rules in JavaScript. How I use it to keep work links in Edge.

NVIDIA's open-weight speech LLM: transcription in 40 languages, speakers, word timestamps, context terms and translation in 1 model. Compared with Whisper large-v3 on my Mac Studio M1 Ultra.

My own menu bar app, replacing Bartender. 1 button or ⌃⌥⌘M lists every menu bar icon with its image, name and state, opens any icon's menu, and keeps all the other icons out of sight.

Every app I built for myself with Claude Code, what each one does, the app it replaced, and a link to its full note.

A native, keyboard-first week calendar I built with Claude Code to replace Fantastical. It reads the calendars macOS already syncs, so it has no sync code and no database.

A native clipboard history that replaced Alfred's: 1 hotkey, type a few letters, Return copies the entry back. It opens in 20 ms, filters 11,000 entries in under 5 ms and runs actions on any entry.

A private iPhone app I built with Claude Code for my family, around our shared calendar. It isn't on the App Store and stays private.

A native agent I built with Claude Code to replace Default Folder X: a default folder per app, a strip of folders next to every Open and Save dialog, and a ⌘J palette.

A command-line duplicate finder with a native review window, built with Claude Code to replace Gemini 2. It links backup copies instead of deleting them, and scans 328,000 files in 21 seconds.

A native Mac app I built with Claude Code to replace AnyTrans for iOS: it opens when I plug in an iPhone or iPad, copies photos and app files both ways, and deletes nothing it hasn't verified.

A native launcher I built with Claude Code to replace Alfred 5 after it froze. ⌘Space, a few letters, ↩: apps, commands, URLs, folders and file filters.

A native PDF app I built with Claude Code to replace PDF Squeezer and Nitro PDF Pro: view, compress, fill, sign, redact and rearrange, 1 key per tool.

How to keep Ambilight, let Apple TV do everything else, and stop a Philips Google TV from tracking what you watch: offline, LAN-only, or debloated with CleanYourTV.

(Youtube) Video Downloader

A local tool I built with Claude Code that finds the payments on my company's bank account that miss a receipt, matches each one with invoice files I already have, and uploads them only after I approve every match.

Press 1 button on the scanner and the page ends up OCR'd, named, filed and searchable. OCR and the AI run locally on my Mac, so nothing leaves the house.