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

Free, open-source, local voice dictation for Mac, Windows and Linux: hold Option, speak, release, and the text appears where the cursor is. Rust, MIT, by the team behind OpenCode.

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

Advanced Night Shift Control for macOS

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.

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.

(Youtube) Video Downloader

a great deal for Mac power users

A native Mac app I had my AI agent build to replace Pulltube. 1 hotkey downloads the video in my browser tab, 2x faster than Pulltube, with 8x less memory.

Alfred, the macOS launcher I use daily: what it does, how workflows work, and my own setup since 2020.

Free, open-source macOS automation scripted in Lua. The glue behind my keyboard-first Mac: dictation, copy and paste keys, audio, screens and window rules.

A tiling window manager for macOS. I used it for 2 years and retired it on 13th October 2026 for Tilee, my own tiler in Hammerspoon.

Mole's free GPL CLI (mo) cleans caches, uninstalls apps with their leftovers, analyses the disk and shows live system status. It replaced CleanMyMac for me on day 1.

Free, open-source, on-device voice-to-text for macOS, and now Windows in beta, with a choice of local models (Parakeet, Whisper, Apple Speech). A Wispr Flow alternative.

Cocoatech's power-user file manager for macOS since 2001. The Finder replacement I used for years, until I built my own, Filee, in October 2026.

TablePlus's new virtual machine app for Apple Silicon: macOS, Windows and Linux guests with GPU acceleration, snapshots, and a built-in MCP server so AI agents get their own machine. $69 once.

A free, open-source Mac app that records CPU, memory, GPU, disk, network and battery history, so you can go back to the moment a slowdown started and see which process caused it.

A free, open-source Markdown editor for Mac, written in native Swift: it opens in 0.1 seconds, idles at 50 MB of memory, and keeps every note a plain .md file.

keyboard controlled window management (retired Sep 2026, replaced by Amethyst)

for clean screenshots of web pages

A Rust rewrite of Logitech Options+ that runs locally. Remap buttons, DPI and SmartShift over HID++, with no account and no telemetry.

A macOS menu bar app that ranks your audio devices and always switches to the highest-priority one connected. Built by Shopify's CEO over two days.

Sysinternals ZoomIt ported to native macOS in Swift, MIT licensed, installed with Homebrew. Built in two days with agentic coding.

A single-purpose macOS app I built with Electron to present my reveal.js decks fullscreen on an external monitor, with its own embedded server. No browser, no tabs, no chrome.