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Published on Aug 18th, 2025 The Setup: When Everything Seems Perfect After successfully implementing a chatbot based on ChatGPT in my portfolio (as detailed in my previous "Redesign Portfolio" post), I was feeling pretty good about myself. The AI integration was working smoothly, users could ask questions about my skills and projects, and I had successfully created content embeddings that made the chatbot intelligent and contextually aware. Little did I know that this "compl...

Published on Aug 21st, 2025 🚀 Made some progress Welcome back to my "Demolishing My Stack of Unfinished Projects" series! This week, I'm excited to share the story of how I transformed a simple chat idea into a fully-featured, production-ready real-time messaging application called CodeniChat (formerly Secret Chat Bolt). 🎯 The Project That Started It All Secret Chat began as one of those "wouldn't it be cool if..." moments. I had this idea for a secure, re...

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Hey HN! I wanted to share this OSS project I've been working on. It's called Yap and its a small menu-bar app for macOS that does voice to text for any input. You'll set a hotkey, press it, talk, press it again, and the text gets pasted into whatever field you were in. Everything runs locally and never leaves your computer. Fully OSS and MIT licensed. With macOS 26, Apple recently added two new APIs, SpeechAnalyzer and SpeechTranscriber, that do streaming on-device speech to text using models th...

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