Yesterday I started building a new feature for #SidePrompter
In the next version, it’ll know when your meeting starts (so you don’t have to 👀)
- Windows: 🟩🟩🟩⬜️ – works (*)
- Mac: 🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ – the struggle is real

(*) UX is ... "minimalist" 😂

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Side Prompter installer ✅
My sanity ❌
3 weeks for this…

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You know the developer joke, "My code is compiling"?
My new version is, "My app is notarizing."
I have been on this "break" for 18+ hours. Apple said it would take 15 minutes. 😂
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Wow, the GitHub app with Copilot really changed coding on my phone. I can finally save a new idea as a PR when I'm on the bus. It's not perfect for big work, but for saving small ideas, it's amazing. 👍

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🧵4/4
The wild part? The app is basically done.

Side Prompter v0.1 is so close, yet so far. Coming soon, assuming I ever escape this configuration vortex!

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🧵1/4
Me, 5 days ago: "I'll just whip up a quick universal macOS installer. How hard can it be?"

...famous last words. 🧵

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Me at 8:05 PM, AI vibe coding: "It's just a PoC..." 🤖🚀

My #GitHub email at 8:11 PM: "Secrets detected 🔑💀"

PSA: Env['API_KEY'] (or similar) is your friend. Don't be me. 🤦‍♂️

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1/6
I almost gave up on my Tauri PoC for #SidePrompter this week. 😫
The reason? A 3-day battle trying to record system audio on macOS. Here’s the story of my descent into madness and the simple pattern that saved me. 👇
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You know you’re deep in the flow when Gemini taps out first:
⚡ “Quota limit reached”
⚡ “Switching to Flash”
⚡ “Please submit a new query”
…and for the first time in my life, I’m writing Swift code 🧑‍💻🍏

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The 5 stages of building a "simple" desktop app
1. This's easy
2. Wait, why does this look broken on Mac?
3. Oh, I need to write OS-specific code
4. [hours of fighting platform APIs later]
5. The PoC is now just proving this is hard
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Spent the entire weekend researching and creating PoC. Then I posted one photo of my wife from a concert. I think my engagement stats have a favorite, and it's not my "masterpiece"😅

The algorithm is a strange and mysterious beast

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1/5
I thought choosing the tech stack would be the hardest part of my new project. I was wrong.
This week I built the first Proof of Concept for #SidePrompter, and the results were... not what I expected. Here's the story. 🧵
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"Now you see me, now you don't"🪄
The core of my #SidePrompter project is a "stealth mode" 🤫 to keep the AI assistant hidden during screen shares
This PoC with Tauri shows it working perfectly ✅
Follow the journey: https://sideprompter.substack.com/
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Is Tauri the right call? The next step is to build a PoC to validate the riskiest features.
Read the full story, see the prompt I used, and check out the ADR in my latest post.
🔗 sideprompter.substack.com/p/tales-from-side-prompt...
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This whole process was an experiment in using AI for critical development decisions. It's one thing to generate an image, but another to trust it with your entire architecture.

It's all part of the journey to build #SidePrompter in public

How do you choose your tech stack? Gut feeling or a formal, data-driven process?
For my project, Side Prompter, I decided to use AI as my architect. I fed my requirements to ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, and the result was unexpected.
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🧵👇 1/6

Ready to follow along?
I just published the first chapter of the journey, "A Spark Ignites, A Project Awakens."
🔗 sideprompter.substack.com/p/tales-from-side-prompt...
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