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2026 4 entries
- Xu: Typing 'Lunch 80k' Is the Whole Interface My personal finance tracker's newest feature is deleting most of its own UI — an LLM chat tab that turns 'lunch 80k' into a drafted transaction waiting for one confirming tap.
- What It Actually Takes to Ship a Virtual Microphone on Windows A friend asked for a real-time voice changer for livestreamers. The voice-changing part is easy. The 'appearing as a microphone' part is where Windows makes you pay.
- Chia: I Built My Household a Splitwise That Lives in Telegram A Vietnamese bill-splitting app on Cloudflare Workers — live-editing Telegram notifications, Monday-morning debt reports via cron, and an inbox for machine-suggested expenses.
- Retiring the Baby Tracker: A Post-Mortem of a One-Day App I built a feeding tracker in a single day. It worked perfectly and died within weeks — killed by the one dependency I couldn't provision: spare attention at 3 AM.