lead story · no. 19
by the desk · june 3, 2026·Dev Story
I built a React icon pack with 3,201 typed, tree-shakeable SVGs so your product team can stop screenshotting icons from random dribbble shots at 2 AM. You're welcome.
may 21, 2026
A perfectly reasonable two-sided marketplace for a country that mostly still discovers CNC shops via WhatsApp forwards. Now with Razorpay, RLS, and twelve migrations of regret.
nextjs · supabase
cont. →may 16, 2026
A totally sane deep-dive into why I spent real engineering hours making an AI assistant sound like it has fingers.
claude-code · rust
cont. →may 3, 2026
Google Drive is a folder. Netflix is a subscription. I turned one into the other using Svelte 5, GSAP, a handful of public APIs, and an alarming amount of typography opinions. No accounts, no tracking, no buffering excuses.
SvelteKit · Svelte 5
cont. →april 29, 2026
Every URL you share is a surveillance receipt. So I built a link shortener that strips the tracking junk, detects the platform, and — because 2026 — ships an MCP server for AI agents. You're welcome.
Next.js · Appwrite
cont. →april 17, 2026
Found an open-source media downloader, sicced Google Jules on it from a moving train, shipped 9 PRs, patched a security hole, and deployed it to my phone. All before my stop.
google-jules · open-source
cont. →march 23, 2026
A full-stack Flutter + Fastify odyssey to reclaim unlimited original quality storage from dead Pixel phones. Spoiler: OAuth tokens are involved.
Flutter · Fastify
cont. →march 4, 2026
Normal people pay $20/month for Vercel. I built the entire thing on a Snapdragon 660 with 4 GB of RAM running in a terminal emulator. This is normal behavior.
Android · Node.js
cont. →march 1, 2026
npkill was too slow. So I built a parallel directory destroyer in Rust with a Bun TUI because apparently I hate free time.
Rust · Bun
cont. →february 28, 2026
Because apparently 'clean up system files' in Windows actually means 'leave half a gigabyte of telemetry data just in case'.
CLI · Windows
cont. →february 27, 2026
A completely normal story about building a mouse-gesture Chrome extension because the back button was, apparently, too far away.
Chrome Extension · TypeScript
cont. →february 26, 2026
Learn how AI Feedbacks leverages Google Gemini to turn visually useless bug reports into actionable prompts for coding agents.
AI · WebDev
cont. →february 25, 2026
Discover how Mamoru-kun, a lightweight Go-based guardian, brings enterprise-grade security and a stunning TUI to your hobby projects.
golang · security
cont. →february 23, 2026
Spotify has existed for twenty years and still cannot loop a specific segment of a song. So I built Pulse Loop. Millisecond-accurate A-B looping. For musicians. For obsessives. For me.
Flutter · Spotify
cont. →february 4, 2026
Material 3 Expressive dropped in 2025 with spring physics, morphing shapes, and wavy loaders. My hardcoded BorderRadius.circular(8) buttons filed for emotional support.
flutter · material-3
cont. →january 24, 2026
I had a perfectly working React dashboard. I rewrote it in Reflex because 'full-stack Python' sounded clean on paper. It was not clean on paper. It was not clean anywhere.
python · react
cont. →january 23, 2026
Stop scrolling Instagram reels and start SSH-ing into your production server from your phone. A guide to the most aggressive mobile dev setup ever conceived.
remote-dev · android
cont. →december 25, 2025
Because hitting `git commit -m "fix maybe?"` requires too much confidence in my own code.
VS Code · AI
cont. →february 11, 2025
Online fashion loses $400B a year to returns. I fixed it with PHP, a WooCommerce plugin, and a carefully worded prompt. No research team required.
AI · PHP
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