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FlowLite: I built my own voice dictation app for the Mac
Hold fn, speak, release, and clean text appears wherever your cursor is. How FlowLite combines on-device Whisper with Claude Haiku, and what it took to make it reliable.
I made Claude and Codex argue, and judge each other blind
Agent Tug of War is a small open-source CLI and agent skill: Claude and Codex take opposite sides of a question, both judge every round blind, and you get a decision record.
Control Claude Code on another Mac, without the cloud
claude-bridge is a small open-source MCP server that lets your Claude Code session run resumable tasks on a second Mac over Tailscale. How it works, and setup.
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