LaunchPad Manager

A native macOS app for managing launchd services macOS uses launchd to manage background services, scheduled tasks, and daemons. The built-in tooling for this is launchctl — a CLI tool with inconsistent syntax and no visual interface. LaunchPad Manager fixes that. What it does: A SwiftUI app with three main sections: Dashboard — Shows all registered services with live status indicators, filtering by domain (user/system/global), sorting by name or status, and hover-accessible actions (start, stop, unload). Status auto-refreshes every 10 seconds via the launchctl actor. ...

March 15, 2026 · 1 min · Victor Salles

Mac Backup Automation

A comprehensive backup script for macOS developer environments — SSH keys, dotfiles, Homebrew, Claude agents, Docker volumes, and more.

March 8, 2026 · 2 min · Victor Salles

Voice Automation

Offline voice I/O for macOS A complete text-to-speech and speech-to-text system for macOS that runs entirely on-device. No cloud APIs, no subscriptions — just local AI models doing real work. The problem: I spend hours reading and writing text on screen. I wanted a way to have my Mac read anything to me with a single hotkey, and transcribe audio without sending data to external servers. What it does: Press ⌥S and whatever text you’ve selected (or copied) gets read aloud using Kokoro-82M, an 82-million parameter TTS model running locally on Apple Silicon. The system automatically detects whether the text is Portuguese or English and picks the right voice. Audio starts streaming in under a second — no temp files, no waiting for the full synthesis to finish. ...

March 1, 2026 · 2 min · Victor Salles