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Running Two Claude Accounts Simultaneously on a Mac

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

How to run two Claude accounts simultaneously on a Mac, with shared configuration and full conversation history.

Building an Offline Voice System for macOS

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

How I built a fully offline text-to-speech and speech-to-text system for macOS using Kokoro-82M and mlx-whisper — no cloud APIs, streaming audio in under a second.

LaunchPad Manager

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Mac Backup Automation

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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

Voice Automation

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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.