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Piotr Stapp @stapp.bsky.social · 22d
AI: “I’ve tried everything. I give up.”
Me: Job security secured. 😎👨‍💻

#DevHumor #AI
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Piotr Stapp @stapp.bsky.social · 23d
0️⃣ days without incident

#Azure #ITHumor #DevOps
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Piotr Stapp @stapp.bsky.social · 23d
Yesterday I started building a new feature for #SidePrompter
In the next version, it’ll know when your meeting starts (so you don’t have to 👀)
- Windows: 🟩🟩🟩⬜️ – works (*)
- Mac: 🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ – the struggle is real

(*) UX is ... "minimalist" 😂

#BuildInPublic #DevLife #IndieDev
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pathfinder.engineer @pathfinder.engineer · Oct 1
In this week's Pathfinder Engineer newsletter, @tpeczek.bsky.social explores how structured chaos engineering can transform your entire organisation, not just your infrastructure.

🔗 open.substack.com/pub/pathfind...

#StaffEngineering #TechLeadership #SystemsThinking #Resilience #ChaosEngineering
Resiliency Through Chaos
When people first hear about chaos engineering, they tend to think about specific infrastructure tools and randomness. In this article, I want to take a different approach and demonstrate a structured...
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Piotr Stapp @stapp.bsky.social · 28d
Side Prompter installer ✅
My sanity ❌
3 weeks for this…

#BuildInPublic #SidePrompter #DevLife #IndieDev #SoftwareEngineering
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Piotr Stapp @stapp.bsky.social · Sep 26
No to jak już ładnie zintegrowałem Whispera to teraz czas na testy z Parakeet 😅

Ciekawe jak się będzie zachowywał.
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Piotr Stapp @stapp.bsky.social · Sep 26
SidePrompter is live! 🎉

✅Good news: I finished my first product.

🛑Bad news: I now have to convince actual humans to use it 😂

The hard part begins. 😅
🔗 sideprompter.com
SidePrompter - Professional AI Assistant for Every Meeting
Transform your meetings with ethical AI that provides real-time insights and smart questions. Compatible with Zoom, Teams, and more.
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pathfinder.engineer @pathfinder.engineer · Sep 24
Staff+ Engineers: Do you experience the "Productivity Paradox"?
You are no longer just code; you are a catalyst! Your invisible work is valuable, and it is time to discover how to make it visible and lead your team like a conductor.
#StaffEngineer #TechLeadership

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From Code to Catalyst: A Staff+ Engineer’s Manual
From Code to Catalyst: A Staff+ Engineer’s Manual
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Piotr Stapp @stapp.bsky.social · Sep 14
You know the developer joke, "My code is compiling"?
My new version is, "My app is notarizing."
I have been on this "break" for 18+ hours. Apple said it would take 15 minutes. 😂
#BuildInPublic #SidePrompter #CodingHumor #Apple
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Piotr Stapp @stapp.bsky.social · Sep 12
I prefer CoPilot, but to be honest my flow is rather complex. I use a lot of Gemini CLI. It is free but it is not the most important reason why I'm using it.
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Piotr Stapp @stapp.bsky.social · Sep 12
Wow, the GitHub app with Copilot really changed coding on my phone. I can finally save a new idea as a PR when I'm on the bus. It's not perfect for big work, but for saving small ideas, it's amazing. 👍

#GitHubMobile #Copilot #CodingOnTheGo #Developer #BuildInPublic #SidePrompter
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Piotr Stapp @stapp.bsky.social · Sep 10
🧵4/4
The wild part? The app is basically done.

Side Prompter v0.1 is so close, yet so far. Coming soon, assuming I ever escape this configuration vortex!

#DeveloperMemes #CodingLife #macOS #Why #Pain #BuildInPublic #JuniorDeveloper #SidePrompter
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Piotr Stapp @stapp.bsky.social · Sep 10
🧵3/4
My brain has been rewired. It's now 90% build flags and 10% the faint scream of my laptop's fan.

I have learned that 'universal binary' is another way of saying 'universal pain'.
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Piotr Stapp @stapp.bsky.social · Sep 10
🧵2/4
Current status: The 'This is Fine' meme, but the room is on fire with terminal logs.

I wanted to support both Intel & Apple Silicon. My Mac, in return, decided it would rather teach me a lesson about humility.
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Piotr Stapp @stapp.bsky.social · Sep 10
🧵1/4
Me, 5 days ago: "I'll just whip up a quick universal macOS installer. How hard can it be?"

...famous last words. 🧵

#DeveloperMemes #CodingLife #macOS #Why #Pain #BuildInPublic #JuniorDeveloper #SidePrompter
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Piotr Stapp @stapp.bsky.social · Sep 2
Me at 8:05 PM, AI vibe coding: "It's just a PoC..." 🤖🚀

My #GitHub email at 8:11 PM: "Secrets detected 🔑💀"

PSA: Env['API_KEY'] (or similar) is your friend. Don't be me. 🤦‍♂️

#DevHumor #DevSecOps #AI #SidePrompter
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Piotr Stapp @stapp.bsky.social · Sep 1
6/6
It was a painful detour, but a huge lesson learned. Sometimes the most elegant solution is to let another tool do the dirty work.
Read the full story on the blog! 👇
https://sideprompter.substack.com/p/tales-from-side-prompter-chapter-4
#AI #Developer #macOS #IndieHacker
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Piotr Stapp @stapp.bsky.social · Sep 1
5/6
The breakthrough came from a random AI suggestion: AudioTee, a small CLI tool.
The solution: A "Sidecar" pattern! 🚗
Instead of complex native code, my app can just run this simple, focused CLI tool to handle the platform-specific audio magic.
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Piotr Stapp @stapp.bsky.social · Sep 1
4/6
The core problem was still there. The tech stack wasn't the issue; it was my entire approach to macOS audio.
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Piotr Stapp @stapp.bsky.social · Sep 1
3/6
So I jumped back to the safety of .NET. But my journey of mistakes wasn't over! I burned a few hours on the wrong UI framework (.NET #MAUI) before finally listening to community advice and switching to Avalonia. 🤦
#DotNet
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Piotr Stapp @stapp.bsky.social · Sep 1
2/6
My first mistake: starting on Windows. WASAPI made audio capture seem easy. I assumed macOS would be similar. I was wrong.
AI chats kept leading to BlackHole (bad UX) or just mic input. I was stuck in a loop of frustration, trying to get it working in Rust.
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Piotr Stapp @stapp.bsky.social · Sep 1
1/6
I almost gave up on my Tauri PoC for #SidePrompter this week. 😫
The reason? A 3-day battle trying to record system audio on macOS. Here’s the story of my descent into madness and the simple pattern that saved me. 👇
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Piotr Stapp @stapp.bsky.social · Aug 29
You know you’re deep in the flow when Gemini taps out first:
⚡ “Quota limit reached”
⚡ “Switching to Flash”
⚡ “Please submit a new query”
…and for the first time in my life, I’m writing Swift code 🧑‍💻🍏

#DeveloperLife #SidePrompter #BuildInPublic #AI
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pathfinder.engineer @pathfinder.engineer · Aug 27
In @gutek.pl latest blog post, we talk about mature tech ≠ easy. Read: pathfinderengineer.substack.com/p/mature-doe...
mature doesn't mean easy: the hidden work in "obvious" platform moves
A few times in my career, leadership looked at a well-known technology and decided it should be possible to do it in months.
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Piotr Stapp @stapp.bsky.social · Aug 28
The 5 stages of building a "simple" desktop app
1. This's easy
2. Wait, why does this look broken on Mac?
3. Oh, I need to write OS-specific code
4. [hours of fighting platform APIs later]
5. The PoC is now just proving this is hard
#DeveloperLife #SidePrompter #BuildInPublic #AI
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