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Tobi
Fuss-free RSS reader & Podcast player that surfaces what matters.
FREE - App Store
Note Tako
Capture notes and tasks with seamless iCloud sync.
FREE - App Store
Tako Writer
A clean Markdown editor built for WordPress writing.
£2.99 - App Store
Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the best model of all?
Let me add my two cents on the international nightmare of the model picker! Since the launch of GPT-5, Open AI has drastically simplified the model picker, to the point that initially there wasn’t really one anymore. If you ask me, that was the right move. One of the things I never liked about the […]
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I guess I am an App Developer now?
It all started with these two renewals…the rest became a journey I didn’t expect. I have a lot of apps on my phone. With some of them I engage on a daily basis, sometimes multiple times a day. Some bring me joy, some stress, other are simply useful. Then there are some which are over-engineered […]
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In Appreciation of Vibe Coding
Vibe coding is a conversational, AI-first programming paradigm popularized by Andrej Karpathy in early 2025, where developers provide natural language prompts to LLMs to generate working code, and the user guides and refines it—often without direct, line-by-line programming. It’s great for rapid prototyping and non-experts, but carries risks in terms of code quality, comprehension, and […]
Read moreProject Tako Update #5 – Tinkering with the Case
Hello and welcome back to the regularly scheduled updates for Project Tako! Since the hardware is all in place and the software is 90% there, I’ve started tinkering with a possible case design to bring it all together. I’ll be honest, I’m not super happy (yet) with the design I’ve came up with. Main reason […]
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Project Tako Update #4 – Finally on the move!
We are finally on the move!! I’ve been dreading some of the electrical circuits needed to make Tako an actual movable remote, but alas, here we are! As you will see from the video, all the wiring and soldering is still very rough, but I’m still learning so much on hardware and software that those […]
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Project Tako Update #3 – Joystick Navigation and more mobile prototype
Hello again! It has been a while since the previous update, but holidays and small home office renovations came in between me and Tako!! Not to worry, this update is quite a doozy! As you’ve seen in the title, there is a brand new navigation system for Tako: a joystick! I was somewhat dissatisfied with […]
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