I built an open source meeting recorder that runs on your laptop and drops any note it can't cite
After a meeting, I usually remember the decision. I rarely remember why we made it. The "why" was...
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Oct 5, 2026Legcord (Discord Client) — 2 CVEs: XSS in Discord Page Becomes RCE + Persistent Traffic Interception
If you use Legcord as your Discord client, a script running in the Discord page can break out of the...
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Oct 5, 2026Our Electron renderer has no preload script, and it talks to 28 HTTP endpoints on 127.0.0.1
The usual Electron answer is ipcMain, a preload and a contextBridge surface. We run an Express server inside the main process instead, and the one window that does use IPC explains why.
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Oct 5, 2026Our window has no quit button, and window-all-closed is an empty function
A monitor that stops when you close its window is not a monitor. Four Electron lifecycle hooks, one boolean, and the fallback window that exists for the day startup throws.
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Oct 4, 2026Encrypted at rest unless it cannot be, and the file itself says which
Notifio's auto-reply feature works by watching you reply to one listing by hand, and then replaying...
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Oct 4, 2026Four kinds of email, one endpoint, and only one caller is allowed to throw
Notifio is a desktop app that watches rental search pages and emails you the moment a new listing...
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Oct 4, 2026Our ledger is one append-only text file, and a torn last line costs us one row
Notifio is a desktop app that watches rental search pages, emails you when a new listing appears,...
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Oct 4, 2026Our window reloads itself every time you open it, so the renderer may not remember anything
Notifio is a tray app. It watches rental search pages in the background, and the window is something...
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Localizing Electron Menus with i18next—Why I Built electron-menu-i18next
Internationalization in an Electron application can be relatively straightforward. Libraries like...
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Oct 3, 2026I'm building a companion island for my desktop AI assistant: approvals, a mascot, and a 14px wake strip
I'm building a desktop AI assistant, and it has a permission problem that no amount of prompt...
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Oct 3, 2026Electron cookies say "unspecified", Playwright only knows "Lax", and the mapping logged everyone out
Notifio is a desktop app that watches rental search pages and tells you the moment a new listing...
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Oct 3, 2026A laptop lid is not a restart: seven ways our app stops, and what each one is allowed to forget
Notifio is an Electron app that polls rental search pages on your own machine and tells you the...
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