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SuperSay: The Project That Led to Voqora

· 3 min read

SuperSay was the first version of a native Mac reading-to-listening idea. The active product is now Voqora.

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Voqora: A Native Mac App for Turning Reading Into Listening

· 19 min read

Voqora lets you listen to selected text and turn long documents into resumable audiobooks, with the core speech path running on your Mac.

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Chanakya: A 13-Agent Portfolio Brain, Engineered for Restraint

· 21 min read

Inside a private, solo-built multi-agent LLM trading system — an event-driven Kafka pipeline where only 9 of 13 agents ever call an LLM, a Bull/Bear/Judge debate that's really one agent wearing three hats, and the production hardening (idempotent deduplication, tiered inference routing, on-device embeddings, circuit breakers) that keeps it running sustainably, every single day.

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SuperZen: Engineering a Native macOS Wellness App That Doesn't Get in Your Way

· 19 min read

A deep dive into SuperZen's architecture — a single 1Hz heartbeat driving the entire app, a profile-adaptive Focus Quality Score, privacy-first local-only telemetry, and the 36-hour hardening sprint that turned a two-day prototype into a licensed, accessible, publicly-releasable v1.1.10.

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ytdld: Building a Live TUI on Top of a Library That Wasn't Built for One

· 14 min read

yt-dlp is a synchronous, blocking library with no progress-separation, no cancellation API, and its own opinions about writing to your terminal. Here's how ytdld builds an 8-way-parallel, cancellable, retryable live dashboard on top of it anyway — without forking yt-dlp or fighting it.

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BroSki: A Task Runner That Tells You Why It Reran

· 16 min read

Why a Rust task runner needed transactional output promotion, content-addressed fingerprinting, and platform-aware sandboxing just to answer one question honestly: why did this rebuild?

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