screenshot-to-code: An Open-Source v0 Alternative That Checks Its Own Screenshots

It turns a screenshot into working code, and it’s the only tool in this category I’ve found that actually looks at what it just built before handing it back.

September 5, 2026 · 5 min

Ice Stopped Shipping. Thaw Kept Going.

Ice’s last stable release is from October 2024. I switched to its fork, read the architecture docs, and found the automation model more interesting than the fork story.

August 20, 2026 · 7 min

FluidVoice: A Free, Local Dictation App With a Generative Model Attached

A free, local macOS dictation app that runs a second model over your transcript before inserting it — which is both why it works and why it sometimes rewrites what you meant.

August 16, 2026 · 6 min

Tokentap, or: finding out what my coding agent actually sends

A small Python proxy that sits between your LLM CLI and the API, counts tokens live, and writes every prompt to disk. No certificates, no MITM setup.

August 16, 2026 · 5 min

OpenScreen Is Archived: Where the Open-Source Screen Studio Alternative Moved

The repo went read-only in June with nearly 40k stars. The continuation has shipped nine stable releases since, and almost nobody has followed it across.

August 5, 2026 · 7 min