I wrote about my vibe-coded bandwidth and GPU monitoring macOS task bar apps back in March, and I'm still using both of those on a daily basis.
I'm not habitually knocking out real UIs for my other projects yet, but I'm running out of excuses!
Thomas:
If you haven’t tried your hand at turning one of your 500 throwaway CLIs into a native app, you’re doing yourself a disservice. Go build a native UI. It’ll probably change the way you think.
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source & further reading
simonwillison.net — original article
Quoting Matt Webb
smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript
Quoting Jeremy Morrell