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With sending, sync and tasks working, the second day was about the small things. A red picker for production, drag and drop that can't lose your work, history, copy as curl, tabs, simple tests, and one feature I talked myself out of. Rustman is at 0.5.0, and still not finished.
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Postman charges for team collaboration. Rustman does it with any git repository you already have, and I host nothing. Testing it at home took me through a credential manager that wouldn't show its window, WSL listening on IPv6 only, 40 minutes of cached DNS, and a race condition I spotted by feel.
Full Stack
I asked for a terminal inside my Postman alternative. What I really wanted was to stop losing track of my local servers. Along the way: a pseudo-console that waits for an answer, keystrokes that arrive out of order, a test that passed for the wrong reason, and a password I pushed to GitLab.
Full Stack
Postman is heavy, slow to start, and charges for team features. So over two days with Claude Code I started building Rustman, a small desktop API client in Rust and Svelte that keeps everything as plain files. Part 1 is the why, the stack, and the first bugs.
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Our Google TV box showed ads before it showed Netflix, and the kids had already found every way around YouTube's limits. In two evenings with Claude Code I removed the bloat, put in a cleaner home screen, and wrote a small app that sends TV activity to my Telegram and locks the screen at bedtime.
Full Stack · Hardware
My SXS K811 macro pad is great hardware with unreliable software. So I sat down with Claude Code, reverse-engineered how the app talks to the device, and built my own replacement, including keys that know which app I'm using.
