Joe Czubiak

I continue to dog food Barnacles using it everyday. I'm loving the stats. I shipped 9 days in a row on 4 projects this month already. #BuildInPublic #webdev #indiehackers

The latest release of Barnacles shows you the files being hidden by default in the file explorer and lets you right click to hide more folders. I wanted the focus to be on your files and not third-party bloat. #buildinpublic #webdev

I'm always a fan of keeping costs low until you can justify it

Yesterday a new Barnacle started growing. Today, I have a chat interface where I can talk to the llm and have it create images from Google Gemini. Built using Nuxt and Laravel. Surprisingly easy to do agentic ai in PHP right now.

Barnacles - an app for developers Barnacles is a desktop application for developers to organize, manage, and analyze their coding projects.

barnacles.app

Last week I updated the website for Barnacles with more screenshots and feature explanations. Before it had just been one screenshot and a download button.
#buildinginpublic #buildinpublic #WebDevelopment
Link below ↓

1. zero values are a little less visible
2. On the current week view, a small indicator is shown below the current day to show you that it's today
3. Some stats like "streak" doesn't need to show the values because it's just a boolean so it doesn't

to name a few

I added labels with animations to these git stats charts inspired by the @syntax.fm episode where they look at the Lando text hover effect that uses transition delays. Do you like it?
#css #buildinpublic #ui #ux
It's relatively simple but a lot of considerations went into this...

I added some git stats to the top of the dashboard in Barnacles. It pulls data from any project that you've committed to on your local machine. I really wanted to shy away from stat "cards" and I kind of did.
#buildinpublic #webdev #ux

I can never remember my local dev logins for all my projects so I added an option to save them in Barnacles.

What's your strategy for remembering your dev credentials?
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I finally added a download button to the Barnacles landing page. It's been available to download from the github releases page the whole time but this is makes it a lot easier.
#buildinpublic #webdev

GitHub - jcz530/barnacles: A desktop app for web developers A desktop app for web developers. Contribute to jcz530/barnacles development by creating an account on GitHub.

I added a new readme to Barnacles, it's a little more end user focused with screenshots and features. I moved the developer guide to a new file. #buildinpublic #webdev
github.com/jcz530/barna...

I've always believe the last 10% of a project is 90% of the work. AI has not fixed this

Added a basic onboarding page. Previously I would just start scanning for projects as soon as the app started but now I give the user a little more control. Nothing too fancy but enough for now
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It also makes Claude show up as a contributor on GitHub which feels weird. Having a rule is smart

I added a custom theme editor to Barnacles and did a little show and tell video with some of my thoughts #BuildInPublic #webdesign #ui

If you're adding a cursor style to an element with Tailwind, would you write
`hover:cursor-pointer`
or just
`cursor-pointer`
because it's implied that you're hovering if the pointer is over the element?
#tailwind #webdevelopment #webdesign

I added the last major feature for the MVP of Barnacles. Utilities: small but useful tools for everyday development. Started with CSS color converter, Tailwind style color shades generator, and an exif viewer/eraser.
Next phase is stability and polish
#BuildInPublic #WebDevelopment #css

I added a file explorer to projects in Barnacles. No need to open an IDE to quickly look through your project files 😁
#buildinpublic #webdev #coding

See GUI here: bsky.app/profile/jczu...

Barnacles now let's you manage your terminal aliases. Here's a demo of the CLI listing all of your aliases for you so you don't have to remember everything 🐳
#terminal #cli #buildinpublic

New features this week: GUI for managing terminal aliases, plus CLI command `barnacles aliases` to view them right from your terminal. No more hunting for your aliases
#buildinpublic #webdev #DevTools #Terminal

I have 48 unique cloners on my repo but only 3 unique visitors. Why are there so many bots cloning all the repos? 🤖
#buildinpublic #webdev #github

This might be my favorite terminal alias I've added `reload` -> `exec zsh -l`
Gives you a fresh shell without having to source your config. It's easy to remember when you've made changes to your configs

I've made some updates to how you run a project and other one off commands from your packages.json or composer files. When you click start, it will read and open the URL that is found in your terminal output. Next I'll integrate this with the CLI tool. #webdev #buildinpublic #vue #barnacles

I started building a CLI companion for Barnacles so you can interact with your dev projects right from the command line. Still a WIP but there are some actions like copy your project's path, open your project in finder, etc
#webdev #buildinpublic

I gave in to Apple and signed Barnacles with a proper certificate so that you can actually open the app after you download it. If it's not signed it gets quarantined and shows you the following dialog 🤦
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It's really just the one toast notification and it lets the user know that there's a background process running and gives them the option to cancel. Could be done not in a toast at some point

I updated the scanning internals of Barnacles. It now uses web sockets to show projects as we discover them. A toast message appears everywhere while the scanning is happening. #buildinpublic #webdev

Screenshot of Hosts editor page in Barnacles

Added a page to view and edit your /etc/hosts file with a UI in Barnacles today 🏗️ I can't be the only one that forgets the name of this file 😅 #buildinpublic #webdev