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Ben Holmes
@bholmes.dev
The Whiteboard Guy @warp.dev
Y'all need to use Voiceink for voice dictation.

It's fast, 100% local, open source, compilable from the GitHub repo, and no subscription fee. Replaced Wisprflow with it and it's just as fast and accurate.

🔊 Sound on!
October 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I'm building a file explorer in React + Rust. And @tauri.app is AMAZING for accessing the file system safely 👀
October 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
My quest continues to build "Apple Notes, but markdown and cross-platform."

Big changes:
Switched from Svelte to React
Switched from raw ProseMirror to TipTap
Switched from opening files to writing files to a directory automatically, complete with file name generation ✨
September 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
💡Tip: if you need to add keyboard shortcut banners to your app, you can find all the shortcut symbols in that Raycast emoji picker
August 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
🤯 What, Chrome has an AI summarizer API built in now??
- No API keys, no internet. Runs locally
- Downloads the model on-demand
- Available as a global in the latest version of Chrome. Works in chrome extensions too

I have so many chrome extension ideas now...
August 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Okay, @tldraw.com is the best whiteboarding app 🏆
- Attention to detail off-the-charts. Even the dashes resize to always stay symmetrical
- Keyboard shortcuts are snappy. shift+2 to focus a selection, shift+1 to see everything
- Available as an SDK to embed anywhere
August 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🔥 The MacOS Stickies app is so underrated.
- Little floating windows to take notes throughout the day
- Can pin/float on top of whatever you're doing
- Can color-coat to organize thoughts

...Probably hasn't been changed since the 90s, but you can't knock stable software
August 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
🔥 Mingcute has been my go-to icon library for a while.
- Open source and open license
- "Cute" and bubbly icon style with more options than most
- Really nice Figma plugin
- Iconify support to use in any web project
August 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
🙄 Your CSS box-shadows could look better...

Check out this Beautiful Shadows plugin I found on Figma. Lets you play with elevation, brightness, and distance for fancy, multi-layered shadows. Copy as CSS to plop in your project or your Tailwind theme!
July 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM