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TechWatch #16

For this edition, a collection of AI related tools : agent orchetestrators. Free, paying, open-source. Drive agents is something hard to achieve without losing your mind and being interrupted every single second. If your is missing from this list, feel free to reach me to add it!

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Orca — The agent development environment
Solo — The meta-harness for coding agents
Polyscope
Bloom · Run coding agents in parallel on your Mac
cmux - The terminal built for multitasking

TechWatch #15

This edition presents ai-local tools for STT (speech-to-text) for macOS (Handy is multi-platform) and Osaurus to run any model with memory and harness for agent, locally.

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GitHub - cjpais/Handy: A free, open source, and extensible speech-to-text application that works completely offline.
GitHub - Aayush9029/petal: Petal is a native macOS menu bar app for fast, local-first audio transcription.
GitHub - matthartman/ghost-pepper: Hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS. 100% local, powered by WhisperKit and local LLM cleanup. Hold Control to record, release to transcribe and paste.
GitHub - osaurus-ai/osaurus: Own your AI. The native macOS harness for AI agents -- any model, persistent memory, autonomous execution, cryptographic identity. Built in Swift. Fully offline. Open source.

TechWatch #14

Quick and short edition about ADE (Agent Development Environment) one named Conductor and another from JetBrains named Air. And 2 new specification standards from OpenAPI : Arazzo and Overlay, the first is to describe API calls sequences (like OAuth2 or OIDC dances) and the other to supercharge an existing OpenAPI spec without changing the original one.

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Air: Multitask with agents, stay in control
Arazzo Specification – OpenAPI Initiative
Overlays

TechWatch #13

This week, AI related posts of course about Claude Code usage and coding agent methodology. Also, stuff about PHP/Symfony/Docker. I'll try to restart a more regular rythm on TechWatch, finger crossed to find enough free time!

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What I Tell Colleagues About Using LLMs for Engineering
The 2-Minute Claude Code Upgrade You’re Probably Missing: LSP
Docker Image Was 8.2GB. I Got It to 127MB. Deploy Time: 18min → 40s | by Engineer in the Dark | in Let’s Code Future - Freedium
GPX Runner’s data decoded with PHP
Symfony Messenger: What the Documentation Does Not Cover

TechWatch #12

☀️ Summer edition Get ready for a thrilling sequence in next few months in PHP ecosystem! In July: 1st beta of PHP 8.5 is out, including the new Pipe Operator ; Symfony AI initiative rises to provide a productive set of tools to embark AI capabilities in your PHP apps ; And a funny little post where the author tracks ISS using DNS records. Yes 🙃

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GitHub - bakame-php/aide-profiler: A minimalist multi-metric PHP Profiler
A peek at PHP 8.5’s new features and changes
Kicking off the Symfony AI Initiative (Symfony Blog)
Think of an Elephpant
PHP 8.5 Adds Pipe Operator: What it means

TechWatch #11

In this edition we have various topics: observability, GenAI, software architecture, performance, and a french-written article about why Apple could buy Perplexity. Enjoy reading!

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DeepWiki | AI documentation you can talk to, for every repo
Pourquoi Perplexity, et pas un autre ? La semaine Apple
GitHub - bearstech/phptop: PHP basic ressource profiler (CPU/memory), safe and useful for production sites
The Synergy of Meditation and Software Development: Unlocking Clarity and Efficiency
SigNoz | The Open Source Datadog Alternative

TechWatch #10

In this edition, a lot of AI related resources about MCP, Coding Agent and one to efficient data processing in PHP!

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GitHub - LostInBrittany/swagger-to-mcp-generator: A Java program that generates a Quarkus MCP server form an Open API Swagger file
Flow PHP - Data Processing Framework
BoltAI • A native, high-performance AI app for Mac
Cline - AI Autonomous Coding Agent for VS Code

TechWatch #9

This week, various tech tools: self-hostable, frontend, PHP, API, architecture. Enjoy it, and share your findings 😁

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GitHub - packistry/packistry: Open Source, Self-Hosted, Composer repository for PHP packages
Pines - Alpine and Tailwind UI Library
Spline - 3D Design tool in the browser with real-time collaboration
XPipe - Your entire server infrastructure at your fingertips
PostSpark - Beautify Screenshots

TechWatch #8 - Authentication

This edition lists a bunch of self-hostable solution for user management, authentication, IAM, SSO etc. Most of them supports popular protocols such as Oauth2, OIDC, SAML, …

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Ory Hydra - Open Source OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect Server
Lago - Open Source Metering & Usage-Based Billing
Welcome | authentik
Casdoor · An open-source UI-first Identity and Access Management (IAM) / Single-Sign-On (SSO) platform with web UI supporting OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, CAS, LDAP, SCIM, WebAuthn, TOTP, MFA, RADIUS, Google Workspace, Active Directory and Kerberos | Casdoor · An open-source UI-first Identity and Access Management (IAM) / Single-Sign-On (SSO) platform with web UI supporting OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, CAS, LDAP, SCIM, WebAuthn, TOTP, MFA, RADIUS, Google Workspace, Active Directory and Kerberos
ZITADEL • Identity infrastructure, simplified for you

TechWatch macOS apps edition

Here are some macOS apps I use everyday, pick one and test it, I bet you will love it!

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Sleeve
lo-cafe | NotchNook
Ghostty
MediaMate

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