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Hi, I'm Peter ๐Ÿ‘‹

๐Ÿ“ Vienna โ†” London | ๐Ÿค– Polyagentmorous builder | ๐Ÿš€ Ex-PSPDFKit Founder

Swift TypeScript JavaScript Node.js Codex Claude CLI macOS SwiftUI Web

Deep in vibe-coding mode โ€“ building AI-powered developer tools at ludicrous speed. After 13+ years shipping native iOS, modern web feels like a breath of fresh air.

๐Ÿญ sweetistics.com (closed source) โ€“ AI-powered Twitter platform with analytics/ops stack.

Current Projects

  • ๐Ÿฆž OpenClaw - the AI that actually does things
  • ๐Ÿš‡ VibeTunnel - Turn any browser into your terminal; command agents from the road (vt.sh)
  • ๐ŸŽš๏ธ CodexBar - May your tokens never run outโ€”keep agent limits in view.
  • ๐Ÿš€ Peekaboo - Lightning-fast macOS screenshots & GUI automation (MCP + CLI)
  • ๐Ÿ‘‰ summarize - Point at any URL or file. Get the gist.
  • ๐Ÿšฆ RepoBar - CI, PRs, releasesโ€”at a glance
  • ๐Ÿงญ go-cli - Google in your terminal (gog) (Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Contacts, Tasks, Sheets, Docs, Slides, People)
  • ๐Ÿ‘ป Poltergeist - The ghost that keeps your builds freshโ€”universal hot reload & file watcher
  • ๐Ÿ—ƒ๏ธ wacli - WhatsApp CLI: sync, search, send
  • ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ sag - ElevenLabs speech with mac-style say UX; streams to speakers by default
  • ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Brabble - Wake-word voice daemon for macOS; transcribes locally and fires configurable hooks
  • ๐Ÿ”Š sonoscli - Control Sonos speakers: discover, group, queue, play Spotify
  • ๐Ÿ“ฃ ElevenLabsKit - ElevenLabs voices on tapโ€”SwiftPM-friendly, streaming-native.
  • ๐Ÿ“ goplaces - Google Places API (New) client + CLI
  • ๐Ÿงฒ gifgrep - GIF search for terminals: CLI output + TUI with inline previews
  • ๐Ÿ“ธ camsnap - RTSP snapshots, clips, motion CLI (Tapo-friendly)
  • ๐ŸŽง spogo - Spotify, but make it terminal
  • ๐Ÿ›ต ordercli - Your takeout timeline, in the terminal
  • ๐Ÿซ blucli - Play, group, and automate BluOS
  • ๐Ÿค– macOS Automator MCP - Your Friendly Neighborhood RoboScripterโ„ข
  • ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป Claude Code MCP - One-shot MCP server for Claude Code (an agent inside your agent)
  • ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ AXorcist - The power of Swift compels your UI to obey!
  • ๐Ÿ•ธ๏ธ Tachikoma - Modern Swift AI SDK
  • ๐Ÿงฎ tokentally - One tiny lib for LLM token + cost math
  • โณ osc-progress - Tiny lib for OSC 9;4 terminal progress.
  • โœ‚๏ธ Trimmy - โ€œPaste once, run onceโ€ โ€” flattens multi-line shell snippets so they execute
  • ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ TauTUI - Swift-native TUI that wonโ€™t tear
  • ๐ŸŽ›๏ธ Commander - Swift-first parsing, zero forks
  • ๐Ÿ“ remindctl - Apple Reminders from the terminal
  • ๐Ÿงณ mcporter - Call MCPs from TypeScript or package them as a CLI
  • ๐Ÿช Sweet Cookie - Inline-first browser cookie extractionโ€”no native addons
  • ๐Ÿง SweetCookieKit - Native macOS cookie extraction for Safari, Chromium, and Firefox
  • ๐Ÿญ sweetlink - Playwright vibes in your current tab; close the agent loop
  • ๐Ÿฆ bird - Fast X CLI for tweeting, replying, and reading (had to make it private)
  • ๐Ÿงฟ oracle - Whispering your tokens to the silicon sage
  • ๐Ÿ‘€ tmuxwatch - Lightweight TUI to watch tmux sessions
  • ๐Ÿ“œ agent-rules - Shared rules/knowledge for coding with agents
  • ๐ŸŽจ Markdansi - Wraps, colors, linksโ€”no baggage.
  • ๐Ÿ“– llm.codes - Transform developer documentation for AI agents
  • ๐Ÿ“Š Stats Store - Fast, privacy-first analytics for Sparkle (stats.store)
  • ๐Ÿงฝ Demark - Mark My Words, HTML to Markdown!
  • ๐Ÿ›๏ธ eightctl - Control your sleep, from the terminal
  • ๐Ÿ’ฌ imsg - Send, read, stream iMessage & SMS
  • ๐Ÿบ homebrew-tap - Brew tap for shipping my CLI tools fast

Legacy Work

  • ๐Ÿ”„ CodeLooper - macOS menubar app for Cursor workflow monitoring and automation
  • ๐Ÿงฉ InterposeKit - Modern Swift method swizzling
  • ๐Ÿช Aspects - AOP for Objective-C (10k+ stars)
  • ๐Ÿ“„ PSPDFKit - Industry-leading PDF SDK (exited 2021)
  • ๐Ÿ›‘ Terminator MCP - I'll be back... with your terminal output!
  • ๐Ÿชข Conduit MCP - Purr-fect MCP server for feline-fast file ops, web prowling, and data hunting
  • ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ XC Sentinel - Intelligent Xcode automation with incremental builds and AI-friendly output
  • ๐Ÿต Matcha - Swift port of Bubble Tea TUI framework
  • ๐ŸŒก๏ธ VibeMeter - Archived: AI cost tracker for Cursor/OpenAI (vibemeter.ai)

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What I'm Doing

  • Living in the future - Learning and building tools to make agentic engineering faster for everyone
  • Writing about AI workflows - Sharing my learnings on steipete.me
  • Rapid prototyping - Full apps in days, not months
  • Speaking at conferences - On vibe coding vs agentic engineering and the future of development

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Recognition

  • Featured in The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter
  • International speaker (See my talks)
  • 15k+ GitHub stars across projects
  • Bootstrapped PSPDFKit to millions in ARR before exit

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Philosophy

"Ship beats perfect" - I build tools to solve my own problems, then share them with the world. Currently exploring how AI changes everything about software development.

Random Facts
  • Treat AI agents as "slot machines for programmers"
  • Run 3-6 Claude instances concurrently
  • Powered by Vienna coffee culture
  • Gym enthusiast (when not coding)
  • Coaches LGBTQ+ folks at Out In Tech

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  2. Peekaboo is a macOS CLI & optional MCP server that enables AI agents to capture screenshots of applications, or the entire system, with optional visual question answering through local or remote AIโ€ฆ

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  3. Call MCPs via TypeScript, masquerading as simple TypeScript API. Or package them as cli.

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  4. Ask the oracle when you're stuck. Invoke GPT-5 Pro with a custom context and files.

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  5. "Paste once, run once." โ€” Trimmy flattens those multi-line shell snippets you copy so they actually paste and run.

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  6. Show usage stats for OpenAI Codex and Claude Code, without having to login.

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