Intro

As today is the last day of the year, which was pretty packed for me, I decided to write a first post here.

Not sure what I’m going to write in the future, probably some updates regarding what I’m working on, my personal projects, insights from my developer’s journey or even what’s happening in my life!

As AI came to our day to day life, it became way easier to bring ideas to life, thoughts to text and dreams to reality.

Thus, in the last few weeks I decided to make my life a bit easier and introduced a couple of projects to the world.

Projects

  • Blurry
    Most of the time I work in the office and use an external monitor for productivity tools (Reminders, Mail, Calendar, Slack). The issue is, everyone passing by can see all my tasks, scheduled events, private messages and emails. Not that there’s anything incriminating (who knows), but privacy matters.
    This simple utility allows me (or you) to blur, darken, or apply a static screenshot to prevent people from seeing actual data. It unveils the information once you hover the mouse over, and it’s also capable of doing it during screensharing.
    Still in active development, so don’t expect a lot right from the beginning.

  • KPuppy and its companion kpuppy-backend
    Long story short, I like watching series and movies in my spare time. Usually, I do it on my LG TV from 2019 which is webOS-based, thus application support is quite restricted.
    There were a few online cinema clients (and still are!), but the one I liked the most, STV Client, is abandoned and due to some backend updates is not able to handle the streams. It gave me the idea to build my own client using API extracted from it.
    After a couple of weeks fighting with Chrome 53 (quite old, right?) used in my TV OS, system restrictions, and JavaScript stuff, I developed this client as an alternative. Pretty much the same UI (inspired by Netflix), a few additions from the website and the ability to choose native or HTML5 player (with subtitles and audio tracks support) — and here we are.
    One thing I liked from the original client were the comments, which were first disabled on frontend, then purged on backend. Thus, I use my own backend to host the comments instead, and this time you can even write comments directly from your TV!

  • This website
    Wouldn’t call it a project, but, as a developer, I always wanted to have my own contact card website. Thus, it’s also live now.
    It contains some info about me, listing my projects and my CV, which is built from source (LaTeX) every time I edit it, so it’s always up to date.

The backend, mentioned above, I self-host on my VPS, as well as a few other personal instances, everything is dockerized and backed up, I learned those lessons in the past.

Plans for the Future

I haven’t been thinking a lot about that, just a couple of ideas from my head (you can steal it, for sure :).

  • A few more webOS apps for my needs:
    • Blocking annoying update requests for my TV Already saw an app for that, but didn’t work for me, so will probably do my own.
    • Proper Twitch client There’s one, but completely unoptimized, will probably spend some time to build a lightweight alternative
  • Starting my own Youtube channel I have a collection of vintage mobile phones from the 2000s, some of them quite special ones, would like to bring them to the world. Still not sure about the specific format.

To Sum Up

I think, that’s mostly everything I wanted to say.

Happy New 2026 Year, everyone!